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Summer's Here! Spoonflower "Ice Cream Truck" Design Challenge!

6/25/2020

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Yippee!! Here is my entry for this week’s Spoonflower “Ice Cream Truck” Design Challenge. I just really wanted to go bright and happy for this one...I can imagine kids would love this on sheets, blankets, pillows, and you could make them matching pjs with fabric from my Shop! You might even get kids to wear a face mask which are also available in a child size in my Spoonflower Shop! I’ve added this design in both small- and large-scale versions.
Check out the Voting Page to see all the entries! And you can also see what's available in my Spoonflower Shop too!

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This Week's Spoonflower Design Challenge: "Large Birds"!

6/18/2020

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I’ve entered my “Family Farm” pattern design in this week’s Spoonflower “Large Birds” Design Challenge! This bird couple surrounded by those little chicks always warms my heart and makes me smile! I hope it does the same for you! Check out the entries at the Voting Page!...Enjoy your day! See below for this design plus some coordinating designs!
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This Week's Spoonflower Design Challenge: "Quiet Spaces"!

6/11/2020

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What do you think, would this design on your walls inspire relaxation? I hope you think so because I’ve entered it in this week’s Spoonflower “Quiet Spaces” Wallpaper Design Challenge! It’s also available on fabric and home decor as well! You can check out all the entries at the ​Voting Page!
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New Collection: "Simple Things"

6/10/2020

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Last week I posted about how I was having a hard time getting any work done in the midst of all the bad news (see my June 2 post), so I decided to just work directly and freely on my computer, playing around with colour and shapes and with no real end goal. Well, one week later, those little quick thoughts have turned into a full collection of art prints and repeat pattern designs. I call it "Simple Things" because it is just an ensemble of little snapshots that came out when I decided to not over-think. I must remember to work this way more often...Each design (both art prints and repeat patterns) comes in Dark and Light complementary colour ways so you can mix & match several for an eye-popping feature wall (and maybe some pillows as well!). Purchase these art prints in my NEW SHOP!
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This Week's Spoonflower Design Challenge: "Canadian Wildlife"!

6/4/2020

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How could I not enter this challenge? As a very proud Canadian who lives on the beautiful West Coast on Vancouver Island, I decided to revise one of my very first fave designs inspired by the Salish Sea, the system of coastal waterways that surround where I live and which is home to all kinds of amazing-looking fish, including many varieties of rockfish (such as Quillback and Tiger Rockfish) and flounder. Did you know that baby flounders have eyes on either side of their heads like most other fish, but as they mature one eye migrates to the other side so adult flounder have both eyes on one side? Weird, eh? Check out all the entries at this week's Voting Page!
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Working Through These Times...

6/2/2020

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​I don’t know about you, but I’ve been having a hard time these last few days trying to get any work done, the news has been terrible...So my solution today (after a head-clearing morning wander/hike up a local mountain) was to just sit down and work directly on the computer and just play around with colour and vector shapes, no pre-drawing, no laying out compositions, not thinking about collections or briefs, no goals, no “work”...And you know what? It helped! Here is the result, as you can see I just really fooled around with colours and shapes, no over-thinking. How do you design when you’re feeling a bit bummed out?! Or maybe you just take a day off?
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