Today’s sneak peek is all about the backgrounds! Diamonds, stripes, snow and scallops, oh my! For all of you that love the Essentials by Ellen Strands die, prepare to have your socks knocked off! And if you haven’t seen the Strands die yet, well you should hold on to your socks too!
Check out this fourth sneak peek of the November Essentials by Ellen release, available this Sunday, November 4th at 9am PST.
Meet the new background dies…
These dies create amazing “knock-out” designs on your card front but they are also amazing multi-taskers! Use the negative, use the positive, make DIY stencils for ink blending or glimmer paste!
Check out some of these awesome dies in action with cards by our team!
Join us here tomorrow for another Essentials by Ellen November sneak peek! And leave a comment here for a chance to win $25 to the Ellen Hutson shop!
Here are the details…enter to win by commenting on each sneak peek post this week before 5pm PDT on November 3rd. Please leave only one comment per person, per day. One winner will be randomly selected from each day and the winner will be announced on release day, November 4th at 9am PST.
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Always so much inspiration! Thank you for sharing it!
The cards show such versatility from everyday cards to birthday cards to Christmas cards! Thanks for showcasing the many ways they can be used.
I love the versatility of these new products!
All I can say is ooooooooooooooooooooo.
I can’t wait to see the full collection!
Intrigued to see these dies in action!
Fabulous background dies! They add so much interest and texture to a card… so many possibilities!
Oh my word…Julia’s woven card is so creative and just plain stunning!
I can’t wait to see more. These are amazing a,
Amazing how many different things can be done with background dies. Thanks for the inspiration.
These background dies are wonderful! Thank you.
WOO HOO! I am a background die fanatic lol, oh the fun I can have playing (um…. working) with these new background dies!!
The scallop die cutouts are adorable on the gingerbread house roof!
I love all the dies! mondo Poinsettia has always been my favorite stamp amd die set!
Love that woven look with that background die! Wow! Great colors too.
Such cool background dies! I love all the unique colors and designs that the DTs made with them!
I can’t wait for the 4th. I love all of the new releases.
The background dies look like a lot of fun
Looking forward to the background dies!! Can’t wait to see all the possibilities!
Wow … cool, creative, clever … dies as well as projects … so inspiring! Anita 🙂
So many creative ways to use these shapes! I love the weaved look as well as making letters from the die cut strips. Thanks for sharing these!
These die sneak peeks look very intriguing! Great card samples, too. Can’t wait to see the new products! 🙂 ~ Andrea
These are so fun looking background dies! Love the woven card by Julia, very cool!
Luv the woven background that Julia did!
These are great. I really like Kelly’s card with the open “slats” and the leading Lady peeking through!
Thoroughly wonderful. Love the woven card.
I lo of the new dies. They are so versatile!
What a GREAT looking die!! I must have that!!
Wonderful background dies. The cards are great.
Thanks for sharing…
I’m a backgrounds kinda gal and I’m just loving those stripes and diamonds!
Love the weave done with the strip die!!!
These cards are amazing. I would be proud to send cards like this. Looks like I might have some shopping to do.
Loving the stripe background die!
Loving what I see with the new dies! Can’t wait to see everything on Sunday!
I seriously want all the things so far in this new release!!
That strip die is such a great basic and I am loving all the different ways the team used it!
Oh so much creativity! Amazing products and fantastic projects!
I love the strands die so I’m looking forward to these new ones!
Amazing dies!!! Looking forward to the release.
Super great dies, the cards are amazing and really show how versatile the dies are!
Yay, more fun and versatile background dies! Love all of the creative DT projects.
These dies will work on any card, any season!!! ♥️
Beautiful samples – exciting release!!
I love the versatility of this die and the wide array of inspiration from your design team featured here. Really excited about this release! And I also love these little sneak peak intro videos!
So exiting! & we all can’t wait to see how Carly uses the glimmer paste
The woven background is beautiful! There are so many uses for this die!
Such a versatile die! Love the Joy card!
I love background dies for so many things but especially for spotlighting and adding texture
What a great die! I love how it’s so versatile!
Wow! Just wow! Can’t wait to see how the pop up mittens die works!