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.

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

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Until my next post. . . . . . .  .

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