November 2017 Release Available Now!

Our November 2017 Release is now available!  You can find the new stamps, cutaways and creative screenings  HERE.  Please shop early for best selection.

From now thru Thursday, November 23, 2017 (while supplies last) with qualifying orders you receive:

Warm Wishes to You

Free With Purchase for a limited time for qualifying orders***

3x4 stamp set

Retails for $8.00

Includes seven (7) stamps

***About the limited time Free With Purchase Sentimental: Gift:

• Order must be placed from November 10, 2017 at 10:00 p.m. CST through November 23, 2017 11:59 p.m. CST  (or while supplies last)
• Your single order must total $25.00 or more before shipping and handling and taxes are applied.  Your single order must total $25.00 or more after any discounts are applied.
• One Free With Purchase item per person.
• We will be manually adding Warm Wishes to You to your order and it will not be reflected on your invoice.  
• This offer is while supplies last.  
• Warm Wishes to You is not a limited edition stamp set and will be released for sale later in 2018.

Thank you so very much for all your lovely comments and support!  

Changes

Hello there lovelies!  It’s Shay here.  This is a particularly difficult post to write as change is never easy. 

If you missed Julie’s blog post on Sunday please CLICK HERE. 

Julie, co-founder + co-owner and all-round awesome designer, is stepping down from being an owner of w&w at the end of this year.  It has been such an amazing journey from just talking into the wee hours of what we could do to running a company that produces collections that include stamps, dies and stencils.  I feel fortunate that Julie was beside me as we found the courage together to reach for, fulfill and even surpass our dreams.  I will always treasure all that I have experienced with and learned from Julie and her tremendous talent, attention to detail, patience, sweetness and friendship.  

Although I am mightily sad to not have Julie as my business partner, as her friend I am so grateful she is going to take some time to just concentrate on Julie. 

Julie, like many women, don’t put themselves at the top of their list of priorities.  Even airlines have to remind those with children that the air mask should go on the adult’s face first and then the child’s face next because if you don’t take care of yourself first how can you take care of anyone else?  Julie is a wife, daughter, sister, aunt, human mother to Walter, friend and teacher besides having been an owner, worker and designer here at w&w.  She put in long hours after her day job, sacrificing much and it is time for her to slow down and make herself the focus and design and craft just for fun and herself.  

I really love this picture of Julie (far right) and I at our first CHA back in January of this year at the Pinkfresh Studio booth with Kinnari Zavari (of Pinkfresh Studio), Kelly Griglione (one of the w&w Talent), Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and Evelin Tee (the lovely designer we worked with to create Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs and Merry & Bright with Evelin T Designs).



Of course Julie would love to hear from you!  Julie has a blog you can follow her at: starlight windsong; a facebook page: Julie Mogford Designs; along with an Instagram account: @juliemogford.  You will want to follow her as she isn’t done crafting and designing.  

What does this mean for w&w?  Julie + Walter will always be a part of the w&w family.  If and when she feels she wants to join in, she will do so as she feels best fits into her life (and I wouldn’t have it any other way).  The running of w&w will be carried on by me.  It will be quite an adjustment to take it all on myself especially in the designing arena.  My mind is brimming with ideas, I just need to learn the ins and outs of how to make them a reality! 

You should know that what w&w is what it is not only from Julie’s and my efforts, but also due to the support of Julie’s husband, Davis, and also that of my parents and sister.  In the future my family will be even more instrumental as their enormous help enables me to do all I do.  Family is everything and that is something Julie and I have always agreed upon wholeheartedly.

Joni Andaya, one of our original members of the Talent, will be stepping down.  

Just see this lovely card by Joni from our very first release:

And then this stunning card by Joni from our most current release:

Joni has been an incredible designer, wonderful member of our w&w creative family and an inspiration to us all.  She was the first product designer we collaborated with to design a stamp set, In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya.  Her creative and heart-stoppingly (a made up word that had to be used) gorgeous contributions will be missed but she will remain part of the w&w family as a free agent so we hope to see her here from time to time.  We love you, Joni, and thank you for taking a chance on us and being an integral part of w&w's success!

Now, for some cheerier news!  Introducing The Talent of 2016:

Gayatri, Heather P., Kelly, Lea, Mayuri and Vanessa are all staying on as part of the Talent.  I feel very blessed as these sensational ladies make w&w wonderful and brighten my days by being themselves and with the beauty of their projects! 

I have invited Heather Hoffman and Lydia Evans to become part of the Talent in 2016 and happily they have both said yes!  I am very excited as I adore these ladies and their work so much.  I know they will be amazing additions to the Talent.  Please give them a very warm w&w welcome!

Winnie & Walter’s birthday month is January, but in light of all these changes (plus going to CHA next week to check out all the new goodness--hope to see you there.) we are going to have our month long birthday celebration in February…let’s call it a belated birthday bash.  We will have month long challenges, plenty of giveaways, lots of inspiration and a “small” release to help celebrate.

I hope you will stick around and see where w&w will go…it’s going to be quite an adventure! 

I wish you and your family a very blessed 2016 full of laughter, love, excellent health, relaxation and the joys of crafting.

Happy crafting,

Shay + Winnie

WCMD 2015 Challenge Winners + Right Now

Hello there lovelies!

We need to announce all of the WCMD 2015 Winners along with exciting happenings this month.

>>>WCMD 2015<<<

First, thank you one and all for making this World Card Making Day such a pleasure with your comments, cards, participation and enthusiasm!  We were blown away by the crafties and projects.

We are so glad it was chance and picking the winners or this could have taken us weeks to choose!

Now on to the randomly chosen winners.  There are ten (10) of them so keep on scrolling. lol

WCMD 2015 | Comment (from all the comments on the WCMD 2015 posts):

Lucinde

WCMD 2015 | Craftie Challenge Winner:

not_amanda

WCMD 2015 | Watercolor Challenge with Vanessa

Paru's Perceptions

WCMD 2015 | Color Challenge with Heather

snazzyjj

WCMD 2015 | Sketched Challenge with Gayatri

Kim S

WCMD 2015 | Use Gold/Metallic Challenge with Lydia

Bhavana 

WCMD 2015 | Make it Masculine Challenge with Julie

karenladd

WCMD 2015 | Partial Stamping Challenge with Kelly

Dr Sonia

WCMD 2015 | mBBB: masterBoard Building Backgrounds Challenge with Shay

Lyndal

WCMD 2015 | Grand Prize Giveaway Winner

Maya Isaksson

Please email us at info {at} winniewalter {dot} com to claim your prize!  Please include the challenge you won in the subject of your email.

>>>RIGHT NOW<<<

Shay will be going to Simon Says CREATE again this year over the weekend so all orders received from Wednesday, October 21 - Sunday, October 25 will not probably not be sent until Tuesday, October 27 as Winnie just can't do the shipping on her own.  If you are attending Simon Says CREATE, Shay would love to meet you!

We will make this announcement again on other social media and of course follow along on instagram to see pictures. :-)

And next week is...

OCTOBER 2015 RELEASE WEEK!!

It's happening!  We are having a pretty massive release which will be available for purchase in the w&w shop at 10:00 pm CST on October 30, 2015.

Be sure to join us beginning on Monday, October 26 for Coming Attractions and The Big Giveaway!  You will *not* want to miss a thing this Release Week.

Right Now

Shay here today with a few things.

First, a HUGE thank you to Julie, Gayatri, Heather, Joni, Kelly, Mayuri, Vanessa, Laura, Suzanne and all of you for making my birthday an extremely delightful day!!

Speaking of birthdays, today is Laura Sterckx's 18th birthday!  Please send her some love!! :-)

Second, Julie and I are having a tough (and I mean tough) time narrowing down the entries to pick a winner from those eligible from our 1st Birthday Bash month long challenges for the April/May Release guest star role.  The projects are amazingly strong, dynamic and beautiful!   You have us flummoxed in the best way by your talent as the projects are incredible! :-)  We are aiming to come to that difficult decision Wednesday.

Third, shipping is on schedule now and we have still have Sparkle in stock which means if your purchase qualifies ($35.00 after discounts applied and prior to shipping and handling and tax fees applied), we will be shipping it out to you free through Friday, February 13th at 11:59 p.m. CST.  We also have our limited time digital elements free with purchase of coordinating January Release stamp sets promotion running now!  No action necessary.  This offer also ends Friday, February 13th at 11: 59 p.m. CST.

We are so grateful for your support, interest and generosity!  Julie and I still can't believe how fortunate we are to have you as part of our w&w family.

As always, if you ever have any questions, concerns, suggestions or just want to say "hi", we are here for you and you can reach us by commenting here, on Facebook, on Instagram or by email.

To reach Julie & Walter: julie@winniewalter.com
To reach Winnie & Me: shay@winniewalter.com
To reach us all: info@winniewalter.com.

Hugs!

Shay

Weekend Update

Hello lovely ones!  It's Shay here to give you a weekend update. :-)

On Facebook to celebrate reaching 500 Facebook family members we are having a giveaway.  All you need to do is go to our Facebook page and comment and share the giveaway post.  To go directly to the Facebook giveaway post CLICK HERE.  And thank you for all of your support!  The giveaway ends tonight at 11:59 pm CST.

We have been humbled by our 3 Special Guest Stars this month!  And we hope you've enjoyed all the tremendous inspiration and eye candy.  In case you missed it here are some links:

Donna Mikasa: Introduction | Take 1 | Take 2
Melissa Phillips: Introduction | Take 1 | Take 2
Jocelyn Olson: Introduction | Take 1 | Take 2

(You are hearing it here first)  In honor of {inter}National Scrapbook Day on Saturday, May 3, 2014 winnie & walter is going to have a whole week of fun things:

Tomorrow we kick off our Share the Love Week this time featuring Elle's Studio!  Julie, Vanessa, Heather, Kelly, Joni and I will be playing along (and there's a giveaway).

And we've had tons of additions to our join in to win! page.  They are all so sensational and we always feel such joy seeing how everyone incorporates w&w stamps and other products into their art.  Make sure to share yours too!

See you tomorrow for the Share the Love Week.