A-Z Flowers - A is for..

I FINALLY started on A-Z of Flowers!

A is for Agapanthus!

And because I can't just create one design.. here's some more of the collection! I still feel like I haven't finished to you might see more pieces from this collection popping up soon!

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Colour of the Week: Liberty

A very personal Colour of the Week this week.. My Nanna sadly passed away yesterday and this colour always reminds me of her, so Nanna, this ones for you xoxox

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Sneak Peek - New Work

I've been a very busy bee lately and my creative juices have been flowing which has been fantastic! I have been creating lots of lovely new work for new licensing agreements, competitions and more!

Today I have another little sneak peek at some new work! I created these designs as possible new card designs with co-ordinating wrapping paper and would love to know what you think!

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The Art of Typography

A designer friend Faye Brown is running an awesome course called 'The Art of Typography' on skillshare in a few weeks and I wanted to share it with you all. Faye's course is full of useful and exciting exercises to help you learn to communicate effectively through typography and even create your own typefaces!

You can use the discount code ALPHA to receive 15% off the course (great huh?)

Faye has also created a gorgeous font called 'Pixel' which you can download here!

Wednesday Words

It's Wednesday! Which means, Wednesday Words!

Today I share with you a new inspirational words piece I made especially for today's Wednesday Words. I saw the quote on Pinterest and I really related to it and know a lot of you will too.

This weeks Wednesday Words was again created using Colour of the Week: Dust Storm and this weeks Colour of the Week palettes, which you can see here.

New Collection - Garden Floral

Today I am sharing with you a sneak peek into a new collection - Garden Floral. You may recognise the first floral design as the pattern that filled the garden tools in my recent Spoonflower Garden Tools Contest entry. I created the design especially to fill the garden tools but loved it so much and saw potential in the motifs to create a whole collection. 

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Colour of the Week: Dust Storm

Happy Monday Everyone!

This week's Colour of the Week is Dust Storm, a gentle greyish pink. This colour really reminds me of spring, it's beautiful pink blossoms and how it's like a dust storm of gorgeousness when they blow off the trees!

Below are some inspirational colour palettes I have put together featuring Dust Storm, I hope they inspire you!

If you make something inspired by Colour of the Week posts or palettes, please do share! We'd love to see what you create!

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Notebook Cover Proofs

Yesterday I received the proofs of the covers of my notebooks. It was a very very exciting moment as so much work has gone into this project and it means we're one step closer to seeing the final notebooks!

Below are a few sneaky pictures of the proofs, sorry they are not of great quality, they are just quick snaps taken on my phone! The print quality is fantastic, the colours have come out perfectly. I can't wait to see the final notebooks and share them with you all!

The notebooks will be finding their way to their new owners and fabulous backers of my Kickstarter project in the next few weeks and will be for sale in my Etsy store shortly after! If you interested in pre-ordering some notebooks please get in touch!

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Tulips

I don't know about you, but I absolutely adore tulips. I also love having flowers in the house. This week I have a gorgeous bunch of purple tulips, and this morning they opened up and when I peeked inside I saw this beautiful blue colour inside! They are such stunning and inspiring colours I decided to share some pictures with you all..

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Wednesday Words

As promised last week I am now trying to make my own inspirational words pieces for Wednesdays. We all need a bit of motivation and inspiration, and words to help us achieve our dreams.. so Wednesday Words is here to help!

As much as I'd have loved to have drawn this myself, I actually used an awesome font called WildCrazy, you can download it here!

p.s if you like the colour palette used in this piece, its one of the palettes featuring in this week's Colour of the Week - Tea Rose post which you can find here!

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New Work - Sweet Daze

Recently I worked on a logo for a new bakery business - Sweet Daze.

The brief was to create something simple with a sweet contemporary feel. Below are the final 6 logos I designed, with a combination of different colours, text wraps and imagery. The logos are going to be used for advertising, packaging and decorating the homemade bakes, so I hope to share some images of the logos once they come to life!

I also made this illustration mocking up how small stickers would look decorating some of Sweet Daze's homemade bakes!

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Colour of the Week - Tea Rose

This week's Colour of the Week is Tea Rose. I saw some tulips in this colour last week and they were such a gorgeous bright spring pastel which will hopefully inspire some spring in everyone's lives this week!

Below are some palettes using Tea Rose, hope they inspire you!

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Spoonflower Contest - Garden Tools

It's been a little while since I've entered a Spoonflower contest but this week I was particularly taken by the brief to 'Celebrate the Spring by creating some fabric dedicated to gardening tools'.

I decided to go for bright floral patterned gardening tools and sweet garden signage. You can vote here.

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Inky Experimentation

The other day I experimented with Black Acrylic Ink to make textures and motifs for my designs. It was lots of fun, I especially creating marks and textures with brushes.

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Wednesday Words

I love inspirational words images and really find them help motivate me, so I decided to make some of my own!

Hope it motivates and inspires you too...

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Tigerprint - Male Pattern Competition Entries

I recently worked on entries for the latest Tigerprint competition, Male Pattern. The brief was to design a contemporary print pattern for a male recipient that could be used across a range of products such as gift bags, wrapping paper, stationery products and greetings cards. Male design tends to be very tricky and not something I do often so I wanted to challenge myself.

I chose an urban theme working with city skylines and a colour palette that works for men of different ages. 

 Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Colour of the Week: Rocket Metallic

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, especially the inspirational Colour of the Week posts, it's been busy here!

This week's colour of the week is Rocket Metallic, a gorgeous purpley grey which can be teamed with many different colours for contrasting feels, hope you like it!

Below are some inspirational colour palettes using Rocket Metallic, hope they inspire you!

If you do find these posts inspirational and use the colour palettes in your work, please share! I'd love to see what you make with these lovely colours!

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Wednesday Words

Wednesday is always the hard day of the week, so today I'm sharing a bit of motivation and encouragement!

Images can be found on my Words of Wisdom board on Pinterest

Update..

Happy April Everyone! I can't believe how quick this year is going! Can you believe we've already had 1/4 of the year?! Crazy!

I'm back from my lovely break and ready to get back to work! Lots of exciting stuff to bring you soon!

Below are some photos from my trip and Easter weekend.. it's great finding new inspiration.. from vintage wallpapers with lovely textured patterns, to flora and fauna and train seat patterns!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013