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I love Lawn Fawn stuff and have a LOT of it. I also have a lot of Honey Bee, Hero Arts, GinaK and Tim Holtz.

I have been loving Honey Bee for the past few years. I really like Kelly’s lives, even though I’m not a ‘live’ person. I seem to like several of the people on their design team. And I love their products.

I also have a lot of Queen and Company, even though I rarely make shaker cards. I have almost all of their foundation dies and use them often. I do use their other dies for non shaker cards too. I also really like their sketches and their Facebook group is nice.

I also really like Gina K, but her fangirls get on my nerves. Her Facebook group is my least favorite of all my Facebook groups.

Hero Arts is another company I have some of, but their style can be hit or miss for me. I think I use their sentiments most.

I do have some Stampin Up, but don’t buy much from them any more. Though I did just get their linen thread and a retiring stamp set. 

ETA. I also have and enjoy Waffle Flower. I have their grip mats, sentiments with dies and some images. I’m trying not to order their postage stamp sets!

I love Queen & Co. I use their Foundation dies all the time. They are great for both card making and scrapbooking. I like their shaker kits, too, but I usually use the dies without turning them into shakers. They’re still really cute, even without the shakers, and can be used for both cards and layouts.

I also like Karen Burniston dies for making pop up cards.

I mostly make cards these days. I have a huge stash, and decided awhile back that enough is enough. I don’t need the latest and greatest papers, and since I don’t live near any LSS, temptation is less of an issue. I get plenty of temptation from this board, anyway. I don’t think I’ve made it to any conventions since COVID started, so I mostly buy online these days.

I also love Heartfelt Creations, but they are going out of business. I have been buying a lot from their Warehouse sales (online).

I like some Graphic 45 lines, but they are easier to use for card making than scrapbooking.

I have a lot of older stamps and dies by My Favorite Things, and a lot of older Spellbinders dies. I have stamps from just about every company under the sun.

I have quite a few My Favorite Things stamps, mostly older ones now.

I feel like I got lost back in time somewhere. I’m not the one to have the latest and greatest, other than from Queen & Co. and Karen Burniston. Since I am mainly a card maker at the moment, their products are what I enjoy most right now.

I totally agree with all of this. If JM would showcase both The Greetery and The Stamp Market I'd be a happy girl! They seem like products she would work well with, so I wonder if they haven't reached out to her, or if she's not interested in working with them. It would be nice to see her work with some different companies than her usual. 

I love almost everything Honey Bee and Spellbinders do, also. 

I love Pinkfresh and sometimes The stamp market. C9 was on top of my list but I am not loving anything they released recently. Not tempted by their spring event and I was actually looking forward to it.

I find the greetery products very neat l but I can never make it look as good as Betsy does. I find her designs hard to use for an average crafter like me.

Gina K designs is not my thing anymore. I used to love her products but all the fangirling and whole fuse and die cut machine drama is keeping me away. I refuse to give my money to a company who played ignorant to sell their products and did not give clear and correct facts while selling something.

I love Karen Burniston pop up dies, Kindred Stamps, and lately Lisa Horton layering stencils with embossing folders.

A year and a half ago or so when I returned to the paper crafting I found mostly wood-mounted stamps, some ink pads, and a little patterned paper and card stock. The stamps were mostly from Hero Arts or a bunch of companies that are now out of business. The ink pads were mostly dried out or quickly self-destructed. The exceptions were Tsukineko inks.

I still love Hero Arts, though I've added some other brands of stamps and dies to my favorites, like Altenew, Pinkfresh, Concord & 9th, and Spellbinders.

I do still find myself drawn to the Tsukineko inks as well. I know their fans are very outnumbered around here, but they're here (not as much in the stamping/cardmaking board as some of the others). I finally bought a four-pack of Memento Dew Drops and I am totally blown away by them. I finally have full-set syndrome for inks and am trying to hold myself back. But I want them all. Now.

I love Tsukineko inks but stopped buying them because it can be a challenge to find the reinkers for them. I decided that, if I can't buy a reinker for it, I'm not buying the ink pad, either (although I'll often buy a reinker without an ink pad.)

When stamping, I have a strong preference for pigment or hybrid inks over dye inks. Nowadays, I'm mostly using Tim Holtz's Distress Oxides. I have some of his Distress Inks, too, which are useful for ink blending.

Thanks for letting me know! I really appreciate the info.