Month: July 2020

One of my favorite outdoor leisure activities is to potter around my garden and the fruits of my labors are often inspiration for my designs as I shared with you last week. Tropical Surrealism Challenge

So this week for the Sports and Leisure design challenge I designed a pattern with thoughts of cultivating a flower garden – I love Gardening

Just imagine it on a throw pillow on a garden bench.

Voting starts July 30th

Update

Yay got a top 10 placement, rolling in at 7/484 with 222 votes!

My “I Love Gardening” pattern is available in two different sizes, a 12″ repeat and and a 4″ repeat, perfect for making face masks.

I am not a big fan of surrealism and there is nothing like a prompt outside of your comfort zone to push your design skills. I really wracked my brains this week on what to create for the Tropical Surrealism Wallpaper challenge and my epiphany came while wandering barefoot around my garden with my iphone, snapping photos of the flowers I have managed to grow this year.

My day lilies were looking rather fabulous and the Pistil part of the flower conjured up images of a hand reaching out from the petals.

My surreal concept was born!

I ended up creating two colorways and as usual had a dilemma over which one to enter.

Voting starts July 23rd

I love to be next to water, whether it is a babbling brook, dipping my toes into the freezing lake Michigan here in Chicago or simply watching the waves roll in on the coast.

Even better is to be “on” the water, and for my “Day at the Lake” I turned to simple white rowing boats and lily pads. Row, Row, Row your Boat. I can almost hear the gentle splashes and drips from those oars.

The design is perfect for a laid back lake house …from placemats to bedding

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Voting starts on Thursday 16th July

Update

Wow this is the sixth week in a row I have placed high enough to earn an automatic proof! This week I came in at #21 out of 615 entries and got 201 votes, thanks everyone who took the time to scroll though all those designs a pick my “little o design” as worthy of a vote!

I came up with two design for this weeks Spoonflower design challenge, Colorful Reptiles.

My first intertwined chameleons, geckos and snakes and I called it lizard licking (!)

and my second I went for a lizard skin texture.

I dilly dallied about which one to enter and turned to the Spoonflower Fan Facebook group for a bit of good old fashioned honest critique. The skin came out as the winner so in it went. I have a feeling the design is going to bomb but there we go!

Prove me wrong and go and vote!

Update

I seem to be on a roll with these design challenges as this is the fifth week in a row I have placed high enough to earn an automatic proof of my design!

I came in at 51/657 and got 164 votes. Thanks so much if you voted, I am in a happy mood for the rest of the day now!