Whimsy Stamps has a new artist and her name is Monika Martinson. She is the talented illustrator behind the Moma’s Collection of rubber stamps. Monika illustrates beautiful floral images and nature designs. And she has shared some of her amazing card design work too!
Tell us a little about yourself - anything you'd like to share about you personally. I live in Sweden, just outside of Stockholm with my daughter who will turn 9 this summer, her father and a Bengal cat that is nothing like a cat. I work full time as a communications manager but my heart is really in creating, good thing my job allows me to be creative. I love to bake, scrapbook, draw, photograph, knit, crochet, write and so on. I go around with a thousand ideas in my head constantly! I only wish there would be more hours on a day so I could make them come true.
them to stamps, so I worked up the courage and I contacted Whimsy Stamps.
How did you become a rubber stamp artist? What do you love most about illustrating rubber stamps? As I mentioned, my drawings ended up on my scrapbook layouts but I kept getting comments telling me I should make
What is the one tool/supply you can't live without? That would be a pencil, but also my computer.
I cant really describe the feeling to see my designs end up on someone’s card or other project, knowing how much time and effort there is behind any project. That is probably what I love most and what makes me feel really humbled that someone actually wants to put my motives on her card.
What is your absolute favorite of the Whimsy Stamps that you've illustrated? How did you start your art career? Did you always want to be Right now, I think it is the “Cup of Sunshine” set. Or the “Suman artist? mertime” I love the poppies. I started drawing and drawing stamps by an accident more or less. I have always been convinced that I cant draw anything What inspires you? but silly doodles no one would be able to make any sense out Colors, nature, the garden of our summer cabin, photos and of. But when I showed my father one of my cards that had a everything around me really. stamped and colored motive, he suggested I would draw my own motives instead of coloring others. At the time I just If you weren't an artist, what do you think you would like to laughed at him, knowing I wouldn’t be able to do that. But af- do for a career? ter a while I did try and… well, out came lots and lots of flow- Being an artist of some sort is my dream. I would love to be ers that I fist used on my scrap book layouts. that full time even though I love my day job to.
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April 2013, Issue 12