For rubber stamps and clear stamp users, shapes are usually used. The shaped die is customized to the shape of your die, not someone else’s design. making your die unique. This type of die can have a registration mark on the outside of the die for creating a template to place a die onto an imaged piece of craft paper. We now have open-faced dies that allow crafters to visually place the die onto an image to align it with the image.

For paper crafting, there are several choices of die formats. Not only may an outline shape be created but you may also have internal die cuts. You may also create dies within dies to use the unused area of a design element such as a frame. Since you are charged for an area on a sheet, it’s worth consideration to have dies within another design for added value and lower costs per unit. Nested die formats are the most profitable element of die offerings.