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I have been following the "cold turkey" thread...have been really on a stamping diet for a year. Careful think about any purchase. I need new white and cream cardstock from PTI. Wanted a new stamp set...but want the best most versatile set. Any suggestions?
I have been following the "cold turkey" thread...have been really on a stamping diet for a year. Careful think about any purchase. I need new white and cream cardstock from PTI. Wanted a new stamp set...but want the best most versatile set. Any suggestions?
I think it totally depends on your style.
For me I love Everyday Button Bits and A Wreath for All Seasons
I'm more of a single stamp girl....BUT I do love my SU set with the little truck and all the things that go in it. Puppies, Christmas tree, etc. I only own 3 SU sets and one I bought on sale.
The other set I own is one I won at a TAC meeting. It has fuzzy looking lady bugs. I didn't really like it at first, but I have found ways to use it I love and I keep going back to those stamps.
I wish I could help you with current stamp sets, but I'm very frugal and right now I'm saving my money for Copics and Copic paper. I made a promise to myself that I will stamp every stamp I own this year and place the images in a file to pull out and use with my Copics.
I have my eye on some little boy stamps from the UK....but I think I'll be able to find a few people to buy one design each and we will share them.
So, so hard to pick a favorite... but one of my most favorite and versatile PTI sets is "Turning a New Leaf". (I'm not sure when that one was released - looks like it was before 2010).
So if you're looking for one released during 2010, "Through the Trees" is a good one. When I think of versatile, I think of one that could be used for almost anyone.
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I seem to lean heavily on my botanicals from SU. Many are retired. I bought all the retired ones after they retired. I've gotten them here on the buy/sell forum and before that I bought from e-bay.
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Hard to pick a favorite but PTI has some of the best, plus another company by the name of Red Lead Paperworks. Simply in total love with anything I order from them.
I have to say that my most-used PTI set is their sympathy set. The sentiments especially come in handy for both religious and non-religious sympathy cards, and the scrolls/grasses can be used for non-sympathy cards. I never realized how often I'd use this set.
As far as PTI stamp sets goes I think Paper Tray is a great one to own. I agree about the Polka Dots being tops and Text Styles would also be versatile. What types of cards to make make most often? Birthday cards? Or Everyday cards, like Get Well or Hello? That may help guide what to get/need too. Good luck!
If we're talking PTI, I've been using Giga Guide Lines and Damask Designs a lot lately. I don't know if I'd label them versatile, but if they're your style, they really add so much to a project!
I went to work and then came home to find so many suggestions. Lovely As A Tree I own and agree ....timeless and versatile. Definately the best set I currently own. Keep looking at the "cold turkey" thread....Yikes. I am really buying a set to get free shipping. That's bad right?
I don't think buying a set to get free shipping is bad. It's smart shopping. If you pick a versatile set from PTI then you are "thinking ahead" and saving yourself TWO shipping charges! One now, and one when you need a new set that you just don't have.
Right now I am really wanting to get Wreath for All Seasons, Life, or Larger than Life from PTI. Can't afford it right now, don't NEED any of them right now, but those sets suit my style and seem versatile to me.
I bought SU's Coast to Coast just before it retired and I have made TONS of cards from it. I have a customer who always asks for "some of those lighthouse cards with Scripture verses." From current SU: I agree that Baroque Motifs and Upsy Daisy are also versatile and I've loved Season of Joy as not only a Christmas set (I've used the swirly flourish and flower on other cards.) Gail
My new favorite is SU's Build a Blossom. I've used it for masculine, Christmas, baby and flower cards. I haven't checked the gallery in a while but there are probably lots of samples. Here are a few.
So many sets to choose from it's hard to pick a favorite.......
Old retired ones......I like the Lighthouse SU stamps...coast to coast, and many others.
Button bear, Bow Bear, Forest Foliage,Bareback, love you A Latte, any coffee sets,
Fishy friends, .........
Depends on my mood. I use Elements of Style, Lovely as a Tree, Tickled Pink and my horse stamps a lot. I also love smallish single words.
I think horse stamps are so versatile. For my family I make horse stamp cards so often and I can make them all look so different from each other! My favorite go-to sets are SU's Wanted and Bronco Buster. I can make girl cards and guy cards with both of these sets. Love that Western theme!!!
I don't own any PTI sets...yet. I've got my eye on Boards and Beams, and the coordinating Home for the Holidays. I just love playing with exteriors!
If we're talking sets, I'd have to say SU! Itty Bitty Backgrounds, followed closely by an Impression Obsession Set called Winter Trees, SU! Flutterbys, and SU! Unfrogettable.
If we're talking coordinating individual stamps, I have gotten a lot of use out my flowers and pots from Stamps by Judith.
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