A more whimsical approach than my original sketches for the Dog Challenge from Spoonflower this week. A few puppies and lots of leaves and flowers a little reminder to stop and sniff the flowers.

This palette is fantastic because I think that it can be both feminine and masculine, blush pink is really on trend, and gold seems to be an enduring color of choice.

If you follow along with us on Instagram you may have seen the initial sketch of this new lemon pattern about almost two months ago. I put it on the back burners while I worked on other designs for the Spoonflower Design Challenges and paid client graphic design work. Click here to vote

I submitted a few designs to the Pillow Fight Fabric Quickfire Challenge at Minted one in the children’s category with Cute brush stroke rainbows and clouds. One in the feminine category with flowy brush strokes in blues, gold, and teal. Finally, I submitted one in the masculine category with an abstract circle pattern with mustard and grey—a classic combination. I would really appreciate your vote on all 3 of these. Thanks!

Mondays are better with cupcakes. They are my favorite treat, and when I used to work a traditional 9 to 5 and had a really bad day my husband would bring home a box of these sweeties--way better than flowers 😄

Rainbows and dinosaurs are a magical combination. Inspired by my son’s love of each I created a pattern that pulled both of these things together. If you have been following my illustrations for awhile you know that I love dinosaurs and rainbows. They pop up again and again in my work so it was just a matter of time that I use them both.

Spoonflower’s Boy Wonder Design Challenge this week had me looking to my own son for inspiration. His favorites seem to change rapidly between dinosaurs, robots, and trucks. Right now he is all about trucks and race cars. We keep checking out the same construction book from the library over and over, so I just had to do trucks in a variety of colors so that he could enjoy them no matter what his favorite color was. I would really appreciate your vote at Spoonflower this week.

My submission for spoonflower design challenge this week was inspired by my flights in and out of Kansas and the modular fields. Digital painting in Procreate of the countryside from a fly-over view. I would really appreciate your vote at my Spoonflower Shop

A little mid-week motivation to let you know if you are trying you are killing it, because showing up is half of that battle.

Inspired by the ring tail lemurs at our local zoo my animal portrait for this week’s Spoonflower Design Challenge I have these 3 little guys hopping among the tree branches full of lush leaves and flowers with a few parrots peeking out from the trees.