Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine - My Designs in March Issue

Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine have purchased and featured four of my designs in their March Issue. The designs are a part of my Hedgerow Collection, also available at Modern Yardage in 4 colorways, and at Custom Quilt Tops, also in 4 colorways. At Custom Quilt Tops you need to keep scrolling down until you find me!

My four designs are available at Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine's website as a download, and double-sided printed in their actual magazine. They're also included some sweet projects with which to use my papers!

Digital Scrapbook Paper

I've got SO many design collections, many of which go to Modern Yardage.

But, they're also perfect for scrapbook papers, and Etsy is the perfect place to sell them in digital format. Once the listing is posted, Etsy does all the work.

There's some overhead on my end, of course, formatting it all for the listings, but now that I have a process in place, I should be able to work my way through my collections.

Another One of THOSE Weeks!

By that I mean, I didn't do much new designing, but instead was doing some hourly graphic jobs for some of my awesome clients!

Heck, I want them to be successful as much I they do! And what a blessing that I made a living as a graphic designer this week.

I did create a promotional for my Modern Yardage collection Hedgerow in Summer.

Botanical Floral

I redrew bits and pieces of flowers and grasses from antique botanical prints and fashioned this new floral.

I plan to create 5 patterns to go with it for a lovely new collection.

Hedgerow in Four Colorways

Here it is in Autumn.

Look for it at Modern Yardage soon!

New Designer at Modern Yardage - Me! Tracy Miller!

My fabric designs will be up soon at Modern Yardage, but here is a sneak peak:

18th Century French Fabric - Pheasants, Fences, Flowers and Flourishes

This was a labor of love.

I've got a great (and secret ) source for images of antique fabrics. It has become an obsession, at times, to reproduce these patterns and turn them into repeats.

This one I ADORE! It took me over a period of a week to complete (not working on it full time, of course) and if I had to be doing something else, I couldn't wait to get back to it.

In time, I'll do another colorway, and create coordinates to go with it. For now, it is my smartphone wallpaper.

Paying Dues

Will I ever be an overnight success? How long does it take?

If it takes ten years as a graphic designer to really start making a living wage, then I've still got a couple of years to put in.

When I arrive, though, I'll have a great hardluck story. It will be filled tales with all the days and weeks I sat making beautiful repeats without any money coming in except for that which I made as a seamstress.

I'll tell about all the graphic design jobs I took that were just beyond my abilities, and then watched tutorials online to figure out how.

My bio will include how I paid my rent with the proceeds of the sale of my house, rather than put that money back into a new house. Determined, yet watching my savings diminish, I seldom gave up hope that one day, my designing skills would finally pay the bills.

Today is one of those days that will be included in my story, a day among so many that finds me creating, learning, striving ... dreaming.

And putting together designs that make my heart sing!