About Us

Alpha Stamps came into existence as only an Internet business could. A group of San Francisco Bay Area Web and print designers who met online trading ATCs or Artist’s Trading Cards recognized an unfilled market niche, and their ability to fill it. Alpha Stamps allows these designers to create interesting work without the constraints of serving a client's business, giving them the ability to follow their own muse.

Recognizing that no creative venture can be run by committee someone has to be the leader. Leslie Elledge is the Alpha Alpha Stamper; she designed the Web site between the activities of her own design company, Capacis. She is also the principal designer and vets other designers work.

In a leafy bower deep in the heart of Emeryville, CA, together with the other Alpha Stampers and a few elves, we develop new and interesting products, fulfill your orders, keep the presses oiled and the stamps inked.

Special thanks to Doug Jackson of Douglas Jackson Creative Resources for copywriting.

Wholesale Sales

For a pdf of the current catalog, please contact Leslie via email.

Revised June 2005: We wholesale to verified retailers. To order wholesale you must have a valid seller's permit and be able to certify that wholesale purchases from Alpha Stamps will be resold.

All unmounted rubber is packaged in clear bags with an index sheet, and a hang tab ready for shop display. Collage sheets are packaged in clear, sealed cellophane envelopes and are ready for hanging.

We ship worldwide.

Initial orders must be paid for in full before we ship.

We ask for minimum orders of $50 with a minimum of two per each item on your order. Thank you and feel free to contact Leslie via email for further information or for a wholesale order form, printed wholesale catalog, and/or detailed Terms and Conditions.

Printed Catalogs

A hard copy of the retail rubber stamp catalog is available for $5 US/$10 international. Send check, money order or cash to:

Alpha Stamps
5875 Doyle St., Suite 15
Emeryville, CA 94608

Or buy one now: $5.00 US (purchased with other items from this site)

$2.35 US (purchased alone — the shopping cart will add $2.65 shipping, which will bring your total to $5.00)

Or $10.00 international

See above for info on getting a wholesale catalog.

Copyright Use Policy

Alpha Stamps is a full-fledged “Angel” Company. Please feel free to sell your handmade, one-of–a-kind artwork using any of our products. We appreciate you noting us as a source for your supplies whenever possible. This policy applies to all Alpha Stamps designs, including those under license from various designers.

This use has been surpassed when quantities of greater than 20 are produced by hired employees for the purpose of mass marketing. For further details or permission on additional use, please contact Alpha Stamps.

Added July 2005: Question: Can I reproduce your collage sheets?

Answer: Yes, within reason. We understand that sometimes you need a different size of our images or multiples, etc. Please feel free to copy them if need be for your own projects, but do not copy and resell them. There is a copyright notice on the sheets that will disallow a commercial copier from duplicating the sheets.

Solution Graphics
Shipping Charges and Checking Out

We ship via USPS. Shipping charges will be added to your order upon checkout. We use PayPal for online credit card transactions but you don't have to have a PayPal account to checkout.

Up to $7.49

$3.00

$7.50-$24.99

$4.60

$25.00-$49.99

$6.30

$50.00-$99.99

$8.95

$100.00 and up

FREE
(free on orders in USA only)

International Shipping Charges

Updated May 2007: Priority Mail International (PMI) to most locations is $11.00 (for a 9x12" envelope; mounted rubber stamps and 12" scrapbook paper will not fit into these PMI flat envelopes). You may be asked to pay an additional shipping charge to meet this extra cost. Items too large for a PMI envelope will not be available for international shipping unless you are willing to pay an additional shipping charge (oversized paper items are labelled on the site with an asterisk; all wood-mounted rubber stamps also fall into this category). If you're brave, here's the new postal regs on international shipments.

Save time, and possibly a little money, by adding extra postage now:

Extra Postage for International Shipping (only sufficient for one PMI envelope): $6.40

 
Substitutions

We reserve the right to make ribbon color substitutions, based on availability from the manufacturer. (Ribbons are generally only changed when a color is discontinued).

Returns

We have few strict rules, but one of them does concern returns. Pre-approval for all returns must be obtained by email (please explain the reason for the return when emailing). We honor returns 30 days from the ship date only. No exceptions to this rule. All returns will be given store credit, no refunds. Ordinarily you will not be credited for shipping. We absolutely do not credit for used merchandise, unless there is a problem with the manufacturing of the product.

Notes regarding giftwrap paper:

  • The diazo reproduction process uses ammonia vapor so the resulting papers are NOT archival. (If you would like to use our images in your collages or scrapbooks requiring acid-free, archival materials, try our rubber stamps or collage sheets .)
  • Returns will not be allowed for blueprints that have been left in the sun (on your workbench under the skylight...) and have been faded by sunlight. Read more about sunlight’s effects on the diazo page.

Legal Details

Alpha Stamps is a registered trademark of Capacis, Inc.