What is the most unusual place you have stamped or crafted??
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On a recent trip to Reno with my family, I was stamping customer thank you cards in the hotel!
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Hi Patty, LOL! I think it’s great that you were stampin in your hotel room. Have a great weekend!
Not sure if it’s all that unusual, but I’ve stamped in the airport, on the plane, (that pull down tray is really small!) in the hospital, and in the bleachers at the swim meets. I include a clipboard in my mobile stamping kit to provide a good surface to stamp on.
Well, i have not stamped anywhere unusual but my favorite place ever was on the screened-in, elevated porch of our rented home right smack on the ocean on Hilton Head Island. I had several Paper Pumpkin kits I put together and, boy, was it amazing to stamp there!
when we go camping to fish I always take a project or 2…..just in case the weather turns bad and I can stamp:) love stamping and being able to see the outside and the water!!
I hope to never have to repeat my most unusual place, as I put together my latest Paper Pumpkin kit in the hospital when I was a patient there last week. However, the cards made perfect thank you notes for all the nurses and staff who took care of me, and it’s the first time I’ve EVER totally used up my Paper Pumpkin kit!
I stamped and created the watercolor wonders kit at my sons surgery this last year. I was so nervous because it was a tumor behind his ear. The stamping and crafting kept my mind from freaking out. I would of watched your videos and other crafty ladies but there was no cell phone use. In so glad its over. Patty, I got my prize pack from your blog anniversary. Everything is so wonderful I feel so blessed to have gotten this. Bless you.
Oh and Thank you so much. I really appreciate it and created a card for you and sending in the morning.
Hi Patty! I stamped while getting chemo. Once all hooked up I always had a couple of hours to sleep, read, or stamp! There was a lot of curiosity from fellow patients and nurses. If I had your business cards I could have passed out a whole box. Marion and I miss your workshops!
HI Patty, Reading the earlier posts I realized that anywhere you can stamp is a good day! I’ve stamp in a hotel because I travel for work. I’ve stamped in our camper while my husband was out hunting. I’ve stamped at work, as part of a meeting agenda, that needed a break from the usually heavy subjects.
But the best place ever was during a job interview. I had to do a 30 minute group presentation and it could be anything I wanted it to be. So, I planned on them make 3 Christmas cards each. The owner stopped the presentation about 20 minutes in saying, excellent job. The rest of the group protested because they had only completed 2 of their cards. Needless to say, I got the job! Chris
In the car.
The most unusual place for me was my husband driving us to Kentucky for a funeral. I had ran out of sympathy cards so we had a 2 1/2 hour drive to get to our hotel so I stamped on my way there. Should have seen me trying to stamp as we went up and down and around the hills. I think my husband did it deliberate to see if I would mess up lol! Needless to say they all turned out beautifully and I know they brought comfort to family members.
Hi Patty! Most unusual place that I have stamped was in a stairwell. It was nice and quiet and I got so much done….lol
Adventures in crafting, eh? The most unusual place I’ve stamped is sitting on the end of the bed in our hotel room in Maui. There wasn’t a whole lot to do while it rained, so there I was, with no table, just a small desk that was covered with my hubby’s belongings, so my firm crafting surface was the hotel’s ironing board! My light source was my portable Ott light that I’d tossed in the suitcase at the last minute, just in case. (Hotel lighting is of notoriously poor quality.) I’d already packed a small project to play with if the opportunity arose, and it did. And, yes, I finished the project and gave those bookmarks to friends for Christmas that year!
Whenever I go on vacation I take stampin with me.
I have a small tattered lace machine that cuts dies and I
do that in the car.
I have a lap desk that I take and use in the car.
I’ve stamped in a hotel room in Niagara Falls while my daughter and her friend explored Clinton Hill. On break on my night shift. Lots of curious people when I started heat embossing. And of course a rainy day at the cottage ! Greeting from Hamilton,Ontario, Canada
I have been spotted stamping in my SUV & the bathroom. Have a great weekend
I would have to say:
It was in my car in the parking lot of my son’s college football game, waiting for him and the rest of the band to march onto the field. 🙂
I have also stamped/crafted by flashlight and candle light during a storm, in which the electricity was out.
My friend and I are nurses and we would volunteer at the first aid station at our local minor league baseball games. We would bring our paper pumpkins to the games and put them together when we didn’t have patients. It was great!
Most years, we spend Thanksgiving week in the Gatlinburg area and I haul a whole bunch of stuff to our hotel/motel/condo/cabin — wherever and set up a stamping area and prepare our Christmas cards. They’re usually ready to mail by the time I get home! About 120 handmade cards (many different designs)! Love it!
I usually stamp in my craft room. http://judysstampart.blogspot.com/2015/09/craft-room-reveal.html But on Wednesdays I stamp with a group of friends and we rotate homes for our stamping days. When I was in Florida for the winter I stamped at my kitchen table.
The comment by Chris S, about 10 comments back, reminded me of a similar stamping situation. For a class I was taking toward my Para Legal degree, we had to demonstrate that we were proficient with Power Point presentations (as that format is sometimes used to make points during trials.) We could do our presentation on anything we wanted, so I chose to “pretend” that I was teeaching a four-session class on Christmas decorations/cards/favors. I demonstrated making a match-book style Ghirardelli treat holder. For the Power Point component, I listed what we would do each evening for the next four weeks, with the outline phrases tumbling in from the sides, or exploding from a little dot on the screen, etc., to show how Power Point can be more dynamic – and memorable/understandable – than just listing an outline. Then I actually make one of the treat holders, step-by-step and illustrated on the Power Point screen. I had a basket of the treats to pass out at the end. After the class, several students came up to me and wanted to sign up for my class! I had to remind them that it was all make believe, as a vehicle to use Power Point. And like Chris S., who got the job, I got an A on the assignment.
Hi Patty,
Years ago when my son was younger, I used to bring my Stampin Up supplies to his hockey practices and would make cards for upcoming birthdays, Anniversaries, thank yous, etc.
On a cruise! I took along a couple of Paper Pumpkin kits to make thank you cards for our room stewards and dining room waiters. Paper Pumpkin packs better if I slip all the supplies into a zip-top bag.
Hi Patty, although I have stamped in most of the unusual places mentioned, last year I worked on prepping for an event on our pleasure boat! We had anchored in one of my husband’s favorite fishing spots & with the water particularly calm I got out my prestamped pieces and fussy cut away while catching some warm wonderful sun rays!
What a fun question 🙂 I think the most unusual place I’ve stamped was in a research lab in the pharmaceutics department. I had to sit for hours manning the pH machine while titrating polymer samples, so I took all my supplies in to complete my holiday cards that year. The cards turned out gorgeous, and it sure made those 15 hours go by faster! It’s been fun reading through everyone else’s comments – I agree that any day that you can stamp is a good day, regardless of the “where” 🙂
Last night I was stamping a Paper Pumpkin kit with my granddaughter on my bed.
I too stamped on that tiny airplane fold down table, the guy next to me was eating a huge garlic bagel so strong that when I got to Amsterdam and re-opened my Paper Pumpkin everything inside smelled like garlic. SO I set it all out in the hall to air out, then finished them between seeing the wonderful city of Amsterdam. but the cards do still have a faint garlic smell!! Judy C.