Thanks, everybody! I'll have to talk to my friend about this.
It wasn't just a one-time exposure for her, but a hobby for about a year or more, (she has quite a collection of stamps and inks still at her parents' home)and there were a group of ladies and daughters who would get together fairly regularly and stamp and work on their scrapbooks, etc.
Sounds like the true Stampin'Up ink was actually dye ink, but they also carried other pigment inks, and perhaps since the group did a lot of scrapbooking, perhaps they mostly used the pigment with embossing or heat-setting for longevity's sake. She said she remembers having some of the petal-point pigment ink pads.
It's really neat, though, because she's getting back into stamping now, and the thing that sold her on it was watching me stamp, and realizing I didn't have to wait for any of the ink to dry! She's gone from uninterested, to interested, to playing, to having a successful workshop of her own, and is still amazed, and points out to her friends, how you don't have to wait for this stuff to dry, and you don't have to worry about it smearing or anything, how great this new ink is!
Apparently, instead of being WOWed by heat embossing, she's being WOWed by the simplicity of stamping with dye inks as opposed to the complicated way she originally learned! How cool is that!
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