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Prehistoric Sea Clothing
Exciting new collaboration with Three by the Sea Clothing
I’m delighted to share some pictures of the beautiful outfits made by Three by the Sea Clothing with my ‘Swimming with Plesiosaurs’ pattern. This boutique children’s clothes company creates stunning mini collections of children’s clothing, with an exquisite eye for detail and quality. So I was thrilled when they approached me with a request to licence my prehistoric themed design. The beautiful trio of outfits in their ‘Bamboo Prehistoric Sea Collection’ are all made from high quality, lightweight bamboo fabric - so they’re soft and very wearable - just lovely!
Bamboo Prehistoric Sea Collection by Three by the Sea Clothing
Swimming with Plesiosaurs - Pink and Pastel by Cecca Designs
Yiume - Hawaiian Shirt
Yiume collaboration with Cecca Designs ~ Peace, Love and Dinosaurs Hawaiian Shirt!
I’m excited to announce my latest collaboration - with Yiume, a company inspired by the Aloha spirit - sustainable and quintessentially Hawaiian. I love Yiume’s style - they’re inspired by nature, art, the joy of living and the call of the ocean! Which could happily describe me too! I’m thrilled that they selected one of my most joyful designs - Peace, Love and Dinosaurs as it’s also one of my favourites. And I love how the finishe d shirt has turned out!
The shirts have button-down collars and are made from 100% cotton with coconut buttons!
Hop over to Yiume’s site to have a closer look ~ Peace, Love and Dinosaurs Hawaiian Shirt
Happy Wall Collaboration
Announcing my collaboration with Happy Wall!
I’m super excited to announce my new wallpaper range with the Swedish company Happy Wall.
Happy Wall are a Swedish company with years of experience of selling wall murals on the internet and they pride themselves on helping you make your walls unique. Their designs are all carefully curated and printed to order. With their gorgeous range of wallpapers and murals perfect for homes, offices or anywhere else, I’m thrilled to have my designs join them!
https://www.happywall.com/en/designers/cecca-designs
Here are a few of my favourites so far ~
Gift Guide
Launching an exciting Gift Guide for Cecca Designs! Sections include Stocking Fillers, Men’s, Women’s and Kid’s Clothing, Accessories, Home Decor, Home Goods, Wall Art, Tech Accessories and Pet Supplies!
I’m super excited to launch my brand new Gift Guide!
As a designer with art on many products across a number of online shops I wanted to hand pick a selection of my favourite or most popular things from the different shops and bring them all together into one place. I’ve curated a selection of products in several categories and each image links directly to the specific item. The images below are just a taster:
The Gift Guide sections include Stocking Fillers, Men’s, Women’s and Kid’s Clothing, Accessories, Stationary, Home Decor, Home Goods, Wall Art, Tech Accessories and Pet Supplies!
I’ve not included things like Fabric, Wallpaper, Shower Curtains or Skateboards for now but I’ve still got links to all sections of my shops on my Shops page. If you can’t find the design you like on the product you are after please let me know!
I’ve also included a selection of my favourite products from guest designer ‘Coffee and Walnut’.
Veggie Breakfast - Apron by Coffee and Walnut
Clicking on any of the images in the guide will take you to a new tab in one of my shops where you’ll be able to find more products with the design selected. The products are mainly from Redbubble but I’ve also linked to some great products on Spoonflower, Threadless, TeePublic and Society6. Some items (e.g. T-Shirts) will be available in a few of the different stores.
To browse the Gift Guide head to the category from the main menu above or click here: https://www.ceccadesigns.com/gift-guide
I’d love any feedback or suggestions, please just leave me a comment or drop me a note!
Woven Monkey
New collaboration with UK based Fabric company Woven Monkey. Cecca Designs fabric available in the UK!
I’m super excited to announce my latest collaboration - Woven Monkey are an eco-friendly, UK based fabric company with a great range of fabrics! I launched my shop with some of my favourite designs and I’ll be adding more over the coming weeks. If there are any designs you’d particularly like me to add please just let me know.
https://www.wovenmonkey.com/designers/ceccadesigns
I’m so happy to have another UK based fabric manufacturer - I’d love to know what you think of my range and if you’ve got any suggestions or requests!
Cloth Cuts collaboration
I’m excited to announce my collaboration with Australian fabric company Cloth Cuts! Cloth Cuts is a family run business based in Brisbane, QLD Australia and I’m delighted to have over 40 designs available with them.
I’m super excited to announce my collaboration with Australian fabric company Cloth Cuts! Cloth Cuts is a family run business based in Brisbane, QLD Australia. They offer printing across 15+ different fabric bases including PUL, Minky, Cotton lycra, linen, poplin and twill. They’ve also just launched a brand new website and I’m thrilled to be one of their latest artists.
Their site looks amazing and I’m delighted to have over 40 designs available with them.
You can view and pre-order from my range here:
https://www.clothcuts.com.au/artist-marketplace/cecca-designs
Artfinder - New Art shop
New Cecca Whetnall Original Art shop on Artfinder
I’ve been wanting to set up an Artfinder shop for years and I’ve finally had the time to do it! If you haven’t checked out Artfinder before I really recommend it as a great place to find affordable original art. There are over 7000 artists on there, from over 108 different countries. It’s such a refreshing change from Etsy as it’s obviously only for art and not full of all sorts of other things!
I’ve started my shop with a selection of my Dorset Linocuts and I’d love it if you came by and had a look: Cecca Whetnall - Artfinder. As I launch my shop on Artfinder I thought it might be a good time to start a new Instagram account and separate my pattern design work from my printmaking, painting and general fine art malarky. I’ll be posting work in progress and anything printmaking, painting and art related to it, so please follow me there if that sounds interesting! My new Instagram account is: @Cecca_Artist
Here are some interior views showing how my original prints could look ~
Gold Hill II - Original Linocut
Red Arrows, Bournemouth - Original Linocut
Bournemouth Gardens - Original Linocut
Contrado - UK Collaboration
Cecca Designs - New Contrado shop launch!
I added the link to my shop section back in December but it’s always a busy month for me so I forgot to blog about it! Contrado is a UK based, sustainable company who print and manufacture a huge range of beautiful products (over 450!!). Their factory is based in London and every product is hand made to order within a matter of days!
My ‘Cecca Designs’ shop with them is now open and I’m excited to have been able to add to my shop gorgeous products including a variety of luxury bags, wrap dresses, bikinis, sandals, wallpaper and fabrics!
I’ve created 5 capsule collections so far, based on themes but I hope to expand them in future. If there is any particular design of mine that you’d like to see on one of their products please let me know!
My shop is: https://www.contrado.co.uk/stores/cecca
I’d love it if you’d take a look!
Clover & Co Fabrics - Collaboration
Clover & Co. Fabrics Collaboration
I’m thrilled to announce my collaboration with Australian boutique fabric business Clover & Co Fabrics. They’ve selected a lovely collection of 14 of my designs and have just pre-released them for orders. They have a beautiful community of makers and a wide range of top quality, ethically manufactured fabric bases to choose from. I’m so excited to see what their customers make with my designs! Whilst I await the real makes here are a selection of the designs and a few mock-ups using the designs from the collection.
You can see the full Cecca Designs Clover & Co Fabric collection here
A selection of fabrics from my Clover & Co Fabric range
Hummingbirds and Passionflowers
Vintage Canned Goods
Folk Floral scatter - Credit to Aimée Parker (TheIndoorsyProject.com) for the mockup
Dinosaur Fruit Party!
Collaborative sketches for my latest design - Dinosaur Fruit Party!
I was a bit stumped to start with for this weeks Spoonflower contest with a ‘Kidult’ theme, as I probably do ‘Kidult’ most of the time 😆. So I asked my kids and ended up with a real collaboration! I’ve always loved dinosaurs and my youngest is a real fruit lover so we decided on Dinosaur Fruit Party! My eldest joined in while I was sketching and created some fantastic characters! Here are some of our sketches and the final design - can you spot which bits I used and which characters were entirely his creations!?
Voting is open from now and I’d love a vote if you like our design! https://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=654
Peace, Love and Dinosaurs, Owls and Whales!
Latest designs on Society6 - Peace, Love and Dinosaurs, Autumn Owls and Whales Paradise!
I’m so excited about lots of my latest Society6 products! In just the last few days I’ve added my Autumn Owls, Whales Paradise and Peace, Love and Dinosaurs designs and I love how they come to life on so many of the fantastic products! Here are just a few of my favourites - which do you like best?
You can also get 20% Off Everything until the 9th of May!
DIY Dog Collar Tutorial
So excited that Spoonflower and Anna Mina from Pink Up Perfect chose my mini fossils fabric to make their latest DIY project blog - a gorgeous dog collar and matching leash!
So excited that Spoonflower and Anna Mina from Pink Up Perfect chose my mini fossils fabric to make their latest DIY project blog - a gorgeous dog collar and matching leash! You can check out the full instructions for the make over on Spoonflower’s blog but here are a few photos from the project.
I’m so glad they chose mini fossils, it has to be one of my favourite ditsy designs. It’s part of my dinosaur fossils collection and is available in lots of different colorways.
Two beautifully collared dogs (mini fossils on the right, the other pattern is by beve: studio)
Close up of the mini fossils collar
Anna Mina from Pink Up Perfect with the finished collar
Midnight Mushrooms
Many of my designs start out with pen or pencil on paper. Here is a simple pen sketch I made for Inktober one year and the resulting pattern.
Many of my designs start out with pen or pencil on paper. Here is a simple pen sketch I made for Inktober one year and the resulting pattern. I love Autumn and spotting toadstools when I’m walking in the New Forest. I love how the design looks on home decor and I think it would be fab for oven gloves and aprons!
Mushrooms - Sketch for Inktober
Duvet and Pillow set with Midnight Mushrooms pattern
Table runner with Midnight Mushrooms pattern
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