Alice overstock sale, new products & more news

Things have been very busy around here lately, I’ve finally got some new products listed on MadRat Rubber, repaired a bunch of bad links and added a new section of stamp sets & posted an overstock sale on Alice in Wonderland stamps.

First off - The Alice in Wonderland sale is 20% off select overstocked stamps, once the inventory is reduced to normal they’ll be removed from the sale so shop early for best selection.

If you haven't seen the movie - go, it's loosely based on the original books, but seems to be more of a cross between them & The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Beddor wrote "The Looking Glass Wars" trilogy which is "the real story of Alice" (I've only read the 1st book so far) but Tim Burtons story line made me think of Beddor's story. It's an imaginative re-telling of a classic. So, go see the movie, 'cause, personally, I think just about anything Tim Burton does is worth seeing. And if you haven't read Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, I highly recommend you do. They're classics everyone should read - IMHO.

Okay, so as long as I'm recommending books, check out "The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" another trilogy that takes a classic, "The Wizard of Oz" and re-imagines it brilliantly.

Secondly - The new stuff I've added is a selection of PinkPaislee products which includes clear stamps, a couple of papers, some patterned tapes, rub on transfers and my favorite, Artisan Elements. The elements are embellishments that are made out of polymer clay, at least, I’m guessing that’s what it is. They’re approx. a 1/16” thin (thicker in some areas) flexible detailed pieces in 3 styles (alphabets, swirls & frames) that can be altered with paint, ink, markers etc. If you’ve ever stamped into polymer clay than that’s what these are like. Thin enough to use on cards but would also be cool on altered books or shrines, they're flexible so they could even be attached to something cylindrical.

Queen Bee Clear Stamps

Artisan Elements - Swirls

Thirdly - The new stamp sets section is just that, all the stamp sets that are available, in one place.

And lastly, In the coming months, MadRat Rubber will be relocating. I'm in the process of completing some remodeling to get my house ready to put up for sale and will be moving back home to Louisiana. I've lived in New Mexico for over 20 years & though I absolutely love it here, it's time for me to re-acquaint myself with my home state. This is a move that's been planned for some time but since the recent loss of my husband I need to relocate as soon as I'm able.

What this means to my customers is that, for the time being, there may be slight delays in getting orders processed and not much happening as far as new products or sales, etc. I have been & will be, busy working my butt off getting the house ready and packing up years of stuff. I'm sure many among you know what it's like to contemplate packing up a studio full of treasures collected for assemblage work!

Of course, once the house sells and I'm preparing to move I will have to shut down completely as far as processing orders, the website will remain "open" but any orders placed will not ship until I can unpack my boxes. I will be sending out notices to my mailing list as things progress.

Thanks for your continued business & your patience, when the dust has settled on all this upheaval I hope to be posting on a more regular basis. ‘Till then, happy stamping!

August Birthday Sale

Happy Birthday to Me!

It's time for my annual MadRat Rubber Birthday Sale!

August 20 is my birthday so everyone gets to shop for 20 days & save 20%. Between Aug 4 & the 24th you get to save on just about everything in stock while supplies last. (magazine subscriptions & grab bags are not included) Savings will be refunded via PP as orders are processed.

You've also got 1 more day to take advantage of the 25% off the Pre-Sale page, For those of you who've already placed orders from the Pre-Sale page - feel free to shop some more & I'll consolidate your orders & refund your savings & excess shipping. Just remember, orders won't ship until the new rubber arrives.

The newer rubber includes lots of Wizard of Oz images that'll work great for Halloween (pumpkin heads, witches, crows, flying monkey's etc.) You'll find most of those on the Wizard of Oz page. I've also got some new skeletons & phrases coming for the Day of the Dead, which of course, can also be used for Halloween. (The large skeleton dolls should be a lot of fun to play with)

I've also been busy adding lots of new stuff lately on the following pages:Paper, Ribbons, Doll parts (vintage German doll heads), Hardware (vintage PO box doors), new Brass Charms, Electronica, etc. etc.

For those of you on Facebook, I've created a page for MadRat Rubber Stamp Co.and have uploaded some of my recent mail art - I'd love to see some of the artwork you folks have been creating with some of my products so feel free to upload some pics. I've also been thinking I'd like to start some kind of mail art exchange & / or contest. Let me know if you have any thought's on that. I'd also be interested to hear any suggestions about the web site, products you'd like to see me carry, opinions about the kinds of images I carry, etc.

I'm real new to the whole Facebook thing and am still trying to find my way around (without a lot of free time on my hands to do it) So stop by & friend me or become a fan, (however that's supposed to work ;-) )

Hope you're enjoying the summer - it will be over before you know it!