My inspiration for this week’s Spoonflower challenge – Take a Hike was the fabulous few years I lived in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania and I hiked every trail I could find. The countryside there is peppered with Amish farms, beautiful old red barns and the mighty Susquehanna River. I LOVED the adventures I had there.
Let’s Hike the red trail celebrates all those miles I put on my boots!
I don’t really understand why some folk do not like vegetables, there are some many to choose from.
This week’s Spoonflower Challenge is Vegetables and Herb gardens and I decided to focus on just vegetables because I assumed everyone will be drawing lavender! My design features all my favorites – asparagus, carrots, cabbage, peas, onions, beets and green peppers, a some tools of the trade. A watering can, garden fork, pair of wellies and a sweet chicken to keep you company as you do the weeding.
I actually faffed around with a lighter color version of the design but have decided to go with the dark version as I think it will stand out more.
Ooooh this is an interesting challenge, creating a pattern that celebrates the world’s waterways which will be used on a Red Paddle paddle board. These inflatable paddle boards are super cool and I would be thrilled to bits to win one.
My entry is Wacky Water
Here it is mocked up on a Paddle Board
Weather patterns is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower Challenge and I went for simple abstract clouds and rain. Rainy Day Clouds
It looks fun on the newest Spoonflower home decor product, wall hangings
My year long personal challenge of entering every Spoonflower contest sometimes sees me facing prompts that really don’t speak to me and fill me with dread! When I saw Charcuterie Boards I literally went urrghhh. But when I started sketching things out the design flew out out of my ipencil, it was so much fun!
Rainbow Fruit Platter board features juicy lovely fruits… yum yum.
It would make such a fun tablecloth… you wouldn’t need any food hahahah!
I’d love your vote!
Moody Tropical Flora Wallpaper oh yes, there’s a design prompt that spoke to me and here is my design for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Jungle Nights
A rich and downright moody wallpaper design in a 36″ half drop repeat
Spoonflower have changed it up a bit this week with the design prompt to create an embroidery template.
I am not much of an embroider, but can appreciate the patience that goes into producing these lovely works of art. With that in mind I thought I would design something tranquil and Susie the Seahorse was born.
The template itself is an 8″ circle but I designed extra bits around the edges for a little inspiration for color choices and even made the whole thing a repeating pattern.
Soft pastel sea shells pattern, perfect for coastal decor. She sells sea shells is my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge- seashells
Quite lovely for all those beach house bedrooms
I channeled a farmstead in the Wild West for my entry into this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Home on the Range
Yeewhaw Out West is a tessellation of all things cowboy from cattle, guns, boots and booze to chickens, horseshoes and cactus. Yeehaw!
So I have created two entries for this Spoonflower challenge and I am really torn on which one to enter.
My first features whimsical little green men and their out of space plants “Friendly Little Green Men”
A fun design for kids.
For my second I took to my watercolor paint and produced a number of nebulae paintings, throwing salt of my wet paper to make beautiful textures and building up layer after layer of pigment. They were fun to paint and after a bit of photoshop magic, stitched together to make a half drop seamless pattern. I have called it Space Dust
Can you see my dilemma?
I actually posted both designs to a Facebook group and Space dust won the popular vote so Space dust it is!
