...New Stamps!!! Free Sprit Boy and Sentiments!

Hello and Welcome to the April release!

I am delighted to show you the two stamp sets that should make all your masculine card creating so much easier, but before I do, I invite you to the Design Team Blog Waltz!! lol, we decided that mice don't hop - they waltz! at least in my head they do...lol.

So, here are your dancing partners!! have fun!
Laurie
Anya
Bonnie
Lynn
Julia
Lisa
Belinda
Jennifer

AND! DON'T FORGET to leave a comment on each of he DT blogs (AND this post!) as you waltz by, this will enable you to be entered into the competition!!! There are TWO prizes to be had!!! One winner will be drawn at random from the comments left on the DT blogs and one winner will be drawn at random from the comments left on this post here on my blog!! So tell us what you think of our efforts and Good luck!!! lol. Winners will be drawn on Sunday Night and posted here on Monday night, my time!

Exchange rate info

All clear photopolymer stamp sets retail at an amazing £13.50 sterling each - check out how many images and sentiments are in each set!! (approx US $20.63, Canada $20.81, Euro 15.20, Australian $22.42 - all values approximate as of 1st April 2010 and subject to change - source, XE.com) And yes! - I ship everywhere, lol.

The digital templates retail at £2.50 GBP Sterling for the PDF only version or £3.00 for the PDF with SVG files.

£2.50 GBP is approx equal to: US $3.82, Canada $3.85, Euro 2.82, Australian $4.15 - all values approximate as of 1st April 2010 and subject to change - source, XE.com)

£3.00 GBP is approx equal to: US $4.59, Canada $4.62, Euro 3.78, Australian $4.98 - all values approximate as of 1st April 2010 and subject to change - source, XE.com)

Free Spirit - Boy


A set of 23 clear photopolymer stamps for all of the men in your life aged between 8 to 28 and maybe a bit more! Something a little more edgy than the usual 'Man' set, with a huge variety of stamps from surfer inspired to BMX to tribal warrior! We have paper aeroplanes, a laurel wreath, graphic equaliser...whatever sort of dude you have on your hands, there just might be something here to get you through those awkward masculine cards.

Subtle possibilities for other cards abound too! Check out the hibiscus Thank you card at the bottom of This post.

The circles design measures 4 and 3/4 inches at the longest point by 3 and 1/2 inches at the widest point. The BMX bike is just under 3/4 inches square.

All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2010 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.


Free Spirit - Sentiments


A perfect partner to Free Spirit - Boy, the Free Spirit - Sentiments set contains over 50 sentiments!! Designed with all of those milestone events in mind such as birthdays, graduation, leaving home, there will be something for every step of the way as you encourage and support your guy through these years of new experience from pre-teen to young adulthood, and maybe longer! lol!

Numbers are included allowing you to add ages to birthday cards or class years to grad cards. I couldn't resist throwing in a couple of Hawaiian expressions such as 'Aloha' - meaning hello, goodbye, greetings and 'Mahalo', a beautiful word, with many meanings, commonly used to mean 'thanks', I believe, but also meaning gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, regards, respects. I love to use these with the surfing images from Free Spirit - Boy. and...yep... we realised after the event that I managed to duplicate the 'Good Luck' sentiment...but rather than strip it out of each set, we'll just leave it in, can we call it a spare?

The 'Congratulations' sentiment is 2 and 1/2 inches long by just under 1/4 inch tall. The numbers are just under a half inch tall by approx 3/8 of an inch wide.

All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2010 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.


Rubber Band Boxes Template


Also new for April is a fab wee Digital template for a rubber band box. Included in the PDF download are templates for two sizes of box, small and large. The small box measures approx 3 by 3.5 inches by an inch thick when made up and the large box is approx 3.5 by 5 inches by an inch thick.

The boxes are held closed by a piece of elastic, hence the rubber band box! Such fun to make and customise, the template is available in two options, a PDF only download, for folks who like to cut their templates out by hand, and a PDF with SVG download for folks who have cutting machines equipped to use SVG files, such as a SCAL enabled cricut.

I've made up my samples with guys in mind but this wee box is going to be soo handy for all sorts of folks, the two on my cutting board right now are pink and are destined to be filled with jelly beans for my girlies.

If you fancy any of the April offerings, the stamp sets and Digital Templates can be purchased by visiting my store, click on the image to pop over.



Hugely important shipping information

Happy Easter folks, I hope you all have a fab weekend lined up!! I just wanted to be sure that folks know that the postal service is closed tomorrow for Good Friday and again on Monday. The postal service here resumes Tuesday. All orders placed tonight and tomorrow will ship on Saturday morning, and orders placed from Saturday afternoon onwards (the PO closes a half day here on Saturdays) until Monday night will ship first thing on Tuesday morning.


And Finally
Don't forget to comment to be in with a chance of a prize!! Hope it tickles!!