The wonderful art that is being generated for the Download Depot Club is now found on new LDV mail-order stickers - for YW and Primary! The following collections now have matching stickers in our store:
- Elsa Remund’s 2007 YW Theme art
- Courtney White’s 2007 YW Theme Digital Photography Art
- Melissa Carter’s 2007 Primary Theme Art
- Lori Nawyn’s YW Values Collection
ON DEMAND STICKERS
We design our stickers to print on several sizes of sticker paper we keep on hand - and we print on demand, meaning - when we get an order for a certain sticker design, that is when we print it. This allows us to offer many more sticker designs. We invest in the sticker paper, but don’t keep a large stock of pre-printed stickers. So we are always ready to offer new stickers. And our sticker prices are competitive. We do not charge for shipping either! So it is a great way to find lots of sticker designs.
REQUEST A STICKER
If you are looking for something in a sticker and don’t find it - let us know! We can design stickers without a large investment in pre-printing - so we hope you will tell us what your needs are.
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF OUR ART
The digital art collections for downloading often work for other products - like stickers - it is just another way an artist can earn a commission for their artwork.
I hope others can appreciate how important it is that LDS artists get paid for LDS designs. When I was growing up, I learned that the women in my life that I looked up to had all made major sacrifices to raise their families and pursue careers. I come from a long line of very practical women who sacrificed pursuing their artistic talents to do the more practical thing. When I realized how talented my grandmother was, my sister was, my mother was - but they set aside these talents to work at more practical things and to be mothers, I was DETERMINED to keep my art an active pursuit.
On the other hand, deep inside, I knew that if I were to pursue a professional career as an actress, which many people told me I was capable of - that I would be endangering my moral and spiritual welfare. I am passionate about the stage. I throw myself completely into a role. I am competitive and ambitious. I saw how easily I could get sucked into the entertainment industry nightmare if I made it my goal to rise to the top. I chose not to do so. Over and over in my life I have made such choices. Though I studied theater at BYU, and graduated with a degree in theater arts - and have worked in equity theaters, I have refrained from aggressively seeking a professional career as an actress.
Many of my friends have pursued acting/music/art careers. I am very sad to report that a good percentage of those who have “made it” in the professional art world have become lost spiritually. Many others have stuck to teaching and doing local productions or being self-published musicians/authors/artists.
We want great music. We want great film. We want great art. We want great theater. But we don’t want to pay much or anything to get it.
I have many friends who have a singular gift for theater - who would be homeless and maybe even dead if they had to rely on any other skill to survive. I am blessed to be technically minded as well as artistically minded - so I have some options - but some people really don’t. I love the artistic soul. It pains me to no end to see an artistic soul set aside their art to work at a bank or sell real estate because they can’t make ends meet as an artist.
So anything I can do to give artists a chance to earn some money at what they love and are best at - I am thrilled to do it.
I say this in the context of selling stickers, and it sounds pretty stupid. But sometimes, all it takes for an artist to be willing to keep their hand in their craft is to have a little success selling their art. It builds confidence - and that is almost more important than anything else.
WOW - I started this a long time ago - didn’t I publish it already??? Sorry if I did, but here it comes again - Debra
