Muskoka Colour Inspiration

While I was in Canada in the summer I noticed that everyone had a particular type of chair, called Muskoka chairs after the region. They all had them in different colours and this particular set really caught my eye as a nice colour palette so thought I would share it with you all today for some colour inspiration!

Image copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Pattern Inspiration - Canadian Flower Flags

When I recently visited Ottawa, the capital of Canada, I spotted these gorgeous flags. They were flying all over the city and caught my eye with their wonderful bright colours and stained glass style floral designs.

There was a flag for each of the 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada, each featuring their official flower. Below you can see, Manitoba - Prairie crocus, British Columbia - Pacific Dogwood, Saskatchewan - Western Red Lily, Northwest Territories - Mountain Avens, Alberta - Wild Rose, Yukon - Fireweed, Nunavut - Purple saxifrage and Newfoundland and Labrador - Purple pitcher plant.  

Images copyright Rosie Simons

Little update

I've been very busy working on lots of new designs and product ideas recently so I thought I'd share a few today. I've added a few new and updated designs to my Society6 shop and mocked up my patterns on some other outcomes I'd love to see.

I really love seeing my designs mocked up onto products or (almost) real life situations!

I am currently available for freelance work or commissions, my designs are also available for licensing, contact me for more details. You can contact me on twitter @rosie_simons or facebook or via my website.

First up, a new design I shared as part of the passion4pattern blog hop, inspired by my recent trip to Canada, Beauty Wood.

Next up is a design I shared a little while back, Blow me one last kiss, but updated with a different colour background and a cute little polka dot. I think this pattern would be perfect for the lining of a little girls coat!

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Corrupted

My computer has been doing some very strange things recently, Illustrator can no longer export to PNG without crashing and creating a corrupted file.. It's quite annoying.

It also corrupted some of my holiday photos, which is also very annoying, but while I was browsing through I started to notice that some of the corrupted photos are quite interesting so I thought I would share a few!

Not understanding the technical side of why the images have corrupted or what it does to them, I find it really interesting how sometimes it muddles up sections, adds colours (where does it even get these colours from?!) or bleaches the image..

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Passion4Pattern Bloghop

Today I'm taking part in the wonderful Passion4Pattern bloghop!

If you've arrived here as part of the hop, welcome! If you haven't come as part of the bloghop and would like to see more you can jump to the start of the hop here.

A massive thanks goes to Tina Devins for the previous stop.

I have an exciting new collection that I've been working on to share today, inspired by my recent trip to Canada. I'm currently taking part in The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design e-course and have been given some fantastic assignments to work on, so lots of new stuff happening here at the moment!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

If you're interested then please feel free to explore my blog further and my website rosiesimons.co.uk
I am currently available for freelance work, commissions and licensing. If you have a query please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Now, for the last but certainly not least stop on the hop, I introduce to you Diane Rooney, enjoy! And thanks again for visiting!

I'm back!

I'm back from a super fantastic holiday!

Getting back to routine and beating the jet lag has been hard but it's great taking inspiration from my trip to create new designs! Updates with what I've been up to and new designs coming soon!

Below are a few snapshots from my trip.. there are thousands so choosing just a few was hard!

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

I'm off!

I'm off for a Canadian adventure for a couple of weeks, back in a few weeks!

Just so you can be jealous (and I can get excited) this is where I'm going!