Category: Repeat Pattern Design

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.

This weeks Spoonflower challenge prompt is Ice Cream Trucks and I ummed and ahhed about what to create.

As a kid I always bought blue raspberry lollies and that was the inspiration behind my first design.

and although I love it it didn’t really shout “Ice Cream Truck” so I went a more obvious route.

If you look closely you will see I actually incorporated my blue lollies as a background texture element!

The pattern is perfect for kitchen linens like placemats and looks equally happy and fun as bedding. What kid wouldn’t want to dive into and ice ceram bed?!

As always voting starts Thursday so why not sit down with something frozen and tasty and vote for I spy Ice Cream Trucks

Updates

Placed by the skin of my teeth but so grateful for all your votes. I Spy Ice cream Trucks came in at 60/629 receiving 125 votes

I created a whimsical montage of pelicans eating and catching fish for this weeks Spoonflower Challenge “Large Birds”

It would be a fun design to use for decor items in a beach house

Voting start on Thursday June 18th

Update!

My Hungry Pelicans got 45th place out of 769 designs, receiving 169 votes.

I have been playing around with tessellation recently and already have a couple of patterns accepted by Patternbank, check out Frenzy and Tessellated Dogster

So when the prompt of quiet space came up as a challenge my mind immediately went to the calming nature of positive and negative space that can be created with a beautifully tessellated shape.

I went for a soft flowing shape…no hard angles for an eye to stop abruptly at. And of course the design had to be a soft calming blue with the hint of a watercolor wash.

Presenting Tessellated Tranquility

Not sure on the reaction of this one…it may well bomb, but as always you will be a friend forever if you vote for me! – voting starts 11th June.

Update!

Tessellated Tranquility came in at 39/820 and received 141 votes you can buy it here

Sweet beavers collecting sticks to build their dams – Busy dam beavers, my entry for the Canadian Wildlife Spoonflower Challenge

I cracked open my watercolor paints for this weeks Spoonflower Design challenge – Midsummer Festival and created a hand painted design evocative of pretty floral crowns. “Meadow Floral Crowns“

Once I got going I just let my paintbrush run wild and ended up producing an entire collection of pretty summer floral patterns.

Update!

My design placed 63/739 and received 134 votes. Thank to everyone who voted

You can buy the fabric here

I took a more modern interpretation of toile for this weeks Spoonflower challenge. My Butterfly Toile design features whimsical butterflies fluttering between meadow flowers but in keeping with traditional toile I kept to a blue color palette. What can I say. I am a sucker for blue and will use it whenever I can!

I might have gone too far out of the box of the challenge prompt but the design makes a pretty wallpaper!

Voting opens on May 21 and closes on May 26, all votes appreciated!

Gourmet gateaux on cake stands with vases of flowers on a soft gingham background – “Let them Eat Cake” – my entry for this weeks Spoonflower design challenge