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!

P&P Feature

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being featured on the fabulous Print & Pattern blog, you can read the whole feature here. I always love to see which designs Bowie picks out to use in the feature, this time featuring my travel card holder Kickstarter project and designs, let's letter dress, baby and kids elephants, one of my agapanthus designs and my notebooks.

Thank you so much for such a fantastic feature Bowie!

Feature Friday - Rachel Gresham

Today our featured designer is Rachel Gresham.

I discovered Rachel's work a few weeks back and love her use of colour and fun shapes. Her patterns and illustrations always put a smile on my face! Rachel was recently featured on Surface Pattern blog Print & Pattern, and is exhibiting at Surtex for the first time this May.

To find out more about Rachel visit her website, Etsy store, Society6 store or follow her on Twitter or Facebook.

Images copyright Rachel Gresham 2013

Featured on Print & Pattern

Yesterday I had the greatest start to the week. I woke up to find I had been featured on the world famous Surface Pattern Design blog, Print & Pattern. It has been my dream to be featured on print & pattern for years and I still can't quite believe it! You can see the feature here.

Images copyright Rosie Simons 2013

Paperchase inspiration

Paperchase are not only a dream client but also a great inspiration to me as a designer. They always have great designs and patterns on their products and I can spend forever (and way too much money) in their stores browsing lovely patterned products.

I recently visited Paperchase and thought I would share some of my favourites from their current collections.

First up is a design that really caught my eye, mono floral uses lines to create different shades in different areas. The texture of this piece of wonderful, and looks fantastic printed on uncoated paper giftwrap as well as on ceramics and other surfaces.

Next up is linear floral. Unfortunately these products seem to be hard to find on the website, but this pattern is over many different surfaces throughout the store. You can see a recent post from Print & Pattern to see some more photos. (Apologies for the dingy photos these are just photos I have taken with my phone of the products I have!)

And last but not least, the Hinterland collection. A lovely A/W pattern with birds and trees.

There are even more wonderful products online or pop into your local Paperchase store!

All images copyright Paperchase