I’m not an artist. I’m not a designer. And yet, I create. If I can do it, anyone can.
I was sort of crafty as a kid, making my share of macaroni necklaces and braided friendship bracelets. I sewed outfits for my Barbie and traced dresses for my paper dolls. I even sold some hand made crackled marble jewelry in junior high school. I wanted to be an artist, but I couldn’t draw.
So imagine my thrill when, as a leader in my daughter’s Brownie troop, I returned to my crafting roots and discovered rubber stamps. An obsession was born. I still couldn’t draw, but I could color, letting the stamps do the hard part.
A journalist by trade, I accidentally became a craft writer when the publisher of The Rubber Stamper Magazine – gearing up for its first issue — called me about a card I had apparently submitted on a dare.
“Can you write up something on how you created your collaged card,” Tammy asked.
“You want me to write an article about collage?” I replied, confused because I had forgotten all about that card.
“You write?” she shot back.
And so I became an Accidental Crafter. I knew nothing about collage, or layering or color theory, but I gamely did what any journalist would do – I researched the heck out of it. And wrote a story about using collage techniques with rubber stamps.
So welcome to my blog, where I can combine my two loves – writing and crafting – and where I can show my husband that I really AM working as I play with paper, stamps and ink. Join me on this great adventure.
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I miss The Rubber Stamper, and your stories. I will never forget the hilarous article on your stamping room. Many crafters related to that article and are still talking about it.
Nancy
Thanks, Nancy. We may have to reprise that story here! (Although wait until you see my NEW crafty place!)