Orange Rose

 

FOTD

Rose

 I started with a rose created on my tablet

I copied and pasted several times to make a repeating pattern using Photoshop on my computer.

I altered the rose using Filter/Stylize/Glowing Edges and got this

I made this into a repeating pattern too

Rose for my Rose

A tablet doodle which features roses

and then two different repeating patterns

Butterfly Rose

A butterfly I saw on a hanging basket the other day.

And a dying rose, I've got a thing about dying roses

Eight more Fabrics.

 I used the doodle trees on three different fabrics

This one is a repeating pattern, a variation of one I did for a t-shirt top

I've got the original picture hanging up in my kitchen that inspired this design. It is a collage with stitching.

See the original here

I really liked how this one came out. It was originally a doodle in my sketchbook.

I used images from the Graphics Fairy and ephemera from thelandofnod for this one.

This one is quite an old one but I reduced the repeat size. The original art was a vase of lily's and a freehand machine embroidered queen of hearts.

A photo of a rose [one of mine] with the leaves from the graphics fairy on a background of vintage stationary.[some of it was the back of a photo]

I had this one printed on the first batch of swatches but I thought the repeat was too big so I reduced it in size. I probably should have left it at that size, it would have been right for curtains and soft furnishings.

Vintage Hats & Ephemera

The ladies with the hats and the spring opening card below are images from the Graphics Fairy. The envelope above from .., and the rose was a photo I took.

Red Rose

Silly me, I forgot to mention that I joined the 'Creative every day 2012' the other day. Click on the link to see who else has joined in.

I made this digital creation for the Collage Obsession challenge - Red

I started with a lovely rose image from the Graphics Fairy shown below.

I had planned to design a repeating pattern for fabric with it but the rose wasn't quite right close up [for fabric] so I altered the picture. I moved some of the leafy bits and put on one of my own rose photos which I'd altered. 

I removed the background and replaced it with one I had created, I used the backs of some vintage photos - there was a shopping list on one of them! The leaves and buds were the only part that was left of the original image, but the picture gave me inspiration.

This is one repeat of the fabric/wallpaper/gift wrap. 

I will be adding it to my Spoonflower collection soon.

TAW - Floral

It is a while since I joined in the Take a Word challenge, this week the challenge is Floral and I am hoping the summery flowers will make this miserable dull cold day a bit better. [what happened to flaming June?] 

I was rummaging through my picture folders the other day and came across these two creations which I had forgotten about which I did a while ago. [Jan 2011]

The backgrounds were originally pages from one of my sketchbooks which I had altered digitally and my flower photos which I also altered a bit.

TAST week 18 Wave Stitch & a Rose

Take a Stitch Tuesday [a bit late this week]. The stitch is Wave Stitch and I did two samples. On one I have stitched one row of wave stitches and then stitched over them, slightly to one side in a different colour [DMC perle threads]. As usual I have put my samples in an altered book. If you would like to join in here is the link.

A photo I took of a rose in my garden wasn't that good so I thought I would 'mess' about with it