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BIG FALL SALE

kiersten — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:16:38 +0000

In celebration of my favorite season, (& in hopes that I will finally give my studio the cleaning it needs), I will be having a HUGE sale on all my original work, prints, & drawings starting this week.

I recently received some of my pop-culture pieces (the ‘Days Off‘ & terrarium pieces) back from Gallery 1988, and will be discounting them up to 50% off! I will also be offing $15 off all prints, & $10 off all original drawings. Buy any two pieces & get free shipping (w/in the US only).

Sale will start this Tuesday, October 15th through my Etsy store. Please feel free to email me with any questions!

some available ORIGINALS (that will be up to 50% off!):

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Hitman Trilogy Art Book

kiersten — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:04:35 +0000

I was honored to contribute an original piece for the Special Edition Hitman Trilogy art book, out this month with the Hitman HD Collection release. Each artist was asked to reinterpret a specific scene from one of the first 3 games, mine being Agent 47′s failed clones. I thought it might be fun to have the original 47 play his less-than-smart clones at poker, since he would probably end up winning every single hand. Prints of the piece are available here for a limited time.

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iPhone Cases Now AVAILABLE

kiersten — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:50:07 +0000

UPDATE: Thanks for the great response, everyone! A few editions sold out rather quickly, but I will be restocking them soon, along w/ a couple new ones. Please email me if you’d like to be put on the list: kiersten {at} youfail {dot} com Thanks!

So excited to finally have these iPhone covers available for sale! All are the Barely There Slim Case style from Casemate and are compatible with 4 / 4S iPhones.

This is sort of a test run, so there’s currently a very limited number of each. Please email me if you have any questions, or are interested in purchasing one in particular.

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Prints On Sale

kiersten — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:27:27 +0000

I just added a few new prints to the sale I’m having on my Etsy site!

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Love, Sweat, and Tears: Wedding Invites Part II

kiersten — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:29:17 +0000

With the printing all complete, it was time to move on to the cutting, folding packing and sending..

After each piece was completed, Wes started to cut the spotted bands (it wrapped around the cards to hold them in place), while I started to measure and cut our envelope liners. We then glued the liners in place (pretty simple with a glue stick and folding tool) and began stacking and wrapping the pieces together. I have to say, although this was time consuming, it was the easiest part!

The real fun part of this step was seeing how each piece was individually different from the next, some a little crooked, some heaver than others etc.. Although not perfect, it was kinda nice knowing that each guest would truely have their own personal invitation, different from the rest.

Overall, I think we’d both agree that despite the amount of time that went into our invites, the end resulted in a very happy, gratifying finish that we were both proud of. Phewwww!

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Love, Sweat, and Tears: Wedding Invites Part I

kiersten — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:26:07 +0000

The tears being tears of joy that we actually finished these babies! We’ve received a few emails from friends & family asking us how we created our wedding invites, so we decided to do a little (and by little, I mean long) post on it. Read on below:

Wes & I knew as soon as we bought our letterpress that, despite having no previous experience working one, we wanted to design & print our own wedding invitations. I started by sketching up some ideas, (loosely based on our Save-the-Date card) eventually breaking up the info into 6 pieces: invite, reception card, map, rehearsal dinner, return address and envelope liner/band wrap.

We then brought the drawings into Illustrator to clean up (so the letterpress plates we were ordering could print clearly) and decided on our fonts. Since each color needs its own plate, we ended up with roughly 10 plates of various sizes. We then went and selected our paper, deciding on a fairly soft, off-white letterpress-friendly paper that wasn’t too pricey.

Later in the week our plates came in and we finally able to start printing! Unfortunately what started off as something we thought we could finish up over the weekend, ended up turning into an almost 2 week project. We started with the main card first, printing about 80 in a light blue-green color.

While those dried, we moved onto the next card, later returning to ink the text in a different color. We kept this routine up (despite it literally being over 100° in our studio) for the rest of the week.

main invite & reception card

color change & check

map, rehearsal, and return address

Read Part II HERE

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Lady Letterpress

kiersten — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:08:10 +0000

So excited to finally have her up and running! We did a little test run a few nights ago, and it works perfectly (although we’re still learning all the proper settings). Can’t wait to really get things going.. to be continued.

Lady Letterpress

converted my sticker logo (used for shipments) into this:

our first test-run print! (though the scan doesn’t look all that impressive)

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prints, prints, prints & GIVEAWAY

kiersten — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:48:47 +0000

They’re here! They’re here!

Paper Magazine prints (as well as two other new single prints) are releasing today! Click HERE for the goods!

The GIVEAWAY:

I would also like to announce a special giveaway I am doing as a way to thank everyone for their wonderful support of this series as well as the overwhelming response to my ‘save.my.hand’ SALE.

I will be giving away one of the original paintings I did for Paper Magazine to a randomly selected fan of the series! Everyone who purchases a set of prints between now and July 31st will have their name put into the mix that I will be selecting from. I will post the winner on my blog on August 1st.

So excited about this. xo

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Releasing Next Week (finally!)

kiersten — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:39:29 +0000

A bunch of goodies are set for release next week, including the much anticipated, Paper Magazine Limited Edition Prints, plus a few other surprises, including a fun giveaway.. Stay tuned and have a great weekend!

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