stampin’ champ

I am a reformed stamper. I went from being a stampin’ up! demonstrator, stamping any flat or kind of flat surface I could, to stamping almost nothing. But I still love rubber stamps. I have four big bins of stamps, at least 50 different ink pads (that are sadly all getting drier by the day), and card stock in every color of the rainbow. I have officially not really used any of these supplies, except to make the occasional gift tag, in two years.

Then, at my guild board meeting the other day, someone mentioned needing the guild stamp to stamp the logo on quilt tags and my ears perked up. I had a bunch of ideas all at once for ways to use a stamp with the guild’s logo. Then I realized what the conversation was about - we need a stamp. So out went my ideas of craft ink and fabrico ink and staz-on ink and quilt blocks with stamped images, and in came my ideas about custom rubber stamps and where we could get one.

There’s a great site called rubberstampchamp.com where you can get any kind of custom rubber stamp - for a business, for your personal addressing needs, or just for fun. I like the idea of stamping “denied” on things…like when I get a crappy form letter back from my no-account congressman or something. That would make me smile.

I move (that’s right, Robert’s Rules of Order) we get a few stamps, start stamping the guild logo on all kinds of things.

I’ve gotten away from all my stamping because it’s time consuming and other crafts - namely, sewing and crochet - are taking up all my crafting time. I’ve been trying to decide what to do with all the paper crafting stuff, and I really don’t know. Should I sell the stamps? I’ve got so many supplies that I’m not using, and really don’t plan to use. But every time I get kind of serious about selling them, I get really sad.

I think this is how hoarders feel.