Christmas Tags

Wishing you all a blessed and joyful Christmas.

If you forgot to get some Christmas tags in time, feel free to download these or these and print them for yourselves. Of course only for personal use.

Fleece and microsuede

Today I received the first three yards of fabric printed on fleece and microsuede. The outcome is very nice. I am so satisfied. Any tips what to sew from such material? I have a few ideas for the fleece but can´t think of anything to make from the microsuede.

Dara Bags

I have been cooperating for some time now with a lady called Darina Hubáčková. She is a perspective fashion designer and the owner of a fast growing Czech brand Dara Bags.

I design some fabrics for her bags and as she has a shop on Etsy too, you can now buy her great goods anywhere in the world.

Updates

Honestly,
I am not into blogging it seems.

Well,
there are so many things to do and handle and blog is just not a priority.

I would love to share more and post new things however,
I think I am not able to.

Enjoy life and be thankful.

Thanks.

Renata

PS: If you do have a little feeling like supporting my designs, please go to Textile Republic and vote for my pattern. I need 100 likes. Thanks.

Pingg and Northren Exposure

When I say the word Pingg, in Czech it sound like to knock out a ball.

So let me kick off a news that I joined the Pingg and I wonder what it will bring.

They featured me in the graphic designers series one day after I displayed some of my designs. That´s encouraging.

BTW you should be able to see some of my pictures being sold in the U.S. and other countries as I am cooperating with the company called Northren Exposure. They make cards and matted prints. I just received samples and I must say I am happy with the results.

Also, I tried to work on my page at Wix but it is still in progress.

Update

Well, my blogging activity has been rather idle recently. And I am not happy about it, believe me. However, priorities of life are different and blogging surely must be at some further places, I guess you agree with me.

Today, I would like to share with you one of my photo journals from our family trip. There was a blacksmith festival at an old castle called Helfštýn a few weeks ago and we visited it. It wasn´t the most beautiful weather but we enjoyed the time there being together.

I still keep a few more drawings of animal characters to be colored and embellished as I usually do to have them on Red Bubble for sale but I hardly find any time to finish them. Hopefully, I will make myself do it and get ready for Christmas. I wish I had 12 pictures in total to give you the opportunity to get yourself a calendar for the next year. Well, we will see. No promises.

Mountains

Even if it is just a weekend trip, I am satisfied. I simply must go out.

A few weeks ago we went to the mountains again and picked some mushrooms and blueberries. The peak at the picture is called Lysá hora and literally it means "bald mountain" because there are not many trees up there anymore.

Posters

I am working on a few posters playing with letters which is quite popular. See my RedBubble.

Printing with Stamps

Designing, drawing, combining, coloring, printing the world all over in many ways, that’s what I would like to do al the time.Some time ago I bought myself a few little hand made stamps and I spent several hours printing on fabric. I think it is fun and a very creative activity. You can repeat the stamps in different ways, combine, change colors and you can always get an exciting outcome. Of course, I used paints for textiles, it means you can wash your fabric ad the print stays on which is great.

I used the printed fabric to create some simple fabric hearts,

you can embellish it with beads like I did and also, see the pillow below.

I mixed the hand made fabric with usual prints

I have and it made a wonderful result in my opinion.

Pieces of such printed fabric always inspire me very much.

Do you sometime forget?

This afternoon I wanted to start working on my new illustrations for some new cards and this is what came out. As it is in Czech, you can try to guess what the lama or the donkey say.