Category: Repeat Pattern Design

Getting my head around baubles and fairy lights is quite something when it is still 90 deg F outside and I am wearing a flimsy summer dress but that’s part of the challenge right? This week’s Spoonflower challenge is Maximalist Holiday

This is what I have come up with: Wonderful Colorful Christmas

I worked in a bold color palette and combined ornately decorated Christmas ornaments with gifts and Christmas greenery.

The design works fabulously as a tablecloth or placemat

and a drop dead gorgeous wrapping paper

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Voting starts tomorrow …and go on … you know you want to vote!

Gosh this was a fun fabric to design, Spooky Halloween Haunts

Perfect for ghouling up a Halloween table with a placemat!

Voting starts on Thursday and you know how much I appreciate anyone taking the time to give me a vote!

Update

Super excited to place 7th out of 666 entries receiving 295 votes. This is the 6th time I have got into the top 10 this year and I appreciate every one of those votes!

I am a sucker for blue and white and was drawn to create my entry for the Spoonflower climbing vines wallpaper challenge in a soft blues.

The design was formatted as a half drop repeat which I tend to favor for wallpaper designs, particularly when the design is organic … nobody wants to see those vines line up across a wall.

Voting starts Thursday 20th August … votes always appreciated!

Update!

Whoooop-dee-do, I placed 3rd … oh happy days!

I got 304 votes which is the most votes I have ever received in a Spoonflower challenge, so a big thank you to anyone who voted!

Mushrooms, Toadstools and Frogs … my entry for the Mushroom Spoonflower design challenge this week over at Spoonflower

Equally fun as a place mat …or if you want to be a fungus face how about a mask!

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Voting starts on August 13, all love very much appreciated!

Update

I came in at 32 place out of 964 design and got 217 votes… Thanks for all your love!

This was a fun challenge and I decided to give some love to all those dental hygienists out there who help keep our teeth looking their best. I am not sure what all those scraping and prodding tools are called but who cares when they are modeled by sweet teeth!

The Dental Hygienist design is specifically scaled to be used for making face masks.

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Voting starts on August 6th

I also created a simple uncolored version of the same pattern

One of my favorite outdoor leisure activities is to potter around my garden and the fruits of my labors are often inspiration for my designs as I shared with you last week. Tropical Surrealism Challenge

So this week for the Sports and Leisure design challenge I designed a pattern with thoughts of cultivating a flower garden – I love Gardening

Just imagine it on a throw pillow on a garden bench.

Voting starts July 30th

Update

Yay got a top 10 placement, rolling in at 7/484 with 222 votes!

My “I Love Gardening” pattern is available in two different sizes, a 12″ repeat and and a 4″ repeat, perfect for making face masks.

I am not a big fan of surrealism and there is nothing like a prompt outside of your comfort zone to push your design skills. I really wracked my brains this week on what to create for the Tropical Surrealism Wallpaper challenge and my epiphany came while wandering barefoot around my garden with my iphone, snapping photos of the flowers I have managed to grow this year.

My day lilies were looking rather fabulous and the Pistil part of the flower conjured up images of a hand reaching out from the petals.

My surreal concept was born!

I ended up creating two colorways and as usual had a dilemma over which one to enter.

Voting starts July 23rd

I love to be next to water, whether it is a babbling brook, dipping my toes into the freezing lake Michigan here in Chicago or simply watching the waves roll in on the coast.

Even better is to be “on” the water, and for my “Day at the Lake” I turned to simple white rowing boats and lily pads. Row, Row, Row your Boat. I can almost hear the gentle splashes and drips from those oars.

The design is perfect for a laid back lake house …from placemats to bedding

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Voting starts on Thursday 16th July

Update

Wow this is the sixth week in a row I have placed high enough to earn an automatic proof! This week I came in at #21 out of 615 entries and got 201 votes, thanks everyone who took the time to scroll though all those designs a pick my “little o design” as worthy of a vote!

I came up with two design for this weeks Spoonflower design challenge, Colorful Reptiles.

My first intertwined chameleons, geckos and snakes and I called it lizard licking (!)

and my second I went for a lizard skin texture.

I dilly dallied about which one to enter and turned to the Spoonflower Fan Facebook group for a bit of good old fashioned honest critique. The skin came out as the winner so in it went. I have a feeling the design is going to bomb but there we go!

Prove me wrong and go and vote!

Update

I seem to be on a roll with these design challenges as this is the fifth week in a row I have placed high enough to earn an automatic proof of my design!

I came in at 51/657 and got 164 votes. Thanks so much if you voted, I am in a happy mood for the rest of the day now!

I have a selection of beautiful blue glass bottles filled with sumptuous essential oils and these were the inspiration for my entry into this weeks Spoonflower’s design challenge, Aromatherapy.

I ended up producing two version of my design, a light one and a dark one which I selected to enters. It was a last minute switcharoo so hopefully I picked the best one!

There are literally loads of different essential oils used in aromatherapy but I chose lavender, rose and eucalyptus to feature in my pattern. My seamless design “Smell those Aromatherapy Oils” features a soft soothing color palette and plays with transparency. It’s a shame it isn’t scratch and sniff!

It looks lovely as a pillow

Voting starts on July 2 .. yikes are we into July already.

Update!

Hooray my design placed coming in at 36/684 and receiving 159 votes.