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New Stamps for Christmas

Welcome to our Christmas release for 2024. It’s been quite the week, there’s been much excitement in our house around the new goodies but we are also mindful that there’s a lot happening out there in the world beyond stamping that hugely impacts folks.

I really appreciate you taking time to pop over and look at our new goodies, the virtual kettle is on, the tea is brewing. I don’t know if anyone fancies it but I might run a card challenge soon, I know some folks turn to crafting to soothe, while others just can’t get up the inspiration, but might like to look at some ideas – we will see, we will chat about it after the release.

We have 3 new stamp sets and 3 new stencils in store here for you, if you do find yourself in need of new goodies – and we also have some samples to browse if you just aren’t feeling with it at the moment due to world events, or indeed any events. Hugs to you.

Here are the New Goodies

Cut files to match stamps

Please note, you will automatically receive free cut files to compliment your stamp set upon purchase, it will come to you via email download. Look out for the email notification.

Bonus cut files for card frame and hanging decorations

I am preparing an extra FREE BONUS cut file bundle to include the decorative card frame and extra shapes for making hanging decorations such as the Sleigh and reindeer garland, plus a few other goodies. This extra bundle will be finalised over the next few days and I will manually email that to folks who have purchased the stamps that it will suit.

Santa is coming to Town

Santa is coming to Town. Clear Photopolymer stamps, Set size 4 inches by 8 inches. £14.95 GBP

The Jolly old Elf returns in this little set with a retro flavour. The solid Santa stamp stands with arms outstretched, ready to show you Christmas trees, put up wreaths, and even hold the reins of the sleigh. The outline Santa checks his list, are you on it?

The retro Christmas tree comes with tiny decorations, there are some for the wreath also, but this is your opportunity to dig out your glitter and your pearls and get to embellishing, remember when we used to do that? heck maybe even get the ribbons back out! Whatever you do, have fun!

Sleigh Bells Ring

Sleigh Bells Ring Clear Photopolymer stamps, Set size 4 inches by 8 inches. £14.95 GBP

Sleigh Bells ring, are you listening? It’s time to create cards, place card, gift tags wrapping paper, whatever you like with a sleighing theme! The detailed sleigh can be stamped simply to fit in with modern or retro themes or you can add a little pencil shading or sponging to give it a more antiquated feel ,see the green card below. The sleigh is two separate stamps so you can have the carriage contrast with the legs – picture golden gilded legs with a deep red carriage, you get the idea.

Fill your sleigh with gifts or Santa sacks and create all manner of Christmassy things. Add bells and bows or not as you see fit.

Jingle All the Way

Jingle All the Way Clear Photopolymer stamps, Set size 4 inches by 8 inches. £14.95 GBP

Reindeers with bells on, or without. Reindeers jumping, walking, trotting, you decide.  Solid and dependable stalwarts of Christmas, this team have delivered magic for as long as I can remember. Make cards, bunting, gift tags, place cards, pair them with a sleigh and create your Christmas! Make the whole team, add a Rudolph! Add a sassy robin or two.

New Stencils

We have 3 new stencils this release, Candy Stripe, Peppermint Swirl and Ho Ho Ho.

Each stencil is A5 and priced at £4.95 GBP

Box Frames

Some of the cards I have made for this release feature a box frame, I will be including cut files for that in the Free Bonus cut files bundle. Here’s what it looks like on the cards, its super simple to add to a card and gives a nice pop of dimension, turning your card into a fun piece of home holiday decor. It squashes down flat to let your card fit into an envelope and it pops up nicely again for display once the card is delivered.

Thanks for popping in, I will be sharing some more samples from these sets over the next week or so – do pop back for more inspiration.

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The Jolly old Elf returns, but new

Handmade Christmas card featuring simple line art santa with retro style Christmas tree

Continuing the samples for the upcoming release, Santa makes an appearance in one of the new sets “Santa is coming to town’. If you’ve just joined me, I’m gearing up for a release of 3 new stamp sets plus new stencils on Wednesday night next. I know a lot of my US friends have other things on their minds right now, but alas, I had this release all prepped and set up from well before last weeks events and unfortunately my small business just doesn’t have the resources to shelve the release for now, and so I must motor on even though a lot of my friends aren’t feeling so crafty right now. Hugs to you.

The Jolly old elf from the original WMS set makes a return. This time he’s showing off the Christmas tree, and putting up wreaths, right after checking his list! He’s the same character, but he is different to the old WMS set so if you won’t be repeating stamps if you already had the old set.

In this card Santa proudly displays the tree he has decorated just for you. The retro style tree lends itself to a load of decoration possibilities – time to get out your embellishments, old school deco is back. The elf himself is the same character as the Jolly old Elf WMS set, but he appears in this set in a different pose, and the pose is all important, you’ll see why later. The pose is perfect for showing off trees, or hanging wreaths, among other things. This Santa stamp is a solid stamp, here I inked him up in red ink and then went in with a black marker and blackened his boots, belt and gloves. I added a little shading with a standard HB writing pencil to give him a little dimension.

I created some Christmas stencils for this release also, featured in this card is the peppermint swirl stencil which makes a suitably retro background, here stencilled in red and hot pink. Fun!

Also in the set is an outline Santa, for folks who like to colour in, I inked him here for this card in a pale grey ink which disappeared nicely behind my copic marker colouring. I used the peppermint swirl stencil again because it’s such fun to use and it nicely highlights anything you want to pop in the centre of the swirl. I cut out the figure and the word ‘Santa’ with my silhouette cameo and the cut files for these will be free with the stamps.

The wreath stamp, also from the ‘Santa is coming to town’ set is one of my favourites, I really love the retro feel of the tree and wreath, they are so versatile. You can decorate the wreaths as well. Min decoration stamps are provided in the set, but it’s great fun to use up my long neglected embellishments, such as these sticky pearls, which I coloured with copic markers. As before Santa is stamped in red and I used a pen to scribble some black onto his boots and belt. The red panel is the central shape left over from when I cut out the frames for yesterdays cards, scroll back to see. I have heaps more to show you, call back tomorrow for more samples! Ta for popping in today!

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Introducing, Santa is coming to town

colourful greetings card featuring a retro style city scene with orange christmas tree and large blue word 'santa'

Santa is still coming to town, I hope. I kicked off our latest release yesterday in a small way, over on my Instagram. I know a lot of folks who are not feeling very crafty or Christmassy right now and I send my very best vibes and hugs to you. I gotta roll on ahead though since I have already bagged the stock and it’s all very seasonal, so please forgive me if you are in a headspace where new goodies are very much not on your mind.

Alternatively if you are looking for a little worldly distraction, then pull up a seat, pour the cocoa and let’s think about Christmas cards for a bit, you and I.

I made this trio the other day to help show off one of the new sets from the upcoming release, ‘Santa is coming to town‘. The set itself is a 4 by 8 inch sets and it packs a lot of punch. There are 22 stamps in total. Many of the elements in it work really well with our popular Mid Mod City stamp set released earlier this year.

These cards also feature a pop up frame design. I use my Silhouette cameo to make these and I love how much they add to a card. Free cut files for this pop up frame will be included as part of the cut file bundle that will come with the sets on release day.

At the moment, It’s looking like our release will be live on Wednesday night (13th Nov) , 8pm my time (I’m in UK), if there are any changes to that I will post here.

Miniature Santa, sleigh and reindeers fly high over the city which now boasts a central Christmas tree. Strong typography is a feature of all three of our new sets and there’s something very satisfying about stamping out huge Santa words in all colours. opportunities for glitter abound, and here my sleigh team dispense a trail of glittery magic on the city below. Making matching sets of cards is a favourite thing to do and this set of stamps really leans into that. Here are some more colourways. I went with a retro feel for this bunch, echoing the Mid Century modern feel of the City and Santa sets. The sentiment ‘Santa is coming to town’ is one I’ve been waiting for!

All of the cut out shapes will be free cut files available in the coordinating Cut file bundles that will come with the stamps. Cut files are delivered electronically so you will have time to prep some shapes before your stamps land!

These are going to look great in traditional colours also!

A simpler card can be stunning too and this Raspberry Christmas tree is one that I can see me cranking out in multiples. Very, very simple to make, I stamped the Christmas tree from the new set and then just masked it off – which is super simple given the straight sides – before over-stamping the city image from Mid Mod City on top in simple black ink, I love Versamark for this, so crisp.

A bottle of glue with a fine tip was used to run lines of glue in between the doodled design on the tree and then dropped some retro style glitter on top – the glitter is little strands, as opposed to the usual dot glitter. Instantly my tree looks like it’s wearing a garland of tinsel, it could not be simpler.

The simple sentiment at the bottom is in city typewriter style, which I thought blended well with the retro image and the word ‘Magical’ is picked out in Raspberry ink – it matches the Santa font.

Imagine a batch of these in a rainbow of colours! I’ll be posting samples from now until Wednesday, feel free to pop back and bring friends. I have quite a few things to show you! Ta for popping in!

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And more new stamps…

black retro style Christmas tree shape on orange background

Another sneak peek, I will have 3 new sets in total, each can be used independently, but more is more sometimes and so you can stack these sets together to get more mileage form your stamps! Can’t wait to show you.

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New stamps are coming

illustration of cute reindeer in black on a green background

Most of my stock has arrived, I am knee deep in packaging and I look forward to releasing these on Friday hopefully, since Christmas edges ever closer, this release around – the goodies will be available while I show samples! I will have three new sets but be warned quantities are small, so if you like the look of things so far do stay tuned to make sure you don’t miss out!

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Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? Sneak Peek!

My friends tell me I absolutely suck at social media and they are right. I am not geared to perform, this much is true. I was the sort of kid that volunteered to paint scenery for the school play, so I didn’t have to act – total behind the scenes person. I will offer to take the photo so I don’t have to be in the picture.

Currently though, I am a veritable blur behind the scenes. I have 3 new stamp sets landing this week, and other product typey things heading my way this week also. Not to mention I started a new day job and I’m still fitting all of it around ferrying 4 people in three different directions, twice a day, 5 days a week.

Want to see a peek of what I’ve been doing? This a peek of one of the sets releasing this week as soon as the box lands. This release will open as soon as I have all of the stock packaged. Reason for that is that its November already and we all have a ton to get through before the Big guy in red gets here!

This set will come with free cut files because I am so wanting to use one of the images for place cards at my Christmas table this year. You might well already have your Christmas cards underway, you might even have decided that you don’t need any more Christmas supplies, but it’s been a while since you saw a WMS Christmas so pop back over the next few days, see what you’ve been missing!

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An authentic Victorian witch, with a new moon

grey and plum coloured greeting card featuring a Victorian engraving of witch on a broomstick, in front of a pale grey moon

I wouldn’t call myself a collector, but I do like to pick up a vintage book now and again. Sometimes it’s the appeal of a beautiful binding, sometimes I actually read them. Now and again though, I find a treasure – like this Victorian Witch engraving.

The book she lives in came to me in a state of disarray, the binding is bust and there are a lot of loose pages. It’s not a valuable book, but I wanted to save some of the beautiful engravings so I scanned some of them, and tidied them up in photoshop. This lady, I had made into a stamp, back when I had Waltzingmouse Stamps. I used that stamp to make this card. I also made her into a print, which is still in my Etsy store, here.

I have a new moons stencil in the store and was making a few card samples for that, when it struck me that it would have made the perfect backdrop for my Vintage Witch stamp.

Once the stamping was dry, I coloured her with a few copics, I think she turned out perfect. The sentiment on the card is stencilled, with black embossing paste, the sentiment stencil is part of this stencil set. I like the texture on an otherwise flat, one layer card. It’s actually great to have time to play around with the existing supplies, I have a ton of stuff from my WMS days, that I probably didn’t explore fully at the time. What have you got in your stash that you haven’t really maxed out yet? I’d love to know.

Ta for popping in!

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Winner of the Jolly Old Elf set is…

Chosen by random number generator – Kelly Schirmer!

Congratulations Kelly, I will get the Elf set out to you asap!

I wanted to thank everyone who took part in my giveaway It’s harder than ever to be seen on social media and I am so grateful to everyone who shared the stampy stuff for me! Thank you!

FREEBIES /

Free template for a witches hat card

greetings card in the shape of a witches hat, with orange velvet bow and a buckle made from cardstock embossed with an ornate gold design

I have new Halloween stamps in store – the release went live yesterday – the set is called Haunted Halloween and I thought the ornate circular stamp looked a bit like a buckle. Ideal for a buckle on a witches hat. I had some lovely burnt orange velvet ribbon and went for it. Quite chuffed with how it turned out. I made a free template for the card, complete with instructions. Here’s the inside:

I just winged it when I made this one, but I have prepared a template and instructions if you would like to make one. You can get it by clicking here.

If you would like svg files, please let me know by leaving a comment here.

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Haunted Halloween, new stamps today!

cream greeting card on wooden background, the card features a spooky diamond skeleton pattern stamped in orange ink, with a setiment and bat ornament in black.

At 8.00PM Uk time the new goodies will be live in store!

Introducing Haunted Halloween

Haunted Halloween is a large stamp set 6 x 8 inches – Antique print block inspired but redrawn for stampers with Halloween hidden throughout the vines. Opportunities for stamping in plain colours or picking out details in multi colour – Have fun!

Perfect for Halloween or lovers of dark academia. This set features tag designs that work for a variety of projects, make mini book marks with the long tag, make gift tags and even Halloween baubles with the circular tags. The diamond motif makes a great background pattern and also works with Spellbinders diamond dies.

The large circle works with a Spellbinders circle, but the stamp itself is 2 and 5/8 in diameter – so any die, or indeed punch of 2.75 inches diameter will suit this.

The diamond shapes work with Spellbinders diamond dies and the rectangle is easily cut with a straight edge, however it also fits a spellbinders rectangle die (2 and 5/8 by 5 and 1/2) I have in my collection and because it’s narrower, I was able to push it along the die and cut it a second time to get a perfect cut out.

High Quality photopolymer stamp set approximately 6 inches by 8 inches. The set contains 25 stamps in total. The tiniest bat is 3/8 of an inch wide by just over an 1/8th of an inch tall. The long tag stamp produces an image just under 5.5 inches long by just under an inch and a half wide. The circle stamp is 2 and 5/8 in diameter. Photopolymer stamp set designed by me and then made in USA.

This set comes with free cut files, they will be issued via email after your purchase goes through the store. There are basic cut files for all stamps and a bonus set of cut files with tag designs and bats shapes. I’ll be blogging the tags next.

Here is a small gallery of cards made with the set for your inspiration!

small brown paper bag filled with sweets and tied at the top, with a handmade gift tag in black and kraft card.
cream greeting card on wooden background, the card features a spooky diamond skeleton pattern stamped in orange ink, with a setiment and bat ornament in black.

Introducing Spooky Tree stencil

Create Halloween cards with a spooky forest flavour using this handy stencil. This stencil features a spooky tree with removable tree-face mask. Now – thing to know – the tree-face mask is a fun piece of stencil that comes in the exact shape of the tree in the stencil. It’s carries the face detail – so you can add a face to your stencilled tree or not, that’s the purpose of this piece. The stencil material I use is thin and bendy, I use it because I can get more detail – thicker stencil material would not cut so smoothly. A bonus function is that you can use this piece as a tree mask, but the branches will move unless you use stencil adhesive.

This stencil also features a graveyard silhouette at the bottom edge and a wavy line – think landscape hillock along the top edge, helpful little scene builder additions.

This stencil is is 5.25 by just under 8 inches in size and are made from Mylar plastic. Our stencils are semi opaque and you can see through them to position them exactly where you want. The are easily cleaned with soapy water and are perfect for creating backgrounds and focal points. 

Here’s a few things I made with the stencil – look at his wee face!!

Thanks for popping in folks, I have a load more to share so call back over the next few days for more samples!