Suzy's Sentiments began in 2002 when I became a stay-at-home Mom to a beautiful baby girl after teaching public school for nine years.

While being a Mom fulfilled me so much, I found a need to have something for myself in a creative way. When my husband was working his second job and the baby was asleep for the night, I let my imagination run wild and started crafting.

At that time, I enjoyed packing up my car with all of my designs and bringing them to craft fairs to meet people and sell my product. After doing this for eight years, I found that it just wasn't working for my growing, busy family. I wondered what I could do since I still loved creating and didn't want to lose that in my life. As it would happen, someone at a craft fair mentioned Etsy to me. You see, it was meant to be! I came home, looked up the site and fell in love. I opened up my shop in March of 2010 selling a much different inventory than what I do now.

I love browsing and finding really unique and colorful card stock to make my passport covers, luggage tags and checkbook covers from. Early on, I created templates to cut all of my paper from. I add a coordinating 110 lb. card stock background to each piece to enhance the design and sturdiness of the item. Cutting each piece by hand makes for a beautiful item as close to perfect as any handmade item can be :)

The concept for my hand stamped products come to fruition from an idea or central theme that I want to create. Then I add phrases and/or designs to make each creation tasteful and eye catching. The next step is to choose the ink colors and ink the edges of the cards. This really adds to the charm of the decoration and gives it vintage flare. Each product features letters, decorative pictures or numbers. After drying time, the item is hung or knotted with ribbon. The last step is to carefully package the item with TLC and send it off to my waiting customer!

My business has evolved so much since 2010. I can honestly say that I am so proud of handcrafting the items I offer! My business is growing and I feel like I have the perfect mix of enjoying family time and running Suzy's Sentiments!