Our Artists

Crissy Armstrong - Illustrator

Crissy has loved creating art all of her life, and she is happiest when she has a blank piece of paper and a pencil in her hand! She has taken various art courses through college and art clubs, but most of her skill has developed the hard way; through lots of practice!

Stamp illustrating is such an exciting avenue for Crissy, because she gets a double blessing. The first blessing is the joy of creating a new design. And the second, is being able to enjoy it all over again when she sees what people make with her images! When they add color and embellishments and incorporate one of her illustrations into their own project, it feels as if she is collaborating right along with them to make something beautiful! Crissy doesn’t take her gift for granted, and it amazes her every time she thinks about it!

We are thrilled to have Crissy as a member of the Whimsy Stamps team! Her talents as a stamp illustrator are just astounding! She has a wide range or artistic styles and abilities. We love her designs and how they fit perfectly with our whimsical style. It has been a joy and a pleasure to work with Crissy and to get to know her as a person too. Crissy is so very kind, gracious, and giving and it’s a privilege to know and work with her and call to her a friend. We’re sure you will fall in love with her wonderful stamp designs as much as we have!

To see more of Crissy's personal artwork, please visit her blog Crissy's Art and Heart

Elisabeth Bell - "Whimsy Stamps" Logo Artist and Illustrator

Elisabeth’s passion is designing beautiful children's illustrations and whimsical imagery. She attended Queensland College of Art in Australia where she received a BVA in traditional Animation and delved into the animation industry for a time. With an affinity for colored pencils and pen, and a love for children's animated content, she endeavored to create lovely, warm illustrations that appeal to the child within each of us.

She now explores the digital world where she gets to incorporate the rich, warm, organic quality of her illustrations and create something more. By integrating her completed traditional pieces, she finds new interest in seeing how much further her work can go through using the digital medium. Elisabeth resides in the United States with her husband and children. She works from her home studio which allows her to be continually inspired to create children's illustrations and family friendly images that she loves based on the young subjects at hand, her own children.

To see more of Elisabeth personal artwork, visit her site Elisabeth Bell Designs

Melissa Jenkins - Illustrator

Melissa 'meljen' Jenkins is a mother to two beautiful children, married to her best friend, and has been an artist her entire life...ever since she could hold a pencil. It is a talent that was passed to her from her father, and she couldn't be more proud. She was Artist of the Year in 1999 at MVHS, took Life Drawing classes in college, and created fine art pieces for years until she decided to try out clipart design. That venture led to her discovery of digital stamps, and she fell in love. She enjoys creating detailed 'warm and fuzzy' designs that make people smile and inspire creativity.

We are just delighted to have Melissa as a member of our Whimsy Stamps team. Her artwork and signature style fit right in with our fun and whimsical designs and we are honored that she's sharing them with us at Whimsy Stamps. I've personally enjoyed getting to know Melissa and I'm happy to call her my friend. Her designs always make me smile as I'm sure they will for you too.

To see more of Melissa's personal artwork, please visit her blog Meljen's Designs
 

KennyK - Illustrator

NYC illustrator KennyK (a.k.a. Kenny Kiernan) is the product of an urban background and years of professional illustration and Flash animation experience, all of which converge in his singular slick and funky cartoon style. Energy and Attitude are ever-present in his trademark "cool dudes" and stylish-and-sassy girl characters. With his beautiful wife and business partner Elena's help and creative vision, this dynamic duo has been having a blast creating new work to share with the stamping world!

We are very excited to have the talented KennyK joining our team of artists! KennyK's style will bring a new and unique element to Whimsy Stamps. KennyK's characters are full of life with their creative, cool, funky, hip, and sassy attitudes! These images are beautifully drawn, a lot of fun to color and design with, and are perfect to use for any occasion! We are excited to work with KennyK and bring the crafting world a fresh new style of rubber stamps!


For more of KennyK's creations, visit KennyK.com

Heidi Schwoerer - Illustrator

My name is Heidi Schwoerer and I love drawing and crafting!  I started drawing at about age 7 and I just never stopped!  I attended college got my degree in art and had a hard time finding an "art" job.  I never stopped drawing though and sooner or later I developed my own style, started freelancing, started a rubber stamp business, started a digital stamp business and then just turned to licensing my artwork and selling digital stamps!
(which is where I am now!)
   

I love to use the Adobe Ideas app on my iPad to sketch, outline and color all my illustrations!  I do still love to sketch with a good old pencil and sketch book though!  I  bring an idea book with me where ever I go, so when ever an idea pops into my head I can jot it down or draw a quick sketch.

You can visit Heidi on her personal blog: http://www.2cuteink.com/

Ann Vento - Word Artist/Graphic Designer/Editor

Ann Vento currently resides in the Pacific Northwest in Oregan. She loves all things digital and paper and is delighted to have to opportunity to share her art with others through Whimsy Stamps. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Physiological Science, a major completely unrelated to art. Both science and art have become her passions along with her husband and dogs. Future plans for Ann include being able to share more of her digital media art as well as dabbling in traditional illustration.

Ann has been an absolute pleasure to work with here at Whimsy Stamps. She’s amazingly talented as a card designer, digital designer, and web designer. Ann is also a dependable, generous, and giving person. It's a privelge to know her. Ann has been a huge asset to Whimsy Stamps and we are honored to be able to showcase her talents through our Whimsy Sentiments Collection as well as through our website design and our Whimsy Inspiration Magazine! Thanks for everything you’ve helped us with Ann, could not have done it with out you!

To see more of Ann's personal artwork, please visit her blog Raindrop Echo Designs

Sylvia Zet - Illustrator

Sylvia is a children's book illustrator and character designer. Artworks she creates are full of fairies, dragons, and all kinds of cuteness. Sylvia is also a designer of digital and rubber stamps for crafting world. Her second passion - apart from drawing - is the magical town she currently lives in – Edinburgh ... medieval, rainy place that she felt in love first time she saw it.

We are honored to have Sylvia and her adorable Wee Stamps Collection as part of our Whimsy Stamps rubber collection. These adorable characters are perfect for card making, scrap booking, and more. Images and characters that are sure to brighten your day. Sylvia is a wonderful lady who I have enjoyed getting to know and feel very fortunate to have met. We look forward to bringing you more of Sylvia's adorable Wee designs in the future!

To learn more about Sylvia, visit her blog Sylvia Zet

Tammy Louise Cunliffe - Artist/Designer of Shape EZ

I have lived and raised my two children in Michigan my entire life. Married my High School sweet heart and attended Community College in the business field. While working in the Corporate world as a Mortgage servicer, banking, accounting, automobile and residential assessing industries I remained crafty in my love for ceramics, cross stitching, silk flower designs, sewing and finally scrapbooking. Recently, the economy hit rock bottom and the Automobile industry cutbacks forced my family to make some tough decisions but I now stay home with my autistic child and feel this is the best decision we’ve ever made.

My Corporate resume is extensive but my crafting resume is a work in progress! I can't wait to get back to WORK every day now that I have found my life's passion. For the past 8 years, I have participated in card classes and live design forums and I have found retail stores throughout Michigan that serve as forums for my detailed greeting art projects! Now I participate in a crafters market every month where I provide demonstrations and make and takes. Also, the local craft store is my outlet for a Copic coloring class teaching position.

Currently inking up and designing for several Challenge blogs I have never been more supported and gained more inspiration. In fact, the Shape EZ cut file product recently released with Whimsy Stamps is my latest endeavor that was sparked by the support and inspiration of Denise Lynn. I have always been mechanically inclined and engineered my own items, like my father, but while designing for Whimsy, the dress project inspired Denise to question whether or not I could take the projects from paper to digital files. After a short 10 months, my creative juices are flowing in the digital file direction and I hope it continues for many years to come!

My future goals include, Copic Certification, paper magazine publishing, teaching card making classes and CHA participation. I will never give up on my goals and feel blessed with the opportunity to provide my designs.

For more of Tammy's beautiful work, stop by her blog Handmade by TLC

Kevin and Denise Lynn - Owners of Whimsy Stamps

Otherwise known as Whimsy Design Studio and the owners of Whimsy Stamps. Denise has had a love of rubber stamping and card making for many years. It all started as a stay at home mom and the need to some private time away from everyone else to relax and unwind. Now, it's become a wonderful and fun career and dream come true!

Kevin is the artist behind our Whimsy Design Studio stamps. And together we brainstorm concepts and share thoughts and then Kevin develops our ideas into the stamps you see in our Kids Collection. Each of these stamp is also based on our two children, Connor and Emma. They are the biggest joy in our lives and have inspired us every day! We hope you will love these sweet and innocent stamp designs and be inspired to create cards and scrap book pages and much more with them!

To see more of Denise's personal artwork, please visit her blog Stamping with Denise