Product Description:

The “NYC Skyline Metal Craft Die” is an add-on die for the Snowflake Tunnel Series. It is a good sized die, that is very delicate and pretty, which includes a most adorable city scape scene that depicts a skyline (loosely reminiscent of NYC or any other modern city with a skyline with tall skyscraper type buildings). The skyline has glue tabs on the sides, which allows our paper crafters to easily glue the wings into the tunnel card or attach it to the sides of last year’s trifold card designs. The skyline layers up with detailed little buildings - using yellow or gold/ allows you to create the glow of light that appears from within the buildings. This die set also includes a pretty sentiment that reads “It’s Christmas Time In The City” in a beautiful good sized font. The sentiment is very beautiful and can be glued to the front of the snow bank within the tunnel or even to the front or back of your card.

The details are insanely intricate and every little detail has been lovingly illustrated for your paper piecing enjoyment. Some paper piecing/ paper layering is required to create some extra interest and dimension on your die cuts. The main images would also look pretty as a focal point on a standard flat A2 (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch) notecard sized card or can even assist to adorn your A7 (5 x 7 inch) sized cards. The add-on die set is a great way to create interest in your tunnel cards by creating lovely scenes and these images are also a great size to use in combination with last year’s trifold cards as well.

We will be sharing technique tutorials and many beautiful interactive pop up cards, tunnel shadow box cards and other gorgeous 3D card design samples on our YouTube channel and our design team is also ready to create some fabulous tunnel pop ups, trifolds and other interactive cards this year- so please keep your eye open on our social media and on our “Scrappy Tails Crafters” Facebook fan page. 

Directions for metal craft die use:

1. Gently remove the metal craft die from it’s packaging
2. Using your favorite die-cutting machine, lay a piece of strong card-stock facing the sharp edges of the die and run the required “plate sandwich” through your machine (please note that different machines use different die-cutting sandwiches)
3. These dies are thin steel dies and they work in most available manual and automatic die cutting machines, such as your Vagabond, Cuttlebug, Gemini, Gemini junior, Spellbinder’s Platinum, Big Kick, Big Shot etc.
4. Dies work on different thin materials, including paper, cardstock, specialty foiled or glitter papers
5. Share your beautiful projects with us at #scrappytailscrafts

For inspiration and technique tutorials, please visit our social media channels on YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook.