Spoonflower Contest Entry: Roses and Lilies

Handwriting, hand-drawn swirls, and vintage 1800's floral sketches are combined to bring to life a gorgeous, antique sketchpad!

Designed especially for the Fabric8: Botanical Sketchbook contest. :) Swirls can be removed for a repeating design:

Spoonflower Contest - Sandcastles

Contest time! I entered my "Sandcastles" fabric in the weekly contest at Spoonflower and would love your vote. :)

Click Here to Vote!

Vote in the Spoonflower Fabric of the Week Contest! Chinese Paper Cutting

This week's contest is Chinese Paper Cutting! Color palette: red and white.

My design is based off of my "Hope" design with cherry blossoms, but with a frame of blossoms surrounding a delicate butterfly.

I'd love your vote!

Spoonflower Fabric Top 100 Hot Sellers List!

Today one of my fabrics made the Spoonflower Top 100 Hot Sellers List! I'm so excited. It's my Yellow Brick Road design (one of my personal favorites).

Their website says, "Hot Sellers is comprised of Marketplace purchases. These are designs that are flying off our printers as you view them! It's a great way to see what Marketplace shoppers are purchasing."

A screenshot:

In other news, if you haven't yet had a chance, please take a minute to vote for my Minecraft Creeper Costume in the 1-yard contest. Voting ends tomorrow. Thanks so much!

Click here to vote on your favorite costume fabrics (picture shown is my entry!)

And We're Back!

What we've been up to since my last post:

 - September: pregnant with our 4th child (yay!); quite sick with all-day "morning" sickness (boo)

 - December: finally feeling better. Christmas vacation with the whole family to California!

 - Jan-May: preparing for our baby's birth

 - Springtime: enjoying our new baby; last days of school

 - Summertime: vacation to Maine! And a ton of work (and fun) singing with my sisters, creating music videos, and getting our singing group "GaleSong" going again.

Check out our pics and happenings here: 

http://galesong.blogspot.com/

Flower Icons for "Creative Mamas" Congo

In preparation for our upcoming Flower Hunt at "Creative Mamas" I created these cute little buttons for our customers to find!

Spoonflower Contest: Tattoo - Vote now!

The contest entries for Spoonflower's Tattoo-themed fabric design closes tomorrow!

I worked with my talented sister Tanya to create a Tree of Life design.

Click here to vote (you might need to look around to find our design)

Closeup of our entry:

Third Place in the Snow-Themed Contest!

Thank you to all who voted for our Retro Snowflake Trees. Tallies are now in and our design was third place!

We'd Love Your Vote!

We've entered a fantastic contest at Spoonflower. Theme: Nature. Round: Semi-Final.

One lucky designer will be chosen to have their fabric on a Boba Baby Carrier and receive $500!

Click the following link to view the contest and vote: Spoonflower and Boba Baby Carrier Contest: Nature Theme

Our entry is titled: JoyfulRose "Hope" by joyfulrose. There are 260 entries spread out over 17 pages, so you might need to look around to find ours. :) We'd LOVE your vote!



My fabric description:
Delicate cherry blossoms bring thoughts of the new life of a child. Hope for who he can become. Hope for her positive influence on others. Hope through innocence and purity. Hope for the future.

Spoonflower Contest: Snow - VOTE NOW!

Our first entry into a Spoonflower contest is now ready for voting!

Click here to vote (you might need to look around to find our design!)

This is our design:
(JoyfulRose Retro Snowflake Trees)


When you get a chance, please click this link to visit the Spoonflower contest and vote on our fabric design! Each of the fabrics are put into a different order for each person, so you might need to look around at the different pages to find ours. :)

From the Spoonflower Blog:


Click the following link to visit my fabric shop at Spoonflower: JoyfulRose at Spoonflower

Spoonflower and Boba Baby Carrier Contest: Nature!

Spoonflower has teamed up with Boba Baby Carriers for a new fabric design contest. Theme: Nature.

I LOVED this contest! I use baby carriers constantly with our boys and know what a lifesaver they can be. :) I wanted my fabric to reflect how I feel when I'm carrying my own children. The safety, comfort, and most of all, hope for the fantastic lives they'll have.

I always enjoyed seeing the cherry blossoms in the springtime when we lived near Washington, DC. I decided that was a perfect center for me.

My fabric description:
Delicate cherry blossoms bring thoughts of the new life of a child. Hope for who he can become. Hope for her positive influence on others. Hope through innocence and purity. Hope for the future.

Here are the ideas I toyed with. The third one is, of course, my favorite. I would love to have a carrier made with this fabric!
Click images to view larger.
(Note: original picture of baby carrier is from the Boba Baby Carrier site.


Contest Entry submitted!


Closeup of Fabric:


Full View:

Click the following link to visit my fabric shop at Spoonflower: JoyfulRose at Spoonflower

Spoonflower Contest: Snow!

Spoonflower is an amazing company where users upload designs and the company turns them into beautiful fabrics, available for purchase by everyone!

We've finally decided to be brave and enter our first contest at Spoonflower. Theme: Snow.

I LOVE the Retro Snowflake Tree design I created in November and thought it would make a gorgeous fabric. I created 5 more colors for a total of 9 different colored trees. My awesome husband suggested placing some of the trees upside down. I made the background a very light blue and added larger, matching snowflakes for greater contrast and depth to the design.

Here's my entry image! (click image to view larger)


And here are a few closeups of my fabric design (click images to view larger):



Click the following link to visit my fabric shop at Spoonflower: JoyfulRose at Spoonflower

Congratulations to our Hyena Cart Contest Winners!

Thank you to all who participated in my contest on Hyena Cart!

Three winners received their choice of one of my printable designs. :)

They chose the following:

It's Contest Time at JoyfulRose!

As part of a "Beat the Winter Blues" contest now at Hyena Cart, JoyfulRose is having a contest!

Visit this thread at Hyena Cart to join in the fun!

Congratulations to our $20 Gift Certificate Winner!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our free drawing for a $20 Gift Certificate!

Melanie was our winner and her gift code has been emailed. :)

We'll be holding another free contest very soon!

Printable Design for Katrina

I participated in a fun contest and offered printable designs as rewards for the contest winners. Katrina won one of my designs and requested the "Have you Hugged a Tree?" image.

Hope you like it Katrina!

Printable Design for Krista

I participated in a fun contest and offered printable designs as rewards for the contest winners. Krista won one of my designs and requested the Cartoon Owl.

She told me she loves it and is going to put it all over everything in her house. :)