Elegant Holiday

The Theme "Using at least two of the colors from the palette provided (#2B061E, #5A001C, #AAB5A8) & optional accents of black & white, create a repeating design inspired by a sophisticated winter dinner party." 

And as usual.. it takes time to come up with something.. LOL...And the first one felt lacking..

Posh Cloth Plain

Though my one Brother would like it because there is space around design.. I felt it didn't have OOOmmpphh!
So I tried again.. putting shadows behind the holly.. hmm stopped half way, didn't really like it and it was taking too long... Then I tried embossed holly leaves in the background.. and decided it was just too busy.. then I tried this....

POSH CLOTH DIAMOND CHECK

And I felt that it had come together.. I have other coordinates and will add them here soon.. It's late and I'm tired..
So, thanks for visiting :>D

Zentangle designs

Well they are exciting to me and so I thought I'd better share them as you may also like them :-)

I have entered one into the latest Spoonflower Contest. The Theme is ditsy lizards so I decided I wanted to do a zentangle design and came up with these:

This one is the one I've entered into the Contest.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4583790

These are colourways I did. 

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4583792

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4583794

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4583796

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4583795

If you like the design but the colours are wrong for you.. It's no problem.. I can change them quite easily :-) So just ask and it will be done!

I have in mind to do one with Dragonflies and also one with Butterflies and would welcome any suggestions of others that you might like to see, done in this style. 

21st Place out of 214! Yippie :-)

I decided that I just couldn't do it. There was no inspiration at all and I was feeling depressed anyway, so what did it matter if I did one or not.
The contest was themed Math. There were no ideas popping into my head.. Until I thought of school days.. LOL then there it was, I could see it in my head.

So I sat down and drew it.... and this is what I ended up with.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3815363

I was quite chuffed with it. When I saw it came 21st I was rather pleased. 

Thanks for visiting :-)

Print Me Pretty

As of yesterday Print Me Pretty has 145 designers who upload their work for their own use and / or to sell. I do both.

I am one of the only two designers to have a personal tag on Print me Pretty . It will take you to all my designs available.

For example Next Year's calendar 2015 is up. I have entered it into the Print Me Pretty Calendar contest Next Month. I'll be ordering these and sending them to mates and family as they can be hemmed with a loop in the hem and a piece of dowel slid in the top and bottom and then hung up... or simply stuck to the fridge with magnets.. LOL.
This is the design :

Found on the 112 cm wide fabric and can be bought as a Fat Quarter

Found on the 150 cm Fabric and should be bought by the meter
 as the Fat quarter sizing does not work on this size fabric yet.

African Inspiration into design on fabric

There was a design contest on Spoonflower to create a fabric design for Rhinoceros. I came up with this one : Please ignore the watermarks, they aren't on the actual design :-)

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3296108

Then I got thinking and came up with these : African Autumn

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3389547

The difference between these two designs is the colour of the Burgundy / Maroon

                                           Masasa.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3344042

Then this version .....  Rhino's and Diamonds.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3391749

And this....             African Diamonds.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3347397

Another ....            Sunspots and Rhinos.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3347402

........................    Windows of Africa.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3347401

..........................   African Ostrich Egg.

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3347398

...............................  Diamonds and Crackle

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3347400

Well that's the collection so far.. Oh wait one more but I don't have a picture to show you here.. you'll have to go and have a look. It's a colour adjusted version of the first design on this post, to match the mud background shown in the other designs http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/3296106  Called Chipembere ... Rhino.. Small.. Swatch size.

Hope you like them :-)

Colours Inspired by Another Artist!

My Entry into the Wellies and Galoshes Design Contest on Spoonflower this week. 25/03.2014

I wanted to give you all a sneak preview of what this Collection is going to grow into.
It started with a design I saw on Spoonflower. It's gorgeous and I fell in love with it. So What I did was asked the owner of the design, Joan Mclemore, if I could use the colours in her design.. and she said sure! whoohoo...
So the first one is Joan's design and the rest are mine: 

An InLinkz Link-up

There are 2 more designs in the works for this collection, but I'm holding them back for now. I have a great reason for this. I'm working on a 3rd that I'll post up soon. Whoohoo what fun!!

Spoonflower is giving away 3 yards of Modern Jersey!!

This time you have until the 25th Feb 2014 to enter this free give away contest. :-)
Click HERE

You'll get taken to a page that will explain everything. It's really simple and easy.. you don't have to become a member of Spoonflower to do this and if you win please use one of my designs :-)
This is the link to my shop on Spoonflower Art On Fabric

Some of the designs you may like to choose from: I have a very wide variety of designs.. take a look at them at the above link. :-)

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2852571

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2812126

http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2815764

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2734800

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2749569

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2688044

I've been run off my Feet :-)

I haven't posted for ages.. loads of things happening and I've been naughty and not posted here for ages.

The most urgent bit of news is:
My Spoonflower shop : ART ON FABRIC   this is where you go to take advantage of a FREE SWATCH offer, with FREE shipping, that is only for FEB 14th 2014 ... starting at EST USA
You can get a free 8 by 8 inch swatch of any of my available fabric designs on the new Modern Jersey fabric.


Here is your chance to see what Spoonflower's fabrics are like, if you've never tried them before.
When you login on Spoonflower and then come here and click on the link, you'll go straight to my shop front page where you can choose a design, click on it and when you get there you'll see a green outlined box with a message GET YOUR FREE MODERN JERSEY SWATCH with a yellow GO FOR IT button... click that, you will be taken to your cart where you....... well you'll see :-)

This just in from Spoonflower :

 Spoonflower Fabrics says:

Friends,

As you may have heard, Spoonflower's home state of North Carolina is buried under several inches of snow and ice at the moment, which has brought our little fabric factory temporarily to a grinding halt. As a result, we are postponing the Free Swatch Day that we had planned to run today and tomorrow (Feb. 13-14) for our new fabric, Modern Jersey. We will reschedule a new Free Swatch Day once we dig ourselves out. We'll go ahead and make the new fabric available today, but -- with apologies -- we're going to ask you to be patient and wait for your free swatches.

Thank you for understanding!

-The Spoonflower Crew 

I'll let you all know when it's on again.. :-) Sorry

The other news is that I'll soon have work posted up on SENOVA STUDIOS , yup one of a very few designers to be on this site and I'm really excited about it. I've always wanted my designs on shower curtains and blankets and duvets.... :-)


More news is my work is also on Society 6 now... see I wasn't kidding hey.. happily rushed off my feet I am :-)

Here my work is on pillow slips, laptop covers and laptop and phone skins, clocks, tote bags, T shirts and onsies and hoodies, all sorts of things.. oh yes coffee mugs as well.. LOL.

http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/art_on_fabric
http://blog.spoonflower.com/free-swatch-day-spoonflower.html

Here are some examples of designs on Spoonflower and Society 6......   Senova Studios will have to be a later post :-) Have a great day everyone .

A little bit of Reef on Spoonflower
The Great Barrier Reef on Society6

Anemone on Spoonflower
Nemo's cousins are Visiting on Society 6

All That's Jazz on Spoonflower
All That Jazz on Society 6

RazzMaTazz Jazz on Spoonflower
RazzMaTazz Jazz Nite on Society 6

For the Love of Sharks on Spoonflower
Sharks on Society 6

Shark Quartet on Spoonflower
Sharks, Which Ones? on Society 6

Chained Up on Spoonflower
Chain Gang on Society 6

Moonlight Sonata with Freddie Croaker and the Clockworks!

You might be asking yourself what on earth is this woman on about now. Surely she's finally gone off the edge... and it may be so this time. You tell me!

Spoonflower is having another contest. This is the Theme:

Frogs

Where we live, spring nights tend to turn into joyous and noisy frog parties. To celebrate our amorous little friends, this week's theme is fabric designs featuring frogs. Previews will be show at a swatch size (8" x 8"). Deadline for entry is Tuesday, May 28, 2013.

http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/191  will be the link for this contest when it's in action.. after the 30th May.

My eyes saw 'Noisy Frog Parties' and my mind went back in time to my childhood and the very sound of frog parties that used to lull me to sleep at night. I know now that you can build a pond and frogs will not come and live there, unless you put some tadpoles into the water. A frog will live around and near the pond he or she was born in and will only go back there to spawn.. so if you destroy a pond or a source of water, you can destroy a species of frog.. WOW!
Anyway I digress.. really badly, sorry... Frog Parties, Spring Nights and Joy... these are the keys to my design.
I created a tree frog, ( they're my favourite frog ever), except I didn't want him to be ordinary so I made him a steam punk frog. 

Introducing Freddie Croaker!

I decided that I would have to go all the way and get more involved in the steam punk idea, so I designed nautilus shells and put the hours of the day in them.

Another tree frog hugging a Nautilus Clock.

Next I wanted to create another type of frog that sits on a lily pad ... These chaps would be serenading and backing up Freddie in the Moonlight Sonata. Of course the night sky and rising moon would also have to be created just right to set the mood.....

The clockworks, frogs on watch lily pads,
 back-up singers to Freddie Croaker.

I put it all together and this is what it finally looks like.

Freddie Croaker and the Clockworks, getting ready to sing the Moonlight Sonata to You ,
 should you wish to come on down and join in the FUN!

The night sky, for some reason changes with those fat dark stripes whenever I reduce the picture.. but in actual fact the real deal is the same all the way up. The design can be seen here http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2072125 if you want to see it in yardage etc. 

Feel free to leave comments either here or on the design on Spoonflower... You don't have to be a designer to have an account on Spoonflower, and that's the only way to see the comments written under the designs...some of them are really fun reading.. LOL

Sailing Fabric Design

There is an upcoming Spoonflower contest called "Sailing". I've entered the following design into it. I first designed the centre section with the lighthouse and then designed the other sections around it. Notice the birds by the trees at the top left side. :^D

Do you see the dolphin playing at the bow of the yacht and the birds sitting and flying in a group behind the yacht. We have been in this situation many many times. It's amazing and wonderful. :^D

Modern Day Ocean Crossings.

Both David and I raced dinghy's from the age of 8. This next drawing brings back memories of those days.

Childhood Racing Memories...

This next one grew from memories of sailing in the Indian Ocean off the Mozambique Coast. The locals sail little boats at night with no navigation lights, so you have to be very careful you don't hit them. Notice the star constellations, there is Pisces Austrinus, Part of Sculptor, Part of Grus, Part of Capricornus and Part of Microscopium. These are constellations seen in the south of the Northern skies in Autumn. Not the stars you'd see sailing off Mozambique, but ones I like :-).

Memories of Mozambique.

This next section is all about racing and these yachts are supposed to be those huge cats that are racing in San Francisco at the America's Cup. We've sailed there and I'm able to imagine these yachts racing there too.

Racing in or near San Francisco

The picture below is a reminder of how our ancestors travelled across the oceans, braving the weather and awful conditions on the ships, to be able to start life anew. Some of the Stars seen here are the Southern Cross or Acrux and Mimosa, The Crux, Orion, and Musca,

Historic Ocean Travel.

Here we have another nostalgic modern day cruiser sailing the oceans looking for an anchoring spot on the far side of this island for a while... or maybe continuing on through the night to a destination they have chosen. A red sky at night.. means a clear night with no rain.

Cruising the world, visiting wonderful new lands.

This is the complete picture. One repeat of the design that is 18 inches by 21 inches in size. A Fat Quarter as the Quilters know it.It's a half drop repeat so 3 full ones and two half designs fit into a yard.

One repeat

I'm thinking that this design would look great made into a scatter cushion / throw pillow, or even as curtains.  Here is a picture of it repeated.

This is what a yard would look like..http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1984220

If you like it, During the week starting 24th April to 30th April, this design will be available to be voted on...so please take a few minutes to vote for it : http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/185 This link is to the present contest, but they're all run off the same page.. The sailing contest will be number 186.. so just change the 5 to a 6 and hit enter.. you'll see it :-) 

At the moment I have another design about Pop Art Chickens, that is in the 185 contest. Busy Busy.. heehee.. AND a whole new blog post...

Thanks! :^D