We look forward to hearing your opinions on the new pop-up and interactive products that we have launched on the Pop-up Crafts website. As products such as pop-up cubes, wobbly bits, pop-up pyramids and push’n’pulls are new to cardmaking, scrapbooking and paper crafts fans we are very keen to know how you have decorated them and what sort of occasions you have used them for.

We are totally new to the cardmaking and scrapbooking marketplace and as such we need to be guided by experienced cardmaking and scrapbooking crafters such as you. Your suggestions on how to improve products or services will be gratefully received and if you have any ideas for anything new that you might want us to include then that would be good, too.

Our aim has been to try to bring you some new stuff – products that we use that may not ordinarily be associated with paper and card crafts. However, crafters have such rich imaginations that we feel sure that there will be some new and innovative ideas that put accessories such as bead chains and strip magnets to very good use. Your ideas and suggestions will, once again, be very gratefully received.

Gail will be placing items on the forum that show how to make certain items, though, in fairness, there are so many magazines on the market that it seems virtually impossible that there could be any new ideas so we will be sticking with what we know best – pop-ups!

So, please sign up and start to submit your ideas and comments. We look forward to hearing from you.

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In the course of going about our main business of manufacturing pop-ups and interactive promotional products we have to use many different types of self adhesive products. It is these self adhesive products that we are able to offer you as craft supplies. We use different widths of double-sided adhesive tape more than anything else and whilst these are readily available from most good stockists of craft supplies, maybe they cannot offer the variety or widths that we have here.

Similarly, not everyone carries CD studs but we have them which will allow you to send your photos on CD mounted on a card creation to your special friends. Everyone carries double-sided adhesive foam pads but what about single sided pads? We use them in affixing springs to Wobbly Bits. Then there are low-tack peelable glue dots and low tack perforated stickers for creating temporary seals. Each product could open up new creative ideas.

These are other by-products of our main business. We have to use cut pieces of string and elastic for making up price tags and swing tickets for retail outlets. We use longer pieces of elastic for making up face masks and we use treasury tags as a way to make handles on products such as pop-up handbags and pop-up lanterns for commercial business-to business promotions.
With a bit of luck, that information might have given you a couple of creative ideas that you hadn’t previously considered. However, we realise that you aren’t going to make thousands of masks or thousands of handbags and lanterns so we offer these items to you in packs of small quantities at a low price.

As for cut pieces of string – well who knows why you might use them but if we don’t put them on offer we will never know!

In our main business of manufacturing automatic pop-up products for business-to-business promotions we use thousands of rubber bands each week and that’s why we are able to offer you the chance to buy rubber bands at an attractive price. However, we can supply the bands only by weight as they come to us via our importer in bags weighing 1lb – just under 0.5 kilos. The sizes range from No 32s which stretch from 80mm to 160mm in length down to No 28s which stretch form 40mm to 80mm in length.

Card Blanks, Showcards and Struts are available in packs of individual sizes or assorted packs. Each card is made in either 350gsm silk art board, which is acid free and lignin free, or in 500micron box board for rigidity and the packs are presented in poly bags.

We have just launched our long-awaited pop-up crafts site but Once again we repeat that we do not want to try to compete with well established paper crafts suppliers. We will try to bring you products that go hand in hand with our main business of supplying products made in board to the advertising and marketing agencies of the world but that also offer you an alternative to what’s on offer from the many large specialist crafts websites.

In the process of making specialist pop-up products we are able to produce basic die-cut shapes made in board which you may find to be of use in making your card creations. To launch this range we have included very basic shapes such as circles, ovals, love hearts and stars along with packs of printed letters and numbers.

We also have a small selection of printed die-cut pictures which might be a fun thing to use. However, all products are made of die-cut card and are not to be confused with the vast assortment of paper die-cuts available from main suppliers such as Mad About Cards, Liz’s Crafts, Handy Hippo and Hobbycraft.