Hello to each of you! I am so happy you are visiting our web site, and if you have any questions, suggestions, requests, comments, or would just like to visit ~ please do! Click here to send an email and I will try to personally respond, although it may take a while, since I spend more time now, traveling and working from my studio in NW Wisconsin.

My name is Jane Stone and I am the founder and president of J. Stone Cards of Silverton, Oregon. I am a 60 year old artist and writer and I started this company in 1982, although I didn't incorporate until 1985.

The reason I started making greeting cards (in 1982) was to supplement my cash flow from gallery sales of my paintings. I've painted for a living since around 1962, and I've been writing stories and verses since I was seven.

I didn't have the opportunity to go to school to learn painting and drawing and writing so I came to rely instead on my intuition, my stubborn persistence and a belief that if I could speak from my heart, all else would follow...

When I started this greeting card company in 1982, I was cutting the paper for the cards, writing and painting each card by hand and it wasn't until several years and eight employees later, that I looked up to realize we were not only the largest producer of individually painted water color cards in the US, but that our product represented some of the finest handpainted cards in the marketplace.

I like to think of our cards as tiny paintings. . .

One of the most important parts of the growth of the company was that it provided 4-5 full time artists a chance to earn a living with a paintbrush in their hand. This was and still is so important to me! The other extraordinary privilege this business allows me, is the opportunity to combine my writing and art skills in a very sacred way~I get to share my deepest soul thoughts with you, and in the process something I "say" to you, might comfort you, or excite you or make a tiny difference in your life, which brings me right back to my thinking that if we live from our heart, we will all live in joy, adventure and love!

I would like to thank each one of you personally for your interest in our work and I wish each of you a life full of happiness and love!