Run, don’t walk! To Hochanda.com to see the latest episode of Stamp Addicts!
Sarah and Vicky will demo some fun products and brand new stamps to dress up your Easter cards and crafts!
Stamps by yours truly will be featured, as well, so EEPA! EEPA! EEPA! ONDALAY! Over to Hochanda I’m on my way!
We are the local Little Debbie Snack Cake distributors , so we see her face on all our product. So, I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise if she subconsciously shows up in my artwork, lol. Totally not intended but pretty cute, nonetheless.
Here’s a friendly little gnome
Looking for a friendly home.
He doesn’t want to be alone,
And he doesn’t have a noisy phone.
He won’t eat much,
Or be overgrown.
So, can he, pretty please,
Come to your home?
He (and she) are available from Sherry West Art NOW!
They’ve got lots of outfits, accessories and elements for lots of fun paper doll play, Cardmaking, journaling, scrapbooking and more!
Contact me:
SherryWestArt@gmail.com
It’s almost summer, dincha gnome?
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New release from Sherry West Art…..
POLLY PAPER DOLLY!
Includes….
*Polly Paper Doll
*Autumn Outfit
*Sunshine Sunflower Dress
*Angelic Attire
*Snow Much Fun
*Lots of Extra Elements!
Have fun playing with Polly with your children or grandchildren, print her out as a coloring page or use her as a digital stamp to create fun greeting cards and projects!
Available for $4.95 as a set.
300 dpi, high-resolution digital printable resizable jpg file.
Send me a message via Facebook Messenger…
https://www.facebook.com/sharongwen.west.1/
Come join the Sherry West Art Crafting and Coloring group and post your Polly!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SherryWestColoring
Visit Sharon’s blog to see her make!
With Christmas coming up so quickly, it´s time to get those cards and crafts done!
Here are some great places to find….
Clip art
Borders
Images
Fonts
Backgrounds
Printables
Kids
Gifts
Decorations
The Spruce Crafts
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/free-printable-christmas-gift-tags-1356290
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Christmas HQ
https://christmashq.com/designs/fonts/
The Prudent Penny Pincher
200 Cheap and Easy DIY Christmas Gifts
Shutterstock
Free Christmas Stuff: Get Your Cards, Clip-Art, SFX, and More
Or is that Merry Cats-Mouse?
And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, lol.
A very appropriate stamp design to close out 2020, wouldn’t you think?
TP CAT & THE 2020 TP TREE
is available as a digital stamp, coloring image for just $2.50!
Want him?
Send me a PM on Facebook Messenger: Sherry West,
or
Email me at: SherryWestArt@gmail.com.
My very first mixed media project!
It´s official. Ím addicted..
Now I understand why everyone is going crazy for junk journals, bible journaling, bullet journaling, and paper piecing!
This was sooooooo very satisfying to make!
I wasn ´ t actually trying to do a mixed media piece. I was bored and drew the central head, then added color to it with Inktense pencils.
I started the initial drawing in my sketch book so scribbled color swatches and samples all around her while I was having fun. She wasn’t supposed to be anything more than a way to keep my brain busy.
I thought, well, why not cut her out and paste her to a new page like Íve seen other people do? So I did.
And then I kept going.
I scribbled some scratchy roses.
Some of my color samples were bleeding into the top of her head, so scribbled roses up there to cover it up, otherwise she looked like a Russian babushka with a headband, lol.
I wanted to try and add some other different things to the page so scribbled a word, added hearts, scribbled lines and color them in.
Then got a great idea: I could make a mixed media piece for my boss who loves this kind of stuff!
I wasńt quite sure what else to do to it, but grabbed some paper from the library trash can (reuse and recycle!), cut out some hearts, put sticky tape on the back of them and randomly placed them all over the page.
They needed some color and shabbiness, so I hit them with some blues and reds in a watercolor type wash, plus some scribbles, then bent and cut the edges so they looked like they were coming off the page, which they were, and trimmed the outer perimeter of the whole page.
I showed it to the girls on my design team, and now they want to do it! So I’m going to redraw her on my iPad, but now I can’t find my Apple Pencils.
And that’s how she came to be.
INGREDIENTS:
Canson Black Hardcover Sketch book
Mechanical pencil and eraser
Sakura Pigma marker
Derwent Inktense pencils
Water brush pen
Scotch tape
Cardstock, from the trash bin
This lovely card is a representation of what I am grateful for.
It was colored and created by my very talented friend and Design Team member, Marnie Schagunn, using my stamp image.
I have a real live, bonafide “Design Team” of lovely talented coloring and cardmaking ladies who are in the process of making my images look good, my images are being turned into rubber stamps by a small UK stamp company and have been shown on tv not only once, but will be twice in less than two months, my book is being published and coming out in print soon (so excited!), I’ve met so many wonderful people in these new endeavors who have shown me so much patience, support and help, and I have a loving caring supportive husband who puts up with all of my shenanigans and three great hilarious kids, health (more or less, depends on what day of the week it is and if all the stars, moons and planets line up right), and faithful friends who put up with me and hang in there, whether I deserve it or not.
I’m counting my blessings!
I’m not making much money (barely covering the Etsy shop fees, but, hey, that counts!) but I get to be a real live working artist and book author!
And, my art and coloring skills are actually getting better, slowly, but anything is an improvement! How much better does it get?
Win-win!
(Btw, please forgive me me if I sound like I’m bragging. I’m honestly not. I’m just very sincerely appreciative of these wonderful opportunities and all the dear people that are in my life.)
I did it!
I can color!
I’m NOT naturally gifted in the coloring department. Not. At. All.
If someone is “artistic” in one area, that doesn’t automatically guarantee they will be artistic in another area….like, say…oh…coloring in my own line work.
As a professional illustrator, I HAVE to be able to color in what I draw. Unfortunately, coloring is NOT my gift. I can draw, but I can’t color. That’s NOT good for a professional artist.
I have to ask others who are good colorists for help in that dept., and lucky for me, there are lots of good ones out there in the area I’ve chosen to specialize in – adult coloring and stamping – who love to color, are good at it, and kindly and graciously volunteer to help me.
After I Publically beg for help.
I have met so many nice people through this method, that I actually look forward to having to ask for assistance because I know I’m going to get some new wonderful friends, as well as some great coloring, out of the whole deal.
There’s a good reason why kids and pets beg….
It works!
This cute little gal is available in my Etsy shop
HAPPY ART FOR A HAPPY HEART! 