Product Description:

We are so excited to introduce our first of two 2025 Christmas/ Winter Holiday product lines this October. This posting here is for our Caboose Christmas Tree Add-On Metal Craft Die Set, which can be used to further decorate your fun 3D caboose. The finished caboose can then (optionally) be added to the back of our brand new Polar Express Train Pop up(sold separately). The set gives you the main caboose decorator add-on and the layering details for a cute “leaning Christmas tree” complete with tiny ball shape ornaments, a tiny star, a tiny Christmas tree garland, and an “old fashion” light bulb strings and even a doily like trapeze shaped layer to introduce additional colors to your caboose. Also included are the words “North Pole Express” The light strings for the caboose comes in a couple of pieces to be either strung left to right on the individual cabooses or across the caboose wagons from one wagon to another wagon. The light bulb strings come with light bulb shaped oval “light” dies to glue onto the strings for added color. These cabooses are extra neat if used as party decor, table settings, name place holders etc.

This Metal Craft Die can be combined with any other products/ images from our latest Polar Express Christmas Train collection, which released in October 2025 and that are sold separately.

We will be sharing technique tutorials and many beautiful train/caboose 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 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.