~Welcome to my passionate, sometimes chaotic world of ART~
Growing up in San Diego, California as an only child I spent many creative hours drawing, painting, writing poetry, and listening to music. In my early 20's, I sold my art pieces at various venues throughout the San Diego area. When the craft industry really took off again in the 80's, I found myself designing and selling jewelry and victorian items at local shops and fairs. Never really a fan of "cutesie" stamps and things I fell in love with the more offbeat stamps, inks, and techniques in the beginning of 2005. My first published piece was in Correspondence ART magazine at the end of that year. Since then, I have been so blessed to have my feature articles and works published in Somerset Studio, Stamper's Sampler catch up issues, Art Doll Quarterly, Legacy, Paper Art, Stamper's Sampler, Somerset Gallery Summer 2006 and 2007, Correspondence Art, and Altered Arts magazines. One of my pieces graces the cover of the 2006 Summer Edition of Somerset Gallery magazine. I also had the privilege of working as the Stamping Sensations Editor for Paper Arts and Correspondence Art magazines.
These past few years have been very busy-working full time with Special Education students, teaching mixed media art classes both in-store and online, and serving as a Design Team Member for Altered Pages, CardNStamps, ThermOWeb, Spellbinders, and Krafty Lady. A few of my collage sheet designs can be found at Altered Pages and as of June of this year, my collage sheet line can be found here at Altered By Design, Stampington and Company, Joggles, and Hobby och Hantverk in Sweden. I also have designed several sheets exclusively for Alpha Stamps as well.
