Julie Ebersole

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 13 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". 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 I have also been fortunate to have many of my designs appear in popular trade publications, including Paper Crafts, Stamp It, Scrap & Stamp Arts, Stampington, Card Maker, Gift Maker (formerly Paper Works), and Cards magazines.

In addition to my work as Creative Teams Director, Lead Instructor and Senior Designer for A Muse Art Stamps (amuseartstamps.com) a wondermous rubber stamp company based out of Seattle, WA, I also serve as the Design Team Coordinator on Splitcoaststampers.com, the world's largest online stamping community.

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!*