I lead a very sheltered stamping life. I had my Stampin' up catalog and was happy as a clam until I found myself searching the internet for new ideas and somehow I came across this lovely site called Splitcoaststampers.
I couldn't believe my eyes!! There were soo many ideas and projects, tutorials, templates. I didn't know where to begin! I was in heaven...and a little bit overwhelmed but I took it in stride. I only sat in front of my computer exploring until 2am that morning. Oh yes...I couldn't stop!
I loved that Stampin' up had it's own section and everything there was organized by stamp sets so if I had a stamp set I wanted to use but couldn't think of how - I could find inspiration there. Awesome!!!
So all was well in my not quite so little world anymore but things were about to change: I started browsing the big, general gallery and I spotted the most amazing landscape cards. I had discovered Stampscapes.
After watching numerous online tutorials and videos on how to use your stampscapes stamps and how to shade them, I was finally ready to order my first stampscapes stamps.
I could hardly wait for them to arrive and let me tell you the beginnings were not as easy as everyone made it seem in their videos but after the third attempt I finally ended up with the image you see above. :)
