I am currently a SAHM living in Bel Air, Maryland - our home state — after being in Chicago for four years. I live with my hubby of 12 years, Bill, and the love of both of our lives, , Kyle. And I should also mention, Tom, our 2-1/2 year old fuzzy furball of a cat. (Full disclosure of a feline friend should be required of TCP team members!) My best guess is that I've been a stamper for about 10 years.

I got the bug after living just down the street from a wonderful store near our first house in Crofton, MD. When we moved to North Carolina I decided that I should scrapbook. I shopped and bought and collected and organized tons of tools, stickers, paper, etc. but I kept going back to my stamps. (I never did start scrapbooking!) When we moved to Illinois that's when my habit really took off. Five years later, we need to have extra insurance to make sure that the craft room is covered in case of emergency. It's not just a hobby, right, it's a way of life!

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Hi All! I live in North Texas, Saginaw to be exact, with my wonderful husband and beautiful daughter. We also have 2 crazy dogs and a sly black cat (not Sprinkle), that we occasionally claim as our own. Before staying at home, I taught third grade in public schools.

I truly discovered stamping in the fall of 2004 when my neighbor’s son brought over a cute little Halloween treat. I had to know what it was, how it was made and how could I get my hands on the stuff…now! It’s been a few years since then and needless to say, I am now “in the know.” I love all things stamping! The paper, the ink, the embellishments and, of course, THE STAMPS!! What was once in one drawer of my house has now consumed an entire room…and I love it!

I describe my stamping style as clean. I love sharp edges, matted panels and bold images. There is always something else out there that I want to know all about, whether it be a type of stamp, ink or paper or a creative person.

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Hi y'all, it's me, Susan! I'm married to my best friend, Eric and we have three beautiful daughters—Shelbie who is in high school, Lindsie our second grader and Audrie our precocious preschooler. I'm a native Texan and we live northeast of Fort Worth, Texas in a little suburb called Watauga. I've been a stay at home mom for 5 years now, after having been in the retail banking business for 17 years. We have a 10 year old rat terrier named Hopper who we call a "grumpy old man" and he can bare his teeth on command to prove it.

I've always loved all kinds of crafts and remember always drawing, making gifts and learning to sew at the age of 6. So as I got older, I kept sewing all kinds of things, took up painting and then fell in love with scrapbooking in 1994. However, my time these days is mostly consumed with papercrafting; stamping being my favorite, which I've only come to LOVE in the last 6 years or so. I love going to garage sales and thrift stores to find new trash to turn into treasure! I'm addicted to designer paper (and coffee) and can't pass up anything sparkly! I love to play with color and adding a little something unexpected to my projects makes for some fun finishing touches.

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Greetings from Wisconsin! To be more specific, I’m from a little town called Ellsworth that is conveniently located about 50 miles east of the infamous Twin Cities of Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul). I can’t say much about me without first mentioning my family which includes my wonderfully supportive husband, Ed and three great kids—Kendra, Hank and George. The family pack keeps me hopping along with a full time career as a speech pathologist for a local school district (summers off, yeah!) and a part time job as church organist for the church in which I grew up.

The first stamping I did was for Kendra’s birth announcement 16 years ago, but I seriously started stamping about 7 years ago and haven’t been able to put down the stamps since. The women in my family are historically hand crafters by nature and I guess I was blessed with that “crafty” gene as well. I enjoy the friendships, both real and pretend, that I have formed through my paper crafting ventures and can’t imagine life without them.

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Howdy, y’all! I live in Claremore, Oklahoma, with my husband Sean, sons (Truman, age 11 and Carter, age 3 – therein lies the mystery of my online screen name, TruCarMa), and the world’s greatest German Shepherd, Gretel. In my past lives, I was a lawyer, a fundraiser for a non-profit, a federal law clerk, and a university professor. For the past couple of years I’ve been a stay-at-home mom, though I seem to spend the majority of my time in a minivan.

Though I had dabbled with rubber stamps in the past, I became truly obsessed with stamping in the fall of 2006. As a result, I now consider myself a lapsed scrapbooker. Shortly after ditching the photos and stickers for all things inky, I began admiring The Cat’s Pajamas and Alma’s über-hip images. I’m a sucker for their retro feel and swingin’ vibe. I’m thrilled beyond measure to join the TCP family, and I vow to do my part in making the world a swankier place to live!

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I live in the beautiful state of Maine aka Vactionland (at least for 2 months out of the year!) but I grew up in upstate New York. I am a SAHM of 5 young children (ages 8 & under), Emma, Anna, Ethan, Aaron & Owen and am married to a chemist (which means I have no idea what he does!). We live in our dream home - an old New England farmhouse. There are always projects to be done but I wouldn't trade this old house for anything!

I started stamping after my first daughter was born. A good friend helped me design her first birthday invitations and once I made those I was hooked! What started as a small corner card table in my room has grown into half my room and a much bigger workspace!

Not only have I become addicted to stamping (and patterned paper, and bling, and ribbon, and dies, and and and . . .) but I am truly blessed to have met some of the finest people through stamping! Stampers are creative, generous, fun and just wonderful people!! My style tends to gravitate toward clean & simple but I love to try new things and add fun elements. I'm so excited to be working with the swankiest stamps around!

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Hi everyone! My name is Jenny and I am hopelessly addicted to stamping! I am married to my high school sweetheart, Craig and together we have 3 boys!! That's right people — 3 BOYS! Ryan — the oldest and oh-so-wise, Jake — your textbook middle child, and Hayes — the baby of the family.

I pretty much live smack-dab in the middle of the province of Alberta, Canada. When I'm not feeding the beast and indulging in my "hobby", I'm a Registered Nurse and work part time teaching in the Nursing Department at a local college. Work tends to get in the way of stamping though, so I try to avoid it as much as I can! Besides making cards, I enjoy scrapbooking and I have dabbled in quilting. I love spending time with my family and friends, camping, swimming, movies, reading and of course shopping!

I am so thrilled to be joining the Cat Pack in my first ever designing gig! I hope to do Canada proud and keep up with my amazing American stamping team:) Hey — I know it's not the Olympics, but it's pretty darned close!

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Hi everyone! I live in Maryland, just outside of the nation’s capital. I’m “mom” to a super cute and very high energy goldendoodle, affectionately known as Chloe the cutie puppy. She keeps me on my toes with all of her crazy antics! She’s not too thrilled about sharing me with Sprinkle, but she’ll have to learn to get along.

I work full-time as an early childhood specialist in the central office of a large school district in the DC suburbs, but I mostly identify myself as a kindergarten teacher, which is where I started my teaching career. It really is true that you learn just about everything you need to know in life in kindergarten. The coloring and cutting part has certainly served me well as a stamper!

My best friend introduced me to stamping almost 8 years. Since then it’s been a slow and steady climb to a full addiction. I’m delighted to be joining the Cat Pack and designing alongside this amazing group of designers.

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Hi ya’ll! Yes, I am a daughter of the south. Although I’ve travelled and lived temporarily in other places for work purposes, my permanent home is in Alabama. I am married to my husband Don and between us we have three grown children and five grandchildren.

I have been a crafter of some sort practically all my life. I discovered the world of paper crafting in 2002 after looking through my beloved grandmother’s photo box a few weeks after she passed away. I always used stamps in my scrapbooking endeavors but turned primarily to stamping via card making about three years ago when I became interested in alcohol ink markers. My very first TCP purchase was the Whale of a Time set along with the matching Wave CutUps and I’ve been a steady customer ever since. I am exited and honored to be asked to join the fabulous Cat Pack team, especially since I really admire the other designers.

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Hi TCP fans! I live in Virginia on the outskirts of Washington, DC, with my husband Terry, our three children, Cole, Adrienne, and Gabriel, and a sweet Calico fur baby named Rocki. I am a stay-at-home mom with a professional background in publishing — newspaper reporting, magazine editing and production, as well as online content development. I enjoy photography, good fiction, gardening, decorating, and, lately, DIY home improvement.

I’ve been dabbling in anything and everything artsy/crafty most of my life, so when a friend introduced me to stamping about ten years ago, I was hooked instantly. I started blogging four years ago and was thrilled to connect with a whole community of kindred crafty spirits. My little hobby soon mushroomed into a full-blown addiction. I consider my style a bit eclectic (sounds so much better than "all over the place"). Vintage, cutesy, elegant, whimsical — I like to try it all. I’m usually happiest, though, with designs that have lots of layers and embellishments, plus a little element of surprise or two.

I’m thrilled to be joining the Cat Pack!

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Since attending my first stamp show 10 years ago, rubberstamping has become the perfect creative outlet to balance my day job in the techie world. I am all about the instant gratification of a well stamped card and if I could stamp 24/7, I would! Combine rubberstamps with a room full of ribbon and patterned paper and that would be my definition of heaven (well, one corner of it anyways!)

I currently reside with my husband in the Bay Area, CA, where I can often be found holed up in my craft room till the wee hours of the morning (my best time to be creative!) When I'm not aspiring to be a 'professional stamper,' I also enjoy reading, retail therapy, and reality TV. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to be part of the CPJ Design Team and work with Alma's fabulous images!

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Once upon a time, I thought money was to pay for things like food. Or clothing. Or shelter. All those things we were taught to believe were the necessities of life. So I took a job in the ad world, where I logged nearly 20 years as a designer and art director, creating work that other people liked, to pay for those things other people said were necessities.

Then I discovered rubber stamping and learned what money was really meant for. To buy more stamps.

So I left the ad world behind to create things that I liked, and I haven't looked back since.

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