I LOVE the look of block prints and even though this is a prompt we have had before (sort of) for a Spoonflower challenge, it is always fun for me to design in this style. I actually use it a lot of many of my creations.
On the Farm
It is a fun farmhouse print and would look great on kitchen linens
I also created a few stipe coordinates and you can see them all in the Rustic Life Collections
Floriography, here is another new word for me and the prompt for the Spoonflower challenge this week. Floriography is the language of flowers, a means of communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. The practice gained popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in Victorian England. During this time, flowers were often used to express emotions and sentiments that were not easily spoken aloud due to societal constraints. How cool is that!
I had fun researching this one and in the end created a floral with ” Timeless Memories” It features Forget-Me-Nots to express enduring love and remembrance, while Lily of the Valley adds sweetness and the promise of happiness. Ferns contribute sincerity.
This is the 200th Spoonflower challenge I have entered and it is quite fitting I am featuring Timeless Memories!
Timeless Memories Floriography
The design coordinates with my Shade Garden Collection
I am plodding on with my commitment to enter every single Spoonflower challenge again this year. There is so much drama going on around changes coming to the platform for designers and there is so much unknown stuff. Without designers it is a platform of NOTHING. It is all a bit distracting and disheartening.
So let’s go to a serene place for this week’s challenge and float away with some beautiful soft hued swans
Of course I also rustled up a little complimentary design too!
Both can be found in various scales in the Serenity Now Collection
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is “Other Holidays” I have never designed anything for S Patrick’s day which is hugely popular here in the USA so I thought I’d have a bash at that. The strange thing is most Americans don’t realize that St Patrick is just one of the Patron Saints , We also have St David for Wales, St George for England and St Andrew for Scotland!
and I also rustled up a little collection to party on down with my hero design!
I have designed some odd things in the past and I definitely tapped into my weird side to create a surreal wallpaper for this week’s Spoonflower. I imagined birds breaking through from the outside world and pecking and removing design pieces from a wallpaper. Odd yes, I know!
We are back to designing repeat patterns for the Spoonflower challenge this week and it is another East Fork pottery challenge. I have to say I am not in love with the palette for this week and will most likely jazz up the designs I have created with a color palette more pleasing to my eye!
I took a whimsical approach and created a design with mushrooms and mice!
I actually created quite a few design options for this challenge, they are all now for sale in my shop in a new collection which also includes some basic coordinates.
Shop East Fork Midnight Swim Collection
I was all over the place with ideas for the cartography Spoonflower challenge this week but in the end was drawn to the relationship of a compass the the adventures it can lead to! I absolutely LOVE maps and used to be a wizard using a compass to navigate through tricky terrain while hiking off trail.
I also did a Blue and white colorway but the color one will be entered into the
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Lake life. As much as I love the serenity of lakes, I am always plagued by mosquitos, I must have an extra special scent or something else that really attracts them and I am so allergic to their bites. Yikes! So it was from that experience I drew my inspiration!
Whimsigothic is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I took inspiration from the lunar moth. Incorporating some skeleton decor in the wings and hey presto, Goth Moth!
Gosh, sometimes the Spoonflower challenge prompts leave me completely void of ideas and when I first read the creative brief for the Vintage Sportwear challenge my mind was totally blank.
I fired up Adobe illustrator and something magical happened, from a simple idea designs just tumbled out. I love it when that happens!
The trouble is I am at odds now on what to enter.
Here are the contenders
Speedy Skiers
Black Double Diamond Ski Run
And here are the other designs that now form a new collection
