All Things Heidi Swapp

The add-on 3x4 stamps are the same quality photopolymer as the 4x6 and 6x8 stamps. For some time the ones that were included in the kit were the cheap acrylic stamps that Ali Edwards and Studio Calico were also using. Heidi took the stamp out of the kit because she hated the cheap acrylic ones and replaced it with a die to keep the kit value the same. Now she offers the stamp as an add-on. Apparently all the kit components are made in China and there is no option to have photopolymer stamps made at the factory.

Oh that's too bad, it looks like such a usable stamp! Maybe it will be on sale next month, too - I have no idea how her sales work, there always seems to be something going on, though. At some point it's bound to be on sale again.

Up higher in this thread people were saying they really found the first Stamp Therapy class useful. I signed up for that since it's 50% off right now and you get a 6x8 stamp set with it. 

I think I'm going to sign up for her handwriting class today, too. That's one thing I've really been wanting to work on, and have been practicing using free YouTube videos (JetPens channel is good), but I'd like to learn how to apply it to my Memory Planner more.

I watched a livestream that Heidi did with Aaron from Hero Arts and Jennifer McGuire, and it was so good (I had to play it on 1.5x speed though, since Heidi talks really slowly with a lot of pauses). She talks about her entire career, moving to China, losing everything and having to move into her parents' house, and then finding success and her son dying and getting through those incredibly difficult times - and it's very inspiring. There were a few things that she talked about that I even discussed with my husband later because I found it so compelling - some things to keep in mind as we build our own business and as our son goes through some challenging times of his own. I recommend it - but again, sometimes Heidi can be painful to listen to if you're impatient like I am, so maybe speed it up:

www.youtube.com/live/jycMEJlWqDg?si=4ERKRZlSK0wusJdi

Oh yeah - she's having 15% off site-wide for non-subscribers, 20% for subscribers, this weekend, too.

Yeah, a lot of what she said really resonated with me. When she said "I no longer wanted to be Heidi Swapp", I really felt that. I also found her saying that every success and accomplishment has 10,000 little struggles behind it that others never see - the way she put it - was really profound and I played it for my son and husband because my son is really struggling right now as he finishes his last semester of school in a foreign country and tries to establish a life there. 

I give her a lot of credit for her honesty and vulnerability. I think she's turned that into a really cool and meaningful product - I'm really enjoying doing Stop The Blur this year (my first time doing it).

I took her year long class at Big Picture Scrapbooking - the one she did when she moved to China - and it was a bit of a disaster, as I recall. She was very scattered and all over the place. It's nice to know why. ADHD makes total sense, not surprised at all, plus the chaos of the move and the adjustment, plus 5 little kids. Oy vey. I recall that I stopped doing the class after a few months. I think that's the class that prompted the "So there" comment by Stacy Julian, not 100% sure, though.

It seems pretty late to not have Halloween out already! I’ve been wanting to see her Christmas stuff as well!

thank you! I think I have her on mute on insta just to get a break from wanting to buy things but I do want to know about Christmas for sure!

I think I’m a little late for the 50% discounts, but I found a lot of value in the class. Lots of little nuggets of information that helped me to get out of the “stamp with my MISTI”… layering, playing around with colors, 2nd and 3rd generation stamping for dimension, building scenes. Definitely worth the value to me.

I just purchased her Handwriting class. I’m really excited! I have wanted to buy it for a long time, but it was more money than I wanted to spend. For half price I decided to finally try it out. I bought her original stamp therapy class, and really enjoyed it.

She did a live last night of the collection. It’s very unique and very Heidi. I didn’t really see any papers that I must have. I really like the stamps and the dies and the little album she made. I think I like buildable stamp sets in theory but in practice it’s too much work haha!

marg, thanks for posting that Hero Arts/Heidi link. I really enjoyed listening to her story. I knew some of it, but the behind the scenes parts were very interesting.

A sneak of the Christmas stuff is up on the HS FB group.