Small stickers in emoji app

Starting with IOS 18, my sticker emojis added to iPhone/iPad e-mail inexplicably got tiny. Not the regular emojis, just the stickers I create.

My workaround has been to select the stickers inside the e-mail text (and only the sticker) and enlarge it by tapping the aA icon on the bottom left. It can take 40-80 successive taps to get the image to a decent size - so, a royal PITA.

Apple: would be nice to fix and return the stickers to the size they once were.

Douglas