StuidoG $1 stamps!

Everytime I'm in Michael's or Joann's I like to dig through their bargin bins and see what kind of cute StudioG stamps they have. The other day, I started talking to a woman at Joann's while we were pawing through the box of of $1 stamps. She told me CraftWarehouse also has them. I wasn't going to go until that lady pounced on a set of spider stamps I HAD to have (and of course, that was the last one Joann's had).


So... WOW! CraftWarehouse has MORE stamps than Joann's and Michael's combined--not just in sheer number, but also in the number of designs!!! I picked up several of the Halloween acrylic and wood-black sets (including the spider set that lady at Joann's beat me to!).

I posted a comment on a forum about liking these stamps sets--because the designs are cute and the fact that they're cheap! OF COURSE... someone had to offer a negative opinion about the quality and what a waste of money they are and, get this, "they turn yellow after you use them." What the hell? Who cares what color the turn? Can you ink 'em up and stamp with 'em? You bet.

Oh, yeah... and this is my favorite: "Stampin' Up! stamps are made from the highest-quality rubber with deeply etched images. They are an investment that will last forever." Huh? Is that a joke? An INVESTMENT?????


Here's the deal: I have spent a small fortune on SU! stamps (I have two rolling carts FULL of them). I'm not sure what the average cost of a set of stamps is? $30? Anyway, the majority of what I've bought is still sitting, uncut, in their pretty little plastic boxes. And those that I HAVE cut apart and stamped with, I've only used a handful of times. So, when it comes down to it, I'd rather spend $1 on a set of stamps that, ewwwww... turn yellow after I use them a couple of times, and if I NEVER use them, then I'm only out a buck!


All that said, I found an online stamp store that's going out of business. I bought the entire "Bohemian" collection for $12! Pretty much the designs all look the same, but this is a collection that's been out since August, and nobody around here has them.

Buy-Buy!!!

I ordered two really cute clear stamps sets from Oriental Trading Company. They arrived today:

The first set is called "Build-a-Cake" and has all kinds of cakes and icings and cupcakes. That should be fun. The second set is a baby set that I thought was too cute to pass up. I love the little faces.

This is really hard to see in the picture below, but instead of a "Bye-Bye" stamp, my set says "Buy-Buy"! Ha! Ha! I got a big charge out of that! I called up ol' Orential Trading Company to let them know mine is WRONG. I don't want to return it because I think it's such a cute set, and that's only one tiny little stamp. However, they probably should know they're selling defective sets. The rep. looked it up on the internet, and it says "Bye-Bye" on the internet (and I just checked and it DOES say the right thing on the internet picture)! However, because I had a problem with it, she issued me a $20 coupon to be used sometime within the next year.

Now I need to figure out what I can use a "Buy-Buy" stamp for--surely there's SOMETHING!