Spoonflower are on a nursery decor kick and this week’s challenge is the first of two baby themed challenges. The prompt is to create a design suitable for a baby blanket.
So I have done things a bit backwards here and designed for the second challenge (nursery wallpaper) first. I loved the design so much I have carried on with my theme for the blanket with my thought to build up a nice little nursery collection.
And here is my Hedgehog Nursery collection
I was tempted to do something very geometric for the backsplash challenge but got sucked into a delft ceramics look feel where I let rip with my favorite color combination, blue and white!
I also did a few other color combination without the obvious tile look as I think it may affected the salability and I ended up building out a whole collection around my hero design!
I really love designing boho or bohemian designs so I did a little jump of joy for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, “Refined Bohemian”
I went with a lovely warm earth tone inspired color palette.
With my love for this prompt I also created a load of other designs!
I created quite a few ditsy holiday patterns for this week’s spoonflower challenge by this is the one I am going with!
And here are other ones I created.
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Conversational and I went around and around trying to find inspiration for this one. A conversational design is one that takes an everyday object and turns it into a design.
So I had my hair cut last week and as I sat rabbiting to my stylist I had an ahha moment!
I feel a little collection coming on but I have not yet got to it yet!
It seems the preppy look never goes out of style but the look and feel of it has definitely morphed a bit over the years. Preppy is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and went full on coastal preppy with my entry with palm trees, lush tropical foliage and of course yachts what is more preppy than a yacht!
To most it will seem odd to be designing for Christmas in the height of summer and that fact actually really stilted my design for the spoonflower challenge this week. Imagining snowy scenes when it is 102 deg F on my patio was irritating, but eventually the design juices started running and I am super pleased with how my design turned out!
Christmas Wonderland Patchwork
I also did a version without the patchwork and a patchwork block! They are all for sale in my Spoonflower Shop in the Patchwork Christmas collection
Hide and seek, such a fun prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I went for a totally kid orientated approach and created a maze for some funky little robots and hid numbers along the way. As a kid , I would have loved to have this on my bedroom wall and lie in bed solving the maze and finding the numbers! It would also make a great print for table placemats.
This week’s Spoonflower challenge prompt is Cottagecore Halloween. I had lots of ideas for this prompt and bashed out quite a few designs!
I eventually decided to enter my Graveyard ghosts!
Are here are my other designs… now all for sale in my Spoonflower shop in the Cottagecore Halloween collection
Spoonflower recently started offering two new metallic substrates for their wallpaper, so it is no surprise that we now have a challenge specifically gears to one of those. First up is the gold version, I am sure a silver challenge is in the works too.
So the prompt for the challenge is Vintage Glamour and with that in mind I was instantly transported back to the 1920’s and the fashions it conjured up
So part of the challenge her is to design to make the most of the metallic effect.
Here is my design
and this is what it will look like printed on metallic gold stock paper
