I went a little bit snake mad this week for the Spoonflower challenge!
I think the gray days we have been having here in Chicago have made me crave color even more than usual and I let rip with my color palette… dopamine decor anyone?
The pattern will be viewed on a curtain panel for judging, they would certainly jazz up a boring room!
I also broke out some of patterns within my pattern to be stand up designs on their own and hence an easy collection was born.
This week’s Spoonflower challenge is a partnership with pottery studio East Fork to celebrate the launch of two new glazes, Piglet, which is a soft pink nd butter, and equally soft yellow.
I came up with a folk art bird.
Spring Birds
To be honest this color palette really didn’t talk to me but it didn’t stop me having a dam good play around with it and a whole collection of designs just evolved!
The spoonflower challenge this week is to design a wallpaper for an Italian villa. I went for the “bring the outside in” route and created a Tuscan Countryside design
I really love gardening and am sad that the growing season here in Chicago is so short. It was an absolute pleasure designing for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Garden Bedding
I went with a very painterly style for this challenge and basically created my dream flowerbed
Passementerie, that is a new word for me this week and the prompt for the Spoonflower design challenge. It is a type of decorative trim used in textiles.
I designed and intricate beaded loopy pattern in my favorite blues.
Loopy beaded Passementerie Trim
I also created a few more patterns based around this design! See the whole collection here
Another wallpaper challenge this week for the Spoonflower challenge and the prompt is hidden whimsey. I designed and underwater pattern with hidden seahorses. It is awash underwater magic!
I also created a few more colorways
This week the Spoonflower design challenge is pets on vacation and I am sure the entries will be stuffed full of cats and dogs. But I went the pet hedgehog route and imagined them camping and sitting beside a camp fire!
I really love moss … it is probably because I grew up in wales where it rains quite a lot and as a result there is a lot of moss everywhere! It is the prompt for the Spoonflower challenge this week.
It is actually quite tricky to draw and capture it’s true loveliness but I battled on and took inspiration from planters… but gave it a whimsical twist.
Gosh, of all the design prompts I have worked to for the Spoonflower challenges, Time machine has to have been one of the hardest.
I came up with a design or past and future vignettes with buttons to fast forward or rewind.
Also did a version with words and then another version without words or buttons
It would make fun bedding for a kids room!
I really love color, so designing in earth tones is always quite a challenge for me, particularly when they are all brown based.
However the color palette specified for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Earth Tone Throw Pillows” spoke to me in a weird way and before I knew it a design I am really happy with popped right out!
Hilda the Highland Cow!
I also did a few other designs and also added some color to my original Hilda. All are now for sale in my Spoonflower shop in The Highland Cow Collection
