First news of 2026 - Waffle Flower and other arrivals
First news of 2026 - Waffle Flower and other arrivals
What's new for 2026?
Hi Crafty Friend
Happy New Year! We think we can still just about say that even 8 days in given that this is our first newsletter for 2026. We hope you all had a lovely festive season and that 2026 is starting well for you.
We had a reasonable rest but both caught one of the nasty bugs doing the rounds so 2026 is starting gently for us whilst we return to 100% health. We did however manage to get January's releases ordered during our break so we are starting our first week back with lots of new arrivals and more pending next week too. Read on for full details.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING We wanted to kick off the major news though by saying International Shipping is still suspended at the moment. As our tech support team also take off a couple of weeks at Christmas, Royal Mail making such major changes to the way international shipping works (new version started on Monday) was really poorly timed. We are looking into what we need to do, but it's quite a complex change and we need to be sure it's correct as any slight error means your parcels will not clear customs. We will get it opened up as soon as we can but please hang fire on chasing us - the more emails we have to answer with the same information as we've included here, the less time we have to get things sorted.
WAFFLE FLOWER CRAFTS The January release is now in store (and already selling fast). This release adds a brilliant new "frame" to the postage collage collection - these adorable frame dies will allow you to turn any individual "cell" in any of the postage collage stencilled images into a perfect little picture. There are also two new stencils - one for dog and one for cat lovers to add to the postage collage collection.
There is also a die and stencil set with a couple of add-ons to boot, to create brilliant cozy indoor scenes for winter as well as a lovely lady reading a book with her pets. Exactly the kinds of images we need for winter crafting! There are 3 new sets of background pattern dies and stencils as well so really something for every taste this month.
We have lots of restocks back too, including all the brush sets which work so well with their stencils and all the original size postage collage items including our starter kits.
ALTENEW The January release from Altenew along with a tonne of restocks is also in the building. We're working on that one next so hope it will be in store tomorrow.
As well as their usual regular month releases (Build-A-Garden etc) this month also sees 3 new sets of ink colours - some lovely earthy tones, some misty greens and some greeny-greys. There are also 6 new shades of sequins (packs come in single colours in 6 sizes) and we have the originals back in stock finally too.
The regular release includes some stunning florals, some useful vases, a brilliant embossing folder to add texture to background and die cuts and possibly the most detailed rose stencil we've ever seen!
Stamp Wheel tools are also back in stock along with lots of sold out ink colours and all the cardstock colour packs too.
PINKFRESH STUDIO Released their January products today and our boxes just arrived. We will process those over the weekend and get them added to store as soon as we can, around packing orders next week.
This is a really fun collection packed full of fun florals, books, patterns and textures - check out the samples above and keep an eye out for when they're live in store!
LESIA ZGHARDA DESIGNS Lesia has a new release already for sale but it will be another few weeks before ours arrive. We're working with Lesia on ordering in advance of release so we can minimise the delay between their release and arrival in the UK so we don't feel constantly like we're a release behind. Given the ongoing war in the Ukraine - this isn't an easy option but we hope we can work towards an improvement as the year progresses.
We've got the 9 latest designs coming, lots of restocks and a few extra winter/spring themed older items we thought would work well with the new stamps.
Our order for both of these brands went in as soon as they sent over details, but as that was only a couple of days ago, it has not yet been packed and shipped. We're hoping that it will ship early next week so we're not too far behind with it. We'll update you via newsletter once we have it.
We know there is a new release pending which we're excited about but we don't have a confirmed release date yet or any clue what's included but we'll let you know as soon as we do.
You may have seen on their Insta over Christmas that there are some add-ons for the Market Place collection coming - we're excited for those too but again have not seen the full details or got a release date yet. Watch this space!
Mama Elephant's release has been ordered, we hope to have it close to the 15th which is their regular monthly release date along with the restocks that were requested up to the start of this week when we placed our order.
That's about all the arrivals we know of for this month so far. We are also looking at ways to clear out some discontinued brands (like MFT) but as we've not yet done big clearances on Shopify we need tech support so it's on the list for our new team once we've sorted out interntional shipping so stand by for some bargains this spring!
