A Spoonflower limited color palette part two, Calm using a pine green, sky blue and mushroom brown. Ohhh these were difficult colors and more depressing than calm in my book. But that’s part of the challenge, right, working with a color palette that does not speak to you. I used all three colors , black and white and threw in a extra color of pink, which is allowed. The design prompt suggested bringing the calm of the outdoors in and a pattern that would be suitable for bedding.

Hey presto Mellow Midnight Mice

It certainly makes a fun duvet cover!

Spoonflower is launching a range of solid color fabrics and for the next two challenges designers are being asked to create using a palette of colors from this new range. The first challenge is Joy and the colors are Lagoon, Mustard and Cotton candy. We can use 1,2 or all three colors black and white and an additional color.

With these limited palette challenge is is hard to know where to go design wise so I focused on the word Joy and came up with whimsical goats having right fun time munching their way through a long strand of flag bunting – Joyful Munchy Goats

Ice Crystals is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I messed around with snowflake patterns for ages before abandoning and going for a abstract approach instead inspired by icy puddles.

Icy Puddle Abstract

Gosh, who doesn’t enjoy the colors of fall or if you are from the UK like me, Autumn.

Fall is a coming is my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge ” Fall Botanical”

I wove together leafy branches and berries in various stages of color changing. I think the best fall colors are when there is a mixtures of greens, yellows and oranges… that stage when it is all orange, is a signal that is is almost over!

What a pretty table runner it would make.

Too-wit too-woo, my entry for Spoonflowers nocturnal animal challenge this week are Rainbow Owls

Nothing like learning a new word, Phantasmagoria “a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream” and the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge

I was inspired by old fashioned theatrical methods of creating scary apparitions.
Are you scared yet? is my entry for this week.

Pastel Halloween is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge which seems a bit odd to me but maybe orange, purple and black have had their day as far as Halloween goes. Actually I think not, but it is fun to design in a non conventional color palette.

My design Hubble Bubble Pastel Halloween conjures up a witch casting spells in her cauldron. The spell she is casting, is that this design is going to the challenge winner hahahah!

Why don’t we all prove old witchy right and cast our vote!

Ooooh this was a fun Spoonflower challenge to design, Retro Bugs

Retro Ladybugs and Friends. I went for a retro color palette and some 1950’s inspired graphics for a retro/vintage feel.