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Showing posts with label 3D. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Kanban Kandi Core card - bows and rosettes

Rosettes made from Kanban Kandi Core card, using Sue Wilson dies
I've been playing with Kanban Kandi Core card this week. It looks most unprepossessing and nondescript on screen, but is a really beautiful and versatile card to craft with. 

Kandi Core is double sided, with the reverse side a more muted version of the design on the front. Each sheet has a coloured core (pictured on the sheet header), so it is particularly suitable for ripping & tearing and distressing, also for use with embossing folders and sanding back. 


Rosettes made from Kanban Kandi Core card, using Tim Holtz dies
The weight is slightly lighter than most other Kanban card stock at 240gsm. This means that it isn't really suitable for base card stock, but it is great for matting and layering and the lighter weight also makes it easier to work with. 

As you can see from the pictures, it is also fantastic for 3D crafts. I had great fun making bows with a Sue Wilson bow die and rosettes with Tim Holtz rosettes dies. I got three rosettes and two complete bows out of each A4 sheet that I used. 

I will blog some of the finished projects made with the Kandi Core embellishments later in the week.


Kanban Kandi Core card kit
Kandi Core card is available at Foil Play in individual sheets, in the mixed card selection above and in bulk packs of ten, from as little as 25p a sheet.

Sunday, 19 October 2008

FGS Christmas Stack-its are back!

As you may be aware, it hasn't been possible to get hold of the Christmas Stack-Its sheets for the past couple of months.

However, these very popular sheets are now available again. The slightly re-designed sheets feature a delightful variety of Christmas designs, including:
  • Victorian church and village scenes;
  • traditional Santa Claus;
  • Star of the East scenes;
  • robins, owl, geese, pheasants;
  • winter scenes;
  • Scottish bagpiper;
  • cute teddy, snowmen and penguins.

Stack-Its decoupage sheets produce toppers with a 3D pyramid effect for your card and craft projects. You cut out all the different sized shapes of the image, then layer them on top of each other with foam pads, starting with the largest at the base and the smallest at the top. Self adhesive foam pads are recommended rather than silicone adhesive for this particular type of decoupage, as they provide more even spacing between layers.

The new sheets also contain a selection of tags and greetings to help you achieve a co-ordinated and professional look for your Christmas cards.

Saturday, 9 August 2008

Le Suh step by step decoupage sheets

Foil Play has stocked up on Le Suh 3D decoupage sheets. This popular and well established range covers a variety of themes, including:
Each A4 Le Suh sheet contains two separate step by step projects, each designed to fit on an A6 card.
These are traditional decoupage sheets, so scissors are needed!

Cut out the step by step elements of each individual project, then layer up with foam pads or silicone adhesive to create toppers for your card and craft projects.

Friday, 25 July 2008

Dufex die cut Christmas decoupage

Dufex die cut Christmas decoupage is now in store at Foil Play! There are two different sets: a selection of eight of the most popular existing Dufex designs, die cut and eight new Freestyle die cut decoupage sheets with co-ordinating backing papers.

All of the sheets are die cut, so there is no need for scissors - just push out the pieces and layer up with double sided adhesive pads to create stunning toppers for your craft projects.
The new Freestyle sheets include a great selection of religious, traditional and cute designs - something for everyone!
Each Freestyle sheet comes in a sealed pack, which also contains an instructions and ideas sheet and contains a great selection of pictures, borders, panels and greetings, plus lots of extra embellishments.

You can choose different elements to use together on a project, or combine them with other craft products to create your own distinctive designs.

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Craft Creations step by step decoupage sheets

These step by step decoupage sheets from British company Craft Creations are very high quality, yet only 49p a sheet at Foil Play! Each acid and lignin free sheet contains a step by step decoupage project plus co-ordinating design elements.
The sheets are suitable for a wide range of occasions, designs include:
These are traditional decoupage sheets, so scissors are needed! Cut out the step by step elements and layer them up with foam pads or silicone adhesive to create beautiful, detailed 3D toppers for your card and craft projects.

Friday, 13 June 2008

Jolly Nation half price starter kit offer

The Crafthouse Press is running a promotion with Quick & Crafty magazine to introduce new crafters to the world of Jolly Nation (formerly Paper Nation) 3D decoupage, by offering, for a limited time (starting on 16 June 2008), the chance to purchase a starter pack of products for half the normal price.

Foil Play has a limited number of the promotional starter packs available for the special offer price of £6.75. There are two packs to choose from, a men / boys pack and a women / girls pack. Each pack contains:
  • 8 different sheets of A4 3D decoupage
  • 2 different sheets of A5 die cut 3D decoupage
  • 12 different sheets of matching A4 background papers
  • 1 sheet foam pads
  • Exclusive poster showing every character in the range

Normal retail price of each pack would be £13.50.

Sunday, 13 April 2008

TBZ embossed, gilded and glazed die cut decoupage

Lots of new die cut decoupage designs are in store at Foil Play. These high quality TBZ sheets are embossed with gold highlights and a glazed finish. No scissors are needed, just pop out the die cut elements and layer them up with silicone adhesive or self adhesive foam pads to produce beautiful toppers for your card and craft projects.

There are many designs to choose from, including gorgeous florals, pets, babies, cars, cherubs and Christmas. Some sheets contain two individual projects, others have four projects.

Monday, 7 April 2008

3D Photopics - large photorealistic decoupage sheets

Some great new decoupage sheets are now in store at Foil Play. 3D Photopics are high quality photorealistic decoupage sheets, in a wide range of designs, including pets, other animals and birds, flowers, zodiac and transport.

Simply cut out the step by step elements on each sheet and layer up with self adhesive foam pads or silicone adhesive to produce stunning toppers, which are particularly suitable for large cards (such as A5). A selection of designs in the range are available as die cut sheets too.

3D Photopics will be premiering new designs on Ideal World and Create and Craft TV channels at 11 am on 11 April.

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Step by step project: Marij Rahder moveable decoupage

Marij Rahder has designed some great moveable decoupage sheets, to add something fun and and unusual to your card making and craft projects. However, the instructions printed on the sheets themselves are a little sparse, so I thought I'd do a step by step project showing how to make one.

To start with, you'll need the moveable decoupage sheet of your choice, a sheet of card or paper, glue, scissors, four brads, a pokey tool (or hole punch) and foam pads (or silicone adhesive).

Check the instructions and letters on the sheet, to help work out how to assemble the scene. There is a little outline diagram on each sheet showing how the assembled project should look. Paste the decoupage sheet onto the sheet of card or firm paper, I used a glue stick to do this. Although this step is in the instructions on the sheet, I'd say that you could probably make the project using the decoupage sheet on its own if you prefer.
Cut out all the individual design elements from the sheet.
Make holes where indicated for the brads. There are two of these on each character, two on the background and two on the long fence piece. I used my 'pokey tool' to make the holes, you could use a hole punch, or (if you are very posh!) a Crop-a-Dile.
Assemble the scene using the brads. On the girl, the upper brad is fixed to the background, and the lower right brad to the fence piece. On the boy, the upper brad is fixed to the fence piece, and the lower brad (in his foot) is fixed to the background. Once the scene is assembled, you should be able to gently pull the fence piece, and the figures will move towards each other.
Stick foam pads onto the back of the other cut out pieces - you can of course use silicone adhesive, if you prefer.
Stick the decoupaged pieces on to the boy and girl figures, layer them up using the largest first to produce a 3D effect.
Gently pull the fence piece, to make the boy and girl kiss - all together now, ahhhhh!
Your moveable decoupage project is now complete, and can be added to your card or other craft project.

Sunday, 23 March 2008

New Dufex die cut sheets - floral and Faerie Poppets

Well Dufex has been busy! Lots of new sheets have just been released and are now in store at Foil Play.

If you love the timeless, exquisite, ethereal and magical Faerie Poppets by Christine Haworth, you'll love these new Dufex die cut sheets. The designs are the same as those produced by Reddy Cards, but in Dufex. Because the sheets are so reflective, it's very had to capture on camera how gorgeous they actually are.

There are eight different designs, featuring the following fairies:
  • Brambley Hedge & Faerie Touch;
  • Crystal Keeper, Floating D'stream & Flyaway L'bird;
  • Daisy, Crystal Star & Baby Rosebud;
  • Dawn's Early Dancer, Honeysuckle & Midnight Magic;
  • Little Blossom & Spring Pansy Faerie;
  • Flyaway, Honeycomb & Primrose Faerie;
  • Secret Dell & Briar Rose Faerie; and
  • Snails Pace, Wooded Bluebell & Horsechestnuts.
There is also a series of eight floral die cut sheets. Again, the designs may look familiar, as they are already available as die cut sheets from Reddy cards. Each sheet contains three beautifully detailed projects, and the collection includes roses, fuchsia, carnations, phlox, cornflowers, dog rose, philadelphus, campanula, mallow and petunia.

As the sheets are die cut, all the hard work is done for you, all you need to do is pop out the different elements, and layer them up in the numbered order with foam pads to produce truly stunning toppers for your card and craft projects.

Something else new is a series of four die cut topper sheets, featuring age and birthday greetings, for male and female themed cards. Each sheet has two separate topper projects, with a choice of greeting banners or age numbers. You can of course use the spare banners and numbers for other projects.
Last but not least, there are four new step by step everyday decoupage sheets, each containing three numbered step by step projects. The new designs are:
  • luscious chocolate cake, chocolates and hot chocolate pictured above;
  • teen boy - football, skateboard and guitar;
  • medallion in blue, peach and lilac colourway; and
  • elegant girls in hats.

Thursday, 20 March 2008

New 3D Photopic die cut decoupage sheets


These gorgeous 3D Photopic sheets are new in stock today at Foil Play. The A4 sheets contain projects suitable for larger sized (e.g. A5) cards.

The sheets are die cut, so no scissors or cutting are required - just pop out the numbered pieces and layer up with foam pads or silicone adhesive to create stunning toppers for your card and craft projects.

There are eight sheets in the range so far:
  • red roses;
  • pink roses;
  • clematis;
  • daffodils;
  • Ferrari sports car;
  • motorbike;
  • narrowboat; and
  • vintage car

Saturday, 15 March 2008

M I Hummel die cut decoupage sheets

I've just listed a new selection of Hummel die cut decoupage sheets. These are numbered step by step designs, no scissors are needed, so all you need to do is pop out the pieces and layer them up with foam pads or silicone adhesive, to create eye catching toppers for your cards and craft projects.

The projects on each sheet picture cute Hummel ceramic figurines, based on the drawings and paintings of German nun Maria Innocentia Hummel. Sister Hummel's works were discovered by Franz Goebel (the head of a porcelain company) after a small publisher began printing her artwork, featuring youthful innocence, as postcards. Goebel started production of the figurines in 1935. Sister Hummel was born in Bavaria in 1909 as Berta Hummel, she died in 1946 of tuberculosis, at only 37 years old.

Paintbox Poppets by Christine Haworth - die cut decoupage sheets

Paintbox Poppets are now in store at Foil Play! There are 10 different die cut decoupage sheets, featuring delightful designs of children by Christine Haworth.

These timeless images are beautifully detailed, the children have very expressive faces. The die cuts are very precise and detailed too. As with all die cut decoupage, no scissors are needed, all you need to do is pop out the pieces and layer them up with foam pads or silicone adhesive, to create eye catching toppers for your cards and craft projects.

Christine Haworth was born in Blackburn in Lancashire, England and has been drawing and painting since early childhood. After graduating with a degree in illustration Christine started her career as a freelance illustrator and a figurative artist. She presented her work at many exhibitions in the late 70's and 80's and received excellent reviews.

By the early 90's Christine had become an established artist and made the decision to branch out into licensing her designs under the Crisalis Brand. These have been licensed in many forms including collectable figurines, greeting cards, dolls, cross-stitch, decoupage, mugs and collectors plates.

Christine Haworth's Design range includes Paintbox Poppets, Faerie Poppets, Crisalis Classics, Meadow Cottage Bears, Dream Tide Fairies, Pigling the Pog and Angel Whispers. Christine's subjects are imaginative and nostalgic.

Sunday, 2 March 2008

Betsy Lurvink decoupage - Fantasy and Fairy Art of Molly Harrison

I've just listed some gorgeous Betsy Lurvink decoupage sheets, featuring the Fantasy and Fairy Art of Molly Harrison. Some sheets have step by step decoupage projects, others are multi-image sheets, with lots of gorgeous fairies, suitable for use as card toppers, or for ATCs (artists trading cards).

Speaking of fairies, I've done a little housekeeping on the web site over the weekend, and gathered all the fairies and angels together to live in one area. I didn't realise quite how many there were scattered about the site until I embarked on this task! Now Angel Whispers, Betsy Lurvink, Faerie Poppets, Flower Fairies, Francien's Fairies, Jasi-Kins, Rock Hard Fairies, Sugar Snips (and more!) can all be found here.

I've also moved die cut decoupage into a high level category of it's own on the website, so it will be much easier to browse, if you are only looking for die cut sheets.

Saturday, 1 March 2008

New die cut decoupage from Michele Marsden and Craft UK

As die cut decoupage increases in popularity, new designs are becoming available. The latest from Michele Marsden is Designadecoupage - A4 sheets of numbered die cut decoupage, with two projects per sheet. The range of 12 designs includes floral, cartoon characters and male themed designs.


Also new in store at Foil Play are seven different male themed die cut decoupage sheets from Craft UK. Each sheet contains three numbered step by step projects. The range includes football, rugby, golf, vintage aeroplanes, sports cars, motorcycles and boats.

As with all die cut decoupage, no scissors are needed, all you need to do is pop out the pieces and layer them up with foam pads or silicone adhesive, to create eye catching toppers for your cards and craft projects.

Both sets of die cut decoupage are a bargain, at only 99p a sheet - little more than the cost of a normal decoupage sheet!

Patchwork Kingdom - brand new decoupage designed by Beth Hughes


Patchwork Kingdom is the gorgeous new range of A4 3D step by step decoupage papers and matching background sheets from the Crafthouse Press.

The range is designed by Beth Hughes, the artist behind the hugely popular Jolly Nation (Paper Nation) range of decoupage.

Each 3D sheet features two decoupage projects of cute woodland animals, and there is a co-ordinating backing paper available for each design.

The newly released Woodland collection features:
  • badger
  • fox
  • rabbit
  • hedgehog
  • mouse
  • squirrel

Saturday, 26 January 2008

Jolly Nation - the new name for Paper Nation


The Crafthouse Press has announced this week that during 2008 it will be gradually phasing out the 'Paper Nation' logo and re-naming the range to 'Jolly Nation'. The reason is that the popular range has hugely expanded, with characters now featuring on new products including rubber stamps, cross stitch kits (from Coats Crafts), books and bone china mugs (from Hudson & Middleton).

A range of 24 completely new decoupage characters was premiered last week on QVC. All are available to purchase now at Foil Play (with co-ordinating background papers), ahead of the general release of these sheets on 18 February.

The new characters are:
  • Pets - Spaniel and Yorkshire Terrier, Pedigree cats, and German Shepherd West Highland Terrier and Old English Sheepdog;
  • Girls - Little Pussycat Girl, Little Sunflower Girl, Nurse Girl, Princess Girl and Rabbit Girl;
  • Boys - Dinosaur Boy, Knight Boy, Little messy boy, Little Pedal Car Boy and Pirate Boy;
  • Couples - Ballrooom dancers (pictured above), Caravan Couple, Hikers, walkers and Sports Car Couple;
  • Ladies - Perfect Housewife, Luxury Bath Woman and Business Woman; and
  • Men - Businessman, Computer Man, Firefighter, Fireman and TV Remote Man.

Friday, 18 January 2008

Lots of new Dufex individual toppers and postcards

Lots of new Dufex individual toppers and postcard prints are now in store at Foil Play. These beautiful images can either be used as a flat topper for your card and craft projects or for decoupage projects (layering up decoupaged elements with foam pads from several prints of the same image).

A wide range of images is available, including fantasy scenes with dragons, unicorns and fairies, native american indians, animals (including wolves, panther, lions, tigers, horses, cats, dogs, dolphins and swans), religious themes, Christmas, new baby, marine, fashion, floral and more.

Some of the prints (like the one below) contain several different images - you can either use the whole print or cut out the different elements to produce several smaller toppers.

Sunday, 13 January 2008

Bargains galore in the January sale!

There are lots of crafting bargains to be had in the Foil Play January sale:

- 25% off individual packs of ultra fine glitter (usually 99p a pack)

- 25% off individual rub on foils (usually 99p each)

- Over 25% off Christmas peel off stickers (usually 69p each)

- 25% off embossed & gilded Christmas decoupage (usually 85p each)

- 25% off step by step Christmas decoupage sheets (usually 75p each)

- 33% off Mamelok Christmas scraps (usually 45p each)

- Savings on rub on foil selection sets

- Up to 40% off Clutter sheets (usually 75p each)

- Over 20% off selected Victorian 'Golden Age' decoupage (usually 70p each)

- 16% off TBZ die cut decoupage (usually £1.50 each)

- 50% off Christmas embellishments (down from 99p)

- 50% off 3D stickers (down from 99p)

I will be adding more sale bargains as January continues, to clear the decks and make way for more new crafting goodies during 2008.

If you haven't tried foiling or the ultra fine art glitters before, now would be a great time to have a go at sale prices. Dare I mention also that it's also a great time to stock up on bargain Christmas crafting goodies ready for next year!

Saturday, 8 December 2007

Paper Nation - new Kimono lady decoupage sheets

Paper Nation has produced the popular kimono lady special edition decoupage sheets in two new colourways, yellow and green (in addition to the pink and blue designs already available). There are also two new co-ordinating backing sheets on white, patterned with a selection of oriental objects.