"Photographing the Future"

This is 11x14 on canvas-VERY hard to get a good photo on this one.

My husband pointed out to me that the photographer herself is from a different time period than the people in the actual photos. I had to explain to him that the beauty of art (especially collage art) that EVERYTHING does NOT need to be accurate-and I told him she could be photographing the future, so that is the name I chose for it. That is one of the reasons I LOVE this medium-you can do whatever you want!

Lots of texture on this one-it does not show up in the photo. Layers of paint, old text underneath........ohhhhhhhhhh!!! :)

"Miss Jessie Emery"

Here's another collage on canvas I just completed. Actually this one started a year ago and I set her aside-I just lost inspiration to finish. I had forgotten about it, and just picked her up again and finished her. She didn't need much to finish. Feels good to have gotten her done!

I am calling her "Jessie Emery" after the name in some of the old text I used.

Faux Designer Paper

This is a technique from Technique Junkies that I just tried today! I must say it is now one of my favorites for sure!

Images from I Brake For Stamps

Created By Hand Challenge: Flourishes

Here is my contribution for the Created By Hand Challenge

The flourishes are by Quietfire Design and the main image , is from Katys Corner out of the UK which sadly is no more :(

I used Radiant Rain Daubers for the background, along with the "Painted Mesh" technique out of the Technique Junkies Newsletter.

My rubber baby

I had forgotten about this picture..........This is my Gillian sitting in a tub of RUBBER STAMPS back when I had Time To Stamp.........isn't it funny? She would climb in that tub of rubber quite frequently then.........she was around 2 1/2 I think in this picture.

Josephine

This is one I am just finishing up...........I call her Josephine because the back of the photograph said that was her name, or at least the person who signed it! This is 12x12 on a gallery wrapped canvas.

The background has a texture to it, you really can't see it in the photo.

Painted Mesh

Painted mesh is a technique in the latest issue of Technique Junkies newsletter.

I had to give it a go! The images used here are by Time to Stamp (available of course from I Brake for Stamps). The main image is one I am proud to say I designed :)

New CafePress Store

I have wanted to open a Cafepress store for some time now..........I finally did!
Not alot on there yet, as I am still trying to figure stuff out!
There are a few things though!
Here's the link:
http://www.cafepress.com/KristyChristop

Scrapbook for a friend

I have a friend who just recently had a baby and I wanted to make her a scrapbook-she has loved the scrapbooks I have made for friends in the past and really doesn't do scrapbooking at all (not that I myself do much) but I figure I have all the stuff here so I went ahead and made it. I think it came out great and I hope she likes it. Here are some pics of the cover and some of the inside pages. I made the color scheme brown, pink, and green. The baby's name is Payton, hence the "P" :)

The cover is made using a stencil-which alot of you know I LOVE stencils :)

An Award

I got the Kreativ Blogger award from my friend Wezz recently-I am really late doing this!

The rules for passing this award on are:

1. The winner may put this award on their blog

2. Put a link to the person who sent this award to you

3. Nominate 5 blogs

4. Put links to their blogs

5. Leave a message for your nominees

Here is who I nominate (all just awesomely creative people!):

Lori Blau-Marshall

Seth over at The Altered Page

Shelly Hickox

Lisa Gallup

Jeannine Peregrine

Visit their blogs :) And tell them I sent ya!