Sock-it-to-me Competition Feature Special

Peek-a-boo. 

How have you all been? 

Today I intend to share a little bit of creative awesomeness in the shape of a SOCK. 

Well several socks actually. 

Every year a fab company called 'Sock it to me' hold a competition to design a pair of socks. This is such a novel and fun idea. Not only does it allow us to expand our portfolio's and potentially win a prize, but it allows us to have some FUN with designing. 

Novelty socks make the world go around after all. 

I created 2 designs, with the intention of creating 3 more, but never did get around to it. But I love what I created and submitted regardless. Quite a few of my fellow ABSPD ladies entered also, as well as lots of my Twitter tribe, so I decided to do a call out to share some of the amazing designs that have been entered. 

Feast your eyes on some awesome socki-ness.

Designed by me  

@JLWIllustration

www.facebook.com/jlwillustration

Chloe Wood Designs:

www.chloewood.co.uk

www.chloewooddesigns.blogspot.co.uk

Jessica Lewis:

Andy Bauer: 'Retro Bowling'

www.andybauerstudio.com

Hannah Byatt:

 www.facebook.com/hannahbyatt

 www.hannahbyatt.blogspot.com/
@HLByatt
www.uk.linkedin.com/pub/hannah-byatt/39/968/41

Piia Podersalu:

www.piiapodersalu.com 

Jolene Heckman

www.joleneheckman.blogspot.com 

Pattern Addict (Gill Eggleston)

www.patternaddict.blogspot.co.uk

Michelle Nilson

Anneline Gregory

www.annelinesophiadesigns.com

Keep an eye out on my blog for the results of the competition. I'm pretty confident that lots of these amazing designs will make the shortlist. 

Until then, why not let me know which is your pick of the pair?

Until Next Time. 

FREEBIE: February Calendar Printable

Hello and welcome back. 

My posts have been few and far between (two in the month of January), I apologise....

Morning sickness really is a  bitch  bugger to handle. 

But I'm coming back through the other end and I'm beginning to feel more human, more sociable. 

So I will be posting more often...

Get used to it :-) 

Anywhoo......

As Promised, here is the link for FEBRUARY'S freebie calendar download which was created by the fabulous Tiffany Designs. Find out more about Tiffany Designs over on Majo's Blog.

(see link below)

This is just a teeny tiny low res file, so please DO NOT download it from here....

Download it from here. 

And don't forget, my calendar is coming up in the next few month, so come back and download mine. 

Lets start 2013 with a BANG......

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

I know, I'm a few days late......

But I've been busy with the family and life isn't quite back to normal yet...

But lets start 2013 with a

BANG!!!!

Myself and 11 other amazingly talented designers have done a little 12 month long collaboration. 

Together we have created a FREE 2013 calendar, available for all to download from MuyMajo's blog, the creator of the collaboration. 

Download January's calendar, created by Majo from HERE.

And here is a sneak peek into the other 11 month's, which will become available on the last Monday of every month.

1- MaJoBV 2- Tiffany Designs 3- Simi Gauba 4- Onneke 5- Little Tree Designs 6- JWL Illustration 

7- Dawn Clarkson 8- Kathryn Pledger Designs 9- Groovity Designs 10- Jookiku 11- Dreaming on a Star 12- Esther Cox Kiosk

Find mine in June with my Summery fruitful design. 

Until Next Time. 

Sunday Blog - ETSY FINDS : Christmas card Special

Welcome back and thanks to all that had a peek at our Advent Doodle attempts so far....

THIS IS MY 100th BLOG POST!!!!!
happy dance

Anyway....

Today's Etsy Finds is a little special, as it is CHRISTMAS related. 

I love Christmas, its so fun, and merry and bright. 

A few weeks ago I put a shout out on Twitter for any creatives who wanted to take part in a Christmas Card swap. I had lots of interest and swapped some of my cards with 3 lovely ladies from various parts of the country. 

Here are their Etsy stores so you can see what beauties I have in my possession:

Worthy Designs 

Sarah Catherine Designs 

Sarah Fleming

Contact sarah via her FB page to purchase any cards, or have a peek at her work:

https://www.facebook.com/SarahFlemingDesigns

Now I just need to decide which lucky recipients will receive such LUSH cards. 

Lets KEEP GOING.......

Not one to be biased on just sharing Etsy Finds, here are some Fabulous Folky Finds from:

Kate Marsden

These are just Super cute, Super Simple and Super Festive. 

Thats all for now Folks. 

Until NEXT TIME. 

Monday Blog post: Etsy Finds

A day late...

I know, how terrible of me. 

Before I share this weeks Gorgeous Etsy Finds, I'd like to thank Rachael Taylor for featuring me on her lovely blog today. Its such an honour to be showcased by someone who I have admired for many years. 

Thank you.

View the blog post here. 

Moving on......

Worthy Designs

I had the pleasure of doing a Christmas Card swap with Gillian, of Worthy Designs, and I absolutely love these cards, and I'm unsure I could actually give them to people this year, I want to keep them. 

(Click image to see Etsy store)

Tree Hill Cloud

Here we have some gorgeous Christmas Cards by Natalie of Tree Hill Cloud.......

.....and some gorgeous Digital Prints:

Hello Dodo

I Follow Hello Dodo on Twitter and absolutely love their prints, I just had to feature them here today:

This is my favourite design:

Until Next Time. 

Iconemesis - Competition Results

So here we are....

Another competition has ended, and the results are in. It was such a difficult competition to enter, a lot of my *ABSPD ladies also entered, and its never easy to be in 'competition' with your designer friends. I'm lucky that it never gets ugly with regards to competitiveness, because they're all just too damn lovely,  encouraging and supportive. 

Thank you Ladies. You are all amazing. 

So here, are the winning entries:

(Click image to see blog post)

Now...

As you can see, my Pretty Paradise design is right there on the left. 

Amazing right?

Happy dance.

but thats not all.....

 Dahlia Dream is my fellow *ABSPD friend Anneline's design, and Fake Knit, is the amazing Onneke's design, also a *ABSPD Friend. 

Unbelievable right? 

I'm super proud of us all. Because as a result we are all now licensing these designs to the wonderful Iconemesis, to be sold on iPhone 5 cases, which are manufactured in the UK and of excellent quality. Find out more about Iconemesis HERE! 

Lastly, best of Luck to all those who entered the Front Row Society Leggings competition. 

We can clean sweep once again. 

*ABSPD - The art and Business of Surface Pattern Design 

                                                E-Course

Sunday Blog Post - Etsy Finds

Apologies for the delay in creating todays blog post.....

I attended a Children's birthday party this afternoon....

Enough said?

I have some Gems for you today, have a peek.....

AnkePankeDesigns

I fell in LOVE with Anke's designs as soon as I found her Etsy store. There's too many Gorgeous designs to share, please visit her store to see for yourself. 

Sam Osborne

There are too many amazing products on Sam's Etsy store, I couldn't decide what to share. So I decided to share a variety of Products. Please Click an image to visit Sam Osborne's store. 

SMART Creative

(Sarah Martin)

I couldn't resist sharing these Lush Scrabble designs. 

I have worked with scrabble pieces myself in the past, and I think Sarah has created some fabulous designs. Please Click on the images to take you to Sarah's store. 

If you would like to be Featured on Etsy Finds, Please Leave a comment, or find me on twitter @jlwillustration and leave your Etsy link :-) 

Until Next Time. 

Spoonflower Top 10

Hello again, 

Im happy to share that My 'love arrows' design made top 10 in this weeks Spoonflower competition. 

Here are the top 10 entries: 

http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/162

And my design......

Printed onto Fabric

Thank you to the 286 individuals that voted. 

The design is now available for sale via spoonflower, by the yard and as a fat quarter HERE. 

Until next time. 

Good News All Around - Spoonflower

Hello again....

Rolling on from my last blog post about Tigerprint top 25, MORE AMAZING NEWS:

I found out yesterday I made 13th place in Spoonflowers Tea Towel 2013 Competition....

Remember this design? 

321 votes...

186 entries...

Thanks guys. 

I'd also like to congratulate fellow ABSPD students Emily Truong and Dawn Clarkson for doing amazingly well also.

(apologies if I missed others who entered, I don't recognise some of the Spoonflower names). 

9th Place....

11th Place....

Next time we will make top 10 won't we Dawn?

Moving on...

Next....

The theme is Arrows....

did i nail it?

I think so... 

Please vote...

http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/161

Until next time.