Gameday Dresses

Life at Jessica Marie Design has been busy busy! Lots of designing and sewing going on. With football season in full swing and gameday dresses as the attire of choice, I created three different gameday dress designs to dress the preppy college girl. Since my alma mater is UTSA it is only natural that the first dresses I designed were for my school, I have also designed dresses for UT Austin, A&M, and Stephen F. Austin.

To order a dress you can visit my shop www.etsy.com/shop/ThePreppyGreek, choose your design, choose what you would like for your top, and provide me with your measurements. It's that simple!  

Beautiful girls wearing Jessica Marie Design Gameday Dresses! 

Do you have your Gameday Dress yet? 

<3__Jessica

Gamma Phi Beta Facebook Cover Photos

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Gamma Phi Beta

Founded: November 11, 1874

Mission: To Inspire the highest type of womanhood.

Colors: Brown and Mode

Flower: Pink Carnation

Symbol: Crescent Moon

Hey there! Hope you like my carnation print Facebook Covers for Gamma Phi Beta! 

What do you think of them?

<3__Jessica

P.S. Leave me a message if you like the covers and use them! Always love hearing from y'all :)

Dress your Tech: New York

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Three weeks ago I took a mini vacation from work and visited New York City for the first time. I love New York! As you can see The Big Apple is the inspiration behind my tech backgrounds in today's post. 

For years I've daydreamed about the big apple. Something about it always attracted me. I think it was a combination of the city skyline, endless events, and the subway. You read that right the subway. I was late on learning how to drive, it really never interested me, so anytime someone would ask me why I didn't drive I would say because I was moving to New York and had no need! Well I didn't move to New York and I ended up learning to drive, but that is another story entirely. 

My trip was magical and exhausting. Steve and I spent 4 days in New York and the only downtime we had was when we were going to sleep. We packed in all the tourist things into that mini vacation. We started off with a stroll through Times Square while we waited for our hotel to be ready. Times Square really was like the movies, lots of people and lots of advertisements. The rest of our trip was a whirlwind. We were in and out of museums, The Met was breathtaking and my favorite, and we were up and down tall buildings. We got to see the city at night from the top of the Empire State Building and during the day from the Top of the Rock. We also road a cruise out to Liberty and Ellis Island. It's crazy to think what the Statue of Liberty means to people. As the daughter of immigrant parents I know that freedom and democracy are important and it is all summed up in the Statue of Liberty. 

All in all New York was amazing, I can not wait to go back. I'd really love to catch a Broadway show! 
Have you had a travel experience recently? I'd love to hear about it. 

<3__Jessica

Paint me Pretty: How to Paint Lilly Pulitzer's Delta Zeta Print

How to paint Lilly prints seems to be a very popular topic! It was requested that I show how to paint Lilly Pulitzer's Delta Zeta print. To start off I am not affiliated with Lilly other than being a huge fan of the brand and all the print designers. With that being said my interpretations of the prints are no exactly Lilly but close enough to get the results wanted. On to the fun part!


I pulled a copy of the delta zeta print from the internet and used photoshop to pull colors for the color palette that I would use to paint the print.

I picked out six colors, three pinks and three greens.
The medium shades are my base colors, the lighter shades are my highlight colors, and the darker shades are outline colors. When purchasing paints I typically buy the darkest shade of the color and mix white paint in my palette to create the medium and highlight colors. 


One of the more difficult parts about painting Lilly prints is picking out all the elements used in the print. While I'm positive that there are hidden elements I don't pick up on I did identify the ones that are predominantly used in the print.

The elements in the Delta Zeta print are: the rose, lamp, and turtle. 

I like to practice sketching intricate elements before I move on to painting.



Remember the color palette that includes base colors, highlight colors, and outline colors? I use these colors to determine how I will paint the print. Because I use PhotoShop a lot, I tend to think in layers. Painting in layers makes in a lot simpler than trying to paint in everything at the same time.

1) For the first layer use the base colors to paint in the roses, turtles, and lamps.
2) For the second layer use the highlight colors to paint in all the highlights in the painting
3) For the third layer use the outline colors to add the details that will complete the whole look 
4) To finish it all off add the extra details, in this case the filler lines and letters to complete the look

And there you have it! How to paint Lilly Pulitzer's delta zeta print! 

By the way, a printable version of this Paint Me Pretty tutorial is available, just click the download button and print! Have fun painting your own Delta Zeta print! 

<3__Jessica