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Post by scrapnnana on Nov 12, 2019 15:35:26 GMT
My favorite stamp company is Heartfelt Creations. I discovered them at one of the conventions years ago. They have a new release each month, so now I usually buy online. Sometimes their designs are cute, sometimes they are elegant, sometimes in between. Their release last month was a set of beautiful beach scene stamps (Sea Breeze collection), matching dies, and papers. I bought the whole collection, which is very, very rare for me. The two releases before that, I bought nothing at all (Wild Aster and Candy Cane Cottage), because I really didn’t think I would use them. Their newest release is Wilderness Retreat, and I love this one as much as the Sea Breeze. That’s two months in a row that they’ve managed to hit my wallet hard.
I did use papers from their Sea Breeze collection during CARDtober for one of the interactive card challenges. It will be a few days at least before I get my hands on the Wilderness Retreat stamps. They look perfect for masculine cards, and should go well with their Woodsy Wonderland stamps which I have.
So who is your favorite stamp company? Have you bought anything from them lately, and if so, have you used any of what you bought?
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Post by gmcwife1 on Nov 12, 2019 16:30:08 GMT
Heartfelt Creations is the favorite for one of my friends  I have several favorites. I seem to have a lot from Stamping Up, My Favorite Things and Altenew. It seems like every time I see new examples I have new favorites 
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Post by freeatlast on Nov 12, 2019 21:20:20 GMT
Very difficult question to answer, scrapnnana! For kids' cards (mostly birthday and cheer/encouragement), I generally lean towards Lawn Fawn, Mama Elephant, Hello Bluebird, MFT, Waffle Flower, Sugar Pea, Sunny Studio and Honey Bee. Mostly because of all the cute critters. For adult cards (typically thank you, thinking of you and encouragement), I use Altenew (all the flowers!), Pinkfresh Studio ( good and unusual sentiments), The Greetery and The Stamp Market (for bold, graphic designs). See, I knew I couldn't pick just one. Not even just one for each category. |
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Post by joteves on Nov 12, 2019 21:42:50 GMT
I'm only just getting into stamping, but I really love Lawn Fawn. Great for making clean and simple cards.
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Post by joblackford on Nov 13, 2019 0:49:23 GMT
I don't really think I have a favorite - I love some things from a lot of different companies. But Concord & 9th might be the company that tempts me the most. They have some great bold stamps - like the ornament stamp and die set I used recently and shared on the Nov card share post. I have several stamps from them that I want to make time to use more because they're so striking -some large florals in particular.
Simon Says Stamp makes a lot of stamps I like too.
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Post by anniefb on Nov 13, 2019 4:45:42 GMT
I can’t have just one! My favourites at the moment would be Lawn Fawn for kids’ cards, The Greetery and Concord and 9th but I just recently discovered the Stamp Market and love some of her sets. I also have a zillion and one Papertrey Ink sets although they’re not producing anything more under that label. Not to mention some of the SSS exclusives ...
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Post by scrappinheather on Nov 13, 2019 5:04:23 GMT
I have 4. Pawn Fawn, hello bluebird, mama elephant and honeybee. I own almost all of lawn Fawn and hello bluebird. Quite a bit of mama elephant and more dies then stamps from honeybee
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Post by GiantsFan on Nov 13, 2019 16:31:17 GMT
I like a lot of companies, but the one I have the most of is Lawn Fawn. With Avery Elle and MFT being a close second and third.
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Post by scrapnnana on Nov 13, 2019 17:03:13 GMT
There are definitely some companies that I need to check out, or have another look at. It’s interesting to see what appeals to different stampers.
I know I leaned more to the cute stamps when I had younger kids, but over the years, now my taste usually tends more to the realistic than the cute. There are definitely exceptions, though. I still sometimes go for the cute ones.
One reason I love Heartfelt Creations is because they have stamps, dies, and shaping forms for making your own dimensional flowers. I don’t buy paper flowers anymore for my cards or pages. I can make prettier ones in colors of my choice.
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Nov 14, 2019 5:26:29 GMT
I was on a Mama Elephant stretch for a while.
Lately, I’ve been liking The Ink Road and Hero Arts.
There are definitely others (because I’ve been buying a LOT of stamps recently), but those are the ones that come to mind.
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Post by pilcas on Nov 14, 2019 17:10:27 GMT
I like MFT, Hello bluebird and lately Newtons Nook.
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Post by scrapperal on Nov 15, 2019 18:33:18 GMT
I wanted to say that Lawn Fawn is my favorite stamp company. I really like their birthday freebie stamps so they are guaranteed to get an order from me at least once a year, lol. But thinking about my stamp collection...stamps I use the most? Unity Stamp Co, Papertrey Ink, and Mama Elephant. Stamps I have the most of? Stampin Up, Unity Stamp Co, and Lawn Fawn. So looking back on this list, I have to say that Unity is my favorite company.
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Post by paperaddict on Nov 15, 2019 22:05:16 GMT
I like SSS, Concord & 9th, and Altenew, but this year, I fell in love with Pinkfresh.
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Post by camcas on Nov 16, 2019 6:31:23 GMT
Pinkfresh ,Altenew ,concord and 9th,lawn fawn,hero arts
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 11:45:08 GMT
Lawnfawn is my favorite for images. Hard to resist all the critters. I still really like Technique Tuesday, old stuff, for fonts.
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Post by ferblover on Nov 19, 2019 14:19:50 GMT
The Sassy Club. They are more for planners but totally translate to cards. Pop culture is kind of the way I am stamping now and she helps fill my stamp room |
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Post by kraft4fun on Nov 20, 2019 16:34:31 GMT
Looking at my stash... Lawn Fawn, MFT, Joy Clair and Hero Arts.
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Post by Roxana on Nov 22, 2019 21:10:14 GMT
I love The Greetery!!!
For cutesey cards I'm loving Hello Bluebird!!!
I like several others but those are my top two. Also used to be a fan of PTI... not so much anymore.
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Post by scrapbookmomof4 on Nov 22, 2019 22:33:29 GMT
My favorites are Unity for rubber stamps and Gina K Designs for clear stamps and ink. I also love Lawn Fawn for cute stamps.
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Post by twillerbee on Nov 24, 2019 17:23:21 GMT
Stamp market for their simplicity and bold designs, The greetery for all those amazing details and Pinkfresh for their unique sentiments and different concepts. Pinkfresh alpha dies are my most used dies.
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Post by gale w on Nov 25, 2019 21:39:11 GMT
Going by my stash, it's a toss-up between Lawn Fawn and My Favorite Things. I have quite a bit of Stampin Up too but if I wasn't a hobby demo I probably wouldn't (not much of a sales pitch. lol)
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Post by josie29 on Nov 28, 2019 11:06:06 GMT
I love Avery Elle, Penny Black - mainly PB's older designs by Margaret Sherry's cute critters - plus My Favorite Things and Lavinia Stamps. Avery Elle has some really unique and fun stuff as does Lavinia. Penny Black stamps were the first wood block stamps that I ever bought way back in 2003 and they don't seem to date. Recently, I bought Lavinia's unicorns and more of their fairies as well as digital bauble images that you just print out on acetate and cut out & put in your plastic baubles which look amazing & I am making a ton for Christmas presents. Here is a sample of what I am talking about: Lavinia Baubles Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the bauble samples. I had to order some Inkjet friendly acetate off EBay and printed out the Bauble images tonight (Australian time) to put in the baubles that I bought from a craft shop this afternoon. Can't WAIT to finish them off! BTW, no connection to any of the companies mentioned. Avery Elle: I recently purchased their Polar Playtime stamp & die set which I can't wait to use. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Dec 2, 2019 13:39:17 GMT
I love Avery Elle, Penny Black - mainly PB's older designs by Margaret Sherry's cute critters - plus My Favorite Things and Lavinia Stamps. Avery Elle has some really unique and fun stuff as does Lavinia. Penny Black stamps were the first wood block stamps that I ever bought way back in 2003 and they don't seem to date. Recently, I bought Lavinia's unicorns and more of their fairies as well as digital bauble images that you just print out on acetate and cut out & put in your plastic baubles which look amazing & I am making a ton for Christmas presents. Here is a sample of what I am talking about: Lavinia Baubles Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the bauble samples. I had to order some Inkjet friendly acetate off EBay and printed out the Bauble images tonight (Australian time) to put in the baubles that I bought from a craft shop this afternoon. Can't WAIT to finish them off! BTW, no connection to any of the companies mentioned. Avery Elle: I recently purchased their Polar Playtime stamp & die set which I can't wait to use. Those baubles are pretty! They would make fun gifts. I love Penny Black, too, although I haven’t used them as much. I appreciate all the comments, and I hope everyone who visits this board will continue to add their favorites as they find new ones or remember some they may have missed. I have a huge stamp collection, but it is still fun to check out companies that I may not have bought from before (or for awhile). I have added some stamp sets to my wish list as a result of the posts in this thread. |
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Post by angel97701 on Dec 11, 2019 5:16:18 GMT
I too am all over the map! Depending on my mood it varies as does who the recipient will be. Heartfelt for flowers and the like, Hero Arts has kept in the mix with color layering stamps, Technique Tuesday for whimsical and realistic images, Unity, Altenew, and Concord & 9th are some my latest purchases. I've been stamping since 1996 or so and have thousands of stamps, so there are so oldies but goodies that jump back into the mix too!
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Post by scrapnnana on Dec 20, 2019 0:36:08 GMT
I've been stamping since 1996 or so and have thousands of stamps, so there are so oldies but goodies that jump back into the mix too! I’ve been stamping, card making, and collecting stamps for about 35 years. Once they started coming out with stamp sets, my numbers of stamps skyrocketed. Despite how many I have (my collection probably rivals yours), I can actually look through them really fast because they are well organized in zippered binder pockets. It also helps me to estimate how many I have. I really should stop collecting them, but I love stamps. I’m pickier than I used to be, but my collection continues to grow. Back in the earlier years, one stamp employee told me, “If you can still count them, you don’t have enough.” |
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Post by angel97701 on Dec 20, 2019 2:10:47 GMT
Back in the earlier years, one stamp employee told me, “If you can still count them, you don’t have enough.” Um, I don't know that I can count them! Mine are organized in 8 1/2 x 11 page protectors that are sectioned off. Then into categories in hanging file folders in file boxes. I have three 18 inch deep standard hanging file boxes, and 1 1/2 that are stamps with matching dies. But with that said some companies create something new that I don't have . . . so there is that!
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Post by scrapnnana on Dec 20, 2019 3:20:20 GMT
There is no way that I can count mine (well, I’m not willing to take the time to count that high), but I can estimate based on about how many fit in each of my zippered binders, and multiply that number by how many binders, so I have a decent idea of about how many I own. I can find what I want so much faster than when I had a third of the number of stamps, but had them stored in drawers. I use my stamps far more often now than I did back then.
I know my stamps well enough to recognize when I find something new and unique, and yes, I still buy stamps, but I am also far more picky these days.
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Post by craftmepink on Dec 21, 2019 2:30:24 GMT
Lawn Fawn, I own so much of it (and no way do I remember how much I have). The critters are just too cute to resist and adding smiley faces to everything just makes my day. I just love their interactive dies, have them all, shaker dies, shadow box, the pop up one, the wheel reveal one, the shaker tags...
Also, love Altenew for their layering stamps. But what I really love are the 3D flower dies they have which will really elevate your card to a whole new level.
I saw the Heartfelt Creations booth at the Scrapbook Expo in the summer, their creations are beautiful. I haven't bought anything from that brand yet because I need to use all my other stamps first.
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Post by scrapnnana on Jan 1, 2020 2:58:18 GMT
Today, I placed my first order with My Favorite Things. Thanks for the recommendations and enabling!
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