Product Description:

No collection can be complete without at least one or two new cover plates. You ask us every time we meet you at the consumer shows and we continue to listen and deliver - you wanted more A7 card supplies, especially cover plates that can be used for quick and easy card backgrounds. Voila…. Here we are with an amazing cover plate that depicts a beautiful pond scene complete with ripples and rings of water and little rocks of different sizes and tiny little bushels of lilli pads and tiny little lilli blooms. The plate is simple, but beautiful. You can layer up as many lilli pads and rocks as you like and use the cover plate as a foundation for your little pond oasis, watching it as it comes to life with so many other beautiful matching dies in the “Good Fortune” collection from frogs, dragonflies, mini koi fish, big koi fish, cranes to aquatic plants, bridges, pergolas and full on outdoor scenes.

As you know we love A7 cards, too- they are our favorites! (the A7 size is 5X7 inches and substantially larger than the more commonly crafted notecard size, which is called A2 size and only measures 4 1/4X5 1/2.) We love the extra real estate on the card, because you can write longer messages and of course you can use more dies to decorate. Our A7 sized cover plates are also popular due to many Scrappy Tails Crafters owning and loving our famous “A7 book pop up” and of course these cover plates make for great book covers. The A7 cover plates have recently stepped up to a second important task in the Scrappy Tails Crafters arsenal since they can also be used as the backdrop in our belly band sized trifolds!! This pond cover plate would look fabulous in a pond inspired trifold card using our belly band trifold and the side-wings could be made of our waterfall side-wings or more pond cover plates cut down in 1/2. 

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.