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Cartes Postales - Vintage Style Postcard Album
Art Postcards
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Postcard Frame
The Cartes Postales album is an exquisite facsimile of an antique postcard album unearthed at a Parisian flea market. It takes us back to an era when postcards were small treasures from faraway lands. Featuring Art Nouveau textured and padded covers and original floral line art inside, this Cartes Postales album offers the perfect home for special postcards and photographs.
It can hold both 3-1/2 x 5-inch and 4 x 6-inch postcards or photographs - for a total of 64 photos. Die cuts actually hold each photo neatly on the acid-free pages without adhesive, so you can house your treasured cards without worry. What a truly special keepsake album for travelers, collectors, and photographers alike.
The book measures 8-1/8 by 5-1/8 inches.
Imported
18March2008
Price: $18.95 each
Qty:
The Art of Tarot Cards CD-Rom & Book - 794 Images
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More Tarot
More Metaphysical
Real Ephemera (Including Real Tarot & Playing Cards)
The CD-ROM that arrives with this book contains all of the cards from ten different tarot decks, plus the Major Arcana from the Tarocco Italiano as well as images from other rare and exotic decks. All of the images are royalty-free.
There is no installation necessary. Just insert the CD into your computer and call the images into your favorite software. Each image has been scanned at 300 dpi and saved in both 72-dpi Internet-read and 300-dpi high-resolution JPG format.
In order to include as many tarot decks as possible, only a selection of the cards from each deck are shown in the book. The range of numbers listed at the bottom of each page indicates the entire deck.
Commercial artists and designers will find this collection a superb source of graphics. Collagists, découpeurs and other craftspeople will want to add these design aids to their personal libraries. This collection is wonderful if you want to create your own deck of cards - just modify these!
Made in USA
25March2011
Out of Stock
Price: $19.95 per Set
Paper Models that Move: 14 Ingenious Automata and More to Cut & Make
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Pointed Bone Folder
Scissors & Other Cutting Things
Adhesives & Glue
Rulers & Other Tools
Working automata models do not need to be taken too seriously! That's what makes them fun! But, the fun quickly turns to learning if you're not careful!
You might regard them as 3D moving jokes which can be appreciated and enjoyed at least on two levels. Firstly, there is the pleasure of a smooth-turning movement acting to produce a vivid and graphic happening which communicates an idea. Secondly there is the pleasure of understanding and appreciating how such a mechanism works and how the required movement or combination of movements has been achieved by the designer.
Splendid working automata have been and can be made in many different materials or combinations of them - such as wood, metal, fabric, plastic and even ropes or cords. These can be extremely expensive to make and take lots of skill.
This fun book concerns itself solely with the skills and techniques needed to make working automata in paper - ideally paper alone. Paper is a wonderfully versatile material. It can be cut, glued and folded with ease. Holes can be cut or punched in it and it can easily be decorated with painted or printed with colors, drawings and even photographs.
Paper can be folded or consertina'd into structures of surprising strength and it is also readily available in a a variety of beautiful colors. Most paper is not expensive and the tools you'll need to work with it are modest and easily available.
All you might need to add are, scissors, a craft knife, glue, a ruler & a bone folder or a ball-point pen which ahs run out of ink (for creasing), a few toothpicks and maybe some string or thread.
The Gallery of Automata (loaded with great illustrated instructions) include the 14 working mechanisms:
Crank Slider - Oscillating Lever - Friction Transfer Meshing Gearwheels - Ratchet - Cams & Friction Wheel Cam & Pushrod - Cam & Lever - Happy Birthday At the Duck's Pond - Pyramid Lifter - Weight of Bureaucracy Pianist - Gymnast
There are also great instructions on how to turn the basics into other projects and how to decorate and change faces to change the entire piece.
29January2011
price: $19.99 per Book
The Victorian Scrap Album
Victorian Scraps & Dresdens
More Albums, Journals & Notebooks
Skeleton Leaves
This simple alternative to technology might amuse and educate both young and old. Scrap albums like this one were quite popular in the 19th century through the early 20th century. Some folks made their own albums out of old periodicals or books. And others bough machine made ones such as this.
This book was originally created for Pollock's Toy Museum in London in the 1970s. It has undergone a few changes but remains a fun source of activity for anyone enjoying a bit of history.
There are spaces for your own scraps and keepsakes as well as guided pages with history and explanations, including:
An Introduction to Scraps & Scrapbooks Poetry Skeleton Leaves Thumbprints Prints (including chromolithograph scraps) Animals (often clipped from the newspaper) Ferns (pressed or drawn) Spatterwork Valentines Butterflies & Birds Featherwork Marbled Paper Silhouettes (including how to make them) People (including angels) The Seaweed Album Smudgeography (reminiscent of Rorschach designs) Crests, Monograms & Trademarks Pressed Flowers Puzzle Names Scrap Screens Glitter Pictures & Sand Pictures Tinsel Portraits
Made in England
5November2010
Price: $15.50 Each
Mini Faux-Leather Covered Book or Journal
More Little Things
More Journals & Notebooks
Perfect for your dollhouse, memory box or even as an addition to an altered art jewelry project, our mini books are delightful. Each one measures 3/4 inch long, 1/2 inch wide and about 3/16 inch thick. Inside, the pages are unlined blank white pages.
Colors vary, so please let us choose one for you.
1September2010
Price: 95¢ Each
The Day of the Dead: A Pictorial Archive of Día de los Muertos with Bonus CD
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Calaveras - grotesque yet lively images of costumed skeletons - represent a traditional aspect of the Mexican holiday known as the Day of the Dead, when people celebrate the memories of departed loved ones. This compilation of 187 multi-character prints and spot illustrations was drawn from a grand variety of authentic sources, including many works by José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), Mexico's most illustrious graphic artist. Posada took the calaveras custom to new heights, transforming the cavorting skeletons into imaginative expressions of social and political satire.
A century later, these striking engravings, drawings and etchings continue to pulse with vitality, offering modern designers a timeless source of royalty-free art. In addition t the books lavish selection of illustrations on fine quality heavier paper, a bonus CD-ROM features all of the print images in JPEG and TIFF formats.
The book is jam-packed with lots of illustrations - some of which are completely new to us! The soft cover book measures 9 inches square and is printed on high quality recycled paper.
Commercial artists and designers will find this collection a superb source of graphics. Collagists, découpeurs and other craftspeople will want to add these design aids to their personal libraries.
28August2010
Close-Up (Shows Projects, too!)
Book of Gifts to Make
We absolutely fell in love with this book and the cut-and-make projects inside! Though the projects and images are nostalgic of the 1920s, the resultant gifts are certainly usable today and sure to delight the recipient. Or, leave your book intact and use the ideas to construct special presents for special people on your own.
The close-up shows three completed gifts you'll want to start immediately. Every page of this pretty little book (7 by 10 inches), makes something useful - even the back and front covers!
Let clever wits and nimble hands All take their active parts In making gifts and giving gifts From loving little hearts.
Whether you make these alone or with a youngster, you'll surely enjoy the final offerings: Birthday Box, Pen Holder, Postcard Rack, Picture Frame, Tie Holder, Catch-All (SilverCrow's favorite), Hairpin Holder and Kitchen Reminder.
SilverCrow Classic
Price: $9.50 Each
Old-Time Baseball Punch-Out Gift Boxes - 6 Boxes with Matching Tags
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Decorated with montages of famous players on old-time baseball cards, this handsome collection of six gift boxes will score a big hit with fans of the USA's national pastime.
Portraits of such all-time greats as "Peewee" Reese, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra and Jackie Jensen grace the outside of each box. Perfect for holding small gifts, ticket stubs from major league games and other mementoes, the boxes are easy to assemble. Just punch out a box, fold it along the pre-scored lines and fasten with double-stick tape or a bit of white glue.
The book measures 9-1/4 by 12-14/ inches.
Printed in USA
1August2010
Price: $4.95 each
Full-Color Cigar Labels - Permission Free Images - CD-ROM & Book
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Real Ephemera (Including Real Vintage Cigar Labels)
Masterpieces of early commercial art, the early twentieth-century labels that once adorned cigar boxes encompassed a wide range of artistic vignettes. Admired for their fine detail and decorative flourishes, they included images of lovely ladies, handsome cowboys and sailors, dogs, eagles, racehorses and other miniature works of art. Many and varied cigar brands from around the world are represented in this fine collection.
This set includes a CD-ROM containing 89 full-color royalty-free images. All are saved in high-resolution TIFF and Internet Ready-JPG formats. System requirements are Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista or any version of Macintosh and a CD-ROM drive. The book includes all of the images printed large and clearly on one side of the page only and numbered for easy reference and direct cut-and-paste use.
9July2010
Cut and Make Kachina Dolls
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More Native American Indian Items
Kachina dolls, like related Kachina tribal masks and costumes are American Indian artifacts that represent a variety of gods, spirits and departed ancestors. Their elaborate and brightly colored costumes traditionally display elements that personify figures and objects in comprehensible form.
This intriguing full-color cut-and-make collection includes everything you need (except scissors and maybe some glue or tape) to create 8-inch high models of three actual Kachina dolls:
Eagle - with dramatic black-tipped wings
Pussy Willow - an ominous male figure with sharp tipped horns that belie his tranquil name
Crow Mother - with large black wings
Step-by-step instructions, along with a few simple tools and materials, will help paper crafters of all ages cut out and assemble distinctive figures that are sure to fascinate social-studies classes, lovers of folk art and anyone interested in the cultural life of the Native American Indian.
This oversized book (12-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches) features 16 total pages.
01June2010
Price: $5.95 each
Invisible Bugs Magic Picture Book
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More Stuff for Kids
Rub the blank spaces on each page of this little book with the tip of a pencil (yes, a pencil! - not a marker - not a pen) and find out which bugs bore through wood; which large, hairy spider living in warm climates can survive more than 25 years; and what long, slender bug looks like a tree twig. Answers to these and 13 other nature-related puzzles are revealed by your pencil rubbings!
Learn and have fun at the same time - and all with creepy crawlers (and fliers)!
28May2010
Price: 1.50 Each
Asian ABC Practice Copy Book - Lower Case Cursive Alphabet
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Such copy books were made for Asian students to learn western lettering. Each booklet features 8 double-sided pages with a lower case cursive alphabet for practice. The top line shows the letters if written perfectly. The next line shows the same letters with in dashed format for the student to trace. Then there are 2 more lines for free-hand practice.
The booklet measures 8 by 6-1/2 inches. Each page features the entire alphabet.
21March2010
Limited Availability
Price: $3.00 each
Ancient Mexican Designs CD-Rom & Book
Add an exotic flavor to a variety of projects with the help of this collection of bold designs. Scores of authentically rendered permission free images of Aztec calendars, gods and mythological creatures, animals, figures of athletes on ball courts, people in ritual costumes and more - have been adapted from ancient codices, temple murals, artifacts and other sources.
The set includes a CD-ROM containing 246 high-quality, permission free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in 6 different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, JPG and GIF) and a a large-format 48 page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed clearly and large for easy reference. Dover Design Manager, a simple graphics editing program for Windows is also on the CD-ROM.
Graphic artists and devotees of pre-Columbian art will be absolutely delighted with this easy-to-use collection.
System requirements: Windows 95,98, ME, NT, 2000, XP or Macintosh (all versions) and a CD-ROM drive.
18June2006
Price: $14.95
Antique Playing Card Designs CD-ROM and Book
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More Playing Cards
Almost 500 decorative designs (in black and white and in color) for antique playing and tarot cards, approximately half of which are in full color. The elegant illustrations graced European regular and tarot card decks from the fifteenth century to the mid 1900s.
Not only do you receive the images in printed form, but also on CD, making it ever so much simpler to produce your art by computer!
Stretched Coin Collector Folio + Free SilverCrow Penny!
SilverCrow Smashed Penny
More Smashed Pennies Other Coins & Tokens
If you love stretched, smashed and pressed coins (especially pennies), then you really need this Collector and Storage Book. Now you can keep those special smashed penny mementos in one place!
When closed, the folio measures 6-1/4 by 3-1/8 inches. As you can see in the inset, it opens up to 36 stretched, pressed or smashed coins (pennies, dimes, quarters, tokens).
We're including our very own SilverCrow Creations Smashed Penny to start your collection.
3December2009
Price: $6.50 per Set
Frida Kahlo Art Box
A tribute to Frida Kahlo, the artist and the person, this flamboyantly decorated ArtBox explores through images and words, the soul of one of the world's most renowned and fascinating artists. Complete with reproductions of Kahlo's own letters, diary entries, and paintings, and including photographs of the artist, the box offers a penetrating glimpse into Frida Kahlo's world.
The box contains a 48-page book, along with 10 note cards and a milagro.
9October2006
Price: $19.95 Per Set
Classic Tattoo Designs CD-Rom & Book
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Temporary Tattoos, too!
This great collection contains a half-century of bold and beautiful body art for you to use in your artwork, on t-shirts, for costumes and more!
Regarded by many people who wear them as the ultimate form of personal expression, tattoo designs have evolved from pagan adornments into a popular form of body art.
This unique collection spotlights well over 100 actual tattoos, that have been stylized or adapted from the original tattoo flashes. These4 were popular during the first half of the 20th century. Here are pierced hearts, shamrocks, pretty girls, the grim reaper, skulls and crossbones, exotic ladies, crossed swords, colorful birds and a host of other striking figures.
This set includes a CD-ROM containing 230 royalty-free images, 115 in full-color and 115 in black and white. All are saved in high-resolution TIFF and Internet Ready-JPG formats. System requirements are Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista or any version of Macintosh and a CD-ROM drive. The book includes all of the designs, as well.
22March2009
Includes Bonus Images to Download!
120 Great Paintings of the Life of Jesus DVD & Book
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More Jesus
This sumptuously illustrated volume is a treasury of some of the most memorable scenes of the New Testament of the Bible. From the Annunciation and nativity to the Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection, it sings with 120 exquisite works, offering vivid full-color masterpieces by Raphael, Rembrandt, Vermeer, El Greco, Fra Angelico and many more renowned artists.
Use the clip art images to add beauty to just about any DIY project: greeting cards, initiations, T-Shirts, mugs, blog banners and so much more. Print out the paintings on your printer for lovely pieces to frame. Or, print out the images on a wide-bed printer or at your local print shop and you'll have an instant poster! Plus, you can play a stunning slideshow of 120 images of New Testament scenes on your TV or computer.
The images on the enclosed DVD are saved in high-quality JPG format in three different sizes: 300-dpi high-resolution files with a 15-inch short dimension, 300-dpi high-resolution files with an 8-inch short dimension and 72-dep Internet-ready files with an 8-inch short dimension.
System requirements: DVD drive, Windows ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista OR Macintosh, system 10.
23September2008
Price: $34.95 each
Old-Time Label Art CD-Rom & Book
Over 200 decorative, old-fashioned labels comprise this practical, brilliantly colored collection of graphic art. Attractive reproductions of illustrations that once decorated cigar boxes and luggage; fruit and vegetable crates; boxes of chocolates, bottles of wine, beer and spirits; ... are now available for a variety of uses.
The book-package includes one CD-ROM with 229 full-color, high-quality permission-free designs scanned at 300 dpi and saved in TIFF format, perfect for use with all the most popular programs. You'll also get a large-format 48-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly on one side of the page only and numbered for easy reference and immediate cut-and-paste use.
Price: $19.95
Angel Board Book for Alteration
One of our customers asked us to sell these. Each is a story about an angel. But - the real beauty of these is that the wings form the front cover and are held closed with hook-and-loop tape! Each book is different, so please let SilverCrow choose one for you.
Customers throughout the United States have been altering them, based on one of Beth Cote's super designs, with amazing results. We hope to have some samples soon!
Made In China
Price: $4.00 each
Easy-to-Make Pueblo Village
More Kids' Projects and Gifts
For many centuries, Amerindian peoples of the southwestern United States have lived in communal villages, or pueblos, that are typically a complex of flat-roofed buildings made of adobe or stone.
Now you can recreate a pueblo village with this simple, colorful scale mode. All that's needed is a pair of scissors and a bit of glue. Simple instructions enable young model makers to assemble authentic pueblo dwellings and populate the village with two-sided free-standing figures of Native American Indians engaged in day-to-day activities, games and rituals of the past.
What an ideal family project or wonderful classroom project. There are 2 diagrams and 6 full-color plates plus instructions in this 12 -age, 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inch paperbound book.
29march2008
Price: $5.95 Each
Make It Yourself Paper & Cardboard Projects for Kids
More Kid Stuff
This book of simple crafts for children six and older is a delight just to see!
The creators believe that modern life requires of us too little creativity; that living in a world where everything is done and made for you has disadvantages aw well as advantages. Most of us are deprived of the deep satisfactions which come from making things with our hands.
This book is a compilation of simple craft projects drawn from old books and magazines. None of them require special equipment, and are within the capabilities of most children. The timeless sources create a connection between yesterday and today that is rarely seen in activity books for children.
All of the 28 projects have been tested for today's child! The equipment listed in the book includes light cardboard, a glue stick, scissors, crayons, tape, yarn, buttons and the like.
The projects are:
Printed in China
25March2008
Price: $17.95 each
Old-Time Halloween Illustrations CD-ROM & Book
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More Hallowe'en
Over 170 rare vintage images of All Hallow's Eve are here for your enjoyment. Also included is the Dover Design Manger sot that you can easily browse, print, crop and rotate the images - even if you don't have a fancy graphics program on your PC or Mac!
Take a nostalgic look back at Hallowe'en with this charming collection of holiday illustrations. Delightfully spooky scenes starring plump pumpkins, black cats, grinning trick-or-treaters and flying witches are filled with old-fashioned flavor and will lend vintage charm to a cauldron-full of Hallowe'en projects. An enchanting sourcebook bursting with full-color graphics for invitations, posters, catalogs, newsletters, websites and much more!
24March2008
Price: $22.95 each
Ticket Stub Diary
More Collage and Assemblage
This handy journal is just the ticket for preserving and showing off tickets saved from sporting events, museum openings, rock concerts and more. The roomy sleeves store tickets of all shapes and sizes, and lined margins provide space to jot down notes about the events. The acid-free pages will keep memorabilia in tip-top shape for years to come.
You might even choose to add your own artwork, or alter the book to make it more yours!
This fun hardcover diary measures almost 7-1/2 inches by 6-7/8 inches and about 1-1/4 inch thick with 52 pages for your tickets from everywhere - trains, planes, limousines; movies, plays, recitals; museums, galleries, openings and more!
Price: $12.95 each
Small Papier Mâché & Cardboard Book
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More Collage, Assemblage & Altered Art
What fun for a small collage or assemblage project! This little book (5-1/4 by 3-1/4 inches) is completely plain - just waiting for your alterations! It's like a children's board book without the story or pictures - awaiting your story.
Made in Philippines
20August2007
Price: $3.15 each
Vintage Hymnal - Perfect for Altering
More Collage, Assemblage & Altered Arts
Published by The Muhlenberg Press around 1948, these hymnals each have over 400 pages and measure about 8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide and about 1-1/8 inch deep. Covers are all deep red and show slight wear. The hymnal is entitled Christian Youth Hymnal. Most pages are filled with music, but there are psalms and prayers as well.
Each book is vintage and has been well used but is in good shape. Two hymnals are shown for illustration only.
21May2007
Price: $8.50 each
Make Your Own Christmas Cards
More Christmas
Created from the original vintage version, we offer you this fantastic book of Christmas cards to make on your own. You can cut-out and make 25 two-sided cards - many with movable parts!
The nostalgic style of the cards and the verses within become even more special because you make them yourself. The book measures 9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches and is made of card-stock. Start a new tradition with the kids by making these special cards!
30October2006
Price: $9.50 each
Desert Magic Drying Books for Postage Stamps
More Specialty Book
Did you ever try to soak postage stamps from envelopes only to have them curl up and stick to something else?!?
Well, here's your solution: these innovative drying books are made by Showgard, a premier creator of innovative philately supplies. You must have a drying book for flat out soaking of stamps from paper.
The Desert Magic Drying System uses a special release paper with heavy blotting pages. The release paper will not permit stamps, even those with problem gums like PVA to adhere to the drying surface. The absence of plastic interleaves shortens the time traditionally needed to dry stamps.
Each book has 7 blotters and 6 release pages. Use them over and over again with wonderful results!
Available in 2 sizes:
Large - 8-1/2 by 11 inches - $12.50
Small - 8-1/2 by 5-1/4 inches - $9.50
Small Out of Stock
Book Size & Price: Large - $12.50
Old-Time Travel Posters and Luggage Labels CD-Rom & Book
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More Travel & Journeys
These colorful and nostalgic illustrations recall the good life at dozens of elegant hotels and luxurious resorts around the world - from Monte Carlo to Pasadena and Bangkok. Old-time travel posters and luggage labels depict lush landscapes in Vermont, soaring skyscrapers in New York City, exotic scenery in Morocco and other inviting tourist spots.
The set includes a CD-ROM containing 278 full-color high-quality, permission free images scanned at 300 dpi and saved in TIFF format and a a large-format 48 page book with every image on the CD-ROM clearly printed and numbered for easy reference. Dover Design Manager, a simple graphics editing program for Windows is also on the CD-ROM.
This great for artists, scrapbookers and anyone who enjoys vintage-style travel images.
20June2006
Was: $19.95 Now: $18.50 each
Leonardo da Vinci Treasury CD-ROM & Book
206 magnificent illustrations bring da Vinci's world to designers and crafters of the 21st century! An architect, sculptor, painter, inventor and engineer centuries ahead of his time, Leonardo da Vinci was the archetypical Renaissance Man.
As famous for his paintings of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper as he was for devising plans for the helicopter, tank and solar power, he also advanced the study of anatomy, astronomy and civil engineering. This multifaceted overview of the celebrated genius' work, presented in both color and black-and-white, includes a splendid selection of his portraits and figures, along with detailed anatomical and scientific drawings from his many notebooks.
The images included are so varied, including paintings as well as famous drawings, such as his Vitruvian Man [see our Vitruvian charm] and many of his machines and animal drawings, including cats, dogs, bears, horses and even crabs!
The CD contains all of the images that are shown in the book along with silhouettes and details from them that are not shown in the book. Both high-resolution images and internet-ready resolution images are included on the CD.
11July2006
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