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Hi! Welcome to The Paper Creative LLC Stamp the Fun Up. I really am happy to have you hear and hope you will enjoy your stay, find some inspiration, shop some goodies and find a creative safe space.
A little about me, here goes.
I have been creating and crafting since I could remember. Literally, I remember playing with building blocks while still in a diaper. I remember once as a preschooler, taking an entire stack of loose-leaf paper from my mom’s desk, her tape and scissors and creating a city, complete with little buildings and a McDonalds across our living room floor. I don’t remember her being mad, lol, as she was a creative person as well (baking was her art form) but I’m sure she wasn’t too happy. Creative endeavors were how I found peace, expression and safety in my own little mind. When I got into kindergarten, it was pretty much immediately discovered that I wasn’t like the other kids. I didn’t talk, played by myself, and wouldn’t participate in what I personally felt were stupid games lol. Needless to say, that got me into the counselor’s office with a parental meeting so they could discuss educational options for me. I remember sitting silently at the table in the office, not answering questions, and the counselor gave me crayons and paper to “draw” what I was feeling. As upsetting as that moment was to my parents (dad had a very…loud response to the counselor’s suggestions and promptly took me and my mom out of the meeting and decided at that point to force me to be normal and continue with traditional education. Yes, this definitely made for a struggle through my school years, but honestly, I feel it did do me better with adjusting and learning how to survive being different. So, from that point on, I literally disappeared in artwork and creativity especially in school. I never left a classroom without a sketch pad, or a paintbrush stuck in my hair clip. I wanted to go into animation, at the time it was still hand-drawn, and still a pure art form in my eyes. CGI was just starting to be introduced. I considered myself a purist, no idea why, lol, so, when I had the opportunity to be accepted into the Walt Disney College Program, and I got to hang out with animators when I wasn’t taking business leadership and marketing classes, or working at the Disneyworld theme park, I was floored and heartbroken to realize CGI was the wave of the future. I remember the day I broke up FOR-EV-ER with animation. For my early adult years, I primarily focused on painting and traditional art. I loved it, but it actually always left me feeling like I was missing something, like it wasn’t filling me up inside. My next life-changing moment was a string of losses, miscarriage, divorce and loss of career. It was 200 and it became a world of depression and darkness I was not prepared for. I was lucky to get a new job in my career field and my ray of light was my friend, and new co-worker who introduced me to the world of paper crafting. And that was it. I cannot even explain how this colorful and creative world filled my soul with light–even more than how art and creativity had my whole life. I honestly don’t know what it was that triggered the paper crafting flame in me, but it was literally life changing. It brought me from the edge. At first, I didn’t have the money to buy all the embellishments and fancy papers (the very first Cricut had just been introduced to the market). Putting my unique ability to make something out of nothing (thankfully what had been my creative spark became my survival skill during this “dark age”) I started making my own embellishments from paper scraps, cardboard bits, ribbon scraps and clearance items from stores. I bought the cheapest stamp sets and had only five ink pad colors to stamp and create my own “designer” paper for my scrapbooks. Gradually, as my life improved and I came out of my “dark ages”, I was able to expand my tools, supplies and collections, as well as learn new skills thanks to social media taking off like wildfire.
Fastforward to today. I am 45 and a half years old, and in my second life this lifetime. I am honestly amazed that I made it here alive, and I know it sounds odd, but I completely attest that to paper crafting and how it gave me a meaning, a drive and a reason to wake up the next day to keep creating. This is why I decided to start The Paper Creative LLC. You can find me on social media as Stamp the Fun Up, but the business side of it is going to the safe creative space that I hope you will find comfort in. I love teaching people to find the creative and skills inside of them that they didn’t know they had, and I truly believe art is the best form to do that with. I want other people to re-kindle something in them or find their creative flame with my tutorials and classes I will be offering here. I teach people how being brave and confident in creating can spill over into being brave and confident in their everyday life.
I’ve waited many, many years to tell my story, and I finally decided to because I know there are others out there looking for a reason to create from the heart and find themselves again. I look forward to working with you and building this Stamp the Fun UP community. You can visit the Facebook page, Instagram, You Tube channel and Pinterest of the same name for inspiration and to get a feel of me as a creative coach (the links to each are posted below).
Yes, I have a day job, so getting this little corner of the web up and running is taking some time, and I appreciate your patience. Keep stopping by to see when new services and shopping items have been added. Sign up for the newsletter so you can stay notified on upcoming class info or general crafty shenanigans.
Please visit my previous blog site to see how I got to where I am today here on the internet! (click the link below)
https://stampthefunup.wordpress.com
Thank you so much for stopping by!
Sincerely,
Evette “Scrappy”
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https://www.facebook.com/ScrappyEvie/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKzvOtsBqckSHmNia6uJgnw