Your vote at Spoonflower please :)

May I once again please ask for your vote in this week's Spoonflower challenge. The design brief was for a large scale Art Deco design and above is mine, "Art Deco Maximalist", featured on the Wyandotte Duvet Bedding at Roostery

I decided to go down the design road of geometric which was a strong direction in the Art Deco era and thoroughly enjoyed creating a grouping of 5 separate elements in watercolour on paper - my preferred medium - before developing them into a repeat pattern that I then overlaid on top of itself shifted to a degree whereby the pattern becomes more decorative and intricate.

Thanks so much in advance for your time taken to vote - you don't have to sign in and can vote for as many entries as you like.

 VOTE HERE PLEASE

Thank you

PatriciaSheaDesigns

The latest challenge at Spoonflower....

 Here above is my latest design "LEIA" in a nod of respect to the recently passed Princess - my entry for this weeks Spoonflower challenge for "MOSAICS" - I started off below - very laboriously and monotonously painting individual squares and developed them into motifs which I scanned and then created the final repeat in Photoshop - also a tad tedious but I ended up with a design I am really pleased with that looks, to me, like glass tiles - not my intention but a happy serendipitous result. A few people have mentioned it reminds them of cross stitch - which is just fine and dandy with me too.

If you have the time and inclination I would so appreciate your vote

HERE

no need to sign in - thanks so much in advance :) 

Here is a pic of my feature in UPPERCASE magazine - I am so appreciate to Janine Vangool - the publisher - for including me in this lovely jam packed full of surface design eye candy magazine

And here is a picture of the latest watercolour hand painted design I have featured in my print on demand online shops - click each shop name to go to PARTERRE (a level space in a garden or yard occupied by an ornamental arrangement of flower beds) BOTANIQUE:

REDBUBBLE

SOCIETY6

ARTofWHERE

SPOONFLOWER

My next design is on the watercolour block and I'll be submitting it to the Spoonflower challenge for next week - the call is for Mandalas - a particular favourite of mine so wish me luck with the paint up and I'll be in touch to ask for your kind vote once again - 'til then my thanks

PATRICIASHEADESIGNS

The kindness of your vote - pretty please :)

Lace Giftwrap Challenge

I feel a little embarrassed to ask for your vote once again - so soon after last weeks vote but bear with me - it'll be the last one for a while as the next couple of challenges at Spoonflower aren't right for my style so I'll be creating other designs for your edification.

If you have a few minutes please 

VOTE HERE
(FYI you don't have to sign in anywhere)

and my many and continued thanks for your generous support of my work :) 

This new watercolour painted design is not yet for sale in my Spoonflower shop but will be soon so here's the LINK for you to bookmark if you wish - Cheers! 

PatriciaSheaDesigns

Please may I ask for your vote?

This is my entry into this month's "Double Take'" Spoonflower/Betabrand Challenge - the brief was to create a design that was either a trompe l'oeil (I went this way) or something that could be seen two ways - like an Escher print. 

I painted up a realistic daylily from my garden in watercolour and separately a cut work or lace pattern to look 3D and then subtly 'threaded' the daylily 'through' the background design. It's quiet but I hope not too subtle for the brief!

And what an unusual colour palette for me - I am normally very multicolour so just violet and orange is a new direction.

I will be populating my POD's with this design in the next few days and will do another blog post with all the links.

In the meantime please

VOTE

for me (by clicking on the word vote) - there are a lot of entries and they are shuffled for each voter so thanks so much for taking the time from your day - very appreciated!

Here is the link to my design in my SPOONFLOWER SHOP

PatriciaSheaDesigns

Lovely new apparel and more in my Redbubble shop

So thrilled to say Redbubble have been adding lovely new apparel items apace recently. Like the charming A-line dress above:

100% Polyester woven dress fabric with silky handfeel

Print covers entire front and back panel

Loose swing shape for an easy, flowy fit

Sublimation transfer technique prints crisp, bold colours

Garment fully constructed and printed in the USA

To all my A-line dress designs 

and here we have Contrast Tank Tops: 

Slightly sheer 100% Polyester chiffon front panel with silky handfeel

Option of black or white 96% Polyester/ 4% Elastane soft jersey back panel

Front panel is sublimation printed allowing fabric to stay soft and drapey

Loose flowy fit

Garment fully constructed and printed in the USA

To all my Contrast Tank Tops 

 Graphic T-shirt Dresses: 

Graphic T-shirt dresses feature your chosen design, by an independent artist - hopefully yours truly!

Sublimation printed 96% Polyester/ 4% Elastane front panel

Solid colour 100% Cotton back/ sleeves/ rib

Loose casual fit

Graphic T-Shirt dresses are made and printed in the USA

To all my T-shirt Dresses 

iPhone Wallets - weeeee!! 

Open book style with built in stand and elastic strap closure

3M adhesive strip designed to stick to your device

Anti reflector camera hole

Full access to camera, buttons and ports

iPhone 6 & 6s wallet holds two credit cards; 6 Plus & 6s Plus holds three cards

Easy to clean a with damp cloth

 To all my iPhone Wallets

About a week ago Redbubble featured me on their home page with my new Millefiori Floral Design - I am so thrilled - thank you Redbubble.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my new items and patterns - Patricia

To MILLEFIORI at Redbubble

To MILEEFIORI at Society6 

To MILLEFIORI at ArtofWhere

To Millefiori at Spoonflower 

The honour of your vote is once again most kindly requested

Spoonflower has recently changed the timing and focus of their design competitions which used to be weekly and more 'for fun' but are now monthly and have a specific focus. This first challenge is a collaboration between Spoonflower and one of their new divisions Sprout Patterns.

"Submit a Japanese Garden-themed design you think would look great on Sprout Patterns’ Asaka Kimono by Named Clothing. The winner’s design will be featured in the launch of this new pattern and all top-ten designers will receive great prizes!"

If you would like to vote for my "Kimono Bouquet" pattern please click

HERE

My sincere thanks for your vote - just fyi the voting reorders for each voter, you can only vote once and you don't have to sign in to vote!

Sprout Patterns is a new service that allows you to combine indie sewing patterns with Spoonflower designs to create customized cut and sew projects. Sprout takes away the work of tracing a sewing pattern onto fabric and lets you truly enjoy the process of making your own garments and accessories.

 

 I am populating all my online shops with this new design - which I hand painted in watercolour on paper before scanning cleaning getting ready for the templates in Photoshop and then uploading to my items which range from smartphone cases, framed art prints, spandex leggings, beanies, scarves and home decor items too. Thus far I have created 6 different iterations of/from this initial design as I love the idea of mixing and matching the patterns for pillows on a sofa, a different but co-ordinated legging with a fun beanie etc etc etc

For this collection at Spoonflower please click HERE

 

For Kimono Bouquet leggings at Redbubble please click HERE

 

 

For Kimono Bouquet collection at Society6 please click HERE 

 For this Kimono Bouquet collection at ArtOfWhere - for beanies, spandex ankle and capri leggings - please click HERE

For large (55" square) silky chiffon scarves please click HERE

My thanks to Gaia Marfurt for so kindly creating this sweet Kimono Doll for me and others in the challenge to decorate with their designs.
 

As with all of my designs I originate my artwork in watercolour, Winsor and Newton, on watercolour paper blocks by the same - with W & N series 7 paintbrushes - can you tell I am loyal to Winsor & Newton? I transfer the design from my original sketch via the wonderful auspices of old fashioned pencil and tracing paper....

and after I have a faint outline on my pad I then start the process of layering my watercolour paints in wash upon wash until my design is complete

 - then it's off to the scanner and Photoshop for the ultimate creation of a final set of file
which I can upload to my various online shops.
 

Thanks so much for taking the time to vote - appreciatively, PatriciaSheaDesigns

May I kindly ask for your VOTE at Spoonflower?

Dear Freinds - may I please request the honour of your vote in this week's Spoonflower design challenge - I'd be ever so appreciative!

Thanks in advance!

VOTE HERE 


Vote for any number of entries by clicking the check marks.
Designs are ordered randomly for each person who votes.

How many different designs can you make from one motif?

So here's where the journey of my Pastel Carousel Mandala began. On the right is the original pencil sketch design I used as my jumping off point - on the left is the finished painted mandala - created in watercolour paints on Arches hot press paper with my lovely Winsor and Newton series 7 brushes.

As you can see the whole colour palette changed to a more bright pastel theme, and some of the layout changed too - once you start the actual layout and begin painting I find the design takes on a life of it's own and starts telling you how to proceed.

So once the design was painted up I scanned it at a very high resolution so I could create the huge design files I needed going forward, and then started my layouts in Photoshop - when I commenced creating the motif into allover repeats and placements the ideas began flowing and didn't stop for quite a while!! I was having so much fun that I ended up with 18 different design layouts which I then prepared for my print on demand online shops. I hope my joy of creating is reflected in the finished products.

 Then I had the fun of naming the design - sometimes that can be the hardest part - once I alighted on 'carousel' with the image of those delightful whirling painted horses I then though of confetti at a wedding - all of which comes in this same colour palette as my design and thus the name was set and I have used various and sundry versions of it on each design and in each shop.

"PASTEL CAROUSEL CONFETTI"

 I have created collections in each of my online shops so you can visit just this Pastel Carousel Confetti grouping in each

SPOONFLOWER - for fabric, wallpaper and wrapping paper.

SOCIETY6 - for art prints, apparel, home decor and techcessories

REDBUBBLE - similar but different to Society6 with the addition of wonderful 55" square chiffon scarves. 

ARTofWHERE - gorgeous spandex leggings, skirts and beanies made in Canada, designed by yours truly! 

PLUS I have finally recreated my website from scratch - it's been a LONG time coming - and I did it all myself without a template - my biggest challenge was keeping it simple - please let me know what you think, any constructive criticisms are gratefully received.

PatriciaSheaDesigns 

Thank you for taking a look at my new design collection - I

hope to see you soon in cyberspace either here or at Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. 

I have a new design in the works based on a hexagonal layout - I should be rolling that out in about a month or so so please stay tuned!

with THANKS!!!

My 2016 Calendar Design - various and sundry items adorned with, and links to such!

I recently created my 2016 Calendar design for this years Spoonflower Tea Towel Competition - thank you to all the lovelies who voted for me there :)

 and now it's live and ready to be purchased on items big and small.

At Spoonflower you can buy a fat quarter of Linen (27" x 18") for a wonderfully large sized Tea Towel - you will have to sew the edges yourself but then you have a great 'homemade' gift for the coming gift giving season - click HERE to go to my shop.

At Etsy shop you can purchase my Calendar on

SHOWER CURTAINS - a witty way to know the day and date first thing in the morning - a WALL HANGING - up to 88" x 104" - a wonderful and attractive gift for a business, dorm room or home office!

A blank inside small, neat NOTEBOOK journal (5.2" x 7.3")

Calendar on the front cover - Blue Rhapsody textile design on the back. 

And as framed and unframed PRINTS:

Thanks for stopping by - as always I can customize, to a certain extent, many of my products so just be in touch via FACEBOOK - or there's a message form/box in the right sidebar of this log, and I'll see what I can do!

PATRICIASHEADESIGNS

Holiday Recipe Round Up - because some need to be made early, some need practice and some could be for Thanksgiving too!

Making a traditional Christmas Fruit Cake is quite the undertaking - you have to round up all those lovely ingredients, which could include making your own candied/glaceed citrus peel then you have to bake it nice and early - like right now - and store it in a nice tight cake tin to develop it's lovely favours then a few days before the day itself you need to cover it in marzipan and ice it with Royal Icing - so thus the post at this time of the year. Click on the name below to go to the recipe in my blog archives:

IRISH CHRISTMAS CAKE - CISTE NOLLAG

Here's a recipe for one you could bake much closer to Christmas if you don't have time to do it now:

LAST MINUTE GOLDEN CRIMBLY CAKE

...and then there's the Christmas Pudding - which should traditionally be made on Stir-Up Sunday - this year it falls on November 22nd - again this is a recipe that really improves with aging.

The hearty ingredients for a very traditional Christmas Pudding

CHRISTMAS PUDDING OR PLUM PUDDING?

My personal favourite:

NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Full of wonderful New England ingredients like cranberries and pumpkin and with a good dash of tea soaked raisins - yum!!!

 An unusual pudding:

STEAMED APRICOT HOLIDAY PUDDING 

This could become a Thanksgiving holiday tradition?

Here's is a play on Christmas Puddings and is a quick and easy make for anytime over the holiday season:

MINI CHRISTMAS PUDDING DRIED FRUIT BALLS

 This little delight might need some practice to make perfect but is always an impressive site when brought ceremonially to the after dinner table:

YULE LOG or BUCHE de NOEL

 And last but certainly not least the wonderful anytime of the year but especially on Christmas Day or New Year's Eve - a luscious confection of jelly (I made mine vegetarian) English custard, homemade Ladyfingers and lashings of whipped cream:

 CHERRY AND GINGER TRIFLE

'Tis the season to enjoy baking and cooking and cosy toes cups of tea by the fire - so please have fun!!

PATRICIA SHEA DESIGNS

A vote for my 2016 Tea Towel Calendar would be most appreciated!

Here is my entry for this years Tea Towel Competition at Spoonflower - there are quite the number of entries this year but if you have a couple of minutes may I ask you ever so nicely to vote for me, here is the link:

VOTE HERE 

There are some very pretty and clever entries - shame more people can't win first place! 

My 2016 calendar design is also available at REDBUBBLE and SOCIETY6 on a limited number of items

I composed my entry from an allover textile pattern called Blue Rhapsody and a watercolour illustration of the ever so pretty Old World Swallowtail Butterfly. I wasn't sure what direction I was going in in the beginning but suddenly the design started to take shape and I ended up with what I am calling an ode to The Farmers Almanac style of graphic poster layout.

I have both the blue floral and the butterfly designs for sale in a number of my online shops separately and combined:

Blue Rhapsody is available in my SPOONFLOWER shop as fabric, wallpaper and wrapping paper, and in both my REDBUBBLE and SOCIETY6 shops on all manner of goodies. 

Here are the links to my Swallowtail illustration in REDBUBBLE and SOCIETY6 

 and last but not least the Swallowtail  Butterfly atop Blue Rhapsody in REDBUBBLE and SOCIETY6 

and most recently as a Slouch Beanie HERE 

Thanks ever so much for your vote - I really appreciate it!

Patricia Shea Designs