Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway - Winner!

Congratulations to... Melissa O! You are the winner of the Spanish Steps dress from Shabby Apple. I will be emailing you soon to get all of your information.  For the rest of you that entered but unfortunately did not win Shabby Apple is offering a 20% off coupon code until March 28, just enter designevo20off at checkout.




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Giveaway! Shabby Apple Dresses

I'm so excited about today's post. This is the first sponsored giveaway for Design Evolution. I've been approached several times in the past but the products never seemed to be a good fit for the blog.  I was contacted by Shabby Apple, an online shop for women's dresses, skirts, and accessories, and asked if I would be interested in a giveaway where one of my readers could win a dress selected by me. After five minutes of checking out the Shabby Apple site I said yes!




With interesting collection names like Mad Hatter, Set Sail, Roman Holiday, and Academia I couldn't resist the vintage dress silhouettes. The dress shapes look like they are flattering for many different body types. I've really been a slacker about getting dressed up more often so this giveaway has also inspired me to pick up a few dresses for myself. Here are some of my favorites:




Besides a large collection of vintage inspired dresses, Shabby Apple has carries a bunch of great skirt silhouettes. I am anti-shorts so come summer I wear skirts often.




Without further ado, the giveaway! One reader will win the Spanish Steps dress pictured in the dress collage above.  It is the cream and tan dress modeled next to that adorable red vintage Vespa.  All you have to do to win the dress is visit Shabby Apple's Facebook page here and "Like" them. Make sure to leave me a comment letting me know that you've done so.  The contest will be open from now until Monday, March 5th at 12pm.  I will choose one winner at random.  The contest is only open to U.S. residents.



And as an added bonus, Shabby Apple is offering all of you a 20% discount code so you can shop to your hearts delight.  Enter designevo20off at checkout to receive the discount. Coupon is valid for 30 days.

Heather Bailey Fabric Giveaway - Winner!!

After 58 comments and 22 great project ideas it's time to announce the winner of the Heather Bailey Fabric Giveaway. There were so many great project suggestions I almost wanted to keep the fabric for myself.

And the winner is....

Andreia!!! Can't wait to see what you make out of these beautiful fabrics. Thank you to everyone who participated. The response was so great I'll be sure to host a giveaway like this in the not to distant future.

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Heather Bailey & Amy Butler Fabric Giveaway

*Contest Closed - Winner Announced Here*

I've been busy organizing and clearing out my craft supplies so that everything returns to the new office/guest room nicely organized. Lucky you will get to benefit from some of my purging. I am a confessed fabric collector and don't always have a project in mind when I purchase pretty fabric. I have a generous fat quarter set of Heather Bailey Freshcut fabric collection. There 35 - 5.5"x5.5" squares; one of each design in the collection (minus 1 missing square) and they all yours. I will give the set away to one reader, all you have to do is comment below. Bonus entry if you tell me a project idea for the fat quarter set. Another bonus entry if you tweet a link to this contest and leave me a comment with a link to your tweet. Don't forget to leave your email address in the comments so I can contact you if you win. You have until Monday, March 21st 12pm eastern to enter.

I have a few pieces of Amy Butler (and Waverly) fabric that I will throw in too. The Optic Blossom print in Linen is approximately 24"x44" and the Oxford Stripe is approximately 22"x30".

The contest is open to everyone, I will ship internationally. Good Luck!

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Design Evolution's First Contest

There was a really great response to last week's post about the color palette generator available from Big Huge Labs. I thought it would be fun to have a little contest that would let you give the color palette generator a try.

I would like you take a photo of whatever you want and create a color palette from it. Once your palette is generated (like the one below) create a mood board for a room you would design around that palette.

You can create a design for any room you like and your original inspiration photo can be of whatever floats your boat. This will be a great exercise to show you that inspiration for interior design can come from absolutely anywhere.

Here are a few examples of previous mood boards I have created. You are free to create a mood board of any style or format. If you don't have access to photoshop, which is what I use to create mood boards, there are a lot of free online options like polyvore, pinterest, or mydeco.

Once your mood board is created leave a link to it in the comments or you can email it to me verdugo.designevolution@gmail.com. Since I'm calling this a contest I'm sure you are thinking "what's the prize?" I'm giving away my copy of the book Marie Claire Maison: Colour. Instead of picking "the best" or "my favorite" mood board, because everyone's style is so different, if you participate you are eligible to win the book. I will put everyone's name in hat and pick a winner at random. You have until Monday, September 20th to leave a link to your mood board AND your inspiration photo/palette in the comments (or you can email).

Tuesday I will create a post with everyone's mood boards (if you have your own blog/site feel free to leave the link to that also and I will include it with your mood board) and announce the winner. I look forward to seeing what you all come up with!