For this week’s Spoonflower challenge – Quirky Amphibians, I ended up creating two designs and bounced back and forth on which one I should enter!
I ended up going with Frog Swamp Party
Here was my other contender, Frog Pond Band
Let’s hope I made the right choice!
We are back again this week to a limited color palette challenge and unlike the last limited color challenge , the colors don’t send me into the depths of despair. My goodness that challenge morphed itself into a two week creative block. Yikes!
This week the challenge is to create something cozy, suitable for throws, curtains and wallpaper. There is nothing more cozy than soft fuzzy knitwear, my inspiration for this week’s design
The design works well for a throw and curtains… not so sure about wallpaper … it may be a bit loud!
I used to have loads of magnificent house plants but I move around a lot and on all but one occasion, the removal companies have refused to load my green lovelies on their trucks. I think it has something to do with any insects they may harbor. On the one time I lucked out and got everything loaded, an overnight transportation in temperatures of -8 deg F meant that everything was dead on arrival … and any liquid in that shipment was also completely frozen … shampoo, olive oil you name it!
So these days a wall hanging of an indoor garden – this week’s Spoonflower design challenge, is quite appealing!
The inspiration for my design came from the peace a tranquility house plants can provide.
I am not really one for motivational sayings and inspirational quotes but one thing that has been with me my entire life is my love of EXPLORING. I have moved countless times – different country, states and unlike most people, it does not fill me with dread, quite the opposite. Moving has given me the opportunity to explore the unknown and have new adventures!
It seemed only logical that that my lust for adventure became the theme for my Spoonflower Challenge entry this week
Well this was a fun Spoonflower challenge, create a recipe wall hanging.
As a kid I had a really sweet tooth and come Christmas time I absolutely not only loved making but consuming sugar mice!
They are super easy to make especially with kids.
With some of the color limitations of recent Spoonflower challenges I felt the need to have a bit of a riot with color with the 2022 wall Calendar challenge.
I am not much of a seasonal decorator but when Christmas come around I have amassed quite a collection of shiny things over the years and my house is quite a whirlwind of activity as everything gets unboxed and put up.
This thought was my inspiration behind my design for the Spoonflower challenge this week, Holiday Traditional Toile.
I created my design in a pen and ink style with watercolor washes for a little pop of color. A sweet little blue bird does all the hard work and ties together all my decorating scenarios! It is a modern toile!
Whirlwind of Christmas decor Toile by Creativeinchi
What fun dinner napkins the design would make!
As always, if you can be faffed, and I know it is becoming more and more of a faff as these challenges have grown, I’d LOVE your vote.
A Spoonflower limited color palette part two, Calm using a pine green, sky blue and mushroom brown. Ohhh these were difficult colors and more depressing than calm in my book. But that’s part of the challenge, right, working with a color palette that does not speak to you. I used all three colors , black and white and threw in a extra color of pink, which is allowed. The design prompt suggested bringing the calm of the outdoors in and a pattern that would be suitable for bedding.
Hey presto Mellow Midnight Mice
It certainly makes a fun duvet cover!
Spoonflower is launching a range of solid color fabrics and for the next two challenges designers are being asked to create using a palette of colors from this new range. The first challenge is Joy and the colors are Lagoon, Mustard and Cotton candy. We can use 1,2 or all three colors black and white and an additional color.
With these limited palette challenge is is hard to know where to go design wise so I focused on the word Joy and came up with whimsical goats having right fun time munching their way through a long strand of flag bunting – Joyful Munchy Goats
Ice Crystals is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and I messed around with snowflake patterns for ages before abandoning and going for a abstract approach instead inspired by icy puddles.
