More Repeat Patterns from the Colorful Elephant?

So I’m in the studio yesterday gathering up the last of my 2011 loose-leaf journal pages and compiling them into my “creative yearbook” and “book box” – when just for gee-wiz sake I decided to count the number of repetitive patterns...

12 Patterns for Christmas – Wrap Up

  Patterns Spearl and Kurlllz are the last two patterns in this blog series AND the last two patterns I’ll be posting on the Rainbow Elephant in 2011.  I kind’a felt like closing things up this way – with a series of tangley fun – would be...

Pushing Out Popporz Pattern for You to Play With!

  Stuffed Peppers were on our holiday menu this year.  Yum. Yum.  Need I say more about the inspiration behind this pattern – the 10th one in my blog series “12 Patterns for Christmas?”  I’m guessing you get the picture here.  LOL   I...

Zikle – Pattern 9 of 12

  Here’s another pattern inspired by one of the ornaments that hangs on our Christmas tree. I like the way the curves in his beard hairs and the sharp corners of the crystal below him contrast against each other.  I thought this would make for an...

New Patterns from Old Patterns

  I have two patterns to share with you today- the 7th and 8th ones in this holiday blog series. I hope that you are enjoying the shares thus far. Feel free to leave a comment here and let me know your thoughts. Good, bad, or indifferent, I am open to all...

Three Patterns on This Christmas Day

“The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.” He dropped off at the Rainbow Elephant blog in the wee hours of the night and blessed these new patterns for me to share.  From another one of my Santa...

Sharing Blinkles Pattern

  It’s Christmas Eve at our house. And as our family traditions would have it, this is the night we go out driving through the neighborhoods in town gazing at homes decorated with lights. And it’s these twinkley little beauties that have inspired...

Twelve Repeat Patterns for Christmas

  Working off the holiday theme of “The 12 Days of Christmas” song I’ve decided to gift out to my blog visitors my “12 Patterns for Christmas.”  Today I’ll share the first two and between now and the end of the year I will...

Sharing Fairy Wings Zendoodle Pattern

So I’m sitting at the airport last week as part of a group of folks welcoming some of our returning troops.  The plane was delayed for quite a spell and so I busied myself doodling a little something for our “Puzzle Me This” challenge over in the...

SpriX Pattern How-To

  I have been so busy with the Grand Opening Events over at the Line Weaving Community Forums, that November came and went without me adding even one new pattern here at the Rainbow Elephant.  With only so many hours in a day I simply ran short on time folks.  I...