Alpha Stamps: Garden Fairy Book Swap & Lots of Butterflies for Spring

	March 20, 2011

Garden Fairy Book Swap & Lots of Butterflies for Spring

The Design Team has outdone themselves making beautiful samples for this swap! The book shown at right is by Shannon Sawyer. And be sure to visit the Gallery and be wowed by all the inspiring artwork.

Picket Fence Album
Chipboard book with 2 binding rings. The covers have cut-outs but the 6 inside pages are solid. The back cover (which you may not want to use as a cover after you pop out all the die-cuts) has birds, flowers, leaves & vines... oh, and butterflies, too.

7 new Collage Sheets!
From Storybook Fairies to Vintage Postcards to Green Fairies from Absinthe posters, there's probably a style that will appeal to you.

Tiny Chipboard Houses
A couple design team members used these tiny houses (and the "mini" ones directly below) to create hinged fairy houses on their book pages.

Mini House Board Book Kit
Adorable little kit to put together a hinged accordion book (tiny! could be a Christmas tree ornament if you created a latch or tied it shut with a ribbon & bow). Four pages with hinging tape and instructions included. 1/8" chipboard. 2" x 2"

Fairy Fuchsia Girl Dresden Scraps
Reproduction of a Victorian sheet (6" x 9"). Die-cut and embossed. Imported from Germany.

Green Man Brass Stamping
Nicely detailed raw brass stamping. A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. The Green Man motif has many variations: found in cultures around the world and often related to vegetation / agricultural deities. Used in book sample by Miz Bella.

Open Wing Fairy Pendants - 3 colors
Antique gold, antique silver or vintage patina over solid brass. 30x30mm.

Flying Pewter Fairy
24 x 26 x 6mm. 3-D. Antiqued, lead-free pewter. Made in the USA.

Small Fairy Pendants - 2 colors
17 x 25mm in Raw Brass or Vintage Patina.

Small Flat Dragonflies - 3 colors
Antiqued gold-, pewter- or copper-plate over brass. 16 x 16mm. Snippet of a beautiful book page by Shannon Sawyer.

Butterfly Garden Papers & Embellishments

A beautiful, big set of papers, charms, clear stamps, die-cut ephemera... and arrived just in time for the Fairy Garden swap!

6" x 6" Paper Pad
6" x 6" single-sided sheets; 2 each of 12 designs. Includes miniatures of the three 12" x 12" papers below.

Three 12" x 12" Scrapbook Papers
Gorgeous designs, inspired by antique postcards and botanical prints. Double-sided cardstock sheets.

3D Stickers
Layered die-cuts with glitter-embellished transparent top layer that can be folded up. Set of 7.

Baubles (far right)
3/4" diameter clear, self-adhesive acrylic pebbles (slightly rounded — about 1/8" thick). 5 are glittered buttons (with 2 holes); 6 are solid disks with butterfly and bird designs.

Clear Stamps
Romantic set of stamps with images of foliage, birdcages, bees, butterflies and french postage. Package includes 14 clear stamps. 6" x 6" set.

Ephemera
Beautiful, large group of die-cut cardstock elements... from birds, flowers, nests, butterflies to hot air balloons and bingo tiles. Overall package is 4" x 7-1/2". The bird nest is 3-3/4" wide. Package includes 88 pieces.

Metal Charms
(at right below the ephemera photo) Antiqued, embossed metal dragonflies & butterflies, each hung on a miniature antique copper garment pin. The butterflies are 1" wide. Package includes 5 pieces.

Rub-Ons
Overall package is 6" x 7-1/2". Package includes 17 rub-ons.

Wood Shapes
Package includes 4 laser-cut pieces. Shown with a Butterfly Garden 3D Sticker. Birdcage, dragonfly and two butterflies. All the pieces are 1/16" thick (and lighter wood than the sample shown... it was dyed with a stamp pad).

More Butterflies

Papillon Cling-Mounted Stamp Set
Comes on a plastic sheet (for storage). Overall size is 7" x 8-1/2". Snippet at right from a tag by Tim Holtz.

Antique Brass Butterfly Charms
Antiqued brass, plated over cast pewter; 25x22mm.

Tissue Tape - Sketchbook
Sheer adhesive-backed tissue tape in a beautiful vintage butterflies and French postmarks/calligraphy set. The tape is strong enough to adhere papers/ephemera and decorative enough to use as an accent (and can be painted/glued for even more of a translucent effect). Each set has 2 rolls of approx. 5/8" wide tape (each roll has 16 yards and is a different design). And the rolls are sized to fit standard office tape dispensers.

+ Hobgoblin & Tidings Tissue Tapes
The Hobgoblin set includes handwriting, spider webs and poison labels. The Tidings set has snowflakes, vintage postcard labels and retro Christmas ornament ads.

Related Stamps on Sale:

Monarch Butterfly
2-1/2" x 1-1/2"

Vine Border
Very large stamp. Can be used on an ATC (with the curling vines extending off the edges of the card). Approx. 3" x 4"

Scroll/Leaf Border
A beautiful image created by Burcu Arat Sup (aka Mujka Design). (And used on quite a few of those Fairy Garden design team samples.) Approx. 4" x 5/8"

Garden Fairy
With her watering can. Designed by Tracy Roos. 1-5/8" x 2-3/4"

Art Fairy
Another stamp perfect for a Fairy Garden. 2-3/8" x 2-1/8"

Miscellaneous

Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards
These beautiful playing cards have quotes and illustrations on every card! There are 54 cards in the deck and all have color pictures on them from the Tenniel illustrations.

Velvet Hydrangeas
A mix of leaves and blossoms; the largest measure approx. 1-1/2" diameter. Each package includes 36 pieces. In 3 color combos.

Smaller 3D Brass Roses
Baby size to the raw brass roses we still carry. These are 9mm diameter (almost 3/8"); no loop.

Garden Party Resin Embellishments
4 pieces. Lovely cast resin set of vintage-inspired appliques featuring flowers and foliage. They have a distressed whitewashed look but are also easy to paint other colors.

Resin Frame: Large Ornate Rectangle
Cast resin frame with nice detailing (a bit over 1/8" thick). Pretty large (approx. 3-1/2 x 4-1/4" — the inside dimension is 2-3/16 x 2-3/4").

Mini Pet Bingo Cards
Heavy cardstock with 6 different pet-themed bingo-card designs (1 each of the 6 designs per set). 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" — perfect for ATCs). The cards are blank on the back.

Not New to the Site, But Newly On Sale!

2 Jesters (Bookplate) Rubber Stamp
1-3/4" x 2-1/2"

2mm Silk Ribbons
Tiny ribbons (made for ribbon embroidery, but perfect for small collages) in eleven beautiful, rich hues.

Foiled Red Damask Scrapbook Paper
Stunning single-sided, 12" x 12" deep red scrapbook paper with a copper foil-accented floral motif and interesting honey comb background.

Once Upon a Time 8x8 Paper Pad
A fat paper pad of 48 sheets of 80# printed cardstock (8" x 8"). Most sheets are glittered. Includes pastel and muted colors, swirls, fairy wings, crowns... fairy wings?