Product Review – Scor-It Vs. Scor-Pal

By: Kim Parkinson, Product Guru
Most of you stampers out there don’t just stamp and color images.  Many of you put these images onto cards or other projects.  In keeping with the Stampers Quest theme of “Special Folds” in February, I’m going to review the Scor-Pal and the Scor-It. 
I was lucky enough to receive the Scor-Pal as part [...]

January Product Review – Back to Basics Part Two

Welcome back!  We’re going to explore a few more ink pad choices today as well as hear what the final verdict was to my stamping experience.
After my experience with Tsukineko and Stewart Superior, I realized that I had a few small containers of inks in my stash as well.  These small containers are made by [...]

January Product Review – Back to Basics! Part One

Ink Pad Review
by: Kim Parkinson, Product Guru
Welcome to 2010!  As we begin this New Year and new decade at StampersQuest, our theme for the year is “Back to Basics.”  I’m sure many of you feel that each New Year brings a renewed sense of inspiration.  If you are anything like me, you take a look at your [...]

Club Scrap Product Review

Club Scrap  
By Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru
Club Scrap is a monthly mail order scrapbook club, which began in 1999.  Each monthly kit is unique and designed for beginners as well as advanced scrapbookers or stampers.  The kits contain coordinated materials to create a multitude of projects.

 
 My kit came in a pizza-sized box.  As I opened [...]

September Product Review – Copic Markers

Copic Markers
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru

Copic Markers are professional illustration markers.  They are double ended, low odor and alcohol based.  These markers are also refillable and come in over 200 colors.  Sounds pretty interesting, don’t they?
The one thing stopping me from buying a few to test for this review was their cost.  My local [...]

Digital Stamps

Digital Stamps
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru
 Digital Stamps is a new stamping term to me.  I have been hearing some chatter about them for a couple of months now.  Seeing, as I didn’t know what they were all about, I “googled” them.  I was directed to a few sites that were offering digital stamps for [...]

Koh-I-Noor Color Pencil Review

Koh-I-Noor Color Pencils
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru 
About 10 years ago I watched a video by a woman named Kristin Powers on using color pencils.  That very afternoon I went out and purchased my first set of Prismacolor pencils and I have never looked back.  I am hooked!
I keep my pencils in a cup on [...]

Sunday International Stamp Review

Sunday International Unmounted Stamps
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru
 
I received a stamp set from Sunday International.  It is one of their new ATC size stamp sets.  Which means that they are sized to fit on a 2.5″ by 3.5″ card. The stamps are deeply etched rubber that is already closely trimmed on foam, with self [...]

Castaway Ink Pad Review

Jacquard’s Castaway Pad
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru
Do you like the look of bleach on your artwork, but don’t like the odor?  Jacquard came out with an ingenious idea for a stamp pad a few years ago called the Castaway pad.  This pad is supposed to allow you to get the same bleached look without [...]

Too Busy Dusting

Throughout the Color Conversations with Darlene Domel DVD, Darlene’s wit and humor just gets better and better.  Darlene’s little tips for using large background stamps, what product to use to get ink off your fingers, how to save money and more, are some of the best tips I’ve heard in a long time.  The best laugh [...]

Dusting Stripes

I had some fun today playing with the “stripes” technique from Color Conversations.  Darlene shares a really cool tip about making sure stripes are masked off evenly in chapter 6 of the DVD.  As with most of her tips, it has to do with Eclipse tape and is easy and practical. Darlene also uses the [...]

Dusting the Color

For months now I’ve been struggling with my art and the creative processes. There are so many products on the market, it seems there is a doodad for this and a doodad for that; a tool for this and a tool for that; inks for this, paints for that; and, a patterned paper for just [...]

Dusting Can Be Fun?

Darlene Domel, in her 2008 DVD Color Conversations, shows how any stamper can become an expert at dusting and taping. Of course, the DVD (from StampLand Chicago) is all about stamping and not housework. Darlene herself says, “I am so not a domestic goddess.”
The dusting in the DVD is all about color dusting, a technique [...]

Product Review – Sunday International EZ Mount

Sunday International EZ Mount
By: Susan Wolf Caplan, Product Guru
 When I started stamping in the 90’s, the wood mounted stamps were affordable.  As the years have passed the price of wood has increased, and as a result, the stamps mounted on them have begun to exceed stamper budgets. Many stampers now choose to purchase unmounted rubber stamps and opt to [...]

Product Review – Evo Templates

Evo Templates by Evolving Images
By:  Susan Caplan, Product Guru
 
Evo Rectangle Templates

Evo Square Templates
Ever hear of Evo Templates by a company called Evolving Images? If you haven’t, then I have a treat in store for you.  I have been using these marvelous acrylic templates for years and don’t know what I would do without them.
Evo Templates [...]

Robin’s Nest Dew Drops Product Review

Robin’s Dew Drops Product Review
By: Susan Caplan, Backpack Guru
A friend of mine had purchased and used Dew Drops in a card she had made and I was fascinated by these tiny colored acrylic embellishments. So, I just had to buy some for myself. 
Finding these little morsels was not an easy feat, as my local stamp [...]