Month: August 2023

Gosh, sometimes the Spoonflower challenge prompts leave me completely void of ideas and when I first read the creative brief for the Vintage Sportwear challenge my mind was totally blank.

I fired up Adobe illustrator and something magical happened, from a simple idea designs just tumbled out. I love it when that happens!

The trouble is I am at odds now on what to enter.

Here are the contenders

Speedy Skiers

Black Double Diamond Ski Run

And here are the other designs that now form a new collection

Let’s Ski the Black run

Phew, it is the last of the Spoonflower bedding challenges this week. The prompt is Monochromatic Duvet covers.

I went totally Bauhaus retro with my design.

Bauhaus Squirrels

Of course a whole collection “Bauhaus Fall” rolled out from this one design as seems to happen a lot with me these days!

The Spoonflower challenges are moving onto Duvets this week and the prompt is Tween Spirit.

Tweens are a difficult age but then so are full blown teens! My inspiration for the design I created this week was the postcard montages I used to make on my bedroom wall. I’d collect all sorts of postcards and craft a beautiful artwork. I actually still have some of those postcards!

I picked a color scheme of “oh so trendy” pink and green and created a pig patchwork of designs

I also rustled up a whole collection based around these postcards

Preppy Tween Girl

Here comes another Pantone palette Spoonflower challenge, and I have to say the pressure is on. I have won ALL of them so far this year first with my Viva Magenta Vineyard and then my Ocean Action. I am thinking my Pantone run is over and I will probably BOMB in this challenge.

As usual the color palette was a bit of a challenge with none of the colors or combinations really jiving with me. I took inspiration from the color palette name “Mega Matter” and thought about the structure of living things and got led down a brainstorming path of x-raying flowers and the amazing translucent effects it produces. But enough blabbing onto the design itself.

Floral Life

Of course I went a little bat crazy with my ideas and all of these patterns are now for sale in My Mega Matter collection