Southwest Baby Fabric for Carousel Designs at Spoonflower!

'Native Southwest Baby'
 © 2015 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved.

Spoonflower teamed up with Carousel Designs for their Southwest Baby Bedding Design Challenge last week! Designers were to create a southwest-inspired fabric design to be used in a baby bedding collection.
I chose to design a sophisticated geometric pattern with a soft palette that could appeal to parents for their baby boys or girls. The hand drawn elements are composed to feel like traditional native american designs on blankets and rugs. I think this pattern would be great for babies, teens or in any grown-up space!

Voting opened last Thursday, March 26, 2015, and continues until this Thursday April 2nd 2015. Vote Here!

Whales!

'Baby Beluga's Birthday'
©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved.

This week in the  Spoonflower design contest… whales!  
The restricted palette this week helped to determine the direction of this assignment. The colors felt like a baby palette, so I kept that in mind when I drew my whales. 

restricted color palette

I researched the subject matter and looked for references and then drew a ton of whales and other sea creatures. I had in mind that my whales would be white (baby Beluga, Moby Dick, etc.) and I would use the blue to be the background. The tan color was to give detail in the pattern background (the seaweed/coral shapes), and I wanted to use the dusty pink color as a pop element (the octopus and starfish). I chose to eliminate the bright pink because it didn't go with the feeling of the other colors provided.

I drew elements in my sketchbook and on my iPad in the Adobe Ideas App, and opened the images in Photoshop. I colored and arranged the elements into a pattern of whales. Added the octopus characters, then the wave shapes, anchors, seaweed and the starfish. Finally, I added the party hats and birthday cake. 

All designs submitted had to use this restricted palette (21" x 18"). Voting starts on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014, and continues until Thursday, April 10th, 2014. Please Vote!

'Birthday Party Pets' fabric is now available!

Birthday Fabric Fat Quarter Bundles Available!

...including my 'Birthday Party Pets'!

Get a fat quarter bundle that includes the top ten designs from Spoonflower's most recent fabric design contest. Printed on lovely Kona ® cotton, their contest-themed fat quarter bundle is a bargain. 10 fat quarters of 10 different designs would normally cost $110, but this week only Spoonflower is offering it for just $60!

'Birthday Party Pets' Gift Wrap Makes Top 10!!

Just got the word!! Very exciting!! Thanks to all who voted!!

'Birthday Party Pets' gift wrap available at Spoonflower.com
©2013 Patty Rybolt Designs

Baby Animals!

This weeks entry...  Safari Baby!

This weeks contest is all about animal babies, designs are judged by fat quarter (21" x 18").

My approach was to use hand drawn babies in a safari setting. I thought it would be fun to make all of the creatures white with the color being in the background, with bits of color in the leaves and hearts! Keeping it simple! Sweet animal babies enjoying the great outdoors!

Safari Baby!
©2013 Patty Rybolt Designs