Month: May 2024

Spoonflower recently started offering two new metallic substrates for their wallpaper, so it is no surprise that we now have a challenge specifically gears to one of those. First up is the gold version, I am sure a silver challenge is in the works too.

So the prompt for the challenge is Vintage Glamour and with that in mind I was instantly transported back to the 1920’s and the fashions it conjured up

Art Deco Sepia Glamour

So part of the challenge her is to design to make the most of the metallic effect.

Here is my design

and this is what it will look like printed on metallic gold stock paper

I created a whole collection around lobsters and tidepool friends last year, so when the theme of this week’s Spoonflower challenge was announced, I was not particularly thrilled. It was a subject I had already explored and here I was trying to approach it from a different angle again. And boy did I come up with some completely different concepts which then left me with the tricky decision on which to enter.

My first go came up with these delft inspired crabs… my love of blue and white lies deep.

It was a design concept I love but as I started seeing other designer share their take, I thought my design would not stand out enough.

So then I went the Bauhaus approach

but wasn’t totally in love with that but I really liked some of the geometry of the shapes, so was spurred on to explore that a little further.

After fiddling around with just basic circles, Happy Round Crabs popped out!

and it is this design I finally decided to go with but it was really down to the last minute whether to switch it out with one of my delft designs. Too lates to change my mind now, the deadline has just past.