Butterfly Mandala Design

Hello all and thanks for stopping by.

I am participating in a new Design contest with my entry called: "Butterfly Mandala" which I created for the Design packaging for Always Dailies Discreet.

Voting is now open so please, feel free to support my design and share it with your friends and social media.

The link: goo.gl/Qr1d5W

Much appreciated :-)

Zentangles

Hello all,

It is interesting how life plays some times because I have been "Zentangling" for years and years, especially in my younger days and I never came across to this way of drawing as a Zentangle until this morning when I was pinning some dragonflies in Pinterest into my board "LulLabies" and then I came across to Sue Glass Pinterest page which is a Paradise for Zentangles.

A Zentangle is a relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being.









Characteristics of Zentangle are:

Intuitive: Anyone can create beautiful images from repetitive patterns. It is easy to learn and easy to do.   

Fun and Relaxing: Creating Zentangle art provides a fun and lighthearted way to relax and intentionally facilitate a shift in focus and perspective.

Unexpected Results: your creation is not restricted by your expectations.

Ceremonial: Repetitive, simple steps that support relaxation, focus and inspiration. It can be a wonderful daily ritual.

Timeless: Creating designs, manipulating symbols and putting pen to paper is part of our human heritage.

Portable: Everything you need to create beautiful Zentangle art can fit in your pocket.

Non Technical: Your creativity is not directed by how someone else wrote a particular program, nor does it need batteries or electricity.

Empowering: It is an empowering and uplifting experience to learn that you can deliberately relax and intentionally direct your attention while creating beautiful works of art .

If you google "Zentangle" images, you will get a better idea :-)

My Music Zentangle is one example
which I feel so proud of.

Keep on Zentangling!

SHIBORI Inspiration

Hello all,

Thank you for stopping by.

My mind is again with Japan and its culture and its way to make art since last week I discovered a new company called Ôtsuki Sama. I love all the things that they do and as they said in their facebook page:

"ÔTSUKI SAMA are

Creative Crafts and use of natural materials for limited editions of fabrics patterns painted in watercolor shades of indigo fabrics and other natural essences, 

decorative accessories and fashion, hand-made."

So inspired in their Indigo fabrics my mind swift again into the Art of Shibori.

Shibori (絞り染め Shiborizome^?) is a Japanese term for several methods of dyeing cloth with a pattern by binding, stitching, folding, twisting, compressing it, or capping. Some of these methods are known in the West as tie-dye.

Inspired by this, yesterday I created a New Inspiration Board: SHIBORI.

You can follow my Inspiration Boards in Facebook and Pinterest.

Enjoy them!

[blog lovin' tour] CELEBRATION

Hello everyone! and welcome to the seventh week of The Declaration of You! Blog Lovin´ tour. The Declaration of You will be published by North Light Craft Books this summer, which readers getting all the permission they´ve craved to step passionately into their lives, discover how their gifts are unique and uncover what they are meant to do! this post is part of The Declaration of You´s Blog Lovin´ Tour, which I´m thrilled to participate in alongside over 200 other creative bloggers. Learn more and join us, read here! 

My natural instinct is to celebrate. I like to share with people and come together in a joyous life.

Illustration from http://thisinsignificantlife.tumblr.com/

I like to celebrate any success that comes to me life. I prefer to do it in company, sharing the moment, however, if I am alone, I normally cook myself a delicious food which make me feel re-energetic and full of good vibes again. I also like to share with my family and friends, making them part of this "special occasion", no matter if it is big or small success, or if they are near or far away. My true nature is share moments with people.

Celebrations are very important part of my life. I came from a big family and I always remember with joy all the gathering together with the family. Those "little precious moments" are a real treasure for my soul. Also I lived in different countries, with great people from different cultures and I learn a lot. I had good memories of friends coming together to celebrate a moment in life around a table with awesome food, laughs and happiness.

I had some favorite celebratory experiences. One it was my mum 60´s birthday fete. She was very pretty and charming and the place was full of colours, delicious food and friends and family joining together to celebrate her big day. I remember, me and my partner cooking an "English breakfast" with the help of my cousin Yolanda, in the morning, for all the guests. Was very special! The celebration went all day long, with music, laughs and lots of bliss.

Another real and simple celebration was last Sunday when my partner and I harvest our first bunch of own grown potatoes and cooking them simply. Eating them was just a very merry moment!

Some days if I am in a "grey mood" I try to ask myself what is holding myself in that position and if there is no real reason, I try to let that feeling go, listening nice music, drawing, going for a walk or having a chat with my mum or a friend. 

My work is also a celebration of myself, sometimes hard others smooth, I try to think positively and keep on going, thinking big. I like to share every success and share my knowledge and achievements with people. We always learn something and if is in a celebration, ever better.

One of my recent mentors, told me once:

"Today is another day in Paradise!" and I add: "let´s do the best of it!"

Celebrations don´t need to be big ceremonies, the small ones are real treasures too :-)

My personal declaration around celebration could be:

"no matter what you are, what you have, where you are... get yourself into a group of people and celebrate little or big occasions because these will bring you what you really need at that moment. And if you are alone, do something for yourself that really pleases you!"

Photo from http://www.lovehart.co.uk/index.asp

Keep on celebrating and sharing!!

What is new :-)

I am so excited to announce that I started to license some of my patterns with Keka Cases!! This is a fantastic opportunity to see my patterns in the US market and the feeling that people will buy my design for their iPad or Kindle cases is just extraordinary.

I also recently participated in a new contest for Spoonflower and the theme was so joyful, PIC-NICS!
Voting ends Thursday 11th, so if you like my design and have the chance you can vote here:
http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters/new?contest_id=200  THANK YOU!

This pattern was created following my online course Reign Repeats: Create Perfect Repeat Patterns in Illustrator by MaJo Bautista V ... and I am so cheerful with the results :-)

Another couple of opportunities are on the list and I am so excited with these too.

Keep on designing!
and happy week everyone x

Pattern Design Pin-hop 2013

Welcome to the PIN-HOP June 2013 :-)

This project has been created and managed by the very talented artist Tina Olsson of FYLLAYTA which I think she has done a remarkable job putting this Pin-Hop together.

You might have arrived to see my collection for the Pattern Design Pin-Hop 2013 from the special pinterest board Pin Hop 2013 where you will find the work of over 50 surface pattern designers from all over the world. Each designers blog links back to the main Pin Hop board on Pinterest so you can go backwards and forwards looking at all the designers wonderful work without getting lost. I hope you have fun!  

My collection is based on the Midnight Garden theme from the Patternbank's trends board for AW13-14.

 

 

 

Once you have had a chance to look at my designs please take a moment to hop over and visit the beautiful work of Laura Escalante Mora

Thank you for visiting my blog. If you are interested in licensing my designs, please, feel free to get in contact with me at urech_gloria@hotmail.com

Love Pattern?...

And to Pin? Then save the date and join the Pinhop event starting on the 15th June :-)

A group of 40 talented Surface Pattern designers around the world, will be presenting brand new designs via a special Pinhop board located on the Find New Designers pinterest site - there will full collections based on Patternbanks trend forecast, AW 1314 and presented by those designers own web sites or blogs plus the main fact is that you can pin into your own board.

The concept and preparation is by Tina Olsson of Fyllayta who has done a great job putting this together.

See you there!... I hope.