I spent a weekend turning her and a few others into birthday cards.
Again, I have used my own patterns for the dresses, backgrounds and upholstery, and used a secret recipe to rough it all up.
This is what I'm doing with my life.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Vintage Image Birthday Card
My last post showed my before and after of lady from a fashion plate that's in the public domain.
I spent a weekend turning her and a few others into birthday cards.
Again, I have used my own patterns for the dresses, backgrounds and upholstery, and used a secret recipe to rough it all up.
This is what I'm doing with my life.
I spent a weekend turning her and a few others into birthday cards.
Again, I have used my own patterns for the dresses, backgrounds and upholstery, and used a secret recipe to rough it all up.
This is what I'm doing with my life.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Old Vintage Fashion Plates
For recreation, I design all kinds of things just for fun, knowing they likely will never be a product.
I recently came across some fashion plates from the early 1900's that were fairly high res, AND in the public domain, I downloaded several dozens of them. (You never know when they might figure into a design project.)
But, they also fed right into my ongoing search to find things to apply my repeating patterns to. So, I opened a fashion plate in Photoshop, extracted the black outline, copy and pasted it into Ai, and used Live Trace on it. Live Trace almost always needs quite a bit of cleanup to get rid of its distinctive weirdness, and this time was no exception.
But when I was done, I filled in all the negative spaces, and viola!
Here are two samples of the 5 I did, showing the before and after.
I recently came across some fashion plates from the early 1900's that were fairly high res, AND in the public domain, I downloaded several dozens of them. (You never know when they might figure into a design project.)
But, they also fed right into my ongoing search to find things to apply my repeating patterns to. So, I opened a fashion plate in Photoshop, extracted the black outline, copy and pasted it into Ai, and used Live Trace on it. Live Trace almost always needs quite a bit of cleanup to get rid of its distinctive weirdness, and this time was no exception.
But when I was done, I filled in all the negative spaces, and viola!
Monday, June 15, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Just For Fun
I did another vectorizing of an old ad today, inserting my own designs in the dress, hat and butterflies. Today was all about designing for recreational purposes only. And it WAS fun!
I had planned on creating some snappy text, but since I've been spending a lot of time recently giving myself pep-talks, this seemed appropriate.
I had planned on creating some snappy text, but since I've been spending a lot of time recently giving myself pep-talks, this seemed appropriate.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Quilt Labels - Baby's First Birthday and Quilt Washing Instructions
Modern Yardage has just added my two newest quilt labels to their line up.
I've done them in several different colorways.
Order as few or many as you like at $1.00 each.
I've done them in several different colorways.
Order as few or many as you like at $1.00 each.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
18th Century Fabric - Reimagined. Again.
This one looked "easy" but took me several hours over several days to complete.
Of course, I switched it up a lot so that it is very different from the 200 year old curtain panel that inspired it.
A bright color palette replaced black and gold.
Of course, I switched it up a lot so that it is very different from the 200 year old curtain panel that inspired it.
A bright color palette replaced black and gold.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Another 18th Century Redo
This design had another large flower, but I changed the design by just using the one. I included the smaller bouquet, but fudged it a lot to make it different from the original.
The leaves took forever!
The leaves took forever!
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