...Spread a little happiness Freebie cut files

ED  -Folks, this comes as a zip file, it is compressed and so you need to save it to your desktop first. Only once it has been saved can you right click (PC) or double click (Mac) to open it. If you try to open it first it won't work. hope that helps.

Good morning! It's Monday and I'm fine with that because it's not a school day!!

I have a little card for you this morning, I was playing with some new ink yesterday, I got me some more of my fave Distress inks, Frayed Burlap was one of them! I paired it with some pumpkin spice SU ink for this card. I cut out the jar shape from a piece of kraft card and then I used the negative as a frame for my jam jar which I had stamped on cream card stock.

I have some cut files for the jar Fillers Jam Packed set and you can get them here.

There are files for the Jar as a candy Jar, as a jar with screwtop lid, as a jar with fabric lid, and for the label and the tiny tag.

I have a few hints on how to use them here.

I cut myself out a jar with fabric lid shape - and I stamped on the fabric lid first - above. If you set the cut-out shape on a dark background it is much easier to stamp on. Next thing was to stamp the fabric lid again onto a post-it note and trim it out. This is your mask, and It's worth making a fairly good one, cut out accurately, you can keep it in with your stamps for further use, you can get quite a lot of mileage out of it and I rarely have to make another.

Below you can see the mask in place and how I stamped the jar base over it. I purchased some of those thin acrylic blocks - Tim holtz make them I believe, and I thought they were great for lining up stamps, but I did worry that they might snap if I had to put a lot of pressure on, time will  tell and I'll let you know!

It was easy to line up the 'jam' stamp with the thin blocks, I stamped it before I took off the mask above. One full jar of jam, ready for use!

Hope it tickles!

Waltzingmouse Stamps and Pouch Mart Blog Waltz

Hi stamping friends. We have a special treat for you as some of the Waltzingmouse Stamps Design team are holding a blog waltz today. 
The wonderfully generous folks at Pouch Mart , a supplier of a wide variety of presentation pouches, has supplied each participating team member with pouches to work with, along with Waltzingmouse Stamps images, to create fun and inventive projects. 
Our  blog waltz today showcases projects that we hope will excite and inspire you! Of course - there are prizes up for grabs too! We will pick one random comment left on the participating blogs (see below for a complete list) to win a $25.00 gift certificate to Pouch Mart - and one random comment will also win a Waltzingmouse Stamp set of choice!
The Details: You have until Sunday July 29th 11:59 pm EST to leave your comments! Winners will be announced on Julia Aston's blog (http://createwithjulia.blogspot.com) Monday July 30th.  So without further delay,  here are the links to the Waltzingmouse Stamps Design Team ladies who have inspiration for you.  Enjoy!

Anya Schrier

Bonnie Sharp

Julia Aston

Kelly Schirmer

Lynn Mercurio

Mona Pendleton

Tosha Leyendekker

...Freebie - Strawberry Suite Templates and cut files

ED  -Folks, this comes as a zip file, it is compressed and so you need to save it to your desktop first. Only once it has been saved can you right click (PC) or double click (Mac) to open it. If you try to open it first it won't work. hope that helps. 

And here it is - the Freebie templates are ready - you may download the package directly from the store by clicking on the pic above to go to the download page!

A Jumbo size Freebie! Included in the download are:

A downloadable PDF template and instruction booklet, packed with traditional style printable templates and guidance on how to assemble them.

SVG and DXF cutting files for all projects.

Templates and Instructions are for a Large punnet, two versions of a small punnet, and two sizes of strawberry! Enjoy!

...Strawberries anyone?

So, how's summer treating you? This is the project I was rushing to get ready for the Blog Party we had earlier, on the 17th to be exact...lol, I'm only 5 days late....

I have been drawing up this little template in between 'real work' for a while and I was hoping to have it finished for the blog party, but you know how life kinda expands to fill all your available time!

Anywhoo it's very nearly ready...just a few finishing touches and I'll be making it available here when I have crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's...

It is fiendishly simple to throw together, even I was able to make the punnet (it's what we call strawberry baskets over here) and the strawberries, all in under an hour - I used my Craft Robo - have not quite been able to get the Silhouette out of the box....just yet...seriously - all you folks whose houses are immaculate and who make home cooked dinners every day, how DO you do it?

I stamped my punnet components with stamps from the Heirloom Patterns set by Anya, I love that wee ticking stripe backgrounder stamp, so subtle. I added a tag made from a label from the Jar Fillers Jam Packed set, and I  mutilated altered a large brad, two large brads, by sticking disks of paper over the lovely images. I had pre-stamped the weeny strawberry and leaves from the Jam Packed set on to the disks first.

 I made up some small strawberries to go in my punnet, these are criminally fast to make if you have an electronic cutter. I topped mine with green ribbon, but there is a lovely strawberry leaf top included in the template.

 Best thing about this template? It's a freebie!!! scroll up to the post after this one!

Hope it tickles!

July 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party Highlights

Hi there. Happy Friday (big cheer!)

I trust everyone enjoyed the inspiration of the GREAT OUTDOORS from our most recent blog party. The variety of projects was amazing and we are truly thankful that you took the time to participate.  We know that there are LOTS of on-line activities that you could participate in, and we are so happy that you deemed the WMS Blog Party worthy of your time and creative talent.  You can still take a gander at all the fantastic project which can be found here.

Everyone did a fantastic job.  The following three projects really caught my eye.

Maureen Plut really rocked the wild west with this totally out-doorsy card using the Back in the Saddle set where she created a birthday card for her dad using a photo of him in the “wanted” poster.  Maureen created a fantastic background stamped on text paper and adorned it with a great organic burlap star to compliment her distressed edges. 

Jeanne Jachna did an amazing job of paper piecing this work of art with this campsite scene.  Her sun using the Dainty Doilies 2 Small set in the transitioning colors makes a wonderful background for the shooting rays of sunbeams/cardstock full of texture and dimension. Jeanne used the Off Beat Backgrounds as her mountains and in the tree patterns.  What a great use of out-door imagination and Waltzingmouse Stamps!

Helen Berry’s idea for this treat box was born from the thoughts of summer picnics and spending time outdoors where butterflies are a common sight.  Helen used one of Claire’s free templates, Sweetie Pouch, that she stamped with images from the French Country set and that lovely butterfly from the Nordic Spring set and filled her pouch with sweets!

Aren’t these amazing creations?! Thanks to everyone who participated.  At the risk of sounding trite, I think everyone who participates in an event like this is a winner, but only one participate can win the free set that WMS is giving away to a lucky winner today.  We used Random.org to select our winner this month.  Congratulations goes to:

Sarah of Dreaming Spires Blog

Congratulations Sarah.  Please send Claire an e-mail at Claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com with your stamp set selection and mailing address details. Please use BLOG PARTY WINNER in your subject line.  We appreciate EVERYONE’S participation and support of the “Blog Party”.  It was great fun looking at all the very creative projects.  We hope you had as much fun blog creating as we did seeing your beautiful projects.

Be sure to check back on August 1st, when we will announce the theme for the August 17th “party”.

July 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party

Hello and welcome to the July 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party! We are thrilled to have you join us for this fun and inspirational event. Are you ready?  Good, let’s get to it!  Our theme for July is:

“The Great Outdoors”

What does that mean?   We shared several photos with you back on July 3rd with hopes that they would inspire you for our Blog Party today.

Use your imagination; show us some ingenuity and create a card, a 3D project, or even a scrapbook page, using images from Waltzingmouse Stamps  to share your interpretation of the GREAT OUTDOORS.  Maybe your idea of outdoors is a beautiful garden scene, a walk in the woods, a colorful butterfly, or even a day at the beach.  Which ever direction your mojo takes you, just run with it.

We encourage you to upload your entries to your blog or on-line gallery and then link up your creation using the inlinkz tool at the end of this post. We will leave the links open for 24 hours so that everyone will have a chance to play along!  Once you link your project, you can check out all the other inspiring projects by just clicking on their link.  Fun and easy!

A random selection of time zones are given below, so you can see how this works:

UK - 6:30 p.m. 17th July- 6:30 p.m. 18th July

USA (New York) 1:30 p.m. 17th July- 1:30 p.m. 18th July

Australia (Queensland) - 4:30 a.m. 18th July- 4:30 a.m. 19th July

Canada (Alberta) - 11:30 a.m. 17th July- 11:30 a.m. 18th July

Malaysia - 2:30 a.m. 18th July- 2:30 a.m. 19th July

Norway - 7:30 p.m. 17th July- 7:30 p.m. 18th July

You have 24 hours to link up your creation!  We all look forward to see your wonderfully creative projects.  Be sure to check back on the 20th of the month when we will highlight a few of the amazing entries right here on the blog! We will be on the lookout for projects that showcases extra special effort! We will also randomly select a winner for a coupon code good for a free set. SWEET!

Let the fun begin and use your direct link to start the party.

...Trim Castle and Store news

It's been a while since I shared any pics of Ireland, this is largely because it's been a while since I've seen any of Ireland...

We had been in the habit of getting out most weekends for a little drive, and the very odd weekend we went a little further and stayed over. We're hoping to resume that little pass time this summer. Ireland has something interesting in every corner and I'd like to see it all before I'm done. I don't consider this greedy at all, after all Ireland is only a wee small island!

One of the last places we visited was Trim. I love castles and so when I do get out I tend to aim for ancient stones, my family are all very accommodating I have to say...

 

Trim Castle is in County Meath, if you are having a wander through the web, you can follow this link, to find out a little more about it...

You can go all the way up to the battlements via these bridges and the original stone stairwells, that is if you are very brave. I've no head for heights and I'm quite happy to imagine the view, indeed next time you are on a guided tour of anything over one story tall, I'll be the lady on her knees in the corner clutching the rail for dear life...

Store News

Price Increase...

We have big, and I do mean BIG plans for Waltzingmouse Stamps this year, and so we're doing a little housekeeping this weekend on the store. The price increase that was meant to happen in February will be taking place over the weekend, probably beginning on Sunday. Changes will take place throughout the day, we now have over 100 stamp sets on our store and so it may take me some time to update everything. All my manufacturing costs went up in January and I've run out of excuses for the accountant lady...so the dreaded deed must now occur.

Please note anyone ordering back-ordered items or pre-order items before the price increase begins on Sunday will of course still receive their items at the old price.

Shipping Changes...

We are overhauling the shipping set-up also. We have to get the shipping system ready for a HUGE exciting addition and so changes to the shipping rates will occur at the weekend also. Royal Mail increased their prices in April also and that will have an effect on our free shipping threshold.

Again anyone placing an order before Sunday will have their goodies shipped at the current rates.

Well, that's my weekend spoken for, what are you up to?

...new sketch

We have a new sketch today on the challenge blog - pop over to check out this stunning sample from Vickie, our guest stamper this month, and whole host more from our MM's!

Design Team July Release Blog Waltz Winner Announced

Wow…what a great week it has been.  The design team had such a great time creating with the new Waltzingmouse Stamps images that were released on July 1st.  The four new sets, My Island, North Shore,  Heroines-Fairy Princess, and Playful Pinwheels are so much fun to create with. The Design Team created some amazing projects highlighting these four new sets and we are all so grateful for all the heartfelt comments you chose to leave for us. 

As promised, we have selected a lucky winner of a free Waltzingmouse Stamps set of choice.  Each member of the Design Team selected one comment from their group of comments, and from those, we have declared that the following comment from the blog of Anya Schrier is the winner:

Cindy July 1, 2012 3:16 PM

Love all your cards. Congrats on your new design. Will be getting these!
Cindy

Congratulation Cindy. To claim your prize, please e-mail Claire at Claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com. Provide her with your contact information and set choice, and she will get your selected set on its way to you.

A big thank you goes out to all who took the time to comment and for the wonderful outpouring of love for the new release.

...big berry

Good evening...more visual 'elevator music' for you, I'm still shipping orders and I'm way behind with shipping notes etc, but I had this card ready and thought I'd pop it up.

It's a standard size 4.25 by 5.5 inch card and yep, that's a big berry! It's from the Pre-order set Big Berries - Strawberry that will ship mid July. Lots of peeps have already ordered this and so it's the least I can do to show you what it looks like and get some ideas together so that when you get your berries, you are good to go!

In the next few days I'll be making the cut files available for this and the Jar fillers set  Jam Packed, the sentiment and label shape are both from Jam Packed and I used little cut files to trim out both the Strawberry and the label. these are a lot of fun, but I really gots to go get those envelopes out that door...back soon for a chat!

For the strawberry I found it easiest to stamp the stalk first, with the clear stamps, and a dark background it is easy to line up the image on a strawberry shape made with a cut file.

hope it tickles!

...and the winners are:

Winner of the $100 gift cert for WMS stamps in the Spread the love comp was:

Heidi who said...

So cute, love these little minis. I have to say the strawberry one is my fav! I pinned it along with some others on my pinterest!

and the winner of the 'Win your Basket' promo was:Janet Littlefield
to whom I have already sent an email...in the interest of discretion it's all I can say to hope that Janet will be tickled pink to get the note!!

Heidi - pop me an email with 'winner winner chicken dinner' in the subject, so's I can spot you easily!!! and I'll get your code right out to you!!!

Hope you are all having a very happy 4th July, tho I hear the weather has made fireworks off limits for the celebrations in many places..isn't this weather crazy?

...Is your rooster behaving well?

A quick note for folks who have the French Country set. Way back in May, I had a couple of folks email me to say that their rooster image was not stamping properly. I replaced the stamps of course and took steps to make sure that all subsequent roosters behaved themselves.

I intended to send out a general email to ask if anyone else needed a replacement, but with all that was going on at the time, I did not complete that task.

So I'm asking folks, if you have French Country - is your rooster stamping perfectly? If not, please email me on claire.brennan1@ntlworld.com I would like to make sure there are no naughty roosters at large....

...Happy 4th July

Good morning! I'm stuffing envelopes after the release at present, so you can think of this photo as your visual 'elevator music' on the blog here this morning!

Hope you are all having a lovely 4th July wherever you are!

I'll be back later this evening to announce our winners, in the meantime, I have this card that I made for the release and didn't have time to pop up here...love this image, created with elements from My Island....the background circles are from Free Spirit Boy.

hope it tickles!

...Win your basket closed

Our Win-your-basket promotion for this release has now closed, we will announce the winner tomorrow night along with the winner of the Spread the Love promo.

You still have another day to enter the Spread the Love promo - see the details at the bottom of this long post right here.

Happy 4th July to all our US friends!

July 2012 Blog Party Details

Hello?  You there?  Hello...(echo, echo, echo) Chances are you are spending lots of time outdoors, enjoying your summer.  The longer days and pleasant weather affords lots of possibilities.

Perhaps you are going on vacation.

Maybe spending some time at the park with barbecues and picnics

Or lucky enough to attend a family reunion.

Will you visit the beach?

Or maybe a fun filled day at the amusement park… and generally doing all those things of which we enjoy most during the long summer days.

Whatever fun the summer months may bring your way, it’s almost certain that you will be spending some time outdoors.  So it is appropriate that the theme for the July 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party is THE GREAT OUTDOORS.  Use your imagination; show us some ingenuity and create a card, a 3D project, or even a scrapbook page, using images from Waltzingmouse Stamps  to share your interpretation of the GREAT OUTDOORS.  Maybe your idea of outdoors is a beautiful garden scene, a walk in the woods, a colorful butterfly, or even a day at the beach.  Which ever direction your mojo takes you, just go with it.

What?  You don’t have any Waltzingmouse Stamps images?  Check out the “freebies” section of the store and perhaps you will find your image AND inspiration there.

Below is the schedule of beginning and end times in which you can enter your direct link to your project.  Your blog post, or on-line gallery, may go live anytime you wish on the 17th, but you will need to post your direct link here on the WMS blog using the Inlinkz widget that will be available during the time frame (outlined below) .

The festivities begin right here, according to your location, as indicated below:

UK - 6:30 p.m. 17th July- 6:30 p.m. 18th July

USA (New York) 1:30 p.m. 17th July- 1:30 p.m. 18th July

Australia (Queensland) - 4:30 a.m. 18th July- 4:30 a.m. 19th July

Canada (Alberta) - 11:30 a.m. 17th July- 11:30 a.m. 18th July

Malaysia - 2:30 a.m. 18th July- 2:30 a.m. 19th July

Norway - 7:30 p.m. 17th July- 7:30 p.m. 18th July

The linking option will be closed after that time.  From there you can just click on any of the projects linked and be directed to any of the participants’ blogs to get a closer look at their creativity.

Although we call this a "blog party", it is perfectly acceptable, if you don't have a blog, to use an on-line gallery for your project.  It doesn't even have to be the Waltzingmouse Stamps gallery either (although you are most welcome to upload as many WMS projects as you like there).  On-line galleries such as Flickr, Picasa or other galleries are also fine.

You only need to do three things:

1.  You will need to be able to link your project here, using a direct link URL

2.  Your project needs to contain something directly related to the theme – color or other inspiration should be noted in the description of your creation.

3.  You must use Waltzingmouse Stamps images

We encourage and welcome you to grab this "party mouse" blog button (at the top of this post for your blog sidebar, and to use it at the top of your post on "party day".

On the 20th of the month – we will highlight a few of the entries that really catch our eye and you'll be able to see those here on the WMS blog.  We will also select and announce our winner of the FREE stamp set of choice, using a random generator from those participating in the Blog Party.

You know the date - you know the time - and now you know the theme, what are you waiting for?  See you the 17th!

...New Stamps for July 2012

Good evening (or early morning, sorry Australia and Malaysia!) and welcome to the July release at Waltzingmouse Stamps! Longest post ever...you'll need sustenance...and this handy checklist to make sure you don't miss anything...

If you are new to us, you are very welcome! We design and produce clear stamps made from the best quality photopolymer (that's the good stuff) and today we are releasing four new sets, and bringing you previews of another 3 that will ship mid - July. We hope you find lots of creative inspiration. Our big news today is that we're super excited to bring you new Mini sets! 3x4 inches at the equally mini price of £3.99. Perfect for sampling a little WMS if you haven't already!

Today also we have some cut files available - we are trialling making cut files available to match some of our sets. To kick off our cut file selection we're giving away cut files to match the new mini sets, North Shore and Heroines - Fairy Princess! They will be freely available on the freebie section in our store, we'd love you to pass the word along. Cut files for the larger sets are available in the store at the terrific price of just 50p (approx 75centsUSD). Cut File purchases will also count towards free shipping.


Before I forget, let me give you the links to the Design Team Blog Waltz happening right now where you can see some gorgeous examples of what you can do with the new stamps shown below, and we've been previewing for several days already so it's worth a scroll back to see what's new! Be sure to visit all of the DT ladies and Don't forget to comment, there's a prize!

Julia

Laurie

Anya

Tosha

Becca

Clare

Kelly

Lynn

Jennifer

Belinda

Mona 

Bonnie

Sandie   

Remember - FREE standard shipping for orders over £50 to Everywhere, yes, you're included! (approx $78.54 USD, $79.85 CAD, $76.73 AUD, €62.03 Euros, rate subject to change) and if you don't need £50 GBP worth of stamps today you might be interested to know that shipping one set to US costs around $4.25 USD. We ship our stamps out from our company base here in Northern Ireland. Please note our free standard shipping offer does not include tracking. 

Win Your Basket 

Folks ordering between now and the 3rd July will be eligible for our 'Win your Basket' promotion - we're going to pick one lucky shopper to win the entire contents of their cart!!!

And here are the New goodies for July

Heroines - Fairy Princess

Set size – 3 × 4 inches

A New Mini set!!!

This set is perfect for use with the Castle collection Templates and Cut files.
A mini girly set! Drawn in the same style, with the same font used in the sentiment, this little set will mix and match perfectly with both the Half Pint Heroines and the Half pint Heroes. Perfect for colouring or paper piecing or simply stamping!
6 stamps in total - the princess dress measures 2.25 inches by 2.125 inches at hte widest point without a head. The crowned frog measures approx 0.75 inches square.
All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.

Freebie Heroines - Fairy Princess Cut files

North Shore

Set size – 3 × 4 inches

A New Mini set!!!

Surfing themed mini stamp set. Grunge styled Iconic surf imagery, wings, banners, surfer, and hibiscus flowers. This set co-ordinates with the My Island set and also works well with Free Spirit, Free Spirit Sentiments and the wood grain stamp from Way out West.
 5 stamps in total - One large focal image, 3 inches by 2.75 inches at the widest points, 2 matching flourishes, a sentiment and an extra date.  All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.

Freebie North Shore Cut Files

My Island

Set size – 6 × 8 inches

Capturing that summer holiday vibe perfectly, My Island features classic vacation images, palm trees, sunsets, Islands. Use the semi solid panel to stamp the background sky colour first and then overlay your sunset, or sunrise with the colour of your choice, add the sea/land base in a third toning shade for an instant summer vista. Stamp your small island silhouette, or maybe a beach umbrella, or perhaps a beach hut - you have lots of options for creating little summer scenes as focal points for cards or even supporting images for scrapbook pages. Use the large palm trees image as a focal point for your card or with the small island to give your card depth.

The solid rectangular and sunrise stamps are proportioned to suit Spellbinders classic rectangle die templates and the oval stamp will fit a Spellbinders classic oval from the Classic ovals large set.
Drawn in a laid back grunge style, this easy to use set will fill your summer card needs and more. Containing 21 stamps in total this set is brimming with South Sea style.

 The solid rectangle measures just over 2.5 inches by just under 2 inches. The 'Relax it's the summer' sentiment is 2 and 3/8 inches long by 3/4 inches tall inches long by just under a half inch tall. 

All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.

My Island Cut Files

Available in store

5 cut files, the large palm trees, a palm tree panel, the beach hut, the beach parasol and a cut file for the Relax sentiment.

Playful Pinwheels by Anya Schrier

Set size – 6 × 8 inches

 A delightful feel-good set from Anya. Classic pinwheel shapes in various sizes for paper piecing, colouring or stamping with the many pattern fills provided! Endless combinations of patterns can be achieved. perfect for celebrations or just being happy! Supported by 13 sentiments, this set is sure to lift your spirits! The large pinwheel blades shape measures just over 2.5 inches square. The 'You are my Whirl' sentiment is 1.75 inches long by 3/8 inches tall. 
  All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.

Playful Pinwheels Cut Files

Available in store

Castle Collection Template PDF only

Available as a classic template PDF download, or with cut files, see below. This template bundle makes a Castle shaped card and a Castle Basket.

Castle Collection Template PDF with Cut Files

This template bundle contains traditional template PDF together with SVG and DXF cut files for folks who can use them in their personal cutting machines. This template bundle makes a Castle shaped card and a Castle Basket.

Shrink Plastic

For a limited time we will have shrink plastic available in store, I used it on the necklace I made during the preview samples, if you haven't had the pleasure of watching this stuff wiggle under your shrink ray (heat tool) you have no idea what fun you are missing!

Nestabling
We also have a small selection of
Nestabling designs available in the Trimmings section on the store. We have 4 designs available and
if these do well, we'll add more!

Heads Up

I also wanted to show you what else is coming. These 3 sets are going to be available for shipping in mid July. They weren't quite ready for the July 1 release, but I don't want to hold them back until August...I'm making my jam now...how about you?

These items may be ordered now, they will show up as backorders at the store, but they will not ship until mid July. I'm letting folks know about them now, so's they can make an informed decision!

 

Big Berries - Strawberry

Set size – 3 × 4 inches

A cracking mini set featuring our favourite summer fruit, the Strawberry. This berry is big at just shy of 3 inches tall by just over 2.5 inches wide at the widest points! A two piece berry so's you can stamp the stalk in a proper green! 4 cracking little sentiments to complement it! A cut file will be available free for this set.

 The 'You're so yummy' sentiment is 1.25 inches long by 0.5 inches tall. 

  All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.

 

Candy Jar

Set size – 3 × 4 inches

The empty Candy Jar from Candy Jar Christmas - Fillers

will be available as a single stamp on its own from mid July also. The Jar body measures 2.25 by just under 2 inches. The Candy jar lid measures 7/8 by 1 and 7/8 of an inch. 

  All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.


The Candy Jar stamp will be available separately so that folks wanting to use the new set below won't have to purchase a complete set just to get the jar. If you already have the Candy Jar Christmas - Fillers set then you are all good for adding to your collection with the new Jar fillers series, beginning with this set below:

Jar Fillers - Jam Packed

Set size – 6 × 4 inches
Please note, If you don't already have the jar from Candy Jar Christmas - Fillers you will need the Candy Jar stamp, above, to use this set.

A Jar Filler set designed for use with the Candy Jar. Using the stamps in this set you can 'convert' your Candy Jar to a jam jar and stuff it full of summer goodness! You can have classic jam jar lids or fabric wrapped lids, perfect for paper piecing and coloring. Wee little weeny labels to add to the fun! Cut files will be available for this set.

The mini labels measure just over 1 inch tall by 1 and 5/8 inches wide. The outline fabric lid is 2.25 by 2.5 inches at the widest points.
  All images and stamp designs are Copyright © 2012 Waltzingmouse Stamps, Claire Brennan.

see how it works here

Phew!

 Spread the Love 
and maybe win $100 Gift cert for the store!

Now if you have any reserves left to read on, might I interest you in our Spread the Love promotion?
We're hoping that word of our new small set sizes will get out there, we're hoping you might like to help. We recently started a WMS Pinterest board and we are loving the inspiration to be found there, we are also on Facebook, and we're actively encouraging folks to spread the word in these areas! If you are not on either of these sites, you can still enter by spreading the word on your blog.

How to Enter:

1. Select your favourite from the mini sets highlighted in this release post here today - you have either Heroines - Fairy Princess, North Shore, Big Berries or Candy Jar.

2. Pin an image of the set to your Pinterest board under your favourite things or inspiration, or share the link on Facebook, or tell folks about it through your blog. Tag your pins or shares with #WaltzingmouseNewMinis

3. When you have shared our big news come back here to our blog and leave a comment on this post to let us know what you did. We will pick a winner on the 4th of July and announce them here on the blog. If it's you, you could win $100USD gift code for the store!!!

Ok, if you survived all that you are a TRUE BLUE WMS buddy!

Hope it tickled!