Keepin' It Real
Don't Forget To Have a Little Fun Today!
Biography
Once upon a time, I had no idea rubber stamps existed. Chuckle! Prior to staying home full-time with my children, and simultaneously becoming addicted to art-stamping, I was a high school Spanish teacher.
My cousin had always sent these beautiful hand-made cards. "I stamped it myself," she would say. I would look at them, marvel, and scratch my head. I didn't "get it". Then, one day, over 14 years ago, I walked into a stationary store and spotted some stamps. Hmmmm. On the racks were RubberStampMadness Magazines. Hmmmmmm. Yes, yes, I am a bit slow, but as I flipped through the magazines and kept looking at the stamps, I finally "got it"--got what my cousin meant!
Evidently, there was an underground movement of people--everyday people like myself--who were all making cards and whatnot with stamps--RUBBER STAMPS!!!
For 10 years, I demonstrated and taught for a direct-sales stamp company, and during that time, and since, I have been fortunate to have many of my designs and several articles appear in popular trade publications, including Paper Crafts, Stamp It, Scrap & Stamp Arts, Stampington's Take Ten and Stamper's Sampler, Card Maker, Gift Maker (formerly Paper Works), and Cards magazines.
After 3 years as the Design Team Coordinator for Splitcoaststampers.com, the world's largest online stamping community, I stepped down in March 2008 to accept a full-time position at A Muse Artstamps (amuseartstamps.com), a wondermous rubber stamp company based out of Seattle, WA, where I had been Lead Instructor and Senior Designer for the last 5 years. Today, I am thankful to serve as the company's Creative Teams Director.
I am tickled to meet so many people, not only through the classes I teach, but around the globe, through the world-wide web, who are just as crazy about the art of rubber stamping as I am--and cards are still my favorite thing to create!
Oh, and I do love a good appletini every now and then . . . *wink!*
