Blog Candy and Getting to Know You

502 Comments July 24, 2008 zindorfstamps

Times Up and we already have a winner!!!!

Do to some work commitments I was unable to stamp this morning. 😦 I really enjoyed last weeks comments letting me know where you are from. Knowing about my readers helps to motivate me to continue sharing with you. My Word! there are a lot of you readers out there! My blog gets around 2,000 to 3,000 clicks a day and there are about 1,300 of you subscribed to this blog by e-mail. The shear numbers freak me out a little, lol.

This week I want all of you to share with me, please what brought you to stamping? In return I have some BLOG CANDY to give you a chance at!

So to enter for a chance to win these 16 Studio G, Series 6 stamp packs with a bonus Valentine pack, please leave me a comment on this post telling me what brought you to stamping. If you are getting this blog update by e-mail you will need to click this link to leave a comment on this blog post: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/07/24/blog-candy-and-getting-to-know-you/

I will use a random number generator to pick the winner on the morning of Saturday, July 26th.

I will start by saying, my friend Claire Sharkey asked me to come along with her to a stamping workshop. I didn’t care about rubber stamps and wasn’t all that interested, but I wanted to spend time with my friend, Claire, so I went along. Next thing I know, I’m ordering my very first Stampin’ Up stamp set “Frosty”. That was back in 2001.

I almost felt guilty for stamping at first, because I like to paint with watercolors and pastels and there I was just stamping the images instead of drawing them. But my stamping in time became more artist in nature and more satisfying too. I know you don’t believe it, but I can pretty quickly do a scene now with stamps and ink. Now I say quickly, but quickly to me is 1 hour. I like the creative process and why rush it. 🙂 My paintings with pastel can take me, literally months to complete, so 1 hour to accomplish a scene seems super quick.

Alright, that is my beginning in stamping, what is yours?

502 thoughts on “Blog Candy and Getting to Know You”

Andi

Hey, Michelle! I’m actually a new subscriber to your blog, and I have been so impressed by your style and artwork from day one! I was not a crafty person until I got married, and my mother-in-law–who is my best friend and confidante–was into EVERYTHING…quilting, stamping, photography, Bible study, Stained glass…you name it…she did it. Anywho…she taught me some basics of stamping and I played with it a little bit while living in Germany for the military, but didn’t really “get” into it.

When we came back stateside, I couldn’t believe the different things available for scrapbooking and all these cute embelishments and stuff. Stamping had grown to a phenomenon! The things these artists were creating!

I still didn’t get into it until a few years ago. I decided I wanted to know some of these new techniques…while giving a jewelry show I learned that one of my customers was a SU! demo. I decided to book a workshop and invited my closest friends. The rest is history…I had so much fun and now had a demonstrator at my disposal too! I think I hosted 3 workshops before I finally decided to sign up myself. I’ve been making cards ever since as a hobbyist. My latest project will be birth announcements for my first nephew due in October….FUN FUN FUN!

So…keep up the good work…keep us looking…you are so gifted, and I so appreciate your willingness to share with all us strangers.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm Reply
June

I started scrapbooking about 10 years ago and used to get so tired of buying letter stickers. I always had tons left over that I never used for anything. Anyhow I ran into a fun lady at a craft fair from Stampin Up and she had a special on Alphabet stamps. Little did I know a knew stamping addiction had just started. I now make way more cards than scrapbook. I am still trying to find an even balance but it is all fun.
June Susmarski
ps thanks for the chance for the new stamps

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July 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm Reply
jojot

Hi Michelle….

I came to stamping by way of scrapbooking. Have always done crafts, from a very early age, starting with sewing and then moving from basket making to quilting to…..well….as you can see I was always open to new crafts. Well…I joined a monthly scrapbooking group at a local craft store and one of the teachers at the store needed people for their first stamp class……and the rest is history……I am still a scrapbooker, but am definitely a ‘committed’ stamp…….’committed’ as in addicted….lol.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm Reply
Wanda in NC

Hi Michelle, msut have missed the other chat. I”m Wanda from Greensboro, NC and love your ideas. I got into su from being at a yard sale of a demo’s. Signed up immediately for a party at my house – had 25 people to come. Then the next month, I signed up as a demo (got one color family of pads free). I got into stamping to make my own cards as I love sending cards to cheer people. But I don’t get to send many, so think it’s time to give up the demo’ship (i’m a hobbyist anyway). But just this week, I plan on casing at least 2 of your cards. I’m the one on SCS that you left a message on for my running horse last week or week before.

thanks for sharing your ideas, and continue to share with us.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm Reply
Heidi

My best friend from high school was a Stampin up demonstrator. I went to visit her one weekend and she taught me how to stamp. The way I figure it, she owes me about $3,000.00 dollars–all so I could save some money to make cards for my friends and family. But I truly enjoy doing it and would love to win some blog candy to add to my addiction, I mean hobby.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm Reply
Sharon W

Hi Michelle,
I got started stamping when my sister in law invited me to a stamping party. I had never done anything like it and had a great time. I haven’t stopped stamping since.
Since I have found your blog I finally found a use for my brayer too!! Keep up the beautiful work!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm Reply
Barb Hardeman

This is so much fun Michelle. It’s neat to read how others got introduced to stamping. (And BTW I am formerly from BC, Canada!) I was taken to my first SU party by a neighbour. All I bought were some stampin’ spots, and I had no idea that you could use rubber stamps for anything artistic. I’m always into a craft of somekind, so this really piqued my interest. Before you know it I had a party, spent a few hundred dollars on stuff and became a SU Demo. That was just a short 31 months ago. Now I have branched out from SU, and finding your blog was like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. I love your style. I think I’m here to stay – I love stamping and card making so much and I love trying out new techniques also. Finding Technique Junkies was like walking through an open door on so many marvelous techniques and mediums. Stamp on ladies!!!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm Reply
Brenda

Hi Michelle,

This is Brenda from Sugar Land, Texas. I got started stamping in a similar manner to you. A friend invited me to a Stampin’ Up workshop. I didn’t have a clue about any of it…but I think I spent $200 because I had to have it all! My talents are not as advanced as yours but it’s still a fun hobby. I love it when non-stampers see a card I made and they are SOOOO impressed!! But little do they know how easy it was! Fun!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:04 pm Reply
Michelle Hoger/mitch47

Hello. My name is also Michelle, and I really love your blog. I love to stamp, and your imagination and talent inspire me to try things I’ve never done before. I came to stamping because of my daughter. She insisted I go to scrapbooking classes with her a few years ago. I went for two years, but I didn’t really enjoy it, and I kept going to do some mother/daughter stuff with her. In class, all I wanted to do was cut and paste, and make pretty, but the teacher/demo insisted on me sorting pictures, deciding what to do with them, and then journalling. Then I found a card-making group, and when I joined, I ddn’t have to sort pictures anymore! Shortly after, the leader of the group had a Stampin’Up! party, and I met the most amazing demo, and an addiction was created. I learned so much from her! She also set me onto Splitcoast Stampers, and the rest, as they say, is history. I have been amking cards for two years now, and there was no looking back. Stamping has taken over pretty much all my free time, and I want to improve my cards, and increase my scope. Your blog and designs help me do that. Thank you.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:04 pm Reply
Jody M

I had been making my own cards for years, using die cuts, computer images and sentiments, ribbons, and patterned paper. I had a couple of stamps but didn’t really know what to do with them. Then my co-worker invited me to a SU! stamp camp that her daughter was hosting in 2003 and I been hooked ever since. (I swear I buy more from my demo then she buys herself.) I get such enjoyment stamping, it just fits my creative niche. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration you give us daily.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:04 pm Reply
Mary Ann Daugherty

I did not let you know where I am from. I am from Sunbury, Pennsylvania. One of my friends invited me to house for a party and decided to buy one stamp set, a black stamp pad and some markers to color the images. I chose a stamp set that I could use for different occassions. Needless to say I enjoyed myself tremendously at the party and couldn’t wait to get my order. When it arrived I started to make cards and really got hooked on it. I just love making cards and now I have started doing scrapbook pages. I love the versatility of stamps and love coming up with new card designs. Thanks for another chance and the blog candy.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:05 pm Reply
Rochelle

4 years ago, while staying at our condo in Venice, Florida, a friend of mine asked me “have you ever stamped before”? I responded “is that some kind of a dance”? She laughed and invited me to a one-day workshop. From that day on I’ve been hooked!!! I now know it isn’t a dance, but I dance around each and every time I create something with my very own hands:-) Thanks for allowing me to share this silly but true story and also for the opportunity for a chance to win your blog candy.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:05 pm Reply
Diane

I live in Monkton, MD. It is a few mile’s south of the PA border. Originally from Illinois. Back In 1992 or thereabout, we were having a house warming party with friend’s The subdivision behind us was all huge expensive home’s. One of then was having a sorta open house where different vendor’s were in each room selling their good’s. One was the Goose Barn. A wonderful stamp store. I was totally there for hour’s. I was hooked. Becky, the owner, would have parties in the barn. Like Tupperware but stamp’s. I went to a Convention in Carson with Becky in 1992. It was my first convention and totally overwhelming. The last stamp I bought was of a lady sitting down with her leg’s crosed and she uis rubbing her feet. That was how I felt whene the day was over. I still have that stamp. I can’t even give a store bought card as people are offended that I did not make them a card. I kinda like that. It is a great therapy for me now.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm Reply
Kim S.

I orginally started in scrapbooking back in 1997. I loved it then and still love it today. I still scrapbook quite often. Then a friend had a SU party in 1998 and I bought a stamp set at the party because I felt I had to. But it was still sometime before I really got into stamping. I loved making cards, just didn’t stamp them that much. Then about 2 years ago the stamping bug hit me. I have been hooked ever since. I have learned a lot of techniques, but my cards have really started showing some pizzazz since following your blogs. I have been learning things about a bit of ink and a stamp set that I didn’t know you could do.
Needless to say, our office/craftroom is mainly a craftroom now. Hubby is always looking for ways to improve and make things easier for me. And I proudly show off all my stamps, ink and projects now. And it is great in my scrapbooking also.
Thanks for a chance to win the blog candy. I have never gotten to try to Studio G stamps yet, but sure am wanting to. They look awesome.
Kim

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July 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm Reply
Pam Berrisford

Hi Michelle…I have some friends that were getting together to stamp once a month. After hearing them talk about there time together and seeing some of their creations, I wanted to join. That was about three years ago. We still get together to stamp and of course we have our trips to Archivers, Hobby Lobby…etc. By the way, one of my friends is a SU demo. We are her best customers!
Pam

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July 24, 2008 at 12:07 pm Reply
Heidi

I bought a few stamps because I liked the picture on the front. Didn’t get the results I wanted so I stopped stamping. Then a coworker who knows I like crafts asked me to join a workshop with her. So I joined. During this workshop we learned how to make the most gorgeous card I’d ever seen and I’ve been hooked ever since.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:08 pm Reply
Joan Allison

My neighbor was a stampin up demo and she invited me up to her house to stamp. Well , that was the start of it. Now another friend and I go to conventions all over.
We have a ball. The last one we went to was in Springfield Mass. We stay the weekend so we can go both days and see all the new stuff.
She comes to my house once a week and we get out our stamps and we play. I then send the cards I’ve made to my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
They enjoy getting the cards.
Joan

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July 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm Reply
evette

My start in stamping occurred when I became disabled from a work related injury. I was a nurse most of my life and was at a loss as what to do. My best friend of over 35 years was a SU demonstrator and she suggested stamping cards. I purchased some things from her….actually a whole box full….brought it home from Ohio and never used it. Took me two years to open that box again and once I did I have NEVER looked back. I AM ADDICTED SO BADLY NOW!!!!!!!!! But I love it and all these blogs are so great to get my creative juices flowing. Never bored now and I have made so many friends due to SU. Thanks for asking us. evette

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July 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm Reply
Kathy

I started stamping when I my husband and I were visting a small Amish town not far from our house. We were just walking around the town, mostly looking at antiques when we came across a rubber stamp store. We decided to go in and the women who owned the store demo’d a couple stamps for me and showed me how to emboss and to color them. I was hooked. I couldn’t believe how easy it looked and the beautiful cards I could make. I bought a few stamps that day and went home and created a few cards. I visited that store LOTS more times as I really started to love stamping and my hobby just grew and grew and grew…..

Thank you for giving us a chance to share our stories and to win the blog candy! I look forward to your blog every day!

Kathy

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July 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm Reply
Martie

I started scrapbooking in 2000 after my daughter presented us with triplets. A few friends who were also scrapbooking tried to get me interested in stamping. “Oh no, I don’t need one more hobby.” Six weeks later after going to a Close to My Heart party justt to shut them up – I was hooked. Now I have to struggle to find time to scrapbook beacuse I’m always busy stamping. This spring I decided to join into the http://www.cardsforheroes.org project and I’m having a ball doing it.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:12 pm Reply
Kathy

I walked into a stamp store………..it was that simple……..the owner took the time and patience to sit down with me and show me how to use markers on a pear stamp. The image was beautiful…..I still have it. Shading was remarkable and the glossy paper made it pop.

hooked from then on…………

Kathy L……

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July 24, 2008 at 12:12 pm Reply
Susan

I came to stamping by way of Daisy Girl Scouts! My girls were in the troop and a mother was selling D.O.T.S. which is now Close to My Heart. I came, I stamped, I stayed! That was over 15 years ago and I’m still here.

You inspire me to keep at it and thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy. I really appreciate it!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:12 pm Reply
Jenny

A friend had given me a couple of handmade cards that piqued my curiosity. When I found out she was in a monthly SU club, I asked if I might order “a stamp” when they order. Within a couple of months they asked me to join! At my first meeting we went around the table answering the question, “How many stamps do you own?” I could not believe that some of those girls owned hundreds of stamps! And now, 10 years later…

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July 24, 2008 at 12:14 pm Reply
Jennifer

What fun reading to learn of everyone’s stamping beginnings. Mine began back around 1987 when my son wanted to have a campout in the backyard for his birthday party. We found a tree line stamp (which I still have), a birthday invitation stamp, some ink and cardstock and we went to town making those little party invitations together. Those were my first stamps and while my “style” of card making has changed greatly over the past 20+ years, the fun hasn’t changed a bit. I still love getting inky! 🙂

Jennifer

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July 24, 2008 at 12:15 pm Reply
Michelle

I started stamping about 10 years ago when I tired of the same old look in my scrapbooks, I have been working at my LSS for about 3 years, which has both scrapbooking and stamping. I have recently put actual 12×12’s on the shelf and been making chipboard, cd case, etc of every kind for family and friends. I just would rather do things for my mom’s who are in thier late 70’s that they can sit out and brag on their grand children now. In the begining I just stamped titles and backgrounds, now the whole projects are stamp art!

Michelle, Jacksonville, FL

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July 24, 2008 at 12:15 pm Reply
Carrie Penner

I have been into painting ceramics and doing some needlepoint for a long time and I have loved to color since I can remember using whatever it is I have at hand. I initially decided that I wanted to get into scrapbooking as the amount of pictures I have is horendous but I was trying to find something that could be used repeatedly in different ways. My friend suggested trying stamping and well 3 years later I am still going and I laugh continuously when I enter my bedroom closet as there sits my horendous supply of photographs still waiting to be scrapbooked.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:16 pm Reply
Ursula in RSA

My business is ceramic painting and making the bisqueware. 2 years ago I was at a craft show saw someone making a lovely card. It was my friends birthday a few weeks from then and thought “how lovely to do a card for her” Bought my first stamp, went home and was totally befuddled as I didn’t have all the goodies, but had some coloured pencils and bits and pieces. Was very impressed with my first effort. So now I just can’t find enough hours in the day to carry on with my new “hobby” and from a shoebos full of card goodies have progressed somewhat.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:19 pm Reply
Michelle Balletti

I’ve always been creative some way or another. I’m not sure how I got to SU but I asked for a local demo to send me a catalog. She dropped one off at my work and I was mesmerized by all the stamps and creativity right at my fingertips in the catalog. I like to stamp, it has beome a more solid hobby. And I’ve truly enjoyed your website. Your techniques are amazing and very easy to understand and follow!! Thanks for all the sharing.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:19 pm Reply
NANCYRUTH

Hi Michelle! You asked, so here is my long and winding road to SCS.
I have always loved all things Victorian and aboUT 20 some years ago I stumbled upon some beautiful rubber stamps images by PSX, and also found a stamping group that met in the community room of a local grocery store. I enjoyed stamping however never got very good at it because I did not have any mastering of techniques. (For example I would stamp and emboss on dark cardstock and wonder why it did not look nice). And then the throes of single parenthood took hold of my life and I put everything up in attic. I think in the back of my mind I knew that this would become a passion for me, just not at that time in my life!!
Fast forward to six years ago, my friend Daryl invited me to a Stampin Up party. I bought ,my first set, Antique Collectibles, (remember I love Victoriana), and my creativity and passion was reignited. My children are now 31 and 28 and out of the house, and I am an empty nester who stamps EVERy DAY!! I love SCS, I love the community that has taught me so so much, and you are a big part of that. I would come across your images in the daily challenge uuploads and literally suck in my breath, and would think “this ZINDORF person really makes this medium SING, and what the heck IS a Zinndorf???” Of course I know know you are Michelle, and really appreciate your generous sharing of your tecniques. Thanks so much for being YOU! HUGS, Nancyruth (self ordained president of the Zindorf Fan Club!!!)

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July 24, 2008 at 12:19 pm Reply
Sandy K

My employee, Sharon, was a stamper. The first time she brought some of her cards in I was amazed at her work. So I began to look for a local stamp store and found one nearby. WOW! Excitement set in and I went wild and spent too much. I signed up for the classes and then I saw the Stampscape cards. OMG! I was hooked. That was in 2002 I think. I sure hope my husband never asks me for my inventory sheet. He will drop dead if he ever saw how much I’ve spent on this craft since 2002. I won’t even total the worksheets up anymore. I did once. That was two years ago. I could probably by a car by now. I love seeing your work as you have given me a new and different inspiration to add to my cards. Thank you so much I LOVE IT!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:22 pm Reply
doris

Couple years ago, my dear friend Caroline, gave me her handmade Christmas card, I thought it would be great idea to exchange handmade cards with my 2 firends, and we start to make 2-3 card to exchange for Christmas and Easter, one year I made some card for my mom too, and she really like them, I was looking for some inspiration in magazines, you know I’m from Poland, few years ago it was VERY rare to get magazines about crafts or any nice paper etc. now it’s changing but still we have very little shops which provide stamps or papers. I order German magazine, and I was amazed by different technics, I saw beautiful card with stamped image:) wow!I was surfing the Internet to get know more about stamping and discover many websites:) my first stamps I bought in December 2007, since that time I learn much and try to make nice cards:)

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July 24, 2008 at 12:22 pm Reply
Carolyn Sharkas

I was working as an aide with a young teacher who had recently moved to the state and didn’t know alot of people. We became great friends and my daughter and I spent many Saturdays with her. Then one day she introduced us to stamping and scrapbooking and that was it. We started making our Saturdays stamping/scrapbooking day. Then at the end of the year she moved back home to Connecticut and left my daughter to take off from there. It has been several years now and I love it even more. It allows me to release my creative energy and it also gives me something that my daughter and I (now a teenager) can still do together and enjoy. I do so appreciate my friend introducing me to papercrafting, and I still miss her terribly.

Carolyn Sharkas
ceashark@aol.com

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July 24, 2008 at 12:23 pm Reply
Terri (blindstamper)

In 2005, I was attending a huge scrapbooking weekend event where they had “classes”. Christine Whited (from Cincinnati) had all these inexperienced scrappers making adorable cards…and she made it seem easy. I found out later she was studying to be a Math teacher (which is what I was). I believe it helped her give the kind of clear instructions we needed. My first purchase? The demo kit! Well, I had to have it all!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:23 pm Reply
Candy

I was invited to an SU party in my neighborhood. Since you “have” to go to these things I went but with no expectations. Boy was I surprised by how much fun I had. I ordered 2 wheels with ink cartridges because I was a bit afraid of the stamps. Somehow the fear subsided and I became addicted. Hundreds of stamp sets later I had to give myself an entire stamp ROOM. If there were a 12-step program for stampers I’d be the first to join. But I don’t think I’ll ever kick the habit. There are very few stamps I don’t want and there are absolutely no techniques I don’t want to learn. I just wish I’d found stamping sooner. By the way, I live on a mountain in Harpers Ferry, WV so I’m always surrounded by inspiration but I get excited each time I see your blog in my email. You are my inspiration now. Please keep the beautiful work coming.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm Reply
Kim D in FL

Michelle, I was down in the dumps… needing some motivation — some eye candy… and I stumbled along to your blog.

Your art is stunning and your step by step tutorials are wonderful. You saw my take on your “wanted” card (you’re too kind with your compliments to me on that one).

You are an inspiration to me (and certainly to others as well).

I would love to win but mainly to tell you thank you!! I know it takes a lot of time to put those tutorials together. Thank you so much.

~Kim D in FL

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July 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm Reply
Genie Stover

Hello from Columbus, Ohio home of the Buckeyes.
I stay at home and care for my 84 year old mother, and getting more bored as the days went buy. I decided I needed something to fill the time, so I bought a few stamps, pads and paper, looked up card making on the internet and gave it a try. I’m now into my 15th swap in the last 4 months. Lovin every minute.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:26 pm Reply
Annie

In 1997 I was a a flea market, and there was a Stampin Up gal there. She was letting people make their own Christmas card, she gave a choice of two styles, and had everything ready……it was so much fun, I was totally hooked, and have been every since.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:27 pm Reply
Char- D.

I am a scrapper. I started making cards with my scraps. Then I joined an on line card making group. After seeing all they could do with stamps, I decided it was time to try it out. I have been stamping ever since.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:28 pm Reply
Cheek

My daughter showed me cards she made at a SU class! I was into scrapbooking before, but I don’t think I did 1 page since then! Only cards!!!

Thanks for your tutorials, they are sooooooo great!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:29 pm Reply
Karen Lindsay

I wanted very badly to create a handmade card for my 4-year-old grandson, so I started looking for ideas in scrapbooking magazines, cruising Michael’s and Ben Franklin’s and finally stumbling into the local stamp store where they offered classes in card making. Wow!! I was hooked! I progressed from taking classes to teaching classes and now I am a demonstrator for TAC. I have my very own small stamp/paper store right here in my little room. LOL! I just have to say I absolutely love all your creations and I look forward to every new post. I think you should create a book using every one of your tutorials. With the colors you use and your designs, it could easily be a “coffee table” book. Thank you for sharing so generously.

Karen
karen_l@bresnan.net

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July 24, 2008 at 12:29 pm Reply
Rene Mewes

Hi from Farmington, MN. I started stamping about 10 years ago with my 5 yr-old daughter. We attended a Stampin’ Up party and it was all down hill from there!! LOL! I have a whole room for stamping now and I just love creating and sharing cards and gifts. Your blog has definitely been an inspiration. I get an email each day, so I can keep up with all your projects. Thanks for putting all the efforts you do into sharing this hobby with all of us.

Rene’

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July 24, 2008 at 12:30 pm Reply
Lillian Mederak

thanks for the chance to win Michele
I started stamping when I started to do Artist trading cards… Stamping really adds variety to these small works of art
Lillian

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July 24, 2008 at 12:31 pm Reply
Sandra

Hey Michelle, every year at work I would host a cookie exchange and we would do some sort of craft – usually paint related since I am a decorative painter. I asked a card-making, scrapbooker friend to come show us to make a card, she declined but suggested a mutual friend who was a SU demonstrator. It was awesome and I was hooked. We live in a small isolated community so I went looking around the net for other stamping scrapping stuff and found Close to my Heart and immediately signed up to be a consultant. Love all aspects of this art and the ability to share our stuff with others. Thanks for the time you take for the rest of us!1

Sandra

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July 24, 2008 at 12:31 pm Reply
Jan Barrie

Michelle,
I’ve been making cards for about 4 years, usually at the last minute. I wish I could get into the scrapbookking thing. I don’t think I take very good pictures and trying to figure out how to put them on the computer is another mind boggleing operation. Maybe I’ll try to get a computer program to help with that. For now I’ll just keep doing the card thing.
I just recently subscribed to your blog. You are sooooo talented. Thanks for all of the great inspiration.
Jan

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July 24, 2008 at 12:32 pm Reply
Linda P.

I am from Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
I was introduced to stamping by chance. My sister was a 4-H advisor and the group that my nieces belong to (a horse group) was having a holiday bazaar for a fundraiser. We saw these cute cards and inquired about them. Come to find out, the other 4-H advisor stamped them using Equestrian Dream and Brushstroke Horses and told us all about it! Well, being artsy myself, I didn’t wait for an invitation, I asked when the next party was and invited myself! I am so glad I did! Once a month, this group was rotating houses with the SU demonstrator. So, of course I had to invite my friend and so my friend, sister, niece and myself started stamping!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:33 pm Reply
Donna

Michelle,
My name is Donna Coffman, I am from Chippewa Lake, Ohio.
My passion for stamping has evolved slowly over the span of about 5 years, I went to a party hosted by a friend and it was Celebration, so we all booked parties from one another and had all this stamping stuff and no idea what to do with it, because the demonstrator was to far away to do any more shows for us.
Fast foward to about a year and half ago I met a lady and she knew a demonstrator and invited to me to a 10 for $15.00 card class, she made it look like I could actually do this thing called stamping, I booked her for a show then a card club of my own. With all the resoures and lovely sharing people who have blogs I am learning by leaps and bounds, I can’t keep my hands off of cardstock or designer paper. The demonstrator who inspired me to stamp is cutting back and wanting me to join up. But I am AFRAID, such a small word and yet so powerful. Anyway enough about me I love all your ideas and thank you so much.

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July 24, 2008 at 12:36 pm Reply
Carole

I first started to stamp after a birthay gift I received 4 years ago. Now, I can’t stop stampin and scrapbookin, I take a lot of pictures so, for me, it’s a beautful way to put them to there best and to leave something to my boys in the future. I attended a Stampin’up party two years ago and loved it!!! I now have my stampin, creative room and I coud’nt leave without it, I love it !! I don’t by cards anymore, I make them. And I make a lot of projects other than pages, I love to explore things. I love your work, it’s gorgeous!! Please, don’t stop !! 🙂

Carole

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July 24, 2008 at 12:37 pm Reply
Sandra Stamper

hi Michelle;

My son worked for JoAnns and once a year they let the employees fill a box about 3 feet high and 3 feet around with all the vendors samples, etc. for 15 or 20 dollars.
he came in with 400 stamps! needless to say, not all to my taste, but hey, as my grandfather always told me. “when they give, you take, when they hit, you run”
that was the beginning. I bought a Rubber Stamper magazine and saw a card i just had to make. i found a S.U. demo, who turned out to be a great friend, and she found me the set on e-bay…she used to have workshops and i so enjoyed them.that was at least 5 years ago and my how my “stash” has grown. it’s good therapy, and your cards just inspire me so. thanks for all your hard work.
Sandra Stamper

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July 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm Reply
Hilma

I started stamping this time because I was looking thru blogs to find altered items to make for christmas presents last year… you can’t find 3-d or altered items without finding stamping items… so I got enticed and then hooked!!! I had given away all my stamping stuff and had to start new..LOL… I guess that should teach me!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm Reply
Roberta

I never intended to start stamping–I already had enough time and $$ invested in cross-stitch and photography hobbies. Going to stamp workshops was just a good way to eliminate the problem of not seeing my best friend, Cindy, often enough. We started going once a month and I would have to read the instructions twice and watch her pretty thoroughly before I would even try to stamp…Well, here we are a year later and I’ve converted an entire room in my home to accomodate all of my hobbies–with my stamping supplies taking up the majority of the space! I’m still learning and trying to move beyond basic stamping & coloring which is how I found your website–your tutorials are fantastic! One of these days, I may even work up the courage to try one of them!

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July 24, 2008 at 12:39 pm Reply