If 70′ decor is making a come back then I cringe, but it is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I fiddled about with loud geometric shapes but nothing really spoke to me so I went in a completely different direction and ended up channeling platform boots … as you do! It would make a really interesting wallpaper for a vintage clothing store.
70s Platform Shoes And Paisley
I also updated a old design I had done for a previous 70’s challenge to reflect the colorways of my new design
This week’s Spoonflower challenge is Festive animals and over the years I have created quite a few designs that fit neatly into this prompt. See my Christmas Festive Animals collection
I thought I’d be stumped for ideas for this one but I have been playing around with my Busy Dam Beavers and thought it was about time they had some Christmas fun. Beavers aren’t really an animal you associate with Christmas but that is how I like to roll!
Cottagecore is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and it was a fun one to design for. I went for a soft color palette and transported myself to a floral meadow with free range ducks.
I have barely broken out my summer clothes but am already channeling fall, with thoughts of Halloween and ideas for the retro Halloween Spoonflower challenge.
I have gone super funky hippy psychedelic with a pumpkin and mushroom design. It is a bit wild!
Once again the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is a bit of a puzzle. Palms Springs. They had an identical prompt a few years back and I have to say, if it is a trend that is blowing up all over the place, it is not something I have noticed. So to run it again is odd and when you have designed for a prompt once (and successfully landed in the top 10 – 6th place), it is even harder to design for it again.
Phew got that off my chest.
I decided to riff off my design that place well last time, using some of the same design elements and an identical color palette but I introduced some fun flamingos and well thought out angles. It ended up looking very different
In typical fashion I created a few coordinate designs too!
I have rented a garden plot this year and as I have never grown a vegetable in my life, my goal is to produce one edible piece of produce, the bar is low hahah! I have spent so much time planning, digging and sowing seeds that it was my obvious inspiration for the Spoonflower Toile with a Twist challenge this week .
My plot does not have a She Shed but I have planted peas carrots and beans!
I’m a bit surprised that Spoonflower is having another Art deco challenge. It is not a style I see anywhere, but then again maybe I am going to and looking in the wrong places. I have done pretty well in the past ones ( 4th here and 9th here) but there is no knowing these days, how designs will be received.
I took a feathery peacock approach
Art Deco Peacocks
Phew, a challenge this week that can be void of flowers!
A few years ago I lived by a forest preserve that kept pigs. I used to keep all my cooking scraps and take them over to feed them. They were so excited to see me and would jump up at their sty wall to greet me. They were my surrogate pets and my inspiration for this week’s challenge!
I absolutely adore the block print look and love designing in this style. But it is another floral challenge… and the challenge will be swamped like the last one.
As usual I did a number of colorways.
I would actually love to do a Spoonflower challenge where flowers are BANNED but there we go, that is not the case this week. The challenge this week is Bold Floral and I know it will attract record number of entries.
I took a boho approach and was inspired by lace.
I also worked up the design in a number of monotone colorways.
