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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	Playing Cards Look closely at a pack of cards with your collage mind working, and you'll see a small pack of art work, produced for our creative pleasure. Cards come in a range of sizes and with all sorts of pictures on the back of the decks, of course, but they also come with a wide array of designs on the front. Cards from some countries even use different suits than our American/British/French standard of Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, and Clubs. Two of Acorns, anyone? Circle-Backed Fancy-Backed Transparent Playing Cards Clear plastic playing cards - so cool! The face of each card is cleverly disguised by the back pattern, while the rest of the card is see-through. Click here to see the backs. You can play card games with them, though they are a bit slippery. But we like them for the intriguing images and the way they look layered over other collage elements. 54 cards per deck. 2-1/4" x 3-1/2" Price: $5.00 Blue Circle Backs Red Circle Backs Blue Fancy Backs Red Fancy Backs Transparent Sampler A sample pack of 10 transparent playing cards, this assortment will include some of the cards shown above, plus other clear plastic playing cards from different manufacturers. Add another element to your collage with transparent cards! Price: 10 cards for $1.00 Christmas Angels Old Time Christmas Angels grace the faces of this classic playing card deck. Each of the 52 playing cards + 2 jokers has a different picture, collected from old postcards. Beautiful for any Christmas-related project or as a stocking stuffer! 2-1/4" x 3-1/2" Price: $5.00 (List $6) Tiny Round Cards THE most adorable little decks of Tiny Round Playing Cards you've ever seen! At only 1-1/4" in diameter, they are perfect for ATCs, minibooks, greeting cards, or any little project you're working on. The bigger picture shows the graphics on the court cards and jokers, which we love, and the pattern of the numeric cards. All four suits have the same drawings, just colored a little bit differently. All numeric cards have a similar pattern. Even the backs have a cool all-over pattern, in several designs. Price: $0.50 State By State State by State: Picture Playing Cards of the USA. This 52-card deck cleverly incorporates the suit marks into the charming artwork. Each state card features an illustration and informative caption about the state's history, products or natural beauty, and identifies its capital and abbreviation. Includes Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Click here for sample cards. Notice how the 6 hearts are part of the image. This is a fun deck with educational possibilities or use the images in your collage work. Larger than normal cards: 2-3/4" x 4-1/4". Price: $4.00 (List $5) Pink Ribbon Cards Special playing cards in the shape of the Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer. SkyBluePink will donate the entire profit from this deck to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Our cost per deck comes to $0.41. We will donate the other $0.59 for every deck sold to the foundation. We want to do our small part to help in this foundation's wonderful work. Each deck has 52 cards plus 2 jokers. 3" tall. Price: $1.00 (Cost to us: $0.41. Donation: $0.59) Mummy Playing Cards Playing cards die-cut in the shape of an Egyptian sarcophagus decorated with ancient motifs. Hieroglyphics and motifs of gods and goddesses and rich gold ink accents adorn the card fronts. The Boxed Set includes 2 decks (55 cards per deck). As shown in the second picture above, the backs of the two decks are different, with images of the coffin front or back. The faces of the two decks are identical. Packaged in a cardboard box adorned with hieroglyphics. 1-3/4" x 5-3/4" Boxed Set of 2 decks $18 (List $20) 1 Mummy Deck (no choice) $9.00 (List $10) 5 Assorted Mummy Cards $1.00 Chinese Calendar Girls Cards Calendar pictures appeared in China as early as the year 1896 during the Qing Dynasty. Their immense popularity stemmed from their aesthetic value of adding beauty to a home combined with the practical value of calendars and the business value of advertisements. 54 cards per deck, each with a different full-color picture, in a plastic box. 2-1/4" x 3-3/8". Price: $5.00 Cowboy Cards A fun deck of playing cards with Cowboy-themed suits: horseshoes, 10-gallon hats, boots, and spurs. 54 cards printed on thin cardstock. 2-1/4" x 3-3/8". Price: $0.80 Heart Playing Cards Heart-shaped playing cards in plastic heart-shaped boxes. 2-3/4" x 2-3/8" 54 cards per deck. Price: $0.80 Spanish Card Deck A deck of Spanish playing cards containing 50 cards in four suits, Coins, Clubs (like a caveman's club), Cups (more like a chalice), and Swords. Each suit has cards numbered 1-9 and court cards from 10-12, but they're all male. Also includes 2 jokers. The imagery harkens back to the medieval, and those kings could easily pass for King Arthur. 2-7/16" x 3-3/4". Price: $1.75 Pirate Cards Avast, Matey! Decks of cards with pirate-themed suits: skull and crossbones, parrots, gold doubloons, and pirate ships. Give them to your kids, or host a pirate-themed swap! Cards are 2-1/4" x 3-1/2". Thin cardstock. 54 per deck. Treasure Maps are on the Ephemera Page! Price: $0.50 1864 Poker Deck A reproduction of a US Civil War era poker deck. There are noticeable differences compared with today's decks: the court figures are full-length images, there are no index numbers in the corners, and the corners are square. 2-1/2" x 3-1/2". 55 cards. To see the unusual back pattern, click here. Price: $5.00 (List $6) Round Cards Round playing cards look so unusual, especially those court cards with four heads. The deck has 52 cards plus 2 jokers. Size: 3" in diameter. Price: $1.00 Crooked Cards Poker-sized cards that are die-cut in a crooked yet ergonomic shape. The pips (suit signs) are all higgledy-piggledy. 52 cards plus 2 jokers in a crooked plastic box. 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" Price: $1.00   Standard Playing Cards Playing cards come in many sizes, and now we have 5! All are the design that is most familiar in the English-speaking world. In addition to 52 cards, most will have 1 or 2 jokers. Style: Jumbo (5" x 7") $2.50 Huge (3-7/16" x 5-5/16") $2.00 Regular (2-1/4" x 3-3/8") $0.75 Small (1-1/2" x 2-1/4") $0.50 Little (1-1/4" x 1-1/2") $0.50 Paper-Thin Cards These little cards are printed on regular paper like copy paper. Nothing exciting, but small and lightweight and very inexpensive! Add to ATCs or other small projects. 52 cards plus joker. 15/16" x 1-3/8". Price: 8 decks for $1.00   Blank Poker Decks Make your own special deck of playing cards with these real playing cards - not just cardstock with rounded corners! Our decks have 60 cards with blank fronts and a choice of either blue Bicycle backs or blank backs. They are poker-sized at 2-1/2" x 3-1/2", which is also ATC size! The blank surface has a light linen finish and seems to be coated, so it's best to use stamping inks that will dry on a glossy surface. A normal American deck has 52 cards plus 2 jokers. We've included a few extra cards for practicing. Or get the Sample Pack of 7 for $1. Style: All Blank Deck $7.75 Blue Back Deck $7.75 All Blank Sample $1.00 Blue Back Sample $1.00 Blank Tarot Deck Blank Tarot Decks have 80 round-cornered blank cards with tarotee backs, 2-3/4" x 4-3/4". Stamp, draw, collage, and embellish these cards to make your own personal deck of cards, either tarot cards or regular playing cards. High quality card blanks made in Italy and cellophane wrapped. Price: $7.00 (List $8) Design-A-Deck This kit has just what you need to create your own deck of playing cards: a hand-lettered mini sheet of rubber and a blank deck of 60 poker cards or 80 tarot cards or 60 cards that are blank on both sides. The unmounted rubber has all the letters and numbers found on a card deck, including two versions of "Joker", plus four hand-drawn suit signs (pips) in two sizes. Click here to see the whole sheet. The blank cards are the same ones described elsewhere on this page. Style: Kit with Blue Poker Deck (ATC size) $13.75 Kit with All Blank Deck (ATC size) $13.75 Kit with Tarot Deck $13.00 Rubber Only $7.00 Mahjong Cards for playing the Chinese game of Mahjong have wonderful images for collage. The picture shows the major suits: 4 bam (bamboo), 6 circ (circles), and 9 crack (characters), and a dragon, the West wind, and Spring. They are the size of standard card decks, 2-1/4" x 3-1/2". Style: Set of 16 Cards $1.00 Deck of 178 Cards $9.00 Card Pack #1 This pack is a mixture of 25+ cards: domestic, foreign, and Tarot. There are cards in different sizes and shapes: huge, regular, small, and mini, plus round, crooked, and oval. The foreign cards are from Chinese mahjong and Spanish decks. Cards from 2 Tarot decks round out the set. Price: $2.25 Card Pack #2 Our second mixture consists of 25+ cards and is exactly like Card Pack #1 minus the Tarot and mahjong cards, which are rather expensive. That makes this pack a bit easier on the budget, while still containing some exciting new images for you to play with. Price: $1.50 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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