Meet the people behind the scenes who create Stamper's Quest magazine; the owners, staff and design team. 

 Stamper's Quest Staff

 
Bea Rosenleaf...

lives in Southwest Montana and is the Publisher and Webmaster of Stamper's Quest magazine. From time to time, she will also fill in with special projects to share with the readers. Her artistic style varies with her mood. She enjoys working with all types of media, learning new techniques, and teaching what she learns to others. She is establishing herself as a professional photographer in landscape and macro photography. Her many passions in life include  her very large family, rubber stamping and paper crafting, photography, fiber arts, hiking, camping, fishing and traveling.

  
Stephanie Loomis...

lives in Georgia and is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Publisher of Stamper's Quest magazine. We think her main duty, though, is to keep the Publisher in check! She calls herself the 'accidental artist.' Read her bio over on her blog to find out the story behind the title!  Stephanie has an eclectic art style and is always experimenting with new techniques. She loves to teach - is in fact a teacher, teaching literature to high school students - and is willing to share with anyone who wants to learn from her.  Stephanie also loves photography, singing, and mixed-media artwork. She and Bea are partners in this artistic journey. In addition to her managerial duties, Stephanie will share special projects throughout the year using a wide range of mixed media. 

Tips, Tricks & Techniques Columnist
Shelly Newkirk...

lives on a ranch in western Nebraska.  She has been married for 38 years and has two grown children, three male dogs (AKA - the boys) and a few cats outside. Shelly helps with the ranch work and farming when needed. She also works part time for Nebraska Agricultural Statistics Service doing farm and ranch surveys and crop plots.   

Shelly has been stamping for 16 years.  She has taught stamp classes, for a short time owned a stamp store,  and have demoed at stamp conventions.  Shelly states, “I am thoroughly and totally addicted to rubber stamping.  If it doesn't move, I will eventually find a way to stamp it.” She enjoys creating new ideas for old techniques. Card maps are among her favorite ways of creating a card, “They are so freeing; you don’t have any pre-conceived notions of color or stamps.”

 To see more of Shelly’s stamping and card making, please visit her blog, WN Land and Cattle Designs. 

Our Artistic Guides
(Design Team)

We have gathered the best of the best designers from around the world who we feel are among the top in their artistic field. Our Artistic Guides will provide a wide array of artistic vistas (styles) for you to choose and learn from. We are truly an international team, with members from Canada and New Zealand; and our members from the United States range from different areas of our vast country, such as the: Pacific Northwest, West,  Mid-west, Southwest; Southeast; deep South and the East, all of who will be able to bring you a vast array of cultures and artistic views. We are very excited, and so pleased, to introduce them to you!

Beki Ward…

is a life-long crafter with a passion for creating with paper.  Her earliest childhood recollections include making things like the most beautiful “placemats” using autumn leaves ironed between waxed paper.

Married for 33 years, she has two amazing, talented, and creative sons who are both married. These unions have provided her with the two most special people in her life, her grandsons. 

For the last four years, she has had the pleasure of being constantly entertained by three miniature dachshunds. The trio not only keeps her very busy caring for them, but keeps her laughing at their never ending antics.

Beki's family provides her with the inspiration for her creativity.  She loves scrapbooking the many pictures she takes of them, often sharing those pages and the stories behind them on her blog: Grammy's Scrapbook.

 Betsy Chaplin...

hails from a little town called Hartville in Ohio. Along with her passion of gardening, her furbabies and amateur photography, she loves playing the piano, graphic design (aka WorksbyTizzylish) and creating cards and ATCs. Her favorite techniques are water coloring with water markers, and drawing with color pencils and Gamsol. She loves card/ATC swaps and co-owns a stamping-scrapbooking group on line as well. Betsy has always enjoyed crafts and art work and was deeply influenced by her mother who also had a love of art and creating. Her earliest memories with her mother were taking their crafts to the nursing homes while in Girl Scouts and how delighted the residents were to have them visit. She has also volunteered in Search and Rescue (CAP) with a flight team and recently re-homed over 35 animals.

You can hike on over to Betsy's blog, Worksbytizzylish, to check out her artwork.

 Cathy Peper...

lives in the St. Louis, Missouri area with her husband, three children and  dog. She bought her first stamps about five years ago and quickly fell under their spell.  She says, "Like many of the other Artistic Guides, I had never considered myself to be artistic because I couldn’t draw. Stamping changed that for me, and for that reason, I will always be a stamper at heart." She mostly makes cards and ATCs; however, her love of paper has lured her to venture into collage, scrapbooking and altered art as well. She loves learning new things and sharing her passion for this versatile craft. You can see more of my work on her blog: Cathy's Corner. 

Chris Herrmann...

lives in Arizona and is a mixed-media artist, designer, teacher, demonstrator and a Sales Rep for Ranger Industries. She teaches many classes at her local scrapbook and stamping stores. She has an unusual style of creating and enjoys sharing her techniques and designs with others. She is a published artist, appearing in many magazines and has appeared on the Carol Duvall show.  Check out Chris' website, My Corner of the World, for some creative and inspiration art. 

Janice Ellis...

is a SAHM in Canada who got into rubber stamping about 17 years ago. She has always done crafts, and says, "Since I can't draw, I could never express myself on paper, until one night at a neighbour's home demo on rubber stamping.....oh my!!!....FINALLY!!... I knew I could do this, using these preformed images." Less than three months later, she became a demonstrator for the same stamp company.   Janice went on to become a top seller 2-3 years in a row. Janice's favourite style is Asian, and she has been published in a couple of magazines.

Jennifer Willis...

resides in North Dakota and is a multi-talented designer who uses many different techniques and styles when creating her artwork. It's fun to see what Jennifer creates and what media she chooses. She loves to provide inspiration for others with her projects and creativity. Jennifer also participates on some other design teams, and you can find her creating and musing at her blog, Insane Daze. 

Ken Schneider...

I don't teach and I never took art classes in school.  I never had a computer until five years ago, when my neighbor gave me his old one.  My daughter got me involved in scrapbooking and then my interests turned to creating cards.  I hail from Colorado. I retired several years ago from the telephone company. At 77 years old, I'll be the Granddad of the Stamper’s Quest design team! My hobbies include motorcycling, photography, travel, card making and long walks on the beach.  When I look at stamps or photos I'm always thinking, "How can I make that humorous?"

Ken began his new duties as our Sketch Master in January 2010. His job is to guide you through the processes he uses to create cards from Regena’s monthly sketches. He will also create special projects for us from time to time. 

Linda Selymes...

is retired, a wife of 38 years, mother of one son, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.  After God and her family, she loves crafting the best.  She has been crafting for the past 20 years, and loves anything to do with stamping or paper.  Linda has a love for other crafts as well, such as art quilting, watercolor, and ceramic painting.  Teaching is a passion of hers.  She’s taught knitting basics and design, art quilting, and is currently teaching rubber stamp art at a local stamp store in Kent, Washington.  She also teach Copics, and this summer will attend a class to become officially certified as a Copics instructor.   A personal favorite to teach is scenic stamping.  Linda sums it up saying, “It brings me great joy when a student looks at the scene they made in total awe, because they didn’t think they could create something so beautiful.”  Her other passion is learning new things.  She is a frequent student in online classes, always looking to refine and expand her skills. 

Lorraine Revalee...

I live in Fairfield Glade, Tennessee with my husband.  We retired here from Indiana to enjoy the golfing and easy life-style of this community.  It’s been non-stop busy for the last 14 years since learning the craft of stamping.  The original plan was to make my own cards to save money…famous last words for many of us.  It is my true passion and I never tire of making cards, ATCs, and a few other projects.  Background techniques are my first joy so I don’t usually use many designer papers except to add some flair or whenever it will lend itself to make a card more attractive.  Using geometric shapes, especially circles, is always a special delight for me. 

In the winter we travel to Florida to enjoy the warmer weather.  My dear husband moans and groans when it’s time to load and pack my stamping supplies, but he supports and encourages my artistic ability. 

I teach classes in both Florida and Tennessee, have been published in several magazines, and sell my cards in a wonderful local frame shop. You can find Lorraine's beautiful artwork at her Picasa website. 

 
Maria Loomis...

lives in Washington state.  Her love affair with paper, rubber stamps and coloring started over 18 years ago, beginning on a snowy, blustery winter morning when her sons were napping. Bored and trapped in her house, she popped in a Dee Gruenig video she had checked out from the library. Maria says she was hooked and has never looked back!  She teaches a variety of paper arts and mixed media classes throughout Washington state and at her local home stamp store, Friends and Company, in Issaquah, Washington. She is also a Design Team member for The Stampsmith rubber stamp company.  Visit Maria's blog at Velvet Ink Cafe for lots of inspiration.

Maria recently returned to school to earn her degree in Graphic Arts. (We are so proud of her!)  School work is taking away some of her time to create, so for a while, she will be creating special projects for Stamper's Quest. And yes, we will still be fortunate enough to feature her wonderul video tutorials!

Marion Davis...

Her teaching career started in the public schools, teaching kindergarten, first and second grade for 34 years and computers K-8 for 4 years. She retired 6 years ago and counting. She has created all her life but discovered paper arts during the ‘80s. By 1989 she was teaching adults both through Continuing Education in the local schools, on weekends and school vacation. When she retired from public education her passion for paper and rubber stamps evolved into the Stamp Class Studio. Teaching at local craft stores limited the products available for use so she began offering a variety of different classes in her studio. Classes included teaching hand stitched books, encaustic wax painting, and other projects with unusual materials as well as product technique and process classes. A confessed tool junkie and technique addict, she enjoys exploring the newest products while incorporating them into an “Easy Elegance” style. Her teaching style varies from most of the classes offered in her area because she does not teach classes that will result in “copy cat” cards. She has served on several design teams including Ranger Melt Art and Hearts In Touch Rubber Stamps.

Marion’s certifications include:

• Ranger - Ink and Embossing Powder, Perfect Pearls, and Melt Art
• EK Success - Scrapbook Design University Certified Instructor
• Copic Certified Instructor
• Fiskars Certified Demonstrator
• Preferred Sizzix Instructor

She teaches at the following locations:

• Stamp Class Studio - all types of paper arts including stamping, handmade journals, scrapbooking, card making, altered art and more
• AC Moore, Somerville MA - Scrapbook Design University, Crochet, and specialty classes set up on request
• AC Moore, Woburn MA - Scrapbook Design University, Sizzix and other die cut machines, rubber stamping

If you are in the area, you may want to check out her classes!

Marion's Philosophy of Learning: The natural learning model of demonstration, participation, practice and performance is the foundation of my teaching style. From birth to death we go through this process when learning new things. Maintain the joy of learning. Learn something new every day. 

Nancy Thaut...

I started doing arts and crafts as a child, and I have always had fun experimenting with new ideas and materials. After 22 years as a Desktop/LAN computer specialist in a K-12 school district, I retired and began stamping. For the past 11 years I’ve enjoyed doing paper crafts such as altered art, ATC’s, fat books, scrap booking, using polymer clay, beads, etc. I favor artsy and unique stamping styles, but I’m flexible and enjoy new ways of creating with different textures and color combinations. I’m constantly trying new techniques. My husband and I live near Tacoma, Washingon. 

Regena...

Simply, elegantly put - this is how she prefers to be known, but there is nothing simple about Regena's artwork. Her style is just, well...elegant and beautiful. We call her our 'Queen of Elegance.'  We think you will agree that everything Regena creates exudes beauty. She has been rubber stamping and teaching this art form for many, many years and has learned her trade well. We are excited to see her future projects for Stamper's Quest. You can find more of Regena's gorgeous artwork at her Picturetrail gallery. Regena lives in Pennsylvania.

Regena is our Sketch Artist, creating sketches exclusively for SQ!

Roni  (Veronica) Johnson...

 lives in Indiana and is a life-long artist.  She is the author of the new book,  Teach Yourself Visually – Collage & Altered Arts,  a photo tutorial covering a wide array of techniques including paints, paper, image transfer, collage, altered books and charms and  much more. 

She designs for various manufacturers and retail companies in the rubber stamping and altered arts fields.  Her works can be seen in many rubber stamping and altered arts magazines. They have been used in product advertisements, as on-line projects and at national craft and hobby conventions. In addition, her work can also be seen in two additional TYV publications – Teach Yourself Visually – Scrapbooking and Paper Crafts Visually Quick Tips. 

When she isn’t designing for her blog or design teams, she enjoys teaching others about the joys of ink, paper and altered arts, spending time with her family on their farm and reading mystery novels.

You can vist Roni at her daily rubber stamping and altered arts blog Ink Stains.

Sandra Blackwell...

My mother introduced me to rubber stamps a long time ago, after going to one of the big conventions in Southern California.  At the time, I was a single mother of a young daughter with other interests. I frankly thought I would never get involved in stamps.  I couldn’t see the use. My daughter is now grown up, with kids of her own, and I have come to see the error of my ways.

I am always looking for new or different ways to use my many rubber stamps.  On a walk one day, I found a broken 45 laying on the ground (a record, not a gun) and thought “I wonder if I can stamp on that?”.  Turns out you can!  And I made some really cool jewelry using pieces of broken records, CDs and molten aluminum I picked up off the road on the same walk.  I have also stamped on seashells, glass, copper, wood, fabric and…..

I haven’t stamped on my bike or helmet….yet.