Buy sheets of chipboard at art supply stores in the framing section, and cut them in to any shape you need.

Different ways to use the same old die-cuts. Make stained glass windows using markers - on a church window for wedding or Baptism pages or Easter pages. Also can you paper tearing to get the stained glass look.

Use the Sunglass die cut for the O's in Cool, Pool, or School.

Fill a dump truck with hearts, stars, dirt (using brown paper and deckle scissors), etc

Use the camera die cut to frame a photo of you taking a photo! Could put a caption like “oughta be in photos”

If you cut the butterfly in half, it takes on the look of flying sideways

Overlap the die cuts - Place a pastel circle behind the cross, the sun behind a sailboat, waves behind the grass (to simulate a pond), etc

Add yellow mounting paper behind a pumpkin die cut to light the pumpkin up

Cut the legs off the cow and move them so the cow is jumping over the moon die cut.

Use a hole punch, and punch a hole in a red apple die cut, to make a worms hole. If you have the piece that you punch out of the basket, this makes a perfect worm.

Use a heart die cut as a picture frame.

Decorate the die cut shape with pens, - trace a thin line or stitches, just inside the shape.

When using the fish die cut, draw scales on him.

Add fancy paper behind an ornament die cut to fill in the wavy stripes

Write your children's school name on the side of the bus die cut

Take the scrap from the basket die cut and use it as a pot of gold for St. Patrick's Day or a Halloween Cauldron for ... what else...Halloween!

For a fall scrapbook page, use a basket die cut spilled over with leaves tumbling out. Also works good with apples