Dark Academia is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I have to say this didn’t initially fill me with any sort enthusiasm. But once I got going this design flew out of me – I love it when that happens! Books, manuscripts, quills and ink pots. Throw in some crows, gothic windows and fleur de lis and hey presto,you have a Gothic Library!
Gosh I am not really a fan of the 1970’s design aesthetic so was not super excited to design anything for this week’s spoonflower challenge – 1970’s Throw Pillows. But as I have committed to enter every single challenge I am not about to bow out and give up on a prompt that doesn’t speak to me.
I went for a groovy floral look
So this week’s Spoonflower challenge prompt is cheerful checks and to start with I designed a pretty standard watercolor check. As lovely as it is, when I went back a re-read the blurb that goes with the challenge it says “This week the rule is simple: include checks in your design that would make anyone smile”. Ding…I decided my original design was too boring so set about something that really made me smile.
I also did a version without the checked background
This week’s Spoonflower challenge is Monochrome Moments and I knew as soon as I saw the prompt my color was going to be blue. It’s hard to know what sort of direction to take with prompts like these… you can do any sort of design. In the end I opted to go the Bauhaus route and worked up a fun fishy design.
Kidult, the prompt for this week’s design challenge and a new word for me. Kidulting is defined as adults recreating childhood experiences by participating in activities generally considered for children. Who says you have to grow up!
As a kid I used to love “making things” and let’s face it not much has changed in that department, just check out CreativeinChicago.com and you will see what I mean! A cardboard box held so much potential and I could never let an empty toilet roll go to waste … and that was my inspiration for this week’s, let’s face it, wacky design.
I also created some coordinating prints!
Hissterical Snakes is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I have to say I am not a great fan of slithery snakey creatures. It may have something to do with nearly treading on a coiled up Copper Head who was having a good time on my compost heap many years ago!
But I chose to put that encounter aside when I was designing my entry and thought even snakes need love too!
I even rustled up a couple of little coordinates too
The Spoonflower challenge this week is “Joyful Jungle” and the thought of Zip lining through a sumptuous green jungle canopy is my idea of having a fabulous joyous time!
I have to say the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Disco Revival” found me in that nightmare scenario any designer dreads – CREATIVE BLOCK. It happens , thankfully not too often but I really hate it when it does. I dabbled around with a cat design and hated it, I mucked around with light designs and sank into despair. Then I put on some Bee Gees really loud and danced like an idiot in my studio and this happened.
Disco Beat!
It’s brash and bold and completely outside my comfort zone but I am going for it!
I like designing twiddly details so when faced with a design prompt ” Bold Minimalism” for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, it was a challenge in more ways than one for me.
I ended up creating two designs and am not sure which one I am going to enter yet.
The first one I created was inspired by those lone black sheep you see in flocks… but I jazzed it up a bit as you can see!
Baa Baa Green Sheep
The second was more abstract
Green Morph
Gosh this was a hard choice but I have ended up going with the abstract one
It is another limited color palette Spoonflower challenge this week and when I saw the bright colors I immediately thought of big fat bumble bees flitting in and out of flowers in their pollinating quest.
