Here comes another Pantone palette Spoonflower challenge, and I have to say the pressure is on. I have won ALL of them so far this year first with my Viva Magenta Vineyard and then my Ocean Action. I am thinking my Pantone run is over and I will probably BOMB in this challenge.

As usual the color palette was a bit of a challenge with none of the colors or combinations really jiving with me. I took inspiration from the color palette name “Mega Matter” and thought about the structure of living things and got led down a brainstorming path of x-raying flowers and the amazing translucent effects it produces. But enough blabbing onto the design itself.

Floral Life

Of course I went a little bat crazy with my ideas and all of these patterns are now for sale in My Mega Matter collection

Over the next few weeks all the Spoonflower prompts are for bedding, which is fine in my book, but the mockups used for voting make it very difficult to see the actual designs. For a contest this is very challenging!

The first one kicks off with the Sky. Now I am sure there will be loads of spaceships, blue skies and stars but I went with some simple clouds in vibrant warm colors.

Sunset Clouds

It is another East Fork challenge over at Spoonflower this week. As usual we have to use are given a pre determined color palette and once again are asked to design table linens… this time with an Autumnal feel.

My design features a pair of squirels sharing an acorn.

Share the Acorn Harvest

It might be the height of summer but this week I have been designing Halloween prints. The Spoonflower challenge is Monster Mash and I have gone over to the dark side and unleashed a Grrr Monster complete with scary teeth and hands you won’t want to hold!

Mr Grrr the monster also appears in a number of other designs. I had a lot of fun with him!

Visit my entire Halloween Collection

This week’s Spoonflower challenge is to create a design at home on table linens in the French countyside.

I don’t know why but I was stuck on a loop of olive oil and here is my entry for this week.

Oil Olive of Provence

The bottle designs also inspired a mini collection as quite often happens in my design process!

This week the Spoonflower challenge is to create a design using a flower from the buttercup family. Who knew Ranunculaceae flower family encompassed so many flowers. Despite researching all those flowers, I kept being pulled back to the simple buttercup.

I grew up in Wales where there are plenty of buttercup meadows and lots of sheep… hence the inspiration for my whimsical design this week. It was such a fun one to design and completed in about an hour, which tells me it was just itching to get out of me!

Buttercup Meadow

Tropical fruit is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.

I took a whimsical approach. Welcome to Pineapple Party!

Me being me, I also faffed around and created some other fruity designs. They can all be seen along with other food inspired designs in my Food and Drink Collection