Spoonflower Emerald Forest Challenge

I've been selling designs on Spoonflower since August 2015. I recently decided to begin entering some of the weekly challenges. This week's challenge is "Emerald Forest". I've spent lots of time in many places that I would call an Emerald Forest. I beag going through my photos and looking to see if I had any that would work good in a kaleidoscopic like repeat. I started to get discouraged and then stumbled across this photo. This is a photo I took on a trip to an ecological park in Honduras.

I played with different spots in the photo until I came across a pattern that I fell in love with. But it still needed "something".

I then went through numerous photos that I had of all kinds of butterflies. I thought about using a few different ones, but one particular butterfly was stuck in my head - the blue morpho. I've taken numerous photos of this butterfly - from the rainforests of Ecuador to butterfly gardens in Key West. But the only photo that I had that showed the full beauty of the Blue Morpho was one of a mounted specimen that I took at the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas in Austin.

I took my Blue Morpho photo and made a vector of the butterfly. I then added the Blue Morpho to my leafy green background in two sizes and orientations. While I see where I could have improved my design, I submitted it as seen below.

The design is displayed as a Roostery Catalan pillow.

Voting closes on July 10 at 3pm EDT. You can vote HERE and see all the designs entered.

If you are interested in purchasing fabric with this design, it will soon be available HERE. I've ordered a swatch, and once it arrives I will make it available for purchase.

If you love the Catalan Pillow above, it can be purchased along with many other items on Rooserty HERE.

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