At the beginning of 2020 I challenged myself to enter every single Spoonflower challenge – that was a total of 50 challenges.
It was quite a journey, where I designed out of my comfort zone but with that achieved some real personal success. Out of those 50 challenges I
Won 1st place with my Ink Splat Indigo and green Tie Dye design
Gained top ten placement with a further 6 designs.
10th place: Hippo Swimmers 
4th Place: Prairie Restoration is Good is Good 
7th I Love Gardening 
3rd: Blue Climbing Vines 
7th Spooky Halloween Haunts 
4th: Eggtastic
And placed high enough in another 23 of the challenges to be awards a free proof.
45th: Hillside 
18th: 
26th: Floral Climber 
31st: Among the Petals 
62nd: Ditsy Night garden 
54th: Playful Seals 
12th: Bird Nest Noodles 
63rd:Floral Crown 
39th: Tessellated Tranquility 
45th: pelican Lunch 
60th I spy Ice cream trucks 
36th: Sumptuous Scents 
51st: Lizard Skin 
21st: Row Your Boat 
32nd: Mushrooms, Toadstools 7 Frogs 
35th Wonderful colorful Christmas 
18th: Prairie Birds 
30th: On the Prairie 
15th: Winter Birds & Berries 
18th: Queen of Hearts 
71st: Creativeinchi Worms 
20th One Line Birds 
46th: Made with Love
The design challenges have been a lot of fun and certainly helped give my sales a kick up the rear end!
I am continuing again this year – check out my entry for the first challenge of the year – small scale geometric
You are incredibly talented and deserve your success. I’ve been a textile designer for 22 years and have not done anywhere near as well as you. I take it you are a professional textile designer.
Cressida, oh my goodness, thank you so much for your kind words. I am a professional web and graphic designer but have only started dabbling in textile design over the last year or so. Any tips on how to take things to the professional level?