As an artist for the last fifteen years, I believe that if my hands aren’t stained from paint then I wasn’t having fun enough! My twin sister, Rebecca, introduced me into scrapbooking and stamping eleven years ago. I kept my feet grounded and refused to take the plunge that she had. I held tight onto my canvas, paint brushes, and acrylics and watched as she continued to write and tell me about her new passion. She even went as far as to send me instructional videos of her doing new techniques to entice me. A year later I walked into a scrapbook store, fell in love with paper, and I dropped my art supplies thinking that I was to never to look at them again. It wasn’t until altered books and mixed media came into the Northwest that I began to realize that my first love for paint and canvas could be used with scrapbooking! Scrapbooking then became more of an artistic way for me to tell my story than just photos on a page to document an event.
As a Craft-Media artist, I have a passion for color; reduce, reusing, and recycling items to make them new again; and ultimately having fun and making a mess doing it! I am right brained and love using nontraditional items to create meaningful pieces of art, while also trying to balance myself occasionally with a surprisingly clean and organized layout.
My dear husband and active four year old boy are number one in my life! My supportive husband and I also have our own photography business where we are blessed to help capture memories for others to treasure.
I have a sweet addiction to chocolate, my favorite being Britain’s Cadbury Crunchie. Since I am unable to get the chocolate covered honeycomb locally anymore, any chocolate is its substitute. I also love a warm cup of coffee, a blanket, and reading any Jane Austen novel.
Jennifer Evans: http://www.createoften.blogspot.com/
