I have had extra time this week to come up with a design for the upcoming Spoonflower challenge – Microscopic world which prompted a design illustrating hidden world we never knew existed.
I played around with virus, fairies and nothing really floated my boat until I started drawing tiny little inch worms. I have named my design Creative Inchi Worms – a riff on my Spoonflower screen name “Creativeinch”
What a fun design to use in kids decor!
Voting starts Thanksgiving day – 26th November
She plays to win, The Queen of Hearts is the antithesis of game night and my repeat fabric for this weeks Spoonflower challenge features quirky playing cards.
What fun these were to draw!
Big hugs if you vote for my design!
I went quite literal for this weeks Spoonflower Design Challenge – Snail Mail.
I reworked my snail design so my little garden snails were carrying little letters.
It makes a fun mask for a mail carrier!
Who doesn’t love curling up with a good book and if you are anything like me putting that book down can be tricky and often lead to some midnight reading sessions. The inspiration for my entry for the Cozy reading challenge was born.
Quirky cats and book worms!
As usual your vote means the world to me!
After the success of my Eggtastic tea towel in one of the recent Spoonflower challenges, I decided to build out a complete collections which I have called …
The Eggtastic Mrs Chicken collection!
The collection consists of five coordinating prints inspired by my original tea towel and are perfect for kitchen decor.
This week’s Spoonflower design challenge mark the 500th challenge for them and this week there is no design prompt but they want designer to submit a design which showcases their artistic voice and their only guideline is “Be True to Yourself”
The prizes are bigger and juicier than usual so it is game on! Having had 6 top ten placements in the contests since April I am really out to get one of those coveted top three places!
So many of the patterns I create are inspired by nature and my habitat restoration volunteer work on a local Prairie has exposed me to the wonders of grasses and this time of year, drop dead gorgeous seed heads. There are always birds fluttering around pecking at the seeds.
Prairie Birds and Seed heads was born
The design really encompasses my artistic voice. It combines both natural and whimsical elements and tells a simple story.
I am a real sucker for a blue and white color palette so it was no surprise that for a design that completely embodies my artistic voice ended up as blue and white!
I can’t tell you how thrilled I would be if you give me a vote. There are likely to be more than a 1000 entries in this competition and finding a particular design on a page is quite a challenge. The designs are loaded in a random order but there is a little trick you can use to speed things up.
Once you visit the link below use Page Down on you keyboard or scroll away right to the very bottom of the page. Then use a Find on Page function which is ctrl F on a PC or Command+F on a Mac. If you are on a tablet of phone you can use a “Find on Page” function. Search for Creativeinchi and the design will pop right up!
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
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!
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!
