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”

  2. Bessey's avatar Bessey

    Hi Michelle, I was away when you asked where everyone was from, so I’ll tell you now.
    Maine I started stamping after going to my first stampin-up party and have been addicted every since. I live in a very small town, so I needed to find a hobby and this is it. I also scrapbook. I have learned pretty much by myself but it’s therapy for me as I work 12hrs. shift on my job, so not alot of time to go places. I’ve made some pretty good looking cards, and some not too great, but it’s relaxing for me. I love what you do for all of us, and you shouldn’t be surprised at the number of hits you get daily! Wish you were on the East coast. It would be worth the drive to see you do a card in person. Thanks from Vacationland.

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  3. Sylvie Greeniaus's avatar Sylvie Greeniaus

    Hi Michelle,

    I stamped for a very very long time but didn’t really discover it until I was invited to a Stampin’Up party 4 years ago. It’s been a love affair ever since, and a very expensive one at that. Much more therapeutic than a man!
    So the cahnce to win free stuff is like wowy!
    Cheers,
    Sylvie from Toronto

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  4. Jolanda Aufdenkamp's avatar Jolanda Aufdenkamp

    Hi there,
    Just came back from my summerholidays I have some catching up to do with reading all the blogs, probably don’t find the time to stamp anyway 🙂

    First of all I come from the Netherlands and I don’t really know what made my tick for stamping. I just like doing it and exploring the possibilities. I followed some workshops about stamping – I work at a craftstore – and I really liked it. And now I’m hooked 🙂

    Keep on going with your nice artwork. I really enjoy reading your blog and getting inspiration of it , although I’ll never be that good as you are! but I’m working on my skills 🙂

    Greetings from the Netherlands,
    Jolanda

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  5. Donna's avatar Donna

    Wowie….what fun! It must have been 1998 when I saw I card example in a card store in downtown Colorado Springs. The stamp that had been used was a large pansy stamp that had been embossed in gold and watercolored in vivid purples and blues. It WAS stunning! I fell in love with that card and decided I was going to make one like that. Next I found myself at our one and only stamp store. I snooped and read, asked questions and attended classes. It’s 10 years since that time and I’m still hopelessly addicted. I’m writing this while waiting for the postman to deliver my Stampin Up club order. Stampers are the best….and Michelle you certainly set an excellent example for all of us. Thank you!
    Donna

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  6. Claudette's avatar Claudette

    Thanks for the chance to win blog candy!
    My aunt introduced me to stamping by sending me some cards she made herself and encouraging me to join the ranks of card makers. She sent me some stamps and inks and papers and showed me a lot of websites and blogs.

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  7. Laura's avatar Laura

    I too was invited to a SU party by a good friend. I had tried being creative in the past, but my scrapbook pages always looked so weird. I didn’t know how to coordinate colors and patterns. Then I met Stampin’ Up! and it made it all so easy. I have been a demo for 6 years and have in the past year begun to step outside the SU box (which I still love though) and try other companies’ stamps and accessories. I recently purchased my Palette Hybrid black ink because you have good luck with it when using the alcohol based markers. I looked everywhere around my home for some, but ended up getting it online. I love this ink – it is the first ink that has worked on my very favorite whisper white paper when I want to use my copic markers. Sorry I got kind of long winded here! Thanks for the blog candy offer. I visit every day via my feed.
    Laura

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  9. Debi's avatar Debi

    Hi Michelle!! I LOVE your work!! Ok… what got me into stamping…

    I was really into scrapbooking when my 1st Granddaughter was born in 2002. My then SIL, took my Mom and I to a SU! party. I was clueless as were most of the 1st time stampers, and the demo didn’t explain what we were supposed to be doing, sooooooooo needless to say, I had NO desire to stamp whatsoever!

    I don’t even remember how I found Splitcoast, but once I did and saw all the beautiful things that were created with stamps, I was hooked! I love to stamp now and am amazed at all the techniques and artists (like you)!! I got rid of my scrapbooking stuff to help support my stamping habit! (You know you “NEED” so much)! I love SCS and all the inspiration I get from them and the members. Now I’m discovering blogs, so I guess it’s fair to say I’m addicted!

    Thanks for giving us a chance to win some CANDY!!! I can always use new stamps!!

    Debi aka: SassiAngel

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  10. Paula's avatar Paula

    I live in Knoxville, TN (I did not mention that last time). My stamping story is interesting. A good friend of mine’s little girl (she was 1 year old at the time, she is 3 now) had been diagnosed with liver cancer. My friend was a big scrapbooker and so was I. She had a Stamping Up demonstrator that was going to donate all her profits from her sales to their family to help raise money. So, I looked through the catalog (I had never heard of stamping up) and I ended up ordering about $100 worth, got the basics, stamp cleaner, water color pencils, and 2 sets I think. I got Winged Things and Sincere Salutations (I still use and love them). I was hooked after that and now I make and sell cards.

    To update, my friend’s little girl is now in remission and doing great! Thank the Lord!

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  11. Cheryl's avatar Cheryl

    lol Love your work and you blog candy. My story is very much like your My sister loved stamping and kept telling me about it over and over and them one day she told me she signed me up for a workshop. so i went along to spend time with her and to find out what she was so excited about. I told myself i had enough hobbies i did not need another one. hehehehe. Now i very seldom do my other hobbies because i love stamping so much. Cheryl from Kansas.

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  12. Kate's avatar Kate

    I have always been “crafty” and when I saw some birthday cards made from scratch, I wanted to try it. I can’t believe what my first cards looked like ( and I thought they were great), Now I see all the wonderful cards the gals make on SCS, and I can make mine look “similar” to their’s. Thank you for your amazing tutorials.
    Kate

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  13. Susan Fitzpatrick's avatar Susan Fitzpatrick

    I started stamping in the late seventys with my children as a craft form as well as making cards for their grandparents. I still have my original stamps and even some of the original embossing powder (still works well). Of course my stamps and supplies have grown over the years as well as my techniques. I do teach some workshops at church and some one-on-ones. I love stamping! My daughter stamps and my sons wives stamp as well! Plus the grandchildren!

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  14. Sandy Duley's avatar Sandy Duley

    I live in a small town in Indiana and have always liked the look of homemade Christmas Cards. When my DH was diagonsed with cancer and could no longer work and we didn’t go out anymore (except for treatments and to see the doctors, I found that I really wnated to try my hand at card making. I bought a few Christmas stamps, some ribbon and carstock and set in to make “Our Christmas Cards” last year. I must say that I’m hooked! I see so many beautiful cards and hope someday to be able to make mine as pretty.

    Sandy Duley

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  15. Kyla Nicole's avatar Kyla Nicole

    Hello, Michelle =] I’ve only recently found your blog, and I am loving every post. I think it is fantastic that you share so much about your techniques, and I have learned a lot form your posts. Thank you!

    I played around with rubber stamps when I was a young teenager with my mom, but only recently got into them heavily. I found that I was drawing the same bird over and over, and decided it would be easier to have a stamp to use. I ended up cutting the bird out of fun foam, and using acrylic paint to “stamp” with it. From there, I decided to find out how to make an actual rubber stamp, and I started carving erasers, eventually moving to stamp-carving material.

    I found carving stamps so much fun, that I started needing to find things to use my stamps ON, to justify my making dozens of them in a month 😉 I started using my stamps to make cards, started making ATCs, etc. Eventually, I needed stamps for my cards and ATCs that I wasn’t comfortable making, such as flourishes, and words.

    Basically, over the past year, I have amassed a considerable collection of unmounted stamps, ink pads, and various other supplies, just so that I feel better about spending 459828745927 hours carving stamps 😉 Although I am historically more traditional in my artwork (drawing, painting, etc), stamping has become my passion as of late =]

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  16. Rita's avatar Rita

    I had my daughter’s wedding last week & didn’t get to visit you last week. I’m from Massachusetts near Cape Cod. What brought me to stamping was going to a SU demo & taking part in a make & take & I was hooked. I already was involved in scrapbooking & stamping soon became my number 1 craft. I love the fact that you only have one small project to think about creating rather than frying your brain thinking of page upon page of book layouts. Stamping is my passion! I luv it!!!

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  17. Darlis's avatar Darlis

    I was invited to a Stampin Up Workshop. I hade no idea what I was getting into. Needless to say I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I now how 2 classes every month.

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  18. Rhonda M.'s avatar Rhonda M.

    I started stamping 12 years ago when a friend of mine hosted a Stampin’ Up! party and was trying to get all of us co-workers to go. I didn’t really even know what to expect when I went, but I am so glad I did. Not only did I come to love stamps, ink and paper, but I have a very good friend in that very same Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. I never expected stamping to be such a beautiful creative expression for me.

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  19. Pam J.'s avatar Pam J.

    Hi; I’ve always loved colors and somehow wanted to be creative. My bridge partner at the Bridge Club kept telling me of his wife’s stamp hobby and it intrigued me so that I kept asking questions.

    After a while, they invited me to go to their house and I got to see her room with all her things in it. I was facinated and decided to visit a local stamp store and got myself into a class. From there on I was hooked! I love to spend time looking at stamps, paper and craft tools.

    I also love all the wonderful people I have met there.

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  20. Ruth's avatar Ruth

    I first was introduced to stamping through scrapbooking. I like to make my own embellishments and that was an easy way because I did not have to draw them. I could stamp and cut out or just stamp. I am slowly learning more and more about stamping and the different techniques. I have to say it has been very enjoyable and I look forward to the time when I get to practice.

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  21. Melissa (SCS: stampin_melissa)'s avatar Melissa (SCS: stampin_melissa)

    It is September 2000 and my DH (Army) is in Bosnia. I had just purchased a computer program (Hallmark) to make cards and send to him. Now it is October 2000 and I get invited to a rubber stamp workshop. I go to be nice, thinking what would you do with rubber stamps? You’d use them once and not need them again. Well, then I saw and thought I could use a set to decorate his envelops (remember that computer program I purchased?) A month down the road our Family Support Group is thinking of things to send the soldiers and I open my mouth and mention hand made cards. So, after 425 cards to our soldiers I was hooked. Became a demo by April 2001. 😀

    Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us Michelle! It is so generous of you to offer up some blog candy as well!

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  23. Helen's avatar Helen

    It was early in July 2003 and my birthday was coming up… I received an email from one of my cousins to enquire as to whether I would like a gift of some card making classes for my birthday.

    I sat and considered it for a while, but as I have always viewed myself (as have my school art teachers) as sadly lacking in artistically creative talents, I said no, thank you, and hoped she would remember my discussion about wanting to learn how to quilt instead.

    Well, a day or so later she (my cousin) sent me to a friend of hers who needed assistance with her computer (my job). While there I noticed a beautifully decorated packet and when I commented on it, the client said “forget about the packet – look inside at the cards”. She proceeded to show me the first set of cards she had made at the same proffered card class.

    Colour me surprised when I saw the masterpieces made with rubber stamps and embossing powders and all other kinds of wizardry!

    I excused myself from the client, stepped outside, and rang my cousin on her mobile phone and asked if the “gift” was still available.

    That was exactly 5 years ago this month and could I be happier? I don’t think so.

    I have tons of fun things to play with, wonderful friends I’ve made as a result of this hobby/addiction, from all around the world, and more importantly, I’ve learnt that I am creative and can make some really pretty things!

    Thanks for letting my share!

    Hi from Cape Town!
    Helen
    http://firenzecards.blogspot.com

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  24. Marcy's avatar Marcy

    Hi Michelle!

    I’m from Western Pennsylvania. I started stamping when I was twelve (well over, ahem, twenty years ago). My mother’s friend gave me a rubber stamp of a teddy bear and a mustardy brown ink pad for my birthday. I’ve collected stamps and made various items with them ever since. I got into scrapbooking in 1997 and started cardmaking in earnest about six years ago after I attended a SU! workshop. Papercrafting is such a wonderful creative outlet for me, and I love creating with my friends and family, as well as creating things for them.

    Thanks for sharing your tremendous talent with us here and on SCS! You’re a gem!

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  25. Ruth's avatar Ruth

    I used stamps and ink from when i was pretty young, but lost it for a while in the transistion to from kiddy stamps to adulthood. eventually my sister introduced me to scrapbooking, which i started doing with my wedding album (a questionable desicion, but there you go). With a few scrapping friends around me I discovered first Hero ARts and later Stampin Up, I was hooked!!

    Thanks for the wondrful inspiration, Michelle. I never realised it was possible to make such artistic creations from stamps.

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  26. Karen's avatar Karen

    Gosh, let me think…… For me it was more a set of pictures. In the year 2000, me, my mother, and my then 9 yr old son set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Although we didn’t complete the 2100+ miles, we did do a third of it and I had over 200 pictures I didn’t want tucked away in a drawer. So, I took a beginner class and have been hooked ever since.
    Thanks for asking! It’s fun to learn and share what gets people motivated.

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  27. Carole M.'s avatar Carole M.

    Stamping was never going to be something I’d get “into”. I already had enough craft interests; I didn’t need stamping too. Well over the years that changed when I found Oriental Stamp Art website online. I loved the cards members made so I wanted to buy some! Two years have gone by now and I’m an avid cardmaker using you guess it; stamps!

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  28. ClaireZ's avatar ClaireZ

    I was invited to a ‘Stamping Party’ which worried me as I had no idea what it was, in fact wondered if it was some cult like group. 😉 When I found out it was crafts I almost went into a panic attack. I haven’t a crafty bone in my body! Much to my surprise it was fun and now 3 years later I have “invested” way too much money and spent too little time doing it! I have decided I am a collector. Love your tutorials Michelle!

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  29. Helen Reiters's avatar Helen Reiters

    Twenty years ago I went along to a Stamping Evening and bought my first lot of stamps. I was mainly interested in making cards for my family and my children and their friends when they were invited to birthday parties etc. Over the years I lost interest but have now rekindled my interest when I was invited to a Scrapbooking class by a friend. Not only am I into scrapbooking in a big way but I have now renewed my love of stamping. I so love visiting your blog for inspiration – you have taught me so many new ways to use stamps – Thank you.

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  30. Jayne's avatar Jayne

    About 8 years ago I was invited to a StampinUp party. The last thing I needed was another craft. But I liked the girl hosting the party and looked at it as a “night out with the girls”. I bought the recipe card stamp to make some Christmas gifts….easy enough…no further committment. Well, I’ve been hooked ever since!

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  31. Laura's avatar Laura

    I was introduced to stamping at a scrapbook convention. I saw the use of stamping backgrounds or titles, but I would NEVER stamp a card – HA! 10 years later as a SU! demonstrator and I’ve made THOUSANDS of cards. I also said that I’d never buy flowers since I have boys. I own probably half of the flowers that SU! makes!!!

    Thanks for your great blog!

    Laura from MN

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  32. Wendy's avatar Wendy

    I stumbled into a stamp store with 2 friends 8 years ago — it looked interesting, so we took a beginning class. That was **IT**! We are all still stamping 8 years later!
    Wendy

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  33. Lisa Foster's avatar Lisa Foster

    My friend Joyce invited me to a Stampin’ Up party. I was SOOOO amazed. My first set was “We Woosh You”1999. That year, I made our Christmas cards. I had so much fun! My daughter helped me, and together we made 40 cards. Then I hosted a party and bought more(along with my free stuff :). The next thing I knew, I had signed up to be a Demonstrator! Although I’m no longer a demo (I really do miss it!) I will forever be (hopelessly) addicted. Stamping has brought me so much peace, but more importantly, SO MANY WONDERFUL FRIENDS!

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  34. Lynnette's avatar Lynnette

    About 14 years ago, I saw a stamping demo. She was gold embossing, and I loved how it looked so elegant, but was reasonably easy to do. So I bought a set of stamps and have been addicted ever since. When I moved from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada to Nanaimo, British Columbia Canada, most of my stamping supplies came with me in the car. The insurance on shipping them with my household goods would not have covered replacements, so I decided they were safer with me in the car.
    Love you tutorials….jist haven’t been brave enough yet to try one…..But soon.

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  35. Kat Prystai's avatar Kat Prystai

    Well, I was new to a town where making friends is difficult (small northern Canadian town). I was supply teaching one day at a new school and they were trying to gather items for a fundraiser in town. One of our fellow teacher’s daughter, ages 3, has cancer. In the staff room a teacher had brought in some of her cards, which she was adding to the schools basket (for chinese auction). I asked about the cards, and the lady gave me a stampin up catalog to look at. I was hooked the moment I opened it. She invited me to one of her monthly classes. I spent over a $100.00 and have been back every month since march 2006. (I think I am her best customer each month, LOL) I am now good friends with my Stampin Up Demonstrator and have meet many other people as a result. I now have my own room for stampin, and have spent $1000’s of dollars on stampin materials. And I only started this hobby 2 years ago.

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  36. Ann Smith's avatar Ann Smith

    From childhood, I have loved crafts. I think I have tried them all. One day I wandered into a rubber stamp store and watched the magic of embossing powder turning to raised, shiney patterns. I was hooked! Thousands of stamps later, I still love it and get much satisfaction from playing and making art.

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  37. Andrea's avatar Andrea

    I am from Perth Australia. I never really liked stamping much until I was invited to an open house Stampin’ Up! day and fell in love with the colours and stamps. It wasnt long before I became a demonstrator and that was nearly 2 years ago. I was a folk artist before that so love the idea of doing scenes with the stamps but havent had much time to play yet. I love to see what you do and one day will get to try some of your tutorials. I love your work. thank you for all that you do for us blog readers.

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  38. Shirley's avatar Shirley

    I work in a psychosocial field and find papercrafting is a fantastic outlet for many clients to share their feelings. You can make a beautiful thing with one piece of paper but with stamps you can make hundreds of beautiful pieces of paper, so the possibilities are endless. There is nothing more satisfying than communicating a feeling through a visual medium and I love that stamping encourages people to do this.

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  39. Heather Fullerton (Retired Heather)'s avatar Heather Fullerton (Retired Heather)

    I started with scrapbooking. My husband worked for 2 months in Scotland and I joined him to tour the UK when I came home I wanted to scrap my trip so mbf taught me. I was injured and could only sleep sitting up so I had to do something in the sitting position so scrapping worked. I went to a stampin up clinic and fell in love. Now I had to retire due to the injury and still have to work in the sitting postion so guess who has all the time in the world to blog, scrap and make …retiredheather. Your blog was one of the first I joined and I still think you are the Best. You share a talent that just Wows us all. Please don`t ever stop.

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  40. Linda's avatar Linda

    as a person with a disability, i had to give up hobbies, but i still needed a creative outlet; i found i could stamp when i took a class three years ago.

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  41. Jan Viktora's avatar Jan Viktora

    What wonderful and interesting stories! I started stamping almost 20 years ago, precisely because I could not draw or paint, but I still wanted to make creative projects. The stamping then disguised my artistic inadequacies. Today, I have learned so much from other stampers and artist like you, Gina, and I am happy to say I feel very creative and find stamping to be a fantastic way to express myself and to share what I love to do with others! Thanks for all you do on this blog to help us learn to be artistic!

    Jan

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  42. Eileen M's avatar Eileen M

    I had always done some crafts, knitting, crocheting, counted cross stitch- there are several in the craft room waiting for my return. A coworker was doing her first SU demo at work, and I decided to go to support her. I was overwhelmed at first, but quickly became addicted! This was over 10 yrs ago, because I helped my friend Jenny stamp the programs for her wedding, and she just had her 10th anniversary! Just love it, and the cool thing is how much positive feedback you can get for something that is fairly simple, at times!
    Thanks as always for all your inspiring tutorials, and also the chance to win!

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  43. Cindy's avatar Cindy

    I have been a paper cutting fiend for over 35 years making paper tole pictures. This is a “lost art” and many do not even know what it is. I was bord and quite lonely after moving and a bit unhappy with myself. I read about a local craft show and decided to try selling some of my pictures. The show was very small and there weren’t many shoppers, so I started wandering and talking to other venders. And there I met the sweetest person. Her passion was card making and she was kind enough to invite me to her Wednesday card making class. One visit and I was hooked. I thought, “a paper craft that I love to do and is easier to store than 8 x 10 pictures!” Well, many items later I now have a problem storing all my carding making supplies! Your work inspires me just as my first instructor did. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas you share with me and others.

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  44. Jackie W.'s avatar Jackie W.

    In college I learned to do calligraphy, and was actually quite good at it, but had to stop when I had children (one bump of the table and your whole project is ruined!). When they got older I decided I would go back to it and start practicing my lettering again to make projects I had in my mind. But just about that time I was invited to a stamping party and that fed my need to create (and is much easier!) so I’ve been stamping ever since! Once I discovered SU!, I was crazy about it and became a demonstrator! I love your blog and visit daily! Thanks, Jackie from Buffalo, NY

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  45. Lori Faeber's avatar Lori Faeber

    I worked with a woman who was a stampin up demo several years ago and she got me interested in stamping. I had always been involved in artistic things, but this is so much fun. Thousand’s of dollars later….. I still love it!!
    Thanks and I just LOVE your blog.
    Lori
    Lacey, Washington

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  46. Denise Bryant's avatar Denise Bryant

    I happened upon a demo of Hero Arts stamps at a local Hallmark store in about 1985 or ’86. About the same time, I was also invited to a SU party by a friend. And another friend was placing an order with a little company called ANT Transfer, so I ordered a few of those as well. At that time my daughter was in preschool and I was gravitating towards designs we could use for her party invitations, holiday tags, etc. Little did I know at that time how long my interest would last.
    DeniseB

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  47. Lynne Muprhy's avatar Lynne Muprhy

    Hi

    For me it was friends…what does one do without friends…wilt away 🙂

    I am ever so glad that my dear friends got me started; why you ask, because now I consider myself one who does 🙂 have a creative bone in her body.

    Happy stamping all.
    Lynne

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  48. Karen's avatar Karen

    I started scrapbooking 8 years ago, but quickly got bored with what was out on the market, and was looking for something different for my books. I was so tired of stickers! Then, almost 5 years ago, my neighbour invited me to a Stampin’ Up party. I was so excited about it, I jumped up and down- and I don’t do that sort of thing easily! The very first set I bought was Sketch An Event. I was so impressed, I had my own show, then signed up to be a demo. That was the start of my learning curve! I was able to find out an incredible amount of knowledge through the generosity of stampers like yourself, Michelle. What a great community- everyone is always willing to give a hand up and share. I’m now expanding my artistic horizons to areas I never thought I’d be going- like colouring Thomas Kinkade stamps, and trying out so many new techniques! AND my scrapbooks have improved 110%- I’ll be happy to leave these as my journal-in-pictures to my children’s children and beyond!

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  49. Manetta's avatar Manetta

    I have been a scrapbooker along with my aunt for about 15 years now. A couple of years ago my aunt convinced me to make my own cards….so I considered it a smaller version of scrapbooking. I enjoyed it more as time went by I picked up a few stamps like the big lettering for my scrap pages. My aunt would come to visit me and we would go shopping. I think I spent about $200 in stamping supplies at local crafts store each time she came. She showed me some tricks and how to use them in my cards. I AM HOOKED! But the best part is I found you!!! I use to oil paint many years…all scenery painting. Oh Michelle, you have brought out the artistic passion I once had for oils but now transferred to stamp pads. I am back to creating scenery but using sponges and stamp pads. Right now I am watching you close as you teach me techniques….but soon I will go off and mine and use my creative mind once again. thank you so much!!

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  50. Susan Z's avatar Susan Z

    Whoa…. you have a lot of comments to read! What brought me to stamping was an invitation to a Stampin’ Up workshop at my neighbor’s house… and I was hooked!
    I think the year was 2002… next thing I know, I’m signed up to be a deomnstrator. Well that lasted a year and I dropped out but continued to stamp. In 2007 I once again signed up as a demo and here I am… trying to support my habit!

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