Category: Repeat Pattern Design

French for “Trick of the Eye” Trompe Loeil was super fun to design for. It also wraps up the Spoonflower design challenges for 2021. I have kept to my personal promise and entered every single one… just as I did in 2020. I will have another round up of how I did in the new year.

Down Deep Floral Trompe Loeil

It was pretty fun doing research for this week’s Spoonflower design challenge, Comeback Species.

I came across the Bermese Star tortoise and when I saw the beautiful pattern on it’s shell I knew this wonderful creature was I wanted to draw inspiration from, for this challenge.

I riffed on it’s geometrical nature and went full geometrical in my design!

Bermese Star Tortoise Geometric

I would really love a greenhouse in my garden to extend the short growing season here in Chicago …maybe one day!

Victorian Greenhouse was the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge so I channeled my desire and came up with this – Bountiful Botanical Greenhouse

Love is in the air for this week’s Spoonflower challenge Kitsch Valentine where the prompt is to channel #lovecore, vintage, sweet, sickly and lets face it tacky stuff.

I came up with Valentine Kitsch Birdies

I also turned some of my sweet birds into whimsical stickers!

For this week’s Spoonflower challenge – Quirky Amphibians, I ended up creating two designs and bounced back and forth on which one I should enter!

I ended up going with Frog Swamp Party

Here was my other contender, Frog Pond Band

Let’s hope I made the right choice!

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