Monday, October 6, 2014

Sew it Seams meets Spoonflower

I am super excited to announce the latest addition to the Sew it Seams family! Sew it Seams is now officially on Spoonflower!  For those of you who are new to Spoonflower, or perhaps have never heard of it before, Spoonflower is a venue for creating your own fabrics, wallpapers and wrapping papers.  The company uses industrial sized fabric printers to then print your designs into whatever yardage you desire onto a multitude of fabric options.  They have everything from Kona cotton to faux suede and just about everything in between. This includes wrapping paper, both satin and matte finish, and wallpaper in two different types. I have known about Spoonflower for some time now, but it wasn't until a dear friend of mine recently had me order her some fabric from them that I really started taking an interest.

She had her eye on one of the mini tote bags from my shop to use as a new church bag. She sent me a link to the fabric she wanted and I was so impressed with the design of a fabric so unique and specific to her religion.  It was just so cute!  I was even more impressed with the quality of both the image and the fabric once it arrived.

 
I got to work right away and her bag turned out so good!  And, when i delivered it, she loved it!
 


When I saw how cool and unique the fabric was, I started doing a little more browsing around and was blown away by the amazing volume of cool and unique fabrics that were available on their site.  I got SUPER excited when I discovered their weekly design contest! Every week, Spoonflower has a theme and you can enter a design that goes along with the theme. Spoonflower account holders get to vote for their favorite designs and the winning designs get featured on their web page and blog. How cool right?

So, of course, I got to work!  I am no great artist of realism, so I decided to try my hand at some whimsical fabric designs. I jotted down the next three weeks of contest themes and started brainstorming.  I started with this week's current theme "Ballet".   I decided to draw myself a rough ballet slipper element. I drew it with pencil and then colored it in with markers.

 
I scanned the image into my computer, then uploaded it onto the Spoonflower site and used their editing software to turn my simple design into a (well, what I think is pretty adorable) fabric design.
 

I uploaded this design officially to the contest which opened earlier this week. If you get a chance, take a quick minute to start up your own Spoonflower account and vote for your favorite designs! They may have just been flattering me, but when I logged into my account to vote, they had my design as one of the random samples featured.  That was kinda neat!


This design has already been favorited by a few people and its just so exciting! Favorites are different than votes in the contest, which I don't get to see totals of until the contest ends. I got a special email from Spoonflower also this week telling me that my design was featured on their "Recent trends" shopping page. (excuse my ridiculous screen shot pictures, I was excited!)


I have already finished the next two weeks of designs and am getting started on the next two weeks after that. I am really having so much fun with this!  Here is my fabric design for next week's "Umbrella" contest.
 

 
And my submission for the "Clocks and Timepieces" contest the following week.
 

 
 
 To add to the fun, all of my designs so far are available for purchase. Which means....You can order any of my bags as a custom order in a fabric designed special by me!  OR you can order my fabrics for your very own sewing projects. This week, I received sample swatches of my fabrics. It was so exciting seeing something that I designed printed on real fabric!
 


 
As a Spoonflower designer, I do earn "Spoondollars" as a commission of sorts for any purchases of my designs. Even if you don't have a need for fabric,wallpaper or wrapping paper, I hope that you will help support Sew it Seams latest adventure and vote for my designs (as well as any of the other very deserving designs) in the weekly contests. Voting ends Wednesday (so still plenty of time to get those votes in this week!) and the new contests start Thursdays. Spoonflower also has a weekly contest on their blog, which is usually for some really cool crafty or sewing books and often times free yardage of fabric or wrapping paper. Its also super quick and easy to enter, just need an email address. I am super excited for this new adventure! I have also created a new link to my Spoonflower shop on the right hand side of the blog for quick access to my shop. Thank you all for everything you do! Keep on crafting!


2 comments:

  1. How neat is that?? I love the ballet slippers!!

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    1. Thanks Dawn! I can't wait to see all the wonderful and fun possibilities this brings! Its such a blast!

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Monday, October 6, 2014

Sew it Seams meets Spoonflower

I am super excited to announce the latest addition to the Sew it Seams family! Sew it Seams is now officially on Spoonflower!  For those of you who are new to Spoonflower, or perhaps have never heard of it before, Spoonflower is a venue for creating your own fabrics, wallpapers and wrapping papers.  The company uses industrial sized fabric printers to then print your designs into whatever yardage you desire onto a multitude of fabric options.  They have everything from Kona cotton to faux suede and just about everything in between. This includes wrapping paper, both satin and matte finish, and wallpaper in two different types. I have known about Spoonflower for some time now, but it wasn't until a dear friend of mine recently had me order her some fabric from them that I really started taking an interest.

She had her eye on one of the mini tote bags from my shop to use as a new church bag. She sent me a link to the fabric she wanted and I was so impressed with the design of a fabric so unique and specific to her religion.  It was just so cute!  I was even more impressed with the quality of both the image and the fabric once it arrived.

 
I got to work right away and her bag turned out so good!  And, when i delivered it, she loved it!
 


When I saw how cool and unique the fabric was, I started doing a little more browsing around and was blown away by the amazing volume of cool and unique fabrics that were available on their site.  I got SUPER excited when I discovered their weekly design contest! Every week, Spoonflower has a theme and you can enter a design that goes along with the theme. Spoonflower account holders get to vote for their favorite designs and the winning designs get featured on their web page and blog. How cool right?

So, of course, I got to work!  I am no great artist of realism, so I decided to try my hand at some whimsical fabric designs. I jotted down the next three weeks of contest themes and started brainstorming.  I started with this week's current theme "Ballet".   I decided to draw myself a rough ballet slipper element. I drew it with pencil and then colored it in with markers.

 
I scanned the image into my computer, then uploaded it onto the Spoonflower site and used their editing software to turn my simple design into a (well, what I think is pretty adorable) fabric design.
 

I uploaded this design officially to the contest which opened earlier this week. If you get a chance, take a quick minute to start up your own Spoonflower account and vote for your favorite designs! They may have just been flattering me, but when I logged into my account to vote, they had my design as one of the random samples featured.  That was kinda neat!


This design has already been favorited by a few people and its just so exciting! Favorites are different than votes in the contest, which I don't get to see totals of until the contest ends. I got a special email from Spoonflower also this week telling me that my design was featured on their "Recent trends" shopping page. (excuse my ridiculous screen shot pictures, I was excited!)


I have already finished the next two weeks of designs and am getting started on the next two weeks after that. I am really having so much fun with this!  Here is my fabric design for next week's "Umbrella" contest.
 

 
And my submission for the "Clocks and Timepieces" contest the following week.
 

 
 
 To add to the fun, all of my designs so far are available for purchase. Which means....You can order any of my bags as a custom order in a fabric designed special by me!  OR you can order my fabrics for your very own sewing projects. This week, I received sample swatches of my fabrics. It was so exciting seeing something that I designed printed on real fabric!
 


 
As a Spoonflower designer, I do earn "Spoondollars" as a commission of sorts for any purchases of my designs. Even if you don't have a need for fabric,wallpaper or wrapping paper, I hope that you will help support Sew it Seams latest adventure and vote for my designs (as well as any of the other very deserving designs) in the weekly contests. Voting ends Wednesday (so still plenty of time to get those votes in this week!) and the new contests start Thursdays. Spoonflower also has a weekly contest on their blog, which is usually for some really cool crafty or sewing books and often times free yardage of fabric or wrapping paper. Its also super quick and easy to enter, just need an email address. I am super excited for this new adventure! I have also created a new link to my Spoonflower shop on the right hand side of the blog for quick access to my shop. Thank you all for everything you do! Keep on crafting!


2 comments:

  1. How neat is that?? I love the ballet slippers!!

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    1. Thanks Dawn! I can't wait to see all the wonderful and fun possibilities this brings! Its such a blast!

      Delete