Blog Candy and Getting to Know You

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

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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”

  1. Susan Bluerobot's avatar Susan Bluerobot

    have always loved paper crafts and when i was 15 i went to my first craft show and there was one stamp stall there and they were showing gold embossing well i was soo impressed that i spent all my money at that stall and been spending money ever since

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  2. Becky's avatar Becky

    Yummy blog candy by the way. :p (slurp) ….. Well let’s see…….a lady I work with invited me to a Stampin Up party so I thought hey I’ll go and buy one thing since she is my friend and never go again to one. I have always done crafts, oil painting, anything artsy soooo I fell in love with stamping as well. What hooked me hook, line, and sinker was they had a demonstration of heat embossing and everyone else was afraid to do it but I jumped right on it and fell in love head over heels. So I’ve been to every party from there on out making lots of new friends and having soooo much fun. You are my inspiration as well. Your talent motivates me to do better. Thanks a bunch. 🙂

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  3. Carol's avatar Carol

    I began stamping a little over 5 years ago when I went to a SU Party. Soon after I became a demonstrator. Then I found out about the Technique Junkies Newsletter. Have been stampin ever since and love it. I really enjoy the work you do. You are so talented. Thank you for being interested.

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  5. Jeanie's avatar Jeanie

    Hi Michelle~

    The first time I got into stamping, so many years ago, I can’t even remember for sure how it happened. I believe I began buying some sentiments stamps that spoke to my heart: “There is no on so deaf as he who will not listen,” “We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors — we are borrowing it from our children,” and “If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children. –Gandhi”

    I began by using these stamps and others quickly acquired on letters and envelopes to friends, family, and penfriends. Having loved coloring since I was a child, I loved being able to take an image and make it whatever color I wanted. Next, I attended a rubber stamp convention in Carson, CA, and the passion blossomed!

    After several years off from stamping to focus on traditional/paper scrapbooking, I retired from full-time work and found I had time for scrapping & stamping! Whoo Hoo!

    A friend invited me to a Stampin’ Up party sometime in 2001, and I’ve just gone completely crazy since then. I have soooo much “stuff,” but there’s always new designs, images, papers, inks, pens to try. Loving color since I was a very small girl, I surround myself with all these things and creating with them one of my greatest pleasures!

    Thanks for asking, and for sharing your wonderful talent with all of us!

    hugs,
    ~jeanie.

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  8. Anne P's avatar Anne P

    Hi Michelle,
    About 17 years ago a new family arrived at our church, and they had just recently returned from a holiday in the USA. They showed me some embossed cards they had made and I thought they looked fantastic, but so intricate and fiddly. They assured me it was a very simple and easy process, but I had a 3 year old son and a brand new baby daughter, and it looked very time consuming so I didn’t pursue the matter any further. About a month later, however, I called round to their home for something and the mother and daughter were in the middle of a stamping session. When I saw for myself that it truly was as simple as they told me, I was hooked, and have been ever since. In the early day, we had very little available in New Zealand, and even less in the south, in Invercargill where I live. We certainly had no local stamping store and so anything I saw that could possibly be useful I would buy, especially if it was a stamp. Consequently I ended up with things I didn’t particularly like, just because they were the only things available. That has all changed now . . .
    Thanks Michelle 🙂

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  9. Becky's avatar Becky

    I stumbled into a stamp store one day, just to check it out, and before I left, I had all the necessary supplies to make my wedding invitations. This was NOT what I intended. They turned out well, though. After that, I owned a scrapbook store, and my dear friend and customer, Shelly, owned Stampsations, a stamping company. I wanted to carry her line of stamps in my store, and of course, I had to know how to stamp with them. She later helped me start my own line of stamps, I bought her line, and the rest is history.

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  10. Maureen's avatar Maureen

    ok – you asked! LOL About 7+ years ago my girlfriend invited me to a stampin up party at her sister’s house…I was immediately hooked! I have made hand crafted presents since before I can remember…and when I CAN remember – it was my very crafty and talented mother who made me love making things…fast forward, due to life getting in the way (as well as my education!) two things occurred – I was unable to devote the time to my daughter in “crafting” although we did other things together – and I had to stop performing in amateur theater (which I found to be a creative “release”) – so when I got hooked on stamping….and then later realized that my daughter loved scrapbooking – I put the two together and got her stamping as well…AND it makes me always think of my mother who would have taken to this like a duck to water – so – stamping is a creative outlet for me, a time to share with my friends and family, a way to pass on what my mother “gave” to me to my daughter, and now a business that pays for my hobby…and its cheaper than therapy!!! *wink*

    oh – yes – I forgot to mention before where I live…currently in Bethlehem Twp in PA – which is right over the border of Northwest NJ where I am originally from (Chester and Long Valley). I still teach in NJ in Bridgewater – which is about 45-55 minutes south of here. Still a Jersey Girl at heart…but at PA prices!! LOL Anyway – I am part of Tina’s SU group of INKcredible gals in NJ – and Tina is your buddy Karen’s up-line…and it was through Karen’s website that I found you….(thank you Karen!)

    That’s as nutshell as I could get it!! LOL
    Maureen Thomson Stivala

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  11. Glitter Queen's avatar Glitter Queen

    I would have to say my co-workers. They always huddled around talking amongst themselves about their scrapbooking/cardmaking they have been working on and various products etc. They tried for some time to get me committed but I held my ground and didn’t get involved………….until…………….. someone had a party that I attended for the heck of it then it was game over. I was in good and hard and have never looked back. I LOVE to stamp and find it very relaxing and gratifying. I love checking blogs and getting my creative juices going.

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  12. Hélène Gagnon's avatar Hélène Gagnon

    Hello Michelle, I live Trois-Rivières, province of Quebec in Canada. I have started to make the stamping 3 years ago. Following long sick leave, I sought a hobby interesting and I listened to an emission which spoke about Scrapbooking. It’s was the beginning for me. I have learned much by visiting Internet sites

    I have heard of Stampin’ up! and I became representing.

    Since this time I learn at each day from new things and it gives me pleasure of to teach with people whom surround me. I like that.

    Sorry for this traduction, I am Québécois Frenchwoman.

    Tank you much for this beautiful work.

    Hélène Gagnon de Trois-Rivières (Québec) Canada

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  13. Debbie DeBose's avatar Debbie DeBose

    MY first interest in stamping came from watching hgtv and Carol Duvall. There were no stamping stores in the area at that time and so at AC Moore I found rubber stamping magazines. There was an address for a stamp store in the western part of NC about 3.5 hours from my house—-so off for a road trip. In that store I heard that there was a stamp store coming to Wilmington. Nancy Lewis opened stamp works and my pocket book hasn’t been the same since. Regretfully we no longer have our local store but now I have the internet. my spare room is a craft room packed full of stamps and all the goodies you need and don’t need, but have to have. I always wanted to be creative and couldn’t draw or paint, but now that I have stamping and cards I can satisfy that need. In the real world I am a nurse in a NICU and make cards for the babies and their families at holidays. Probably more than you wanted to know. but thanks for asking Debbie

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  14. Lynn's avatar Lynn

    I had a friend who was into stamping and it looked like fun. I started going to Stamp Camps, etc. and got hooked!! Then I decided to be a demonstrator just to get the discount for my friend and me. My co-workers asked me to teach them and now I am doing this as a part time business!! It has been a blast!! I am going to teach your techniques in a class this fall. I can hardly wait!!

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  15. Betty McCommon's avatar Betty McCommon

    I started stamping after seeing a demo at a LLS on embossing. That got by daughter and I hooked. We started embossing over a toaster! I own 3 heat guns now. I have come a long way in 11 years from a few stamps and a couple pads to literally thousands of stamps and hundreds of pads.
    Love the tutorials on the skies. I’ve been trying to recreate the beautiful ND sunsets I have seen and now I think I’ll be able to.
    Thanks
    Betty

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  16. Mary S.'s avatar Mary S.

    I went to a SU workshop 11 years ago and was hooked. I decided that after the first workshop if I was going to do this I would have to sign up to be a demonstrator to afford what I saw comming. I was right, I loved what I did and loved teaching it.. I also did some designing for Sparkel N Sparkel and have a gallery on The Stampers Art Gallery.
    I have shamped through 2 rounds of cancer with my husband and a bad fall that disabled him thee years ago, the lose of my brother. But I lost my father after taking care of him for several months day and night and working and then I lost my sweet mother 10 months latter and I just had a hard time keeping my business going during that time. So the first time in 11 years I could not meet my quota for SU and lost my demo rights. In May I walked in to a stamp store I often visited and was asked to teach there. I am teaching again and love it. I have over 400 sets of Su stamps and hourd them all and then some. I love gagets and punches too. Thats my story. I love your style it is realy close to mine. Look forward to learning more from you.

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  17. Kimberly's avatar Kimberly

    My good friend, Jennifer, had a catalog at work and I was flipping through it at lunch one day. I thought everything was so cute and had always wanted to learn out to stamp. I had done some very minimal stamping on some stuff for my wedding a year earlier. I found out I was pregnant a few weeks later and placed my first order to do birth announcements 🙂 Ever since I have been HOOKED BIG TIME. I became a hobby demo with my sister in 2004 and we are still going strong!

    Thanks for asking .. its always nice to reminsce 🙂

    Kimberly

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  18. KathyE's avatar KathyE

    Back in ’98 we were living outside Memphis, and I was part of an online group called Amazon Women Crafters. We had started having small get-togethers (called ‘stocks’ after Woodstock) in different areas of the country. About 8 of the ladies in the south-central part of the country decided to meet in Bay St. Louis, Miss., with three offering to teach us the craft they loved. One of the ladies showed us how to stamp. All it took to hook me was seeing the embossing technique! We now live in Richmond, and we have no LSS here, only Michael’s and Ben Franklin’s. When I am able and find a class that intrigues me, I drive an hour down to Williamsburg to take a class at Stamp’n’Memories. A few weeks ago I was finally able to take a class on water coloring techniques. I’m one of the leaders four our church ministry, Stamping Angels; we send cards monthly to parishioners who are in the hospital, chronically ill/homebound, had a death in the family, welcomed a baby to the family, or are deployed military. It’s such a rewarding activity! I love my SU lady and her stamping nights! But I have to add my voice to the chorus praising your brayering technique for skies! Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and love of the craft with us!

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    • Polly's avatar Polly

      Many years ago I was a member of Amazon Women Crafters here in Virginia. We had some of the get togethers as well and I learned so many neat things. I really miss the group. Do you have any idea what happened to them. I lost track of the group as sadly life got in the way and a lot has happened to me.

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  19. Sharon D's avatar Sharon D

    I am in a women’s group, and we were all sharing something about our hobbies and interests. My friend Teresa shared about stamping, which I had never been aware of before. I was thrilled! I am a little designer inside, but I could never do anything artistic because I can’t draw. But with stamping, the drawing is done for me, and I can just plan the colors, layout, embellishments, etc.

    I really appreciate your tutorials on how you produce your amazing effects. I’ve learned so much from you just in the last few weeks I’ve know about your blog! You are truly an artist!

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  20. Natasha's avatar Natasha

    Hi, I am from Venezuela, but I live in Houston, TX. I started stamping in my scrapbooks and now I use it to make cards as well….

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  21. Nita's avatar Nita

    Hi, Michelle, This is only the second time I’ve left a message. so here goes. My introduction to stamping came in a very unusual way. One day while in the dog park, I have a little Chihuahua named Rocky, I saw two ladies rummaging around some trees that were outside of the park. So me being the curious person that I am I asked them if they had lost something and they replied no they were looking for a box from the Letterboxing game. I found out about letterboxing which is “an intriguing pastime combining navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming treasure hunt style outdoor quest” Here is a link http://WWW.letterboxing.org So I decided to try and play and one of the requirements is a rubber stamp that depicts the persons personality or likes or whatever. Because of my dog I decide to look for a rubber stamp of a Chihuahua dog. Actually I wanted a fat lady, in a wheelchair, with a Chihuahua, but I didn’t think I could find that so I settled on just the dog. Well, needless to say, when I did a search on rubber stamps I came up with a whole other world of stamping and I starded looking at all the art work and the myriad and variety of stamps and I have been hooked ever since. That was last year in March or April. I have made about 50 cards so far and my friends and family really encourage me. Thank goodness for all the galleries because I have about 500 stamps and not too much imagination! So I have done the various tutorials and have had good results with them. I am definately getting better! Thanks for your tutorials! Nita

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  22. Janine's avatar Janine

    My first venture into stamping was many years ago when a little shop opened in the shopping centre locally. I loved what the lady in there demonstrated but couldn’t afford the expensive stuff on my teacher’s pay so the adventure was short lived and the shop quickly closed. About 15 years later I started doing cards using PC software and then discovered stickers and not long after that stamps. Coming to see friends in the US who scrap booked also helped! Now I love it all and my dining room is overtaken with it all.

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  23. sarita's avatar sarita

    in l996 my sons teacher invited me to a SU demo after school in the teachers lounge…i bought some little stamps to put on the outside of envy’s – and well – it kind of GREW from there~! thank you for the opportunity to win some blog candy…

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  24. cindy's avatar cindy

    The internet! I am a serious internet surfer, particularly the craft and sewing forums. I kept coming across beautiful cards and with all the new forums and blogs, the pictures and tutorials kept calling me! Now I am totally hooked and I just started in 3/08. I have most of the popular tools and lots and lots of stamps and am having a blast!

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  25. Maxine's avatar Maxine

    I started stamping rather reluctantly some seven years ago at a friends invitation. One evening I visited her and I stamped and embossed some fish, and then coloured them …. I still have that rather basic card, but (pardon the pun) I was hooked!!

    I continued with the card making, which now involves far more than just stamping, especially now I have discovered various websites and tutorials… but my other crafts have suffered with the embroidery in particular now hardly being picked up.

    I ‘reserve’ Sunday afternoon in parrticular for stamping and card making, but try to sneak out to my studio on other occasions, but with working full time and trying to run a home and keep the gardens tidy it doesn’t always happen.

    Thank you for your tutorials as they are taking my skills to another level

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  26. Malone Johnston's avatar Malone Johnston

    I got in to stamping because I did not like the card selection in the stores. I like to make my cards to suit the person I am sending it to, to suit a paticular occasion. After I started making card, I found it was also my outlet from everyday life.

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  27. Karen's avatar Karen

    Years ago my neighbor was a SU demonstrator, and so I started attending her workshops. I was hooked! I did take a break from stamping for a couple of years while I was busy building a home; however, I returned to stamping and am again addicted! Now I can’t imagine going away from my crafting room for more than a couple of days. It’s very therapeutic!

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  28. Diane Loy's avatar Diane Loy

    I was a ‘computer card creator’ until my friend introduced me to Rubber Stamps. Swore I’d never get involved in that – wrong!!! She took me to a convention, helped me with some ‘make and takes’ and I was hooked. What a satisfying hobby.
    DianeL

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  29. Regina Cornelius's avatar Regina Cornelius

    what brought me into stamping???? well….a number of things, i guess. but overall the biggest thing was i needed another creative outlet….i needed something fresh…something different. i’m glad i took the chance…i love to stamp!!!!!

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  30. Marliese's avatar Marliese

    Hi Michelle,
    My friend had been sending me stamped cards for quite some time. They were very simple..no fancy backgrounds or embellishments. They were nice but not an inducement for me to take up the craft until I was in a bookstore and looked at stamping books. Wow I thought! There’s a whole lot more to this hobby than I thought and ordered my first stamps. I’ve been stamping now for about four years and am amazed at how many new techniques I’ve learned.
    Marliese

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  31. sandyh50's avatar sandyh50

    I started of scrapbooking and then 2 years ago started taking cardmaking classes once a month from a friend who was then just a hobby demonstrator. I loved her hand crafted cards and quickly got hooked!

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  32. Pam P's avatar Pam P

    Hi Michelle,
    At work we always celebrated each co-worker’s birthday with a specific theme that was related to something the birthday person liked or did. My co-workers knew that I liked crafting so they decided to have a stamping party. I had never stamped prior to this and have been hooked ever since.

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  33. Olga's avatar Olga

    Michelle-

    You are the best. I am trying to adapt your techniques and producing much prettier cards (not nearly as good as yours). I love coloring and shading and always reffer to your gallery for “advice”. Your way of assembling cards is remarcable, so much taste and class. Thank you for sharing,

    Olga

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  34. Judy Reader's avatar Judy Reader

    WOW you are such a popular lady and an awesome one. I got into stamping because I saw an add in the local paper for a stamping techniques workshop. I told my husband I was interested and he said there was a flyer on his notice board at work, he bought it home I sent it in. It turned out to be the start of Stampin’up in New Zealand. That was April last year. There was a door prize with a basket full of goodies, I was lucky to win that, so that set me on this path of stamping. I love it.We are truely blessed to have people like yourself out there to share ideas. Thank you. Judy

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  35. Emanuella's avatar Emanuella

    I had just moved into a new town and was going through a hard time about 6 years ago. I stumbled into a scrapbook store one day while a class was in progress and met some of the sweet little ladies who had been stamping together for many years.
    They invited me to join them and as you know, the rest is history! What started off as a monthly get-together for friendship turned into a blossoming of a creative part of myself that I didn’t know exists.
    I now express myself as an artist and will be forever grateful to the women who invited me in.

    Emanuella

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  36. Sandy's avatar Sandy

    Hi Michelle: I am one of those 3,000 that visit your blog every day to see your amazing creations — I love every last one of them, and am learning a lot thanks to your fantastic tutorials. I retired a couple years ago, and after being a single parent most of my adult life, and having no time for a hobby other than reading, fixing jigsaw puzzles, and attending all my son’s activities, I decided it was time for my hobby to materialize. I tried ceramics, no; quilting, no; knitting, no; x-stitching, sortof; and started scrapbooking and liked it. I attended first a scrapbook convention where on a lark I signed up for a rubber stamping class and liked it enough to buy about 20 rubber stamps. Then I went to a craft fair and saw a bunch of beautiful sample cards. On the back was the credit for Stampin’UP! So I got on the internet and found the closest demonstrator — was only going to buy a few to play with……….and 2 years later my demonstrator and I are fast friends, I am one of her best customers, I love SCS and spend a whole lot of time there, and now I am as addicted as all the rest of you/us gals who visit you and the SCS sites and blogs. AND I AM LOVIN EVERY MINUTE! —sandy

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  37. Barb Dare's avatar Barb Dare

    It was 12 years ago when my children where still at primary school. I was helping out organising gifts for the mothers day stall at the school and I went to one of the other parents houses to sort out the gifts. She was a stamper and had a book shelf full of stamps. At the time I was into Folk Art painting but I thought the stamps where interesting so I asked about them and she said have a play and that was it. I now have a very large collection of stamps and I have never looked back.

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  38. Caterina Grove's avatar Caterina Grove

    Several years ago I became very ill and unable to work. My friend, Sandy, called and asked if I wanted to go with her to a stamping party. I had absolutely no clue what a stamping party was but did go. It was held at a SU demo’s home and immediately, my eyes fixed on a beautiful gold embossed Christmas card and I was hooked. Have been making cards ever since and just recently started a bit of scrapbooking for my sweet grandchildren.

    Thanks so much for all your beautiful work that gives me so much inspiration.

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  39. Pat Garvin's avatar Pat Garvin

    My 10 year old wanted to scrapbook so we went to some Park programs and you could make a scrapbook page or 3 cards for $5.00. She made the page. I made the cards. I got hooked. She very seldom does anything scrapbooking.

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  40. Sarah Gough's avatar Sarah Gough

    Hmmm good question! I can’t remember how I started stamping. I know something got me interested and I got some books from the library. My first really big stamping project was all my wedding stationary – that was a big job! I used to cycle through crafts, stamping for a few months, cross stitching for another few, etc etc – but since finding SCS (because I was searching for info on the cuttlebug!) it’s been all stamping, all the time!

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  41. Jessica's avatar Jessica

    Ooh, that’s some very yummy blog candy!

    I just decided one day to start scrapbooking (I think I was preparing for our wedding, although I’ve only done a few pages in that book in the last five years!!!). Then a few years later I went to a scrapbooking fundraiser and met a SU demo. I went to a few of her workshops and since then, I’ve been hooked!

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  42. Debbie's avatar Debbie

    Hi Michelle,

    I really love your blob and have enjoyed trying to recreate some of your awesome projects! Your cars are always a treat for me to try to recreate! Of course mine aren’t nearly as nice as yours, but I do enjoy it! I started scrapbooking about 5 years ago and then stamping was close to follow. I love participating in swaps and love to use your ideas and techniques. Keep up the great work!!!

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  43. RJ PoohBear's avatar RJ PoohBear

    I got started stamping because a friend of mine invited me to a Stampin’ Up! party. I wasn’t going to go but with two teenagers I just wanted to get out of the house. I went and liked it. I went to another one some months later and liked it more. OK so anyhow I work two jobs so I don’t have a lot of time to stamp, but I love it. It helps me relax and have fun. I swear my part time job is to buy stamps!!! LOL. Kidding. My husband is disabled and we have regular bills plus teenage bills. Again LOL.
    I love them and wouldn’t change a thing about my life. OK maybe one thing but how much chocolate can a girl really have? I haven’t scrapbooked since I lost all the kids childhood pictures when the basement flooded (along with everyone else’s in town). But I love cards. Everyone out there have a great day!
    Smile and remember you never outgrow a hug! I have aunts to prove it!
    Ronda

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  44. Johanne's avatar Johanne

    Hi Michele,

    I first started with scrapbooking. One day, I attended a stamping workshop with a friend and that was it! I simply fell in love with stamping. I also paint but since I have no talent drawing, I am never satisfied with my work. This is why stamping is so much relaxing for me!

    Johanne from Montreal

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  45. Linda Christensen's avatar Linda Christensen

    I went to see a demo at a local stamp store near my house and was so intrigued I started buying stamps and trying the techniques the showed each week. For a couple of years I bought indiscrimanately – if I liked it I bought it! Now I think about the types of cards I want to make and what I don’t have in my collection. But every once and awhile I still go on a buying spree, though mostly online now. Sadly our local stores (two) are gone, and since I live in Montana, it means quite a drive to find another. We do have an awaesome Stampin’ Up dealer here.

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  46. Ruth C's avatar Ruth C

    Hi Michelle,

    I discovered stamping 23 years ago while perusing some items for possible home school use in an office supply store. They had a fairly nice selection of All Night Media stamps. I picked a few up with the kids and we learned stamping together. I still have some of those original stamps and they still stamp like day one. I can remember embossing with trepidation over the stove long before heat guns were marketed to use. I remained an occasional stamper for many years and became more “serious” about paper art nearly 12 years ago. I truly enjoy creating.

    I’m a subscriber to your posts and if life would settle down for a bit, I’ll try some of your techniques soon. You do gorgeous work. Thanks so much for sharing!

    Big Hugs,
    Ruth C
    Angelartistok

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  47. sandygail's avatar sandygail

    I received a thank you card in the mail from someone and it was handmade and I loved it. I started looking on the internet at web sites and one thing led to another and now I’m making my own cards, too. But I just got started about three months ago so I have a long way to go to build up my supplies and talent.

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  48. Carol's avatar Carol

    I have been into crafts for years. I got my first stamp that said handmade by and used it on everything. Since then I have added so many new stamps that some of them have not been looked at in years. I think it is time to go through all my old but good stamps and start using them again. I mostly make cards now and after years of using stamps I think I could possibly be called a stamp-a- holic. I really enjoy all the techniques and yours is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing with all of us.

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  49. Betsy Hawkins's avatar Betsy Hawkins

    My sister, Karen, started stamping first. When I visited her in VA (I live in TN) she was considering becoming a SU demo. So, being a wonderful little sis (LOL), I encouraged her and ended up being her first customer. I bought Elegant Greetings – my first set. Didn’t make a lot of cards at first, but it grew on me! Now I have over 300 sets and my fantastic big sis gives me a lot of her retired sets! Now I make cards almost daily, even have a few paying customers…just to keep up my inky habit!

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  50. Patty Mawhinney's avatar Patty Mawhinney

    About 8 years ago, I was just browsing Michael’s. Saw some cute stamp and got hooked. Found an SU demonstrator and went nuts. It just gives me happiness to be able to create little works of art. I get a kick out of seeing the 100000000 possibilities people come up with out of one little stamp or stamp set – amazing!

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