Category: Spoonflower

I don’t really understand why some folk do not like vegetables, there are some many to choose from.

This week’s Spoonflower Challenge is Vegetables and Herb gardens and I decided to focus on just vegetables because I assumed everyone will be drawing lavender! My design features all my favorites – asparagus, carrots, cabbage, peas, onions, beets and green peppers, a some tools of the trade. A watering can, garden fork, pair of wellies and a sweet chicken to keep you company as you do the weeding.

Verdant Vegetables

I actually faffed around with a lighter color version of the design but have decided to go with the dark version as I think it will stand out more.

Ooooh this is an interesting challenge, creating a pattern that celebrates the world’s waterways which will be used on a Red Paddle paddle board. These inflatable paddle boards are super cool and I would be thrilled to bits to win one.

My entry is Wacky Water

Here it is mocked up on a Paddle Board

Weather patterns is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower Challenge and I went for simple abstract clouds and rain. Rainy Day Clouds

It looks fun on the newest Spoonflower home decor product, wall hangings

Soft pastel sea shells pattern, perfect for coastal decor. She sells sea shells is my entry for this week’s Spoonflower challenge- seashells

Quite lovely for all those beach house bedrooms

I channeled a farmstead in the Wild West for my entry into this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Home on the Range

Yeewhaw Out West is a tessellation of all things cowboy from cattle, guns, boots and booze to chickens, horseshoes and cactus. Yeehaw!

So I have created two entries for this Spoonflower challenge and I am really torn on which one to enter.

My first features whimsical little green men and their out of space plants “Friendly Little Green Men”

A fun design for kids.

For my second I took to my watercolor paint and produced a number of nebulae paintings, throwing salt of my wet paper to make beautiful textures and building up layer after layer of pigment. They were fun to paint and after a bit of photoshop magic, stitched together to make a half drop seamless pattern. I have called it Space Dust

Can you see my dilemma?

I actually posted both designs to a Facebook group and Space dust won the popular vote so Space dust it is!

There is nothing better than an expanse of wild grasses and is something quite close to my heart. I have been volunteering for over 2 years now in restoring an Illinois prairie, back to it’s natural state. The work inspired one of my first collections “Prairie Beauty”

Biological diversity is the name of the game and it was this that I had in mind as I created Blue Meadow for the wild grasses Spoonflower challenge.

I borrowed some design elements and the color palette from one of my other recent creations “Down the garden path” A collection is in the works for this look!

I have moved away from the geometric approach used for the last two challenges ( here and here) and this week gone for a more literal picture look. A bit like I did for the 2020 Halloween challenge.

The prompt this week is From my Window but my Chicago garden is very bleak and lacking life at the moment. So I decided to create my ideal view, a garden path meandering down past an apple tree to a gate with rolling hills beyond. A garden gate with adventure on my doorstep. If only…

I went with a rich lively color palette.. probably because everything here is still so drab and brown! Roll on Spring.

Down the Garden Path

The design makes a fun tea towel

Creatures that are rumored to exist, Cryptozoology and the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.

I went for a monster of the deep… a Loch Monster. My design process was inspired by pixelated images that have been “captured” over the years. A good addition to my fantastic animals collection!