2023 and in the Spoonflower challenge world it has been a whirl. These challenges have grown and grown and it is now pretty typical to have 1500+ entries. Throw in the rising of AI generated designs and a new voting system, there have been a few issues to say the least. However I have kept to my personal goal and entered EVERY SINGLE CHALLENGE again. This marks my 4th year of doing so!
But that is not enough for me ( hahahaha), I now have to beat my previous results! Let’s start with a little recap of the last three years.
2020
1 Win!
6 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
2021
2 Wins!
11 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
2022
3 Wins!
12 top ten placements
25 free proof placement
…drum roll please …
2023
3 WINS!
8 TOP TEN placements
28 free proof placement.
3 Wins, including 2 Pantone Challenges
8 additional top ten placements with 2nd place in the remaining Pantone Challenges
and a whopping 28 designs placed for free proofing
So a pretty decent year but I didn’t quite beat my 2022 results which I knew would be almost impossible!
Going forward Spoonflower will only be having challenges every two weeks so thing will definitely be different but I am again planning to enter EVERY single challenge!
Amazing results! Congratulations!! It would be interesting to know whether your best selling designs are mostly from within your prize winning designs?
My best selling design last year was Hilda the cow and she came in at 11th … so no prize for her!
I loved reading this, so encouraging! Thanks for sharing 🙂