My friend Cherri (https://www.instagram.com/cherriberi1/) enjoys entering sewing competitions and from time to time asks me to help with some designs. Recently she entered a competition to design and make a simple grey felt bag, and after some consultation with her I came up with a couple of cheerful bird and flower designs in a folk art style, that we felt would help "cut" the grim grey felt fabric that she had to work with. That kind of fabric can really suck the colour and texture out of anything embroidered and appliqueed on top of it, but in this case the colours were so bright that it actually worked quite well. A paler background might have made the final purse a bit too "loud"
The first side of the bird-and-flower bag...
...and the back of the bag