Spring Flowers, Easter Bunnies & A New Swap

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5 Floral & Polka Dotted Scrapbook Sheets
Beautiful, double-sided 12×12″ cardstock sheets with roses, butterflies, polka dots and colorful backgrounds.

Nature Borders
Die-cut, self-adhesive cardstock borders with copper foiling (11″ wide; 2 each of 10 designs). Just peel off the backing paper and stick onto your project. Butterflies, bees, ladybugs, maple leaves, lily pads and daisy flowers. Some of the strips of butterflies have tiny little die cuts to pop out (which give them a lacy look).

Die-Cut Nature Icons
Package contains 1 sheet, approx. 4 1/2″ x 12″, with 19 pieces of printed, die-cut, self-adhesive chipboard (embellished with glitter, pearls, rhinestones and little copper wires as antennae). Layered/stacked images include watercolor bird (robin, chickadees), nest, butterfly, bee, dragonfly and flower images, all in shades of ivory, coral, olive, aqua, sage, yellow, and chocolate. Sizes vary from 3/4″ to 3-3/4″.

Medium Paper Roses
Beautiful, 1-1/2″ diameter, pink paper roses in 2 designs: Teaberry & Dewdrop.
The teaberry set includes some darker hues. The dewdrop set (shown at right) are sprinkled with clear glitter and are made of paper printed with french text.

Jewel Sprays
Wired branch of faceted “buds” (pink acrylic crystals) with a bit of antique gold paint added to the paper wrappings on the wire stems. The entire spray is 12″ long.

Miniature Roses in 3 Colors
Sweet, little paper flowers in burgundy, and medium and light variegated rose colors. Each of the 3 shades has about 10 stems (the stems are wired and can be used individually).

Blossomwood Die-Cut Cardstock & Acetate
Giant set of 65 pieces, die-cut from cardstock and clear acetate (embellished with copper foiling). Images include birds, butterflies, bees, dragonflies and flowers (I recognize dogwood and poppies, but there are more, too).

Blossomwood Grand Adhesions
Die-cut, embossed stickers on little foam risers to make them look like they float a bit above your artwork (embellished with a tiny bit of glitter in the centers of the flowers). Dogwood flowers and chickadee birds.

Butterfly & Insect Grand Adhesions (2 different sets)
Die-cut stickers on little foam risers to make them look like they float a bit above your artwork (embellished with glitter and little copper wires as antennae).

Lucite Flowers – Many Styles
Beautiful, matte lucite flowers in 5 styles and multiple colors. 2 of the styles were used by Design Team Member Frieda Oxenham in her beautiful fabric ATC at left.

Small Cone Bead Caps – New Gold Color & Medium Glass Trumpet Flowers – New Blue Color
Both were used by Design Team Member Teri Calia in her lovely earrings at right, also using some of the new Lucite Flowers.

Metal Flowers (Roses) – New Green Color
Gorgeous, with a matte (pearl) finish. 6mm (1/4″) wide. They are lightweight and I’d guess they’re are aluminum. You can easily bend the petals.

 
Spring ATC Swap

Make 3 Spring-themed ATCs and receive 3 in return, all by different artists!
 
Note: This is the first of four season-themed swaps. If you participate in all 4 you will have a fabulous seasonal wall display of ATCs to fill the wooden ATC Printer Tray!
 
Sign up by March 21st; Artwork due April 17th. Learn more in the Yahoo Group or from Caroline Ouzts Hay, who is the swap hostess (and Carolyn created the lovely “Reading the the Garden” ATC shown above).

 
Easter Bunnies

2 Easter Dresden Sheets
“Eggs & Bunnies” and “Rabbits Dining” (not only dining, but dancing and making telephone calls and other activities that the well-dress bunny in about 1905 would be doing). Both are beautiful 6″ x 9″ sheet. Die-cut and embossed. Imported from Germany.

Peter Rabbit Pewter Charm
A cute little bunny in a bow tie with his hands on his hips.

Spring Cotton Scraps
Vintage postcard images, on a printed cotton sheet (8-1/2 x 11″); shown at far right. The fabric has a temporary paper backing sheet. Cut with scissors or pinking shears. Remove paper backing. You can fray the edges and attach with stitching, brads, buttons, a tape runner or adhesive. Hand wash and lay flat to dry.

 
Blank Books

4×4 Chipboard Books
Little 4″ x 4″ book with all the pages made of heavy chipboard (the width is actually 4-1/4″; 10 pages). Sand it, paint it, rough it up. Comes with 3 antiqued binding rings.

Accordion Paper Mache Book
Six 6″ x 4″ chipboard pages that are hinged together via paper tape (paper mache) to form an accordion blank book.

5×7 Chipboard Books
5″ x 7-1/2″ book with all the pages made of heavy chipboard (7 pages). Comes bound with Wire-O binding.

Chipboard Circle Book Kit
A clever little book. 4-1/4″ diameter. With chipboard front and back covers plus three different size screw posts so that you can choose how thick your book will be. Ingenious and the posts that are left can be used to hold other projects together. Comes with 20 cream-colored cardstock pages.

 
Miscellaneous

Venice Clear Stamp Set
Beautiful set with lots of useful images for background texture and foreground pictures. Overall size is 5-1/2 x 7″.

Filigree Cone Bead Caps
Vintage patinaed brass filigree bead cap. 8 x 13mm.

The Eyes Rubber Stamp
This mini sheet is only available mounted on cling-foam. It is packaged on a laminated sheet that can serve as a mounting block. 2″ x 3-1/4″

Travel Plier Set
Set includes round nosed pliers, chain nose pliers with cutter and side cutter pliers. Also includes a 4 x 6-3/4″ mini bead board with a 16″ U-shaped channel, tweezers and thread cutter with cover — all in a sturdy, snap-shut, compact container. Color-coded set so you can find the right pliers easily. Pliers have polished steel heads and measure approximately 4-3/4″ from handle end to tips.

Brass Photo Turns
Set of 10; solid brass; 5/8″ long. Use as decoration or to temporarily hold objects down (use a brad or screw in the center hole as a pivot).

Liver of Sulphur Gel
Liver of Sulphur is sulfurated potash and is used to patina Silver and Copper. Liver of Sulphur XL Gel is formulated for versatility & convenience:
– Shelf life is many times that of dry liver of sulphur
– Non-flammable and poses no dry inhalation hazard.
– May be used in its ready form by brushing it onto objects.
– 1 teaspoon of gel is enough to make 12 fl. oz. of solution
– 2 fluid ounce jar of XL Gel makes up to twelve 12 fl. oz. portions of concentrated liver of sulphur/water solution.

Raw Brass Branch w/Loop
Approx. 2″ long. Flat back. A vintage patinated brass branch is also available, or try adding a patina yourself with Liver of Sulphur.

Clock Faces – Larger Size
Slightly domed fronts (clear resin); now in 2 sizes: tiny are 7/16″ diameter; medium are 11/16″ diameter.

Wired 2-Toned Crushed Ribbon
Gorgeous ribbons! 2″ wide, wired ribbons that are woven with 2 colors of threads (which give them a really rich look and feel). Colors from left to right in photo: Olive, Brown/Antique Gold, Blue and Black/Champagne.

Square Bottles
These look like ink wells; with a cork. Approx. 1-1/2″ tall & wide & deep (without the stem for the cork).

Fine Line Metallic Pens
Opaque oil paints in a fine-tipped pen. I’ve tested them and they are opaque and permanent on metal. Permanent on most non-porous surfaces (plastic, metal, glass, tinware, ceramic, mirrors, slate, rubber, lucite, tile, laminates and vinyl). Not suitable for children. 1mm line.

Green & Brown Reversible Harlequin Ribbon
5/8″ wide, reversible harlequin ribbon (the green is somewhere between pistachio and lime). For some reason it makes me think of the Mad Hatter.