Stocking at "Sweet Retreat" Congo!

Today is a special stocking at "Sweet Retreat"! Our theme is "Going on a Trip". Our new stocking times are the 5th and 20th of every month at 10am and 10pm.

Click here to check out the shop for awesome new traveling items!

Animated Banners "Going Places" for the "Sweet Retreat Congo"

Our Congo theme for August is Going Places!

I thought it would be clever to have a retro lady in her little convertible to represent us going places. I'm very happy with how she turned out. :)

Mock-ups for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 7

Kristena's new header and mock-ups for Etsy banner and avatars/thumbnails.

Thumbnail sizes: 400x400px, 200x200px, 125x125px, and 75x75px.

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Mock-ups for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 6

A few different tag-line colors for Kris. :)

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Mock-up for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 7

Italicized text for the tag-line. :)

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Mock-up for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 6

Here's the header with the capital "D", the non-florescent hills, and smaller font for the tag-line.

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Mock-ups for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 5

Kris loves the latest design but wanted to see how the hills would look if they were a bit darker (they looked florescent on her friend's computer; we certainly don't want that with this design!)

Newest mock-ups. First image is the original, second had darker hills, third has the same hills as the second but with a capital "D" for the shop name.

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Mock-ups for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 4

I received a package today from Kristena today and everything looks and smells wonderful! So excited to start using the products. :)

Another mock-up for her, with a straight top and large tree. Click image to view larger:

Mock-ups for "Dreamseeds Organics", Part 3

I'm loving working on this design with Kris!

She liked the bird facing her shop name but wanted to try a different type of bird, more curvy tree, different tag-line font, and purple background.

Here are a few mock-ups! Click images to view larger:

Full size with gradient background. This might be my favorite; though it's a close call between this and the other tree!

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!

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 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

Retro Snowflake Tree

New printable design now available!

Inspiration for my Retro Snowflake Tree came from the trees in our front yard and the beautiful snow falling at country cottage this time of year. I wanted to incorporate some retro-type colors and learned a new technique in Photoshop to create the gradient color burst. :)

I'm very happy with how it turned out! I think I'll be using it as part of our family Christmas cards this year.

Mock-ups for "Ruby Rocket's Diaper Co." Header

I'm working with Jessica to design her new Hyena Cart shop and having such a fun time!

Jessica's idea was, "a VERY retro feel, bright red, white...I am hoping for a 50's (ish) woman sitting on a rocket with a line of diapers flying behind. I know this is elaborate, I am not sure if it is even do-able. But this is a general idea of what I am looking for."

I looked through hundreds of different fifties women and found a couple that I just love for this project! I also enjoyed finding a rocket that looks perfect for Jessica's look, creating the fitted cloth diapers, "clothesline", clothespins, and starry sky background to match.

So far I think it's coming together very nicely!

Mock-up 1:
- 1st retro font
- white end diaper
- red rocket with white border to match shop name border
- 50s lady with hand up

Mock-up 2:
- 2nd retro font
- yellow end diaper
- red rocket with black border
- 50s lady looking at shop name

Fonts, colors, images, backgrounds, etc. can all be changed. :)

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Copyright notice:
Rocket image is provided by Nikolai Bird under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. See more of his incredible work here: http://www.webdesign-guru.co.uk/icon/
Retro 50s women are in the public domain and hosted by Brian at: www.historyworld.co.uk