Mad Scientist Favor Bags, Poison Stamp Set, Witch Ribbon
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Mad Scientist Favor Bags
4-Leaf-Top Keys - Antique Pewter Finish
Alice’s Adventures Rubber Stamp Sheet
Halloween Glitter Postcards in Tin
Poison Rubber Stamp SetAll is but Fortune Rubber Stamp
25mm Gold & Silver Plain Edged Round Settings
Santa on the Moon Dresden Scraps
Witches Satin Cutouts Ribbon
Black & Orange Crepe PaperCirque Alpha Cling-Mounted Stamp Set
2 Halloween Swaps, More Steampunk
Filed under Collage Sheets, Rubber Stamps, Swaps, Sale, Halloween, 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.
Halloween in Wonderland, Shrines, Pendants/Filigree
Filed under Sale, Alice in Wonderland, Halloween
It’s another catch-up newsletter (my favorite kind to put together as I can wander around and choose what to highlight on a whim).
Halloween in Wonderland:
6 Double-Sided Scrapbook Papers
A wonderful smash-up of Halloween and Alice in Wonderland (with a vague bit of The Wizard of Oz). The “Classifieds” sheet has a light tan background with creative advertisements, from “Kid gloves to match your gown” to “Tapeless blouses for manly boys” (illustrated with Tweedledum & Tweedledee with jack-o-lantern heads).
Halloween in Wonderland Die-Cut Tags
Creatively collaged images from the tea party, the Red Queen, the Chesshire Cat, the White Rabbit, etc., with small details changed for a spookier feel (like the Red Queen in horns). The tags are die-cut in lots of small sizes (on heavy cardstock). The little hole in each tag is also die-cut (for hanging on a string or other closure).
Die-Cut Alice in Wonderland Paper Doll Set
While we’re on the Alice in Wonderland theme, there’s a new paper doll set that includes an Alice doll and a White Rabbit doll with 2 costumes (and accessories and stands) for each. Based on the classic illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
Vampire Epoxy Stickers
A little bit puffy (3D) and flexible. Nice Halloween selection: Chandelier, candelabra, crows, goblets, chair. Artwork by Design Team Member Teri Calia, also using images from the Something Witchy Collage Sheet with some Black Dresden and a small clock face button.
Miniature Tea Set
(Back to Alice for a second.) Adorably tiny ceramic tea set. 6 cups, 6 saucers, 1 creamer (w/ removable lid), 1 sugar (w/ removable lid), 1 tea pot.
Gravestone Edge Punch
Nicely designed: From the printed template on the “wings” (so you can line up the paper for repeated “punches” to align perfectly) to the “wings” themselves (that fold up for storage).
Sarah Whitmire
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Sarah Whitmire, Florida, USA
As a mixed-media artist and instructor, I enjoy working in many mediums, including but not limited to encaustics, collage, and acrylics. Though I live and work in a smallish town in northern Florida, I enjoy using the internet to reach a much larger audience. I currently teach online workshops through Joggles as well as through my own blog and Yahoo groups.
My proudest achievement to date is the creation and founding of Soul Journaling, a series of guided, mixed-media visual journaling workshops that has inspired a growing community of people from all walks of life and from all over the globe to come together through art and self-expression. My work has been featured in some of my favorite magazines; Somerset Studio, Somerset Studio Gallery, Somerset Home, and Cloth Paper Scissors, and I am a member of several organizations, including the Gainesville Fine Art Association, the North Florida Craft Revolution and the Florida Etsy Street Team.
I look forward to continuing my partnership with Alpha Stamps and my Fellow Design Team members. Through this partnership I hope to grow as an artist, make lasting friendships, and inspire the love of art and creativity in others.
To learn more about my art and life, visit my blog.
To learn more about my complete line of works, visit my website, Caspiana
Sarah’s Gallery
Bella’s Corner: Poisonous Fun!
Filed under Collage Sheets, Rubber Stamps, Contests, Bella's Corner, Halloween
The Poison Rubber Stamp Set contains everything from Belladonna to Laudanum to tickle your morbid little funny bone! There is also an ornate label for “unbroken chilblains.” Eeeuw, WHAT is that? Sounds wicked!
Something else to tickle your fancy — you will get more stamps for lower price! This is a new, re-designed set based on our original clear stamp set. It’s more stamps at a lower price than the original set! What a great set to work with for our favorite upcoming holiday, Halloween!
Pair up the fabulous Poison Rubber Stamp Set with:
- Skeleton Slides Collage Sheet
- Doc’s Black Bag #2
- Witch Hazel Collage Sheet
Check out the Halloween Theme page for more ideas! Since Halloween is my most favorite time of the year, if you make something with the Poison Rubber Stamp Set and email your photos to me, I will post the pictures in the Alpha Stamps Gallery for everyone to see. I will then pick a winner to receive a mysterious bag of goodies from Alpha Stamps sure to make you howl with delight! Shhhh! Leslie doesn’t know about this little contest so let’s just keep it between us, OK?
The fine print: Entries must be received by September 15th, 2010, winner will be announced on September 20th. As much as I would love to accept bribes, alas! I cannot so all I can say is good luck!
Lucite Flower Sets, Lock & Key Brads, 1.5mm Metal Alphabet Stamps…
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Lucite Flower (& Leaf) Sets
Doc’s Black Bag #1 Collage Sheet
Perfume Flask Pendant
Lock & Key Brads
Copper-Plated Clam Shell Charms
1.5mm Metal Alphabet & Numeral Stamps
Bail-Making PliersDouble-Loop Rectangular Silver Pendants
Frieda Oxenham
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Frieda Oxenham, Scotland, United Kingdom
I come from a slightly different background than most stampers/mixed media artists in that I started off as a quilter and embroiderer and I have been very successful in that field. My quilts have won many prizes and are regularly exhibited here in the U.K. as well as in the US and other countries.
I started my adventure in mixed media in 2004 when I entered the exciting world of ATCs. Two of my ATCs, combining stitch, fabric and stamping, were published in the British Craft Stamper magazine. I’ve written many articles, mostly about quilting and embroidery, but also about ATCs and other mixed media techniques in British magazines such as Stitch, Classic Stitches, Patchwork & Quilting and Popular Patchwork.
Three of my pieces have been published in Somerset Studio and Somerset Gallery (La Bella Vita, Poivoir de l’Image and On the Wings of Time) and another piece (Dans mon Coeur) will be in the new Sew Somerset magazine. Here I found a way to combine vellum and transparencies in my fabric work which I very much enjoyed. This can also be seen on the Alpha Stamps postcards I submitted for a recent swap.
My favourite new technique is making fabric/paper collages that I used for the postcard backgrounds and lately I’ve started to stamp the fabric background I use as well as adding stamping on top. This is something I’m hoping to develop further in the near future.
Frieda’s Gallery
Bella’s Corner: Back to School
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Having 3 kidlets of my own who are infamously known as the Oompa Loompas, I for one am very excited that school will be starting on August 5th! In honor of this fabulous occasion I have rounded up lots of goodies related to Back to School. Pursue at your leisure, perhaps in silence with a good cup of coffee or tea as you laugh yourself silly on that first day of freedom!
Collage Sheets
- Chalk Board
- Animals in School
- Linen Books
- ABC Books #1
- ABC Books #2
- ABC Books #3
- Children’s Books #1
- Bennett Animal ABCs - Black
- Bennett Animal ABCs - Sepia
Rubber Stamps
- The Alphabet Set
- Penmanship
- Principles of Writing
- 3 Pen Nibs
- Self Instructor
- Pen & Ink Clear Stamp Set
- Cirque Alpha Cling-Mounted Stamp Set On Sale!
- Mini Cirque Alpha Cling-Mounted Stamp Set On Sale!
- Cursive Writing On Sale!
- Large Numbers Clear Stamp Set On Sale!
- C, Clock, Cat
- L, Luna
- H was a Hive
- Small Alphabet Unmounted Sheet On Sale!
This and That
- Library Pockets & Card Sets
- Ruler Ribbon
- Alphabet Twill Tape
- Vertical Measuring Twill Tape
- Reversible Round Metal Number Tiles
- Metal Number Index Tabs
- B is For Boy Cardstock Stickers 
- Alphabet Playing Card Stickers
- Child’s Play Scrapbook Paper
- Die-Cut Flashcards in Boxes
Mermaid Swap, Halloween, Brass Findings
Filed under Collage Sheets, New Products, Art from Friends, Swaps, Sale
I’ve tracked down lots of cool, aqua ribbons & other embellishments in anticipation of the new swap (and to help you cool off in the dog days of summer). Plus there are 6 new collage sheets.
Mermaid 4×4 Coaster 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:
Mermaids are the theme and you are required to use 4″ x 4″ coasters available at Alpha Stamps. You are also required to use 1 charm or other dimensional element from AS and one AS image
(collage sheet or rubber stamped) per coaster.
Need inspiration? Check out the Mermaid Swap Gallery!
Fabulous sample artwork by Guest Designers Wendy Anderson and Meghan Chapman.
6 New Collage Sheets
From silly to classical to frightening (temptresses dragging sailors to their deaths).
Mermaid Mix Micro Marbles Set
Our own custom blend! Perfect for a seaside/summer beach project. Micro Marbles are kind of like glitter (or beads without holes). Apply in thin or thick layers for different effects (small enough to look light when spread thin, and you can thicken it a bit and get a deeper hue). Comes in 1 ounce quantity (the same amount as in our 2″ x 3″ baggies of glass glitter), but packaged in a glass bottle with a cork.
4×4 Coasters
4″ x 4″ fiberboard coasters with rounded edges. Easy to paint over or glue onto (so you don’t need to care about the silly superbowl themed graphics). And a great price: $2.99/Set of 8
Light Aqua AB 10mm Faceted Beads
Czech fire-polished glass, light aqua AB, 10mm faceted round. (Aurora Borealis (AB) coating is a half-coat metallic finish that adds a prismatic effect to the surface of the bead.) Pendant by Design Team Member Nicole Merkens.
Cigar Box Trim
Majestic Flight Rub-Ons
Dress Pattern Scrapbook Paper
Butterfly Grand Adhesions
Ornate Dragonfly Filigree