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I think I have been stamping about 3 years and I actually made my first card and mailed it this past year. Figured it cost $10,000.00 so I don't think I'm saving money by making my own cards. Don't have any space to stamp at home, so my stamping has all been done at classes. I won't send those cards as I keep them as examples.I have hundreds of examples and about 600 sets of stamps. Got to feeling guilty about the money so I had to justify my addiction. So this year I got busy. Made a book of stamp images for each of my stamping club members of D. Mortgan stamps and Stamping up combinations, made emergency card kit for each of them for Valentines from Christmas card holders I picked up for 30 cents after Christmas, and mailed out the teachers who came to my IEP meetings thank you cards for their time. Still don't have a lot of time, but I'm getting better. Hope to work on fixing an area so I can stamp at home. I've really got it bad, but I'm sharing my hobby with my students. they have used stamps for the past 2 years to do their poetry books. Last year I introduced them to eyelets and embosing powder. This year I'm introducing them to embossing folders, and dew drops. Got it so bad, I support three different stampin up demonstrators. They keep me busy going to classes.
sam
I think I have been stamping about 3 years and I actually made my first card and mailed it this past year. Figured it cost $10,000.00 so I don't think I'm saving money by making my own cards. Don't have any space to stamp at home, so my stamping has all been done at classes. I won't send those cards as I keep them as examples.I have hundreds of examples and about 600 sets of stamps. Got to feeling guilty about the money so I had to justify my addiction. So this year I got busy. Made a book of stamp images for each of my stamping club members of D. Mortgan stamps and Stamping up combinations, made emergency card kit for each of them for Valentines from Christmas card holders I picked up for 30 cents after Christmas, and mailed out the teachers who came to my IEP meetings thank you cards for their time. Still don't have a lot of time, but I'm getting better. Hope to work on fixing an area so I can stamp at home. I've really got it bad, but I'm sharing my hobby with my students. they have used stamps for the past 2 years to do their poetry books. Last year I introduced them to eyelets and embosing powder. This year I'm introducing them to embossing folders, and dew drops. Got it so bad, I support three different stampin up demonstrators. They keep me busy going to classes.
sam
Hahaha! too funny!! And I think my first card only cost about 5,000...rofl.
What fun to read all of these! I normally would say I have been stamping since February of last year, but in thinking back, my daughter is 26 yrs. old and I used to make her birthday invites using those foam stamps! And everybody would think they were just awesome! LOL! Then every now and then I'd make a card to send to someone, just dabbling in it I'd guess you would call it. Bought a TON of the wood stamps, sold a TON of them at a garage sale because they hadnt seen the light of day in years...and now...about a year ago, fell HARD to this little obsession! I just LOVE it! Not only the stamping part, but the whole stamping community is the most awesome I have ever seen! So very encouraging, uplifting when you need it, and friendships....it just amazes me everyday. So I do believe this little addiction of mine is here to stay!
My first experience with stamping was via the D.O.T.S company (Dozens of Terrific Stamps) which later became CTMH (Close to My Heart) and was sometime in 1995, if memory serves. My first stamp purchase was Whitney's Message and I used her to make my now 19-yr old daughter's birthday party invitations.
I started about 8 years ago. A friend invited me to a Stampin' Up! workshop and I really DIDN'T want to go because I wasn't into scrapbooking, etc. and she said "Just come...you'll have fun!" Well, I never looked back! LOL!
Learned to stamp in Australia while living there - moved back here when my almost 15 year old was a baby and became a demonstrator right after she turned one.
this is the only hobby I have ever stuck with - proof offered by all the boxes of stuff that never get used now (cases of beads and my latest is punchneedle - started it a couple of years ago and now have all the stuff and never do it). I do stamp at least once a week!
I think I have been stamping about 3 years and I actually made my first card and mailed it this past year. Figured it cost $10,000.00 so I don't think I'm saving money by making my own cards. Don't have any space to stamp at home, so my stamping has all been done at classes. I won't send those cards as I keep them as examples.I have hundreds of examples and about 600 sets of stamps. Got to feeling guilty about the money so I had to justify my addiction. So this year I got busy. Made a book of stamp images for each of my stamping club members of D. Mortgan stamps and Stamping up combinations, made emergency card kit for each of them for Valentines from Christmas card holders I picked up for 30 cents after Christmas, and mailed out the teachers who came to my IEP meetings thank you cards for their time. Still don't have a lot of time, but I'm getting better. Hope to work on fixing an area so I can stamp at home. I've really got it bad, but I'm sharing my hobby with my students. they have used stamps for the past 2 years to do their poetry books. Last year I introduced them to eyelets and embosing powder. This year I'm introducing them to embossing folders, and dew drops. Got it so bad, I support three different stampin up demonstrators. They keep me busy going to classes.
sam
Warn a girl, whydoncha?!?!? I almost spewed coffee all over my new latptop!
12 years and counting. Ths is one hobby I have continued to do. I did cross-stitch, brazillian embroidery, decorating shirts, cake decorating, quilting, and quilling. But stamping is a keeper!
Karen S
