FGS Creative Designs Triptych 3 panel decoupage sheets

Something else is new in store this weekend at Foil Play from FGS Creative Designs! Triptych sheets are a brand new type of decoupage, designed to help you produce beautiful cards quickly and easily.

Each high quality A4 decoupage sheet contains a three panel image, with co-ordinating backing paper and greeting panels. You cut out the image panels and mount them with foam pads on the background paper to produce an unusual triptych effect.

The designs available so far feature animals, ranging from cute to witty and just plain gorgeous. They are suitable for many occasions, including birthday, congratulations and anniversary.

New FGS Creative Designs Stack-Its sheets

FGS Creative Designs have just released lots of great new Stack-Its sheets, now in store at Foil Play, which will be featuring on the Create and Craft TV channel on Tuesday 13 May at 9.00 am and 11.00 am.

Stack-Its 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.

There is a huge variety of new designs to choose from:

• animals - kittens, puppies, wolves, horses, tigers, panda, peacock, hedgehog, dolphins;
• hobbies and sports - darts, bowling, football, snooker, pool, horse racing;
• Native American Indian;
  
• planets;
  
• transport- hot air balloons, cars, cycles, motorbikes, sports cars, trains;
  
• scenery - cottages, river scenes and fabulous sunset scenes; and
  
• vintage designs - tram, cars, houses, people.
  

Most of the sheets contain two separate projects, a few (like the sheet above) could be made into either one large project with many layers, perhaps for use as the centrepiece for a larger card. Alternatively, you could make two projects out of the same sheet by building alternative layers.

Kanban die cut Concept cards, toppers and Egyptian range

Foil Play now offers a gorgeous selection of goodies from Kanban, including Concept cards, die cut toppers, Pyramage sheets and Egyptian themed products.

Concept cards featured as part of a recent TSV on the QVC shopping channel. There is a wide range of cards available, in both foiled and non-foiled finishes, for a variety of occasions.

Each pack makes one finished card, with extra die cut elements to use on other projects. The sheets are die cut, so no scissors are needed - all you need to complete the card is your choice of adhesive.

If you are new to card making, the packs will enable you to make stunning cards quickly and easily. For experienced crafters, the packs can be used with other products, to create cards on a more advanced level.If you'd like to add a little extra sparkle to your cards, why not add a bit of Kanban Bling - mixed colour packs of 3mm or 5mm round self adhesive sparkly gems.

There is a huge selection of die cut foiled toppers to choose from, many of which are particularly suitable for male cards.

The designs available include:

• sports (football, golf, rugby, cricket, cycling, extreme sports, horse racing);
  
• hobbies (music, drinking, playing cards, gardening, rambling, martial arts, snooker, darts); and
  
• transport (motorcycles, ships and cars).
  

The Egyptian range has been launched to co-incide with the return of the Tutankhamun treasures exhibition to the UK, and has also featured on QVC.

There is a choice of die cut toppers featuring Egyptian Icons: Tutankhamun (of course!), Bastet, Queen Nefertiti and Egyptian Goddesses along with a choice of co-ordinating backing papers, card and self adhesive ribbon borders.

I made the card above using the Bastet die cut toppers. One topper is matted and layered on mirri card and toning card. I have decoupaged the cat only from another identical topper, and mounted it on top with self adhesive foam pads.

I embellished the edges of the card with metallic moon confetti, and mounted a gold moon under Bastet's collar with an adhesive foam pad, to add a little extra dimension.

The background of the card features the Egyptian Icons backing paper, whilst the foiled border with gold hieroglyphics is taken from the middle of the Bastet die cut topper sheet.

FGS Creative Designs Stack-Its and Jasi-Kins sheets

Foil Play has stocked up on Stack-Its pyramid decoupage sheets, which have been very popular recently. Stack-Its, from FGS Creative Designs, are a great new style of decoupage, as seen on Create & Craft TV.

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, to create a 3D pyramid effect.

Self adhesive foam pads are recommended rather than silicone adhesive for this particular type of decoupage, as they provide more even spacing between layers.

There are lots of different designs in the range, including animals, floral, oriental, male, religious, Sandra Kuck, Sugar Snips and of course a wide choice of lovely Christmas designs too.

I've also added lots of new Jasi-Kins decoupage sheets. There are three different 3D step by step sheets with co-ordinating backing papers in the range, and a wider choice of sheets with 6 identical fairy images, like the one above, which could be used as individual toppers, as well as for decoupage.

The multi image sheets are for more advanced decoupagers, as you need to identify which elements to omit in the layered design, but of course the designs you produce will be more individual. If you are new to decoupage, you might prefer to start with step by step designs before moving on to these.

Jasmine Becket-Griffith is the artist behind Jasi-Kins fairies. She is a free-lance artist living in Florida, who loves to create her own fantasy work through her artwork. If you'd like to see more of her beautiful fairy creations, check out the gallery on Jasmine's web site.

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.

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.

Foil Play and ShoppingTelly.com

I am delighted to say that Foil Play has become a ShoppingTelly.com outlet!

ShoppingTelly.com is a great independent forum, packed with excellent advice and up to date news on all aspects of shopping TV channels. There is also a 'sister' forum dedicated to craft shopping on TV, at CraftTelly.com.

If you watch or purchase from QVC, Ideal World, Create & Craft or other shopping TV channels, both forums are very well worth checking out.