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Latest Newsletter: 2 Halloween Swaps, More Steampunk

Our Halloween swaps are very popular so we're having two this year! Plus there are 13 new collage sheets. (13? oooh... spooky!)

 
Halloween Dwellings Slide Mailer Swap

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):

Theme and Requirements:
Halloween Dwellings! The theme is a haunted place — inside & out ("place" means it doesn't have to be a "haunted house"... and "inside & out" means try to have the cover be the door (or outside) of the scene shown on the interior).

Decorate 3 slide mailers and receive 3 in return, by different artists! You must use the 2-slide slide mailers. The slide mailers must be decorated on all sides with middle piece removed from inside (so the little openings meant to house 2 glass microscope slides will be enlarged to make one larger opening/window). Need inspiration? Check out the Halloween Dwellings Slide Mailers Gallery!

Fabulous sample artwork by Design Team Members Teri Calia & Sarah Whitmire.

 
Skeletons in the Attic Book Swap

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):

Theme and Requirements:
Alpha Stamps' Annual Halloween Book Swap! Skeletons in the Attic! Create macabre, humorous, scary, fiendish, or ghoulish pages! Have fun and make sure to go all out with it — glitter, embellish, paint, use whatever makes your Muse cackle with wicked delight!

Decorate 6 pages from the "Mini Edgy Album" and receive 6 different pages back all from different artists! Note: this blank book includes 6 pages, each a different width. You should use one of each of the black pages in one set (so the swap will "work out" and everyone will receive all the shaped pages).

Need inspiration? Check out the Skeletons in the Attic Book Gallery!

Fabulous sample artwork by Design Team Members Teri Calia & Kristin Batsel.

 
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