Thank you Etsy buyers for sharing your stories and photos! Much appreciated! BEFORE:
As you can see below, Etsy buyers use this stamp much more creatively than I ever have!
Mechanical library date stamp, available here.
Photo via Hoarder Rehab
STORY 556:
I’m gonna use it to date my sketchbooks so I know when I start and finish them!
Very nice way to document one's art using a mechanical date stamp! So many details to look at! Lov the blue designs on both pages! The date is stamped in the upper right hand corner. I'd like to see the book of prompts!
Love the cute little animal at the bottom corner!
Photo via artistic Etsy buyer from Hoarder Rehab, thank you!
STORY 557:
I’ve been using your date stamp on our travel map -love it!!
Love it too, especially the colors! Where did you find that brown map?
Love it too, especially the colors! Where did you find that brown map?
Thank you for another creative idea of how to document with this date stamp!
Photo via traveling Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerAndMore.
I love how the compass stamp marks the spot in black with the travel map date documentation is in red. And I especially love how it all looks on the brown background of the map! Wonderful idea!
STORY 558:
I bought this stamp for an anniversary scrapbook I’m creating! My partner is an avid book reader and for the table of contents in the scrapbook, I also bought library due date cards. I plan on stamping the dates of our dates onto the library card! I can’t wait to use it. Thank you!!
I bought this stamp for an anniversary scrapbook I’m creating! My partner is an avid book reader and for the table of contents in the scrapbook, I also bought library due date cards. I plan on stamping the dates of our dates onto the library card! I can’t wait to use it. Thank you!!
Another great idea for an anniversary scrapbook! I'd love to see the table of contents from using a library due date card. Perfect for any avid reader to document anything!
Since I can't see hers, here is one I found as an example of how to use a mechanical date stamp!
This would also be fun for documenting your first baby or grandchildren. Date of birth, teething date, first word, first steps, etc. One would need a lot of library due date cards, if it went all the way to college! Photo via internet.
STORY 559:
Hi Kennedy! I just purchased a date stamp from your Etsy shop and just
got it in the mail! I was happily surprised to see such a personal note
inside that you hand wrote, one of the reasons I love buying from Etsy!!
I purchased the stamp because in June I am going to be leaving for 8
weeks to work at a summer camp on the east coast as a camp counselor!
The camp is very traditional and the preferred way of communication with
family back home is with hand written letters! So I thought it would be
fun to buy a few thing to spruce up my letters to my family and friends
back home while I am away! I can’t wait to use the stamp! Thank you
again and good luck on all of your future endeavors.
I hope our world will be back to normal by then, so she gets to use the stamp in June as a camp counselor! As you see below, it's how I spruce up my little "thank you" note to Etsy buyers! Along with a bunch of hoard samples from our shops!
Photo via Etsy buyer story 559, thank you!
Saying Goodbye: This is one of my teaching hoard items that has turned into one of our "best sellers" on Etsy, so I call it a "rehoard" item. I actually do have to hoard this item because it sells out quickly!
What I Learned:
1. I am so thankful that Etsy buyers are friendly and thoughtful and will take the time not only to share their stories, but to send updated photos! Photos from Etsy buyers are my all time favorite! Pretty soon from all their support, I'll be able to write a book named, "100 & 1 Ways to Use a Date Stamp!"
2. Here are a couple more ideas from Etsy buyers long past: So excited to use this for letters and cards to loved ones!!, for library themed parties, crafting, and glue book documentation. Phew, I think I'm finally caught up on date stamp stories from Etsy buyers. I think I have about 30 more other different stories to go! Thank you Etsy buyers!
3. When I was teaching I used to use that date stamp daily. It makes a good and practical teacher gift too, since teacher document a lot! Students need to write their name and date so many times a day that I used to pass this date stamp around with an ink pad to make it a little more fun and as a reminder, plus I think it looks good!
Now I use it at least 3x a week to stamp the date on all my little "thank you" packaging notes that go out to Etsy buyers with a little sample of hoard items, they can order at our shops. It's a fun little package to open, especially for children and those who junk journal. One Etsy buyer said his niece was more interested in the goody package than what he actually purchased! Several Etsy shop owners have let me know they use it for thank you notes and invoices too!
When I was trying different alternatives to hoarding, I made a lot of washi tape art and would date stamp the day it was made. Washi tape art didn't stick with me and yes! I have hoards of washi tape to figure out how to use! I'd like to start art journaling, however, right now I'd rather be stitching!
Thank you Etsy buyers for sharing all your stories and taking the time to take photos! I just love them and keep them coming with photo updates! Your inspiration keeps me motivated to keep on with my Hoarder Rehab!
It also reminds me to stop my retail therapy ways when I get stressed or drama happens in my life and to either blog, list more items on Etsy or to keep mending! A stitch a day keeps the hoard away!
Thankfully many of my washi tape art pieces have gone on to "forever" homes, but I still have several and here is one that's still listed here. This one wasn't, but many of my washi tape art were inspired by Gee's Bend strip quilters, here. Photo via The Destiny of Things
I'm still adding new listings weekly to reach my goal of 185 listed
items per
shop. Thankfully hoard keeps finding new "forever" homes! Thank you Etsy buyers! Sales are up or actually back to what they used to be from earlier last year, which is interesting.
This also may be interesting for some Etsy shop owners out there. Since I have 5 different shops, I run a lot of different experiments. One of my latest ones was to see which sells better, "free shipping" or not. The "not" I call transparent shipping because everyone can see the shipping costs. At one shop I have the date stamp listed as free shipping and at another shop I have it without free shipping and both are at the same price. Guess which ones sells more? The one with transparent shipping sells a whole lot more! I tried with other of our best seller items too with the same results. I could go on and on about all the experiments I've tried, lol, but that's another story!
This also may be interesting for some Etsy shop owners out there. Since I have 5 different shops, I run a lot of different experiments. One of my latest ones was to see which sells better, "free shipping" or not. The "not" I call transparent shipping because everyone can see the shipping costs. At one shop I have the date stamp listed as free shipping and at another shop I have it without free shipping and both are at the same price. Guess which ones sells more? The one with transparent shipping sells a whole lot more! I tried with other of our best seller items too with the same results. I could go on and on about all the experiments I've tried, lol, but that's another story!
I also changed one shop to almost all "free shipping" and sales were not as active, so now I'm in the process of changing it back to mostly transparent shipping, except for items over $35 due to Etsy's shipping guarantee policy. As an Etsy shop owner, Etsy life is a whole lot easier with "free shipping." Unless you have a return policy, not sure how that works....
My goal for our new shop, Mending Ways was 32, so now my new listing goal for that shop is 40 listings total! I have at one new stitched pocket on a up-cycled top to finish listing. I have definetly been procrastinating on listing that one! I have another batch of patches to take photos to list next week, a small cell phone bag I'm working on and some amulet ideas have been rolling around in my head for some time now!
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 185 items, The Destiny of Things- 180 items, VintageToGoEasy - 177 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 181 items. And now, Mending Ways with 35 items!
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! All lookieloos are appreciated!
These patches were really fun to make while trying out some neon yellow thread that ended up looking a bit chartreuse against the ombre indigo backgrounds, available here.
Photo via Mending Ways
What have you been hoarding lately? I hope it's not TP and hand sanitizer! lol I've been hoarding some beautiful time worn fabrics for more patches and hopefully larger textile art projects!
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