If you have been following me for any length of time you will know that Blues are my colors, so when another Pantone challenge popped up on Spoonflower I was doing a happy dance to see the palette was blue based. Yay!
The colors immediately conjured up an ocean scene in my head and this is what I ended up with. It was such a fun one to design.
I also created a little collection of stripes and solids to coordinate
I designed a whole collection of birthday linens a few years back, so got stuck in a bit of a design funk when exactly the same design prompt I had given myself has come up as a Spoonflower design prompt this week. But then I had an aha moment.
Here are my Happy Birthday Birds!
Sweet white birds wearing birthday hats and carrying a birthday banner, swooping through blossom tress decorated with gifts, cupcakes and candles.
The last few weeks of the Spoonflower challenges have been a little disheartening. Cheating has been rife and one of the challenges was even won by an A.I design. After a bit of a fiasco it was disqualified but the fact that these designs are getting through at all is sad to say the least, it is not always easy to spot them. The challenges are so bloated with designs voting is an absolute pain in the arse.
I am tempted to give up on them altogether but I am still placing within the top 50 the majority of the time so I am going to continue for now on my quest to enter every single challenge.
This week the prompt is Doodle Bugs and I created quite a few option and have been left in a position of not really knowing which one to enter.
In the end I have gone for this one
Spiders waiting for a Ladybug Lunch!
And here are the other designs I created
Also in my dismay with the whole A.I thing I created another design.
I imagined one of those gorgeous traditional doll houses for this week challenge and created a very Victorian inspired floral design in beautiful cornflower blue. Yummy!
…and of course I created a couple of other colorways too.
The whole collection can be seen at
I went a little bit snake mad this week for the Spoonflower challenge!
I think the gray days we have been having here in Chicago have made me crave color even more than usual and I let rip with my color palette… dopamine decor anyone?
The pattern will be viewed on a curtain panel for judging, they would certainly jazz up a boring room!
I also broke out some of patterns within my pattern to be stand up designs on their own and hence an easy collection was born.
