Category: Repeat Pattern Design

This week the Spoonflower challenge is to create a design using a flower from the buttercup family. Who knew Ranunculaceae flower family encompassed so many flowers. Despite researching all those flowers, I kept being pulled back to the simple buttercup.

I grew up in Wales where there are plenty of buttercup meadows and lots of sheep… hence the inspiration for my whimsical design this week. It was such a fun one to design and completed in about an hour, which tells me it was just itching to get out of me!

Buttercup Meadow

Tropical fruit is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.

I took a whimsical approach. Welcome to Pineapple Party!

Me being me, I also faffed around and created some other fruity designs. They can all be seen along with other food inspired designs in my Food and Drink Collection

With a close family member navigating the “rip you off” experience of planning a wedding at the moment, I find the whole do it yourself and micro wedding very appealing.

I dabbled around with quite a few designs for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Wedding Linens, but have eventually settle on a simple boho floral heart design in blues and whites. I have been assured that blue and white is on trend!

Boho Blue Hearts

Here are the other designs I created with the Wedding Linens theme in mind. They are all for sale in a new collection “Celebrating Love” There are vairous colorways available!

This week’s Spoonflower challenge is to create a design which celebrates what you love most about the natural world. I foresee a challenge awash with florals! The winner will be selected by Peppermint magazine and they are looking for a design which is suitable for apparel.

With that in mind I have steered well clear of florals, gone underwater and created a fishy celebration!

Me being me, I did a few colorways too!

A few years ago I found a load of little mice nests around my garden as the winter snow melted. This was my inspiration behind my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Sweet Dreams bedding.

Sweet Mouse Dreams

Pattern Clash is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge which will make for a headache inducing voting expereince I think!

I mixed florals and abstracts but kept a hue of blues and greens… to sooth my soul.

Floral Clash

I also created a whole collection- Pattern Clash based from elements from this design.

I designed a whole collection of birthday linens a few years back, so got stuck in a bit of a design funk when exactly the same design prompt I had given myself has come up as a Spoonflower design prompt this week. But then I had an aha moment.

Here are my Happy Birthday Birds!

Sweet white birds wearing birthday hats and carrying a birthday banner, swooping through blossom tress decorated with gifts, cupcakes and candles.

The last few weeks of the Spoonflower challenges have been a little disheartening. Cheating has been rife and one of the challenges was even won by an A.I design. After a bit of a fiasco it was disqualified but the fact that these designs are getting through at all is sad to say the least, it is not always easy to spot them. The challenges are so bloated with designs voting is an absolute pain in the arse.

I am tempted to give up on them altogether but I am still placing within the top 50 the majority of the time so I am going to continue for now on my quest to enter every single challenge.

This week the prompt is Doodle Bugs and I created quite a few option and have been left in a position of not really knowing which one to enter.

In the end I have gone for this one

Spiders waiting for a Ladybug Lunch!

And here are the other designs I created

Also in my dismay with the whole A.I thing I created another design.