Wednesday Words

Today's Wednesday Words.. again using this week's Colour of the Week: Bittersweet, palettes.

I have found having a positive mental attitude is the best way to live a happy life!

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Black & White Floral

Today I am sharing with you a design I did a few weeks back for the Tigerprint Black & White print competition.

Image copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Sneak peek - New card designs

Today I am introducing you to a greetings card range which I am just in the process of sending to print.

I have always wanted to create greetings cards, I think they're lovely objects to have and to hold so went about creating some of my own!

There are 4 Christmas cards, 2 different designs each in 2 different colour ways. These will be available to purchase in dual design packs; Purple and Blue Merry Christmas and Red and Green Happy Christmas or each design as a single card. I will be opening a new Etsy shop to sell the cards (and lots of exciting other stuff!) next week, so keep your eyes peeled!

I have also produced some every day greetings cards, in my 'Inky Floral' design (seen here) which will also be available to buy SOON! Don't forget to follow or check back next week for news on where to buy the cards! To keep up to date you can also follow me on Twitter or 'like' Rosie Simons Graphic and Surface Design on Facebook.

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

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

National Cupcake Week

You may or may not be aware that this week is National Cupcake Week so I thought I'd share some cupcake related work today.

I have just finished working on a project branding Andrea's Cupcakes and Andrea's Cupcake Parties. The client wanted me to design the logo so it worked for both Andrea's Cupcakes - cupcakes for occasions  and Andrea's Cupcake Parties - cupcake decorating parties and could work on pink or white background..

I then designed business cards and stickers for the cake boxes (which I featured a while ago) from Moo. I took advantage of their printfinity option on business cards and printed different photographs of Andrea's Cupcakes on the backs of the business cards with the logo and contact details on the front. 

The stickers are a combination of bits of the logo and will be used to personalise the cake boxes when taking cakes to clients and on party boxes for partygoers when they take home their decorated cupcakes from cupcake decorating parties!

Next up I designed flyers, unfortunately no photos of these to share yet as they went directly to the client.. on the left is the reverse of the flyer where I used a simple pink polka dot background and the logo. On the right is the front of the flyer, with more subdued polka dots, coloured cupcakes and the 'ice • decorate • create' slogan for the cupcake parties.

 

Last but not least I designed and made their website andreascupcakes.co.uk

I even tackled flash to make the rolling image banner on the homepage!

All images copyright Rosie Simons 2012

Handmade birthday cards

Yesterday it was my mum and her twin sister's birthday, so I decided to make birthday cards for them. I think there is something really special about making cards especially for someone and since I've been working on the Tigerprint Gifted competition I have found I really like working on card designs!

I am planning to design some more cards and get them professionally printed and open and Etsy shop selling my cards and prints. It would be a dream come true for me, something I have always wanted to do, so fingers crossed it will all come together!

Sorry that the photos aren't great they were taken in a hurry before giving the cards to the birthday ladies! These cards were just printed on my laser printer at home, pretty pleased with how they came out considering! Hope you like!

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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.