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.
Cottagecore Wallpaper
Retro Halloween Spoonflower Challenge
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!
70’s Psychedelic Halloween Pumpkins
Palm Springs Spoonflower Challenge
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
Palm Springs Desert Oasis Flamingos
In typical fashion I created a few coordinate designs too!
Toile with a Twist Spoonflower Challenge
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!
Art Deco Spoonflower Challenge
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
Pet Doodle Spoonflower Challenge
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!
Block Print Floral Spoonflower 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.
Blocky Print Floral
As usual I did a number of colorways.
Bold Floral Spoonflower Challenge
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.
Bold Boho Hot Lace Floral
I also worked up the design in a number of monotone colorways.
Heritage Revival Spoonflower Challenge
Ooh this sounds like an interesting Spoonflower challenge, Heritage Revival and it looks like we can take this prompt in any direction we see fit. It will make for an interesting voting because at least we won’t be swimming in a sea of same shapes aka Paisley or stripes or be limited to a a color palette you either love or hate.
So when thinking about Heritage my mind goes straight to history and the traditions which come from the land. With that thought process I landed on dairy farms of a bygone age where milk came from pasture fed cows (no nut milks then! ) and was poured into churns which would sit at a farms gate waiting to be collected. Elevated milk churn stands can still be seen outside old farms in the UK.
Heritage Dairy Farm
I did the design in a number of colorways too and added it to my Farm to Table Collection
Novelty Paisley Spoonflower Challenge
It’s funny how design ideas for a prompt sometime come at me in a flash while others take a lot of thinking about. When I read about the latest spoonflower challenge, Novelty Paisley, the image of an octopus twining itself around paisley shapes immediately shot into my brain. A few hours later and I had my design!
