Design Team Member Kristin Batsel has created some beautiful art samples for the swap. Click here or on the photo at left for a Tutorial Kristin wrote for that page.

Here’s a bit of the info from the Swap Specs (that’s a link to the Yahoo Group, where you can also sign up for the swap):

Using the 7 pages from the “Home Sweet Home” Chipboard House Set, create a Haunted House and receive 7 pages in return, all by different artists for your own Haunted House set!

Communique Papers & Tags
Four 12″ x 12″ double-sided heavy sheets and a die-cut sheet of matching tags in lots of small sizes (also double-sided, and on heavier cardstock). The images include all sorts of vintage communication icons: writing pens, pen nibs, telephones, camera, photo album, typewriter, film strip, newspaper (with a headline about the marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks), letters & postage stamps; and some cute Art Deco flappers.

Kristin used these papers throughout her haunted house book.

8 New Collage Sheets

7 Halloween Sheets
Wow… lots to choose from. Black cats, creepy dolls, vintage photos of cemeteries and costumed children, and lots of skeletons.

Painterly Props
Columns, curtains, 2 chairs, and a sun-lit drawing room with a cherub sitting in an alcove. Larger curtains than those sized for diorama boxes; large enough to fit the Chipboard House Sets used in the Haunted House Swap.

3 New Rubber Stamps

Phrenology Head
Phrenology is a theory stating that the personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of the skull. I am continually fascinated by the things humans think up.

Bat
Pretty straightforward. May be just the thing you need to repeat as a background in your Haunted House.

Gypsy
A nice large line screen for the shading. Crops well for using just a small portion on a pendant or inside a small box.

More Halloween Goodies

8 Die-Cut Chipboard Shapes
All of these are heavy chipboard (really heavy; and laser cut so very precise). Lots of new Halloween-y shapes (like the Haunted House shown and a Candelabra).

Coffin Cards
Perfect for Halloween. About construction paper weight. Set of 5. Approx. 5″ tall.

Hey, There’s Another Swap!

Caroline Ouzts Hay is hosting a With One Stamp ATC Swap (in the Yahoo Group) using the Posada Woman in Hat. Another chance to get in the Halloween mood.

Pewter Scarecrow Charm
Antiqued lead-free pewter. Approx. 1-1/8″ tall. 3D.

Skull Punch
Nice, flat punch (it even has a latch for keeping it shut in your bag). The skull & crossbones are 7/8″ tall (they are separate paper pieces that you can move around… unless you’re using the negative space they cut out).

New On Sale

Gypsy/ Fortune Teller and Vintage Die-Cut Ephemera Sets

7 Dwarves Rubber Stamp

Red/Gold Cording

Brothers’ Grimm Fairy Tales Collage Sheets

Miscellaneous

Cut & Paste Die-Cut Ephemera Set
Huge set of die-cut reproduction ephemera (over 100 pieces per set). Printed on both sides (many have one side that is foiled or glittered). 2 of each item, including scissors, bingo cards, bicycle card deck packages, mason jars, skates, red wagon, flowers, bird cages, tickets, dominos, fans, measuring tapes, buttons, spelling cards, vintage office chairs, watering cans, butterflies…

New Painty Pens Colors: Lime Green & Flamingo
Opaque oil paints in a fine-tipped pen. Permanent on most non-porous surfaces (plastic, metal, glass, tinware, ceramic, mirrors, slate, rubber, lucite, tile, laminates and vinyl).

Vintage Brass Heart Charm
A beautful little charm. A little puffy (about 4mm); the same embossed design is on both sides. Antique brass patina. 3/4″ tall (including the loop).

Rectangular Brass Pendant Blanks
11/16″ wide x 1-1/4″ tall (18mm x 32mm) with a hole in the top. Patinaed/antiqued brass (more rustic than other patinaed brass pieces, and without the stamping shown in the sample).

Magnetic Silver Leaf Clasp
Sterling plated. 15m x 28mm. Very strong magnet. The large leaf hides the magnetic clasp.

Tiny Brass or Antique Gold Dragonfly & Bee Charms
Tiny (9.5mm diameter) embossed designs (stampings, so concave on the back). Antique patinaed brass or antiqued gold-plated brass. Shown in earrings by Teri Calia.

Die-Cut Venetian Mask Card
Simply gorgeous! Beautifully detailed, die-cut greeting card (blank inside) of a jester carnival mask with aged sheet music and gold trim. The photography is so realistic that the ribbons and bells look touchable.

E6000 Adhesive
Good adhesive for metals (or gluing glass to metal… good for jewelry).

Black Fleur de Lys Brads
Like the antique bronze color we already had. 5/8″ wide. Sets of 25.

Posted by Leslie, August 9th, 2009

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