In my last post I said I was not teaching this month as its the Easter break (a long break....), so I am concentrating on designing/ making and finishing items, plus having some fun by doing some challenges. So I am trying to enter the 4 challenges/ contests this month (1 each week) that spoonflower.com set on their site. The theme of this weeks contest is
fabrics celebrating "whales" Here are the the instructions - All designs submitted have to use a restricted palette chosen by spoonflower (the pic shows the 4 colours and white), designs may include white but not black and will be displayed at 21" X 18" (a fat quarter)
This
week, contestants used a restricted jewel-toned color palette to
celebrate the most fascinating and magnificent sea creatures - See more
at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/#sthash.dXz9lSNq.dpuf
This
week, contestants used a restricted jewel-toned color palette to
celebrate the most fascinating and magnificent sea creatures - See more
at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/#sthash.dXz9lSNq.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. - See more at:
http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. - See more at:
http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. - See more at:
http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. - See more at:
http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. - See more at:
http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. All designs submitted must use a restricted palette, visible
below. Previews will be shown at (21" x 18"). Deadline for entry is
April 1st, 2014. Designs may include white, but should not include black. - See more at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. All designs submitted must use a restricted palette, visible
below. Previews will be shown at (21" x 18"). Deadline for entry is
April 1st, 2014. Designs may include white, but should not include black. - See more at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. All designs submitted must use a restricted palette, visible
below. Previews will be shown at (21" x 18"). Deadline for entry is
April 1st, 2014. Designs may include white, but should not include black. - See more at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
Spoonflower
cofounder Stephen Fraser is predicting that whales are going to be huge
in 2014. All designs submitted must use a restricted palette, visible
below. Previews will be shown at (21" x 18"). Deadline for entry is
April 1st, 2014. Designs may include white, but should not include black. - See more at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/upcoming-spoonflower-contests.html#sthash.MmlO5a6J.dpuf
This is my entry
called "Going Down" these whales are narwhals also known as the unicorn of the sea. The palette was a definitely a challenge but I enjoyed doing this design and got to use my pen and tablet, I drew the whales in photoshop (its not just for photo editing) I normally outline using real pens and paper and scan into photoshop, to tidy the drawings and colour them, but as I said I decided to have fun/ challenges and work in a different way. In fact this way was much quicker.
You can see this and the other designs entered into this weeks contest at http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=241
You can vote for as many or as few entries as you like (you can even vote for me) or just have a
look, no need to sign in or join to vote. Note: you have to go all the
way down to the end entry to confirm your vote/ s, there are lots of
great entries this week. It so interesting to see how using the same theme and colours so many different ideas are produced.
Now I have voted and are onto next weeks challenge "lilies"
These are the other digital printed fabric pieces that arrived recently. 
The blue fabric with the cameos is called "Cameo Girl Cogs" again this is the small size and there is a larger scale version. I wanted something that was a mix of old and new just like steampunk and it matches my other cog and gear fabrics. This was print on satin.
The final fabric also blue, but with sweets/ candys I remember from my childhood called "Sugar Mice and all things Nice" sugar mice, allsorts, smarties, candy canes and lollies swirling around
in a sweet 'n' tasty dream. All the things I remember you could buy with your pocket
money in the local sweet shop as a child, although I hated liquorice (and still do) it always looked pretty.
