I became interested in stamping when my sons 2nd grade teacher invited me to a Stampin' Up! Party. Little did I know that in a few years I would be designing rubber stamps. That was back in 2007.
I joined Ginak Designs in 2008. Hard to believe that its been three years, this month. I honestly have to say that it has been the most wonderful experience ever and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Gina has been a joy to work for and I have learned so much from her over the years. She graciously took me in as one of her early illustrators and has always given me great flexibility in what I drew for her. She has always been fair, honest and a joy to work for. I will truly treasure all of the years that I worked with her and her designers.
As you can gather from this paragraph I have made some decisions about the direction that I want to go this year. It's not something that came up suddenly, at least not for me, but something that I have given a lot of thought to over the past year. My life is moving quickly in a different direction and I have to be more flexible to change with it. The changes are more personal than professional and hence harder to talk about. Hard to put into words, since my motivations may seem based more on emotion than reason. Hard to put the rational on what may seem irrational. But for me, at least, it makes sense.
I have resigned my position as an illustrator for GinaK Designs. I am not moving on to design stamps for another company or to start my own stamp line. I have decided that it is time for me to make a change and part of that change is that I will not be illustrating rubber stamps.
For the moment I will be taking a long break. I may from time to time come up with something and pitch it to Gina and see if she wants to use it, but this will be up to me. Gina now owns the copyrights to all of the images that I have designed for her since 2008. They will continue to be available at GinaK Designs and I look forward to seeing them used by her wonderful design team.
Please understand that the images are not being retired. They are copyrighted and in no way should my leaving Ginak Designs be construed as the images being available for your own/companies use to be made into digital or rubberstamps. (I just had 2 of my images used by an artist who sold them as her own works, unbeknownst to the company she was designing for. This is a big no-no! You can not take someone else's images, flip them or change a couple of things and pitch them as your own. If you are not familiar with copyright laws then please see the link at the side of my blog and become familiar with what it says.)
I leave it up to you if you wish to continue to follow my blog as I'm currently transitioning away from it being mostly stamp related. I'm toying with the idea of starting another blog (this one will continue to be available too so that you can still use some of the tutorials on it) and I will share a link to the new blog if and when I start it.
For right now, I'll still be posting on this blog and I will start sharing all of the things that I want to sell. I have already updated my Stamps for Sale page with a few more items.
Thanks for all of your support over the years and I hope that you will enjoy the new journey that I will be taking. It's gonna be an interesting one!
