Valentines Challenge

Last year I took part in a skillshare course on repeat patterns, by Majo, something i've been wanting to do for about 10 years but not sure how to go about it.  The course was brilliant and I learnt so much and I will be reviewing this course in a future post so will not go into details here.  Tiger print and Spoonflower both had typography challenges in January and so I searched out a typography course as a starting point. I chose Fayes course on skillshare.  This course is awesome and there will be an in depth review coming soon.
Well if this post is not a review of some brilliant and awesome courses what am I going on about?
Ok, both Majo and Faye teamed up and came up with a Valentines Challenge

The aim was to create a greeting card with a typographic element along with a matching gift wrap repeat pattern. I thought this sounded like fun and gave it a go.  There are some lovely projects entered and now there is a public vote for your favourite. The deadline is the 17th with the winners announced on the 18th.
Have a look at all 8 projects here and vote 

wow busy week so three posts

I didn't mention that this weeks spoonflower contest has an anti-Valentines day theme.  Not only was you asked to create that expresses some Anti-Valentine's Day sentiments but also a design styled after a traditional cross stitch .

I went for a traditional colour palette of pinks and purples with heart motifs.

I'm really happy with how this turned out - If you like it please vote for it here

Society6 promotion -

Society6 have a couple of my designs including this one below.  They are also doing free shipping which is great especially if you are not based in the USA.  click on the link and you‘ll get FREE Shipping and $5 Off Kid's Tees and Baby Onesies on everything in my shop! :)











LINK

Promotion expires February 9, 2014 at Midnight Pacific Time. *Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert.

Design for Valentines Challenge

These are my designs for Valentines Challenge ran by Faye and Majo.  They both have really brilliant courses on Skillshare and I have learnt so much.  This challenge is fun because it was to design a card to match a gift wrap.

 Let me know what you think.  I'm really happy with how they came out and the card will be available through society6

and the giftwrap through spoonflower

Year of the horse

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, Spoonflower asked for designs styled like a traditional Chinese paper cutting, using red and white only.  It is the year of the horse so I incorporated this into my design. I also tried to keep it a continuous design to keep the style of a design cut from a piece of paper so no floating elements.  I took inspiration from design elements in traditional papercuts.  Please vote for it here

Bright Coral

New fabric design for this week Spoonflower contest.   I went for a simple layout with nice bright colours.  The theme was Great Barrier Reef in celebration of Australia Day on January 26th .  I had considered a dark green and gold yellow design but the reef is famous for the bright colours so seemed wrong not to acknowledge them.  I thought about adding turtles, fish and other marine organisms but felt that the coral should be the star of the show.  I also think that, as a simple design, it would work better as a dressmaking fabric too.  Please vote here if you love this design.

In other news this week I have used this design to open a society6 shop.  This means that this design can be bought in a range of ways from throw pillows to tote bags and phone/ipad skins.  My favorite though is the note cards as I love all things stationery.

Available from my shop http://society6.com/sarahpricedesigns

Rabbit in a hat trick

Well, Happy New Year.  The spoonflower contest for this week is Magic Show.  I really liked the idea of the rabbit in the hat trick. I started sketching last week and this is much more complex than my usual design.   I hope you like it - have already got some ideas for companion designs.

 I have a feeling that these bunnies will be back again - Easter theme maybe?  Link for this design is here   Feel free to vote if you like it.