Cards made with Jolly Nation Dinosaur Boy toppers

Here's the last in the series of projects that Angie made using Jolly Nation topper packs, this time using the Dinosaur Boy toppers, with co-ordinating badges and backing paper.

For the first card, Angie used a green base card with a red stripe border which colour co-ordinated nicely with the dinosaurs on the printed paper. She trimmed the edges of the topper and green heart with glitter (using a Sakura Quickie glue pen), and added a badge on the inside of the card.
For the card above, Angie used a Jolly Nation badge as a topper, and added a puffy dinosaur sticker from her stash.
On the last card, Angie used three of the left over toy toppers from the Dinosaur and Knight Boy packs on various backing toppers on a base of baby blue lustra card, trimmed with ribbon and a sentiment (from one of the Kanban Griffins toppers). It would also make a lovely new baby or first birthday card.
The Jolly Nation Dinosaur Boy toppers pack that Angie used is pictured above.
A final round up picture, showing all of Angie's Jolly Nation topper projects together - hope they sparked a few ideas and inspiration!

Jolly Nation Football Fever cards

Another delicious selection of cards from a Jolly Nation topper pack by Angie, this time with a footie theme as the World Cup draws ever nearer! Angie also used co-ordinating badges and background paper.

For the first card, Angie used three toppers and a badge to fill four apertures, blinging up the I (heart) football topper with a sequin red shiny heart and trimming the card with ribbon.

This mini card has been made from left over blue glitter card, the football border is printed from MS Word.
On this simple, but very effective card, the topper and mat have been placed as a diamond, rather than square.
On this card, Angies has used a couple of mats from the Dinosaur Boy topper set, which co-ordinate well. She also added ribbon to make the topper look like a square rosette.
This very swish party favour box has a badge 'rosette' topper, two panels are trimmed with Jolly Nation Football Boy toppers and the other four with plain green pearly type card.
Isn't this variation of a shaker card with chocolate footballs fabulous! I'd love one of these and I'm not even a football fan (OK, so the secret is out, I'm a chocolate fan...). Angie has used two bubble fronts, the back one has a topper mat on embossed card on the back, with the Football Boy topper in front (on the inside of of the bubble). Angie then glued the two bubble fronts together, with three chocolate footballs inside and into an aperture card trimmed with ribbon, a printed border (from MS Word) and a Card Art greetings banner.
The Jolly Nation Football Boy toppers pack that Angie used is pictured below.
One more post in this mini-series is still to come, cards made with the Dinosaur Boy topper set.

Jolly Nation Knight Boy cards and party bag

More clever creativeness from Angie - card, party invites and favour bag made using versatile Jolly Nation Knight Boy toppers, decoupage, backing paper and badges.
How posh is this invite! The Knight Boy slide pocket party invitation has a St George theme. Angie used gold edged ribbon and trimmed the topper and printed part of the invite with gold peel off border stickers to give a regal royal knight feel.
The mini favour bag is made from Knight Boy backing paper and trimmed with ribbon and a badge - just the thing for party favours.
This castle shaped card would be ideal for party invites. Angie used a topper and mats (one cut in half to edge the bottom of the card), a badge and decoupaged one of the dragons from the Knight Boy decoupage sheet.
Angie blinged the Knight topper on the card below with Sakura Stardust glitter pens (you could also use glitter or foils). The topper has been matted onto dotty embossed silver card, again trimmed with silver straight border peel offs to give the feel of armour. Final touch is a Card Art greetings banner.
The Jolly Nation Knight Boy toppers pack that Angie used is pictured below.
Stay tuned, more great projects using the Football Boy and Dinosaur Boy toppers still to come!

Jolly Nation Pirate Boy cards and favour box

Ahoy me hearties! Pirates are always a popular theme for boys, check out these brilliant ideas from Angie, made using Jolly Nation Pirate Boy toppers, badges and backing paper.
First up, this great treasure map shaped pirate party invite. Angie cut the card and drew faint grid lines to make it look like a treasure map.
Angie used some of the toppers intact and decoupaged the parrot and skull elements from others. She stamped the "You're invited" greeting and added a touch of bling near the skull.
Again for this pirate jewel card, Angie used some of the toppers intact and decoupaged elements from the others.
Pirate boy backing paper has been used as the background for the card, and one of the pirate boys decoupaged and put inside the card. A close up of the jewel treasure on the corner of the card is below.
Pirate boy card with badge, using glitter card as the base. Angie has cut up one of the topper mats to use as a border.
Pirate favour box trimmed with the pirate boy backing paper and topped with a badge.
The Jolly Nation Pirate Boy toppers pack that Angie used is pictured below.
Many more creative card and party ideas from Angie with these versatile Jolly Nation toppers to come over the next week or so - watch this space!

Crafthouse Press - New goodies and bargains

A great selection of new goodies from The Crafthouse Press is now in store at Foil Play, with a chance to snap up some bargains too! First up, ready for World Cup football fever, the Sport Weenicons die cut decoupage and toppers. For inspiration on how to use these, check out all of the fabulous projects that Angie made using a pack of Weenicons!
New from artist Emma Thomson, two ranges of cute die die cut decoupage, Dandelion and Isabella's Toybox, perfect for children's cards.
For older girls, Gorjuss (by name and description!) die cut decoupage is also in stock.
Moving onto the bargains, there's a huge selection of clear rubber stamp sets to choose from at only £3.99 a set. These all feature popular characters, including Bagpuss, Scooby Doo, Clangers, Ivor the Engine and Looney Tunes.
These die cut Looney Tunes custom card sheets are also a bargain at 59p a sheet - you can use them to put together a perfectly co-ordinated custom card, or you can use the die cut elements on several different cards.
Special purchase Jolly Nation boy character badges and topper sets are also new in store. There are lots of other bargains too, including Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes and Jolly Nation decoupage sheets from 49p and backing sheets from 25p.

September special offer update: free gift if you spend over £20 at Foil Play

Spend over £20 at Foil Play and select a free gift of your choice!
In addition to the gifts already available, there are four new options to choose from this month, whilst stocks last:

• Foiled Flower Fairies waterfall toppers from Dufex;
• Jolly Nation collectors enamel pin badge;
  
• Jolly Nation clear stamps set - choice of adult or child characters
  

If you spend over £20 in a single transaction at Foil Play, visit the free gifts section of the website, and just add the gift of your choice to your order basket.
The offer applies to website purchases only, while stocks of individual gifts last.

Jolly Nation Half Price Die Cut Heaven special offer mega packs

New in at Foil Play from Jolly Nation, limited edition special offer packs of die cut decoupage!

There are two packs, the Christmas one contains a bumper 12 different sheets of A5 3-D decoupage and 20 different sheets of matching A4 background papers.
The everyday pack contains 8 different sheets of A5 3-D decoupage, four easy 3-D die cut cards with envelopes, 14 different sheets of matching A4 background papers and a Jolly Nation Collector’s pin.

Jolly Nation Christmas die cut decoupage

More Christmas goodies are in store at Foil Play, with 12 new Jolly Nation (formerly Paper Nation) Christmas A5 die cut decoupage sheets.

Each sheet contains two numbered projects and no scissors are needed, all you have to do is pop out the pieces and layer them up with foam pads or silicone adhesive to create eye catching 3D toppers for your card and craft projects.

If you wish, you can of course also co-ordinate the made up toppers with the matching backing sheets, available in both coloured and white versions for most characters.

As with all other papers from the Crafthouse Press, the sheets are acid and lignin free, so can also be used for scrapbooking as well as card making.

Summer savings at Foil Play!

Check out the summer savings at Foil Play! Jolly Nation (formerly Paper Nation) step by step decoupage sheets are reduced from 70p to 59p a sheet, co-ordinating backing sheets are reduced from 45p to 35p a sheet.

This popular range has a huge variety of both human and animal characters to choose from, with co-ordinating backing sheets.
Photopics step by step decoupage sheets are reduced from 85p to 69p a sheet.

These sheets are great for larger cards - you can use them to produce 3D toppers which would be great as the focal point for an A5 or A4 sized card.
Sugar Snips Stack-its and step by step sheets are reduced from 75p to 49p a sheet - grab a bargain while stocks last!
Magic motifs are reduced from £1.49 a pack to 99p a pack. Use them with rub on foils, glitter, flock or sand to add texture and glitz to your craft projects. Sheets of flock are also reduced from £1.20 to 99p a sheet.

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.

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