It is another East Fork challenge over at Spoonflower this week. As usual we have to use are given a pre determined color palette and once again are asked to design table linens… this time with an Autumnal feel.
My design features a pair of squirels sharing an acorn.
Share the Acorn Harvest
It might be the height of summer but this week I have been designing Halloween prints. The Spoonflower challenge is Monster Mash and I have gone over to the dark side and unleashed a Grrr Monster complete with scary teeth and hands you won’t want to hold!
Mr Grrr the monster also appears in a number of other designs. I had a lot of fun with him!
Visit my entire Halloween Collection
This week’s Spoonflower challenge is to create a design at home on table linens in the French countyside.
I don’t know why but I was stuck on a loop of olive oil and here is my entry for this week.
The bottle designs also inspired a mini collection as quite often happens in my design process!
There appears to be a trend for wallpapering ceilings, can you imagine trying to do that? Yikes. The types of designs that work best are non directional…. a design that will look good whatever angle you view it from.
So Non directional wallpaper is the prompt for this week Spoonflower challenge.
I came up with a boho paisley design and did 2 colorways.
I have to say I had a really hard time deciding which one to enter so I plonked both into the FB Spoonflowers groups and let them pick. The orange one won hands down so that is the one I have entered!
This week the Spoonflower challenge is to create a design using a flower from the buttercup family. Who knew Ranunculaceae flower family encompassed so many flowers. Despite researching all those flowers, I kept being pulled back to the simple buttercup.
I grew up in Wales where there are plenty of buttercup meadows and lots of sheep… hence the inspiration for my whimsical design this week. It was such a fun one to design and completed in about an hour, which tells me it was just itching to get out of me!
Buttercup Meadow
Another wallpaper challenge this week over at Spoonflower and the prompt is Birds of Prey. I picked three birds, an eagle, an owl and a flock of turkey vultures.
Waking Up with Birds of Prey
I have actually used this design style and color palette before in my Lead me to Nature Collection. I was compelled to use it again for this design and it makes a nice addition to the collection.
I also created a simple line art collection which I think will be more saleable for wallpaper.
Tropical fruit is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I took a whimsical approach. Welcome to Pineapple Party!
Me being me, I also faffed around and created some other fruity designs. They can all be seen along with other food inspired designs in my Food and Drink Collection
With a close family member navigating the “rip you off” experience of planning a wedding at the moment, I find the whole do it yourself and micro wedding very appealing.
I dabbled around with quite a few designs for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Wedding Linens, but have eventually settle on a simple boho floral heart design in blues and whites. I have been assured that blue and white is on trend!
Boho Blue Hearts
Here are the other designs I created with the Wedding Linens theme in mind. They are all for sale in a new collection “Celebrating Love” There are vairous colorways available!
This week’s Spoonflower challenge is to create a design which celebrates what you love most about the natural world. I foresee a challenge awash with florals! The winner will be selected by Peppermint magazine and they are looking for a design which is suitable for apparel.
With that in mind I have steered well clear of florals, gone underwater and created a fishy celebration!
Me being me, I did a few colorways too!
A few years ago I found a load of little mice nests around my garden as the winter snow melted. This was my inspiration behind my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Sweet Dreams bedding.
