Tropical Fusion Bloghop

Today I am taking part in a bloghop with more than 40 designers from around the world. We have each created mini collections featuring Pantone Colour of the Year, Radiant Orchid, based on the theme 'tropical fusion'.

If you're following the chain you will have joined us from the wonderful blog of Virginia Njeri Kamau, I hope you are enjoying your hop so far! If you have landed here you can follow the link at the bottom of the post onto MaJo BV's post to continue looking at everyone's Tropical Fusion designs!

For those who aren't familiar with me and my work I'll give you a little run down! I'm Rosie, a graphic and surface designer with a passion for colour and pattern. If you want to see a bit more of my work please feel free to take a look around or pop over to my website for more!

Last year in our bloghop I set myself a big goal, to achieve my first licensing deal, which I achieved and more! This year I am pushing myself even further and attending Surtex in New York in May! You can read all about my announcement here. I will be in booth #250 if you're attending, I'd love to meet you!

Thanks for visiting, I'll now pass you on to the fabulous MaJo BV, enjoy the rest of the hop!

Big thanks to Mary from Groovity designs for organising this hop! If you want to do the whole hop from the beginning, you can head to Mary's post here.

P.S Apologies for the image quality, Blogger has made every file I uploaded blurry and I can't work out why! Hope to get it fixed soon.

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2014

Colour of the Year: Radiant Orchid - Palettes

Bringing you some colour inspiration today featuring Pantone Colour of the Year, Radiant Orchid. It's great how it works with so many different colours to create such an array of palettes to suit many different styles!

Don't forget to check out designs made with Radiant Orchid as part of our Tropical Fusion Bloghop!

Tropical Fusion Bloghop

On Saturday I will be taking part in a bloghop with a group of super talented designers. We have all created designs for a "tropical fusion" theme featuring Pantone Colour of the Year, Radiant Orchid, so hop back here on Saturday to see the designs and escape this winter weather for a few minutes!

Colour of the Year 2014 - Radiant Orchid

It's official! Pantone's Colour of the Year 2014 is.. Radiant Orchid.

What do you think? I really adore this colour! To me it's the perfect blend of pink and purple and is energetic but calming at the same time, I really can't wait to work it into some designs!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Colour of the Year 2014

As 2013 draws to a close we start to look at the colour of the year for 2014.. I've loved Emerald Green this year and am excited to see what Pantone choose for next years colour. The infographic below shows what some creatives think it will be and why.. what do you think it will be?

Colour of the week - Jungle Green

This weeks colour of the week is... Jungle Green!

Jungle Green is very similar to this years Pantone Colour of the Year, Emerald, but slightly brighter.

I adore blue-y greens and green-y blues, and I saw this one and couldn't wait to use it in colour palettes and new designs and share it with you all! Below are some colour palettes using Jungle Green to inspire you!

Things have been busy here lately and I've got a bit behind with creating a new design each week using colour of the week, so this week I am going to create a whole collection of designs using the past three colours; Berry, June Bud and Jungle Green. I will share the designs later in the week, so don't forget to check back!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Colour & Pattern Inspiration from Jnr Joules

I was browsing the Joules website and came across this lovely floral pattern on some of the Jnr Joules girlswear.

The print has lovely texture and even features colour of the year, Emerald!

Images sourced from joules.com · Top · Sweater  · Dress 

Collage image copyright Rosie Simons 2013