I love paper and all things artsy and craftsy. :-)
Paper. Scissors. Glue. Beads. Thread . Cardstock . Chipboard . Pens
That's a list of the things that surround me every day. The things I love to play with. The things I turn into other things.
I've always loved to make things. Always. From way back when I was little, cutting out shapes from construction paper, pasting the shapes to other pieces of paper, and then presenting them to my Mom as if they were artworks worthy of being hung in the Louvre.
Speaking of the Louvre, I once made a scale model of the building using paper mache, for a school project. We had to take it to school in the back of my grandfather's 1953 Ford pickup truck. I got an A.
I love to draw, giant abstract drawings filled with teeny tiny circles, squares, and triangles. And cartoony characters, silly people with big noses (like Jerry the Jester, my avatar), surly cats, crazy birds, and whatever else gives me a chuckle. Every once in awhile I draw a portrait, and my favorite technique for those is pointillism.
So I started making ACEO blanks for other people who like to draw and paint but didn't so much like the process of cutting their own art cards. And then I started cutting up paper and cards into other shapes and sizes. At some point I "discovered" scrapbooking papers, and I designed some envelope templates (some of my envelopes were even featured in a Lark book, Pushing the Envelope). A few years later, I've made countless thousands of envelopes; and I'm a hoarder when it comes to scrapbooking papers.
And here I am.
I don't have much time to draw any more (when I'm not cutting up paper and cards, I'm playing with beads for my other shop, time2cre8). But I will again someday.
:-)