Etsy Treasuries

Recently I have taken to creating lots of treasuries on Etsy.

One of my favourite things about design is composition and collection, seeing how things look together, laid out in a certain way with things in a similar style, colour, shape, pattern, theme, etc.

It's also a great way to explore Etsy and find great new shops and products, many of my favourite shops and items have been found whilst looking for content for a treasury!

Below are a few screenshots of some of my most recent treasuries!

Floral Fantasy

Terrific Teal and Turquoise

1, 2, 3

Marvelous Maps

Lovely Leaves

You can view my Etsy treasury lists here!

iheartrosie - New products

I've been waiting for a nice sunny day to photograph some items I finished a while back, and it finally came so here are the results!

Trio of hearts available in mocha floral and mint polka dot or blue floral and purple polka dot

New heart keyrings in mocha floral, blue floral and purple polka dot

Hope you like them! All will be listed soon on my Etsy shop.

Amy King Fabrics

I love browsing Spoonflower for wonderful fabrics. This morning I was once again browsing and rediscovered the amazing fabrics by Amy King. They are just so jolly and colourful and I absolutely love them! So I thought I would share some of her designs with you!

Below are fabrics from the Linear Love Collection, this leaves fabric is one of my favourite fabrics, EVER!

The wonderful Scream for Ice Cream fabric

In The Woods Hearts

In The Woods Apple

Dont Want To Be Fish Fingers fabric

2 fabrics from the Rainy London Collection

This final piece of fabric is not just a beautiful piece of fabric, this piece of Elephant Mobile Fabric creates the mobile shown below when cut out, stuffed and pieced together. This is such a wonderful idea and only involves simple sewing making this brilliant project accessible to all!

You can view Amy's Spoonflower shop here and her flickr steam here. All images © Amy King

Website update - artdesignetc.com

One of the projects I have been busy working on is a site update for artdesignetc.com

I originally built the site back at the end of 2010, but it has now been updated with new pages, categories and imagery. You can now view lots of Octavia's brilliant new paintings, graphic design work, photography and also handmade gifts.

Below are a few screenshots of the newly updated website which you can check out at www.artdesignetc.com

The new homepage, featuring new thumbnails to lots of exciting galleries



The new 'murals etc' section of the art page, featuring large scale paintings



The new design page, featuring 6 new design galleries



The new 'logos etc' section of the design page, featuring some brilliant logos



The new etc page, now the homepage for 'photography etc' the 'etc blog' and 'gifts etc'



The new 'photography etc' page, featuring 5 wonderful photography galleries



And finally, the new 'gifts etc' page, featuring a gallery of homemade gifts



It has been great working with Octavia again and updating the site to showcase so much of her great work.

If you like what you see and would like a website built, please get in contact!

Where I've been recently..

I've been rather quiet recently so I thought I'd do a quick post to let you know where I've been and why I've been so quiet!

It's mostly because I've been working on my dissertation. What's it on you ask? Well the title is 'has technological development resulted in cultural anxiety?'.. So there has been a lot of researching and writing (or at least attempts to!)

And it's partly because I disappeared off to France for a bit.. here are a few pictures!

Beautiful flowers in Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon


Hiking the Dentelles de Montmiral


The next three photos sum up Provence!

Lavender Fields


Olive Trees


Vines full of juicy grapes


Boats in Martigues


Looking across Canal De La Villette in Paris


Our hotel in Paris


Quai de l'Oise sign with added heart!


Since getting back I have been busy doing more dissertation, updating websites for clients, building new websites for new clients, creating new items for my iheartrosie shop on Etsy, planning and buying furniture for my new house and trying to kick Student Finance England into order for buggering up my loan so I can actually go back to Uni and finish my degree!

I will post some pictures and links to new stuff as soon as I can!

Favourite Blogs!

Today I thought I'd post about some of my favourite blogs. I love to read these as often as possible and I thought I would share!

First up is Print and Pattern, I just adore this site, this one I refresh every morning to check was has been posted that day! The site of mostly based around surface design, looking at graphics, textiles, furniture and homeware. Bowie Style posts some amazing pieces, from market leaders such as Paperchase and Heals to freelance designers and new graduates. If you are into surface design this blog is a must for you!

There is also a Print and Pattern book which is a great inspiration source for me and full of fantastic designs and designers! You can purchase the book here from Amazon! Print and Pattern 2 is out in September and you can pre-order it from Amazon here!

















Images from www.printpattern.blogspot.com


Next up is Design Seeds. This site is all about colour palettes. Jessica uses photography to create colour palettes and post gorgeous images containing the photographs and colour samples. These are beautiful to browse and great for inspiration!

Also available are Design Seeds books, the latest edition is available in 2 parts, here and here. Having used Blurb myself I know that these books must be incredibly beautiful!




Images from www.design-seeds.com


Last up is a new website to me, Plenty of Colour. I just love colour, and this website appeals to me because it is just full of wonderful colourful images!

I love that you can browse through recent entries to drool over beautiful coloured products or if you're looking for things in a particular colour, define your colour and browse that way instead. The variety of coloured images you get, whether it be photography, graphics, textiles, homeware, browsing the colours is great!





Images from plentyofcolour.com

Enjoy!

Today I made..

Bunting Cards!

I was making some baby bunting like I posted about a few months ago, in blues and greens for my mums birthday, and I decided to make a card with stitched on paper bunting to match!

I started out by making this card, which matches the paper bunting I had just made.. I cut small paper triangles, stuck them to the card using double sided tape and then stitched along the top. I left the threads of so it would feel more like the pieces were hanging.





After the success of the first piece I decided to make some more in different colours, so I made this one using plain and patterned turquoise papers..


I opted for a smaller square size, with less flags, I then added the writing 'hi you' to make it a friendly greeting card for all occasions.



For this card I used patterned pink paper mixed with lined brown paper, I love the mix of textures in the papers.



Finally I made another small square card, this time reading 'thank you'. I used plain pink and turquoise papers mixed with lined brown paper. The pink coming off around the letters was accidental, where the backing of the letraset pulled it away, but I think this actually gives a nice rustic effect!