Series Finale

Ok...so there are season finales....and there are series finales. Season finales always leave you hanging, anxious for the the start up of next season. Gasp! What will they do next??? Series finales are always a little more sad, as in "Oh no, I loved that show!" But they are also sort of exciting. You get to see all your favorite characters one last time in a way that hopefully fills in all the blanks and makes you happy that you didn't miss the finale...unless of course you have TIVO in which case you never miss anything.

For the past two years (actually 2 years almost to the day) I have been involved in a series called"KC Spills Her Guts and Teaches all Things Collage." We've had several seasons in this production. The season of on-line classes, the season of workshops in a little Victorian bungalow, the season of workshops in the way-too-big-and-way-too-expensive gallery on Main Street and the season where KC takes her cast of characters (aka women of the west) on the road. What an adventure it has been. If the name wasn't already taken I would call it Survivor.

It has been an amazing 2 years filled with the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. I would not trade either for the world. The highs lifted me up to the mountaintops of new friendships and lives changed  and the lows did the most wondrous of things....drove me to my knees. Both make sure you are never the same again and for that I thank all of you and the God I love. With that lack of sameness comes change....and the series finale.

A week from today I pile my car full of fabrics and fabulous finds and hit the road again. This little tour of Texas will begin the last few months of my teaching art in an in-person workshop setting. For every season turn, turn. I have some great classes scheduled for this year and I am so excited about them all...in a way that you can only be when they are each so precious because the end is in sight.

As much as I would love to DO everything...God is calling me to GIVE everything. I will continue to make my art, adding new themes and dimensions to a gift He entrusted to me 11 years ago,  but you will see some new things replace my time on the road (or here in Colorado) teaching.  So stay tuned for the new series debuting soon. One I like to call KC Swims Upstream. I will be blogging about the details very soon.

So if you have been meaning to take a class with me these past two years, whether on-line, here in Colorado or at a town near you....it's sorta now or never. 2011 is the time. There are so many of you who have been talking with me about attending a workshop and I hope you will.  Workshops on the road in Texas, Northern California (including the Bay Area) Utah, and Collage Conferences here in Colorado are all posted on Studio Retreats. I will be going back to Arizona, teaching in the Phoenix area and in Sedona in November..and Ocala Florida in the fall too. Those will be posted soon.

Two years ago you all were amazing in letting everyone know that I was beginning to teach art....and I would be so grateful if you let your friends and blog followers know that the series finale is at hand...and TIVO won't work on this show. :-)

Love you. Mean it.

Look Through the Book

Ok....then. You have been asking if I was ever going to sell the kit to the Three Dimensional Book Box project shown on the Altered Book video...and the answer is yes. For a limited time I am offering the supplies needed to make an art piece using a vintage book like the one shown here.

The kit comes with a heavy duty 17"x17" wide-side "box" made especially for this kit by my handy husband, Logan. This great box is the base for all you will do in this workshop. I have included a selection of new and vintage fabrics and cool, textured papers. The papers and fabrics have been coffeestained for you. The kit also provides a vintage book cover, transfer paper, quote canvas, wooden slats to raise the book, small bits of paper for collages, clumpies and/or drapery scrim to fill in the raised book. Available with or without the Collage Camp and Altered Books DVDs.

Check out this kit and the other fun supply packages on the Main Page of Collage Camp. Info on a very special price for anyone purchasing all the KC Kits can be found just below the info on this kit at Collage Camp








Have fun!

KC
www.collagecamp.ning.com
www.lipstickranch.com

Take The Paper Route

Coffee-stained handmade papers, burnt edges, textures, wax on paper....yummy. For the first time my paper collage workshop is available on DVD. I take rich, textured papers, dip them in coffee, dry them, iron them, sew them....in other words treat them like fabric. As a matter of fact, I think I mistakenly refer to them as fabric more than once in the video. :-)

This is the very fun project on the workshop...abstract painting...with paper!

The possibilities are endless. Create abstracts, add images...go to town.

You can print an image on paper and add to your collage.

All you need to get going.

The workshop DVD comes in a handmade paper pouch with a layered paper collage and gypsy image on the front. An assortment of already coffee-stained papers gives you the ability to get right to work.

 I show you a really different way to make a fabric collage piece....out of paper!

Get your DVD and coffee-stained papers on the front page at Collage Camp. Working with these papers is such a delicious experience I feel just fine in saying...."Bon Appetite!

Workshops 2011

Happy New Year!

I am thrilled to be into 2011....the year of many planned changes and fun, fun stuff. I start this year finally healthy again after many months of a debilitating shoulder injury that impacted the last part of my year in a big way. But ready to go now!

As you're planning which workshops and retreats you will attend this year, please take a peek at all that will be happening at my space in Colorado and in my travels.

Clark Mansion in Taylor, TX...April 2011

I will be visiting Southern Cal, Northern Cal, Arizona, Texas and Florida! My teaching space in Colorado will be host to several Conferences and a special duo-teaching weekend with me and Lesley Riley in May. Colorado Collage Conference with Jenny Doh and Sarah Fishburn is in January and June, and the special faith based Conference, Imagination Congregation with Rebecca Ersfeld and Paulette Insall will take place in 4 days in March and June.  Plus lots of great 1 and 2 day art and marketing classes in my studio. Wow!

Register for any of these events in the next 3 days and you will receive a $100 gift card to my Lipstick Ranch site. Good on any piece of art or on-line classes and DVD's.

Private Class
Book a special 3-day One-on-One Workshop with KC in her studio at a time that works for you and cover the subjects and techniques that you want to cover.  Contact me for details.

Creative Counseling....Individual 90 minute sessions with KC either in-person, over the phone or via SKYPE....$150
These private sessions can be a one-time thing or on-going. We can discuss life, art, marketing, relationships...anything you want. Life coaching with KC.

Can't do any traveling, but wanna play? Workshops are available on-line at Collage Camp. DVD's can be purchased there too.

I got ya covered!
 




Hope to see you in 2011!

All Tied Up

When I was ten years old I was picked on a lot for some reason. Oh wait...I remember. I was skinny, wore glasses and cried at the drop of a hat. A bully's dream target. On a really cold winter day I was hitting the tether ball with a friend at recess. Actually I should say I was trying to hit the tether ball. Physical coordination and I were not on speaking terms.
 

A couple of tough guys who were in the fifth grade decided they wanted the tether ball and my girlfriend told them they couldn't have it.....

Go to www.trailerparktrinity.blogspot.com to read the rest of this story. xxoo

Stuff a Stocking with Creativity

"Inside every woman a gypsy girl dances by the fire."

Happy Holidays! Just a quick note to let you know I have made some very cool things that are being offered for a limited time. Lipstick Ranch Holiday Gifts can be found on my Collage Camp site.
You do not need to be a member of Collage Camp to check these out!  Order in the next 48 hours and they are guaranteed to arrive to you or your gift recipient by Christmas Eve.

But put an on-line class in their stocking and no shipping is necessary! I will send a special artsy e-mail to you to send to them announcing your gift and how they can access the classes. Collage Camp (my main workshop) is almost half off right now at http://collagecamp.ning.com/page/lipstick-ranch-gifts...just for the holidays!


Happy Happy...Merry Merry.

KC

Please check out my new blog the Trinity and the Trailer Park!

The Trinity and The Trailer Park

"The two things that most shaped me...for better and for worse...were being raised in the Southern Baptist Church and spending a lot of my youth in the microcosm of society known as the trailer park. These are descriptors...when attached to your name...do not get you nominated for homecoming queen."

The rest of this Blog can be found in my new blog....The Trinity and the Trailer Park. Lipstick Ranch will be my blog for art and whatever....the other is where I will tell the stories of my life. Never a dull moment there...I promise you. I hope you will follow both.

Love you. Mean It.