We’ve teamed up with the lovely Christina Griffiths once again to bring you this month’s exclusive 4-piece Card Making Magic Peony Panel die set. There are also 18 co-ordinating papers and SVG sentiments available to download from www.craftworld.com/cms/ die-cutting-essentials. Christina herself has made four fab cards using the die set and papers, and also tells us what she’s been up to lately – that’s on page 32. Plus there are more inspiring ideas for using the set on pages 10, 40 and 82.

We love to see your designs too, so why not share them on our readers’ gallery group at www.craftworld.com/s/ die-cutting-essentials-readers-gallery ? We love to help you stretch your die-cutting skills, so we have techniques galore for you again this month. Learn how to use your dies to create stencils on page 20, Kim Dellow shares her top tips for creating your own die & stamp combos on page 56, pyramage die-cutting takes centre stage on page 76 and there’s a step-by-step tutorial focussing on shaker cards on page 86.

We’ve got new releases from the top die-cutting brands for you once again this issue – Heffy Doodle (page 16), Sharon Callis Crafts (page 26), Magnolia Stamps (page 44) and Stampin’ Up! (page 64). We hope you'll be inspired by their designs! Fans of digital die-cutting will love Mel Jess’s projects on page 36. She has used the brand-new Brother ScanNCut SDX2200D to create a fab set of home décor items – I absolutely love these and hope you do too! As always we also have the usual competitions, shopping guides, news, readers’ galleries and much more in these pages, so I shall leave you to enjoy the issue.

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Happy Crafting,

Lee