Julie, Welcome from Rome, NY!
There are lots of helpful people (or should I say enablers?!? LOL!) here and lots of useful information. Just ask and someone will point you in a good direction. I highly recommend going slowly with purchasing stamping goodies until you know what style you like...clean and simple (CAS), shabby chic, coloring with colored pencils, Copic markers, or Distress markers, bright colors, muted colors, using stencils, embossing folders or die cuts, etc., etc., etc. Look around the Gallery to see what you like. Speaking from experience here because now I am trying to dig myself out from under all my stamping supplies and finding too many "What was I thinking???" items that were on sale.
There are a bunch of us in CNY and if you would like to come play for a day check out this link:
NY - Ilion (Utica Area) - September 27, 2014- Shoebox Swap by njbaker at Splitcoaststampers
We would love to meet you in person! We travel to play, too,...Poughkeepsie, Binghamton, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester...so hopefully you can come out to play. Not easy with little ones we know but we do hope to see you soon!
Newbie!
