To most it will seem odd to be designing for Christmas in the height of summer and that fact actually really stilted my design for the spoonflower challenge this week. Imagining snowy scenes when it is 102 deg F on my patio was irritating, but eventually the design juices started running and I am super pleased with how my design turned out!
Hide and seek, such a fun prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I went for a totally kid orientated approach and created a maze for some funky little robots and hid numbers along the way. As a kid , I would have loved to have this on my bedroom wall and lie in bed solving the maze and finding the numbers! It would also make a great print for table placemats.
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
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.
I went back to basics with oil paints and a big old fat palette knife for this week’s Spoonflower challenge – Tonal Texture Wallpaper. I knew what I wanted and there was no way to digitally create the effect I was going for so time to break out the paints!
Is it wrong to salivate as you design? Hahahah! That was the case as I created my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Treat Yourself”
I went for some decadent waffles with all the topping… strawberries, blueberries, cream and of course maple syrup. Top it off with a cup of coffee and an extra plate of waffles and I am in heaven! And if I can’t play off my last name here something is wrong.
Hurray for a fun prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge . Out with blah neutrals and in with a prompt which welcomes color, A trip to the beach.
With the extra time we get for challenges now I am tending to play around with all sorts of designs and end up building a whole collection around the theme. If I am perfectly honest I prefer the tighter timeframe and lets face it, it results in less entries. I think one recent challenge had 24 pages of stuff to wade through. That is a big ask for anyone… I can hardly be bothered to even vote for myself let alone subject anyone else to the task.
Gosh I found warm minimal such a dull design prompt. why not just call it beige and be done with. Never the less I cracked on and produced so many designs I went design blind. I consulted my better half on which one to enter and let’s just put that baby to bed and move on. It will probably bomb but I am at the point of who cares.
