NEW Phone Cases with ArtsCase

Today I'm sharing some super exciting news with you! My designs are now available on ArtsCase!

ArtsCase offer stylish protection for your iPhones, iPads and Samsung Galaxy devices! Their cases show everyone your sparkling personality and make your device look stunning, but they're not all about looks, they care for your device with their well built cases.

To find out more and get yourself one of these gorgeous cases, visit ArtsCase here.

New collection - Ikat Roses

I've recently been working on a new collection 'Ikat Roses' and thought I would give you a sneak peek today!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Remember that colour palette..

Remember that colour palette and mini mood board I posted yesterday? Well I was so inspired by it I started creating a new collection! Today I am giving you a little sneak peek of one of the designs I have been working on, I will reveal more next week, hope you like it!

Don't forget to come back tomorrow, we have an awesome post scheduled Feature Friday!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Falling leaves

One of my favourite things when working on new designs that pop into my head is playing around with different colour palettes. I really enjoy working with colour, and as much as I love setting a colour palette and making it work across different designs, there's something beautifully organic about having a design idea pop into your head, making it but then feeling free to play around with different colour combinations to see what works best.

I have been working on this new design, inspired by falling leaves. It was lovely to play around with different colour combos, some of which I am sharing today! I love how a simple can design can have such a different feel using different colours, more energetic or relaxed, and more traditional or contemporary.

 Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

New Boys Designs

I recently worked on a brief to design for boys. This is not something I normally work on and when I started the brief I thought I would really struggle. However once I had decided on a theme and a colour palette the design started to flow and I am SO pleased with how it turned out!

I am going to develop the collection further adding new placement and repeat prints using the same motifs and colour palette. Who knows where Tom will go next!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

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

New designs

Today I am sharing with you some new designs I have been working on. There's lots of new patterns on the go here right now and I am LOVING it!

I am starting to feel that my patterns really have a signature style and show my personality well.

You may recognise the grey design below, the designs were created as part of my 'dreams' collection. You can see the existing designs printed as fabrics here and as a sneak peek here. You can also buy the existing designs as fabrics from Spoonflower here.

The new designs use the same colours and motifs as the existing designs, but have more organic layouts and mixes of motifs from different patterns. I love how all the patterns look together!

I also had very exciting news yesterday, someone purchased some of my Dreamcatcher fabric on Spoonflower! It's so exciting to know that someone likes my design enough to buy yards of it!

Lots of exciting new designs and news coming soon so be sure to check back soon! Just to tease you here is a sneak peek of a new design I am currently working on as part of a new collection I will share soon!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

New designs - Beaded

Today I'm sharing with you some new designs I've been working on. The designs were inspired by a beaded bracelet I made years ago from tiny beads.

The first piece is quite a realistic representation of the beads but I liked the shapes and enjoyed playing with scale and colour to create more abstracted pieces. I'm currently developing the collection further with complimentary pieces and new shapes, so I will share the finished items soon!

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Passion4Pattern Bloghop

On Sunday I will be taking part in the second Passion4Pattern Bloghop.

If you don't know how a bloghop works, it's basically a chain of blogs. You start from one advertised blog and then each blog along a chain links you to the next blog, so you can read through lots of lovely blogs!

The starting blog for this Sunday's bloghop is http://clairesmillie.wordpress.com/ and all the blogs will post at 8am Sunday (UK time) so if you visit the link above or come back here, you will able to browse lots lovely work from very talented and hard working designers!

It's very busy here right now, Module 3 of ABSPD (SO many great briefs), freelance work and trying to spread the word of my work and manufacture products for sale along with working on designs to present for sale and licensing. PHEW.

So much exciting stuff to come but until then here's a little sneak peek of something I've been working on!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2012