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Alterables Alterables 2 ATC, Etc. Beads & Findings Books Brads Calligraphy Charms Clearance Ephemera Fibers Game Pieces Game Pieces 2 Glass Things Global Wares Grungeboard Hardware Odds & Ends Playing Cards Punchinella Tarot Cards Tools & Bags Valentine's Day Watch Stuff	Odds & Ends Primitive Buttons Buttons are made of wood and dyed but not finished nicely, hence they're called "primitive buttons." Meant for rustic home dec or other non-clothing crafts. Glue them or sew them onto your cards, art dolls, fabric books, even ATCs! A packet of 10 assorted colors (red, navy, natural). 7/8" Price: $1.00 Puzzle-itos Puzzle-itos are the tiniest itsy bitsy Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces you've ever seen!!! Notice how the Royal Measuring Quarter dwarfs the pieces in the larger image. The biggest ones are only 1/2". Think ATCs and even Inchies! About 200 pieces per bag in assorted colors. Check out our Tweezers for an easy way to position the Puzzle-itos. Price: $2.00 Create-A-Collage Rub-Ons Wonderful old sepia-toned images in the form of rub-ons for all your collage projects, scrapbooks, or cards. Images are edge-free and so thin you can hardly feel them. Package has 1 sheet, a rubbing stick, and directions. Acid free. 5.5" x 9-1/4" Click the names below to see small images of each sheet. Price: $2.50 Style: Home Ladies London Men Music Paris Bamboo Tiles Bamboo Tiles from a Chinese placemat, now in 6 colors! We found a Natural that is nearly yellow, so the old ones are now called Light Brown! You will find many uses for these in your crafting, from jewelry to purses. Decorate them with stamps, decoupage, paint, decals, etc. Each has two holes drilled lenthwise, so they're easy to attach to each other or your projects. 0.75" x 1.5" Price: 10 for $1.00 Color: Natural Light Brown Light Green Cherry Red Dark Brown Black Big Bamboo Tiles Big Bamboo Tiles give you more room to decorate. More tiles from a Chinese placemat in 3 colors. Just like the smaller ones, each has two holes drilled lenthwise, so they're easy to attach. See the larger image for a comparison with a small tile. 1-1/8" x 1-7/8" Price: 7 for $1.00 Color: Dark Brown Light Brown Natural Out of Stock Gaffer Tape Self-adhesive fabric tape with typical 7gypsies style. Rippable two ways and perfect for stickers, decoration, and bookbinding. Comes in 1" wide, 2-yard rolls in black with white writing. The four designs are Sommes, the small foreign script; Phonique, the large alphabet; Le Monde, small typewriter text; and Measurement, the ruler. Price: $4.00 Style: Sommes Phonique Le Monde <-- NEW! Measurement <-- NEW! Pearl Ex Watercolor CD The Pearl Ex Watercolor CD has 12 great Pearl Ex colors packaged as a watercolor palette. Simply mix with a little water and paint onto paper. It's a bit smaller than a music CD jewel case. Perfect for the artist on the go; just pop it into your bag and take it anywhere! Comes with a fine line brush. To Use: Wet brush and mix to a creamy smooth consistency. Apply to paper, cardstock, etc., light or dark. Clean up with water. Colors by row: Pewter, Periwinkle, Dark Peach White, Baja Blue, Fuchsia Coral, Raspberry, Dark Rose Wheat, Apple Green, Aqua Price: $14.00 Beeswax Pellets or pastilles of natural yellow Beeswax for Beeswax Collage. Our beeswax is processed (filtered) naturally in Europe without chemicals. The pastille form is easier to use because you just pour out what you need. No chipping away at a solid block of beeswax! We now have a Mini-Tutorial for working with Beeswax plus several samples online. Claudine Hellmuth devotes a chapter to beeswax collage in her excellent book, "Collage Discovery Workshop". See Claudine Hellmuth's Collage Discovery Workshop at Amazon. We have some handy tools for working with beeswax: the Heidi Swapp Mini Iron and the Non-Stick Craft Sheet. Price: 4 oz. for $3.00 Cat's Eyes Two sizes of Cat's Eyes for your ATCs and cards and everything else! These are little adhesive-backed plastic domes with iridescent colors and that black slit like a cat's eye. The size is much smaller than the picture - only 7mm (~ 1/4") and 5mm (~1/5"). Click here to see the two sizes compared. All you Cat People out there, get out the feline rubber stamps and add these realistic eyes! Each packet has 16 large or 36 small of one color. Price: $2.50 Style: 7mm Yellow 5mm Yellow 7mm Blue 5mm Blue 7mm Green 5mm Green 7mm Pale Blue 5mm Pale Blue 7mm Light Brown 5mm Light Brown Swirlies Cool little swirls of colored copper wire, all ready for your creativity! No messing around trying to get perfect spirals. Just grab and go! The packs are from Artistic Wire and contain 1/2 ounce of swirls made from 24 gauge wire. Approximately 140 swirls. Price: $3.50 Gum Arabic Powdered Gum Arabic from Jacquard, maker of PearlEx powdered pigments. Make PearlEx paint by mixing Gum Arabic and water with one of the PearlEx colors (recipe on the label.) The Gum Arabic will bind the pigment to the paper. You can also use it to increase the gloss and transparency of watercolor paints. In her book, Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected, Claudine Hellmuth uses a solution of Gum Arabic for making prints from photocopies. They all sound like fun techniques to try! Price: $3.00 for 1 ounce See Claudine Hellmuth's Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected at Amazon. Walnut Ink Crystals Walnut Ink Crystals from Tsukineko are used to make that beautiful, rich brown colored ink. Just mix 1 teaspoon in 1/2 cup of hot water. Dilute further for lighter shades. Archival and acid-free. 2 ounces. Price: $6.50 Memory Foil Tape Self-adhesive metal tapes bring new possibilities to your work! Use Inkssentials Memory Foil Tape from Ranger to embellish cards, scrapbook pages, and altered art projects. Shiny new fun! Comes in 1/4" wide, 15 ft. long rolls in three metallic finishes: Aluminum, Brass, and Copper. Suggested uses: Wrap around edges of glass slides with or without soldering. Rubber stamp with interesting patterns. Decorate with alcohol ink or stamp with permanent inks. Make hinges for a card or box. Sandpaper for a "burnished" look. Dry emboss with a stylus or stamping dies. Price: $5.50 Style: Aluminum Brass Copper Irresistible Resistors Another Techno-Trinket! These little Irresistible Resistors are the real deal: 1/4 watt resistors. While their scientific function may be mysterious, their artistic form is cool and the colorful little blobs have two wires for attachment! Bag of 100 mixed colors and sizes. Price: $2.50 KeyCaps Cool Techno-Trinkets for your collage or assemblage. Each cap is a little box that is open on the bottom. They can easily be glued on to a project or a hole drilled in the thin plastic. Give a modern techo-look to your artwork. Key Caps can be any shade of beige or grey or black; the picture is just a sample. Price: 16 for $1.00 Copper & Aluminum Tags Fun tags in shiny copper or aluminum for your creative dreams. Use a ball point pen to engrave words, stamp and emboss them, run them through paper crimpers or punches, the creative uses are endless! They are 3-3/4" x 3/4" tags with a hole. Copper tags come with or without 9" copper wires. Aluminum tags have no wires. Style: 10 Copper Tags, No Wires $2.00 10 Copper Tags + Wires $2.50 10 Aluminum Tags $1.00 The Munchkins The Munchkins are 3-1/4" tall muslin dolls in white, tan, brown, or black. They're 100% cotton, with poly fill, and they're cute as all dickens. Paint them, rubber stamp them, sew on beads or maybe leather clothing. Stamp with a permanent ink or a fabric ink. Visit our Gallery to see some wonderful Art Munchkins! And check out our face stamps below. Quantity: 1 for $0.85 6 for $4.50 ($0.75 each) 12 for $9.00 ($0.75 each) Colors: White Tan Brown Black Set #1 hands + feet not shown Set #2 Set #3 Art Doll Stamp Sets Now we have 3 sets of unmounted rubber stamps especially for the Munchkins! You get four faces, two hands, and two feet, all sized to fit small art dolls like the Munchkins. But feel free to use them on cards, ATCs and other projects that need a little personality! Unmounted rubber. Price: $5.00 per set Style: Set #1 Set #2 Set #3 All 3 Sets for $14.00 Fortune Fish A fortune teller fish! When placed in the palm of your hand, the plastic fish's movements tell your fortune, as explained on each wrapper. Price: 12 for $1.00 Tin Types Black letters encased in a transparent dome and backed with adhesive. Most have 60 little 1/2" drops per set. Tiny Typewritter are 5/16" across, and have 135 letters per set. The Leonardos are square! Click the images to see the letters included. Price: $3.00 Style: Leonardo Random Typewriter Tiny Typewriter   Random Typewriter Tiny Typewritter Red Heart Locks Very cute! Our light red, heart-shaped locks are 7/8" across, come with keys, and really work. Great for Valentine's Day! Price: 4 for $1.00 Wire Hangers Our tiny little wire hangers come in black or silver. The silver ones are made of multiple strands of wire twisted together and are lighter weight. A cute addition to cards, ATCs, and other projects. Only 2" wide. Price: 5 for $1.00 Style: Black Silver Out of Stock Gold Discontinued Tiny Trains Tiny plastic train engines are markers for the game Mexican Train Dominoes, but we see so much more. A good-sized hole runs lengthwise through each one, so they can be tied onto anything - a bookmark for a kid's journal, a card for a model train lover, or a travel-themed altered book. Over 30 colors of these 7/8" long choo-choos. Price: 6 for $1.00 Mini Compasses Small plastic compasses are 1-1/8" across, 3/8" thick, and very lightweight. They come in black or an assortment of metallic colors: silver, gold, pink, blue, pale green, and magenta. Possibilities in travel themes abound, just don't depend on them to get you home! Price: 10 for $1.00 Out of Stock 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. Newsletter To be notified of new products, sales, and receive the weekly newsletter, send an e-mail to: newsletter@skybluepink.com.
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