It is with much excitement that I announce the addition of Rande Hanson to the PaperWhimsy Design Team.  Joining Nancy Maxwell James who has taken on the role as Design Artist for paper, mixed media, and collage arts, Rande will be the head designer for the digital side of PaperWhimsy.

Rande is a self-taught mixed-media artist who loves painting, collage, jewelry-making, assemblage and fabric-art and has now added digital art to her creative palette.  Rande has been creating all her life and broke onto the scene of the mixed media art world about five years ago selling her artwork on eBay and joining several art groups and participating in numerous art swaps.  As Rande tells it (and I like to listen to it), that is when she first spied PaperWhimsy and purchased her first PaperWhimsy image.  She’s been addicted to PW ever since (lucky me!).  Rande once told me that she has framed one of my collage sheets from my eBay days (it was the first print of a new sheet and probably worth millions, now). 

As you may recall, Rande served as PaperWhimsy Design Artist for two years, from August 2007-2009.  After an extended break to focus on learning new mediums and techniques and to delve into learning the digital medium, she’s back!  Rande’s focus will be on the art of digital collage using the PaperWhimsy Hybrid line of products.

Welcome (back), Ms Rande Hanson!