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06-18-2013, 06:27 PM
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Die Cut Diva
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How often do you stamp?
Just curious. I need to set time aside to stamp. I haven't been doing much. Do you make certain time for stamping?
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06-18-2013, 06:37 PM
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Kookie Creator
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Usually I get good crafting time in when I'm home alone. I have no kids, but my husband and I both work full time with varying schedules. There usually is some point in the week where I have a few hours to myself. I also make some time in the evening here and there once all the dishes are done and whatnot.
__________________ Colleen
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.-Ephesians 4:32
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06-18-2013, 07:54 PM
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Kookie Creator
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Depends on what is going on each week. I have set a goal for myself of comepleting the weekday challenges every week for this year, and I have just barely managed to keep up with them thus far. But I have ended up many times (like today) of catching up from a week's worth of challenges and posting them all at once.
I usually try to set aside some time each day to try and work in my craft room. With the onset of warm weather, it's been a little harder to stay inside (hot and I'd rather be outside). I also use crafting as a goal to finish my daily chores so that I can do what I'd rather be doing than chores. I also attend a weekly card class, and that helps to spur me along too.
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06-18-2013, 09:03 PM
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Stazon Splitcoast
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Not enough. My honest answer is when I need a card. I was doing well earlier in the year but that dropped off in April when I got overwhelmed. I want to start up again as my eldest has asked for cards to go back to university with him.
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06-18-2013, 11:03 PM
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Stazon Splitcoast
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I'd say about 1 - 2 hours a week at most. About half of that time is spent staring at the paper!
__________________ Dear Paperlicious is my blog...with a series on how I'm learning to improve my cardmaking by studying others.
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06-18-2013, 11:37 PM
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Mad Swapper
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: wishing I was in London but you'll likely find me on my couch
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I was trying to be more regular, following along with sketch challenges, try a new technique, etc. I don't plan on entering anything, I just need the push. But now school is out, summer and the outside are calling me. I most definitely stamp less during the summer.
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06-19-2013, 12:01 AM
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Crimping Master
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Usually at least once a week. I meet a friend every Friday and we make cards or scrapbook.
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06-19-2013, 04:41 AM
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Stazon Splitcoast
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I don't work anymore so I try to do as many of the challenges on here as possible. I like to stamp first thing in the morning if I can. So I get to stamp 3 to 5 times a week usually. I'm very lucky! Now I am also a reader so it depends on which one wins out.
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06-19-2013, 04:54 AM
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Hardware Hotshot
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I stamp when the spirit moves me LOL
Either when I need a card or just feel like doing it
If I go through periods where I stamp every day or don't stamp for several weeks I have no guilt . It is a hobby .
__________________ "I have not failed . I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" --Thomas A. Edison
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06-19-2013, 05:35 AM
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Gallery Gazer
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canadian Prairies
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don't beat yourself up about what you should be doing... as Barbara Jay said, it is a hobby (for me anyway, as well) and I stamp when I get the creative urge. Sometimes weeks will go by and I don't do any, then I will need something and often from that will spring another card or 2.
Then nothing again for awhile...
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06-19-2013, 07:51 AM
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Die Cut Diva
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Jersey Girl
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If you enjoy it, make some time for it. But if setting aside that time turns it into "work" - forget it. My kids are out of the house and I get home from work about an hour before my husband gets home. I know I should be doing other things during that time - but a while ago (when my last one got married and I turned his bedroom into a craft room LOL) I decided that hour would be ME TIME. I make at least one card five days / week. I just love knowing that I can leave my number crunching job and go home to something creative. I've found that when you get creative with numbers at work - they tend to put you in jail. LOL
__________________ Louise Bergmann DuMont Author, Speaker, Serious About Her Coffee, Lover of all that is Chocolate...Worshiper of El Shaddai (The All Sufficient One)
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06-19-2013, 12:48 PM
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Stazon Splitcoast
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: my heart remains in France
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I stamp every day. I love it. I also have no kids, pets, or plants. I also don't cook, and only clean for one hour per week besides laundry (quick) and dishes (5 to 10 minutes per washing). BUT, my stamping is slow and meandering - I get accomplished in an hour what a normal stamper would in probably ten minutes. I only work 48 hours per week, and the rest of the time is mine, but I spend a lot of that eating, sleeping, and on the internet. When I do stamp, I usually start a bunch of cards at a time - four or five. So each card takes me about a week to complete, but I complete all of them within moments of each other. This is 'cause most of my cards go to four nieces and nephews who are all siblings, so I can't just send one at a time - it has to be all four at once. If I need a card it jumps to the top of the list, and then I'll have five cards going at a time. I am so slow that I try to plan to take something to colour at work, at lunchtimes.
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06-19-2013, 02:09 PM
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Polyshrink Goddess
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: in my craft room
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I find that I spend most of the time I use to use watching TV in my stamp room now. I have to admit, I am mostly on the internet reading posts, watching card videos, etc. But I have been making more cards now than before. I would say I am in my room at least an hour a day on my days off during the week. The weekend hours vary depending on my schedule.
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06-19-2013, 04:35 PM
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Stazon Splitcoast
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Southern Ontario
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Constantly! 24/7!! If I am not physically in my studio with ink on my fingers I am getting ideas on how to use a piece of recycling on a card or what would happen if I did this..... It never goes away! nor do I want it to! LOL ' Stamping forever...housework whenever!'
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06-19-2013, 05:02 PM
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Pearl-ExPert
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I try to get a little bit of time in every day, even if it's only 15 or 20 minutes. I feel like a much calmer mama if I'm able to have some creative time.
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06-19-2013, 05:03 PM
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Kookie Creator
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ldumont999....I just love knowing that I can leave my number crunching job and go home to something creative. I've found that when you get creative with numbers at work - they tend to put you in jail. LOL |
Good strategy. I don't think very many jails have good craft rooms. LOL.
Dea
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06-19-2013, 06:27 PM
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Polyshrink Goddess
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Spencerville, Indiana
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joan BI'd say about 1 - 2 hours a week at most. About half of that time is spent staring at the paper! |
I like the time spent staring at the paper....i do that,too. Stamp less during the summer. Love the flowers, swimming and miss my stamps....
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06-19-2013, 09:49 PM
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Stazon Splitcoast
Join Date: Jan 2006
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I have not worked in 2.5 years. I spend a lot of time in my stamp room. My hubby travels for work so is gone Mon thru Fri. I prepare orders for shipping do some upkeep on my website and then off to the stamp room. Kids are all grown and gone too.
Blessings
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06-21-2013, 05:08 AM
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Insane Embellisher
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I had just gotten into stamping about 3 yrs ago and even became a SU demo for a short time. Then my daughter got pregnant and asked me to crochet photo props. Before that, I had only crocheted a few baby blankets. So once I started crocheting baby things, I was "hooked" and even started my own FB page. The past 2 yrs I've spent most of my time building my business and have started designing patterns as well. Well, my daughter is pregnant again, so I've gotten the extra push to finish my grandson's scrapbook before the new baby is born. ;)
I've got to figure out some way of balancing my time between crocheting/knitting/scrapbooking/reading.
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06-21-2013, 07:52 AM
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Stazon Splitcoast
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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Quote: Originally Posted by hsmom69I had just gotten into stamping about 3 yrs ago and even became a SU demo for a short time. Then my daughter got pregnant and asked me to crochet photo props. Before that, I had only crocheted a few baby blankets. So once I started crocheting baby things, I was "hooked" and even started my own FB page. The past 2 yrs I've spent most of my time building my business and have started designing patterns as well. Well, my daughter is pregnant again, so I've gotten the extra push to finish my grandson's scrapbook before the new baby is born. ;)
I've got to figure out some way of balancing my time between crocheting/knitting/scrapbooking/reading. |
I can relate. Sometimes I feel like that cowboy who got on his horse, and rode off in all directions.
I love my cardmaking, but I also love to crochet, and I also love to sew.
I have many grandchildren, lots of them granddaughters, so I sew for them quite a bit. I belong to a crochet forum, and someone is always posting a cute project that I want to make.
So....I try to do it all. This month I've made 6 birthday cards for June birthdays, sewed a reversible vest for a granddaughter's birthday, and I'm in process of crocheting a rag rug for my daughter, who just moved to a new house!
__________________ Bugga in OK
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06-21-2013, 11:07 AM
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Stampin' Fool
Join Date: May 2009
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Not enough for all the stuff I have! Since I'm retired, I should be cranking them out like Hallmark!!! I spend more time here and on blogs, Pinterest, getting inspired, then looking at my "stuff". By then I'm exhausted and decide...."tomorrow's another day", unless I have to get a card done!
Too many ideas go through my head, my card wouldn't have enough room on it!!!
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06-21-2013, 01:50 PM
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Insane Embellisher
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Quote: Originally Posted by buggainokI can relate. Sometimes I feel like that cowboy who got on his horse, and rode off in all directions.
I love my cardmaking, but I also love to crochet, and I also love to sew.
I have many grandchildren, lots of them granddaughters, so I sew for them quite a bit. I belong to a crochet forum, and someone is always posting a cute project that I want to make.
So....I try to do it all. This month I've made 6 birthday cards for June birthdays, sewed a reversible vest for a granddaughter's birthday, and I'm in process of crocheting a rag rug for my daughter, who just moved to a new house! |
Oh how cool to meet another crocheter! My Facebook page is www.facebook.com/loopsoflove if you want to check it out.
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06-21-2013, 04:20 PM
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Vintage Vixen
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Quote: Originally Posted by StamperDeaGood strategy. I don't think very many jails have good craft rooms. LOL.
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For one thing, they wouldn't allow you to have any sharp tools.
Not that I'm speaking from experience...
:p
Back to the OP. In general, I'd say that I stamp (or do other artwork, like mixed media collage that often includes some stamping), a couple or more days per week. Or more accurately, nights. I'm a night owl. Some weeks I'm working on something every night, other weeks I do none at all. I don't force it, because I don't do my best work when I feel forced to make something. Once it starts to feel like work, the whole point of arting is lost for me.
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06-22-2013, 04:32 AM
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Proud Fan Club Member Creative Crew SU Design Team Alumni
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Meredosia Illinois
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I know I don't stamp like I use too. But this is going to Change. I need to get some stamping stuff done.
Most of the time I wait till I get together with friends to stamp.
__________________ Creative Crew Member 2014 Past Design Team Member of :Clear and Simple: & Jessica Lynn Originals
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06-22-2013, 04:46 AM
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Mad Swapper
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ldumont999If you enjoy it, make some time for it. But if setting aside that time turns it into "work" - forget it. My kids are out of the house and I get home from work about an hour before my husband gets home. I know I should be doing other things during that time - but a while ago (when my last one got married and I turned his bedroom into a craft room LOL) I decided that hour would be ME TIME. I make at least one card five days / week. I just love knowing that I can leave my number crunching job and go home to something creative. I've found that when you get creative with numbers at work - they tend to put you in jail. LOL |
Louise.
I LOVE your sense of humor, too funny! I'm going to make an effort for the ME time that you speak of, nice idea!!!!
Janice
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06-22-2013, 12:27 PM
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Mad Swapper
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I stamp almost everyday...except when I am away at dog shows. I stamp before work in the morning ...about 5 am.
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06-22-2013, 05:41 PM
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Hardware Hotshot
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It has always only been when I need a card (6 yrs of card making). Lately I have been making about one a week. I have needed the r & r! That's about the extent of it ;-)
__________________ All I want is the chance to prove money won't make me happy!
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06-22-2013, 06:15 PM
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Creative Crew SU Design Team Alumni
Join Date: Mar 2006
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I do not make time to stamp but because I am a SAHM I usually have time several times a week, sometimes even everyday. My girls are 12, 10, and 8 so I am not chasing them around all day anymore, plus they like to craft with me. They help me with all kinds of household stuff which makes chores more enjoyable and more efficient. After we take care of what must be done, we play! Sometimes that is stamping but I also make sure to do things they like to do so that it is a win-win for everyone! If the creative juices are really flowing and I don't want to stop, then I do a little less cleaning that week. I pick up the slack when a creative slump comes (I seem to operate on feast or famine when it comes to my creative flow).
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06-23-2013, 05:40 AM
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Insane Embellisher
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I would love having friends to come over and stamp together. Sounds so fun!
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06-23-2013, 06:08 PM
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CBC Lady Violet
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Waiting for the mojo fairy.....
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I stamp whenever I feel like it. Sometimes that means I stamp for a couple of hours several days in a row, sometimes it means I don't stamp at all for days or even weeks.
It is supposed to be a hobby & supposed to be enjoyable. If I "made" myself stamp at a certain time or for a certain time, I would no longer enjoy it. So I stamp whenever I am "in the mood" and that is what works best for me.
__________________ "You may not have lost all your marbles, but there's definitely a hole in the bag." Grumpy Cat
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06-24-2013, 09:57 AM
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Die Cut Diva
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Jersey Girl
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Quote: Originally Posted by hsmom69I would love having friends to come over and stamp together. Sounds so fun! |
I sure does. I wish I could find some locals who wanted to stamp. The east coast isn't big on crafting. Sigh.
__________________ Louise Bergmann DuMont Author, Speaker, Serious About Her Coffee, Lover of all that is Chocolate...Worshiper of El Shaddai (The All Sufficient One)
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06-24-2013, 01:12 PM
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Glitter Guru
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: San Diego
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I stamp when I'm in the mood to be crafty. I've discovered that if I try to "force" it, I inevitably end up making mistakes or am unhappy with the finished product.
I leave whatever I'm working on out on my dining room table - that way I can stamp when I have a few minutes or when the mood strikes. DH knows not to say a word about the table never being cleared off :-D
__________________ Lorraine
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06-24-2013, 01:50 PM
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Stazon Splitcoast
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Las Vegas, baby!
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My mojo took what appears to be a permanent vacation sometime last year. We've had some extremely stressful family events the past few years (several deaths, drug interventions, abusive relationships exploding - mind-boggling, life-shattering stuff) and I haven't had any "juice" left. Not for my blog, not for cards, not for challenges, not for surfing the internet like I used to... SCS is the ONLY place I come every day to visit for a bit, and it's been the forums rather than the galleries. I have made a couple of cards recently, and it reminded me of what I've been missing, so I know that I'll get back around to it - probably in time for the Dare to Get Dirty week! Like others have said - do it when you feel like it, and don't stress about it when you don't. On the plus side, I spent my mojo-less stretch cleaning, purging, organizing, indexing, etc...
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06-24-2013, 02:37 PM
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Hardware Hotshot
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Quote: Originally Posted by hsmom69I would love having friends to come over and stamp together. Sounds so fun! |
I soooo agree!
__________________ All I want is the chance to prove money won't make me happy!
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06-24-2013, 02:43 PM
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Splitcoast Dirty Dozen
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Concord, North Carolina
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I used to stamp something everyday but then I went back to work, and now I don't stamp at all. I decided to take a break for a few months and see what happens. I have no interest in any of the new stamps that are coming out, no new products interest me ... so I hope my mojo will return one day. I've been stamping about 12 years.
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06-25-2013, 12:18 PM
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Cardstock Collector
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i stamp 1-2 hours a day if possible. It takes me all of 2 hours just to color an image and then I put it together the next day.
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06-26-2013, 06:30 AM
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Cardstock Collector
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Stamping
I love to stamp but often times my challenges is getting things colored; either colored pencils copic markers. What I do is stamp several of an image at a time and keep them in a photo box that is organized by topics. When I am in a coloring mode, I pull out what I need. They don't go into the finished box until they become a card. I can spend time on the phone coloring or just keep a small stack of things on my desk and color when I have a few minutes.
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06-26-2013, 07:21 AM
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Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Proud Fan Club Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Sue, I hope your family life gets smoother. God bless you.
Jo Ann
__________________ Jo Ann My SCS gallery / my blog The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea~Isak Dinesen
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