Every year Spoonflower has a recipe tea towel challenge which are always fun to create. Last year I created a tea towel for one of my favorite soups, Carrot and coriander and the previous year it was sugar mice. Before that is was Perfectly Boiled Eggs This year they are calling for festive beverages and this is what I came up with.
I also built out a whole collection around my naughty little Christmas elf!
Naughty Christmas Elf Collection
It is that time of year for the Spoonflower calendar challenge. Calendar tea towels have sold quite well for me over the years and I always update past calendars for the new year. Check out my 2024 calendars
I always like to take a look at the designs I have created in the last 12 months and see if any of them speak “calendar ” to me. There were three designs this year.
Waking up with the Birds
Buttercup Meadow
Honeycomb
After much deliberation I went for waking up with the birds, but all the designs are now for sale in my shop!
I was all over the place with ideas for the cartography Spoonflower challenge this week but in the end was drawn to the relationship of a compass the the adventures it can lead to! I absolutely LOVE maps and used to be a wizard using a compass to navigate through tricky terrain while hiking off trail.
I also did a Blue and white colorway but the color one will be entered into the
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Lake life. As much as I love the serenity of lakes, I am always plagued by mosquitos, I must have an extra special scent or something else that really attracts them and I am so allergic to their bites. Yikes! So it was from that experience I drew my inspiration!
Whimsigothic is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I took inspiration from the lunar moth. Incorporating some skeleton decor in the wings and hey presto, Goth Moth!
Gosh, sometimes the Spoonflower challenge prompts leave me completely void of ideas and when I first read the creative brief for the Vintage Sportwear challenge my mind was totally blank.
I fired up Adobe illustrator and something magical happened, from a simple idea designs just tumbled out. I love it when that happens!
The trouble is I am at odds now on what to enter.
Here are the contenders
Speedy Skiers
Black Double Diamond Ski Run
And here are the other designs that now form a new collection
Phew, it is the last of the Spoonflower bedding challenges this week. The prompt is Monochromatic Duvet covers.
I went totally Bauhaus retro with my design.
Of course a whole collection “Bauhaus Fall” rolled out from this one design as seems to happen a lot with me these days!
The Spoonflower challenges are moving onto Duvets this week and the prompt is Tween Spirit.
Tweens are a difficult age but then so are full blown teens! My inspiration for the design I created this week was the postcard montages I used to make on my bedroom wall. I’d collect all sorts of postcards and craft a beautiful artwork. I actually still have some of those postcards!
I picked a color scheme of “oh so trendy” pink and green and created a pig patchwork of designs
I also rustled up a whole collection based around these postcards
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.
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
