The Design Team
Kristin Batsel, Georgia, USA
I majored in art in college, and worked for a few years as a package designer and then a freelance artist before leaving the workforce to raise my two daughters. I enjoy mixed media art, mostly using ephemera, paints and various rubber stamps.
I have an obscenely large collection of old tickets, postage stamps, Chinese fortunes and old thrift store books that I cut up and use in my art. Some of my favorite things to make include ATCs, inchies, and tip in and chunky book pages. I also love book binding and altering Altoid tins.
I have been an active member of Craftster.org for the last five years and currently moderate the ATC and the Paper Crafts boards in addition to the Swap board.
Kristin’s Gallery
Teri Calia, California, USA
Many of you know me as the reigning Customer Service Goddess of Alpha Stamps, but in real life I am a freelance illustrator. I specialize in drawing animals and I am especially fond of cats. For fun and as a great stress reliever, I create art every chance I get!
I love mixed media and collage, acrylic paint, drawing, Photoshop, and hoarding art supplies and ephemera. My latest obsession is making jewelry. I have a BA in Fine Art and I’ve been creating art for as long as I remember. One of my biggest influences is my seamstress Mother who always says “there’s no such thing as can’t!”
Teri’s Gallery
Lynda Roddy Ozzauto, Illinois, USA
Being an artist all my life I have worked in many different media — including watercolors, pencil, charcoal, silk screen, fabric, rubber stamping and collage. I’ve designed women’s knitwear, done murals and portraits and have taught painting, drawing, knitting and design for 20+ years. I am relatively new to collage and started doing ATCs about two years ago and was immediately hooked! I’ll use any excuse to buy art supplies and have tried most of the products out there. I have a sewing machine, two knitting machines and a closet full of paper and collage supplies.
I started a blog earlier this year and am honored to be part of the Design Team at Alpha Stamps.
Lynda’s Gallery
Amy Rozeboom, Missouri, USA
I’m a mixed media artist, primarily working on paper crafts but I also create assemblage/shrine type pieces. I’m strongly influenced by Mexican folk art and the works of Michael DeMeng, Kathy Cano-Murillo, Carol Owen, Joseph Cornell, Lynne Perrella, Teesha Moore, Dave McKean … the list goes on and on.
My mom was an artist and I grew up at her elbow, watching her create a variety of wonderful things while she taught classes at local craft shop here in St. Louis. She would take me to work with her and let me pick out a craft to work on while she taught. She had to keep an eye on me though, because I was known to sneak over to the aisle with the kneaded erasers and gnaw on them through the wrapper, leaving tiny little teeth marks behind!
I’ve always been crafty but started to really get into a groove about 6 years ago, while planning my Day of the Dead themed wedding. While tooling around online, I found Craftster.org and it was like a fog lifted. I had never found a place with so many like-minded, crafty people! I’ve been an active member there since 2004 and was recently chosen as the “Craftster Crush.” During my search for online supplies I found Alpha Stamps in 2007, and I was also an Alpha Stamps Guest Designer in February 2008.
Visit Amy’s blog Amaryllisroze.
Amy’s Gallery
Shannon Sawyer, Arizona, USA
I have been stamping, doing collage and mixed media artwork for over eleven years now. I started stamping when I stopped working a daily M-F, 8-to-5 job due to a disability and I’ve been in love with stamping and mixed media ever since.
I have been lucky enough to be published in the various Stampington magazines multiple times and I am now an On Call Artist for the Stampington family. It’s always such an honor and it never ceases to amaze me when my work is chosen. I have been a Guest Designer for Alpha Stamps several times and I am so excited to now be on the Design Team!
I reside in Gold Canyon, Arizona which is a breathtaking part of the Arizona desert. I keep busy working on my artwork and spending time with my family and friends who I cherish.
Please stop by and visit my blog, SaturdayVille.
Shannon’s Gallery
Lynn Stevens, Idaho, USA
I have been involved with art throughout my life. For the last 11 years I have had my own Mural and Faux Painting business and in my spare time I enjoy making altered art, stamping and designing jewelry. Most often I love to incorporate vintage or found objects into my art.
Current Design Teams I create for in addition to Alpha Stamps are Artistic Outpost, I Brake For Stamps, Oxford Impressions, Gingersnap Creations and have been a Guest Designer for Technique Junkies and Scrolls work. Publications I have been published in are many issues of Stampington magazines and Altered Arts. I was also the Alpha Stamps Guest Designer for April, 2010.
When not in my studio you can find me combing through junk shops, antique stores or yard sales looking for undiscovered treasures to use in my art! Visit Lynn at her blog or at her Etsy store.
Lynn’s Gallery
Rhonda Secrist Thomas, Tennessee, USA
I’m a SAHM of two little girls and a former teacher that has been creating art for as long as I can remember. I love to create using vintage items such as old ledger pages, interesting bits of metal, game pieces or whatever item I find that strikes my interest. The more types of materials in something I create the better!
I have a constant desire to learn new techniques and I don’t think I could ever have too many doll heads, art supplies or ephemera. You might say that I am obsessed with all things French including old receipts, pictures, souvenirs, the Eiffel Tower and so much more!
I have always loved what Alpha Stamps has to offer and am really looking forward to this new chapter of my artistic life. For me, creating is my therapy and my “me time”. If I can inspire just one person artistically, then I have succeeded. To learn more about me and to see more of my art work, feel free to stop by my blog.