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Autumn Apple Pie Swap & A Giveaway

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Note: most of the links on this post no longer work, as we moved to a new Web site in 2018. But you can try searching on the same names (as links below) on the new site.

A big, newsy newsletter with pretty Autumn (from falling leaves to picking apples) and cooking-inspired supplies, a new swap (more on that later) and announcing a related “Kitschy Kitchen Giveaway.”

Apples/Apple Pie

Autumn Apples Collage Sheet
All kinds of images of apples, from ads, children’s books and vintage postcards.

Polymer Clay Apple (and Crown) Slices
Very tiny, thin apple or crown slices. A bit flexible. Used in the snippet of an ATC (also using the Autumn Apples Collage Sheet) by Design Team Member Teri Calia.

Brass Apple Charms
Approx. 1/2″ wide.

Bee’s Knees Scrapbook Paper
Double-sided 12×12″ cardstock sheet with a retro print of cherries (or are those apples?) against lime green polka dots (with kind of an awning stripe pattern on the back).

Kitschy Kitchen Tag Collection
Printed manila tags in fun floral, checkerboard and cherry patterns (in ’50s colors). 8 designs (repeated twice in 2 sizes: 4 x 2-1/2″ and 2-1/2 x 1-1/2″). Included in the Giveaway in the sidebar above.

Kitschy Kitchen Retro Recipe Cards
Recipe cards in fun floral, checkerboard and cherry patterns (in ’50s colors). 2 each of 12 designs.

Kittens & Pie Collage Sheet
These have been a long time coming. I have so many vintage books of kittens (Three Little Kittens, Puss in Boots, etc.) I never get around to scanning them as the task seems so large. But here (and below) is a start.


“A Apple Pie” Collage Sheet
I have a few different vintage copies of this children’s rhyme. My favorite title being, “The Tragical Death of A, Apple Pye Who was Cut in Pieces and Eat by Twenty-Five Gentlemen with whom All Little People Ought to be Very Well Acquainted” (1770).

Musical Pie Collage Sheet
Here are a few versions of ‘The Three Little Kittens’ with sheet music (and this stern mama cat with the caption, “No! You shall have no pie!”). The lyrics vary… most begin with:

Three little kittens
they lost their mittens,
And they began to cry…

Miss Manners Scrapbook Paper
A beautiful design of china patterns, silverware, calligraphy and strawberries on a teal blue background. A fun gingham check tablecloth pattern is on the back.

Learning Curve Scrapbook Paper Set
Four 12×12″ double-sided cardstock sheets with a vintage children/ABCs/back-to-school theme. Includes part of the “A Apple Pie” ABCs featured on the A Apple Pie and Apple Pie ABCs collage sheets.

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Labels Collage Sheet
Beautiful, richly colored illustrations from vintage advertisements, seed catalogs, fruit crates and canned foods. Aren’t you glad I collect varied ephemera?

Embossed Leaf Stickers
Die-cut edges; realistic looking. 1 sheet/8 stickers.

Fall Pear (Edens Symphony) Scrapbook Paper
A beautiful collaged design with sheet music, butterflies, grapes, pears & postage stamps. Similar postage stamps are on the Botanicabella Paper Set.

Autumn Leaves
Mixed sizes and colors. Embossed paper over a fabric mesh. Package of 24

Mottled Paper Roses – Marcel
6 beautiful, layered mulberry paper flowers. Ruffle the layers and form the flowers for just the right look. 3 sizes (approx.): 2-1/4″ (1 per pack), 1-3/4″ (2 per pack) and 1″ (3 per pack).

Colorful Leaves Vellum Stickers
Semi-transparent (as they’re vellum) with gold metallic printing for the veins. Two 4×6″ sheets/set.

Leaves Satin Cutouts Ribbon
A beautiful and delicate design in orange or brown. Sold by the yard.

Brown on Brown Sheer Ribbon
1/2″ wide organdy with a swirl pattern. Sold by the yard.

Vintage Brass Flower Set
Vintage patinaed brass, set of 8 pieces in a variety of sizes/shapes.

Vintage Brass Violet Sprigs
Vintage patinaed brass. 30mm.

Vintage Brass Leafage Set
Vintage patinaed brass, set of 8 pieces in a variety of sizes/shapes.

Antique Leaf Beads
Antiqued brass or antiqued copper-plated brass. Quite small (8x5mm). Shown at left as part of a Fall Harvest ATC by Guest Designer Caroline Ouzts Hay, also using an image from the Autumn Apples Collage Sheet and Gold Zig Zag Dresden Borders

Firecracker Scrapbook Paper
12 x 12″ paper with a wild, swirly (fairly monochrome) pattern. Shown in the background of the artwork at right by Guest Designer Julie Anne Cooper, also using images from the Kittens & Pie Collage Sheet.

Gold Leaf Scroll Scrapbook Paper
12 x 12″ paper with a swirly pattern and maple leaves against a cracked-looking background.

Orange Scroll Scrapbook Paper
12 x 12″ paper with a swirly pattern against a cracked-looking background.

Fall Cat Rubber Stamp
With a flurry of falling Fall leaves.

Fruit Basket Dresden Scraps
6″ x 9″ sheet. Die-cut and embossed. Imported from Germany.

Antique Copper Acorn Charms
Plated over brass (a bit heavy as they’re solid). 9x8mm. 3D.

Gold-Plated Maple Leaf Charms
Lightweight; plated brass. 12mm

Antique Copper Oak Leaf Charms
Plated over brass. 13x10mm

Autumn Apple Pie Swap

Make 3 Autumn Apple Pie-Themed ATCs and receive 3 in return, all by different artists!

Think Autumn AND apples or apple pies: picking apples or baking pies (and warm rustic fall colors).

Need some inspiration? Check out the Autumn Apple Pie Gallery!

Note: This is the third of four season-themed swaps. If you participate in all 4 you will have a fabulous seasonal wall display of ATCs to fill the wooden ATC Printer Tray!

Sign up by September 30th; Artwork due October 23rd. Learn more in the Yahoo Group. The lovely ATC shown above is by Design Team Member Teri Calia.

 
Miscellaneous


Glassine Envelopes – Horizontal Flaps
Two sizes of translucent glassine envelopes: a tiny little size (2-7/8 x 1-3/4″; shown on the back of a collaged Slide Mailer by Design Team Member Teri Calia) and a larger size, large enough for a 4 x 6″ postcard (6-1/4 x 4-1/8″). Both have horizontal flaps like traditional mailing envelopes.

Masonite ATCs (above right)
1/8″ thick masonite. You can pound, drill, sand, distress to your heart’s content (hinge them together?).

Apothecary Stickers – Brown
Die-cut mix of rulers, star and vintage pharmacy labels.

Brown Mini Paper Pack
4″ x 4″. They include florals, polka dots, and storybook text. There are 4 sheets each of 6 designs, for a total of 24 sheets. Nice size for ATCs or paper dolls.

Robot Pendant
Oxidized brass; about 1-1/2″ tall including loop. Articulated limbs (and his head turns, too).

Miniature Framed Mirrors
Set of 3 vintage-inspired mirrors, meant for doll houses.

Black Doily Paper – Single Sheets
12″ x 12″ sheets with lacy, perforated borders.

 
New on Sale!

Umbrella Girl Rubber Stamp
You know what’s coming right after Halloween…

Peacock Scrapbook Papers & Transparency
Peacock feathers hand-silkscreened on 12″ x 12″ papers:
– Gold metallic ink on purple textured cardstoc
– Teal ink on metallic bronze paper
– Magenta ink on clear acetate transparency (heavyweight… won’t curl). Nice stuff.

Gold Dresden Leaves (way over there on the right)
Embossed & foiled. Set of 10.

Edgy Album – Licorice
6 heavy, black chipboard pages with different scallop, eyelet, and curved bracket-shaped die-cut ends. They are stacked, each sheet being slightly longer than the previous. Shortest sheet is approximately 7″ across, and the longest is approximately 12″ across, with all sheets being 6″ tall. The pages can be mixed with the shorter pages in the Mini Edgy Album. Each sheet has 3 “binding” holes on left side.

4 Christmas Rub-Ons Sheets or Set

White Flocked Holiday Iron-Ons

Folding Angel Musician Card Set
Reproduction of a vintage folding card with envelope.

Advent Calendar Postcard
Extra heavy card (that comes with an envelope for mailing) with 24 little flaps to open, for each day in December until the 25th. Embossed and embellished with metallic gold. Replica of an antique card.

Happy New Years Rubber Stamp

Winter Girl Rubber Stamp

Adhesive-Backed Pearls
The pearls are half-spheres. Half ivory and half white. 64 pearls/set.

Spooky Halloween Rub-Ons
A large sheet of rub-ons (the row of skulls is 8″ wide). Includes a nice, big spider web, skeletons, bats…

  
Posted by Leslie, September 12th, 2010

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    Too cute!

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