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”

Diane

I started stamping when my oldest daughter invited me to a SU party at her house. I was reeled in hook, line and sinker that night approx 4 years ago! I ordered $350 dollars that night! Well I couldn’t pass up get a free stamp set with each $50 spent and after all my daughter was earning lots of nice things from my order! I turned her old bedroom into my craft room and I have already out grown that room. : )

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July 24, 2008 at 8:00 pm Reply
sandie994

My freind was retiring and worried she’d be bored, so we signed up for a class at a lss and the rest is history. Gradually all my other crafts have gone by the wayside and stamping and paper crafts have taken over.

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July 24, 2008 at 8:06 pm Reply
Cheryl Wilcox

I was invited to a Stampin’ Up! workshop through a friend in the fall of 2004 and was hooked with my first card. We used my favorite fall set, Fall Whimsy, and embossed in gold. Loved it! That was a Friday night, so the next day I was off to Joann Fabrics & Crafts to buy a VersaMark pad, a heat tool, and gold, silver and copper embossing powders because I just couldn’t wait to order them (although I did order my first SU! stamp set, Frosty, and some other things that evening). Love your blog and the creativity you share with us!

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July 24, 2008 at 8:11 pm Reply
Janet Sisk

Like a majority of people, my first stamping experience was through a Stampin’ Up party. I had a friend at the school I worked at whose wife started demonstrating and he asked me if I would have a party with friends at school to help her out. I said, “I will do it for you because you all are my friends, BUT I am not crafty will not do that stuff.” She now jokes that she created a monster – a stamp-collecting monster, no less! LOL

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July 24, 2008 at 8:13 pm Reply
Kim Sears

Hi Michelle, I was into scrapbooking pretty heavy and had decided I wanted to add some stamping to some of my pages… A friend was having a SU party so I went. Next thing I know I’m hooked and am having my own party… I am now a TAC Demonstrator and have a group of girls that meet once a month… I LUV it!!!!

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July 24, 2008 at 8:15 pm Reply
Lynn

Hi Michelle,

You are amazingly talented. I am truly awe stuck with what you can do with ink and stamps. I have been trying for some time to create “scenes” with stamps but never with your success. The depth of color and light that you achieve is stunning.

Thank you for sharing your creations.

Lynn

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July 24, 2008 at 8:21 pm Reply
janet

My niece was a demonstrator of DOTS many years ago and she got me into it. At that time I bought lots to support her, but never really go the hang of stamping. My stock was actually used more in my 3rd grade classroom by my studnets than by me..LOL

Just this past fall, I attended a SU Workshop locally and I cannot get enough of stamping.

I am a CM Consultant and scrappin’ and stampin’ seem to go hand in hand and the fit is right for me now..Enjoy both..but stampin has kept me busy this summer…love it and can’t get enough of it. Actually have stopped purchasing cards now and sending my own out!! HURRAY!!

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July 24, 2008 at 8:22 pm Reply
Kathy Eddy

I was invited to a co-worker’s Stampin’ Up party in 2001 and decided to go with no intention of buying a thing. I was so hooked, I booked a show myself and ordered $500 worth of things for myself to get started and then it just blossomed from there to TAC parties, and then online purchases, etc. I seriously have so many stamps but always want more. it is an addiction from which I want no cure! LOL Kathy Eddy

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July 24, 2008 at 8:33 pm Reply
Leslie Caponey

I went to my neighbor’s Stampin’ Up party. She wasn’t going to invite me because she knew I didn’t like to scrapbook. I fell in love with stamping but use it for cards…still don’t like scrapbooking!

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July 24, 2008 at 8:33 pm Reply
Marie Travers

My sister and I live far apart but we often would do crafting when we would get together. We tried stamping but I didn’t have very good results, so I lost interest and gave her my stamps. Several years later, I went to stay with her when she was very ill due to chemotherapy and radiation treatment for cancer. After she came home from the hospital, she was concerned that I wasn’t having any fun during my visit so she suggested we do some stamping. When I headed back home, she sent me with several copies of The Rubber Stamper and I was hooked. That was 7 years ago. She’s doing great and we’re both still stamping!

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July 24, 2008 at 8:39 pm Reply
Evelyn----Ks.stamper

I was invited to a SU party by some of my friends, I thought ok might as well see what all the raving is about. Needless to say I loved it, and have been stamping ever since. I have a large room in my basement where I stamp.I have been stamping and playing around with stamps and inks for over 15 years. You have helped me so much, I understand stamping a scene so much more now after seeing your tutorials. Thanks Michelle.
Evelynn~

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July 24, 2008 at 8:39 pm Reply
Corrina

My name is Corrina. I was raised in Northern Wisconsin, where I met my wonderful Husband Paul. (He truly is my Hero of life) He shows me every day what unconditional LOVE is. He doesn’t expect me to be a size 0 or a size 9. He loves me for who I am not what society thinks I should be. The unconditional love has lead us to CELEBRATE our 25th Wedding Anniversary on October 23, 2007. We now make our home in Virginia Beach but we have also lived in California for 12 years, Our greatest blessings we have received are our two wonderful children, Jason who is 23 and serving his country in the USMC, and Sarah who is 15 and a very loving daughter and just a joy to life. Our Son Jason has a beautiful Wife “Chrissi” and they have two beautiful daughters Hannah who is 3 and Hailey who is 2, each one of them are a gift from god and they truly are our little angels. Our children and grandchildren are our lives. You never stop worrying about them.

Thanks
Corrina aka USMCMommer

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July 24, 2008 at 8:42 pm Reply
Mary Strauser

A friend invited me a stampin up party and that was a love story for me.
I have a huge room stampin and craftyroom. I tell my husband if he builts me a bathroom down here he will never see me upstairs.
I love trying new things and appreiciate when someone tells me or shows me new things.

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July 24, 2008 at 8:42 pm Reply
Mary Jo

I was introduced to stamping about 11 years ago when my Sister-in-law had a D.O.T.S. party(which is now Close to my Heart). I felt obligated to buy something so I bought 1 stamp set and a red and black ink pad. I played with it for a while and then life just got busy for me and I didn’t think about it again for about 2 more years. My husband brought home a scrapbbook mag. for me and said why don’t you do something like this with our pictures?(To this day I’m sure he regrets that!) A few months later, I was introduced by a mutual friend to a Stampin Up demonstrater, who happened to live two blocks from me. We hit it off, became super good friends and I was hooked!

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July 24, 2008 at 8:44 pm Reply
Melanie

Hi Michelle,

I have actually been stamping for more than 20 years, but gave it up until approximately 5 years ago because there wasn’t much product selection available nor did I have access to lots of creativity, like what is available through your blog. Then a friend gave me a birthday card she stamped that I loved and I was hooked. Hooked? I’m obsessed! I want to stamp all the time!

Thanks for keeping me inspired! And good luck in California next week.

Melanie

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July 24, 2008 at 8:45 pm Reply
Beth Cutwright

Hello Michelle! My daughter invited me to a Stampin Up workshop that her girlfriend had signed up as a rep for. About that same time, my best friend hooked up with a demonstrator through Close to My Heart……When we compared notes, it was like a new dimension opened itself to us. We became stampin pals as well as best friends. Now I am a hobby demo for SU and my daughter’s friend comes to my monthly stamp club meetings. We have a blast. I wanted to own a card shop when I was first out of highschool, and although my talents pale next to yours, I guess in a sense I have accomplished my goal. I own my own small cardshop. 🙂

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July 24, 2008 at 8:46 pm Reply
Mel

Greetings from Virginia. First of all, I’d like to say that your cards WOW! me.
A couple of years ago a first asked me a come as a guest to her Stampin Up group when it was her turn to be hostesss…I was hooked. At first I resisted embracing another craft because my limited free time was spent quilting and knitting, but my “inner child” loves to cut, color, glue, glitter and create.

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July 24, 2008 at 8:49 pm Reply
Teresa Cline

Hi, Haiing from Broken Arrow,OK, was a scrapbooker way back and one of my co-workers was a SU demonstrator. She constantly showed me products I good use not only for cardmaking but for scrapbooking also. She finally talked me into going to a SU party where we actually went home with our hand stamped creations. Still stamping 4 years later. Love your work and it has convinced me to stretch my creative juices. Have taken oil and acrylic painting classes years ago, now I think I’ll try a water color class. Love, love your work, thank you for sharing it with all of us.

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July 24, 2008 at 8:51 pm Reply
Marlene Iacuzzi

In the winter I am lucky enough to reside in a new Senior Residence park in Florida called Tanglewood. There are all kinds of activities there, and one Friday I went to the card making class. Well, I was hooked. I think you either are addicted to this hobby, or you don’t go for it, and I am certainly addicted. I used to have money for clothes. Now I just want to buy stamps. I hope one of my daughters someday takes an interest because they will certainly inherit a bunch of stuff.

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July 24, 2008 at 8:53 pm Reply
DeanneSM

I am sure you won’t get round to reading all these replies – wow, nearly 400 at last count!
Anyway, I actually hated stamps when I first discovered them (about 12 years ago). Couldn’t see what the fuss was all about. I was like you – preferred to draw and colour my own images (I am a painter too – folk art mainly). My very first stamp was a bunny rabbit, and I used it to stamp onto stickers for the backs of my folk art I was selling at the time.
Fast forward 6 years and I moved to Sydney from Canberra, where I knew no-one. My best friend introduced me to her SIL, who was a stamper. I went to some of her classes, met some of her friends, who are now also my closest friends and stampers too, and I have never looked back.
It is safe to say that I am now a stamping junkie!! I love all kinds of stamps (rubber, foam, acrylic, cheap and junk, expensive and top quality). I would not dare to count my stamps, cos its too scary to think of the value of the stuff I own!!!
Funny to think I went from really not “getting” stamping to totally loving it lol!
Thanks for the opportunity to reflect on my own humble beginnings!!
Deanne
xx

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July 24, 2008 at 8:59 pm Reply
Lynnor

I started stamping about five years ago when I attended a stamp camp put on by a pair of demos at my job. I was hooked immediately!!! I now work as a parapro for one of the demos in same school. My son thought the principal was nuts when he put the two of us in the same classroom! LOL!! Thought we’d have the whole 8th grade hallway stamped within the first semester we were teamed up!

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July 24, 2008 at 9:07 pm Reply
Sandra

Let me start by saying how much it means to me (us) to be asked. I know that I am relatively new to the world of papercrafting and you have been a huge inspiration.

I got started in papercrafting after a 15 year break from the creative world (I used to manage a Cloth World and sew up a storm. Then stopped for my career. Now, I am a newly single (again) mom and needed to find a creative outlet that was just for me!!! i joined a stamp club with a friend and started blog-surfing. Not brave enough to stick my own neck out yet. but loving every minute!!!

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July 24, 2008 at 9:08 pm Reply
Mary

About 5 years ago a couple from the east coast was flying out here to the west coast for the husband to dance a weekend of challenge-square dancing, my hubby was also dancing that weekend, but not me at that level. This man’s wife and I became friends as we hit it off well when we had flown out to the east coast for dances … the guys danced, we gallivanted about the countryside. Before getting out here, my friend had called around and found a stamp store that still had some openings in some classes that Saturday, so she signed us both up. Neither of us had rubber stamped before! I was hopelessly hooked and the rest is now history! I had always loved doing artsy-crafty things but after having 2 sons never had the time between raising children and/or working. I have found stamping cards to be a very satisfying outlet because I can start and finish most projects within an evening’s time.
I still love to learn new techniques and tricks with stamping. I can hardly wait to meet you, Michelle, when you come to San Jose, CA to teach us some of your ‘how-so’ techniques!

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July 24, 2008 at 9:10 pm Reply
Selma

I feel ancient but I started stamping before it was even a big craft – it was very hard to even find a variety of rubber stamps. I became a SU demonstrator about 10 years ago just to get a discount on products. I had friends ask me to start having workshops and it all took off from there. Everyone now teases me because I now have my own little “stamp store” in my craft room. It is always exciting to try out new products and learn new techniques. I used to subscribe to lots of magazines but now it is so much better to read blogs, such as yours, and learn new techniques. There are so many very talented stampers out there and it makes every day exciting seeing what others are doing.

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July 24, 2008 at 9:11 pm Reply
Kay Carlson

I got into stamping by attending an SU party – sound familiar anyone?? LOL That was over 12 years ago and I’ve come a long way, baby!!

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July 24, 2008 at 9:13 pm Reply
Rachel

My story is quite simple. In order to cut cost at my wedding 6 years ago, I made my own wedding invitations. They were simple, the wording printed on velum attached to purple cardstock with ribbon and a stamped image of double hearts embossed. And now I have a closet overstuffed with rubber stamps and everything else that goes with it 🙂

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July 24, 2008 at 9:19 pm Reply
Cori

I was doing scrapbooking for several years and then had a friend/demo introduce me to stamping. Actually, at first, I still thought it looked much to hard but one day agreed to go to a stamping class and viola’ now I’m addicted 🙂 Thanks for the great blog candy!

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July 24, 2008 at 9:20 pm Reply
Alyce Schwenn

My journey began with a calligraphy class. Then I wanted to show off my new skill so I bought a rubber stamp that said to/from, a ink pad, embossing powder and a heat gun. I now have 2 Iris carts full of stamps, 10 8×10 trays of stamps and a large number of UM stamps. In the beginning I thought I’d only need a black ink pad. Now I have a few drawers full of ink pads. I have taken classes, and even done some demonstrations myself.
I have met so many wonderful people that I never would have met if I hadn’t began this journey in to the art world.
Thank you for the inspiration. It’s appreciated!

Alyce

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July 24, 2008 at 9:31 pm Reply
k.m.

Before I joined the world of rubber stamping, I was into scrapbooking. I had the idea that I would buy a “few” rubber stamps to use on some of my sb pages…………well, you can see where this story is going!!! I haven’t scrapbooked in 4 years……I guess I like the instant gratification that I get from making a card……….I can see a finished product much quicker!!

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July 24, 2008 at 9:31 pm Reply
Angela

My first experience with stamping was about a year and a half ago when a friend of mine from work asked me if I wanted to come to her house to visit with her stamping friends. They were going to do something with shaving cream and ink and since I’m a crafter at heart, I said sure. I’ve bought lots of stamp sets since then and actually make stuff with my stamps. I generally tell people I collect craft stuff more than I actually make stuff with my craft supplies.
Your cards are beautiful and I appreciate the extra effort you go through to share the exact how of the process.

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July 24, 2008 at 9:33 pm Reply
Doris

Hi from Ontario, Canada.
4 Reasons I am hooked on stamping. 1.Judy J, now one of the turbo design team members at Technique Junkies kept showing me this craft. 2.It fit with my scrapbooking, but she lived far away. 3.Another friend invited me to a SU workshop. I ordered one set and and was off and running! 4.The blogs and groups have taught me so much, and continue to inspire me.

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July 24, 2008 at 9:43 pm Reply
Rebecca

About 3 years ago my friend Michelle would make cards for our women’s ministry group and bring out all kinds of stamps to create them. I was interested but was just getting my feet wet with scrapbooking. Then a new neighbor put a Stampin Up! newsletter in my daughter’s candy bag during a Halloween outing. I gave her a call and attended a few card making camps. Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy and for investing so much of your time in this site.

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July 24, 2008 at 9:46 pm Reply
Kellie Nevin

Hey Michelle,

I was a scrapbooker who bought some alphabet stamps for some titles. Slowly as I was at crops I’d occasionally do some make and takes that included stamps. I think the thing that really tipped me over the edge was one of the internet groups I am in started to do card swaps and my creativity took off and so did the need to have more stamps 😀 Subscribing to your blog you have shown me that with your stamps and inks you can create a work of art.

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July 24, 2008 at 9:55 pm Reply
Evelyn

About 3 years before I retired from teaching, I attended SU parties, bought about $40 worth of product and never did a thing with it. One year, two friends helped me finish Christmas cards that I had started the previous year. I just wasn’t that interested! A couple of years later, I started stamping in earnest….and I found Ebay! I wrote a lot of money orders that year! Although it took me a while to discover that Ebay is NOT the best place to find stamps, I learned much about what is out there. I spent a year with Dream Impressions, which lasted as a home-party business for about two years….and then I got back to doing what I wanted: finding things I like all over the Web! I’m up to my ears in mounted and unmounted images now, and I have a stash of paper and cardstock that just won’t quit! I dabble in other paper and mixed media, and love it all. Having retired 6 years ago, I have time to do just about what I want to. (Oh, I live in NE Oregon….a small, relatively isolated rural area. The internet keeps me connected.) And I love blogs like yours that inspire me daily!

Evelyn in Oregon

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July 24, 2008 at 10:27 pm Reply
Susie

Early 90’s I was on Prodigy internet service, I found a board that said RStamping in the crafts, didn’t know what it meant, so as I read I became interested. I met a girl through the craft section, she gave a RubberStampMadness magazine, I think that was all it took……. I still have the magazine.. boy, have things changed in 18 years……..thanks for a chance to win some goodies…..

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July 24, 2008 at 10:30 pm Reply
Lee Conrey

First let me say I love your work….it’s just fabulous and so easy to follow. Thanks for that.
I used to learn a new craft every year and make Christmas Presents. I bumped into a lady in the stamp aise of a Hobby Lobby and saw a card she had created for her parents 50th Wedding Anniversary. I was stunned at it’s beauty. I asked where she learned to do that and she gave me her Demonstrators number…..I booked a party and just fell in love with this art.
We moved I missed it….we moved again and I missed it more. I signed up and have been Stamping and Demonstrating ever since. That was almost five years ago!
I have met so many wonderful people sharing this art form….stampers are the BEST!
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!

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July 24, 2008 at 10:47 pm Reply
Sharon

An avid cross-stitcher/knitter I very reluctantly went to a neighbour’s ‘Craft Party’. I was instantly intrigued by the papercrafts demonstrated and spent far more than I expected (sound familiar?). A visit to the local Craft store for extra supplies introduced me to STAMPS!! And the rest, as they say, is history 🙂 DH is still coming to terms with just how much ‘stuff’ I NEED and how often lol!

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July 24, 2008 at 11:04 pm Reply
adrienne olson

I moved a year ago from New Orleans to California to take care of my mother-n-law who has Alzheimer’s. I just started to make ATC’s and basic cards with her. I started going to scrapbook stores looking for card kits and stamps while doing this I met other artist who have shown me a whole new world of stamping. Thanks to them I don’t think I would be that interested in stamping, but now I have a new love for stamping and great new friends.

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July 24, 2008 at 11:08 pm Reply
Nimue

My daughter brought me to stamping. She became interested through her friends. She sent me wonderful cards. I was enchanted. I wanted to learn how. Now it’s something we can share. We live far apart and I miss her. When we get a chance to talk it’s about cards, colour, atc’s paints, paper, etc. Now my little granddaughter is becoming interested and it’s wonderful when the three of us can be together creating together, sparking ideas off each other. There’s nothing better. I was so glad when she told me she loves your blog as much as I do. – Nimmy

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July 24, 2008 at 11:13 pm Reply
cards4u

My neighbor introduced me to stamping. I enjoy crafts and had done some quilting but like you stamping provided an end product that I could share with others in much less time.

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July 24, 2008 at 11:15 pm Reply
Beth Greco

What wonderful stories!
I’m from Kitchener Ontario Canada
When my children were young I would sew for them. Then I started crocheting. Then my sister in law started cross stitching so I went through that phase for a while. My DD thought scrapbooking would be fun but I didn’t think that I should do that I didn’t “need” another hobby! But just a few trips with her and paper is just as much fun to buy as fabric is!! And I was biten by the “bug”. Card making is my choice activity and what a wonderful way to brighten someone else’s day!!
Thanks so much for sharing all your tutorials. I have leaned so much
Beth

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July 24, 2008 at 11:21 pm Reply
Lorene

Hi Michelle, I wondered into a stamp store many years ago and thought how fun is this! started talking to the owner and she was looking for some part time help. I told her I was interested, she hired me – totally aware I had no expirence in stamps. and well, the rest is history!

thanks for the great blog!!!!

Lorene

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July 24, 2008 at 11:23 pm Reply
Diane Quinlan

Michelle – I do love your blog! I come here whenever I can. I live in Quakertown, PA which is an hour north of Philadelphia. I started stamping when I found this stamp store and wandered in. I was hooked instantly and use my stamps to make cards for my rather large family. I’ve been making them for about 3 years now. I often didn’t like the cards in the store. My family loves it because their cards are personalized with their name and often things about them. It takes me about 2 hours to make each card. Except for Michael’s, there are no stamp stores near me, so I’m so excited when I find things online.
Your work is really amazing and I love looking thru everything on your blog.
Thank you for all you do.

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July 24, 2008 at 11:55 pm Reply
Julie Temple

I bought my first stamp from a co-worker about 12 years ago at a D.O.T.S. party. About 5 years later, I went to a SU party with a neighbor,and have been hooked ever since. I got BOTH of my sisters into stamping, and they have also gotten into MONDO scrapbooking! Yes, we have an addictive obsession for a hobby…and I wouldn’t change a thing!!
I just love your blog and all of the wonderful tuts you post for us novices…just gorgeous. Thank you so much!

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July 24, 2008 at 11:59 pm Reply
Rockin Robin Caldwell

Hi…Rockin Robin from Kenosha, WI. What brought me to stamping, almost 4 years ago, was restlessness. I have always been “artistic” (no, not autistic, although some people would argue that a bit). I have moved from craft to craft, and medium to medium. Stained glass, fabric arts, sewing, crocheting, knitting, some really bad painting, beading, etc. I was restless in my artistic expression, but had no idea what I wanted to try. Someone from my work had posted a flyer about a “stamping party”. I had no clue what it was, and thought: OMG, what’s so fun about inking a stamp and pressing it to paper? But, I was curious and went, thoroughly expecting to not be impressed. Well, long story short….I was hooked!!! The “party” was for the Angel Company, and I spent over $250.00!! I plan to continue stamping until I am old and gray, or just plain can’t do it anymore. It is my passion, and maybe, some day…I’ll be “good” at it!!! Wish me luck at the blog candy. Hisses, Rockin Robin Caldwell

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July 25, 2008 at 12:02 am Reply
Debie

Great question Michelle! I was shopping in Toronto, Ontario Canada (I live near Hamilton, Ontario). I was in a neat area by the Harbourfront called Queens Qauy. It is filled with beautiful specialty shops (my favourite). I have always been interested in crafting. I learned to knit and crochet when I was 9 years old. I still love it to this day. Anyway, I stumbled across a store called Great Impressions. They sold rubber stamps. The gentleman in the store showed me heat embossing. SOLD! I walked out of the store with a bunch of supplies and the rest is history. That was approximately 12 years ago. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us all.

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July 25, 2008 at 12:02 am Reply
Edna Siu

Michelle,
when I came from Hong Kong, 12 years ago, (to Canada) I know nothing about stamping at all.
It is only the about 5 years ago, I happened to come across rubberstamping,
I cannot recall when is my first stamp I brought, but I was totally shock when I found the Splitcoaststampers’s website, that I really am crazy with this hobby.
Edna

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July 25, 2008 at 12:05 am Reply
Dawn

Well… My husband is in the Navy in WA state and he worked with another sailor whose wife is a Stampin Up demonstrator. They are both artists in their spare time (pen, pencil, comic book art, stimpling, etc)and fun to be around. We started hanging around them as we all had little kids and loved Lord of the Rings (geeky I know, didnt I mention the comic book stuff already?). She suggested I come to one of her workshops. “oh no, I am not a scapbooker, I like my photos on black background with no adornment and my hobby of choice is spinning/knitting and wool stuff” I replied. Then she told me their would be cookies…. So I went and thoroughly enjoyed myself. And that night had spent $80 on paper, ink and a couple of sets of stamps before I left. Have only been doing this about 4 years and kind of sporadically but really love the process when I can find the time. I also love the response from card receipients…

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July 25, 2008 at 12:12 am Reply
Connie Walsh

I got into stamping many, many years ago. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s I heard about a company named D.O.T.S. I purchased some stamps and got involved with stamping and making some cards. Due to the birth of my youngest child, and the many complication with her birth I had to put the stamping aside. I finally came bac to stamping and scrapping in the late 1990’s.

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July 25, 2008 at 12:12 am Reply
Anita Van Hal

A chronic headache brought me to stamping-I’ve had a headache 24/7 for over 3 1/2 years…two years ago when I finally came to terms with “it” being chronic, I decided to take the plunge and become a Stampin’ Up! demo (hobby primarily) and signed up under my youngest sister who’s been a demo for five years-she’d been “working on me” since she started, but fear of becoming a “collector” kept me from taking the plunge! Well, two years later I have a room dedicated to being my studio, and lots of “stuff” to help keep my mind off the pain…I LOVE creating, and stamping is so relaxing for me–a great diversion to the pain. I love the art, but an unexpected blessing has been the people I’ve met through my new hobby-I’ve especially come to love the community of paper artists!

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July 25, 2008 at 12:21 am Reply