Where you can find my
greeting cards offline:

Blue Pear
Crown Point, IN

Crawford’s Books
Sacramento, CA

Eight Million Gods
Truchas, NM

Gallery Route One
Point Reyes Station, CA

Gather & Collect
Glen Ellyn, IL

Golden Eagle Art
East Hampton, NY

Grace Decorative
Warminster, United Kingdom

Mystique Trouvaille
Lower Burrell, PA

Judy Maxwell Home
Chicago, IL

Pence Gallery
Davis, CA

Rio de Ojas
Claremont, CA

Where you can find my original art offline:

In Art-o-mat vending machines worldwide and here and there around Sacramento, CA.

altered Victorian cabinet card of a sepia anthropomorphic bunny holding a huge orange carrot with text that says it’s not the tool, it’s how you use it
Antique book with a worn green cover embossed with bright gold filigree
altered Victorian cabinet card of a beautiful woman with a bright yellow number 2 pencil going in one ear and coming out the other

What i learned from writing humor for a living:
it’s all about having fun.

My altered photo world started the day I realized I needed a birthday gift for my husband. “But he has everything,” I lamented. Then the solution whacked me in the head: “What he needs is a photo album of fake relatives.” So I set to work painting on Victorian photographs to create a faux family of oddballs and eccentrics. One thing led to another and soon my husband’s altered ancestors were turned into a line of greeting cards, Ain’t That a Kick in the Head was launched, and I developed an obsession.

It wasn’t long after my husband’s birthday that I opened an Etsy shop and started making original art for Art-o-mat. (Art-o-mat, noun: repurposed old cigarette vending machines that dispense awesome cigarette pack-sized original artwork.) Last year I began selling greeting cards wholesale via Faire. My whimsical artwork has been showcased online by @phototrouveemagazine and was included in the book Artful Memories: How to Create Unique Art With Old Photographs by Jane Chipp and Jack Ravi. My altered photos have found homes in several countries and my small-run, boutique greeting cards continue to spread themselves worldwide

Especially with the world being so heavy right now, messing with old photos to create a bunch of highly ridiculous people brings me much needed lightness. And if my whimsical artwork spreads some smiles, there’s not much more I can ask for.

Thanks for stopping by.

Debbie

“I absolutely love the cards! Whimsical, hilarious and a tiny bit creepy.” —Julieanne