Winner of the Cute-a-Palooza Blog Candy is:
Congrats Debbie--please email Susana with you info so you can get all those wonderful goodies!
(susana@susanascustomartandcarddesign.com)
Susana and I were so touched by all the entries for the blog candy! It was wonderful reading about how you started stamping/papercrafting and who has inspired you. Thanks to you all!
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CUTE-A-PALOOZA RELEASE by ELISABETH BELL FOR SCACD
FEBRUARY 19th RELEASE
Sneakie Peekie #2
Sneakie Peekie #3
Sneakie Peekie #4
Sneakie Peekie #5
CUTE-A-PALOOZA - BLOG CANDY
Starts February 15th
I love doing things “Just Because” so this time the Blog Candy is to celebrate “Just Because” and it is OVER THE TOP YUMMYLICIOUS!!!
One person will not only win one sheet of the Sampler Edition #3 (NEW Release) but also one sheet of the Sampler Edition #2 and I can’t stop there one sheet of the Sampler Edition #1 . That is 21 stamps over a $100 retail value!!! I hope you find that more than drool worthy!!!
How Can You Enter?
Now to enter all you need to do is answer the following question by Feb. 18th at 10:30 pm EST and leave your answer on this post ONLY (please one entry per person):
What inspired you to start Stamping/Scrapping?
The winner will be announced on the 18th at 11pm EST so you can go and purchase in peace on the 19th!!!
So here is to a Bunch O Fun and I know you will enjoy these cuties!!!
Thanks so much always for the support and heart I get daily. It is never taken for granted :o)
Hearts and Hugz,
Susana & Suzanne
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214 comments:
1 – 200 of 214 Newer› Newest»Hi the answer to this is easy, the scrapping was my son as we were looking through a box of old photos and he couldn't remember some of the things and asked if I could write them down for him , so now he has a scrapbook of memories for each year of his life , some are for 2 years when he got to the 'I don't want my picture taking stage' and I'm nearly up to date, so he has 10 albums so far that he calls his legacy.
card making was my hubbies fault, as our married year together at christmas a new hobby craft shop opened and for my pressie he took me and said pick what you want, but he just kept walking round and putting things in the basket so I could try different crafts, not only did I get stamping , but silk painting ,glass painting, embroidery and lots of other bits. I often wonder now 16 years later if he ever regrets starting me down the addictive path of crafting.
Thanks for the chance to win, Julye
OM! What an awesome candy :)
My scrapping really started when my brother and his wife where expecting their (first) child, and I wanted to give the newborn something really special...So I made a baby-album - ready to just set in the pictures of the baby, from newborn up to 1 year.
That is probably how I got hooked :)
Have a great day! Hugs, Lena
Can't wait for the peeks. My son actually inspired me and got me into stamping. I made his baby invites and loved it ever since.
Thanks for this awesome chance.
I started scrapbooking just after my first son was born. I started with just the cheap stuff from a big department store but then I discovered a Scrapbooking magazine and I was hooked. I never thought about cardmaking - in fact I thought stamping and CM was a waste of time until I learnt how to heat emboss with stamps and I was then hooked. When I discovered the wonderful world of stamping and colouring - gosh then I have never looked back. I has been just over a year since I started my blog and am loving it.
Thanks for the sneek peek - can't wait to see what they all look like.
mwah
Trace
Oh, I can't wait to see some more cuties from Elizabeth Bell!!!
I started cardmaking when I was away from home for Christmas one year and wanted to make cards for my family. It just exploded and took off on its own from there!!!
Blessings,
Christine
i am SURE these new releases are going to be absolutely wonderful - Ms. Bell never disappoints! :)
a friend of mine got me into stamping a couple of years ago - she'd been sending me handmade cards from England (we've been penpals for 17 years), and they were just lovely! i finally thought to myself "i could do that!" and decided to try my hand at the card making. it didn't take long before i was obsessed, and now, when she visits for a week in the summer, we spend the whole time making cards together! it's been a wonderful way to bring us closer together. :)
I got started stamping because I love giving cards and I was looking for a way to make my cards more personal. I saw all the luscious papers and stamps at a local store and thought it was just what I was looking for. I also thought it would be less expensive to make my own (HA!).
Thanks for the chance to win such yummy candy! You are too good to us!
I started scrapbooking because I want my kids to remember their childhood. My parents actually took very few pictures and I just don't remember that much. Being in the military my kids have been able to travel to alot of different places and I want to save those memories for them.
Hi Susana and Suzanne, I have always crafted starting way back with knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery, when I met hubby he thought it would be a good idea to make our own cards for each other (he doesn't like shopping and sometimes parting with money, lol), these were very basic, when we had the children, I always encouraged them with craft, they always made their thankyou cards for pressies, then we emmigrated to Australia and there was a 12 hour creative memories scrapbooking day at the childrens school, so not knowing many people and not having done scrapbooking, I thought I would give it a go, I then got invited to a Stampin Up party, then I found this wonderful blogging world and also became a SU Demonstrator for 3 months, resigned as I just love all those other wonderful stamps there are out there and all those wonderful techniques and crafting materials. Just loving this wonderful journey have met some wonderful, talented, kind people. Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful candy, take careX:)
I have never been a very creative person even when I was a kid I hated coloring just because I wasn't very good at it and could never seem to manage to stay in the lines and make my pictures look neat and pretty so when I discovered stamping and realized that you didn't have to stay in the lines all of the time, I was hooked! It is also a TOTAL stress relief for me. When I stamp I am in a zone and I lovey love love it!
As far as scrapping, I came into that a little later and had sooooo many pictures(like 1000's) I just hated to see them just sit in the books and not tell the story behind every one of them, Needless to say, I am still wayyyyy behind but it is just so much fun to pull them out and explain all the goods, the bads and the uglies in my scrapbooks and my son will later on totally appreciate all the love that has gone into all those books of and for him!
Thanks so much for the chance to win some great candy! Hugs, Dannette
I've been making cards for a several years now, but then I had a brake from it for some years.
About 2 years ago I came across with many great card making blogs and it took my interest. From that on I've been making cards again, a bit different than before.
I actually slipped in to scrapping... started with decoupage, then decoupage on cards... Then I discovered how fun it was to craft cards, in the beginning there were mostly 3D-cards with decoupage-technique. After a while I started to blog my cards, and found out that one could do so much more!! Tried very carefully to do an LO, it was very difficult to let go, to not craft too perfect. That held me back for a long, long time... But I'm stuck, there is sooo many techniques to learn, so many photos to scrap, so many cards to make. Wonderful!!
Of course I want a chance to win this candy, how exciting! Thank you for the chance.
It started at a baby shower at work. One of the gifts the mother-to-be received was a box of thank you cards made by a co-worker. I thought it was a wonderful idea! When I looked at the cards she made I was so impressed I kept asking her questions how did she do this and how did she do that. She talked me into going to a demo day at the local craft store. They had eight demos and six of them were making cards. I made all six cards and was so proud of what I did!! Since then I have taught myself many techniques and different methods of making cards. Suzanne has taught me so much on her blog and attending a Copics class she taught. I love Susana’s store and she is one HUGE enabler!! LOL Thanks for the chance to win!
For me it was after watching Suzanne's copic tutorials on You tube. I had given up stamping years ago as I was unhappy with their coloured finish. Suzanne made it look easy, so I decided to give copics a try. I decided if I could get the skin colour to look right I'd be set.
Well that was it, now I LOVE IT! Scrapbooking has taken a back seat.
I'm continually adding new copics to my collection and get constant inspiration from seeing what everyone creates. Not to mention all the fantastic 'how to' tutorials out there. Thanks for the opportunity to win ladies, Tracy xx
Hi!
Oh I can't wait for the collection to be revealed.
I started stamping because I fell in love with PB images, after that I have found whole new worlds and images I love to color. Especially the cat in the bra image hit me hard! =)
And scrapping I feel is on it's way to get me going as well, I love the way a scrapbook page tells a story.
Hugs, SannaS
Good Morning. Thank you for the chance to join in to win this blog candy.
I started scrapbooking after I got divorced. I had a coworker who was a Creative Memories consultant who got me started. I had just moved & left behind my old life and was looking for new friends and a way to start over.
I've been hooked on it ever since!
Dawn Bibby from QVC first got me started in stamping and crafting..thanks for the chance to win i am super excited to enter your giveaway..
i got into card making first thanks to my best friend (since elementary school, Donna. she bugged me for two years to go to a SU card class and I kept coming up with excuses. I finally went to my first, and was so excited about it the instructor gave me a special 'prize' for my excitement. and that as they say is the rest of the story! I just kept going and I got into scrapbooking when my first daughter, Becca, and then second, Lizzybet, arrived. (both my girls are adopted from china). Now I am so in love with it we don't even have a dining room anymore, my girls call it 'Mommy's scrapping room'. I love it!! I love it even more since I found Susana's site and Elisabeth Bell stamps and all the other goodies she has. I don't even go into the local SBS's anymore. We only have the AC moore and michaels and they DO NOT have the wonderful stuff I find at Susana's store, thanks!!
Thanks for the chance to win, haven't yet but know my day will come!!
well I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch but a neck injury meant I couldn't sit bent over for hours on end. Then while watching tv I saw a demo on rubber stamping and painting with inks .. .. the rest is history and now I have a room full of rubba and pots of pencils and pens as well as drawers full of ink pads! It's the colouring that I love and Elisabeth's images are just perfect for pencils, markers or inks!
hugs, annie x
I began scrapbooking first - I'd never heard of stamping - because of my girls. I was a single mom raising two small girls (3 and 6). I had a TON of pictures of them and wanted to keep them for the girls when they got older. A friend introduced to scrapbooking and although money was unbelievably tight, I began investing little by little and creating a keepsake for my girls - I wanted it to chronicle that even though it was now just the three of us, we were still a family.
Another friend introduced me to stamping and I fell in love with it even more. It enabled me to be not only creative but what I think is artistic when I can't draw even a straight line! I am able to create a beautiful piece of art using images from other talented artists and making it my own little piece of "art" that I can share with my family and friends.
I must say that Elisabeth's images are among my all-time favorites!
Thanks for the chance to win!! I can't wait to see her new release!
Glynda
What inspired me.....
I'm creative my whole live and ended in cardmaking for my own website. Some hobbyfriends where already stamping and scrapping and I always said: That's nothing for me....!
But there where such a beautiful stamps so I give it a try and bought some ink and stamps. That was 1 1/2 year ago. Wow and that was the start of my addiction for scrapcards and little projects.
Love it.
xx Anita
Thanks for the chance to win. After I retired last year a friend asked me to attend a CTMH home show and I fell in love with stamping but when I attended my local scrapbook store and signed up for a copic card class that really got me started but even better I found SCRAP BITZ with Suzanne Dean. I live in the same area and was able to attend a class given by Suzanne in her home. I am hooked!
Oh what inspired me was i had just left work on ill health and was watching QVC and then bought a docraft mag joined their site and saw all the amazing cards and everyone was so helpful that i decided to have ago but i fell in love with Sarah Kay images so guess she was my main inspiration to do her images justise.
I got started scrapin in high school. My friends and I were camera happy. I had shoe boxes full of pictures but couldn't remember all the whos, whats wheres and whens. I went to an LSS one day and was instantly hooked. I then started travelling to all sorts of different countries and started buying stamps to add to my scrapbooks. I stopped doing all my crafts when I moved around every year for about 7 years then two christmases ago I wanted to make my own holiday cards. Well after that I just started card making all the time just for fun. I love it!
I had seen some rubber stamps at Walmart many years ago and thought they would be neat to stamp the back of envelopes with. Had them for quite awhile before I used them--with embossing powder over a toaster. Wasn't that impressed with them, but liked the idea and gradually started adding better quality and more variety. I've been stamping many years now---coming a long way! Thank you!
My mother, God rest her soul, always sent cards to people and I rarely did. And she loved to receive them too. She always bought her cards. But when my friend invited me to stamp with her I thought I could carry on Mom's tradition. I think of her every time I make a card. It's been a wonderful pass time and a way to stay in touch with lots of people that I probably wouldn't have without this hobby. Thanks for the chance to win the yummy candy! Have a great week! Donna
A cardmaking friend tried for months to get me to come over go give it a try - she said I had an amazing grasp of colour. I was awed by the wonderful cards she occasionally sent me (to tease me? highly likely), so finally I agreed. I was HOOKED from then on. Now, not only does she inspire me, but I find wonderful ideas by looking at all the lovely blogs, galleries, websites and tutorials available, including the blog here at heartsnhugs (I will definitely be using the one about using CI paints/sponge dauber - thanks!). Lovely prize, good luck to all the entrants!
I like to blame my addictions on my mother...she was going to Michaels for beading supplies and saw all the scrapbook stuff and thought it would be neat for me to use scrapbooking to save all my Celine Dion articles/memorabilia. 5.5 years later, I am a full blown addict LOL!
I started stamping about the same time since I used the stamps in my scrapbook, then I was invited to a CTMH party and an SU party, and my cardmaking days took off from there.
Looking forward to the new release!
Well my answer has several parts! My hubby is actually the one who got me started with stamping believe it or not! We were Christmas shopping in NH one day back in the early 90's and I was in another store and he saw this heat embossing demo in a store. He came and got me because he knew being the artsy craftsy person I was... I'd love it! Well he was right! We ended up buying all the supplies for me to make all our Christmas tags and a few cards that year. I stuck mainly to tags for a number of years. Then came my first Grand child and scrapbooking began. Then, my DD, who used to love making those tags with me as a teen... went to a SU! worshop and showed me what they did.... and the rest is history as they say! I started into card making BIG time and have not looked back since!
I often wonder if my DH ever regrets getting me started in this hobby? LOL! He's now finishing off a room for me in the basement to hold all my supplies!!! LOL!
Thanks for this fun chance to win these absolutely precious stamps!!!
My mom inspired me to start stamping. She went to a Stampin' Up party around 20 years ago now and showed me what you could do and I loved it. I ordered a bunch of things from Stampin Up (and my mom was in WI and I was in NC), so we shared our hobby via the phone and sendning cards. Then I had my first child and took a long break, as I couldn't find the time. But about 6 years ago, a friend introduced to one of her friends who was a Stampin Up demonstrator and the passion was ignited again, we started getting together with a group of people to have "craft night" and from there have found all of these wonderful products out on the internet. It is a great way to express your creativity even if you can't draw or paint, and just a lot of fun. Thanks for the fun contest, can't wait to see the new releases- Elisabeth's stamps are some of my favorites!
The answer is convoluted in a way. My nieces have been scrapbooking for years. My usual new baby gift was a covered photo album with a personalized cross-stitch framed on the front. They tried to convince me to start scrapping, but I didn't feel I had any talent in that area. Now I work with and am a close friend to a lady who scraps. She encouraged me to come "to play" at her house. So I started an album of our trip to Italy. Shortly there after she introduced me to card making. WELL, that was it, I was "hooked". Now, just 3 years later, I can't imagine a day without doing some form of scrapbooking/cardmaking!! Thankfully I have a wonderful husband who is VERY supportive. He makes sure I get food and sleep! My biggest project now is to go back over the years of pics of my two grown sons and complete a scrapbook for each of them. It is so hard to CHOOSE the photos!!
Thanks for "listening" to my story and thanks too for the chance to win! You can never have too many supplies:)
My cousin got me interested in stamping many years ago and I've been addicted ever since! I also started scrapping to keep memories of my children who are now in their 20's so those scrapbooks are precious. I love making and sending cards to keep in touch the "old fashioned" way with friends and family. They love the personal touch!
Hi Susana! I started stamping about 10 years ago when a friend from work introduced me. It wasn't until about 3 years ago that I really got "addicted!". I was staying at home with my kids and I just needed something to do just for myself. The rest is history!
My daughter talked me into buying a scrapping kit several years ago. Thinking it would be a here today gone tomorrow thing I did it. But I am so glad I started this. About 5 years ago I started stamping. It just adds a little magic to scrapping and cardmaking. I'm sure these new stamps will be beautiful. Thanks for the chance to win.
Hi there! I started scrapbooking for my son - so I could remember all the precious moments. However at times I become "stumped" or "stuck" and frozen. It was during one of these times that I fell into cardmaking and am now obsessed...LOL. I love how quickly I can create something (versus the time it takes to complete a scrapbook page). And it feels like therapy coloring the stamped images. Thank you for the chance to win these stamps. I love Elisabeth Bell's images and your store!
I started scrapping back in 1997 when I picked up my first issue of Creating Keepsakes. I looked at my three small children and thought about each milestone, I knew it was something I never wanted to forget! I also wanted to capture these moments so they can enjoy them when they have their own children!!
Can't wait for the new release!
To tell you the truth there was no inspiration necessary. My 1st introduction to stamping was card-making at a Stampin up workshop 14 years ago. I was hooked before I even saw her finish her card or learned the many fabulous techniques. My mind began going and going and there was NO turning back. From that day forward my motto has been you are only limited in what you can do with stamps by your own imagination. I currently design the FREE weekly Make & Takes for Stamp Express, a local Stamp/Scrapping Shoppe, I also teach clases for them and I just designed a line of 21 exclusive designer papers for them and I am working on designing an exclusive line of stamps for them as well. I also plan and host Mini Conventions for a friend and local Stampin Up Manager, which she hold twice a year for her down line. I plan the entire mini convention, prepare the Projects for the Make and Takes, meals and all. Both places pay me in product of my choice which supports my habit and and makes us all incrdibly happy. Stamping & Scrapbooking is a passion and a way of life, not sure what my life would be like if I didn't stamp, it really is who I am the InkyWoman@comcst.net
I started stamping after attending an in home party for D.O.T.S. I thought some of the techniques she demonstrated were so COOL.
Scrapping was several years later and actually began in 1998 as something to do while on bedrest with my second child. DH was very supportive and it has just expanded since then :)
Thank you for a great opportunity to win wonderful stamps!
I had a really bad scare in 2000 and I really thought that I wasn't going to make it. I was a divorced mom and I realized that if I did die in that hospital that noone could or would be able to tell my story to my daughter. Or tell her what she meant to me. So I started scrapping and making different things that I felt would show her our life. I have made a complete recovery and have since married a wonderful man and have 2 step-sons. I still have that first album I made of my daughters first year and I take it out every 5th of October. Now I make cards and invitations etc...
I began scrapping about 15 years ago, after my son was born and I had tons (and tons) of pictures that I wanted to preserve. I began stamping a couple of years ago, because it's like the grown up version of coloring (and I LOVED to color with crayons when was a kid), only with better tools. Copic markers are my favorites to color with and there are so many stamps just begging to be colored.
I was inspired to start stamping when I was shopping for some birthday cards and realized that they were so impersonal and unoriginal. I thought "I can do better than that!" And so the addiction began :)
My love of drawing and designing led me to a friends house one day for a little creative outlet. I had no idea that she was a Stampin' Up sales rep. I was just fascinated by the stamps, inks, and paper. I was hooked!
I started stamping and scrapping as a way to use creative energy. There really wasn't anything big epiphany or inspiration.
I wasn't really inspired, just invited to a SU party a few years ago. I thought it sounded really silly, but went just for a night out of the house, and an addiction was born...
What inspired me to start stamping in the first place was my sister. She started making these beautiful cards and I always looked forward to getting one of hers in the mail. I think people appreciate a hand made card more then a store bought one and love to see the look on their faces when they get one!!!
I have always been crafty, making handmade quilts, crocheting, and making most of my clothes growing up. But when my first grandson was born ten years ago, I started scrapbooking. Four years later I went to my first home stamping party and was hooked! I started selling my cards and have grown so much in this field! I still scrapbook a little but not much and I should because the family is growing! I'm inspired by all of the ideas on the net, the new stamps, the new embellishments, new cardstock, etc. I have such a variety of stamps! This gives me something to do each day and keeps my fingers and mind active!
There were a couple of things that started me off on my journey of cardmaking. First thing was getting my girls some stamps for a Christmas gift at JoAnn's. Then going to a real stamp store and seeing embossing and the wonderful cards that could be made.
I first started stamping 6 years ago because I was inspired by the beautiful cards that my Sunday School teacher's wife had made for our church fundraiser. I had just had my first child and was looking for a hobby to help give me some "me" time. She and I became best friends and stamped every week until she recently moved. We still get together and stamp, and I absoultely love doing it!
I started scrapbooking because I attended a party for a scrapbooking company just before my 2nd child was born 4 1/2 years ago. I was already taking TONS of pictures, and didn't want them to just end up in a box - I wanted my kids (and my husband & I) to be able to remember everything about their childhood. I am a little behind on it right now, but it is such a joy to do. Even at age 6 and 4 my children love to look at the scrapbooks and relive those memories!
I started scrapping to create a heritage album for each of my children. That was in 1992. I haven't looked back. Last year, I found Copic markers, and bought a few. I loved them. Now I am hooked. I am Copic certified. I teach Copic classes and have been asked to sell my cards in a local store. I can't get enough stamps and Copic markers. They are just so much fun.
Wow! What an awesome prize!!! I started scrapping after I had two grandchildren and decided I wanted to make them a book from Gramma's perspective. That was about 6 or 7 years ago and now I have 9 more grands! All was fine and dandy in that area until last November when I discovered making cards was so much fun. I have not done one scrapbook page since but I do have a nice pile of cards! lol I have a good friend that stamps a lot and tried to tell me how much fun it was but I was not interested in stamping at all........until CARDS! Now I have lots and lots of stamps and just can't stop! lol
Thanks for offering such a great candy and I am sure some lady will remember this win forever. hugs,
Moshie
My daughter actually started me on scrapbooking. From there I started stamping. Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to win these fabulous stamps!
What an awesome treat.
I started scrapbooking over 10 years ago, I have literally 1000's of pictures that still need to be put in books, but alas stamping found its way into my home. I don't really remember how I started stamping but I did and though I don't regret it, hubby wishes I hadn't found it. Consequently, I have put scrapping on a back burner but getting the itch to do some more of that lately.
Thanks for the chance at this awesome blog candy.
Hi Susana and Suzanne,
Well... this is how I remember it. As a small child I was always making something new out of practically nothing; I expect I inherited this gift from my grandparents, for whom it was a necessary way of life. Then, at age 9, a truly wonderful birthday present from Mom and Dad, a brand new hard cover edition of McCall's Make-It Book! I was over the moon and on my way to a good life in creativity heaven. Growing up meant happily learning a multitude of handicrafts; marked by another magic moment when my Dad installed a motor on the sewing machine - holy smokes - now I was really flying (but only during tv commercials or else my brothers would yell at me to stop the darn noise). Then Dad brought a loom into the house, I learned and loved weaving, so did he.
Fast forward to today, children grown, Home Ec career done and here is my wonderful daughter-in-law showing me some cards she made at a SU party. I tried it for myself... experienced a glimmer of hope for a new hobby... shortly followed by a tremendous flash-back in the creative side of my brain... I am transported back to elementary school, where I am a little girl standing trance-like in the doorway of my teacher's art supply closet, seeing and smelling the gorgeous stacks of colored paper, pencils, paints, brushes, glue and all the other intriguing objects of my dreams! I'm hooked :D
Thus, begins another phase in my life and I'm loving every minute of discovery and meeting many marvelous people who love it too.
xoxo
I started scrapbooking right after my oldest son was born. I had SO many pictures taken of special moments, and I did not want to just out them in an album. I wanted to do something special. So, I started learning about scrapbooking. I have LOVED everything from there.
Stamping is something pretty new to me, and I am still learning different techniques and purchasing new stamps as they come out. I am loving the look that stamps give to projects and paper. It is wonderful to watch a project transform into something else once a stamp is added. I love copic markers, colored pencils, and adding embossing & flower soft to stamps. It makes everything POP! So much fun. Thanks so much for the giveaway and the constant inspiration!
beccafabozzi@gmail.com
I started scrapbooking after I took a two week cruise to Alaska in 2003. It just exploded from there. I branched out to make Christmas cards that year and have been stamping and scrapbooking ever since. I work part time for a local craft store and teach different stamping techniques to those interested. cardsbyheidi@gmail.com
I can't remember when I first got interested into stamping. I can remember having a few stamps & some glitter in a shoebox forever. I made my daughter's graduation announcement on the computer. I can remember trying to melt embossing powder over a candle flame before I got my heat gun. I guess that I really got into stamping when I was given a bunch of OLD familiy pictures that my parents had stored in a box down in the basement. I needed supplies to do it with; didn't I. I started to attend some scrapping & stamping conventions; watching the demos, & I wanted to buy it all. The rest is history.
What fantastic blog candy you are giving away. You're so kind to do this.
I have done all kinds of crafts since I was a little girl. I love doing handwork and give the items to friends and family as gifts. Now that I'm older and have arthritis I had to give up most of my hand work. I still can do stamping and like making cards. I've been making our Christmas cards (60 to 70 cards per year) for the past 29 years. And I make cards during the year for birthdays, wedding, babies, etc. Stamping and making cards is something I enjoy doing and it's a creative outlet and relaxing for me. The cards are a way for me to still enjoy a craft and give to people.
Thanks for a chance to win some great blog candy.
I was inspired by my daycare provider. She felt that it was very important that her parents "see" what their kids did while away from mom and dad. Each year for christmas she provided every family with a scrapbook of each child and what they did ALL YEAR! These were 12X12 scrapbooks for each child. It was very important to her that each 1st remained a first for the parents and although she took pictures all year she didn't share in first steps or words so that we could experience that together. She took our kids on field trips and had parties for every occasion and scrapped about it in our gift. When I finally became a SAHM I wanted to continue what she had so lovingly started and I knew just where to go to find out how! My son graduates from high school next year and I have a mountain of memories thanks to one very special lady who took her time and money to ensure that I got to "watch" my child grow up even though I was a working mom!
Hi, I went to a SU party and got hooked. I became a SU Rep and just continued to become more addicted. I am no longer a Rep but i continue with rubber stamping. Elisabeth Bell's items make it even easier to be addicted, she does such beautiful work.
Thank you,
Tona
I was invited to a stamp party in high school and loved the stamps and what the demonstrator showed us. I have been making cards and crafting ever since. I love it.
Thanks for the chance to win, actually I scrapbooked first. My mom passed away and I needed a hobby!! Then I found stamping through a Stampin Up class. Loving it ever since!!!!
I love this question - My mother taught me to sew when I was 7 and she passed away when I was 10. I continued sewing for myself, family and then friends. My favorite was making gifts. I always personalize my gifts whenever possible. With the gifts, I also needed a card but could never find the "perfect" card. I went to a class with a friend and discovered that I could give a special gift with a personalized card that I made and they would all match. Members of my family look forward to my gifts since they know it will be made special for them and personalized.
I absolutely love it and know if mom were here today, she would be doing it right along beside me!
Thanks for the chance to win some awesome candy.
WOW!!! First let me just tell you THANK YOU for the chance to even win this amazing candy.. I will be crossing my fingers AND Toes.. and anything else I can cross..hehe
I started Scrapbooking because I wanted my children and their children to know why a photo was taken and who was in that photo.. where we were and the sad, funny, weird, scary stories that we behind the photo.. My mom has always taken photos of us and logged on the back of the photos what they were etc.. I was 16 years old when I started my first scrapbook. I can't even tell you how much I love looking back at photos of my children and of me when I was little.. and hearing the laughter of my childrens voices when we read what was written about them or about me.. looking at the funny hair photos or my son who put a WHOLE jar of Vasaline in his hair because he wanted to do his "hair like daddy's with moose" lol or the photo where my little girl has her first Christmas Dress on that Gram made her.. etc.. to me it is not only writting down, or creating a beautiful page.. but you are also creating memories while you look back at the old ones.. It's family and quality time.. that I hope my kids will look back at these books when I am old and gone and tell their children about how we used to laugh for hrs about these books that were created out of love.. :)
Thanks again for letting me have a chance to win.. and for letting me express why I do what I love.. HUGS
I was drawn to scrapping for the creativity. The fun of it allkept me going!
About 6 years ago my co-worker was on a cruise and she attended a scrapbooking session on the boat....and brought back a Stampin Up catalogue with her....and showed it to me.....and the rest is history! I often thank her but also think that I should send her a bill for the kazillion billion dollars worth of product that I have purchased since!
Wanting to keep a history of my family was what got me started on scrapbooking, the stamping came when an aunt sent me a package with the things I'd need to get started making cards. :)
I have been scrapbooking for about 12 years now. This was a fun, exciting, different way for me to keep a baby book for my son. I wanted to do something more in depth than a regular baby book. And I have been hooked on scrapbooking ever since. As far as cardmaking goes I just got into that a couple years ago and I got into that because I needed a card for a friend but didn't have the money to go out and purchase one but had all my scrapbooking supplies lying around so I decided to stop and make a card. And I haven't been able to stop. I haven't bought a card since the one I bought before that very first card I made!!!
Thank you so much for the chance to win these stamps. I only just started using stamps within the last year so my stamp supply is very small so this is a much needed addition for me and would be welcomed with open arms!
hugs
Mary
Oh wow! Thanks for offering up such wonderful blog candy! I started stamping after I received a Cricut Expression machine for Christmas a few years back. I started looking through the internet to find crafts/ projects that I could make using the cricut then I came across all these wonderful card making blogs featuring some of the cutest little girl stamps and new I had to try it. This also led me to copic markers and discovering Suzanne Dean on Youtube and all her awesome tutorials.
Can't wait to see the new release! hugs, Angela
My love of crafting and wanting to create for my children is what inspired me to start scrapping. My friend, Cindy, was my stamping inspiration.
I got a little bored w/scrapbooking. I kept walking past the stamps at Hobby Lobby & was curious about them. I bought one & I was hooked! I'm not bored!
My love of fabrics, colors, and quilts spilled over into paper crafts...starting with the early projects with my kids...and the rest is a rather expensive history :)
I've always done some kind of crafting or sewing, so when I was invited to a Stampin' Up! party a few years back, it was a natural progression! It has now become a terrific passion, and has taken over a good part of my basement!! Love it!
Oh my - that's an easy question. I have always been a seamstress and quilter so creating is in my blood. I saw a card done by a local girl and contacted her immediately to ask if she gave classes, she does and it snowballed from there. She gave me some websites to purchase products and I found all you wonderful crafters out there. This has been soooooo much fun - and what fantastic blog candy. Would love to win. Sharon M.
We had a Stampin' Up demo come to the RV park where we were staying. It was not long before I was hooked!
I've always been interested in art and doing creative things, but after high school I didn't do much in either category. Then one day a friend took me to a scrapbooking class and needless to say, I've been hooked ever since. I loved the idea of journaling to capture what happened so I would remember in years to come.
Now, I've been getting into cardmaking, which is really motivating because it doesn't take as long to complete the project and you have something great after just a few hours. It takes so long sometimes to do a scrapbook page or album. But a card can be whipped out in a short amount of time. Plus the joy it brings to someones else is priceless!
Rosemary
I was inspired to start stamping when i saw some beautiful stamps in a shop. I had nothing, no inkt and no idear what to do with them but i wanted to have them and now jears later i stil have them and many more. Now i now jou cant never have to muts of them.
Marjan van Ingen
Hello! I have always been a scrapper ever since I was a little girl I was putting books together. Now stamping just started about 2 years ago and it is all my BFF's fault. I met an amazing artist Paula when I started a new job. She would bring in these jaw dropping cards which I ended up buying most of them. Then she started her blog and invited me to a stamp party and I was hooked!
Hugs,
Mary
I just love all the beautiful stamps,and I have a lot of stamps from Elizabeth Bell,and i think that is what started me and my addiction for stamps and cardmaking.
I still belive in Santa Claus,and i will be glad if he visits me and gave me the gift from you :-)
Hugs from Helle in the northern part of Norway
Hi.
Easy too answer.
I saw some cards that a colleague of my had made for christmas, it must have been 7 years ago, Then when we were in London, at Hamly's, they demonstrated how to make cards.
Of Course I bought a set. My colleague learned my how to do it, and then.... I was sold.
I used to knit a lot of sweathers and paint a little bit, but now it's all about cardmaking and some scrapping.
Thank you for the chance to win this candy.
Hugs, Kaia
I have been stamping so long, I can't honestly remember, but I guess it's my love of papercrafts in general & making things pretty.
I just love stamping and cardmaking!!
And I still belive in Santa Claus :-)
Hugs from Helle in the northern part or Norway
Oh how fun!
I was inspired by finding out I was prego...I was very excited to take pictures and document everything about my new baby, that was years ago....when stamping your own scrapbook pages was big...and of course stamping the announcements started my card making.
In the middle 90's, I saw some samples of stamped cards in various spots--carts in center of mall aisle, area of small boutique shops., It fascinated me and when I saw images I liked I started coollecting rubber stamps. I started searching for inks and learning the differences. When I saw heat embossing I was hooked completely and this is probably 5000 stamps or so later. Of course scrapbooking came along when I saw the Thomas Kinkade papers and album. I just love all coloring techniques, etx. Copic markers are my newest collection--thanks Susanne J. Dean! Kathie kdobbins194807@yahoo.com
I have been scrapping since I was in grade school making my own albums of my friend's school pictures. That of course graduated into scrapbooking full board when I was in junior high. Then in 2007 my hubby got me a Cricut to help me with my scrapping and on the Cricut MB I saw a stamping bella stamp that I just had to have. So since early 2007 is when I started stamping and I haven't turned back since. My scrapping has taken a back seat to my stamping! I absolutely love stamping and card making...coloring is my favorite past time and a great stress reliever! Since I found Copics I am so in love with coloring!!!
thanks so much for the change to win some wonderful stamps Susana you are the greatest!
Hugs~ Kim
WOW! Wonderful candy!
What inspired me was the cost of cards... I hated spending 5 dollars for a generic card that was a cookie cutter design...nothing original. So I thought I would give it a shot and make beautiful cards with lots of personality and personalization! Needless to say I am ADDICTED now!! LOL!
I love love love Elisabeth Bell stamps and thank you for a chance to win!!
-Stacie
I've been scrapping for about 5 years now and it all started when we wanted to make a special gift for my Mom for her 50th birthday. We made a book of pictures through the years. Shortly after that I got married and did an album for that and I pretty much have never looked back.
Cardmaking is a little more of a recent hobby for me but I am totally addicted. I love sending homemade cards out.
Hi, what started me with scrapping was all the pictures of my grandson and wanting to give them something that would relive all the fun times and the precious moments of their lives, which then lead me into stamping within the scrapbooks. First it was scrapbooks for each of them, then our yearly vacation together. I quickly became addicted to rubber stamps, when a friend gave me the link to SCS and there started my addiction to card making.
I've always been a craft person I think it's just in the way I was brought up. My mother sewed our clothes for us and I actually LOVED wearing them :) My grandmother taught me how to needlepoint. I started papercrafting when my daughter was born. I didn't get into scrapbooking and it's still something I want to do even after she's turned 21 this year!! I'm so bad :( I love making cards to give to others and see their smile. Now I'm starting to make other items besides cards to broaden my ideas. I love looking at the blogs to get inspiration because without them I wouldn't still be paper crafting! :)
I love your stamps and am looking forward to seeing what your #3 is!!!
I started stamping and card making when i was pregnant with my first child as i was so bored and fed up being at home all day.I really loved it and found that the hours soon drifted by. Then my daughter was born and i had no time to do anything for myself really, a few years went by and i decided to start stamping again, as i had a bit more time for myself. Ive also just started my first ever scrapbook and have created a few pages of my daughters first year.
I felt it was only fair that she got her own scrapbook as it was because of her that i got into this fabulous hobby! :o)
I went to a friend's house and the were making cards and the rest is history. I was hooked. I love making and sending hand made cards. and yours would be an awesome blog candy to win
My answer is "Julie" (http://catchmecrafting.blogspot.com/)- my friend of over 35 years! Julie regularly made her greeting cards for me (often up-cycling cards and adding buttons or gems) then I started making cards - mostly using the word processor and clip art. Julie discovered craft stores - a discovery she shared with me. I purchased some stamps and had one made too and stamped up some kitchen linens (oven gloves & apron) using fabric inks. But then Julie discovered craft blogs and once again shared with me the inspiration and knowledge she gained from those and the vast variety of stamps out there. It seems that everything she learned she shared with me and now we try to get together once a month to stamp and colour and create! If I am lucky enough to win these stamps (and I'm a big fan of Elisabeth Bell) then I will absolutely share them with Julie! Thank you for the opportunity! Warmest wishes, Lesley
One summer I was on a vacation for some days on motorcycle and I wanted to make an album to remember the tour. Making this scrapbook I come over some rubberstamps that would work so well on one layout. Now there was no turn around. Soon I had a lot of stamps, inkpads and so on. Today I make both cards and scrapbooks.
I bought 3 cards in a store for nearly $20... so I wanted to make my own, I started with Iris Folded cards, I loved the effect... now, thanks to the blogging world, I am firmly hooked on all things inked, printed, coloured and embellished! Love giving people something made just for them x
My friend Tamie & I started scrapping way back when. I saw the scrapbook magazines in the store & just learned from there. I did some midnight crops but mainly just learned as I went. I wanted to preserve pictures & memories of Tamie's oldest that died when he was almost 4 (he was like my on little guy) and it grew from there. Cards came within the last few years & finding a happy medium for both is my problem...along with finding the mojo.
I guess I got started seriously scrapping after I started stamping. I made cards, etc. and thought stamping could also be used in scrapbooking. About that time, my kids all left home and I knew (or hoped desparately) that grandchildren would be on the way! I felt the need to scrapbook for my first grandson 'cause my daughter was practically a single mom and didn't have time - so it was up to me!!! AND I LOVE IT!!!!
jackie
I started stamping and making cards many years ago (about 25 years ago) and was really into it, then I got into scrap booking and just in the last three years have gotten back into stamping nad card making, which is what I am into right now the scrap booking has been put aside for the time being, as I am really enjoying the card making and all of the fun classes and techniques I am learning!
I was new to my job and state (8 years ago), and a girl at work invited me to a rubber stamp party. I had no idea what she was talking about, I had never heard about stamping. I wanted to make some new friends, so I went to the party and was amazed how creative you could be making your own cards. I wondered what rock I was living under that I had never heard about stamping. So from that point on, I've been making cards and all kinds of stuff. Not to mention "collecting" every cute stamp I can get my hands on, and getting a craft room filled with wonderful stamps.
Thanks so much for the chance to share my story.
I started in this cardmaking hobby because I had a cousin who was dying from cancer, and I could never find any cards to send her. Didn't like any of the thinking of you kind, and I wanted something to just let her know we hadn't forgotten her. We didn't live near her, and cards was the only way to keep letting her know. I understand she enjoyed them, and kept looking forward to them. I've since made it a point to make some for the residents at a healthcare facility here locally. I now have another male friend who is dying as well, and the cards I send him are more filled with humor and his wife and daughter say he looks forward to getting the mail. That makes me feel good!
I have evolved from a scrapbooker to a stamper. My kids are grown and I definetly did not have the pics that are so awesome today. I scrapped what I could and loved all the products out there and found these wonderful talented people on forums and I am in awe of them. I would love to win some of these gorgeous stamps. thanks for the opportunity to win.
After my grandmother passed away years ago I did a scrapbook for my father of all of the newspaper articles and pictures that had been kept by his mother of his golfing career, dating as far back as the early 20's. It was so plain and I had no idea what I was doing but he loved it. Then my oldes grandson started to follow in his footsteps at the age of 4 so I kept everything for him and did 2 scrapbooks, but again, plain as could be. Then when my youngest grandson was in high school he played football, basketball, and baseball. His biggest accomplishments were in football so I wanted to do something really special for him for graduation and it turned out to be a scrapbook of his football career. Wow, I have to say, with help, this turned out to be my best project yet and I loved doing it because this was NOT plain. Hence, graduated from scrapbooking to cardmaking and nothing is plain anymore. I love what I do now, have learned so very much, met people from all over the world, and really enjoy my newly found craft. It's so much easier to make others happy when you give something of yourself.
Hit submit too fast. Thanks so much for the chance to win. Love all of EBs work. Her images are fantastic.
"Hugs" Granny
It was actually my younger sister who inspired me when she showed me her children's amazing scrapbooks using CM products. I was hooked and now I can't stop. I don't do scrapbooks anymore but I have created a wonderful little craft space where I create cards and invitations on a never-ending basis. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win and for all the inspiration.
I moved a lot as a kid and started stamping to create my own stationary to keep in touch with friends. When I got my first camera it was great to have pictures to add to the mementos that I used to "glue" into my memory books.
How I started stamping- Well its weird my hubby one day said I needed a hobby .I took me for ever to figer out what to do .One day after X-mas I had a pic of my sons first X-mas and put in the frame it looked so borning .I didnt have really anything around to do anything so I took things off The X-mas tree and made a scrapbook page.and there where it all started .Now its part of my life.Thank you for the chance to win .It would be great!!!!Hugs Sarah K
My inspiration came from my mother and my sister. They were both into stamping and at the time they asked me to get involved, I couldn't afford it. They started sending me things to use and I borrowed a LOT from my mom. Then my DH and I got amazing jobs and thankfully, now I CAN afford this wonderful hobby. I enjoy making cards for my friends and my family and not having to buy Hallmark cards anymore.
I'll try to keep it short. :) My DH was deployed to Bosnia and our Family Support Group wanted to so something special for the entire Battalion. So after 450 Christmas cards I was hooked! LOL! (BTW, I did have help with those cards!)
Believe it or not, my daughter got me started! She loved card making and scrap booking - and is so creative.
I did tons of crafts growing up and have many fond memories carrying that tradition on with my children.
When my grown daughter started with CTMH company and I saw all of the wonderful ideas and endless fun there was to this hobby I was hooked. I'm still learning, when do we ever stop!? It's only been the last year or so I've found so many others on the Internet.
Would love to add this to my card making and scrapping pile.
Blessings, Donna
What started me scrapbooking was my girls....I wanted to make their memories special,rather then just flipping thru an album.
What started my stamping was the ability to make a card so personal to my family and friends.Whether it be their favorite color or specific image.
It was meant just for them,with all my heart and soul put into each project!
PS thanks for the opportunity to win such a great collection
PSS A bigger sneak peek pic would be great! :)lol
oh my goodness!!! you are SO VERY GENEROUS to give away all three sets *wow wow wow*
of course I don't want to miss this chance! so here's my answer to your question: I wanted to make handmade cards to announce the birth of my youngest (fourth) son and so I started making my very first card(s). I involved stamping and heat embossing in these first beginners cards and it looked 'not too good' *lol* (you know.. all the embossing powder was floating all over the card and melting *giggle*) I think I had to make around 100 cards to get 20 that could have been sent out *lol*
Until then (five years ago) I'm totally hooked! :)
Sylvia
Wow!!! What an incredible candy!!
What inspired me to start scrapbooking was my children... so many firsts... first tooth, first step, first bowl of cheerios dumped on the floor....
What inspired me to start card-making was the satisfaction of completing something start to finish, in a day (unlike my scrapbooking!!), and also that I can give it away. Nobody else looks at my scrapbook pages but me :D since they are tucked away in my scrapbook room!
OMGOSH, what an AMAZING prize!!
Ok, so my inspiration was my DD. When she was born I decided to make a baby album for her and the addiction started from there. After her album was done I went on to do my wedding ablum and then family albums. Then just recently I've delved into card making and am LOVING that too :)
I think scrapping had interested me for some time before I begun. And the reason was/is that I wanted to make more peronalized card, and maybe finish an album eventually. In the beginning I used to decorate cards with cosstitched motives, but it could take some time getting just one card finished :)
And seeing somebody really appreciate the card they got is a great feeling :)
I've always been a craft person too. But from a crafting friend I got my first handemade stamped card in the year 1999. And I was so overwhelmed about the effect of the embossed (powder) motive. So I participated in rubber stamping workshops here in Berlin and that was my own start into rubber stamping. That´s a really my first passion. No..I think in the meantime is really a addiction *lol*. Hugs from Germany... Tini
Awesome candy. Would love a chance at this. I started when I saw a program on television showcasing some rubber stamps and ' peel offs' and they were going to personalise the cards you make. Thought it would work out cheaper, boy was I wrong on that score. But I love what I do and it keeps me out of mischief:)
Marion
I like many others started with scrap booking, which led to me hosting a Stampin Up party. I enjoyed stampin so much, that I became a demo..Of course,I am my best customer..lol I began using the inks and coloring that way, moved on to the OMS technique and am now using copics. The main reason I stamp is that the coloring aspect relaxes me and believe me, it works especially when I've had a hard day at the office. Also, as the caregiver of someone who is disabled with MS and 2 teenage boys, need I say more. I remember as a child my favorite toy was color by numbers...well, this is the closest I could get.
I have been a crafter for many years, but my scrapbooking started when I was asked to do a scrapbook for a colleague. Even thought I had never done one, I was intriqued to learn and it just blossomed from there! Now, I work in a scrapbook store and teach! Imagine that!
I just wanted to try something new, because I was making cards with dimensions for a long time. So I thought I would give the stamps a try. And now it is my craft!!!hihi
Thank you for this great candy and all your kindness
Hugs Franca
Um, I always wanted to make cards but never new about stamps until I signed up for blogger, as soon as I saw them I wanted to do it! So everyone on blogger inspired me!!
So far the peeks are looking nice!!
Thanks for the chance :)
Hi and thanks for a chance to win. I was scrapbooking and making cards from graphics, and I fell in love with the little Tilda's and the Sugar Nellie stamps and from there it is just all history ! Of course copics have alot to do with this addiction.
Wow what a wonderful blog candy. Thank you so much for this awesome chance. Well sxrapping is easy...it wa my dtr who wanted to do a scrapbook for her senior project and I had gotten my mom's pics after she died. as far as card making ir came from DH not having a job for 2 1/2 yrs and having 10 grandbabies and no money to get them cute cards.
LGanske61@msn.com
Wow, that's some amazing candy and thanks so much for the chance to win.
What inspired me to start scrapbooking was the fact I wanted something for my children to have one day, but also something for me to remember all those special moments. My grandfather has dimentia as did my grandfather on my mother's side. The thought of not being able to remember something or to be able to tell my kid's all those wonderful stories just inspired me to scrap all those moments. They have lost 4 of their great grandparents, but we have stories and photo's to show them so they'll know who they were. To me, that's very important.
What a fantastic giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
I started scrapping after a CM party my Mom sent me to in 1996. When my first daugher was born in 1997 I went after it like a maniac and have never looked back! LOL About 7 or 8 years ago my sister became a Stampin' Up! demo. and the stamping obsession began. :-) Now I do both every chance I get!
When my oldest daughter was graduating from high school (2002) I wanted to make her a scrapbook of her school years from k-12. That's all it took - I've been hooked since.
Thank you for the chance to win some of Elizabeth Bell's wonderful images, even before they are released. I was inspired to start scrapping by my sister. She made my wedding album as my present and I was hooked after that. Since then, we both have started stamping because we enjoy making cards as well.
What Inspired me to start stamping are all the yummy and cute stamp images you can't find on cards that are bulk manufactured. I love to personalize when I give a gift and this is one big way to show the recipent they were personally thought of.
~Angela
Hello! Thank you for the chance to win *Elisabeth Bell* Stamps! Yayyyy! How sweet is that?!
Well ... hmmm ... I don't know when I first began stamping, probably in the early 90's as a fun way to just color and send little cards to my sisters. Then I shyed away from it for years, and recently got back into it Sep 2009. I saw all these wonderful stamps that came up, and discovered Elisabeth Bell (I know ... where have I BEEN! lol), and was completely "wowed" by the way cards was made. That was such inspiration to me!! So here I am .. a complete LOVER of cardmaking! :) I'm so glad!
luv & hugs,
Elise
It all started with buying a cricut in Oct. 09. Then I started watching You Tube videos to help me get ideas then.. I found Suzanne Dean!!! And discovered the Copic markers and the cutest stamps ever!! So needless to say I have purchased the copic markers and serveral stamps. I have always been a crafter and a tole painter. I am soo glad that I found you girls !! Thank you so much for all your sharing :) Big huggs
I remember exactly what started this addiction! I was browsing the internet looking for scrapbooking ideas. I had just spent a year sorting through all of my photos and organizing them so I could make my two adult children scrapbooks. In my internet search I ran across Spitcoast Stampers. I started looking at all of the beautiful stamped cards and all of their tutorials. Once I put a rubber stamp in my hand that was it! I was hooked!
~Pam
http://stampsinc.blogspot.com/
My inspiration was simply going to a Stampin' Up! workshop. I didn't want to go at all....after all what can you do with a rubber stamp????? But, my sister was having it for a friend (and my sister NEVER has these things) so I went for her. I fell in love instantly and bought a demo kit at the workshop....it has all been downhill from there!
What inspired me to start scrapping/stamping? I have seen the Cricut infomercial and always wanted to get one of those machines but the price was a little staggering. Well over the Thanksgiving holiday, and Black Friday, I was able to get a Cricut Create for a steal...after that, one of my girlfriends told me about the a Cricut MB that she belonged to where she chatted with a bunch of really talented ladies and participated in challenges etc. So I joined that Cricut MB and the rest was history!! I was officially bitten by the Bug as it were and have been scrapping different challenges ever since! There are so many techniques and cool projects out there that it is a bit overwhelming! I find that these ladies are a bunch of enablers and find myself scouting out all the deal at Michaels, AC Moore and Jo Anns!! But I have grown to love these ladies in the 3 short months I have known them and I am really having a great time! Now I need to get cracking on all the photos I have in a box that I need to scrap!
My niece and nephew inspired me to start scrapbooking. I wanted to record all the wonderful moments with them. :)
I started stamping/scrapping to be creative. I always liked to doodle but i could never really draw. When i had my son i had lots of pictures and of course my wedding and i wanted to doucment then in a way i could also tell the story that goes with the pictures. from there it branced out to stamping, painting, coloring and all the fun crafty stuff this hubby drags you to.
A friend of mine introduced me to stamping 10 years ago. She's so creative and made it look like so much fun, that it didn't take long for me to be as addicted as her! :)
I was inspired to atart Scrapbooking when i visited the usa for the first time, it had been a long life dream to visit memphis so for my 50th birthday 5 years ago i & my late Hubby went on a adventure, sailing on the Missisippi went to Tupelo yep i am and avid elvisfan explored Graceland, when it comes to stamping i was hooked when i saw some in my local craftshop.
Thanks for this great chance to win those stampset well i am crossing everything i can and i still believe in Santa too, LOL.
have a nice day
Hugs
Winnie @ Norwayscrapper from western Norway
My Answe is this- I am inspired to Scrap cause I see the Joys In My grandmother and the rest of my Family as I lay there precious Photos On cardstock and tell the story for Generations to Come. They love to look back and see what they have done in there past Years...
And As for Stamping I must admit I just started and I don't have many Stamps Yet..lol But That was Kinda your fault I watched your Tutorials and that was it I started ordering and trying out some Free Digis and I was hooked..
I took a make and take copic card class at our local scrapbook store just before Christmas and was hooked at the first time. I have crafted for many, many years but am just learning all about stamping and cards. I Love All that I see. Can't wait for my new stamps to arrive so I can play!!!!
Inspiration for scrapbooking came from when my son was born and I have lots of pictures where he was hooked up to machine after machine and I could not even remember at that time what was wwhat so I had to write it down. Looking at all the baby pictures if hard enough when you see all the wires and stuff hooked up but then trying to explain to him later was just as rough. Although Making his scrapbook was difficult it is always a pleasure to show the difference from the beginning to now 14 years old on football teams and doing just fine!
Thanks for the chance to win an awesome amount of cool things!
Denise Wells
mamascollectionsw@aol.com
I started stamping after attending a neighbors "stamp party" I thought I was going to a postage stamp party... Boy was I ever wrong, I've been addicted to stamping & scrapping ever since... Thanks for a chance to win some great prizes!
Deanette Wooster
mmwooster@sbcglobal.net
Well, first off, WOW and THANKS for the chance to win such an AWESOME blog candy. I'm a huge fan of Elisabeth Bell's work and have quite a few of her stamps already. I even convinced my local RS store to carry Whiff of Joy so that could get more of them, then I ordered from Bells and Whistles and anywhere else that I can find her stuff. LOL. Anyway, that's a digression. To answer your question, a friend of mine invited me to a stamping party years ago. We made some really cool cards and I left with a rather large order. My collection has continued to grow since then! - Gina L
What fabulous blog candy, it's very generous of you.
To answer your question, I used to enter competitions, but it meant being on the computer all day long, entering 100 competitions a day to see some prizes. I started finding it hard being on the pc so long at a time, so I asked for some advice on another hobby I could try, in a comping forum I go in. A couple of the girls there made cards in their spare time, so they suggested it to me, and 3 of them sent me some lovely packages with card, ink and some stamps in them, amongst other things. This was 2 years ago, and I've never looked back. I do miss the competition prizes I used to win, but love stamping and colouring so much that it takes up most of my spare time now.
Julie x
Wow! This is a question that needs it own blog to answer - lol! Here's mine : )
I actually started stamping AGES ago when a friend invited me to her Stampin' Up! party. Hooked!!!
Years and years passed without using them... :(
I started up again during the Summer of 09 after seeing Julie & Julia! I needed to start blogging... I began my search for knowledge and who do you think I found? None other than Suzanne J Dean!!! I began devouring her blog! I couldn't get enough - lol! So... my real answer would be that SUZANNE began my addiction to copics, stamps, paper and all things sparkly and pretty :D I think I should send her a bill!
Thanks for the FUN : )
Love and big hugs ~ Lori
I started out drooling over all the beautiful cards I saw in magazines...I soon became ADDICTED to rubberstampa!!! And, its getting worst everyday!
It has been a natural for me to do stamping. I had a few stamps I picked up along the way (mostly Pigs...Love em!!) The art of stamping is certainly the best for me to get to use all my talents and things I love to do, all in one place. You can play with Stamps,Fabric, paper, lace, add ons, shiney stuff, ink, colored pencil,paint, water colors, crayons, photos, buttons and baubbles! The list can go on and on...Then you get to drool over all the great blogs Like Suzannes , and buy stuff from You with a heart of gold and a great sense of Humor! Thanks for the great job you do in your store and on your blog...
What a fabulous opportunity to win some awesome stamps!! Thank you so much for your generosity!!
My cardmaking and stamping began when we were stationed at Ft. Polk, LA and a mother on my sons baseball team sold Stampin' Up. It has been downhill from there since...well downhill for my husband and our debit card..lol uphill for me because I have met such wonderful people since joining this craft world. I'm insprired daily from the folks I come across and the blogs that I find. Such talent amongst us!
I started cardmaking and stamping this winter. I just wanted to create some Christmas cards for my family. And it was the beginning. I find the word of cardmaking.
I just started and I don't have many Stamps and papers, I have not any markers.... Yet, but hope soon I will have more and more :)))
My first time was visiting my local toy store, and she was starting to sell stamps and lovely papers, I bought home a big fat cat with balloons and partyhat from Penny Black and some nice papers, and frome there its been lots and lots of stamps and all the rest of great things you can buy for cardmaking:) Love the blog candy:)
I started scrapping when my BFF took me to a scrapbooking-convention. I loved what I saw there!
I always embellished my albums and I cut my photos in circles and squares, but this.....this was just amazing.
I'm hooked ever since!
I started with a little card kit autumn 2007( the one you just put together), and was hooked. Soon I had bought stamps an inkpads, and now I see that my tiny little room is too small....
I really LOVE my hobby!!! :)
Hi Suzanne, thanks for the chance to win the great candy.
I was inspired by the wonderful blogs around the world.
xAndrea
I was inspired when i became pregnant and time on my hands as had to leave work early due to a dislodged pelvis .i started to paint pots terracotta ,then someone said you should make cards to go with them.Bingo my cardmaking started then my daughter was born and so did my scrapbooking from there it snowballed from hobby to full time buisness,until 2006 when i was diagnosed withME now i am back to it being a hobby and enjoy it more than ever.love trying my hat at new things.now my daughters do too!
thanks for the chance to win
hugs judex:)
An infomercial started my journey. I saw the Cricut, bought it and then discovered all these stamping sites. I soon realized that I'd rather stamp :-) I love my Cricut, but "coloring" just soothes my soul!
Very interesting to read all the stories, but I can't tell one myself. I never really stopped crafting in my life and so came to cardmaking via the internet and then started stamping.
Oh wow what awesome candy! I would love to win.
My Dad and Mom's 50th wedding anniversary is what got me all started in scrap booking and card making. I made all the invitations to there celabration along with party favors. I also made a scrap book of there celabration and I have been going strong ever since then.
Thanks for a chance to win.
Hugs,
Nancy
My SIL inspired me. Back in 2001, she gave me a scrapbook filled with pictures of my oldest dd. I loved looking back at it and decided to start scrapping on my own. After about 5 yrs of solid scrapbooking, I ventured out into stamping and continue to enrich my skill set often!
Thanks for the opportunity to win thsee fabulous sets! :)
~Tori
My mom passed away from cancer, and my dad was in a nursing home due to COPD. I found some old photo albums in their house, and decided to scrapbook their lives. My mom was SO pretty as a young woman!
I had just discovered a scrapbook store not far from my house, however; every time I went in I was overwhelmed by the sheer variety and amount of different products. This was back in 2000, so you can imagine how I would have felt walking into the same store for the first time today! The industry has expanded greatly in 10 years.
My first purchases were cardstock, paper trimmer, decorative scissors, punches, and zig pens. Now I have a whole room stuffed full of goodies!
I would love to win these stamps, Elisabeth Bell is my absolute favorite stamp artist.
Thanks,
Vicki Mitchell
Wow, what a generous and very exciting candy to announce the new release. Can't wait to see it! I discovered stamping and scrapbooking quite by accident. I was tired of seeing the photos of my girls in piles so 3 years ago I went to a local craft show and saw the most talented people create with adorable stamps and scrapbook pages with their photos. Well my addiction to all things papercrafting began and has endured to the present. Thanks for the chance to win such fabulous candy. Hugs, Maria
Thank you for the opportunity to win such fabulous blog candy!! I actually started scrapbooking when I had my son.
Hi Susana, I started down the crafty road when I saw the first Cricut come out and thought that would be the answer to all the bins of memorabilia un-scrapbook'd. *wink*
The Cricut collects dust these days and the bins never empty, but I'm having a blast with my cards! :)
Thanks so much for such a wonderful candy opportunity!
Cheers,
Susan
I srated over 15 years ago to save money on cards, that is a laugh, I have however found a great hobby stamping and scrapping
I was on maternity leave and watching Oprah and she had Lisa Bearnson on with one of her albums and I thought what an awesome gift for my son. We are now on his 3rd album and he loves going through them. What, or I should say who started me in cardmaking was your own Suzanne Dean. I was on SCS one day and saw one of her cards and was so inspired! As you already know, I found you through her and I have already told her she is my greatest enabler!
My son was turning 40 nad I wanted to give him a special present for the accassion. somehow he had managed to loose all of his photographes in the many moves he had made. I had never scrapped before, so I went hunting on the internet for information. I had no idea there was so much out there. I decided to use a simple digitial program. The scrapbook turned out to be both digitial and actual. I finished it on time and presented to him on his 40th birthday. He was very moved by it, and he now had all his photographes back ans in one place. Needless to say I was hooked.
I enjoy doing the actual hands on scrapping now. I also make all my own cards. I would love to win this awesome candy. What a jewel it would to had this to my collection. Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter to win. Patti Jacobs
I actually started scrapping/stamping because I recently got laid off and needed something to keep myself busy and not feel sorry for myself. After working in the healthcare field for 30+ years, losing your job is the last thing that you think will happen. So Im starting out with just a few things here and there and have discovered a wonderful group of people that scrap/stamp and it has given me a brighter outlook on how to do something I enjoy on a budget. Someone I met on a blog told how blog candy can be a good way to get some great items for free! It has also helped me make a list of 'must have' items to get as I can. Thanks for giving us this opportunity, and please know that it is appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrea6760
ajgood@comcast.net
I was invited to a Stampin' Up! party and everything was so much fun to create. I guess my excitement showed, so my then-boyfriend (now husband) went to a specialty store and bought me all kinds of supplies to keep going. After spending all that money, I couldn't not make any more cards, right? Now it helps me to relax and decompress after a long day at work!
Hi,
I started with crafting few years ago, when I moved to The Nherlands.
I got my first inspiration to try Stamping from this beautiful website of Sue Nelson
( www.heartprints.net)
Then I look around and found so beautiful blog's like yours and Suzanne's . Sorry I can't mention all the blogs which I love....lol.
Hug's
Reni
Hi so fab candy you are offering, I believe I have commented here, but I cant find my post. Ok will do it again. My first inspiration for creating was my granmum, she taught me to crochet and to knitte. I started with scrapbooking sinc I was in High school, and my first card was 3 years ago, it was ispired from my friend. Since then I love to stamp! Hugs, Moni
I have done some sort of crafting since I was very young and my mom did ceramics. As a teacher, I collected interesting stamps for art, writing rebus stories and doing math projects and from there began making cards. Friends love receiving hand made cards.
I have been a crafter since I was little and my Nana would take me to craft fairs at nursing homes and flea markets. I love to try all things...but stamping and cardmaking is my favorite passtime! I have a friend of a friend who is a SU rep and did a demo party for my friend. Well my friend became a demo also. Before long, I was hooked! My first set was Favorite Teddy Bear. I've been stamping for years now! I love making cards for the reactions they get! I'm a fan of all kinds of stamps and I love learning new techniques. Scrapbooking...that's next on the list...(need something good to scrapbook!) Thanks for the opportunity for this candy and for listening to my story :) I love Elisabeth Bell!
Hugs!
Janna :)
I belonged to a craft group for service wives about 15 years ago and they help a stamping day. I was hooked!!! I always like to make for myself and cardmaking was so easy and so much fun.
I hadn't done any scrapbooking till recently and am only up to my fifth page. i started because one of the ladies at my little classes wanted me to demonstrate some scrapbooking. What a challenge!!! Now I will definitely be doing some more of that!!!
WOW!! thats a lot of stamps! someone very lucky will win a great prize!
I started scrapping because i wanted to preserve my memories. I have 2 children now, so most, well the majority of my scrapping is about them! All their 1st are set in scrapbooks so we can remininsce later on.
I love stamping and embossing! there are so many possibilities when you make a card yourself,rather than buying one at the store!
thanks for share your stamps!
Hugs
Juli
I was layed off 4 years ago and i decided to take a early retirement.
I have always been a crafty person
but never into stamping. My income would be alot less and I thought that maybe I could learn to make my own cards.To my surprise
my family really likes them.Cards
cost so much.I have always like something more if it is hand made.
Thank You for a chance to Win such nice stamps
Linda W
ljunewall@hotmail.com
Hmm... I've always dabbled in crafts and when I finally got the internet I started searching card making and discovered stamping, then scrapbooking, but have come back to mostly stamping and cards.
Hi!
I started cardmaking one year ago, when our oldest son should have his confirmation. I made the invitations. And there I was! Love to go stamping and make cards to friends and when the children is invitet to birthdays.
Funny to read the storyes of how all you out there, came into cardmaking/scrapping.
Have a nice (stamping)day.
I really wasn't inspired - just invited to a SU party a few years ago. I thought it sounded silly, but went just for the night out of the house, and an addiction was born...
I started making cards many years ago, and got really into loving it when I lived in the Netherlands and found a hobby shop near by. There I learned to make 3D-cards, and I was hooked!
A couple of years after I came home, I discovered stamping, and I was hooked once again - but now it's even worse then when it was "only" 3d-cards... :P
It wasn't so much as a what inspired me but a who. I co-worker of mine invited me to a stamp party and from that moment one I was hooked. I have not looked back once and so enjoy the ride I am one with this hobby. Now I get inspiration from my two boys and a hubby who loves to see my work and even takes them to his work to give away :)
Crafts and me....
...Back in November of 2007, I was doing awful and was having a terrible time in controlling the pain and fatigue of Fibromyalgia and Degenerative Disc Disease, two chronic illnesses I personally live with.
It was at the time, that I realize that I was going to have to give up my career and it was when "Fibro" pretty much took over my life. I made it through the holidays, but found myself totally depressed and bored to tears by the time the New Year rolled in. At that same time I joined my very first online Fibro Support Group and also read and researched everything I could to learn how to better live with this illness.
I was thrilled to have finally met others, who felt the same way I did and it was wonderful to talk with others who understood how I felt. They 'got it", when so many others didn't'. I also quickly realized that many of the gals in the group were scrappers or paper-crafters. One day, one of that gals asked me what hobbies I had, and it hit me, that I really didn't have any hobbies. I had loved skiing, skating, gardening and going to the beach and simply being a Mom, but my boys were older now and Fibro made most of those other hobbies almost impossible. It was then that I realized I did need "something" I could do, something that would not cause more pain. That was the day she suggested I try card-making.
That was three years ago almost to the day and now I absolutely LOVE card-making and can't imagine my life without it. That week I ordered my first "Card Kit" from QVC and the rest is history. I started with one kit, a wicker basket full of card stock, paper, stickers, ribbons, doubled sided-tape and some glue. Each weekend one of the friends would drive me to AC Moore and I'd but a few more things....! My craft stash quickly grew and I become more and more interested in this wonderful world.
Now, three years later I have turned my former den into a wonderful craft room with the help of my DH and two sons and it's my favorite room and where I spend most of my time. I LOVE it and I adore card-making and love shopping for new goodies, almost as much as crafting. I've made a world of new friends and feel so blessed that crafting came into my life. It brings me great joy, it is my form of peace and relaxation and the one GOOD thing that Fibro brought into my life.
Crafting is now ME and part of who I am and I could not be happier to have found such a wonderful hobby and a whole world of new friends!
Happy Crafting!!
Lisa
My stamping started when i was ill - the lady in the hospital room next door was a crafter and she would bring her craft goodies into the communal area or into my room and we would spend hours together just creatin - it helped me heal and i havent looked back! And she became a great friend.
love tasha xx
OMGosh!!! What a fantastic prize for one lucky, lucky winner! So sweet of you!
Now onto the question...........my first experience with stamping was over 15 years ago when I was invited by a friend to my first stamping party & I just fell in love with the versatility of each stamp. It fulfilled that creative side of me.
I've been inspired by so many designers/stampers along the journey. I love Suzanne Dean's work! Woot Woot! She inspires me just about every day! Thank you, Suzanne!
Happy Huggies ~
Sharron ♥
what inspire me to scrap was the birth of my children and their photos
I keep doing it now for my mental sanity!
hahaaaaaaaaaaaaha
**Milu**
My mom actually inspired me to start stamping. I always loved to watch her make cards and finally made a card one day that I just loved and that's how I I got started.
Hi Susana! Yay! I'm super excited about the new EB images ~ she truly is one of favorite artists. Hmmm... I started cardmaking in March, 2008, when my DS (darling sister) showed me some cards she had made. We immediately went shopping and bought my VERY first supply - a Cuttlebug! Shortly after, I discovered Copics and never looked back! :) It is definitely "my passion ... my therapy"! Thanks so much for the awesome opportunity to win! You really are sooooo generous. {pick me, pick me, pick me!} Huge hugz, Mary
I started scrapping/ stamping when my grandparents were having their 50th wedding anniversary - no pictures were organized - so with the help of a good friend, I started. Stamping started mainly after I hot to AK - my bff here introduced me and I haven't turned back
I have been crafting since I was a child, but I started making cards in 1991. My mother passed away, I was devastated, but I was lucky to have the most wonderful group friends. I wanted to send something special to everyone who helped me through my loss. The store bought thank you cards just didn't express my tremendous appreciation for all of my friends. Little did I know how therapeutic making those cards would be. Now I make them for much happier reasons, my friends look forward to getting them, they know it will be made especially for them. They are still my therapy, and each one is a tribute to my Mom.
My son played football all his life, from pee-wee to high school. I had so many pictures, awards, newspaper articles and thought I need to do something with it all. That's when I did his life in football and gave it to him when he graduated. That was 16 years ago. Of course then I did one for my daughter. Now I am enjoying making cards. Been at that you around 3 years. I love doing both.
The inspiration to start scrapbooking was my dad turning 97. My aunt, his sister, who was 83 at the time, had all the family photos and I kept asking her if I could borrow them to make copies. She finally loaned me not one, but three albums full of photos of the family from the early 1800's. I decided not only to copy the pictures but make a heritage album of my own. It took me three months to complete, and I've been going at it ever since. Soon after that,I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and didn't do much of anything for 8 mos. After chemo, a mastectomy, and radiation treatments I wanted to start scrapbooking again, but wasn't able to because of nerve damage to my fingers. My cousin introduced me to the Cricut and stamping cards, and a new card maker was born.
My dad will be 100 years old this year, so I'm looking forward to having a family reunion, take lots of pictures and make another Heritage album to include the new generation.
Thanks for asking!
Carmen Lucero
I had some pictures of my childhood growing up but not like I love to take pictures as I got older and wanted to show more for my daughter and have her memories reminded with photos so I started scrapbooking for her. And I always love to give and received cards and once I saw someone had some cards at a table and then she told me she made them herself, I was hooked and we are still best of friends over 10 years ago.
Started stamping after my first child was born - I was always interested in anything crafty - so once I saw my first stamp and inkpad there was no turning back. As for scrapbooking, I didn't really get into that until someone very special to me passed away - my sister and I made 7 albums in record time commemorating their life. Haven't done anything since then, but hopefully I'll start on my kids albums soon ...
I started stamping over 25 years ago - wow a long time ago. At that time I stamped because it was cheap and fun! (you used to be able to buy stamps at the large craft shows and that was about the only place I could find most of them!) So years, later (with many years off when I had my sewing business), that hobby is not so cheap anymore and the stamps are plentiful! Love it!
My mother had a major stroke and we had to clear out her house where she had lived for 40 years. In the last place I looked before rushing to catch my plane home I found a heap of ancient black and white photo's of the family. My sister suggesting scrapbooking them even though the hobby had not yet reached South Africa. On a visit to Australia I stocked up on what I thought I needed, paid for the overweight luggage and the rest is history !
Diane from Cape Town
I started stamping about 13years ago following the receipt of a gorgeous Mothers Day card from my son. The card was quite simple although elegant and caught my imagination enough for me to think -'I could do that'. My adiction to cardmaking had begun although I didn't realise then how it would eventually change my life. From making simple, and I mean simple, cards, I have progressed to more elaborate efforts and have accumulated so many stamps that I lost count years ago. Although I no longer have space for more stamps, I still buy them, especially the amazingly gorgeous Sarah Kay, Tim Holtz and Lindsay Mason stamps. As for scrapping, well that's another story. I lost my special pal, my chocolate Burmese cat, Toby the year before last and to help with that loss I started to scrap his photos. This has also been an amazing journey, but one I don't want to finish - ever. My stamping and scrapping has also enhanced my life forever because through it I have made the most precious friends. The paper craft community is the best in the whole world, and I am proud to belong to it. xx
Hi Susana and Suzanne, I was inspired to start stamping myself as I found that trawling around the card shops in Britain teadious, I always bought a card which was way overpriced and that either had the right picture with the wrong verse or visa versa. So I thought that I'd make my own especially for the person whom was to receive it. Voila, enjoyment at making it, and enjoyment at the recipients comments after receiving it. No looking back now, just need to take the leap into scrapbooking.
Thank you for the chance to win your awesome candy.
The birth of my nephew 9 years ago started my scrapbooking. I've been totally hooked ever since.
hugs!
Gini
My sister definitely had a lot to do with my starting to scrap and stamp. She makes the coolest cards and well, it motivated me to get scrapping pictures of my kids and trips and such. I always say it's all her fault!
My friend Claudia! I had stamped before in CA but just at parties, then when I moved to Vegas my friend Claudia asked me to join her Stampers card club and I've been seriously addictted ever since!
Well, I was to become an empty nester in the short future and decided I had to do something. So I learned about the hobby scrapbooking, and then opened my own store. I hope this wins me the candy!!
My daughter took me to my first Scrapbook Class in California while we were visiting there from Maine. I have to admit to admiring other's work for far more time than I spend on my personal stuff, but we are in the current phase of making a crafting room for "nana" to have everything organized. Love your names, each a version of my own "real" name, Susanne. Five years ago friends named me Susi and it has stuck pretty well. Thanks for the opportunity and will add you to my G-Reader, keeping close tabs on you!
Oh, that's a simple and easy answer. My five children inspired me. I want to leave a legacy and as many rememberances as possible for them. This has become even a more important longing since being diagnosed with breast cancer. I want them to remember me and how much I loved them and all the fun we had together during my lifetime. They are my reason for living.
My friend inspired me. She had just started to make cards, and should make one for her daughter - my daughter in law. And so i made my first card for her. And have been scrapping ever since that day:) Now many things inspire me, for example all you wonderful scrappers all over the world:)
I was inspired by a handmade card I received from a long-ago friend... that was more than ten years ago!
What a generous candy! Wow! I got inspired to start card making after reading a few card making blogs and seeing all the beautiful cards people were making themselves.
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