I am an accidental artist. I've always had a creative temperament, but no skill with visual arts. I can't draw, paint, or sew---even my handwriting is abysmal. I found an outlet in photography and music and theater, and spent the first 35 years of my life exploring those art forms. I minored in vocal music in college, and majored in journalism, where photojournalism was a favorite subject.

I was first exposed to rubber stamping about ten years ago, but didn't think much of it. It seemed to much like working out someone else's vision instead of my own. I tried scrapbooking, but that was too much like laundry: finish one project and before I had a chance to enjoy it, I had to start another load or fall hopelessly behind.

Finally in the late 1990s I found a home party based rubber stamp company (The Angel Company) that allowed me more freedom with their images. I could create, sell, donate---whatever I chose to do with what I created. I also figured out that I could combine things and use parts of images so that MY vision prevailed. Over the next five years the steep learning curve kept me motivated. I learned that stamping wasn't restricted to card making or even paper projects. A dear friend, Melissa Baldwin, even incorporated my photography into an exclusive line of rubber stamps through her company, The Stamping Studio.

By the end of 2004, I had created more than I could have imagined, been published in several stamping magazines, and even sold a few paper and jewelry projects. I was confident at last to call myself an artist.

 

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