The theme for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Western Americana where the prompt encourages the designer to get immersed in the old west. I’m not sure why but a saloon bar immediately popped into my head and this is what resulted!
Here is the wildest dog in the west bursting into Mutt Saloon for a bottle of woof and a juicy bone!
I also created a few south western type abstract patterns to coordinate with my mighty Mutt! and they are available in my Wildwest Wilderness Collection
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge was to create a design that depicts a “nurturing, serene environment for a newborn that remains stylish and relevant as the baby ages”.
Bring it on!
I went for a gender neutral look with a design that is age appropriate to about age 10. I used a palette of soft colors and gave it a watercolor look
I also created a line art version which is available in a number of colors in the Hedgehog Nursery Collection a non directional print and a simple patchwork which was my entry for the baby blanket challenge.
Spoonflower are on a nursery decor kick and this week’s challenge is the first of two baby themed challenges. The prompt is to create a design suitable for a baby blanket.
So I have done things a bit backwards here and designed for the second challenge (nursery wallpaper) first. I loved the design so much I have carried on with my theme for the blanket with my thought to build up a nice little nursery collection.
And here is my Hedgehog Nursery collection
I was tempted to do something very geometric for the backsplash challenge but got sucked into a delft ceramics look feel where I let rip with my favorite color combination, blue and white!
I also did a few other color combination without the obvious tile look as I think it may affected the salability and I ended up building out a whole collection around my hero design!
When I first started designing for Spoonflower I really didn’t enjoy the tea towel challenges but now they are one of my favorite! I update my calendar tea towels each year so I have quite a collection now!
I always end up designing a couple of concepts and then find it impossible to choose which one to enter. This year was no exception and I ended up posting my two finalists to a group on Facebook to gauge the reactions.
This is the design I decided to go with
Beach Hut Beach Days 2025 Calendar
Here were the other contenders
I really love designing boho or bohemian designs so I did a little jump of joy for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, “Refined Bohemian”
I went with a lovely warm earth tone inspired color palette.
With my love for this prompt I also created a load of other designs!
I created quite a few ditsy holiday patterns for this week’s spoonflower challenge by this is the one I am going with!
And here are other ones I created.
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Conversational and I went around and around trying to find inspiration for this one. A conversational design is one that takes an everyday object and turns it into a design.
So I had my hair cut last week and as I sat rabbiting to my stylist I had an ahha moment!
I feel a little collection coming on but I have not yet got to it yet!
Yes Chef is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and there is nothing like designing to food related prompts to make me hungry.
I went for a Chef Special Full English Breakfast
It seems the preppy look never goes out of style but the look and feel of it has definitely morphed a bit over the years. Preppy is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and went full on coastal preppy with my entry with palm trees, lush tropical foliage and of course yachts what is more preppy than a yacht!
