...PJ Party Winner and more!

Folks we have an overall winner - our randomly chosen winner was:

Lori Tecler!

Congratulations Lori, please email us on info@waltzingmousestamps.com and we will get your prize organised!!! You win £60GBP of WMS goodies!!!

Now - to everyone else who entered the PJ party I have a special little something, let me just bend your ear for a moment to set the scene for you - I've been struggling a little with the run up to Christmas, with sick kiddos and with getting all the end of year stuff done at WMS - I completely and utterly failed to have my things made and photographed in time for the December PJ party. 

I'm inching round the feeling soooo guilty that I couldn't join in, but also so thankful for the folks who did take time out of their Holiday prep to play along and so each and every one of the folks who came to our PJ party is going to get a little store gift code from me - I just want to thank you - I really appreciate your taking time to join us at WMS! Happy Christmas ladies!!

...Welcome to the December Pajama Party!

ED- Folks just when I thought little dude was all better he was sent home out of school again sick, so I'm afraid it's just not happening for me here today and I won't be able to join the party! I will have time later to get round all the entries though thank you so much for playing along!

Welcome, it's the last Pajama Party of the year, our next one will be 14th February 2015! The end of 2014 is kicking my butt, I've had little sick people for 2 weeks and with Christmas looming and end of year stuff happening at WMS I am behind with my creations for tonight's party, but I will add them here as I get them finished and I look forward to a nice warm cuppa at some point tomorrow and a chance to see what you've made - were you brave enough to tackle an ornament?

If you saw the Invite post you will be familiar with the challenges and you may even have your cards all ready to link up, but don't worry there is plenty of time to play if you are only just joining us - the links will remain open for 24 hours! (this post went live at 11:45pm - UK time on the 14th, so you have 24 hours from then!)

PJ Party Schedule:

The PJ party post and all challenge links are now live since 11:45pm on the 14th Dec - Folks have 24 hours to link up their challenge entries. - The PJ party winner will be announced at 11.45pm on the 15th Dec.

Rules - a little housekeeping!

• You don't have to use Waltzingmouse Stamps to play along,

but it will make us especially happy if you do! 

• You can enter each challenge as many times as you like, using separate cards

and separate links, but you cannot enter any one card in more than one challenge!

• Links should take folks directly to the blog post/spot where we can see/

comment on your challenge entry.

• Please mention our PJ party and challenge on your blog or gallery post

(- you are welcome to grab the PJ logo or sketch graphic and

add those to your blog if you like)

 • You do not need to enter every challenge, but the more entries

you have the better change of winning the prize!

Prizes

We will have one overall winner chosen at random from the 4 challenges. The prize winner will receive £30GBP store credit for Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Now please note - this is important - if the winning entry uses Waltzingmouse brand stamps or dies the prize will be doubled and the winner will get £60GBP (approx $98USD)!

Please note that projects using only free WMS products will not be eligible for the double prize - though you could still qualify for the £30GBP!

OK, now for the challenges:

Challenge 1 - Put up the Tree  

Julia

 Make a 3D paper tree.
Make your 3D tree out of paper or cardstock -  stamp it decorate it, add baubles or not as you see fit!

 Link your Challenge 1 entry here:

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge 2 - Deck the Halls

 Make a tree ornament. I'm thinking Christmas but if you have another reason to celebrate we will happily join you!

 Link your Challenge 2 entry here:

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge 3 - Old Pajamas

Anya

 Lynn

 Karin

 Jeanne

  Julia

 Make a project using any of your older Waltzingmouse Christmas sets -
we've used our Country Labels 4 sets

  Link your Challenge 3 entry here:

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge 4 - Bedtime Story Sketch 

 Jeanne

 Anya

 Tosha

 Here is sketch no.9 - yep, that could be a tree shape....

Here is what some of the DT ladies did with this sketch:

Link your Challenge 4 entry here:

An InLinkz Link-up

...Be seein' ya!

It's looking like a Pink Christmas at our  house - and folks that's probably not very PC of me but I ask you to bear with me - I'm old and decrepit and to me it's still ok to celebrate the birth of a little girl with all things pink! I'm quite happy to throw in a bit of blue also, whatever else you fancy, but there is something beautiful about shades of baby pinks and indeed baby blues and at the moment I'm in pink mode because we have a new little baby girl in the clan - I'm an auntie!

Now before I stir up a hornets nest, I am already an auntie, I have nieces and nephews on my husband's side and I love them all very much, but I was never in at the very beginning of any of them, and this one is on my side of the family - and so it's exciting to have a new branch on the tree that I was there for from the very beginning!

I am feeling seriously under-pinked though because I can't get near her - my smallest one has some sort of seasonal lurgy, indeed you may as well chalk off the month of December at ours every year as somebody is sure to be sick, if not all of us eventually.... I don't want to carry any of that down to the new poppet tho' so we are all under voluntary quarantine in that direction at present - However it's still left to me to plot for pretty frilly gifty things, and plot I will!

I've just this wee tag today, not had a chance to make much this week, with little dude off ill, but I am loving the Elf Made set, especially the cheeky sentiments.

If you are still searching for Christmas Inspiration - you could Check out this link - it will take you to all of our Christmas set and is ordered by most recent first! Have fun!

...pj party date - 14th!

Folks just to clarify, our next pj party begins inthe 14th and ends on the 15th! I may have accidentally announced the date wrong! My apologies!

... Winner - and You're Invited to the December PJ party!

Evening all! - Hope you are well. First of all I have a winner for you from our
release day Pin-It comp.

Congratulations to:

Miriam Prantner who said... 16 Pinned another: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/62980094764646996/ 

Miriam pop us an email on info@waltzingmousestamps.com and we will get your £30GBP store credit to you!!

Your Invitation

We will be having the last PJ party of the year on the 14th December - can you make it? We'd love you to come. Here are the 4 challenges that we will be hosting on the night - you can get ahead by making your challenge entries now so you have them ready to post on the night!

1. Put up the Tree Make a 3D paper tree. I had a quick look on Pinterest and I've spotted these lovely inspiration pieces:

 The fabby book trees are from the Creative "try"als blog here.

What about this simple but stylish forest - found here on Pinterest.

Or these dainty pretties, also from Pinterest here.

Or you could try your hand a quilling - take a leaf out of this fabulous quilled creation by Laura Mavrodin from the Quilling My Passion blog.

Aren't these all beautiful - Let's have a go at something like this - Make your 3D tree out of paper or cardstock - do something like these examples, or do something completely different - so long as it's a tree. Stamp it decorate it, add baubles or not as you see fit!

 When to make: Make your project now so that you can be ready to post it to your blog/gallery on the night of the party.  
How do I link it up?: On the night of the party, post your project to your blog/gallery and post a direct link to it into the inlinkz tool on the blog post here on the WMS blog.Links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours, so you will still have time to play on the night!

2. Deck the Halls - I want to see tree ornaments - lots of them - yes I'm greedy! I'm thinking Christmas but if you have another reason to celebrate we will happily join you!
 Look at these fabby ideas I found on Pinterest.

  How neat is this little Hot Chocolate mug from Mega crafty.

Or even try covering some plain plastic baubles with patterned paper - or better still, paper you have stamped! these pretty baubles are here on Pinterest.

What about this amazing popsickle stick sled from Serendipity Refined.

I bet you have a million ideas already!! lol!
 When to make: Make your project now so that you can be ready to post it to your blog/gallery on the night of the party.  
How do I link it up?: On the night of the party, post your project to your blog/gallery and post a direct link to it into the inlinkz tool on the blog post here on the WMS blog.Links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours, so you will still have time to play on the night!

3. Old Pajamas -  Make a project using any of your older Waltzingmouse Christmas sets - I'm going to ask some of the DT to play along with us, we're going to dig out our Country Labels 4 sets
 When to make: Make your project now so that you can be ready to post it to your blog/gallery on the night of the party.  
How do I link it up?: On the night of the party, post your project to your blog/gallery and post a direct link to it into the inlinkz tool on the blog post here on the WMS blog.Links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours, so you will still have time to play on the night!

4. Bedtime Story Sketch - Here is sketch no.9 - yep, that could be a tree shape....  Go ahead and create now - and your card will be ready to link up when we open the PJ party on the 14th! Like the other challenges links for this challenge will remain open for 24 hours, so you will still have time to play on the night!

PJ Party Schedule:

The PJ party post and all challenge links will go live at 11:45pm on the 14th Dec.
The PJ party winner will be announced at 11.45pm on the 15th Dec.

Rules - a little housekeeping!
• You don't have to use Waltzingmouse Stamps to play along, but it will make us especially happy if you do!
• You can enter each challenge as many times as you like, using separate cards and separate links, but you cannot enter any one card in more than one challenge!
• Links should take folks directly to the blog post/spot where we can see/comment on your challenge entry.
• Please mention our PJ party and challenge on your blog or gallery post(- you are welcome to grab the PJ logo or sketch graphic and add those to your blog if you like)

 • You do not need to enter every challenge, but the more entries you have the better change of winning the prize!

Prizes

We're changing up the format of the prizes a little - we will have one overall winner chosen at random from the 4 challenges. The prize winner will receive £30GBP store credit for Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Now please note - this is important - if the winning entry uses Waltzingmouse brand stamps or dies the prize will be doubled and the winner will get £60GBP (approx $98USD)!

Please note that projects using only free WMS products will not be eligible for the double prize - though you could still qualify for the £30GBP!

Right, off you pop and make something! See you on the 14th!

...Farewell 'Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine Special Thanks! Blog Hop

Welcome to the next stop on the Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine farewell blog hop - ideally you should have come to me from the inspirational Sabrina Alery - if you have not I can direct you to the list at the end of the post which shows everyone.

Folks, I bet most of us thought this day would never come, when I first began in stamping in 2008 or so, PC was the rock that the whole stamping world seemed to be built on and I'm still reeling at the thought that it will no longer be. I was lucky enough to have a few cards picked up and even made a cover once - ok so my little Christmas tree was more background colour than front feature, but I was elated to be on a cover at all, my engine was all fired up and I could not have been happier.

I had the mag shipped over all the way to Ireland from the USA and devoured every edition. Folks featured in the mag became familiar to me, I got to know who was who, and what was what. Right now it feels like nothing is going to fill that void, but we all know it's always a good idea to:

"...accentuate the positive
eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
But don't mess with mister inbetween..."

So I am raising a virtual glass to the team of PC&S and saying Thank You! Thank you for all of the wonderful inspiration. Thank you for the encouragement. Thank you for the happy mail. Thank you for bringing us all together. Thank you for giving everyone a chance to shine. Thank you for the smell of fresh ink on unopened pages. Thank you for the Facebook chat, and, thank you for the colour co-ordinated clothes hangers... with that level of organisation, gals like yourselves will go onwards and upwards to even better things, I can't wait to see. Good luck and God Bless ladies!

Next stop on your way through the hop is the wonderful Leigh Penner

and lastly, but not leastly, thank you to Taheerah for organising this hop so beautifully.

Card details: card front is a Cut file, available for free download here. I added some patterned paper behind the 'ta' and some stamped roses from Old Country Roses behind the hearts.

...New Stamps for December

 

Good evening and welcome to the November/December 2014 New Product Release at Waltzingmouse Stamps! A great big Welcome to all of our friends and to the new folks joining us for the first time - Hello, we hope you find something different here! We have a little mini release for you this evening, we know you have a lot to do for Christmas still, but if you are thinking of treating yourself or others (gift idea!) these two sets are sure to be year round staples!

Just a few things I want to be sure that you know before we begin:

We offer Free shipping on orders over £60GBP to anywhere. Yep, anywhere.

We now run a Loyalty scheme and folks can gather points each time they order, points turn into discounts so it's worth joining if you have not already, for full details click here. Even if you have not shopped with us in a while, you may already have some points gathered up - we were able to backdate the scheme as far as 1 November 2012!

Folks we have a fabby die giveaway this evening on the first 50 orders over £60GBP. The promotion begins at 7:15pm UK time when the store re-opens and you don't have to purchase the new release items to qualify, all orders over £60GBP are in with a chance.

Also - don't forget you can still scoop some of the few remaining retiring sets for 50% off - click here to see retiring sets.

We are running a Pin it Competition for this release - we want you to Pin your favourite samples created by the WMS Design Team or myself for this release to your own Pinterest boards. You can pin samples from any of the 3 preview days on any of the DT blogs or from today's blog hop. Use this hashtag - #waltzingmouse, then come back and leave us a link to the pin in the comments on this post. For each project you Pin just leave a separate comment.

One random Pinner will be chosen just before midnight (GMT) on the 4th December. The winner will receive a lovely £30GBP store code!

For those of you who don't have Pinterest, just leave a little comment telling us what your favourites are. A random commenter will also be chosen and will receive a free set of Flurries Stamps

Design Team Blog Hop

While we are waiting for the store to open you might like to visit our Design Team to see their creations for the traditional release day hop:

Sandie Dunne
Laurie Schmidlin
Anya Schrier
Jeanne Jachna
Karin Akesdotter
Tosha Leyendekker
Lynn Mercurio
Julia Aston

New goodies for Nov/Dec

and here they are!

Vintage Postcards clear photopolymer stamp set - size 6x8

Vintage Postcards Cut Files are FREE (click the image) and are a digital download product represented by orange shapes in this graphic - the cut files produce full size and also ATC size postcard shapes and a postage stamp style frame. These cut files are for use with electronic cutters such as the Silhouette Cameo. 

Old Country Roses clear photopolymer stamp set - size 6x8

Old Country Roses Cut Files are FREE (click the image)
and are a digital download product represented by red lines in this graphic - the purple images represent stamped rose images fully completed. These cut files are for use with electronic cutters such as the Silhouette Cameo.

Hope it tickles, don't forget to enter our Pin it competition - scroll back up for details!

Don't forget the freebie offer

...release schedule for this evening

Folks placing orders this evening might like to know that we will be giving a little Freebie with the first 50 orders over £60GBP. You don't need to purchase new release items to qualify, ANY orders over £60GBP will qualify, this is an ideal opportunity to pick up a few sets as gifts for your crafty friends - The promotion will also work if you are purchasing WMS gift cards for your buddies - just be sure to place your order as soon after 7.15pm as possible so that you stand a good chance of being in the first 50! Qualifying orders will receive this Snowflake 3 steel die. It produces a die cut just over 2.5 inches in diameter.

And just fyi...

7:00PM 2nd December my time is approximately equal to:

In the USA - Missouri 1.00pm
In the USA - Florida 2.00pm
In the USA - New York 2.00pm

In Australia - Queensland  3 Dec 5:00 AM (sorry ladies!)

In Canada - Alberta 12:00 PM
In South Africa - 9:00PM

In Japan - 3 Dec 4:00 AM (sorry ladies!)
In Russia - Moscow - 10:00PM 

Here's the snowflake die 'in action' - Tosha cut it out in felt and applied it to a mitten to make a cute Winter decoration idea!

...December release previews - it's tomorrow!

Evening folks, how are you? I'm putting up Christmas lights and really starting to get in the Christmas groove, you? I have these handy little tags today to show you -  today the DT and I are previewing the two new sets due for release tomorrow.

Tomorrow you will be able to see the sets in their entirety and they will be available on the store, but before I get into details, here are the DT ladies:

• Anya Schrier
• Becca Feeken
• Jeanne Jachna
• Julia Aston
• Karin Akesdotter
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lynn Mercurio
• Sandie Dunne
• Tosha Leyendekker

and very possibly also  here on the DT blog!

For my samples today I have made up a bunch of gift tags with the Vintage Postcards set - I remember saying somewhere that this was not a Christmas release...and it isn't.... these sets are really meant to be year round sets, but it's just that I'm finding the Vintage Postcard set so handy for last minute Christmas prep.

Ok, if you are anything like me, you've been pinning Vintage images for ages, but you never use them, right? There is a plethora of Vintage imagery available on the web and I found these goodies on pinterest the other day, it's a set of Santa themed postcard images and they come from Jodie Lee's blog right here in this post. - and what better way to make use of them thank to make them back into postcards!! Dinky little postcards for attaching to presents!

There is a set of cutting files to go with the Vintage postcards that will be free on the store tomorrow when the sets go live. In that digital set is a bunch of postcard shapes at standard postcard size, but also ATC size versions. I cut a bunch of the ATC size wavy edge cards out on my Silhouette and then went to town stamping the mini postcard backs onto them. The mini postcards stamp is a one-piece stamp, perfectly sized for ATC cards and you could even squeeze it onto a large tag or a gift card.

I dressed up the front with the images that I'd spotted on Pinterest. I cut the images a little smaller than my postcards to get that little frame effect like you see on some old postcards.

Turns out mini postcards are just the perfect thing for gift tags - we could make these up for any holiday or event! Hope it tickles

...Back in stock at Waltzingmousestamps

Folks we interrupt this release to let you know that we have just restocked Very Vintage Christmas! We also got in the Vintage Ornaments and anyone who was waiting for those - your goodies have now shipped and I now only have two of those to add to the store, you you'd better be quick if you'd like to pick up a Vintage Ornament set!