CowTown Stamps - Laurel Sherry
CowTown Stamps started about 10 years ago when I was publishing The Rubber Stamp Club newsletter that I published for about 5 years (it is no longer being published). Marina Lenzino of Cherry Pie in Italy, now Florida, was a penpal of mine and started me with some left-over artwork. Thru the grapevine I found a small used vulcanizer in a nearby city. With help and info from Mike Meador of Coffee Break Design and the support of the members of the newsletter, I started finding artists, and began cranking out stamps. We attended conventions; I hosted the first show in Rockford, Ill. in 1992; and we've been in shows from California to Atlanta, participating in 15-20 a year, and I've co-hosted the Sun Prairie, Wisc. show for 6 years. Now CowTown Stamps is in its second, larger store location, which houses nearly 2,000 original designs, stamps from many other manufacturers, and many accessories, papers, inks and scrapbooking materials. I do classes, mail order, maintain a 5+ year-old web site, run contests, and encourage stampers, scrappers and crafters. I enjoy sharing info with my customers, and at conventions will always be seen demoing about a dozen different things and am very willing to sit down with a stamper and show them step-by-step how to use the stamps and accessories. We do wholesale, retail, mounteds, unmounteds.