Spoonflower Fabrics and AEDM

My very first batch of Spoonflower fabrics have arrived!

The top two are fat quarters. I've altered the one below as I thought the design was too large, so it is smaller now.

These are the swatches, some of which I thought were too large too, so some are smaller now. There are a couple that I need to alter colours on. I'll put some better pictures on next week.

Now I've got my swatches they are available to purchase and you can check out my Spoonflower shop here.

AEDM - 21-24

I have visitors coming tomorrow for a few days so I probably won't get a chance to post.

So I will post 4 pictures that I did in the book I was talking about a couple of days ago - art every day for a month. Thought I might as well use it for the challenge as it is the same thing. 

Art Button and Doodle

AEDM 19th/20th

The weather has been so wet and too dark to take photos of work I have done over the last two days so I'm posting these that were already on the computer. 

Above is an art button, a picture I did of Molly.

Below is another doodle from sketchbook 24.

Art Every Day for a Month Handmade Book

I was beading today, on a WIP art picture, sorry no pictures.

But I was thinking !!!!... a while ago I made a book called 'Art everyday for a Month'. 

I had completely forgotten about it, but it would have been perfect for the Art every day Month challenge.

The covers were made from pieces of plastic stuff that is a little transparent, don't know what it is called but it is used to make a template for a granite worktop. The edges were covered with washi tape and I used a zutter binder to bind the pages and covers together.

The first page was for the title and name of artist and another 31 pages, one for each day of the month. I cut out words that I found in magazines that I thought may inspire - the list is shown below.

 

drawing

beach

tree

design and decoration

summer

I'm cute

ink painting

red paint

letters

caricature

draw

ink

mountains

coffee

woof woof...

portraits

play

tracing

nature

greetings card

marine art

market day

big, bold and brassy

line

cut and paste

fairy

sweet stuff

art postcards

shades

wildlife art

night

Doodles and Collage

pen, watercolour, found image [sheep's head]

brush pens [I like this one the most from this bunch]

pens and watercolours

water soluble crayon, pen, found sheep image

Flights of Fancy

I've entered another Spoonflower competition.

This one is palette restricted - you can only use four specified colours and the winning design goes on the front of a Mollie Makes issue.

If you would like to vote for it and also see all the other entries, go to the Spoonflower site and look for this weeks contest called Flights of Fancy. 

{sorry can't do a direct link to the competition, it just recognizes my computer and would not work on yours}

click on the image to enlarge

Floral Day

A bit of colour in the garden today

and a bit of colour in my sketchbook

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.

Dog Paintings

Above - two more pages from sketchbook 24, both watercolour paintings and pen liner.

Below - a nice place to walk the dog, Waldridge Fell, Chester-le-Street.

Chef

Another page from sketchbook 24.

Pen liner and promarker pens

Another 6 pages from Sketchbook 24

doodle and collage, watercolour paints

liner pen, watercolour, collage

liner pen, water soluble crayons, collage

brush pens, liner

brush pens

wax crayons, watercolours

ix more pages from Sketchbook 24

promarker pens and liners

brush pens and liners

the snake and flowery ones are watercolours and pen

not sure about this one [brush pens]

Sketchbook 24 - 5 more pages

brush pen doodle

pen, watercolour and collaged house

watercolours

watercolours, pen, brush pens

promarker pens and liner pen

Pages from Sketchbook 24, IF

brush pen doodles

wax crayon quick sketch of flowers

a watercolour painting of a dog

and a

pen and brush pen drawing of plant life

were combined, altered, messed about with to make this for the Illustration Friday challenge - shy

The Blue Book - The final pages

The blue book....cont..

Page 25 [034]

Turquoise ribbed background fabric, spotted ribbons, spotted fabric, painted spotted fabric and paper, disc of textured artwork and stitching [both hand & machine], brads, plastic disc hand stitched in place, sequin with sand, card spot on button.

Page 26 [035]

Turquoise background fabric, layered paper artwork, freehand machine embroidery, beads and sequins, decorated star tag.

Page 27 [036]

Turquoise background fabric, layered paper artwork, screen printed paper, decorative machine embroidery, printed artwork/painted, earring.

Page 28 [037]

Turquoise ribbed background fabric, woven papers - 4 recycled envelopes & 2 artwork, printed tag, buttons, apple button, blue charms, decorative machine embroidery.

Back inside cover [038]

Layered recycled face wipes, painted and stamped. Shisha embroidered stud.