I bought a new sketchbook at the Minnesota Renaissance Faire, leatherbound with handmade cotton paper. It’s a bit small, but it has been fun for studying floral designs and patterns. The paper is quite absorbent, so it’s been trial and error to see what does and doesn’t work.

Most of these were studies of wallpapers, art deco designs and fashion fabrics that I’ve accumulated over the years,  except the halloween piece.

Two more patterns, this time watercolor. The second one was a study of another pattern I saw, no idea of the source though. Edited in photoshop to tile. I need to try new not pink and green colors for patterns…

Menu and table card designs… still working on the program and had some cute ideas for place cards. If you can’t tell by the meny (would be easier to read at actual size, ideally letterpressed…) I was totally dreaming of a new england wedding. I might have to throw together a mood board for it now!

Two patterns I designed to go with the Lime Rose Studio identity. I would use these as envelope liners, gift wrap, small note cards… Will have to try with different colorways as well – especially against a not white background!

Also, I’m having issues getting the portfolio side of my website (illustration and stationery) to display correctly in different browsers… Google Chrome has given me no issues so far though – surprise surprise.