Category: Lastest Designs

We are back again this week to a limited color palette challenge and unlike the last limited color challenge , the colors don’t send me into the depths of despair. My goodness that challenge morphed itself into a two week creative block. Yikes!

This week the challenge is to create something cozy, suitable for throws, curtains and wallpaper. There is nothing more cozy than soft fuzzy knitwear, my inspiration for this week’s design

Cozy Snuggly Knitwear

The design works well for a throw and curtains… not so sure about wallpaper … it may be a bit loud!

I am not much of a seasonal decorator but when Christmas come around I have amassed quite a collection of shiny things over the years and my house is quite a whirlwind of activity as everything gets unboxed and put up.

This thought was my inspiration behind my design for the Spoonflower challenge this week, Holiday Traditional Toile.

I created my design in a pen and ink style with watercolor washes for a little pop of color. A sweet little blue bird does all the hard work and ties together all my decorating scenarios! It is a modern toile!

Whirlwind of Christmas decor Toile by Creativeinchi

What fun dinner napkins the design would make!

As always, if you can be faffed, and I know it is becoming more and more of a faff as these challenges have grown, I’d LOVE your vote.

A Spoonflower limited color palette part two, Calm using a pine green, sky blue and mushroom brown. Ohhh these were difficult colors and more depressing than calm in my book. But that’s part of the challenge, right, working with a color palette that does not speak to you. I used all three colors , black and white and threw in a extra color of pink, which is allowed. The design prompt suggested bringing the calm of the outdoors in and a pattern that would be suitable for bedding.

Hey presto Mellow Midnight Mice

It certainly makes a fun duvet cover!

Spoonflower is launching a range of solid color fabrics and for the next two challenges designers are being asked to create using a palette of colors from this new range. The first challenge is Joy and the colors are Lagoon, Mustard and Cotton candy. We can use 1,2 or all three colors black and white and an additional color.

With these limited palette challenge is is hard to know where to go design wise so I focused on the word Joy and came up with whimsical goats having right fun time munching their way through a long strand of flag bunting – Joyful Munchy Goats

Ice Crystals is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I messed around with snowflake patterns for ages before abandoning and going for a abstract approach instead inspired by icy puddles.

Icy Puddle Abstract

Gosh, who doesn’t enjoy the colors of fall or if you are from the UK like me, Autumn.

Fall is a coming is my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge ” Fall Botanical”

I wove together leafy branches and berries in various stages of color changing. I think the best fall colors are when there is a mixtures of greens, yellows and oranges… that stage when it is all orange, is a signal that is is almost over!

What a pretty table runner it would make.