Pattern Rally and whistling kettles...Happy Sunday all

Hi everyone how are you?  I hope you are all enjoying your weekends?  I was feeling a bit better today so went to a local shopping center with my dad who was visiting..Got to do a lot of window shopping (there are some amazing clothes out there at the moment, great patterns everywhere)! Came home with a gorgeous duck egg blue whistling kettle *love it* and some art supplies :-) However all that excitement tired me out and I had to go to bed for 3 hours afterward!! I can't wait to feel better! Ugh!

I wanted to share with you that one of my new floral pattern designs is over at the illustration Rally blog right now in the current pattern rally that they have going on, the theme is 'Floral'. Go take a look at all the great designs that have been submitted so far.

Illustration Rally

Good evening folks :-)

Cheery pattern designs by Laura Redford

My good friend and fab designer Laura has entered some designs for the Design project at the Beta fashion awards. I think her designs are fun, bright and cheery and well worth a vote. So head over to BetaFashion for a peek!

Laura's submitted designs can be found here & here.

And here is a link to her blog & her website!

Spoonflower Competition

So I've finally got round to entering something in a Spoonflower competition. The competition closed yesterday on Tuesday the 27th and the theme is the desert. After much thought I decided to create a pattern based on the creatures that you don't automatically think of as living in the desert. I chose to research the Gobi desert as it is a place I have always wanted to visit. Here is the image that I created for my pattern;

so we have a bear, wolf,ox,ibex,ass and a jerboa....no camels in sight! Did you know the Gobi bear is extremely rare? They think there are only 30 adult bears in the world...The things you learn! Here's the pattern:

 

 I've also uploaded it to my Spoonflower profile and soon you will be able to view the competition entries and vote for me if you think i've done okay, I'll let you know when the voting page is up as i'm a bit unsure as to when it will be. Anyone know?!

I also now have 4 of my designs up for sale on fabric...Super cool! I can't wait to order some and get crafty :-)

Spoonflower fabric samples have arrived!

Woohoo! Well it's taken quite some time for the spoonflower samples I ordered to arrive. It was very exciting opening up the package, It's great to see your patterns on fabric, and although they took a really really long time to arrive I'd definitely recommend spoonflower for printing your designs as the communication was brill. (It actually took 6 weeks from ordering the samples to when they arrived).

I'm happy with 4 out of 5 of the designs, the bird and feather design hasn't come out well on fabric, I need to adjust the colours and reorder a sample. The bird is just too dark when transferred to fabric. This is one of my favorite designs so it's a shame and I'd love to order some fabric so I'll get the design sorted asap. You can view my original blog post about the bird and feather pattern here.

The patterns I ordered samples of:

And here are the samples:

See my Spoonflower profile here.

Cheers all :-)

I've been a busy bee

Hi everyone, happy weekend to you all! I am so glad it's Friday, having weekends off work is a new thing to me and I just find it amazing! 2 whole days off work??Really??Wowza! Anyway I have a weekend of art making ahead. I have no plans except a killer gym session tomorrow then just art art art. I am a happy bunny, the only thing that would make it better would be if someone would deliver me some chocolate. I want some but I'm far to busy (lazy) to go to the shop!

So tonight I have been working on finishing up some bits and bobs that I want to start to show to you. Here's a new pattern that I finished tonight, I just love this bird, amazing legs! I've called the pattern 'ZBirds' as the way he's walking reminds me of a zombie bird...Zombie birds..I actually have never thought about Zombie animals before. There must be some Zombie films out there featuring a Zombie dog/cat or birds right?? Let me know if there is, I'm going to have to search on utube now aren't I... :-)

Before I run off to utube to hunt for Zombie animals I also wanted to show you some card designs that I've been working on. My card design portfolio is pretty weak and these past few days I've had, and still have card designs on the brain. Here's some I've got finished:

This image was created with Easter cards in mind. It is a hare, not a rabbit but I think it still counts as an Easter image. Next come the Valentines designs, naturally featuring lots of birds!

So this is where I've got to, there are a couple of other designs in my sketchbook and Photoshop that I'm going to try to finish this weekend. Feel free to let me know what you think of these, comments are always welcome :-)

Sqwark!

Parrot's and paisley...I LOVE my new pattern design :-)

More paisley parrots coming soon!