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I broke my right arm and wondered what fun stamping things I can do in addition
to enjoying my time on here.
I need a stamping fix.
Oh, I am right handed.
Thank you for your help.
That is tough! I was trying to imagine what I could do if I broke my left arm (lefty here) and so far I can not come up with anything. Hmmmm might have to try..........
Do you have ANY use of your right fingers??
I'm sure someone here can give you some good ideas...all I can think of right now is reading every stamping magazine on the market and planning for the future!
Good luck!
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Hmmm... this is tough! If you have embossing folders, you could probably do that. Or die cuts. If you need a colored in image, I'd probably just use one from the computer and print it out.
I thought about die cuts too but I know I could not turn the handle on my big shot if I could not put a lot of pressure on the broken arm.
If you save bits and pieces of started projects that did not work out, for some reason, then you would have a start, but that does not feed a stamping fix!
I broke my right arm and wondered what fun stamping things I can do in addition
to enjoying my time on here.
I need a stamping fix.
Oh, I am right handed.
Thank you for your help.
Use a clip board to hold paper steady while you stamp (slowly) with your left hand. Doubt if you could color the images...but a brayer might be workable with your left hand when the paper is stable in the clip board.
Ouch! I broke my non-dominant wrist earlier this year and had a very hard time. I can't imagine trying with my dominant arm broken!
I guess I would work with things like digital images or even all-digital cardmaking; coloring with chalks, since they are so forgiving and don't require perfection; CAS, one-layer cards, etc.
I'm so sorry this happened! I certainly feel for your predicament...
In the early 1970's, I had a friend with one lame arm. Wherever she lived, she managed to find someone with the opposite lame arm. When I knew her, the two women got together nearly weekly to do crafts, bake cookies, make pies, whatever took two hands. It was amazing what the two women accomplished in a dedicated hour or two each week. It sometimes put the rest of us two-armed women to shame. So, if you can find a stamping friend with a bad left arm, you're in luck!
I have broken my left arm and wrist, and then this year, the right. If you have peg stamps, such as Rubberstamptapestry.com, you can use them. If someone could cut your cardstock for the cards, and maybe rectangles, squares, or circles and ovals, you will be fine. Punches would work for the shapes. I use the small inkpads for the colors, and stamp away with the peg stamps. No fine detail coloring or cutting necessary.
There are many samples on the website for RST. Good luck.
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I am so in sympathy with you. I have tendonitis in my right arm and it is so painful it is interfering with what I do too. I was wishing today that I had the Vagabond for doing die cuts. I'm sure my problem is nowhere near as tough as yours. What about getting a friend who is a stamper over to stamp some images for you and then coloring them yourself? Hope the break heals quickly.
I broke my right arm and wondered what fun stamping things I can do in addition
to enjoying my time on here.
I need a stamping fix.
Oh, I am right handed.
Thank you for your help.
Back in 2005 I broke my right wrist I had Pins sticking out of my arm. (I'm left handed). I couldn't do much at first. But after awhile. I taught myself use one hand and create cards.
I joined SCS. Because I needed that Fix you're talking about. Maybe see if you can color a little bit. Stamp images on Card stock and play around with them.
Have someone help you by cutting out Card stock for your cards.
Oh do I feel your pain! I fell (mid-January) and broke my left arm and left foot......my stamping studio is in the basement...and could not get down there for almost TWO months!
Spent much time here on SCS in the gallery (favoriting cards I wanted to make), blog hopping and you tubing techniques.......
What things can i do 1 handed
