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Alterables ATC, Etc. Beads & Findings Books Brads Charms Clearance Ephemera Fibers & Tapes Game Pieces Glass Things Global Wares Hardware Joss Paper Media Mélange Nature Inspired Odds & Ends Playing Cards Punchinella Tim-Tim-Tim Tool Time Tool Time, Too Watch Stuff	Ephemera Items that say Special Purchase are one-time deals we have found for you and cannot be restocked. Once They're Gone, They're Gone (OTGTG). Keys Collage Tissue Beautiful tissue paper from 7gypsies with images of vintage keys. Perfect for making paper fabric (a.k.a. fabric paper) as well as covering objects or tearing up for collage. Click the small image to see a full sheet, and click here to see the design detail and scale with the Imperial Measuring Quarter. 4 sheets of 20" x 30". Price: $7.00 2012 Calendars Small padded calendars are so versatile. Glue them to greeting cards, make a calendar magnet or use the pages in an altered book. Printed in black and red on white paper, with padding glue across the top, just like a notepad. Click image to see all three sizes. The Large ones have a cover page with a design and a small December calendar, but the other 12 pages look just like the Medium and Small ones. * Small is 1-3/4" wide, 1-1/2" tall, with 12 months. Shown above. * Medium is 2-3/8" wide, 1-11/16" tall, with 12 months. * Large is 3" wide, 2-1/4" tall, with 13 months (starts with Dec.) 2012 Calendars are sold out. Sign up to be notified by email when the 2013 Calendars arrive in July. Don't miss out on these hard-to-find calendar pads for your holiday crafts! Send a message with the subject CALENDARS to orders@SkyBluePink.com .   Looking for Blank Coasters to use in your calendar creations? We have them here. And visit our Calendar Gallery for some creative inspiration! Chemistry Primitive Vintage Chemistry Naked Primitive Naked Vintage Naked Apothecary Labels Mini self-adhesive labels from 7gypsies, modeled on old-fashioned Apothecary Labels. Perfect for our Amber Vials, and the smaller ones will work on the other glass vials we sell. Each package has 2 identical sheets of the style shown. Sheets are 6" x 3". 48 labels total. Price: $2.00 Style: Chemistry Chemistry Naked Primitive Primitive Naked Vintage Vintage Naked Antique Cards Koi Mannequins Medieval Trees Focus Cards 1 Focus Cards 2 Focus Cards 3 Focus Cards 4 Transparencies Full sheets of wonderful images from Roberta at ERA Graphics, printed on transparencies! Each sheet is crammed full of various images in different sizes. Click the small image above to see all the images included. To see the details on the Antique Playing Cards, click here. The Focus Cards are now available as transparencies! Click the small images to see the full sheets, each with 20 calligraphic words plus embellishments. A few words are duplicated across the sheets, but within one sheet, all 20 words are distinct. For Roberta's tips on using these transparencies plus samples of her designs with them, click here. Price: $3.00 per sheet Choose: Antique Playing Cards Koi Mannequins Medieval Trees Focus Cards #1 Focus Cards #2 Focus Cards #3 Focus Cards #4 All 4 Focus Cards $9.60 Rustic Clocks Rustic Clocks are a sheet of 3-D Papier Tole Die Cuts from Hot Off The Press. The idea is to create a final 3-D image. All you do is punch out the clocks and layer them on your card or other paper crafts using small foam tape between the layers. No cutting or shaping -- just punch and attach! Click the image above to see the whole sheet. There are 4 designs to create: a grandfather clock, a large clock face, an alarm clock, and a clock and gears border strip. Another fun option would be to use the 27 individual pieces on their own as decorative embellishments or collage pieces. One 8.5" x 11" sheet. Price: $3.00 Pearl River Paper Fancy hand-finished paper from China in an array of shiny and textured finishes. The scans can't do them justice due to the many metallic accents and the beautiful sheen of the papers. Click here for an extreme close up of sample sheets. The 6" x 6" sheets usually have 20 different designs per package. The ATC size has 50 sheets 2.5" x 3.5", and may have duplicate designs. Text-weight papers. Style: 50 ATC sheets for $2.50 20 6" Square sheets for $2.00 Postage Stamps Real postage stamps from around the world - large & small, old & new, a good assortment of colors, images, and countries. Stamps are so evocative of travel, foreign places, and interesting experiences. Use some on any project for an international flair. All stamps in a packet are different, unless noted otherwise. Price: $2.00 Style: World Mix (40 stamps, large and small) All Canada (50 stamps, large and small, some duplicates) Small Canada (70 all small stamps, many duplicates) Religious Christmas 20 stamps (Madonna and child, wise men, angels, etc.) Secular Christmas 20 stamps (Santa, Christmas trees, presents, winter scenes, etc.) Sports 20 stamps (Olympics, skaters, soccer, winter and summer sports) Fauna 20 stamps (Animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, insects) Flora 20 stamps (Flowers of all sorts, plus a few trees, ferns, mushrooms, etc.) Out of Stock Napkin Collage Pack Gorgeous Paper Napkins for collage and decoupage. Quality napkins from the better companies. Most are dinner napkins, 13"x13", but a few are guest towels, 16"x13", or cocktail napkins, 10"x10". Each Collage Pack will have 20 different napkins, consisting of mostly florals, but there are a few birds, leaves, and all-over designs. To view some samples, click on these links: Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3 Price: $4.50 Lace Doilies Classic paper lace doilies in a heart shape. Acid-free paper. 4". 24 per pack. Price: $4.50 Color: Gold Purple Foil Red Red Foil Silver White $4.00 Collage Focus Cards The original calligraphy for these beautiful cards was created by E. Roberta Altshuler, noted artist and calligrapher. She has graciously allowed us to purchase high-quality copies printed on glossy text-weight paper. Won't these look stunning in your next collage project! The set has 68 different words, each on a 2-1/2" x 1-1/4" card. We've divided them into 4 unique sets of 17 words, or you can purchase a complete set. For lists of the words click here. Style: Any Set A through D is OK $2.50 Set A $2.50 Set B $2.50 Set C $2.50 Set D $2.50 Complete Set $9.00 Shredded Money Direct from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, bags of shredded U.S. currency! Greenbacks, apparently never used, cut up into many small pieces in assorted sizes and shapes. Probably misprints that never made it past inspection, as they seem all clean and bright. A 3" x 4" bag full, as shown in the larger picture. Price: $1.00 Chinese Red Envelopes Used by the Chinese to give Lucky Money at various holidays and celebrations, these Red Envelopes are popular in Asian-themed art. You'll get a nice mixture of different designs, including simple gold on red and multicolored ones. 2-3/4" x 4". 9 Envelopes. Price: $1.00 Special Chinese Red Envelopes Special Purchase Very beautiful Chinese envelopes for giving gifts of money. Usually they are red, however we have acquired some in burgundy and even pale gold! Each package will have 8 different designs, similar to the designs you can see by clicking the 2 images above. Most are printed with high quality gold foil on heavier stock. Metals and reds don't scan well, sorry to say, but all are gorgeous. Price: 8 different for $3.75 Mixed Joss Papers A mixture of many different types of beautiful Chinese ceremonial papers to adorn your Asian projects. The mixture has at least 30 sheets, most of them thin tissue paper. The mixture varies as our supply changes, but it will include most of the papers shown on the Joss Paper Page, plus others we have in smaller amounts and don't offer singly. These papers don't scan well, but they are very lovely! Price: $3.50 Game Pieces A bag of 40+ pieces from games like Clue, Monopoly, Scrabble, Lego, Boggle, dominoes, dice, card games, checkers, chess, and othello. Price: $3.00 Play Money 40 assorted pieces of paper play money from a variety of games like Monopoly, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and The Game of Life. Price: $1.50 Game Cards 40+ cards from games like Monopoly, Uno, Balderdash, Channel Surfing, Scruples, Clue, and many Trivial Pursuit editions - Baby Boomer, Genus, Silver Screen, and Junior. Pick from your favorite game, a Trivial Pursuit mixture, or an assortment. Price: $1.00 Style: Assorted Trivial Pursuit Mixture Trivial Pursuit - Genus Trivial Pursuit - Genus 2 Trivial Pursuit - Silver Screen Trivial Pursuit - TV Trivial Pursuit - Young Players Musicology Pages of music from opera scores, sheet music, etc., make up this Silver Pennies Collage Pack. Many of the pages are oversized and might be folded. Ten pages per pack. Price: $1.75 Wisdom of the Ages This Silver Pennies Collage Pack contains book pages from encyclopedias, tomes on science and medicine, atlases, travel guides, dictionaries in various languages, etc. Many pages will contain drawings, photographs, scientific equations, charts and tables, foreign languages, maps, or other interesting things. The books span the Twentieth Century, but most are from 1940-1970. You get at least 45 pages of wisdom! Price: $4.00 AlphaMania! A whole pack of nothing but letters from games like Boggle, Scrabble, and UpWords, plus educational toys, beads, etc.. Only single letters and a few numbers, no words. They could be flat tiles or 3-D cubes or beads with holes, and any color, font, or size. Wood, plastic, or cardboard. 75+ pieces per bag. The image shows only a smattering of what's included. Price: $4.50 Asian Objects Wonderful stuff from China, India, Japan, and Southeast Asia for all your Asian swaps or other Asian-themed projects. You'll find book pages, playing cards, game pieces, plus various other cool stuff. The picture shows only a part of a typical Asian Objects pack. Price: $7.00 PaperBits Artistic papers in many colors, sizes, and shapes: handmade, Thai marbled, metallic, thick, thin, you name it. Give your artwork some pizzazz with a splash of fancy paper, without having to buy full sheets. Great for making ATCs. Pieces range from about 5" x 7" to 3" x 3". Two ounces per pack, about 25 different pieces. Price: $3.25 Kitchen Sink A large bag of goodies, about 1/3 of a pound, perfect for any found art collage. Could contain playing cards, leather scraps, plastic doodads, found objects, foreign book pages, interesting paper scraps, fibers, beads, and more. Who knows what we'll add next! Price: $8.00 Maps At least 15 different intriguing modern map pieces: countries, city streets, topographical, foreign language, nautical charts. Perfect for a travel theme! Price: $2.50 Words Add a touch of mystery and intrigue to your artwork with our Words pack. Includes 20 pages from non-English books, 12+ languages including Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, French, Russian, German, Polish, and more. 20 pages. Some single languages are available plus a pan-Asian variety, which has Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. The Asian Pack has the 4 languages labelled. All packs have 20 pages. Price: $3.00 Style: Words Asian Words Chinese Words French Words German Words Hebrew Words Italian Words Japanese Words Russian Words Spanish Words Dictionary Words Another Words Collage Pack, consisting of pages from dictionaries: monolingual like English or French, and translating ones like English-French or German-Russian. Maybe even pages from specialized ones like children's, medical, or law dictionaries. 30 pages per pack. Price: $3.00 Tickets Different styles of admission tickets, 2" x 1" or 2" x 2". Many different styles; not all are pictured. Get all one style or an assortment of about 10 different. Price: 75 for $1.00 Assorted pink star yellow star [blank] red [blank] yellow [Admit One] White Special Services Need Gift Wrapping? Secret Sister shipping? Birthday presents shipped? We provide all of these services and most of them are free. Click here for more information about our special services. 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