Welcome to my Blog and in particular a big welcome and thank you for joining in the Tropical Fusion Blog Hop! I’m guessing that you’ve arrived here from the wonderful Onneke Van Waardenburg’s Blog? If so, I hope you enjoyed looking at her lovely collection. Or maybe you just stumbled across the Blog Hop by accident? Well lucky you as you’re definitely in for a treat!
Tropical Fusion Logo by Lisa Rivas
You can read more about Mary Tanana’s of Groovity Designs brilliant idea behind the Blog Hop here but for now I’d love it if you’d stay here a little while and have a look at my collection.
I’m a Surface Pattern Designer based in beautiful Yorkshire in the UK and have been creating patterns for textiles, wallpaper, homewares and much more for the last 8 years. To find out more about me and my work, then please feel free to browse my site but for now back to the Blog Hop!
I have to admit that the Tropical theme and Radiant Orchid colour was a little out of my comfort zone but once I got started and got my head round the idea that it was ok to put my own style into the tropical theme, I was soon flying (there’s a theme here!)! I started my collection by building a Tropical Fusion moodboard over on Pinterest (for those of you who don’t already know me, I’m slightly obsessed with Pinterest!), this helped to gather my ideas and inspire my designs.
I’d love for you to pin and share any of the images in this post but please just keep the image descriptions with the pin, thank you!
I decided I wanted to base my collection around tropical birds (told you there was a theme!) and tropical flowers, so I began sketching out hummingbirds and tropical flowers. I love the stunning colours in the hummingbirds and the fact that they’re so tiny and beautiful.
Next came the colours and bringing the design to life! I played around with different colour palettes, (probably for too long!) ensuring that the Radiant Orchid shone through. I tried bold, striking colours and contrasting bright colours but finally settled on a more subtle palette that hopefully still feels tropical and is a little bit more ‘me’! It’s a Design Seeds colour palette called Pistachio Hues
The result was my main design “Hummingbirds”
I then developed the bird theme and created my first co-ordinate in the collection which is still inspired by birds and is called “Tropical Feathers”.
I then wanted a nice tropical feel geometric design to finish the mini-collection off…..
So here we have my brand new “Tropical Fusion” Collection!
I thought it would be fun to see what my new designs would look like on some products, what do you think?
Thank you for taking the time to look through my Tropical Fusion collection and I really hope you enjoyed it! If you’d like to see more fabulous tropical inspired patterns then please head on over to the very talented Anna Berger’s Blog or if you prefer to start the hop from the beginning then you can hop on over to Groovity Designs. Either way, you’ll get to see the whole hop as it’s all linked! I hope you enjoy the ride!
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Beautiful work! Really love your mock ups, especially the bag and the wallpaper.
Thanks so much Lesley! Just had a peek at yours and love them too!
Just beautiful!!!
Thank you Anna!
Really stunning Rebecca, I would love myself a feather duvet
Thanks Onneke, I’ll have to do a full mock-up of the feather design on a duvet!
All beautiful designs. Soft yet vibrant and would make into lovely fabrics and wallpaper for a pretty bedroom.
Aww thank you so much for your lovely comments
Lovely designs and product mockups!
Thank you Carrie! I really enjoy doing the product mockups!
Wow beautiful designs Rebecca! Your motifs are so delicate and the colours work so well together. I love the mock up’s to, it’s nice to see how they work on the products. A very big well done!
Thank you very much Emma and thanks for taking the time to stop by and leave your lovely comments
I really like the colourway too, it took me a while to get there but I’m glad I experimented!
Amazing!!! Those hummingbirds love those flowers and so do I.
What a fabulous collection you created Rebecca, so concise and versatile. Beautiful, beautiful, love that you showed a bit of process and source of inspiration (Pinterest is the best!).
Also your samples are to die for!
I want that feather bag, the Hummingbird is my totem animal… so you guess it!
Thanks for all your support and encouragement during and for this blog-hop.
Oh Lisa, you are too kind! Thank you so much for such lovely words about my work, it’s really appreciated
I think I’m definitely going to have to do something with the Tropical Feathers design as it’s proving quite popular! Hummingbirds are so beautiful aren’t they? Their colours are just amazing, I just hope I did them justice! Thank you also for all you’ve done towards the Blog Hop by designing the beautiful logo. Hope you have a good one!
Gorgeous, stunning, tropical and delicate. Nice to see the whole process too! Congrats!!
Ah thanks Bethania! I always love seeing other designers sketches and work processes so thought it would be nice to share
Really lovely designs
Thanks very much for taking the time to pop by Faye and for your lovely comments!
Beautiful feathers Rebecca!!
Thanks so much Miranda. I really enjoyed drawing the feathers and colouring them
Very Sweet Designs Rebecca!
Thanks Nina, I’m glad you like them. I’ve already been pinning your fab designs to my Tropical Fusion pinterest board!
Great work, Rebecca and such lovely mock-ups! Fab! x
Thanks very much Daniela. I love doing the mock-ups as I think it really brings the designs to life. I saw your lovely designs yesterday and I’m going through the hop again today to leave comments. Hope it’s been a good one for you!x
Lovely work Rebecca,
Can’t even begin to tell you how much I like the feather print.
Thank you Ludmila! I’m glad you like the feather print….it seems to be quite popular!
These are all super gorgeous Rebecca!! Love the mock ups, the wallpaper looks awesome
Thanks Mary! As soon as the Hummingbird design was finished I knew I just had to put it onto a wall! Thank you also for all your hard work and making this fantastic experience possible. Nothing that we’ve asked for has been too much for you (or you’ve hidden it well!) and it’s been a great experience!
Beautiful collection and fabulous mock-ups Rebecca !
Thanks so much Maike! I really appreciate you persevering with trying to a post a comment as well, as I know you’ve had difficulties with it!
Really love the collection. My favourite is the feather design. I would buy that bag for sure!
Thank you Dawn, the Feather design, especially on that bag is getting a lot of love!
This is a good collection very well apllied to your products. I like your colors and designs elements especially the birds and flowers.
Thanks so much Marie for your lovely feedback, I appreciate it. I’m glad you enjoyed the collection!
I adore your colour palette and your designs look so great in the mock-up!
Thank you Lindsey! I’m really pleased that you like the colour palette so much as that was the one thing I toyed over the longest!
Such elegant hummingbirds and delicate flowing feathers. Love seeing the sketches too. Lovely collection Rebecca!
Thanks Ellie, I really appreciate your lovely feedback! Thanks also for trying again with posting the comment!
Love the bag ..and the singlet! Beautiful designs!
Thank you so much Maggie, I’m really pleased you enjoyed the collection and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment
Beautiful! Amazing collection and product mock ups, especially the feather tote!
Thank you so much Nicola! The feather print and bag is getting a lot of love!
Lovely work Rebecca and great mockups x
Thanks Tina, really pleased you like it all.x
Great collection Rebecca! They work nicely together. birds & feathers always work for me
Great process….lovely sketches and really great mock ups!
Thanks Deborah, glad you liked it!
Hi Rebecca, Your collection is very pretty and delicate, and the mock ups look fantastic! I really love the feather tote. Great job!
Thank you Wini! I’m really pleased you like the collection, especially the feather tote!
wow!! so very beautiful!
Thank you Leska!
WOW! You nailed the collection with the mockup! Love!
Thank you Virginia! I love doing the mock-ups