My Art Finally Came Home!

Waaayyy back in March I submitted my very first art piece to Somerset Studio Magazine. I didn't hear anything for a long time and thought my piece was lost forever! Well, a few days ago it found its way home with a notice that it's going to be published in the Somerset Gallery Winter 08 edition coming out Dec. 1, 2007! I was so excited! Here is the piece. And altered altoid tin. Inside is a soldered microscope slide with a pressed flower. The pretty text is from a vintage, 1909 Botany book. It's on page 173 from what I hear.

Yum!

Tomorrow, our Indiana Altered Art Group is having a little holiday party with an ATC swap, art supply swap, and pitch-in. So tonight rather than making art I made these :).

More Amazing Design Team Art!

Check out the ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE ATC's from Design Team member Bianca Mandity! You can find the Christmas collage sheets in my store!

Decorating Christmas Cookie ATCs!

I hope everyone had a GREAT Thanksgiving! Next Saturday I have a holiday ATC swap party to attend, so I thought I would make and decorate some Christmas cookies (ATCs!). There you have it! They look almost good enough to eat, but please don't :).

Even MORE Design Team Art!

Check out these AMAZING pieces made by the lovely and talented Heather Robinson using my Christmas Collage Sheets! Aren't they all WONDERFUL!!!

More Design Team Art!

More awesome art by Audrey Hernandez using the Christmas Collage Sheets!

She also made this awesome card using an image from one of my Halloween Collage Sheets - so clever!

Another Design Team Sample!

Check out these FABULOUS tags made by Design Team Member Bianca Mandity using my new Christmas collage sheets. I love these tags!!!!!!!! Be sure to check out Bianca's work! You won't be sorry!

Design Team Sample

Check out the sample design team member Audrey Hernandez made using my Christmas collage sheets!
Be sure to check out Audrey's work - it is most amazing! Go now!

Puzzled Looks?

Okay, so I know many of us get funny looks when we try to explain "what we do" as far as altered art goes. But this weekend I was truly challenged! My Master's course this weekend was "Small Business Development" so of course I focused on my art business and the future plans with the new website etc. etc..... Try explaining "altered art", "collage sheets" etc. to 5 occupational therapists and see what happens! lol! Everyone else had businesses focused around occupational therapy and client care, but not me! Oh my, did I get some strange looks! But I must say, I think I had the most fun :). Sometimes I think we live in such a small bubble in this little art world. My class didn't even know what a blog was!!!!!

New Art on EBay

I made this soldered glass ornament for Ebay today. It's 2.5" x 3.5"..... The same size as an ATC/ACEO.



You can find it along with more pictures HERE!

Ornaments for the Gallery

Here are some microslide ornaments I made today to sell at the gallery....


And here are the ones from last year... I think my soldering has improved a bit!

Busy Weekend!

Sorry I've not been around much! I had 8 hours of school for the past three days, my "power weekend" for my master's classes. Now I just have one more class to go and I'm FINISHED!!!! Yay! As a treat, after my class was out today I went to a cool antique store downtown. I scored this AWESOME shadow box for only 16.00... it's made entirely out of yard sticks and it is the PERFECT size to hold stamps! I've never seen anything like it before have you? Awesome!

NEW Cards on EBay!

I just made these two ATCs/ACEOs last night using my new Christmas fairy collage sheets. You can find the two ATCs and the collage sheets HERE ON EBAY. Thanks!!!!!

Thanks Chel!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much to Chel, Queen of ZNE for sending me this sweet RAK! It's a little squirrel with a sweet card! As some of you may know, I once did several squirrel ATCs! Thanks again Chel!!!!!!!!

NEW Christmas Fairy Collage Sheets!!!!

Some NEW Christmas Collage Sheets are HERE on EBay I hope you like them!

Digital Downloads on EBay

I have some fun new digital downloads available for sale on EBay! GREAT for Christmas cards!!!!!!



Get em' HERE

New on EBay

New Listings..

Artist Trading cards/ACEOs
"Snow Angel"


"Songs of Freedom"


"Sisters"


And an altered witch art doll
"Zoe" (lots of pics in the listing)


Check them all out HERE

Halloween party!

My parents had a haunted barn Halloween party last night, and I thought I would share a few pictures:
Here's the haunted barn!

Of course I was a fairy!

And here is my brother, mom, step-dad, and me!

Gothic Art

The theme this month over at GPP is gothic art! Well, here is mine:
"Husband Number 31" with veil that lifts!!!!

1000th Feedback!!!

Yeehaaawwww! I just hit 1,000 feedbacks on my EBay account! The lucky 1000th feedback customer, asong_and_adance is receiving a free gift! Here's to the many evenings I spent packing up goodies to ship and the many more to come!!!!!

Something A Little Different

Last night I worked on a new piece and wanted to incorporate more painting. this is what I came up with. She's 9 x 12 on box canvas with painted/stamped sides too. Please let me know what you think!
"Heartache"

Mini Cabinet Card ACEOs/ATCs on EBay

*These ACEOs/ATCs were done using a cabinet card style. I used a reprint of a vintage cabinet card, and instead of cutting out the image, I glued the whole photo on my playing card and painted/collaged around the image! I have 4 listed - I may not do this again for a while so get em' now!*

"Princess"

"Life Can Be A Circus"

"Be a Friend"

"Grandma"

Click HERE to Check them out!

Design Team Members Announced!

As some of you know, I will soon have a free standing website created by the amazing AvalonRose! In preparation for this I began the search for a wonderful design team. I am elated to announce that the following amazing artists will be the design team for Retro Cafe' Art Gallery (In no particular order):

Bianca Mandity, Indianapolis, IN

Audrey Hernandez, Daytona Beach, FL

Heather Robinson, Ontario, Canada

Please check out their work! They are all AMAZING (did I already say that?)! I'm sure they will impress and inspire you with their fabulous art! Until the website is up and running you will find some of their samples in my EBay Store

A great BIG THANK YOU to these three talented women!

I Must Have Been A Good Girl :)!

Today, I recieved ANOTHER FABULOUS gift in the mail from my friend Kelly Seaton who is an artist in California! The detail is just amazing on the necklace, and all those jump rings on the earrings definitely took a lot of talent!!! The back of the necklace is also fab! THANK YOU SO MUCH KELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!

RAK thank you!!!!!!!

Yesterday I received a wonderful RAK ATC in the mail! There is no return address or email address, just the artist's name, Selkie Whitebear on the back!!! Thank you so much Selkie!!! I hope you see this because I have no other way to contact you. I just love the saying on this card!

I Love Halloween

"I Love Halloween"
I just created this piece last night. The support was from an old wall hanging I had bought from Hobby Lobby about 10 years ago. It had Mona Lisa on it, but she started to peel off. So I tore her off completely and turned her into this! I'm glad I didn't throw it away. This piece will be sold where I have my gallery space downtown. Thank you to my friend Bianca (link to the left) for giving me the old woman cabinet photo to scan.

A Look to the Past...

Hey everyone! A few people have asked me lately when I started doing mixed media work, and if I've ever done anything else. So I thought I would answer here. I started doing mixed media/collage February of 2005, when I sold my first ACEO on EBay for 2.99 (I won't post that here..lol). When I first started doing art "for real" it was in H.S. and I LOVED black and white drawing. Here is one of my 9x12 pieces from 1998:

Around 2000, I started playing around more with painting:

And finally in 2005 I started doing mixed media and I don't think I'll ever look back!:

It's so funny how much we evolve and change! I'd love to know what YOU did before mixed media?????
xoxox,
Kris