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Gift Guide
Launching an exciting Gift Guide for Cecca Designs! Sections include Stocking Fillers, Menβs, Womenβs and Kidβs Clothing, Accessories, Home Decor, Home Goods, Wall Art, Tech Accessories and Pet Supplies!
Iβm 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. Iβve 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, Menβs, Womenβs and Kidβs Clothing, Accessories, Stationary, Home Decor, Home Goods, Wall Art, Tech Accessories and Pet Supplies!
Iβve not included things like Fabric, Wallpaper, Shower Curtains or Skateboards for now but Iβve still got links to all sections of my shops on my Shops page. If you canβt find the design you like on the product you are after please let me know!
Iβve also included a selection of my favourite products from guest designer βCoffee and Walnutβ.
Clicking on any of the images in the guide will take you to a new tab in one of my shops where youβll be able to find more products with the design selected. The products are mainly from Redbubble but Iβve 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
Iβd 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!
Iβm 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 Iβll be adding more over the coming weeks. If there are any designs youβd particularly like me to add please just let me know.
https://www.wovenmonkey.com/designers/ceccadesigns
Iβm so happy to have another UK based fabric manufacturer - Iβd love to know what you think of my range and if youβve got any suggestions or requests!
Cloth Cuts collaboration
Iβm excited to announce my collaboration with Australian fabric company Cloth Cuts! Cloth Cuts is a family run business based in Brisbane, QLD Australia and Iβm delighted to have over 40 designs available with them.
Iβm 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. Theyβve also just launched a brand new website and Iβm thrilled to be one of their latest artists.
Their site looks amazing and Iβm 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
Iβve been wanting to set up an Artfinder shop for years and Iβve finally had the time to do it! If you havenβt 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. Itβs such a refreshing change from Etsy as itβs obviously only for art and not full of all sorts of other things!
Iβve started my shop with a selection of my Dorset Linocuts and Iβd 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. Iβll 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 ~
Contrado - UK Collaboration
Cecca Designs - New Contrado shop launch!
I added the link to my shop section back in December but itβs 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 βCecca Designsβ shop with them is now open and Iβm 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!
Iβve 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 youβd like to see on one of their products please let me know!
My shop is: https://www.contrado.co.uk/stores/cecca
Iβd love it if youβd take a look!
Clover & Co Fabrics - Collaboration
Clover & Co. Fabrics Collaboration
Iβm thrilled to announce my collaboration with Australian boutique fabric business Clover & Co Fabrics. Theyβve 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. Iβm 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
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 βKidultβ theme, as I probably do βKidultβ most of the time π. So I asked my kids and ended up with a real collaboration! Iβve 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 Iβd 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!
Iβm so excited about lots of my latest Society6 products! In just the last few days Iβve 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 Spoonflowerβs blog but here are a few photos from the project.
Iβm so glad they chose mini fossils, it has to be one of my favourite ditsy designs. Itβs part of my dinosaur fossils collection and is available in lots of different colorways.
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 Iβm 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!