Just take a look at this great sheet of uncut purple rubber - lying on the purple counter in her brand new studio - which is filled with her packaged stamps - labelled in purple, of course. Or you may want to visit her purple website: www.angi-b-co.com and buy some of these wonderful purple images for yourself.

“At that point, I just started writing stuff out. Some things that spoke to me and some that I made up. It was all about that time and what was happening and how I was dealing with it. It was hard! But, I felt that if the words I was reading and writing spoke to me, maybe they would speak to others, and I thought I would make stamps of some of those words and sayings. I tried them in the marketplace and they sold right away.

And I also tried doing some sculpture. There was a stone fish on a necklace I had gotten on vacation and I loved it. It got me thinking about sculpture and I made a few figures like the Two Friends and a bear design. Then I cleaned up the sketches I had made for the sculptures and thought I would test market the designs as stamps. And they went very well. So I knew I was on to something.”

How did it all come to be so much about women?

“About women’s inspiration, really. Well, I have an art inspiration club I belong to - a couple of writer friends and I. One writes poetry and one writes novels and I am the ‘artist person’. We feed off each other’s creativity. We have meetings so we will actually act on our ideas instead of just thinking about them! But we share experiences good and bad, and out of all that, I get the ideas for these images.

I'm getting lots of ideas these days - too many sometimes! But that’s just the artist personality and I can’t help it. I see lots of directions for my designs and I’m excited about what’s going to come next.”

And so are we, Angi! Keep these great images coming.

Samples of Angi’s stamps in use can be found all through this issue of “Now What?” and many more are available on her website for your inspiration and enjoyment.