I discovered..

.. fonts for peas.

Every now and then I like to have a bit of a font downloading marathon.. during my latest marathon I discovered fonts for peas.

Fonts for Peas is home to over 500 of the cutest and most unique handwriting fonts on the 'net! I take *your* submitted handwriting samples and turn them into fonts. Then I upload all the fonts here so you can download them- all for free!


So not only can you download awesome cute fonts (for FREE!), but you can submit your own handwriting samples to be made into fonts! There are pages and pages of cute hand drawn fonts..

Lots of the fonts also come with cute little doodle illustrations using special characters!

One of my favourite fonts is Pea Mily Mix. I love it's relaxed style and adorable heart, kisses and butterfly illustrations, can't wait to use it in a design!

Go and check out fonts for peas and download some of their lovely fonts! Or why not submit your own!

Images and fonts copyright Kevin & Amanda

Developing my doodles

I was so pleased with how my doodles turned out I decided to try and replicate the look on the computer. I know this is very backwards but as I explained yesterday the doodles came from a new design I was working on.. so without further ado.. here are my digitally created doodles!

I loved how the doodles looked on brown paper so I mocked up the pattern on a sheet of brown paper. I would LOVE to see this printed as wrapping paper! I just love the texture of brown paper.

I got carried away playing around with different colour ways (as usual) and love the simplicity of the colour on white with the textured lines. Will reveal the whole collection this design is from very soon!

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Doodle envelope

Sometimes I just really feel like scribbling away.. I'm working on a very hand drawn collection right now and have been drawing the motifs directly onto the computer using my wacom. So last night I did something rather backwards.. I drew the motifs I had been drawing on the screen, onto paper! A yummy brown paper envelope to be exact, and I was so amazed with the result!

I love the way the sketchy black lines look on the striped brown paper! I'm going to try and work this into a design somehow. It's amazing how something so simple can be so satisfying!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Creative Fluidity

Yesterday I was struggling with creative block working on a current brief. I decided to have a rest from the project and doodle a with my Wacom tablet.

I found it very relaxing to draw fluidly and within an hour produced a motif, repeat tile and mocked up the design as wallpaper. It felt great to achieve something in such a short time and it is a really adaptable pattern so can be used at different scales and in different colours for different products.

It also helped me to get back into my creative flow and go back to the project I was struggling with with more ideas and flow.

Below is a little sneak peek of the design, more to come soon!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Creating fabric from drawings

Yesterday I found this wonderful Spoonflower blog tutorial by Anda Corrie and it looked fabulous so today I decided I would give it a go and I am so pleased with the result!

The step by step instructions show you how to create hand drawn patterns using a black marker and some crayons (or other colouring instruments, I used Promarkers) and then turn them into clear images to upload to Spoonflower to print as fabric!

I had two goes, it's such a satisfying process and I love how they have turned out! You can see the designs in my Spoonflower shop, I'm planning to order some so they will hopefully be for sale in the not too distant future!

Layered sketch doodle

Layered sketch floral