My Wife is a stamper!!!

Things I’ve Learned as a Stamper's Spouse By Jon Van Bruggen My wife is a stamper. By stamper, I mean a paper-crafting, blog-hopping, creativity-oozing stamper. She’s not a crafter and she’s definitely not a scrap booker. She’s a stamper.  Perhaps you’re also an involuntary member of this unique and growing collection of people I like to simply call Spouses of Stamper’s… or SS’s.  By having been an SS for the past few years I’ve learned a thing or two about the stamping sub-culture. And even though I’m armed with this knowledge, the various quirks and expectations of stamper’s are still hard to manage at times. Perhaps you’re an SS and you think you’re the only one experiencing these things. Know that you’re not alone! We’re in this together! And so, for all of the SSs out there, I submit to you the top 10 things I’ve learned as an SS: Delete “scrap booker” from your vocabulary and then empty your recycle bin. Remember...she's a stamper!   The outside of a greeting card is one hundred times more meaningful to a recipient than the words written on the inside. Or at least the outside of the card takes one hundred times longer to complete. Organza and Grosgrain have nothing to do with anything organic or wheat-based. They’re ribbons. When your wife says “I just want to change one thing about this card,” you better cancel your dinner reservations because you’re not going anywhere for a very long time. What looks like the aftermath of a tornado is really just a uniquely organized stamp room. Never, ever, ever say “Don’t you already have paper like that?” Trust me. It’s not the same paper. Redeeming the weekly 40% off coupon at Michaels trumps having milk in the refrigerator and clean socks to wear. Seriously, are your personal health and hygiene that important? I didn’t think so. The primary purpose of making cards is not to send them to others. It's to create space for that new die-cut machine. Much like the sun, you can’t turn off your wife’s creativity. As an SS, just give in already and prepare for many more dinner conversations about the latest blog-hop or stamp-a-thon.