Bitch #1

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I wanted to make sure no one would see a name as to who posted altho some of us will know who it is (we can pretend it the drugs for now). We do need a lot more members to make this work but someone has to be the sacrificial lamb. That is me!

Since so many of the blogs I read are stamping and scrapping related, my first bitch will be about Stampin' Up! Now don't get me wrong-I don't hate the company. I just don't like a whole lot about it. I have a ton of their stamps (and even some dupes of some as I bought out a lady last year of all her sets and she had dupes-these will be sold later). But that is the only thing I will buy from them-their stamps.

I dislike how so many women (who I suspect are all demo's or shut ins) go on and on about SU like it's the sole stamp company out there. I understand if they might make their livelihood that they would play up some of the accessories but if those inks or whatever are not even SU products (such as the Cropidile) why is it that they are so blind to see that I, as a consumer can get it so much cheaper elsewhere yet they think "their" product is the best? It's the same damn thing!

I was given some of their ink pads a while back and I have used so many different products that I can usually tell if one is similar to another. I have always had this suspicion that SU pigment ink is made by one of the other manufacturers of ink and I have actually re-inked my black with another refill because I wanted to see if there was any diff. None that I could see! Ink is ink if it does the job but I wont pay twice as much for something if I can get another product that does the same. I won't buy a Cadillac if a Chevy gets me from point A to point B just as easily.

I do like their cardstock and won a pack as blog candy last fall. I split it with my daughter (and have not received a review from her on it yet, which means she hasn't taken it out of the zippie). It was unusually thicker than some I have used. Some I like htick-so I buy vellum card stock from Wausau for base cards. I get this at Office Depot at 500 sheets for about 10.00. If I mess up (and I do a lot) I am not wasting my nicer card stock. I am a Bazzill fan tried and true-I buy in bulk. But if the SU card stock were cheaper, I might use it more unless I needed textured (which costs even more? why is that?).

And when people list how they made something, they always list the colors in full name. One more "I used Wasabi Green and Pomegranate Red" will make me delete their blogs from my Reader. I don't know the names of my card stock and I don't care. If they look good together, fine. If they don't, then I move on. I have all my card stock in bins by size not color. I like to dig around and see what emerges from the bins (and that emerging color challenge I hear about is way annoying too)

So this perkiness with SU demos-what is up with that? Is it a requirement? I used to be a demo for CTMH (another story for another day) and they are just as crazy. Do you have to be a Stepford Stamper to be a demo? If I see Shelli's face on one more photo on one more blog with one more demo caught in the headlights look, I will puke! Is this the "piece de resistance", to get your photo taken with Shelli in her Stepford pose? Her face never changes-is it frozen like that?

Just once, I would love to see a SU stamp with sass and rated PG. How about the words butt or boobs to start?

Okay, your turn!