Category: Lastest Designs

Kidult, the prompt for this week’s design challenge and a new word for me. Kidulting is defined as adults recreating childhood experiences by participating in activities generally considered for children. Who says you have to grow up!

As a kid I used to love “making things” and let’s face it not much has changed in that department, just check out CreativeinChicago.com and you will see what I mean! A cardboard box held so much potential and I could never let an empty toilet roll go to waste … and that was my inspiration for this week’s, let’s face it, wacky design.

Toilet Roll Animals

I also created some coordinating prints!

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Hissterical Snakes is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I have to say I am not a great fan of slithery snakey creatures. It may have something to do with nearly treading on a coiled up Copper Head who was having a good time on my compost heap many years ago!

But I chose to put that encounter aside when I was designing my entry and thought even snakes need love too!

Snake Love

I even rustled up a couple of little coordinates too

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The Spoonflower challenge this week is “Joyful Jungle” and the thought of Zip lining through a sumptuous green jungle canopy is my idea of having a fabulous joyous time!

Jungle Zip Lining

I have to say the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Disco Revival” found me in that nightmare scenario any designer dreads – CREATIVE BLOCK. It happens , thankfully not too often but I really hate it when it does. I dabbled around with a cat design and hated it, I mucked around with light designs and sank into despair. Then I put on some Bee Gees really loud and danced like an idiot in my studio and this happened.

Disco Beat!

It’s brash and bold and completely outside my comfort zone but I am going for it!

I like designing twiddly details so when faced with a design prompt ” Bold Minimalism” for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, it was a challenge in more ways than one for me.

I ended up creating two designs and am not sure which one I am going to enter yet.

The first one I created was inspired by those lone black sheep you see in flocks… but I jazzed it up a bit as you can see!

Baa Baa Green Sheep

The second was more abstract

Green Morph

Gosh this was a hard choice but I have ended up going with the abstract one

It is another limited color palette Spoonflower challenge this week and when I saw the bright colors I immediately thought of big fat bumble bees flitting in and out of flowers in their pollinating quest.

Busy Pollinating Bees

When I think of vintage kitchens, farm fresh eggs and chickens pecking at the back door comes to mind – vibing that whole farm to table thing. I ran with that idea for this week’s Spoonflower challenge – Vintage Nostalgia Kitchen

Some designs really lend themselves to coordinate prints and I rustled together a sweet little mini collection

Kitchen Decor

Gosh I was all over the place for this “reworked classics” Spoonflower challenge which asks to see classic designs re-imagined with manipulation and warping.

I faffed around for ages and have in fact ended up with a nice little collection. But it was a interesting stripe with interwoven elements, I have decided to enter. I think it is great for coastal decor hence my choice of names!

Coastal Stripe

And just for fun here were the other contenders

Knit one, purl one, drop a stitch and swear! I have been knitting for years… long before it became “oh so trendy”! It was an obvious choice for my home hobby entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.

Lets Knit

This was a fun prompt and I actually rustled up a few designs including some coordinating patterns.

Knit One Purl One Collection

Oohh I loved these colors to design with for this week’s spoonflower challenge.

For some reason “moped” popped into my head and the next thing I know, is I have created a design with mopeds whizzing through lavender meadows. I am not in control with what emerges from my ipencil hahaha!

Moped Meadow

I also created a version with just the Lavender meadow.