Product Description:

We are happy to present you with an opportunity to get your Christmas cards started early this year with Scrappy Tails Crafts new “Christmas in July Snow Globe Collection”.

This die here is our new Large Circular Snow Globe Add-On die and it coordinates best with the A7 Large Moving Podium. Basically, the Large circular Snow globe die creates the beautiful Snow Globe that you would attach into the top of the podium and then you can use your Snow Globe as your “canvas” to decorate your Snow Globe with the many different coordinating wintery and Christmas images and essentially create your own Snow Globe scene. Your imagination is free to help you create a true Snow Globe masterpiece, for example it could be an enchanting winter forest tree scene with deers or it could be a beautiful heartwarming church nestled into a wintery forest tree line etc.

Please consider to use specialty cardstock like acetate to recreate the look of glass to make your globe look like it is made of glass. One of your included dies creates a “glass illusion” to make it look like a light reflection is happening inside your globe therefore creating somewhat of an optical illusion of a three dimensional globe. You can use vellum to create a really frosty look. Consider to use glass glitter or char glitter to recreate frost on your glass or create a shaker card in the center of your snow globe. Your die includes both the glass globe as well as the “wood inspired” (wood grain) bottom along with a bottom outline to create really elegant Snow Globes. There is a beautiful, slightly curved tag and sentiment included that will die cut out the words “Snow is falling and winter is here” (in two really pretty font styles).

The Snow Globe is definitely big. If used on a flat card, it would be a demanding center focal piece on an A7 (5x7”inch) sized card or on a 7x7” or 8x8” inch sized square card as well. It would lend itself well as a shaped card or an easel card as well. Of course inside the podium - you have the ability to further create an optical illusion by using the slits in the podium tops - so that you can create additional elements in front and behind your Snow Globe to really create depth and dimension within your card. These podium cards are truly amazing and addictive to make. More information about the podium cards can be found below. Please note other products mentioned below are also sold separately (unless you are getting the “I want it all card kit” which will give you all 12 die elements in this collection for one limited savings price.)

Additionally podium information: Basically, this podium allows you to pop up all of our new images or any image that you already have in your existing collection to build a quick and fun card scene, while allowing the card scene to be folded flat for easy mailing and then to be popped into place for easy display for the entire season. Of course this podium can be used for Christmas, but its use is all year around and you can use it in connection with other holidays and occasions and with your many other different stamps and dies. Scrappy Tails Crafts already has several add-on stamps and dies planned for the coming collections to give you even more curated scene building tools and inspiration. The podium itself has two additional slits build into the top to allow you to pop up your images easily through the bottom of the podium, while hiding your pop up mechanism from view. You can also use the included pop up stick bridges to glue additional images onto the top of the podium.

To give the podium the right amount of pressure and to allow it to stand upright more easily, you can use the build in two areas for one or two rubber-band(s) to create some additional wall pressure and card stability. Scrappy Tails Crafts sells the correct sized rubber bands (separately) and has YouTube video tutorials available that show how to install the rubber-bands to really create amazing podiums.

We suggest to use a 100 lb cardstock or higher (preferably a cover cardstock of 280gsm or better) to have enough strength to hold up all of your favorite images and to enjoy your home decor piece all season long and to ensure that your beautiful art piece gets pulled out again year after year.

As with most of other interactive Scrappy Tails Crafts die products, you are able to lay the podium flat for easy mailing. You can pull the podium downwards (which requires that all of your lower level images and illustrative elements are kept within the boundaries of your podium.) When pulling the podium structure downwards in order to flatten your card, you will be able to use a standard A7 5x7” inch envelope (as long as you keep the height of your popped up images plus the podium to no higher than a combined 7” inches.

If you want a wider display for additional scene building tools and the major “wow” effect, you will be forced to push the podium structure upwards in order to flatten your card for mailing. Whenever the podium gets pushed upwards, you will likely be just above the combined height of 7 inches overall, which makes the card too tall for an A7 envelope and will require that you use an 8x8 square sized standardized envelope (which does require additional postage within the U.S. and Canada and potentially in other countries as well, due to the square nature of the envelope, which does not fit many standard postage meter machines. Speaking of postage meter machines, we always strongly recommend that you mail all of your handmade cards and paper projects in bubble mailers and add verbiage to the front of your envelope to alert the postal worker to manually process your mail piece versus using any kind of mechanical sorting machinery that might otherwise potentially destroy your crafty work!).

We will be sharing technique tutorials and many beautiful interactive Snow Globes, fun 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.