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Okay...Now that I have your attention....What is your least favorite TYPE of stamp? Do you not like sihoulettes? Do you not like open stamps? Do you dispise baby sets? Do you not like squirrels?
What DON'T you like?
Me? Well....I don't like "non-cut-outable" stamps...I like to cut and layer.
I don't like ones you can't color and I really don't like flourishes. I think the flourishes thing has to do with my more cartoony style but I just don't like them.
I don't like vintage stamps (Crafty secrets), christian stamps, solid-line stamps that don't suit colouring (like basic grey, making memories and other scrapbooking companies that put out really cute stamps, but I just won't use them...) I'm pretty picky actually. I know my style, and don't often deviate from it.
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I actually hardly ever like the doodly-style that DO require colouring. I like to stamp an image and not have to colour it! Two-step stamps, solid-images, etc, are probably the ones I gravitate to most.
Even though I have several sets, I've come to detest alphabet stamps!
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I don't like:
1) the ones that remind me of the 1970s (e.g. bell bottoms, patches on clothing, sharp lines and corners where fabric or hair would naturally be smooth or curved, unbelievably large eyes, etc.)
2) collage-style ones (e.g. women in corsets, eyeballs with a feather sticking out, a bull standing on two legs dressed in a pin stripe suit).
3) missing facial characteristics like mouths (remember that original Star Trek episode where they guy melted peoples' faces when they offended him - those images remind me of that)
3) and I REALLY don't like skulls with heart-shaped eyes, that's just freaky.
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as I have been cleaning out my crafting area I have run across some older stamps that are "folk art" and I don't think I care for them much anymore. I will hold on to them back in a corner somewhere because sometimes I am asked to make cards and that might be the kind they request.
I don't particularly care for artsy stuff, the kind of stuff you might find in RubberStampMadness magazine. I can appreciate the work that goes into a lot of those projects, it's just not my style. And DON"T even show me an altered book! That's just sacreligious!
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I love nature sihouettes. I don't like "cutesy" animals or people. Half of the flower designs I like and half I really do not like at all. I LOVE coffee related stamps. Not big on the stamps without smiles or heads.
I'm not drawn to the cutesy/cartoony animal images (Hambo, Riley, etc.). Now that I've invested in Copics, I love to color in floral/botanical images - not images of people. Love a lot of the silhouette stamps out there and agree with former comments about the large collage stamps. I love the collage look but just not in one stamp.
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Wow - strong feelings here!! ;) My first thought was that I like all kinds of styles or categories of stamps, but in reading the posts I've thought of a few things I avoid:
I don't like the odd bodies - faceless, mouthless.
I don't like disproportionate or sloppily drawn images ~ I don't like images that look like a child drew them or if the perspective is off.
I don't like alphabets. The only ones I have now are clear (I think just two) and I sometimes find them useful and necessary, but it is a challenge to get them lined up and I avoid it if I can.
I don't like lousy cheap stamps that you can't ink properly or don't stamp properly or you always get lines around the image, no matter how lightly you press down...
As to subject matter...
I don't appreciate these styles...
~vintage or collage type
~doodles (I'm pretty sure I could draw that myself!)
~a lot of the people images
~off-color sayings
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images that are meant to be colored, but are so intricate, that shading is impossible because they are too tiny in areas. Make sense??? I am also not a fan of solid images unless they are a 2-step stamp.
I'm not too crazy about people on my stamps unless they are realistic looking. I don't own any of those stamps that have distorted body parts (like heads too over sized or a figure that is out of proportion). I do love sweet children faces like Crafty Secrets stamps.
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I don't particularly care for artsy stuff, the kind of stuff you might find in RubberStampMadness magazine. I can appreciate the work that goes into a lot of those projects, it's just not my style. And DON"T even show me an altered book! That's just sacreligious!
LOL! Were we separated at birth? I actually bought a remainder with the intent of altering it and really, truly tried. But it was just WRONG!!!!!
Every time I think I don't like something (outline stamps, collage-style stamps, vintage, cutsy) someone does something with it that does fit my style and I get all excited. But generally, distressed, artsy stuff is just hard for me to work with. Like Ragtop, I appreciate it, but can't really make it work for me easily. Most cutsy doesn't work for me either, except those adorable house mice! I generally shy away from anything with large spaces to color.
I really have a hard time working with small images (like SU's Mini Mates), unless I am making something like a tag, I just don't know how to use it on a card.
Country images are just not my thing, no angels holding hearts with their little feet crossed for this girl.
and please no offense directed at Speedy the cat but I do not like cat stamps! I have a real FEAR of cats for some reason! I actually panic around them!
and for some strange reason the sock monkey stamp gives me the creeps!
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I find that I don't care for cartoon-style images of any kind. I love realistic images and enjoy coloring or watercoloring images. Don't be shocked but I'm not a flower lover. I have several I use on occasion but mostly they sit in the drawer. Give me vines, silhouettes, leaves or trees- now that's another story. Thanks for askin', Faith.
Hmm...I am still growing into my "style" and learning a lot about what I do and don't like but here's the running list in my head.
Don't like: Flourishes, vintage style stamps, inchie stamps, block or large solid image stamps, mice (or other rodent) stamps (I have a rodent issue - lol), angels / children dressed as angels, country stamps and traditional flowers (funky flowers are ok, though).
I think that sums it up. lol Although, after reading this list, it makes me feel a little close - minded. lol I would like to believe that my style is more open but I've just found that these are not "types" that I'm attracted to or feel I can make work on a project. Hope I didn't offend anyone!!
Hmmm...difficult question... I think I go through phases liking certain things more than others at different times. In general I don't care for images I that are difficult to color in or cut out, but there are a few I do like despite this fact. I don't care for the stamps with missing body parts - like heads. I love the magnolias, but find I must draw in the mouth and nose myself or they just freak me out. I won't buy stamps that are all text but only because I just can't justify spending money on them when it's pretty simple to just print text out on the printer.
I'm starting to realize that the types of stamps I don't care for is longer than I previously thought. I don't do:
Vintage
Realistic
People
"It was a painting, but now it's a stamp"
Images that don't have really clean fluid lines
Anything that incorporates the fonts Papyrus, Zapfino, or Comic Sans
I'm a bit persnickety, but that keeps me from overspending. ;)
Most of my dislikes are already mentioned - vintage, people stamps that are missing something or proportioned wrong, and sentiment stamps that either are puns or say something extremely mushy.
I will also never buy big stamps with a lot of detail, such as the Thomas Kincaid stamps, not because I don't think they're beautiful, but because I just wouldn't get the coloring right.
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i sucketh at coloring, so anything that requires that is not for me....
heads without faces are too creepy, actually i rarely like anything with a human form on it, other than wanda or sassy suzie, and those are more about the sayings
i don't like religious messages of any kind, regardless of the faith
i'm not big on the cartoon animals, and i'm not a fan of nautical
and nothing halloween, that's a holiday i just don't get...
I love to color, so I don't like "solid" or "block" stamps that you can't color.
A lot of you said you don't like "cutesy", and I don't either. But I do love "whimsical," mostly animals. I don't know how to define the difference, but I think I know it when I see it.
I am a cat lover, but really only like impressionistic or whimsical cats, not realistic ones.
I have trouble liking flowers, but have a few that I use, mostly for sympathy cards.
I don't like background stamps at all and prefer to use my Cuttlebug embossing for patterns, or use patterned paper.
Simple sentiments in interesting fonts are nice, like Happy Birthday,Thinking of You, etc but I don't like the stamps that have long verses on them.
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I went to HObby Lobby and bought a stamp that was beautiful. We had had two deaths and I hate to do sympathy cards. But this stamp is Jesus working at a window and a small child playing on the floor. I bought two of these stamps at two different times. I was sick. The rubber was smooth and no indents. I went back and tried it again, embossing made it worse so ink was tried. It never printed nicely. Now my lesson is to look at all stamps and if they are smooth leave them on the shelves...if anyone knows how to get over this with a stamp I am reading to learn. Thanks.
I almost didn't respond to this ;) I don't mind just about any stamp without bias but ones I will not own or buy and can't stand are anything with skulls, gargolyes, goth, fetishy, Edward Gorey type stamps. YUCK. :o
OK, I hate foam stamps. I bought some years ago, and tried them once.
As for subject matter owls (whats with the owl fad at the moment?), skulls (love hearts do not make them pretty people!), religous stuff, and I'm sorry, but no one knows what a sock monkey is over here in Aus.
Mind you I'm still getting into stamping, but I think I know what I like in the SU catalogue.
Oh oh I have one! Pear stamps back a few years ago there were a zillion out there and it seemed like everyone was demoing with them. I don't even really dislike pears as a fruit I just got sick of them. Not a huge vintage/collage person. I don't care for country cute either.
Like Faith I don't like ones that are hard to cut out. I still love the Penny Black ones where the animal fur is all sticky-outy, but they're no fun to cut out.
Don't really like vintage and collage, it's just not my style.
I don't like the no heads, no features and wings.
I don't like Thomas Kincade, but I don't like his paintings either!
I like sentiment stamps - even with the computer and printer.
What is your least favorite.....
