Karen Haden

I love both cardmaking and scrapbooking and enjoy teaching the art of papercrafting, especially to new stampers. I was introduced to stamping at a stamp camp and was immediately hooked. I took one look at the beautiful Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog and just had to have everything in it! So, I decided to sign up as a demonstrator in order to get a discount on all the product.

I decided then to share this new-found love and began teaching this craft to my friends and holding workshops. Now, in addition to demonstrating at stamping parties, I teach specialized classes, hold scrapbook clubs, card clubs, and technique clubs. I think it's also great to get young people involved early with scrapbooking and cardmaking so I hold birthday stamping parties and also kids stamp camps.

My love for paper-crafting has turned into a business -- and what fun to get paid for having a hobby!