Fabulous floral

 I originally designed this floral in a simple colour palette of blue and white, but I thought it would be interesting to try it in a bright colour palette and I'm really happy with the results! I chose a hot pink and bright orange and added yellow and turquoise. The cream background brings out the colours beautifully. This design was inspired by block printed florals that give it s stylised feel.

This floral print looks great as a cushion cover. It's a great way of adding colour to the home and can be mixed with other cushions in solid colours such as orange or hot pink to add variety to a living space.

This floral print can be bought by-the-metre and made into anything you want. There is a wide selection of fabrics on offer, but I especially love the linen cotton canvas.

The floral print is great for using in the home on tableware such as this table runner. It comes in three different lengths and would be great for decorating a table at a garden party.

Another way of adding colour to the living space is with throw blankets, such as this one. It comes in a velvet fabric but can also be bought in a minky fabric.

Sheet sets are a great way of adding colour to the bedroom and these are fabulous! They are made from a cotton sateen fabric and come with a flat sheet, a fitted sheet and two pillow covers.

Delphinium sweater

This week's challenge from The Tuesday Collective on Instagram is 'Larkspur', which is the common name for two members of the buttercup family, delphinium and consolida ajacis. It can have a wide range of meanings including love, sweetness, strength, purity and youth.

I usually start a drawing challenge with something fashion-related and so googled items of clothing that have delphiniums on them. One of the items that popped up was a sweater from Barbour. I was immediately drawn to the bold design and pleasing colour palette. I chose a model with a cheeky smile and choppy bob, and the pink background finished it off nicely, bringing out the rosiness of the model's cheeks. You can find this drawing on my Instagram here.

The sweater is available to buy here.

 

Bold florals

'Bold Florals' is the prompt word for the latest design challenge from Spoonflower so I decided to use this bright red floral design as my entry for the challenge. It consists of loosely drawn flowers and butterflies on a bold red background. Voting is now open and closes on the 8th April. You can click on this link here to vote for my design.

The floral square pillow makes a great statement to any room and comes in several fabric choices.

The floral throw blanket comes in two fabric choices - a soft minky fabric or a performance velvet fabric.

 

Bright blooms

 I recently added another colourway to my stylised floral print which is available in my Spoonflower shop on a variety of fabric choices and ready-made items for the home.

The print is already available in quite a few colour. palettes in my Spoonflower shop, but this palette comes in rich pinks and oranges on a deep brown background. It's the perfect print for making a bold statement in the dining room and comes in a pleasing selection of ready-made tableware items.

I'm loving the floral tablecloth option, which has a good choice of shapes and sizes from rectangles and squares to oval and round.

For something slightly less dramatic, it makes a great floral table runner for the centre of the dining table. A floral arrangement or glassware and candlesticks could be matched to this bold print.

For pre-dinner drinks, use these gorgeous floral cocktail napkins and match your cocktails to the bold colour palette in the print.

And for the main event, these good quality cotton sateen floral napkins finish the table decor perfectly.

Another option is these cotton floral placemats. Match the crockery and silverware to the bold floral pattern for some extra drama.

Fabulous florals

 I'm loving this juicy floral design which comes in a palette of jewel tones on a deep purple background. This floral print is available in my Spoonflower shop on a variety of bedding.

This floral print is available in my Spoonflower shop on a variety of bedding choices such as this purple floral duvet cover which is made of a sateen fabric and comes in three sizes.

It's also available as a floral sheet set.

If a whole sheet set of duvet cover is too much, why not use this print as an accent colour? It looks great as a floral throw pillow.

It also comes on this floral throw blanket, available on a cosy minky fleece or as a luscious velvet fabric.

Jewel tones floral

 I added this juicy jewel tones floral print to my Redbubble shop recently and I love its juicy colour combo and loose hand-drawn style.

This print comes on a wide variety of products for the home including cushion covers, throw blankets and mugs which you can find in my Redbubble shop. 

The floral cushion cover comes in a variety of sizes and has a zipper closure to make it easy to remove and clean. It's machine washable too!

The floral throw blanket is made from a soft fleece fabric and adds a great pop of colour to the living room as well as keeping you nice and cosy during the winter months.

You can also buy this as a floral print artwork. It comes on a selection of backings including wood, metal and canvas and comes in three different sizes.

The floral mug makes a great gift for someone special. All items can be sent straight to their recipient.

Luxe

I'm loving the latest collection I designed for Makower UK! It's called Luxe and uses a rich colour palette of pinks, purples, blues and rusts with lashings of metallic gold. The idea for this collection was to produce a series of designs with two distinct colour palettes that also co-ordinate with each other. This is not an easy task and took quite a while for the team to work out. It means that they can all be used in a quilt design as well as other sewing projects such as cushions, bags and dressmaking.

The large floral is what we call the 'mother print'. It is the driving theme of the collection and tends to be very detailed and multi-coloured so that we can take colours from that design to create the co-ordinates.

The butterflies have been printed onto this pretty blush pink ground. This print also comes on a cream background and a green background.

Birds and foliage combine on this design that was inspired by William Morris and the Art and Crafts movement. This version comes in hot pinks and rusts and gives it a luscious modern feel.

Scattered seed heads in metallic gold sit on a warm pink background with a slight shadow effect.

The floral print also comes on a warm cream background.

I love a paisley design and this one comes in shades of pink and purple with heavy gold coverage.

The butterflies are all outlined in metallic gold.

A navy blue ground on the floral gives it a more classic feel and it's been mixed with rusts, blues and blush pink flowers.

The rust background of this seed head print is lovely and rich with the gold motif on top.

The bird and foliage design on blue gives it a more classic feel.

Paisley design in rusts and cream, highlighted by the metallic gold outline.

This mini floral adds a change in scale within the collection.

Beautiful buttercups

 This week's Spoonflower design challenge is 'Buttercups Home Decor' so I designed these happy white buttercup silhouettes on a bright yellow background. You can vote for this design here.

It looks great as a bright wallpaper for the bedroom.

Spoonflower shop

Marine moodboards

I really enjoyed creating the designs for the February pattern challenge set by @melanie.johnsson. The challenge was inspired by days at the seaside and encouraged us to create a cohesive collection using a complimentary colour palette. Now that the challenge has finished I decided to see how well those patterns co-ordinated by creating some moodboards and I'm really pleased with the result!

The first board includes the crab print and the mermaid scales in a pleasing palette of blue, turquoise and coral.

The second board shows the multi colour shell print and the water design and includes a bright yellow and a navy in the colour palette.

The third board includes the wild grasses print and the wave print. This uses a simpler, more sophistacated colour palette and I like the inclusion of soft greys and cream to compliment the blues.

The fourth board includes the kites and the splash design. These are both fun prints in a bright colour palette that would work well in a kid's bedroom.

The fifth board includes the floral print and the splash design in coral pink.

All these prints are available to buy by-the-metre on a variety of fabrics or on ready-made items in my Spoonflower shop.

February pattern challenge

 For the month of February I took part in the @melanie.johnsson pattern challenge on Instagram, which was a lot of fun! The theme was inspired by the seaside and I decided on a colour palette of soft blues, turquoises and corals. The first challenge was the word 'shells'. For this design I used a hand-drawn outline style with softly shaded colours in each shell.

This print would look great as a wallpaper in a beach house.

The word for the second challenge was 'picnic' so I chose to create a loose floral pattern which could be used on a picnic rug. 

I love the way that the print matches the tableware below.

The third prompt word was 'mermaid' so I chose to create a pretty mermaid scales pattern and incorporated both the coral colours and the turquoise colours into the design.

This would look fabulous as a wallpaper in a little girl's room.

The fourth prompt word was 'tides' and so I created this wave design in shades of blue and turquoise.

It would look great as wallpaper on a feature wall in a bathroom.

The fifth prompt word was 'crustaceans' so I chose to create a crab design, surrounded by coral.

Does this work as a bedroom wallpaper?! It might give you nightmares... but I love it!

The sixth prompt word was 'pool' so I channeled my inner Hockney and created this stylised water print.

It works well as a wallpaper print in this fresh white bedroom setting.

The seventh prompt word was 'wildflowers' so I decided to create this print of silhouette wild grasses in shades of soft blues and white.

I love how it looks as a wallpaper against this blue sofa.

The eighth prompt word for the challenge was 'kites' so I created these breezy kites on a cloud background.

This would look great on a feature wall in a child's bedroom.

The final prompt word for the pattern challenge was 'splash' and so I decided to create this paint splash print using the colours from the palette on a white background.

It would be the perfect print on a wallpaper in a child's bathroom!

All of these designs have been added to my Spoonflower shop which you can see here.