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Monday, January 8, 2018

My Scattered Stars Design - Redbubble Phone Case Unboxing

Last year I blogged a little bit about some of the designs I was creating for a few different print on demand (POD) sites. This Scattered Stars design was one of them, and I was excited to order a new phone case for myself in one of my own designs. I was curious to check out the quality of the product and see in person how my design looked on it.

Scattered Scars Floor Pillow from Redbubble

I created this graphic design with white stars on three different colored backgrounds; Black, Midnight Blue, and Modern Indigo. I still have another color in the works and will have it up in my Redbubble shop soon!

This version of my design (on all of the products shown on this page) is from my Redbubble shop.

One of the things I love about Redbubble is that they run a lot of sales, so if you find something you like on the site, keep your eyes open for special sales for things like free shipping or a nice discount.

My old phone case was falling apart, so off went my order! I thought I'd share my unboxing with you.

Within about a week after I placed my order my package from Redbubble arrived in the mail. Yay!

Redbubble has some pretty nice packaging. Inside the red shipping envelope was a bubble wrap envelope. Inside of that was the package shown above. They included a cool, fun sticker with my order too.

I was super-happy with the quality of my iphone case! The design looked great, and I'll definitely be ordering more from Redbubble in the future.

Scattered Scars Studio Pouch from Redbubble

What do you think?

Have you ever shopped at Redbubble?

Have a great week!

Laura

My broken china jewelry is always available for purchase at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Check out my new jewelry instruction books and DVDs

Friday, August 11, 2017

A Few New Designs For Fall

New Mandala floor pillow in Plum - available in square or round, 26" or 30"

Sometimes I spend hours choosing just the right colors for my designs. I guess when it comes to my work I can be a bit of a perfectionist, but I like the things I create to be just right. :)

I want my colors to pop and say hello...but not be too overbearing.

I draw each illustration by hand with pen and paper...

Pillow shams (set of two) - comforter and duvet covers also available

Wall tapestries - available in three sizes - 51" x 60", 68" x 80" and 88" x 104"

I'm in love with color. My favorite? All of them in one way or another.

Mandala floor pillow in Green

Close up detail of floor pillow

New! Backpacks!

New - Breathe Art Nouveau Mandala

Mandala in Gray - window curtains

Relax Mandala Tapestry - medium size shown

My Society6 shop

Have a great week!
love,

Laura

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

A Peek At My New Designs & A Few Process Photos

Hi friends! I've been falling behind with my blogging so I figured I would do a few updates to share what I've been up to. I have a habit of getting interested in a project and then throwing myself into it, and when I do that, everything else sort of disappears. I know that it's great to have intense focus, but sometimes I have to make myself stop and make sure everything else is still up and running!

I've been in full creative mode since spring and if you've seen my other recent posts you already know that I've been hard at work turning out new broken china jewelry for my Etsy shop. I used to sell my jewelry directly from my website (dishfunctionaldesigns.com) but stopped when I moved into my 2nd house just because it was easier to list things on Etsy, but lately I've been thinking about doing that again...but it's still just a thought.

I've been splitting my time between jewelry and the gym and after a back injury last year that took me AGES to recover from, it feels SO great to be able to move and run and now I can't stop hehe. So between the jewelry and gym and creating designs for my Society6 shop there is never an idle moment here.

Here's a peek at what I've been working on.

Celestial Swirling Sun... I really like they way this illustration turned out. It's simple. I could have kept going and added lots more detail and really filled up the page, but instead I added a border to the design and then stopped. Sometimes things are best left simple. Not everything has to be busy and complex. Simplicity can be very beautiful and I knew that just adding maybe two colors to the design would be enough.

I decided to create this design in three color schemes: yellow on white, black, and blue... which do you like best?

Celestial Swirling Sun Boho Mandala Hand-drawn Illustration Floor Pillow

Celestial Swirling Sun Boho Mandala Hand-drawn Illustration on White Pillow Sham

Celestial Swirling Sun Boho Mandala Hand-drawn Illustration on White Wall Clock

I've really been in the mood for watercolor painting. I created my own take on the talisman for evil eye protection with the painting below, and then turned it into a pattern. It's now featured on Society6!

Once I finished the design I created it on three different backgrounds: white, light blue, and black. I can't decide which I like the most!

Beach towel, blue background

Throw pillow, white background

Biker tank, black background

Relax Mandala Tapestry - medium size shown

New - Breathe Art Nouveau Mandala

This, turned into this:

Floor pillow

Imagine the color possibilities! Like this one:

Pillow shams (set of two) - comforter and duvet covers also available

Sometimes a quick concept sketch turns out to be the entire design, as with this design below! I kind of knew I wanted a rising sun with the text "begin again" so I quickly pencil sketched out three possibilities as a starting point...

I liked the way the center sun sketch turned out so much that I just went ahead and inked it directly on the sketch and then scanned it and added the color digitally. I LOVE the way it turned out! Here is the design on a wall tapestry...

Begin Again Sun Inspirational Sunrise Wall Tapestry

Begin Again Sun Inspirational Sunrise Tote Bag

Begin Again Sun Inspirational Sunrise Carry-All Pouch

What do you think?

I have many other designs to share but I just don't have the time to put them all here right now, so be sure to check them out in my Society6 shop!

I hope you like them! Let me know what you think by leaving me a comment below.
Which design is your favorite?

Have a great week!

Laura

All items shown above are available for purchase at https://society6.com/laurabethlove

Friday, April 14, 2017

Starry Boho Moons Design Featured on Society6! (& New Designs!)

Starry Boho Moons Laptop Skin

Hi Friends! I hope you are all having a great Spring and are enjoying the holiday weekend. I've been having lots of fun creating all different kinds of new artwork. I've been painting and doing some digital art as well, and have shared some of my new designs in my Society6 shop and I'm happy to say they've been picking up momentum. Last week I was beyond thrilled to find that my Starry Boho Moons design had been curated by Society6 into the "New" section across each of the categories in their Home Decor section. Yay!

If you know how deep the competition is on Society6, this is a huge accomplishment and I'm really proud of my design. There are thousands of artists on Society6 who each day upload hundreds upon hundreds of new pieces of artwork.

Starry Boho Moons Wall Tapestry

Along with this, you are bound to see lots of folks going with trends and what they perceive as popular, so at times, designs can be kind of repetitive. The best thing that you can do to stand out is to really just be yourself and do your own thing and create something that is completely new and completely you. Follow trends? Sure, but to stand out from the crowd there has to be something special about your design that makes it unique to you.

Starry Boho Moons actually started out as a watercolor painting with highly saturated red and yellow moons on a deep blue background. Once I scanned my painting into my computer and began adjusting the colors and details I soon found myself with this black and gray design. A new design was born.

Starry Boho Moons Phone Skin (cases also available here)

I was actually surprised that this piece was chosen to be showcased - as it wasn't my personal favorite from my shop - but it just goes to show that our own personal tastes aren't always what is going to be the most popular with other people or the general public. Keep that in mind! Try new things.

Moody Hipster Mandala Floor Pillow

One of my favorite things to do is to play with color schemes. I love the way this Moody Hipster Mandala design turned out. If you are a regular reader of my blog you might recognize this design from the super-fast time lapse video that I did of this design a couple months ago...

Moody Hipster Mandala Tote

I finally taught myself how to cut out images and make backgrounds transparent. This process takes a little bit of time but the effort is so worth it because you can do cool designs like my Psychedelic Doughnut t-shirt (below), and with a transparent background this image can be put on any color shirt, sweatshirt, hoodie, etc.

This design is an original watercolor painting. Once I scan it into my computer, I can change the color scheme and come up with all different effects. It's really fun!

Psychedelic Phrosted Doughnut #2 T-shirt

Because everyone should have a psychedelic doughnut shower curtain, ya know?...

Shower curtain

Below is the same design, but with my original color scheme.

Psychedelic Phrosted Doughnut #2 iPhone case

Creating the original painting

The last design I'm going to share with you today is entitled Paintbox Dreams, and it's a colorful watercolor painting that has kind of muted tones. Here it is below in an art print and mug. Hope you like them!