I think I may have had too much time on my hands because I have designed quite a few designs for the Spoonflower design prompt this week, Room specific wallpaper.
I thought this would be cool for a home office
And this would be fun for a library or reading nook
and I went to town on designs for laundry rooms which build nicely on my Laundry Day collection
At the moment I am leaning towards the Library Book bloom design but maybe there will be a last minute switcharoo to the home office city.
Gosh, of all the design prompts I have worked to for the Spoonflower challenges, Time machine has to have been one of the hardest.
I came up with a design or past and future vignettes with buttons to fast forward or rewind.
Also did a version with words and then another version without words or buttons
It would make fun bedding for a kids room!
I really love color, so designing in earth tones is always quite a challenge for me, particularly when they are all brown based.
However the color palette specified for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Earth Tone Throw Pillows” spoke to me in a weird way and before I knew it a design I am really happy with popped right out!
Hilda the Highland Cow!
I also did a few other designs and also added some color to my original Hilda. All are now for sale in my Spoonflower shop in The Highland Cow Collection
2023 is the Year of the rabbit, and the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I took a Bauhaus approach with my design, riffing off what I created for my Year of the Tiger design last year, and went with a spring like color palette…Easter Bunnies!
and of course I messed around with a few more design in my usual excess self!
I had such fun researching plants for this week’s Spoonflower challenge prompt – Poisonous plants. What amazed me was that I already have so many of them growing in my garden! Who knew bleeding heart was toxic!
Toxic Garden
Gosh the patience to cross stitch is immense. I have only done a little one and it took me forever!
My design for the Cross Stitch prompt this week for the Spoonflower challenge, riffs on my sausage dogs or doxies or weiner dogs. Whatever you call them they are fun little pooches!
As 2022 draws to a close, I am pleased to say I have again achieved my goal of entering every single Spoonflower challenge. Whew, it marks my third year of doing so!
Can I improve on my previous years results?
1 Win!
6 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
2 Wins!
11 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
…drum roll please …
3 WINS!
12 TOP TEN placements
25 free proof placement.
3 Wins, including the licensing competition with LainSnow!
12 additional top ten placements
and a whopping 25 designs placed for free proofing
I am thrilled to bits with these results … but almost feel this is impossible to beat in 2023. Spoonflower challenges attract so much talent these days and is is not uncommon to have 1200+ entries per competition.
However my mission continues to enter every single challenge in 2023!
It has been a tradition that Spoonflower has a challenge that features the Pantone color of the year, so it come as no surprise that it is indeed the prompt for a new challenge. What is different this year is that Spoonflower has really “jumped into bed” with Pantone and the challenge design has to feature not only the Pantone color of the Year “Viva Magenta” but also include the Ignite palette which was developed to coordinate with Viva magenta.
As much as I love the gorgeously vibrant “Viva Magenta” the color palette we wee asked to work with literally sucked the life out of it. But that is the challenge right!
I dilly and dallied and came up with two designs and am entering the Vineyard one.
Viva Magenta Vineyard
Ying Yang Viva Magenta Floral
I really don’t like those favorite things lists that pop up from celebrities, I don’t give a f**k about what they like, but I may be in the minority here!
Never the less that is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge
My choice for this challenge was simple. A humble packet of seeds, The joy they give me is immense, from the excitement of choosing them, to starting them off in seed trays and waiting in anticipation for those first shoots. Then comes my impatience as I wait for the Chicago weather to finally reach a point where they might possible survive outside. The planting, the tending and finally the blooms. I mean, what is not to love!
I created two colorways but am planning on entering the darker of the two
It’s not yet Christmas yet here I am thinking about Valentines day as a result of this week’s Spoonflower challenge
Lets face it Valentines day is a commercial load of “balls” but it is hugely popular so it does indeed deserve a design or two. I have done a whole collection in the past, Love me Do and will be adding a few patterns!
I did a couple of hero design and am not sure which one to enter yet
It also did a little non directional coordinate
