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I must have about 12 different woodgrain background stamps, LOL! Love, love, love the woodgrain! Chevron is another, I just cannot resist it! I am also really gravitating toward poppy flower stamps. They are just so pretty! I got the poppy background by Penny Black, and I love it! I think a lot of my poppy stamps are by Penny Black, actually!
I have quite a few tree stamps. Of course Lovely as a Tree headlines the collection. :-) I have conifers, leafless trees, fully leaved trees, large and small, ...hmmm it just occurs to me that I lack trees with flowers or fruits. Oh, oh this means a shopping trip I think!
Snowman stamps, large background stamps, ridiculous amount of Halloween and last but not least Thank You or Thanks stamps in every conceivable size and fonts.
As far as I am concerned, I can never have enough Christmas stamps. I bought so many when I was working but I never had time to use them, so I am having a lot of fun now that I have the time to actually make Christmas cards! I can no longer afford my prior indulgent spending habits, but I do try to buy at least one new stamp or set each year.
Alphabets, definitely. Big ones, little ones, plain ones, fancy ones, monograms, varsity and doodle and ransom and Gothic and drippy goo and bones and cookies and retro and you get the idea... I think there are 53 fonts so far - I must be stopped...
Way too many Christmas stamps and recently I've noticed I have too many sets made for scrapbook journaling and captions. The sad part is I keep looking at stamps in both those categories and I always find more I want!
Mary Beth
Early on, I noticed that I had a bunch of butterfly stamps but no "with sympathy" or "thinking of you" sentiments. And I kept buying more butterflies.
That's when I made my stamp catalog. When my collection was smaller and I was going to expos regularly, I'd bring a photocopy of it with me to make sure I was filling in gaps rather than buying more of things I already had.
Those days are long gone, and I have an abundance of just about everything. Christmas stamps take up the most real estate in my collection, simply because I've made more Christmas cards than anything else.
But I do have some surprisingly large collections of strange things like skeletons (which I don't really use), snarky sentiments (which I rarely use), and bicycles (which I use frequently). My butterfly collection has languished since I had put a moratorium on buying more butterflies years ago. I think it's time add more of those.
__________________ aka Sue. Or Sue-odd.
No blog for me. My gallery chronicles my card-making successes and mishaps.
Floral and landscape (to make scenes) and Christmas
I recently did a purge and got rid of a lot of duplicates. I didn't buy duplicates but in sets you get a ton of hearts, little daisies, etc. I had 15 1/2" size hearts, 20 little daisies, etc. I settled on a few of each.
Hearts! Hearts a flutter, I heart hearts, Valentine Defined...small hearts, big hearts, embossed hearts...I have way too many heart stamps and I just keep on buying them!
__________________ "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack" ~Rudyard Kipling my gallery
you know these number games are almost like confessing your real weight... :mrgreen:
I have quite a collection of everything, I think the thing I have most of is sentiments actually probably followed by Christmas/winter/snow for an image category.
As a category, Christmas/Winter wins. Birthday sentiments are a close second and I have a decent amount of related images.
I have many floral images, mostly sunflowers (I love them but tend to use other flowers on cards I make so I'm thinking of using my wood-mounted ones as craft room decor.)
Butterflies are plentiful as well as "general" images (circles, stripes, dots, etc.)
I agree with everyone about Christmas stamps! Doesn't matter how many lifetimes i have, I'll never use them all! But my most abundant stamp is a word stamp-'Thank You'. I don't know why, but almost every stamp set I have bought has one in there somewhere. At the last count I had 14- how grateful am I supposed to be, lol.
I must have about 12 different woodgrain background stamps, LOL! Love, love, love the woodgrain! Chevron is another, I just cannot resist it! I am also really gravitating toward poppy flower stamps. They are just so pretty! I got the poppy background by Penny Black, and I love it! I think a lot of my poppy stamps are by Penny Black, actually!
I love woodgrain too! I have several stamps along with various embossing folders and stencils. They're all woodgrain, but they're all so different! :p I also have tone of Christmas stamps, florals and butterflies.
Christmas. Definitely Christmas. Especially considering I tend to do a single design for each Christmas. AND I still use other stamp categories or no stamps at all to make Christmas cards!
Definitely floral stamps -- especially poppies. Don't know why those poppy stamps always jump out at me, but I seem to buy everyone I see. I've got an awful lot of birthday stamps too.
Mary Ann, I feel the same way about poppy stamps... have to have them all!
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Originally Posted by mcost
Definitely floral stamps -- especially poppies. Don't know why those poppy stamps always jump out at me, but I seem to buy everyone I see. I've got an awful lot of birthday stamps too.
Floral stamps for sure but I seem to have an extraordinary excess of sentiment stamps! I mean ..just how many 'Thinking of You' stamps do I really need?? Apparently 10 is not quite enough!! YIKES!!!! LOL