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These would make great additions to your littles Easter baskets. My kids would rather have fun activites to do and stay busy than just about anything else. Plus, it’s a great family activity, too! You can make cards for parents, grandparents, family and friends.
These stamps are great for all kinds of other projects, too!
Poppi Pokkadott, Sherry West, Sherry West Art @ 2020
Halloween is over, Thanksgiving hasn’t arrived, and we’ve got Christmas stuff in the stores. Hmmmm….if they can do it, so can I. Here ya go!
Besides, I’m sure you don’t mind some fun stuff like Poppi Pokkadott!
Sharon Heritage, Sherry West Art Design Team,
I don’t. If it’s cute or Kawaii, they can put it out all year long, and I don’t care What season it is or isn’t. (Btw, in Japan, everything cute is “Kawaii.”)
Hello Kitty? Count me in.
Move over Kitty, ‘cuz here comes Poppi!
Poppi Pokkadott, Sherry West, Sherry West Art, 2020. All rights reserved.
Poppi comes as a cheery Christmas set of all of the images, including borders, banners, fonts and elements, or you can purchase just the ones you choose.
Each single digital stamp/coloring image is just $2.49 USD each.
The best way to catch me (and Poppi) is to pm me through Facebook Messenger…
or if you don’t do Facebook, email me and I will send you a PayPal invoice:
SherryWestArt@gmail.com.
Sandra Van Blaricum, Sherry West Art Design Team, Traditional media – markers, paper, cardstock, embellishments
Merry Christmas Poppi Pokkadott had a media appearance on Hochanda TV a couple of months ago.
She’s available as a clear acrylic stamp through Stamp Addicts at StampAddicts.com or Hochanda.com. Click the link below each image below to purchase Poppi in acrylic.
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.
Would you like to have a complete, good-quality coloring kit that won’t cost an arm, leg, kidney or plasma, but don’t know where to start?
Here are my quick, cheap recommendations, followed by the longer, more expensive versions, all of which I have, use and highly recommend.
Crayola is my go-to brand because I’m a mom and have kids who like to raid my art supplies, all while I’m working on professional art projects, lol, so it keeps them from destroying my expensive stuff.
Artists can and do produce good artwork using Crayola products, believe it or not!
Give them your email, and sign up for their newsletter.
You’ll get an immediate 10% coupon, as well as 15% and 20% coupons from time to time, and free shipping.
Before I buy, I compare prices on Crayola.com, Walmart.com, eBay, and Amazon, then I buy the cheapest.
If you want to get started but have a very, very limited budget:
DOLLAR STORE SHOPPING LIST
White printer paper, 8.5 s 11”
Clipboard
Pacon Art pad, white, 50 sheets
Correction fluid
Eraser
Paint brush pens
Markers, set, 24-36
Colored pencils, set of 24-36
Set of paint brushes
Paint palette
Sharpener
Gel pens, set, glitter, neocon, metallic
Permanent markers
TOTAL $15, plus or minus
If you have a bit more to spend….
BASIC COLORING SUPPLY LIST FOR ADULT COLORING AND STAMPING
Watercolor pencils, 24-36 count, $7
good sharpener, Kum, $3
erasers – regular (pink), gum, white, eraser pencil fine point for tiny areas, $5
water brush pen set, Arteza or OOKU, etc., 6 tip sizes, $10
markers, 36 count or more, water soluble, brush tip are best, $15
mixed media art pad , #98 or higher, Canson, $6
clipboard, $2
white printer paper, 8.5×11”, $4
#110 white cardstock, 8.5×11”, $5
white gel pen, $3
Sharpies, ultra fine point, black, grey, brown, tan, $5
TOTAL $70, plus or minus
You can take a trip to your nearest Walmart and get almost everything you need.
This is where I regularly purchase…
Canson mixed media pads
Canson watercolor pads
Canson sketch pads
Neenah white cardstock
Neenah black cardstock
Neenah kraft cardstock
Hammer mills #110 cardstock
White printer paper
Crayola Colored pencils sets – 50, 100
Gel pens set of 24, 36 – Scribble Stuff – best, smoothest ink flow of any gel pen ever!
Crayola Supertips Markers sets – 20, 50, 100
Crayola Paint Brush Pens
Oil pastels
Paint brush sets
Erasers
Sharpeners
Clipboard
USE WHAT YOU HAVE
baby oil
petroleum jelly
mineral spirits
eye shadow
Qtips
cotton balls
paper towels
old cloths
paint brushes, fine, flat, round, medium, large
old plate or lid to mix colors
cup for water
Use baby oil, petroleum jelly, rubbing alcohol, gamsol, or mineral spirits to create a wash or blend regular colored pencils with QTips, cotton balls, paper towel, rags.
MY GO-TO COLORING KIT
Crayola Super Tip Markers, 100, $15
Crayola Watercolor Pencils, 24, $7
Crayola Color and Blend Pencils in tin, 50, $15, OR Crayola color pencils, 120, $15
Crayola water soluble oil pastels in tin, $15
Crayola pearlescent water soluble crayons in tin, $20
Sakura Gelly Roll pens – white for adding highlights, corrections, $4
Blending pen (water-based, not alcohol), $4
Blending pencils, $4
Eraser pencils for fine details to get in corners and create highlights, $4
Arteza, OOKU, etc., waterpen brush set of 6 tips, set, $10
Canson mixed media pads – small, medium, large, $6-$10
Clipboard, regular or larger size for art, $2-$6
White printer paper, pack, $4
Cardstock, #110 pound, white, $5
Cardstock, black, $5
Cardstock, Kraft paper, $5
TOTAL $200, plus or minus
Note: Walmart doesn’t carry Crayola Tri-tone pencils, oil pastels, pearlescent pastels, watercolor pencils, fine-tip markers, Color and Blend pencils or product lines, or gel pens. However, Walmart.com does. I purchased mine at Crayola.com, EBay, and Amazon.
These are my go-to coloring supplies when I’m not creating on the IPad. I also have the more expensive stuff, but I’m afraid to use it, lol.
DUAL PURPOSE PRODUCT
These Crayola products are all watersoluble and can be used as paint, as well as pencil, markers, pens and pastels, so each one is dual-purpose!
Draw a line, use the waterbrush pen or a paintbrush dipped in water and it becomes a painted line!
I recommend the largest sets of colors in the markers and pencils because you need the full range of tones for skin tones for portraits – pets and people – as well as for shading.
Otherwise, a basic set of 36 colors is a good set to start with, and these colors can be blended to create new shades.
Scribble a marker or pastel on a plastic lid or plate, dip a wet paint brush in the color, use it as watercolor paint on mixed media or #110 cardstock.
DO YOU REALLY NEED EXPENSIVE ART SUPPLIES?
It’s not the product you use, it’s your ability to use it. I can draw with a burned matchstick, and it looks as if I had used a piece of charcoal produced by a well-known art company.
Expensive art supplies DO have better pigmentation, lay down, ease of use, etc., but it really depends on the skill of the user.
Crayola products are so solid in terms of quality, color, vibrancy, ease of use, lay down and cost that it’s a great product for beginning and intermediate colorists.
SAVE MONEY ON PRINTER INK
And while you’re at it, sign up with HP Ink to save money on printing off coloring pages and stamps! $2.99 per month!
Purchasing an HP ink cartridge for our printer runs about $45 for the black and white and color.
For $25, you can buy a new HP printer at Walmart, then sign up at HP.com for their amazing ink savings deal: $2.99 per month for 50 pages. And if you need to print more than that for some reason, it will cost you only $1 per every 10 pages over that.
HAPPY ART FOR A HAPPY HEART! 