Sapphire Skies by Sue Gibbins for Dashwood Studio. A quilting fabric collection in beautiful blues featuring hummingbirds and damselflies on the wing, cloud-like cotton flowers, twirling feathers, and abstract raindrops.

I've been creating more designs for wallpaper recently, and enjoying seeing how people are using them in their homes and other projects. Covering walls certainly isn't the only use for wallpaper. Here are a few more fun ideas to try, including decoupaging furniture, framing, and stationery refresh.

Feeling festive with the Deck The Halls Christmas collection, now at Spoonflower. Retro baubles, fairy light garlands, boughs of holly, star-shaped cookies and buffalo checks. Each print comes in different merry colours. Perfect for table linens, jolly aprons or furoshiki reusable fabric gift wrap.

Garden Party by Sue Gibbins for Felicity Fabrics. A quilting fabric collection that celebrates delicious fruit-topped cakes, tea from the prettiest cups, and great company, all enjoyed in a sun-soaked garden amongst blooms, birdsong and the buzz of bees!

Bedding Sets have now launched! Available in a variety of sizes on sheet sets, duvet covers, pillow shams, and lumbar cushions. Collections include Petals & Plumes, Big Cats, Izzy’s Garden, and Tuwit Tuwoo Owls.

Get ready for spooky season with the Monster Halloween Party collection, now at Spoonflower. Filled with fun characters, spiderwebs, eyeball flowers, toothy stripes, cute ghosts and geometrics, in a choice of colours: pumpkin orange, spooky lilac, monster green and haunting grey.

Sunshine Daydreaming by Sue Gibbins for Felicity Fabrics. A quilting fabric collection inspired by relaxing in the sun surrounded by the sights, scents and sounds of nature. A butterfly fluttering by, a birdcall, or a flower’s fragrance can transport us to a different time or place, enchanting us to daydream of happy memories and future plans.

My new eBook is here! It’s a bright and colourful resource about the collage techniques I personally use. It covers ideas for making textured papers with a variety of media and adding patterns with our own stamps or stencils. There are tips on choosing a subject, cutting shapes and sticking down the composition. There is also a step-by-step project showing how to make a repeat pattern with a collage on paper.

My range of tea towels has been extended to include new designs —recipes, food illustrations, calendars, birds and still life. They make great gifts for the festive season.

Tiny & Wild by Sue Gibbins for Cloud9 Fabrics. A collection inspired by shy birds hiding in the vegetation, pollinators zooming around, dainty flowers with the most delicate details, and juicy fruits hidden in the hedgerow. Looking closely at nature is fascinating. As they say, it’s the little things that bring the most joy.

Botanical Art Print series with my houseplants modelling for me! Available on fabric fat quarters, wall hangings and tea towels at Spoonflower, and on canvas and notebooks at Shutterfly.

What a dream to see my design on beautiful Alice + Ames kids' clothing! Patchwork is available on this beautiful Bodie Dress and also on Infant Bloomers. Lovely images taken by Meg Osburn Photo.

It’s All Greek to Me! by THEY DRAW contains 100 illustrations from various artists that celebrate the culture and cuisine of Greece with maps, scenes, landscapes, and recipes. The image here shows my Santorini Sunset at the top of the page, with a sneak peek at the yummy recipe by Nate Padavick on the same page, and also shows part of the gorgeous cover by Sandra Neuditschko Illustration.

In the Texturing Motifs for Illustration and Surface Pattern Design class, I share my process of combining real textures with digital techniques. Creating textures begins with layering traditional media on paper. It’s a lot of fun and easy to do. Textures and shapes can then be brought together digitally to create eye-catching motifs.

Reef scene colouring page that I contributed to Caring Colouring 2, a gorgeous book featuring many artists and published by Jehane Ltd. as a fundraiser for Sea Change Project.

Tropical Garden by Sue Gibbins for Cloud9 Fabrics. Inspired by the exuberant shapes, colours and sounds of nature in the tropics. This collection features exotic flora and fauna bursting forth after the warm monsoon rains.

Floral Collage: from painting and cutting to repeat patterns using mixed media paper and digital techniques. This class is suitable for everyone. If you'd just like to dabble and have fun with materials then this class will absolutely be for you! If you'd like to explore the process deeper, including optionally using digital tools to clean up motifs and make a repeat pattern, then there's additional info and a handful of extra lessons for you.

Greeting cards, calendars and tea towels for gifting are now available in my pop-up shop on Etsy. These are produced in small batches so hurry while stocks last.