Starting out
Hello, my name is Susan and I collect stamps.
Collecting is the keyword there – notice there is no USING of said collection. To put it simply, I love stamps. Have since Sunday School when Carrie and I would stamp our way through lessons with Mrs. Walker.
Didn’t really have many of my own other than the ones that were popular growing up that came with a little ink cover, like Hello Kitty, Smurfs, etc. They’re still out there, too. My boys have some now that are Bugs Bunny! ha! The ones we used in Sunday School, though were wood-mounted rubber stamps and we even got to use ink pads. What a concept – what fun!
I got my first set of stamps as a ‘grown-up’ in Santa Fe in 1999. There’s a great store there that reintroduced me to rubber stamps and I was excited that this was something I could get into, a hobby. And so, my stamp collection/collecting habit began. From there, I bought individual stamps here and there as they caught my eye, but didn’t really do anything more with them. As I was getting started scrapbooking, I went to a workshop with a friend and bought my first “real” stamp set. Talk about love! Once I got started, I really became a serious collector – rubber stamps, both mounted and unmounted, and, now, acrylic stamps that so many scrapbook companies are releasing these days.
I’m sure everyone’s got a story pretty close to this on how they got started stamping, or stamp collecting. I’d love to hear your story!
