Nancy Kreischer is an Albuquerque native. (I remember her from high school!)  Stamping is new to Nancy, as she is a doll artist - check out her State Fair entries in the soft bodied dolls.  Lightening struck when she discovered stamped faces.... and some of the supplies and embellishments that stampers use.

CINDY MACGILLIVRAY is a natural talent who studies very hard to perfect her art. She is addicted to big, beautiful coffee-table art books. She is also addicted to surfing the web for the best stamp art sites. In her former lives, she has mastered the big church organ and stained glass making. Her interest in stamping began during her career as a nightclub singer (oh, okay. I don't think Cindy ever was a nightclub singer, I was just seeing if you really read this stuff!)

ANNIE ONDERDONK is a veteran artist with experience designing and making jewelry for stores and galleries. She has sold her wonderful dolls at arts and crafts shows. She is frequently to be found at ArtStreet which is an Albuquerque program for artists to mentor homeless artists. Annie has been stamping about ten years and has had numerous pieces published in SOMERSET STUDIO.

NANCY YOSHIMOTO - oh, hey - that's me. My background is floral design. I began working with flowers while I was still in college. My husband and I bought a shop a few years later and he ran the office and I ran the design room. I have been stamping for about ten years. It all began with a visit to THE STAMP OF APPROVAL when they were in Old Town. I really fell for embossing!--- but I only used it at Christmas. Then, about ten years ago, Susan Hawkins, one of our floral designers, went to a show and took a 15 minute class where they embossed and then colored with markers. Oh wow! We are talking about bells and whistles going off. Well, the other designers and I started stamping, started carrying stamps at the shop, and offering classes. The stamp display kept growing - my husband was afraid we were going to take over the sales area. Then we heard that China Phoenix was going out of business. What started as a visit to buy a little inventory ended with me having a stamp store! I hope it isn't illegal to have this much fun at work!