Introducing Friendship Jar Fall Fillers Dies

Welcome to Day Two of Papertrey Ink's August release countdown. Today it's my pleasure to introduce the Friendship Jar Fall Fillers dies. How fantastic that Papertrey is revisiting the classic Friendship Jar collection and offering the companion dies -- we love our dies, don't we?

Friendship Jar Fall Fillers dies, along with all of the August release, will be available at 10 pm EST August 15 in the Papertrey Ink store.

I have a few different projects to share today. First up is a warm and cozy fall-themed project featuring a pair of die-cut caramel apples:

Both the apples and the sticks are die-cut with the new Friendship Jar Fall Fillers dies and colored with Copics. The apple die is separate from the pair of sticks die, which allows you both to place other shapes on the sticks (pumpkins, ghosts) and to use the apples (and other shapes) separately. 

My apples are placed in a Friendship Jar shaker, which I created using the previously released Friendship Jar stamps Jar & Lid die, Friendship Jar Shaker die, and Jar Toppers die. 

Can you spot the other new item on this card? The Ripe Avocado gingham pattern is part of a new Autumn Chicken Scratch paper collection. Yep, there are now six more colors of that fabulous chicken scratch gingham paper! 

The seniment is die-cut with Wet Paint Cuts and the little leaves are die-cut with an Enclosed: Apple die and stamped with an Enclosed: Apple image.

After coloring the caramel apples with Copics, I added Glossy Accents to the caramel. Doesn't it almost look like the real thing?

STAMPS: Friendship Jar, Friendship Jar Fall Fillers, Enclosed: Apple

DIES: Jar & Lid, Jar Toppers, Friendship Jar Shaker, Friendship Jar Fall Fillers, Wet Paint Cuts, Enclosed: Apple

INK: True Black, Fresh Snow

PAPER: Vintage Cream Linen card stock, white and Pure Poppy card stock, Autumn Chicken Scratch Paper Collection, Bitty Dots Patterned Paper

OTHER: vellum, jute twine, buttons, Copic markers, doily, Glossy Accents, buttons, sequins

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Next up is what I'm fondly calling Self-Portrait #1:

I'm the one in boots {wink}.

Before I talk about this project, let's first talk about this particular die. In case you're not already familiar with this Fall Fillers image, it's witch boots next to a broom surrounded by all sorts of swirls and stars. You can see the full image HERE. Can you even imagine trying to fussy cut something like this? All those swirls -- forget about it!

For my candy corn tag (die-cut with Tag Sale #5), I stamped and colored and die-cut the image first, then decided to have a little fun with the witch boots and the pile of candy corn (also a die in the Fall Fillers set). I simply snipped the image in two, trimmed off just a tiny bit of broom handle that was next to one boot, then turned the boots upside down and layered them behind the candy corn pile. Adding the broom too was kind of an after-thought, but I just love how it looks like she parked her broom and dove head-first right into that candy corn. 

The label is die-cut with the Jar Label die, stamped with a frame and sentiment from Friendship Jar Fall Fillers, and colored with Copics.

STAMPS: Friendship Jar Fall Fillers

DIES: Friendship Jar Fall Fillers, Jar Label, Tag Sale #5

INK: True Black

PAPER: white and kraft card stock, Bitty Dots Patterned Paper

OTHER: black and white baker's twine, milk bottle, candy corn

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My last project of the day really shows off the effortless layering you can do with all of these dies.

I've stamped and die-cut four jars out of vellum using Friendship Jar stamps and the Jar & Lid die. Two have lids that were die-cut out of Luxe Silver Adhesive Sheets. The candy corn, ghosts, pumpkins, and sticks are all die-cut with the new Fall Fillers dies.

Layering all the die-cuts was a breeze, and the vellum jars are translucent just enough to see the jar contents. I'm loving the fun corner cluster design, too!

STAMPS: Friendship Jar, Friendship Jar Fall Fillers

DIES: Friendship Jar Fall Fillers, Jar & Lid, Jar Toppers

INK: True Black, Jet Black Staz-On

PAPER: white card stock, Bitty Dots Patterned Paper

OTHER: Copic markers, ink blending tool, white linen thread, black Sakura glaze pen

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Thanks so much for joining me today! 

Be sure to visit the following designers for more countdown projects and product introductions:

Nichole Heady

Betsy Veldman

Dawn McVey

Melissa Phillips
Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols
Lizzie Jones