My Magical Fruit

This week Spoonflower's contest is Botanical with restricted palette ( black/white also allowed) I decided on figs and the added a couple birds just for fun... I was not sure if we were supposed to used all colors in the offered palette, or just some of them. But ... I ended up using all. Pretty happy how it turned out ;)
It's so cool to see how many different designs are created from one theme and 5 colors!!
Up for sale here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/NewMomDesigns

Calendar 2011

My new fabric design is actually a wall hanging calendar 2011.
Also, I am glad to report that this is my second Illustrator involved design ( Big Thank You to a friend of mine who helps me with learning this software!)

Pretty mistakes :)

My latest fabric pattern designed for the "Woodland Creature" contest. It was the first time I used Illustrator to lay out and color my base line work. It was tricky at first, especially fill/stroke option. Quite a change from Photoshop. While I know it is wrong, and even weird to render them the way I did, I kind of liked it. I got sort of a geometric/abstract monochromatic shapes that gave the woodland creatures a new modern edge. Here is the final result used with a mirror pattern:

Fat Quarter Preview

Full Yard Preview

Detail Preview

It's Gourds Time!

So my obsession with Spoonflower is still going strong. As I said before, I really want to win one of the weekly challenges, and I haven't so far, but I like it, because it keeps me motivated and productive in fabric designs. Tons of ideas are flying in my head, if only I had the time to explore each one... But I'll tell you one thing- sooner or later I will open an Etsy shop where all my best ideas will come to life and will be up for sale ;) Soon.... soon... Meanwhile, I am in the top ten this week, the theme was "Gourds" - basically, a pumpkin ;) Here is my design that took home SECOND place, YEY!

Publish Post

Check out the winner and the top ten of this week, and go vote for me in the next contest " Vampires" ! Ohhhhh!