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.

An A4 card, using a Photopics decoupage sheet

Larger cards are very on trend, here's an A4 card that I made, using a Photopics decoupage sheet. The Photopics sheets are specifically designed with larger cards in mind.

I made the card itself using two sheets of lemon A4 card. I scored along and folded each piece of card about 1cm from the edge to create a spine, decorated the spine on the front of the card with ribbon, then stuck the two pieces of card together along the spine with strong double sided tape. I found that the easiest way to get the two pieces of card correctly positioned was to hold them parallel and upright (landscape) on a flat surface with the edges to be adhered at the top. It's easy then to manoeuvre the sheets together to exactly the right position - in fact a lot easier than it sounds from the description :-)

The decoupage design was matted onto toning paper then mirror card (highly reflective, as you can see!), I also edged the design with straight border peel offs. A birthday greetings banner and a couple of gem stickers completed the card.

When making up the decoupage, I found that there is unfortunately a design flaw with this particular sheet - there are too many elements for the second layer of the design and some of the pieces on the same layer overlap. The sheet can still be made up but some of the pieces needed trimming, and I found it better to omit some altogether.

As a result, this sheet and another Photopics sheet with a similar problem (I checked all the other Photopics designs in stock, and these are the only two affected) have been re-homed to the newly created 'Adored - but slightly flawed!' section of Clearance at Foil Play. The publishers have promised me updated sheets without the design flaws, but I'm not sure when these will arrive (as I'm still waiting also for outstanding items from an order placed in March, it may be some time!).

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.