The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Conversational and I went around and around trying to find inspiration for this one. A conversational design is one that takes an everyday object and turns it into a design.

So I had my hair cut last week and as I sat rabbiting to my stylist I had an ahha moment!

Hair Styling Tools

I feel a little collection coming on but I have not yet got to it yet!

It seems the preppy look never goes out of style but the look and feel of it has definitely morphed a bit over the years. Preppy is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and went full on coastal preppy with my entry with palm trees, lush tropical foliage and of course yachts what is more preppy than a yacht!

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

Art Deco Sepia Glamour

So part of the challenge her is to design to make the most of the metallic effect.

Here is my design

and this is what it will look like printed on metallic gold stock paper