First Card Posted – How Long Have I Been Stamping?

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Hello there,

I was pondering today about how long I had been stamping and I went on a search online to see what the first card was that I posted and when.  I thought it would be fun to look back on my stamping career and give you a look at where I started as I reminisce.   Above is a photo of my very first card I ever posted online anywhere and I posted it back in June, 2004.  Since then I have posted over 1300 projects, that’s a lot of paper, stamps and ink.  Those 11 years sure have flown by.  I’ve grown a lot over those years in my knowledge and stamping skills, I hope you can tell, grin.  Don’t you agree that one of the fun things about stamping is there is no end to the techniques and products we can try. 🙂 So on we go growing in our craft as we have the time of our lives!

I created the above card not long after I started stamping.  I was very hooked on the postage stamp look.   I can still remember cutting little windows in a piece of transparency sheet to use as a mask (had to buy transparency sheets by the 200 count boxes then, no window sheets available).  I may have a few hundred still around somewhere.  Anyway, I cut 4 little windows in the transparency sheet, laid it over card stock and then made my little scene for each stamp in the windows.  Pierced holes around the images to give it that postage stamp look. Oh and the eyelets!  I will never forget waking my family by hammering those eyelets in while I got some stamping time during the wee hours of the morning, again we didn’t have the quite crop-a-dile back then to set those eyelets, lol.  The boys and my husband were not very impressed with my pink mini hammer or the noise I was making.  Also in those days, all of my stamping supplies fit in an iris cart. When I look around my office now I look in amazement at how far this craft has taken me.

More Postage stamp technique beauties, lol.

 

 

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How about you, do you remember your first project or first stamp set?

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10 thoughts on “First Card Posted – How Long Have I Been Stamping?”

  1. Kathy L's avatar Kathy L

    Hi Michelle,
    You sent me down memory lane with your post today! I was still about a year away from being introduced to stamping and SU at that time. But I can see in your early creations the interest you had in sponging and shading with inks. And the tearing of paper, boy, you were pushing the boundaries there…lol. We’ve really come a long, long way from the days when we had to come up with our own methods to achieve a look. Now we have tools for practically anything we want to try. And yes, I also remember pounding in those eyelets. After a couple of gouges in my desk, I learned to use a block of wood under my card! Thanks for sharing your examples.

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  2. Tara's avatar Tara

    I love your cards and they are way more detailed than the ones I started in 2003. They still look great although your cards now are awesome! I wish I grew half as much as you have over the last 11 years in my business. I am not computer savvy enough to do all that you do on there and not as creative. I love getting your emails though.

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  4. Kim Ross's avatar Kim Ross

    My first card used torn paper, too. And the set that got me started with stamping, Little Layers. I fell head-over-heels for the fishy and I needed to have it. We had to make circles out of eyelet jar lids & stuff because Simple Shapes hadn’t come out yet.

    Very shortly thereafter, I was enamored with the faux postage technique, too. We must have been doing it around the same time, because I see we both have 37-cent postage. 🙂

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  5. Sandra's avatar Sandra

    My first cards were for Christmas way back in the late 90’s. I don’t remember exactly what year it was…but I cut out little Christmas trees out of patterened paper (they were really just tall triangles), arranged 4 ‘trees’ on the front of the card base and then traced the trees with glitter fabric paint…we all know that’s where Stickles really came from!! LOL Anyway, the cards were a hit! My friends and family loved them. I was not really into papercrafting at the time. I was busy back then with a personal website of my own, designing websites for others and graphic design and pixel drawing. Fast forward to 2012. I decided to do handmade Christmas cards again. This time I fell in love all over again with my new craft. I have since gotten rid of most of my other crafting stuff because I just have no desire to do any of it again…except for my macrame supplies. They are hard to come by and I still love to macrame. =)

    Thanks for the walk down memory lane. You have come a long way…and I like the idea of your stamp stencil with the little ‘holes’. I might just sit down and make me one of those. You should do something updated with yours if you still have it!! =)

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