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My very first set was A Merry Season (with the snowmen). I held onto it for a long time but finally parted with it. I used it to make my very first Christmas cards. Now, a set I had a hard time parting with was the set I used to make my son's birth announcements. It was Cuddles & Tickles. For a long time I couldn't even think about getting rid of it, then decided to because it only held sentimental value for me (he wouldn't be sentimental about it). His birth announcement is in his scrapbook. It was seven years ago. It's amazing how styles change!
__________________ Donna - Wife and Mom in Massachusetts
The first set is really 2 I bought them both at the same time. I bought SU's brush stroke blossom, and SU's Itty bitty background. I have used both withing the last couple of weeks. Don't ever plan to get rid of either.
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I don't have my first set, I purged last spring and sold a lot at a garage sale. The sad thing was, as people looked at everything I was selling, they commented, "looks like someone is giving up a hobby.." Um, no, just making room for more stuff.
Gosh, I can't remember the names of my first two sets. They are circa 1999 so they're still in the SU country phase. I did sell one about a year ago, but still have the second. I used the tar out of them too! I had a major sentimental attachment to them and then finally put them up for sale at a friend's stamping garage sale. Since I wasn't there when they sold, I didn't have a chance to try to grab them back! LOL.
I so get the hoarders here though. I have boxes of stamps that I've pulled to sell and just haven't gotten to listing them on the bay.
__________________ I'm a natural blonde. God just dyed my hair brown. -me My Blog
I don't have my first set, I purged last spring and sold a lot at a garage sale. The sad thing was, as people looked at everything I was selling, they commented, "looks like someone is giving up a hobby.." Um, no, just making room for more stuff.
I've had that comment too. They just don't get it!
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Yes, Button Bear (was that what it was called - too lazy to go look!) Went to an SU party in 2000, bought a bunch o'stuff (you know, whatever that was demonstrated ;) - that really works!) That was the beginning........now many, many sets of stamps later i still have BB. Haven't used him in forever but he's never made it on to the reject pile either!
My first set was Fun Faces by SU. Still have it!
I have a hard time parting with anything too. The minute you part with a set, you will invariably find that you need it for a specific challenge or whatnot the very next week
__________________ This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Actually, I don't remember the first "set" I bought, but I do know I still have the first stamp I ever bought and should get rid of it. That's my problem -- not cutting loose of those I don't use because I keep buy and am running out of room. Wish there were a LSS where I could have a "garage sale".
I was working on an album of my garden that I have been working on and creating, so friendship Garden and Little by Little were my very first purchases and I still use them for different garden themes. So yes I still have my first and no, I will not get rid of them. But, I do go through and purge out my drawers of stamps ever so often of ones that just don't use or care for. I actually use most of them because I do so much beside cards.
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I bought my first set about four years ago....It is SU all occasion set that has a wicker chair with the sentiment "Thinking of You, another one is a mailbox with the sentiment, "Miss You." There are six other stamps. I've rarely used it but still love it...weird!!!! At that time I didn't know you pulled off the label and put it on your box. My demo never mentioned that. She probably thought that was obvious! Does anyone know the name of that set??? I could look it up in the gallery and get some inspiration!!!! Oh, I dought I'd ever get rid of it.
__________________ All I want is the chance to prove money won't make me happy!
I still have mine, it is a beautiful large butterfly and I also have the very first card I ever made with it, which was done with glue and art institute glitter. I am not sure where the card is, but, I know I put it away someplace to keep forever. I will not ever part with my butterfly, not only because it is sentimental, but also because I don't think butterflies will ever go out of style in the stamping world.
Absolutely not! The first set I got (I can't remember the name) I got 4 different occasion ones with a simple picture and sentiment. I thought, oh so naively, that it should do me for ages because it covered 4 occasions! I got so royally sick of that set I sold it for 5 dollars and never want to see it again. I'm not sentimental enough I guess.
I don't get rid of everything though... I still have my first DH!
I've got both the of first stamps sets that I bought from my very first Stampi' Up party in 2001. Pines, which I still use and probably will never get rid of and Lace Snowflakes that is so badly stained with StazOn that its not worth trying to sell and I just may need it someday. Most of the stamps that I have gotten rid of were ones that SU would send or I would earn for free and I didn't like them to start with.
I still have the first two stamps I ever bought, they were both tiny, and very expensive, one was a little lamb on wheels (Azardi Earles - who I think are now out of business) and the other was a rabbit in a plane (All Night Media) - what was I going to make with these? I have no idea. I remember sitting there thinking 'What can I do with these they sure as heck don't go together?', back then there was only one colour cardstock - white, white and white.
My first SU set was 'A Greeting for all Reasons' - which I have since sold.. and no regrets either.
Fun thread, Sherry! I bought two sets at the beginning (2001). Watercolor Garden and French Script. Got rid of WCG years ago, still have French Script.
My first 2 sets I bought in 2004 from SU are Netherlands (I was born there) and Coast to Coast. I still have them and have used them a lot.
Also bought alphabet sets as I was fed up with pay $6 per sheet of letters from CM and using up all the A and E letters and I thought the stamps would last forever. They do.
My first SU stamp set was Just a Note Mini. I bought it in June 2002, and it's still here with my other stamps. I've thought about selling it, but just haven't taken that plunge yet.
I also still have my first stamp, which I received as a door prize in early 1998.
Yep - a tiny foam-mounted retro Winnie the Pooh set that I used on stationery in college (before I ever even dreamed of cardmaking); and then Hand-Painted Petites, my first SU set. I never could do anything with that first SU set, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it!
Yes...Kid Prints...it is mounted all wonky and for some reason I never put the stickers on, so it says what it is on each block (ducky, right foot etc)
I still have all three sets I bought at the first workshop I went to in 2003. I got A Greeting for all Reasons, Itty Bitty Bolds, and Wild Things, along with six ink pads and a stampin' scrub. I still use all of it.
__________________ Julie my gallery
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Phillippians 4:13
I started stamping at a stamp store and bought a bear for $8.95, which I still have. Then I thought what will go with it, so I bought a stamp with lines on it for a background or a frame for $11.95. Two stamps for over $20. The stamp store closed, and I heard about Stampin' Up! I went to a SU group meeting with the lady who would become my upline. I joined never having been to a SU workshop.
My first SU stamps were the ones that came with the kit(I don't think we could choose then - April 2002.) I still have Smile and Love Ya and a mother's day stamp set - don't remember the name and Itty Bitty Backgrounds-still current. I will always keep IBB and Smile.
I use the bear at workshops to show how you get more for your money with a SU set. It really was great when we had Button Bear, because the bear looked like my first bear. One bear = $8.95; Button Bear set of 18? = $25 approx.
I save too many, but then when I sell one, I see a card made from it and wish I had it. I know that I rarely get around to making cards with old sets. Too many new sets to demonstrate.
Fun thread!
Stasia
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Yes, it is a ragdoll face that I bought at a homeschooling convention over 14 years ago.
As for my first SU! set, um, I think so. I know that I bought a couple Christmas wheels and I think I bought Miracle of Christmas on my first order. That would've been Oct. 2002.
I have given away my first couple of stamps with no regrets. In general - I cannot bear to get rid of a stamp. But - I started stamping in the early 1990's - and my idea of a fabulous card then was a flower in a vase stamp , embossed in gold , and coloured with markers. I've changed my style of stamping a lot since then - and that old stamp - it did it's time. I don't miss that stamp . I might have even thrown it out!!!
Of course I still have the first stamp I ever purchased! It is of 2 cats with their backs facing me with their tails intertwined. I liked the stamp when I purchased it over 15 years ago. Why wouldn't I still like it and have it now?? I like the stamps I purchase and keep them. And yes, I still use it!
The only stamps I trash are the verbage stamps that come in a set with image ones.
I believe my first stamp was Winnie the Pooh and Friends, and I still have it. I love it! I think my first stamp set was a Hero Arts Christmas set that was included in a class I took. I gave that set to my mother, and she still has it. My first SU set was Flutterbys, and I still have that one too. It's one of my favorites. I think one of my first TAC sets was Word Play, and I still have that. Again, one of my favorites. I guess I have a lot of favorites.
I just started stamping about 1 1/2 years ago, so I do still have my first stamp. Don't ask me which one it is tho cause I haven't a clue. I probably have over 300 stamps now - a little overboard I'd say. :0
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My first set was Mini-Mates and I still have it and use it on occasion. I only bought it as a "favor" to my friend who was having a SU party. I thought it would be the only set that I would ever own, and here I am the proud owner of 100+ stamp sets. Ack! Total crack...one taste and I was hooked!
Yes, I still own my very first stamps (that I bought 15 years ago!!!!!).
I bought some very intricate rose stamps (a bouquet, Thank you entwined with roses, and something else) to use on my wedding thank you's, place cards, and napkins. They are very carefully packed up in a box in my stamp room, although I should get them out and use them.
I started stamping in the early nineties and still have the first set and single stamp I bought. I was just looking at the set recently with a view to getting rid of it, since some of them don't stamp too good anymore.
It is an All Nigt Media Christmas set. They are rubber mounted on just foam. I still love the sentiment, "Let Heaven and Nature Sing" and use it a lot. It also has a tiny chickadee that I love.
The single was a wood mounted stamp of The Hare, by Duhrer. I will never part with that, although I took it off the wood years ago.
Yes, I do have the first Stampin' Up set I ever purchased. I'd been stamping a few years when introduced to SU products! It was Nice & Easy notes $24.95 in March, 1997 (wood mounted; even back then I prefered wood - SU also sold foam mounted then).
__________________ Donna Love my puppies! Thor 5 years; Maddee 5 years
I do not know when I bought this TOPIARY set. It's at least a thousand stamps ago. I do still use it and.... aaaargh... I still get the stem crooked about half the time.
I bought my first set about four years ago....It is SU all occasion set that has a wicker chair with the sentiment "Thinking of You, another one is a mailbox with the sentiment, "Miss You." There are six other stamps. I've rarely used it but still love it...weird!!!! At that time I didn't know you pulled off the label and put it on your box. My demo never mentioned that. She probably thought that was obvious! Does anyone know the name of that set??? I could look it up in the gallery and get some inspiration!!!! Oh, I dought I'd ever get rid of it.
It's called "Feathered Friends". Here's the gallery link:
Simple Somethings by SU! Purchased at my very first SU! party because it was the cheapest in the book and I never thought I would get into this. I felt obligated to make a purchase, though, as it was my best friend's party. I actually still use it now and again. I love those little stamps!
Boy, Holly, that sounds like my story. My first set was Fishy Friends, which I actually used the other day! I went to my friend's workshop as a "warm body" -- with no intention of getting addicted! Famous last words!!!
Yes, Button Bear (was that what it was called - too lazy to go look!) Went to an SU party in 2000, bought a bunch o'stuff (you know, whatever that was demonstrated ;) - that really works!) That was the beginning........now many, many sets of stamps later i still have BB. Haven't used him in forever but he's never made it on to the reject pile either!
Button Bear for me too... and I still love 'im! He'll never leave my house.
In fact, I keep all mine bc I worry that I'll get back to scrapbooking some day and will wish I had a certain stamp set and regret selling it. I know I'd never ever pay to buy a set twice. So, my compromise is to start unmounting older sets I have. I haven't gotten very far but in my mind, they'll take up less room but they'll still belong to ME only ME! Wah ha ha!
It's so funny to reminisce about the good ol' days when I always bought foam stamps to save money. Yikes!
I'll never forget my first stamping party. Who remembers DOTS??? There's a trivia question for ya, especially for those of you who are newbies. And do you remember what it stands for??
I was about 20 years old when my friend told me about a "stamping" party she was having at her house. I had NO idea what it was. And it sounded very girly to me, which was not up my alley. She told me it was like a Tupperware party (I had never been to one of those, either) and she asked me to come just as a favor, so she can win her prize for having 10 guests.
So, reluctantly, and selflessly, I went. Well, it didn't take much. I was hooked 5 minutes into the demonstration! I spent $50 that night!
Now, if I could remember the sets I bought....oh my. That's a tough one. I remember vaguely what they look like; of course, the old style country look :p
