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

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!

Paintbox Dreams - art print. Also available in a framed print or canvas print.

Paintbox Dreams - throw pillow

Paintbox Dreams - coffee mug

I hope you like them! Let me know what you think by leaving me a comment below.

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

Have a great week!
love,

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!

Learn how to solder and make unique jewelry!

New Broken China Jewelry In My Etsy Shop & Happy Spring!

Ah, it's finally springtime. I love it. I truly hibernated this winter! I'm glad for the warmer weather and to be able to spend lots more time outside, even if I'm spending that time working outdoors.

My Etsy shop was very busy in March this year. Hmmm. That's kind of unusual, but with the ongoing changes within Etsy's search algorithms you kind of never know what you're going to get these days in terms of exposure and where you land up in the search results. In any case, I've been busy creating lots of new broken china jewelry and am revisiting some china patterns (especially some of the vintage chintz patterns) that I haven't used in jewelry for a while, so be sure to keep an eye on my new listings!

Here are the nine pieces I made yesterday. I have tons more on the way, it just takes me time to get them listed in my shop because I'm a stickler for having perfect shapes, perfect soldering, and great photos - and all of that takes time. You can't rush a good thing!

I hope you like them :)

All items shown above are available for purchase at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

Have a great week!
love,

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!

Learn how to solder and make unique jewelry!

New Broken China Jewelry In My Etsy Shop & Goals For 2017

Hello friends! I hope 2017 has been off to a great start for each of you! I started my year off with a dose of creative inspiration with a visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and if you missed my blog post about it, be sure to check it out here!

I am so grateful for the opportunities and challenges I've had in 2016, and it really has been a year of creative transformation! I am once again deciding what I am going to do for 2017. As I did last year, I am still considering the possibility of a third book, putting some ideas together for a few more jewelry or craft DVDs, and once again jumping head first into creating new designs for 2017!

I love exploring different areas of design, and in 2016 became absolutely engrossed with illustrating for fun. I was thrilled to find that my original designs that I created from pen and ink illustrations have been selling well as a variety of home decor products on Society6, so I will certainly be doing more drawing and painting in 2017!

On the flipside, I am making a few small personal goals for 2017 that are things like trying to eat more vegetables, make sure I get more sleep (I absolutely love working late into the night but unfortunately it just doesn't mesh well with having to get up at 6:30 in the morning!), and of course, staying more organized in my workshop.

Here are the latest pieces of jewelry that I have listed in my Etsy shop. I know some of you like to see these enlarged photos, so I try to get them up here on the blog every now and again.

A word about the piece above - I am in LOVE with this necklace - it is a larger sized statement necklace that I made from an antique Art Nouveau Flow Blue plate that was broken to pieces. (2 & 2/3" by 2 & 3/8", sterling silver chain.)

Oh, wait! I thought of another goal for 2017. I am determined to get my sewing machine out and sew lots of stuff. :) Not sure exactly what yet, but I really could use new kitchen curtains so I think I am going to start there. Maybe after that I will think of something fantastical and creative to create!