Product Description:

Our new “Japanese Cherry Blossom Bridge & Lantern” Metal Craft Die Set will be a great accompaniment to your new favorite tunnel in the Scrappy Tails Tunnel card collection the “Japanese Cherry Blossom Square Tunnel Pop Up Card”. With this new Bridge & Lantern square design, you will be able to decorate the new 5 inch square tunnel (sold separately)

It includes everything you need to further enhance the Japanese Cherry Blossom Tunnel by giving you a beautiful shallow bridge that is flanked on both sides with Little Rock & Plant formations to anchor down the bridge. The bridge itself looks like a wood paneled bridge that would look amazing in the foreground of your card or maybe even directly on the front frame of your tunnel card. The rocks are organized together on the die plate to make cutting out complimenting colors more easily. Rock formations can of course be increased in size just by adding additional rocks and plants onto them, doubling them up etc. similarly, you can change them up, by cutting unwanted elements off or changing the placements of your rocks. These little formations are super useful and versatile and can easily be used independent of the bridge. There are also three little oval shaped paper lanterns included, that are reminiscent of Japanese lanterns that maybe released for certain festivals or that might be used as decor for certain outdoor celebrations. This die plate gives some gorgeous accessories and added interest to fill in some areas on your tunnel to create even more detail and interest. Mix and match this die set with the other Japanese cherry blossom die sets and create amazing Japanese outdoor scenes this spring and summer.

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.