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13 Sunday May 2018

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I had some free time yesterday in between my Mother’s Day baking.  So, of course I was inspired by all the spring bees coming back to the flower gardens.

Customize these Beehive Paper Plates at Zazzle

 

 

Customize these Beehive Napkins at Zazzle

 

Customize these Beehive Labels at Zazzle

 

Beehive Pillows at Zazzle

 

 

Customize this Beehive Notebook at Zazzle

 

Beehive Tea Pot

You can customize this Beehive Teapot at Zazzle

 

I’ve also added this to my Bees and Honey collection at Spoonflower Fabrics.

Bees on Hive_edited-2 fabric by della_vita on Spoonflower - custom fabric

 

Thanks for visiting.  Happy Mother’s Day!!

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Cherries – Surface Design

01 Tuesday May 2018

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Not sure why I like fruits and berries so much, but I have a lot of them in my surface designs.  I like them for tabletop and kitchen items, gifting items and office supplies.

Customize this Cherry Notebook at Zazzle

 

Cherry Cottage Framed Stationery

Background Papers at Zazzle

 

Scrapbooking Papers at Zazzle

Cherry Envelopes at Zazzle

Cherry Tiles at Zazzle

Cherry Gift Tags at Zazzle

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Wildflower-Woodland Bouquets – Surface Designs

30 Monday Apr 2018

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Because I was a florist it’s fun for me to make surface designs with flower bouquets.  My recent collection are woodland-wildflower bouquets with fruits and berries.  I suppose because I’ve added the fruits and berries, that’s why I think they’re “woodland.”

Bouquet Blue Forest

Wildflower Bouquet of Muscari, Wisteria and Berries

 

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Wildflower Bouquet of Heather and Cotton

 

Bouquet Wildflowers and Berries

Wildflower Bouquet of Baptisia and Berries

 

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Wildflower Bouquet of Snapdragons and Rosehips

 

Bouquet Red Garden_edited-2

Wildflower Bouquet of Pussy Willow and Berries

 

I’m not sure where I’ll use these designs, but they’re sure fun to make.

 

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Ivy Trellis Designs

29 Sunday Apr 2018

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I’ve got a lot of ivy and trailing flowers in my backyard gardens.  Sweet peas, climatis climbing roses and morning glories are around my deck.  Vinca vine is under my lilac tree and I’m trying to control the English ivy coming in from the neighbors’ yards.

My digital floral designs usually include some type of twirling, trailing ivy.  I like the way it softens the design and gives a new “texture” to the foliage in my flower bouquets.

Ivy and Roses Postage

Ivy and Roses Postage at Zazzle

Ivy Flowers

Ivy Flowers Fabric at Spoonflower

Ivy Trellis

Ivy Trellis Fabric at Spoonflower

Ivy Envelope customize at Zazzle

Double sided stationary at Zazzle

Ivy on Pink

Foliage on Pink Fabric at Spoonflower

 

These collections include companion pieces in solid colors, polka dots, butterflies and hummingbirds.

Thanks for visiting.

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Blue Tile Designs

25 Wednesday Apr 2018

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arts, background papers, blue tiles, crafts, fabric, invitations, kitchen decor, Mediterranean blue tiles, napkins, placemats, Quilting, Quilting and Sewing, scrapbooking, sewing, Spoonflower Fabrics, stationary, Surface Design, Zazzle

This collection is inspired by the blue tiles in the Mediterranean.  If you sew, these designs would be a colorful addition to your table as placemats and napkins.

If you quilt, these designs aren’t too feminine and will make a nice blanket for a bedroom or a small lap quilt.

Blue Tiles

If you scrapbook be sure to view the stationary/backgrounds at Zazzle.

Spanish Tile Macedonia Stationery

Macedonia at Spoonflower Fabrics

Macedonia (with Orange) Stationary at Zazzle

Spanish Tile Cyprus Stationery

Cypress at Spoonflower Fabrics

Marrakech Envelopes at Zazzle

 

Spanish Tile Morocco

 

This collection of tabletop, kitchen, stationary and fabric has over 40 items to choose from and can be found at Zazzle and Spoonflower.

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Tea Towel Surface Designs

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

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I have always had a passion for flower arranging.  I opened my first design studio and gift shop in my early 30’s.  While I was in business with my second flower shoppe several years ago, I discovered surface designing  and that gave me the opportunity to sell my pillows, tea towels, napkins, banners and linens.

It’s fun to make tea towels and guest towels through Spoonflower and Zazzle.  They’re great for every season or occasion, or just to add color to a room.

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Tea Towel at Spoonflower Fabrics

 

Start with something small and add stuff to it.  I started with an olive…

Pimento Olive

and ended up coordinating a set of towels…

Olive Towel Set

Olive Towel Set

 

I started with a cherry…

Cherries Tea Towels

Cherry Set at Zazzle

Keep it simple with only two colors, but mix the patterns…

Henna Set

Henna Patterns at Zazzle

You can put a favorite recipe on a tea towel…

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Recipe Tea Towel at Spoonflower

 

Make them colorful for birthdays…

Elephant Spots on White

Lots o’ Spots Tea Towels

 

 

Remember, everything can be customized at Zazzle, so you can add a family name to your towel.

 

Birthday Tea Towel

 

There are a lot of ways to decorate towels:

  • Copy your child’s picture from art class onto a towel.
  • Stripes.  Polka dots.  Words.  Stars.  Paint splotches.  Pets.
  • Customize a set for a shower or wedding gift.
  • Get inspired from clipart online for holiday ideas.
  • Think of themes, hobbies, sports and occupations like gardening, sewing, art, dance, shoes, hats, candy, baking, books, hair stylist, teacher, etc.

If you’re even a little bit artistic (or not) it’s fun to create.  Give it a try.

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St. Marie Collection

23 Monday Apr 2018

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This classic black and white collection was inspired by my friend’s millinery shop in Cleveland, Ohio Studio St. Marie.   Although her signature colors are only black and white, I’ve added just a touch of red to a few designs.

All items at Zazzle can be customized with your names or special message.  This collection has over 30 items including plates, napkins, gift tags, wine boxes, etc. and can be shopped at Zazzle St. Marie collection. The fabric collection is at St. Marie at Spoonflower.

Floral and Dots cake plate at Zazzle

 

Fleur gift tags at Zazzle

 

 

Fleur Wine Box at Zazzle

 

 

French Keys Black and White

French Keys fabric at Spoonflower

 

 

Squares Squared

Squares Squared fabric at Spoonflower

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Placemats and Napkins

18 Wednesday Apr 2018

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I’m all about easy sewing projects.  I like to make things that look impressive, but are quick and easy to sew.

A table runner and placemats is a quick, easy project and fun for a beginner sewer.  Quilting fabrics are usually 100% cotton and are a perfect choice for these tabletop pieces.  There are thousands of coordinating fabrics to choose from and can be casual or formal, feminine or masculine, grown-up-fancy or cute and childish.

It’s usually difficult for me to choose one fabric for all the pieces, so this is a good excuse to choose more fabrics for more pieces.  If you keep the pattern layout the same and choose fabrics in the same collection you can mix your fabrics.  That’s why we make fabrics in collections.

A sample of a placemat and table runner pattern are below.  Again, this is easy…a big block with a sashing (a border around the big block) and a border.  My samples below are four different placemats to coordinate with the table runner.

French Table Runner

French Collection Table Runner

French Placemat2

French Collection Placemat

French Placemat4

French Collection Placemat

French Placemats

French Collection Placemat

French Placemat3

French Collection Placemat

 

It’s easy to make cloth napkins to coordinate.  A cloth napkin adds a special touch to a casual lunch or ordinary dinner.

When you coordinate the napkins in a solid color, be sure the color is the same as your original fabric, for example the same shade of red…there are a lot of reds out there (especially at Christmas) you don’t want something that clashes.

I like a colorful table so I choose a few colors in the main fabric to accent the pattern.  For example if you used the fruit fabric below for your placemats, you can make napkins in a solid purple, red, orange, yellow and green to pull everything together nicely.

Endless possibilities!!

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Fruit with Grapes Fabric

 

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Poppy and Pomegranate

16 Monday Apr 2018

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This collection was inspired by a friend’s bedroom colors of burgundy and orange.  She says “it looks like a beautiful sunset all the time.”  This collection has my digital designs in bright poppy and shades of pomegranate.

 

Up, Up, Up

Up, Up, Up fabric at Spoonflower

 

Pomegranate Paper Plates at Zazzle

 

Windy Leaves

Windy Leaves

 

Dancing Flowers Tissue Paper

Dancing Flowers tissue paper at Zazzle

 

 

Begonia

Begonia

 

Poppy Napkins at Zazzle

 

This collection of tabletop, kitchen and fabric has over 25 items to choose from and can be found at Zazzle and Spoonflower.

 

Poppy & Pom Quilt 5

 

Poppy and Pomegranate fabrics at Spoonflower

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Easy Quilts – A great first project

16 Monday Apr 2018

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If you’re new to quilting don’t be overwhelmed with all the quilt options.  There are so many fabrics on the market, thousands of quilt blocks to choose from and endless  possibilities to put them together with borders, sashes and bindings.

The best advise I got when I was making my first quilt came from my sister.

#1  Make the quilt with big square blocks, maybe three or four blocks across and three or four down, each block can measure 6″ x 6″, or 8″ x 8″ or 10″ or 10″…whatever you want, but keep your layout simple.  I’ve included a sample below.

This is a great way to learn to put together fabrics, colors, a theme and to learn the basics.  Keep the layout simple.

We started on my mission to choose fabrics for my first quilt.  I love fabric so I decided to do all whites and creams because it was going to be too difficult to choose a color scheme.  I kept thinking whites and creams, but ended up, oranges, greens and red with just a hint of creams.

So, the second piece of advise was:
#2  It’s YOUR quilt.  You get to choose the fabrics YOU want.

The quilt sample below has 3 blocks across and 3 blocks down of only two different fabrics, but with several borders.  Super simple.

Cottage Garden

Raphaella Fabrics at Spoonflower

 

This can easily be replicated in your colors and fabrics.   This is great for a baby quilt, a lap quilt or even a small wall quilt, just adjust the size of the blocks and borders.

 

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