Glass Harvest Ornament Tree

Brand new from Color Bakery…a beautiful crystal harvest ornament tree, featuring the beautiful art of Alphonse Mucha as well as other beautiful autumnal art pieces custom printed on glass. Dress it up or down, and you will have a Fall centerpiece that will make any table lovely. Click the image to learn more.

Crystal Holiday Pendants

You are going to adore these stunning crystal oval holiday pendants. The magic of the holidays is beautifully rendered on these brilliant, delicately scalloped crystals. Not only can you wear them as jewelry, but if you want to get creative, you can also use them as holiday ornaments and decorative accents, too! Each piece of custom crystal measures 1.5″ x 2″ and comes with a black adjustable cord. 8 different styles available.

Collect them all for an array of holiday beauty you or a lucky loved one will enjoy for years to come. Click the image to learn more

Photography by J Gold & Co., New York, NY

Personal Wooden Serving Tray with Glass Tile: “Leo” from Zodiac Series

I love this new little black serving tray that we’ve just brought on board at Color Bakery. Something so smart and elegant about black and the way it offsets the tile, and it goes with all different styles of home decor as well as all different types and genres of art.

It takes an 8″ x 8″ custom tile (either glass, tumbled stone or ceramic), and it’s finished laquered wood in black. Shown in photo: “Leo” from our Zodiac Art Nouveau Series in glass. Just like all Color Bakery products, we can customize the tray with any art you like. To learn more or purchase, click here or on the photo below.

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Promotion ends January 1st, 2009.

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Vintage Santa Coffee Mug

This beautiful vintage style Santa holiday coffee mug is part of the 2008 Color Bakery Christmas and Holiday Collection. Since putting it online a couple of days ago, we’ve already received an enthusiastic response. People really enjoy holiday pieces with a vintage flavor, and art pieces that use color as well as texture. This 11 oz coffee mug is just as likely to be used as a holiday display decor piece as it is to serve hot cocoa or steamy cinnamon coffee. It is dishwasher and microwave safe, but we recommend hand-washing. Comes in very sturdy bright white gift box.  Check out our Vintage Kitty Christmas Mug, too. To find out more or to order, click the photograph.

Vintage Santa Coffee Mug (handmade). click image to purchase.

Vintage Holiday Ceramic Tile Coaster Set

These four coasters are crops from the two holiday pastiches that are also available as tile serving trays, previously posted on the blog.

Other Color Bakery matching holiday gifts may be found here.

This beautiful, vintage style holiday coaster set and black metal holder comes with four 4.25″ x 4.25″ Color Bakery handmade ceramic holiday tiles. Each original art piece is different, yet they all work together as a beautiful complementary set. The holder itself measures 5″ x 5″. Each coaster comes with protective bumpers on the bottom. The tiles are made in Italy and have an elegant satin matte finish. The coasters were photographed on top of our matching holiday vintage placemats.

Click here or click the image if you would like to purchase or learn more.

Vintage Holiday Ceramic Coaster Set

Vintage Christmas Card, Color Bakery’s 2008 personal card

Howdy all,

I thought I would share our 2008 Christmas or Holiday card art design that we are sending out to friends and family this year. I felt like doing a vintage style card. I took the vintage photograph of the girl and gave her a Santa hat and put her in a Christmas snow setting, giving it a painterly look.

I usually have quick printing projects like this one done at any online printer, like Vistaprint. These cards were designed for 5″ x 7″.

If you would like to purchase the high resolution, printing-ready art for this card (via immediate download) and making your own cards or using it for any art project you like, you may do so by clicking here or clicking the graphic.

Don’t forget to check out Vintage Art Download for gorgeous vintage images by the immediate download.

Vintage Girl Christmas Card

Custom Holiday Gift Creating: African Batik Placemats

Every year, I try to come up with new gift ideas for my personal gift list–my friends and family. For example, this year I am doing a set of glass Alphonse Mucha coasters, among other things. It’s neat that I have Mucha’s work in high resolution for fine art printing. (Mucha, along with many other fine artists, is available on my Vintage Art Download site where we have high resolution jpgs available for artists, printers, collectors, altered artists, scrapbookers, decoupagers, etc).

click image for more Mucha (Alphonse Mucha, "Danse")

I usually design the art from scratch, keeping decor and taste in mind. One dear friend started out initially as a Color Bakery client, and now she is more a part of the family. Glen and I adore her; she’s got a heart as big as the sky. I have designed many custom art glass murals for her stunning Los Angeles townhouse, and whenever she has a very special gift that she wants to give to someone close to her, she calls me and we talk about it until I see something in my head and start to design. She’ll give me a basic overview of the person’s taste, along with her ideas, and after that I get a free hand so I can come up with something unique, beautiful and consonant with the recipient’s tastes.

This dear woman’s home is very ethnic, very native African, in feel. The basic color scheme is golds, deep reds, creams, rich sienna browns. One wall displays over one hundred native African masks, imported from a special dealer who goes to Africa to select special masks for her. One mask is about ten feet tall and engulfs a wall unto itself. (They had lots of fun hanging it; it was so heavy it destroyed the wall and she had to have it reconstructed!) There is strong influx of Asian art as well, in the form of Japanese calligraphy scrolls on rice paper, and wooden interpretations of Buddah. It’s a very rich and vibrant feel as far as color and decor.

When I showed her the Christmas Patchwork Placemats I recently designed for Color Bakery, she really loved them, so I thought I would take a similar pastiche patchwork style and use batik fabric to make her a piece of art we could use to make a set of custom designed placemats for her table. I might even do different square crops of this image and print it on glass for her so she could arrange them in a wall display if she likes.

Here is a small jpg of the placemat design. The end result will not be real batik of course, as the placemats are a lined cotton canvas blend, but it will certainly look just like it because the artwork is made from many high resolution (2400 dpi) batik scans. If you would like to purchase this item, click here. Or click the image below.

Batik Placemat Art

Vintage Santa and Kitten Holiday Serving Trays

I recently designed two holiday pastiches with a patchwork feel. I love the different colors and textures; they were made by actually scanning velvet and lace swatches as well as incorporating some beautiful holiday vintage pieces. The tray comes with a tile mural embedded into an ornate tray base, and the tiles can be ordered in either glass or ceramic. This is functional art, as you can actually use the tray for serving, but people like putting it on display as well for the holidays. If you would like to learn more or purchase, just click the photo. There are also matching wood keepsake boxes, matching wine caddies, and matching placemats and napkins! If you want these images on any other Color Bakery product, just contact me.