Appliqué Houses

Today I am posting images of two girls appliqué designs I have done. I wanted to create childlike images of houses/homes and would like to develop this theme in the future to create street scenes. With denim/chambray bases for surface interest these designs would be suitable for both home textiles or children's fashion.

Greetings Cards - Easter Animals

Here is my latest installment of greetings card designs. This is my Easter Animals collection for 2009.

The two Easter Chicks designs began as a hand-made chick appliqué character in bright spring colours which I then manipulated in Photoshop. With tactile textile beginnings these designs have the potential for details such as the buttons, eyes and ribbons to be applied to the cards after printing giving them added interest and an eye-catching quality.

My Easter Rabbit card began as a hand-drawn sketch which I then scanned in to Photoshop and added fabric detail to. The colours on this design are muted floral tones to give it a serene spring-like quality. The ribbon and text could be applied to the card after printing for a eye-catching 3D effect.

My Easter Lamb card has been created entirely in Photoshop using scanned fabric textures and floral trim. The flowers and jewel detail could be applied to the printed card on this design adding interest and giving a more tactile quality to the product.

Appliqué Characters - Farm Animals 1

Spring is here (finally!) so I am working on some spring-time animal designs. I am beginning with farmyard designs creating simple characters and focusing on the textures of the fabrics I use. The result is almost nursery-like animals with a soft tactile quality. I am really pleased with the colourway of this design as I feel I have managed to achieve a fresh spring-like effect.

The images of this design have been removed from my blog as I have now sold the original artwork. I shall post more images once the design appears in-store (with production times this can take up to a year).

Appliqué Characters - Farm Animals 2

Here is my second installment of appliquéd farm animal designs. This design is made from patchwork panels and farmyard characters created using as few fabrics as possible.

Once again these images have been taken from a larger appliquéd artwork. With a pink and lilac colour palette this design takes a theme more traditionally aimed at boys and targets the girls' market .

Greetings Card Designs - Mother's Day

These designs are the beginnings of my 2009 Mother's Day card collection. All four designs were created using hand-drawn/sewn/collaged floral images scanned in to Photoshop and then manipulated to add fabric textures and text.

I intend to experiment with these designs further and create some 'real' card prototypes from the images giving them more of a hand-crafted look. I shall post these cards on my blog once completed.

Appliqué Characters - Cinderella

Continuing with the children's design theme here is a fairytale design. These appliqué details have been taken from a larger irregular patchwork style Cinderella artwork. I am pleased with the soft pastel colours of this design making it girly without being overly pink.

Appliqué Characters - Fairy Cakes!

I love designing fairies! These three are my Fairy Cake Fairies and are part of a larger appliquéd artwork with cake making details in a patchwork style.

Fairy cakes are great subject matter for appliqué/embroidery designs as you can add plenty of bead/sequin/trim detail until they look good enough to eat. I like the combination of fairies and cakes together reminding me of the fun cookery books I used as a child.

♥ Embroidered Cards - Valentines ♥

Here are a few examples of embroidered valentines cards from my 2008 collection. The two pink designs on the left were created for my portfolio and the one on the right was developed from the card I made to send.

All cards are fabric on a card base with hand and machine-embroidered stitch detail and button/sequin embellishment.