Pin Hop June 2013

Hi All,

So this month there will be an exciting event in the world of surface pattern design! The Pin Hop.

The 4 Themes:  

Urban metropolis: Urban, Industrial  Landscape / Mapping / Contour Lines / Mixed Drawn Imagery

Optical day: Bauhaus  / 1920′s 1960′s 1970′s Mixed/ Chevron and Striped/Paisley/Grids/Optical illusions

Historical adornment:Victoriana / Devore Velvets / Scroll Work / Rococo

Midnight garden: Over-sized Flower Heads /Inky colors/Watercolour Backgrounds / Bleeding / Flooded Ink

I have chosen Midnight garden and this is my moodboard I have created for it. 

How it works is that on the weekend of the 15th June me and many other talented designers will pin our main design on the Find New Designers Pin Hop Board  from our individual boards you can click on the design we have created and this will then connect you to our blogs where you can see the rest of designs we have made to compliment the main one. This will be a very fun event to participate in and I cannot wait to see what everyone comes up with. 

I hope to see you on here this weekeend!

New bits and bobs

Hi all, I have been quietly busy since my last post entering and few competitions and exploring different techniques. Lately I have want to broaden my portfolio and demonstrate how adaptable my design handwriting can be. So I have been playing around with water colours and creating designs which would not necessarily associate with my typical style.

Kleenex Competition

I entered the Kleenex Competition and followed the brief inspired by Ikat designs. I really enjoyed creating this design and event though I did not get shortlisted into the top 10, I am really happy with the pattern I created.

Watercolours and Butterflies

As I have mentioned I have been exploring different methods and processes here is one of the designs I have been playing around with textures and watercolours. 

My next post will be about the forthcoming PIN HOP which I am participating in with many other fantastic designers as part of the 'find new designers' group! at the end of May. You can see everyones pins of their own work so far on pinterest here



Chloe x

A little bit of a Textiles feature

Hello,

Today I want to share with you a different feature. Some of my textile art has been featured on Pinso . It is great see to my other work which takes a bit of a back burner while i try to establish myself as a designer being appreciated. Thank you to Charlotte Langstroth for featuring my work. Charlotte is a fellow designer and ABSPD graduate you can check out here beautiful design work here 

Please feel free to read the article.  There are also many other talented creatives featured on the Pinso website.

Design Juices Feature

Hello everyone and happy friday!

This week I was delighted to find out I have been featured on Design Juices which is a great honour!









You can read the full feature if you click on the Design Juices link. There are so many great designers and artists featured on the site. It is well worth having a look. I just want to thank Jared Thompson of Design Juices for taking the time of putting this feature together.

Have a lovely weekend everyone x

Competitions Entered

Ideal Home Show Competition

Hello all I hope you are all well!

As of lately I have entered a few design competitions. I have not been to lucky winner but wanted to share with you my entries anyways.

The Ideal Home Show collaborated with Wallpapered.com and set a competition to win your design being produced as a wallpaper.

I am happy to say that a fellow ABSPD graduate Wendy Kendal was the winner with here beautiful design "Petite Street"

Congratulation's to Wendy and to the other finalists your designs were all lovely!

This was my entry which, even though I did not get selected as a finalist, I am very happy with it

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Society 6 cushion

Hello all,


Yesterday was my birthday and I just wanted to share with you an image of what my lovely boyfriend got for me.

He bought me a cushion from my Society 6 store . I am very happy with the quality of the print out. The colours are true to the original design and the cushion is well made. The only down side is that it fabric used is polyester but even still I love it!

Shop, Shop, Shops

Hello all,

So of recent times I have been a busy bee and have finally got some of my designs on Society 6 and Envelop.

Please press on the link to see what is available on  Society 6


Here is the link to my Envelop shop as well.

It was a long winded process but I am happy with the results. So here hoping that some lovely people will be buying my designs soon.