Great gift idea: Big Art Blessings Gift Cards!

If you are looking for that one-of-a-kind gift that will knock their socks off, a Big Art Blessings creation would be perfect! We have cute gift cards beautifully wrapped and ready to go under your Christmas tree! A great solution if you know of someone who would enjoy working with Big Art Blessings to showcase their children's artwork. We have gift cards for the Virtuoso Collage, a retail value of $135, or we can create a card for any amount. Happy Holidays!

New Package Pricing!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to Moss Rock Festival this weekend... what a wonderful experience! We are so appreciative for all the fantastic feedback. :)

We are still in the window of being able to do a few more collages with guaranteed Christmas delivery, but we are filling up quickly! Please contact us today if you are interested in giving a Big Art Blessings gift for Christmas.

Moss Rock Festival November 7-8

Please visit our booth at Hoover's Moss Rock Festival on November 7-8! This great festival features wonderful exhibitors, great food and music, and free admittance. :) It is very kid-friendly, too. Ask us about our Moss Rock Special! Festival website: http://www.mossrockfestival.com

Introducing... the Holi-Doodle!

Big Art Blessings is excited to introduce a new product: the Holi-Doodle! If your child has ever created holiday art -- think pumpkins, snowmen, and turkeys -- let Big Art Blessings create seasonal Doodleboards for you to display in a special place in your home. How much fun would it be to change out the creations by the season! We are offering the Holi-Doodles at the same price as Doodleboards, $35. These would also make great gifts! Contact us at info@bigartblessings.com if you are interested!

Big Spooky Savings at Big Art Blessings!

Construction Paper FADES!

Have you ever noticed how quickly and extremely the construction paper masterpieces that are brought home from school fade into grays and tans? A beautiful orange sun becomes a sad light peach ball in just a few months unless they are kept in total darkness -- and who wants to hide those creations away for decades? The process we use can never compensate for the inexpensive, acidic papers that are used by schools -- but we can slow that aging process down dramatically, allowing the art to be enjoyed in the meantime. :)

New Size of Doodleboards! Scrapbookers, take notice!

Big Art Blessings is excited to be adding a new size of Doodleboards! We are now offering 12x12" panels, which should be a great opportunity for all our special scrapbook pages to be showcased. :) This Doodleboard displays a wonderful cheetah created by our friend James when he was in 5th grade at Gwin Elementary.

Fall is in the Air!

There is that intangible feeling of Autumn outside today! Football season, back to school, and the start of that roller coaster that goes Labor Day-Halloween-Thanksgiving-CHRISTMAS! Big Art Blessings can help you with that one special, perfect Christmas gift this year. Now is the time to get that art together! :)

One of the highlights of the Fall Season here in the Birmingham, Alabama area is the Moss Rock Festival -- We have been invited to have a booth there this year! If you are in the area, please come visit our booth -- http://www.mossrockfestival.com/. The festival is held in the beautiful Moss Rock Preserve, free to the public, very family friendly... you will be in store for great music, good food, a wonderful place for the kids to run and play, and especially many artists and ideas you don't want to miss! November 7-8, details on the festival website.

Some clients love to have their art grouped by years.  Other clients love to showcase their favorite, special pieces of art from many different years.  Lacey's art spans more than a decade, and it will always mean a lot to her and her family to see her spectacular giraffe and wonderful flamingo alongside her preschool handprints and sweet lady reindeer.  This is a great example of how Lacey's mom's persistence in saving all her favorite pieces all those years has now paid off with a showcase piece they treasure in their home.

Big Art Blessings is ready for a busy fall season! After a wild summer of kids home, island visits, home remodeling because of a flood, costume designing for a wonderful stage production of Beauty and the Beast, we are grateful to be back full time! Yesterday, it was very gratifying to see our collages on the walls of the local hospital we have been working with... the employees should be so proud of themselves for raising the money to brighten the rooms, having their kids and their communities submit artwork, and leading the effort to make the atmosphere cheery and fun. The collages looked great on the walls! Pictures coming soon. Now, back to business....

When collages come to life!

We've been updating our website lately, and it just became clear: the magic of the collages starts when you hang them on the wall. They literally come to life! The gallery pictures of the collages don't do them justice. We've heard that many times from clients! Now that the hospital collages are being hung they are finding that to be true too.

Two kids, One collage

We recently had the pleasure to work with artwork from a brother/sister team! Maimie and John David created beautiful, colorful art with lots of handprints... many fun nature-inspired pieces, with caterpillars and butterflies galore. Combining their art onto one collage worked fabulously! Thanks, Maimie and John David, for sharing your talent with everyone!

Collages, collages everywhere!

What an experience to tackle a large order of collages at one time! If this keeps up, we will need to realize our dream of moving out of our home-based facility and into a big place! In the meantime, be careful where you step.... :)

Taking the show on the road

Are there child labor laws on Dauphin Island? I hope not, because Nick put in some time yesterday getting the art panels smooth as a baby's bottom! I guess a beach vacation is appropriate payment. We brought a load of collage panels to the island to prep, in between exploring, fishing, and visiting the local alligator. Now we are thinking there should be a Big Art Blessings/Dauphin Island office!

Brook and Austin's collages

We just delivered collages to O'Hair, the best place in Hoover to get your hair done! These went to Missy, the proud mom of Brook and Austin. Their collages were great examples of how the personalities of the kids shines through their artwork. :) Austin's has a great Grateful Dead-ish Guitar Hero guy on it, along with a hammerhead shark and a love letter to Mom! Brook's collage has the curliest, swirliest, girliest Raggedy Ann ever made, created with cursive words. Both Austin and Brook are talented artists! They have enough art for many more collages. :)

Doodleboards!

We have been concentrating so much on collages lately, it is a treat to work on a Doodleboard. :) Doodleboards are designed to showcase one special piece of art... we offer them in standard sizes (such as construction paper, computer paper, and scrapbook paper sizes) or we can create custom sizes. One of the favorite Doodleboards we have ever created was Elliot's "Pink Dog" -- we love his personality! Elliot is quite the artist; we hope to see more from him in the future. :)

Busy Time!

Big Art Blessings has been chosen for the wonderful task of creating 24 collages to decorate patient rooms in a local hospital; the artwork is all donated from the hospital employees' families and their communities. It has been very different, working with art from lots of mediums, materials, styles, and ages. We are loving the results! Tammy is starting to lay out collages in her sleep. :)

This job is so much fun! Today we had the privilege of delivering happy, sweet collages to Ellie and Zachary! Their collages had lots of handprints and googly eyes. :) Thank you, Ellie and Zachary, for letting us work with your beautiful art.

Rain! In Hoover, Alabama.... again! Who would have thought we just came off a record-setting drought?

We wanted to say THANK YOU to the best photographer and technical guru in the area, Mark Wilkins. He has helped us with camera lenses, white balance, and lighting so our digital images of your children's artwork will be of the highest quality. Check out his website, http://www.b3photography.com/index2.php
If you are looking for a photographer in the Birmingham area, b3photography is your place. :)

Big Art Blessings, Memorial Day, 2009

Big Art Blessings is a brand new company started by three friends, Tammy, Donna, and Amanda, who wanted to find a better way to showcase children's artwork. Our artwork has haunted us from the attic, screaming to get out of the Rubbermaid bins and be put on display to entertain everyone. :) Children's artwork has so much character! The personalities of the kids shines right through their creations.

We wanted to start a blog, and thinking Memorial Day would be a great time... little did we know that this day would be TOO memorable for Tammy! It started in the wee hours of the morning with a leaking refrigerator and went quickly downhill. Thankfully we have some wonderful collages lined up to finish; that will provide a much-needed distraction. :)

With this blog, we want to share the fun part of the business, by highlighting some favorites. We will get permission from clients to share their artwork first, so we will start with one of our kids' collages: Tammy's Jacob, with the bonus being if you can guess who the lower right hand portrait depicts:

If you guessed ELVIS PRESLEY, you are right! Check out those sideburns!

This collage has a good bit of preschool-aged art, including some dimensional pieces, which add depth and fun to the finished creation.

Please check out our website, http://www.bigartblessings.com,

for ideas of the products we create from your children's artwork. And check back here often; we will include a rundown of fun projects we are working on!