Sheri McCulley has partnered with online craft-art retailer Lettering Delights to launch Sheri's Creations, coordinated collections of downloadable papercraft projects that are ready to print, cut, and assemble.

Extending Lettering Delights’ existing library of decorative alphabets and thematic clip art, Sheri's Creations feature ready-to-print cards, party supplies, and seasonal home décor in formats that are easy to print, cut, and assemble—all with Sheri McCulley’s distinctive style.

“I’ve been looking for new ways to connect buyers with items that are fun, geared to holidays and themes that everyone likes, and easy to create at home,” says Sheri McCulley Seibold, the Kansas City-based artist behind Sheri McCulley-branded designs on products such as fabric, greeting cards, home décor items, baby products, and craft supplies. “Lettering Delights has a well-established reputation for originality and quality in craft-art retailing, making it an ideal outlet for Sheri's Creations.”

Sheri's Creations’ initial collection for Lettering Delights features papercraft adaptations of Sheri’s “Trick or Treat Street” and “Costume Club” Halloween themes, best known as the popular fabric collections of those names previously manufactured by Northcott Silk. Ready-to-assemble designs in the new “Costume Clubhouse” papercraft series sold at Lettering Delights include cards, candy wrappers, cupcake toppers, party garland and banners, a three-dimensional haunted house, and gift bags and boxes. Additional elements for open-ended creativity include decorative alphabets, paper designs, borders, tags and labels, and freestanding characters.

“When I saw Sheri’s designs, I literally squealed,” says Jill Simmons, art director at Lettering Delights. “We are delighted to have new these new and original designs by Sheri in our online store. We have always served crafters, scrapbookers, and teachers who understand the convenience and value of direct digital delivery of craft art and papercraft projects. Now we hope to reach even more buyers who want to bring unique Sheri McCulley products into their homes and schools for parties, holidays, and one-of-a-kind décor without having to go to a craft store or wait for a purchase to arrive in the mail.”

With Lettering Delights’ convenient online store, buyers can preview all designs, select the items they want, check out, and immediately start printing, cutting, and creating papercraft projects. All designs are also available directly through the online interface of Make the Cut ™ software for personal paper-cutting devices.

Sheri’s studio blog regularly illustrates ideas for using her latest Creations projects. Or go directly to LetteringDelights.com to browse and buy.

Add cross stitch and afghans to the many product categories that have been inspired by Sheri McCulley's "Swell Noel" collection.

The  29 x 42-inch afghan kit from Dimensions Crafts, a division of EK Success, is available starting July 2011 from a variety of national craft and hobby chains, including Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Jo Ann Stores. In addition, it's in Dimensions' own online store and there are international distributors listed on the Dimensions site.

"As an avid cross-stitcher, I am always looking for unique and charming projects to complete and give as gifts, although I think this time I found a project that I will have to keep for myself," says Stephanie Chizmar, a needlecrafter from Edwardsville, Kansas, who recently picked up her own copy of the kit. "I absolutely love the adorable designs in this pattern, and there’s no wonder why – Sheri McCulley is one of my favorite artists. It is such a delight to see her Swell Noel artwork in a cross-stitch pattern!"

The afghan features many of the same sweet, stylish, and classic Christmas motifs that were originally introduced in 2008's scrapbooking collection for K and Company. 

In 2009, Swell Noel blazed a new retail trail as an extensive line of ornaments, decor pieces, and tabletop items for Macy's, as well as a fabric collection named "Have a Sheri Berry Holiday" for Northcott Silk.

Swell Noel's latest application as an afghan kit includes pre-sorted cotton thread, 18-count acrylic afghan (stitched over two fabric threads), needle, and instructions. 

Up next for the globetrotting Swell Noel gang: Holiday cards for Groupe Editor of France, which will be distributing the designs worldwide (except USA) with greetings like "Joyeux Noel" and "Bonne Annee!"

June 1, 2011 - Sheri McCulley Seibold of Sheri McCulley Studio has signed an agreement to design fabric exclusively for Riley-Blake Designs. Based in Draper, Utah, Riley-Blake manufactures fabric for quilting, home décor, and the manufacturing of fabric-based products.

“We are delighted to add Sheri to our growing stable of top-level design talent,” said Bret Cloward, president of Riley-Blake. “Sheri McCulley has a reputation for hitting the taste target of buyers in many product categories, including fabric, and she brings a distinctive new style that complements the youthful and fashion-forward look our products are becoming known for.”

Sheri’s first collection for Riley Blake is based on her “ModTod” collection which debuted at Surtex in 2010. Featuring six designs in three colorways, ModTod breaks from Sheri’s more nostalgic feel with a contemporary look geared to parents who prefer a more modern style for their kids.

In addition to eight fabric collections for Northcott Silk's Lyndhurst Studio, Sheri has created stationery products for C.R. Gibson, holiday-themed scrapbooking products for K & Company, decorative giftware for Macy's, and greeting cards for both American and European publishers.

Since her 2007 debut at the Surtex art licensing show in New York, Sheri has built Kansas City-based Sheri McCulley Studio into a brand that encompasses fabric, holiday ornaments, murals, crafting supplies, cards, stuffed animals, checks and wallets, and baby clothing and decor.

Her work with a diverse range of manufacturers has delighted both handcrafters, who sell products based on her fabrics at etsy.com, and scrapbookers, who print and cut her designs from cartridges of art created for Provo Craft’s sophisticated Cricut Imagine™ machine.

Previews of the “ModTod” collection are now available at Riley-Blake.com and many online retailers.

Oct. 1, 2010 - When Provo Craft recently unveiled their innovative new personal print and cut machine on HSN, it shipped with a cartridge of art by Sheri McCulley. The new Cricut Imagine (tm) machine both prints and cuts designs stored on interchangeable cartridges, including one cartridge featuring 50 layered images and 30 patterns by artist Sheri McCulley Seibold. 

The Cricut Imagine, which allows crafters to select individual image elements and apply patterns in infinite combinations before printing and cutting the designs on plain paper, debuted on HSN at midnight on Sept. 14 and was promoted and demonstrated in rotation with a variety of craft and scrapbooking products by other manufacturers for 24 hours. By the end of the promotional marathon, HSN buyers purchased over 10,000 debut bundles of the product, which included the cartridge of Sheri's art, entitled "Nursery Tails," based on the Sheri McCulley "Woodland Tails" collection.

In addition to "Nursery Tails," Sheri has licensed her "Woodland Christmas" collection for a Cricut Imagine cartridge, and three other collections for cartridges for non-printing Cricut cutters. See cricut.com or sherimcculley.com for information about where to buy.