I was lucky enough to grow up very close to the sea and one summer I spent everyday honing my bogie board skills. Now this was the in Wales (UK) and the temperature of the sea was a bit on the YIKES side but I can still remember the thrill of catching and riding the waves.
My entry for the Boardsports challenge celebrates that thrill.
I can see this pattern on a beautiful four poster bed in some country mansion on stunning grounds with peacocks strutting their stuff around. This week’s Spoonflower challenge is Rococo and here is my take.
Stunned to win this challenge, thank you for all your lovely votes XXX
Hand drawn florals – now there is a prompt that makes me smile. I took a wash and ink approach which results in a very organic look and definitely has that hand drawn vibe.
It looks drop dead gorgeous as a table cloth … high tea anyone?
Or as any sort of bedding – I may never get out of my bed if that is what covered me!
There is something about old keys I find fascinating and they were my inspiration for the Talisman Challenge where the prompt this week was to design a repeat pattern with an object with magical powers to bring good luck.
This is what I rustled up Oh Lucky Keys and I have added it to my It’s My Life collection ( lets face it anything which is a bit out there ends up there!)
Lets hope My Lucky Keys unlock the secret to winning the challenge …hahahah. Gosh that is so corny I am embarrassed to have typed it!
Now I have exposed myself …. go on… humor me with a vote!
Gosh where to go with a prompt like Patchwork for this weeks Spoonflower challenge? I settled on imagining a granny with a huge bag of blue fabric scraps and how those pieces be patched together to make something beautiful. Whimsical trash to treasure if you like.
Doesn’t it make a fabulous duvet cover!
I may have potentially entered something that is going to completely bomb in the challenge… I am sure there will be lots of beautiful and intricate patterns!
The 2021 Chinese New year will celebrate the Year of the Ox and this week the Spoonflower challenge is to create a repeat design to celebrate that magnificent of bovine creature, you guessed it, the Ox.
I went with a traditional Chinese lucky color palette of red and gold with my sweet Oxen dotted among whimsical leafy elements.
It fits nicely in my Whimsical Fantastic Animal collection
I have been taking part in a doodle a day challenge on Instagram and each day drawing to a prompt. I don’t quite know how it has happened but a little cat has featured in quite a few of my doodles. I don’t own a cat and am more of a dog than cat person, but that cat must be buried somewhere in a dark crevice of my gray matter and it keeps popping out of my ipencil.
So for this week’s Spoonflower challenge I decided to further embrace all the cat doodles I have been creating and work them up into a repeat pattern for the Yellow and Gray prompt. I hate yellow and gray together but the prompt is based on the Pantone colors of the year.
My repeat pattern features a sweet white cat reading the newspaper, enjoying a dance, taking a nap, playing with yearn and getting mucky with paint.
Voting starts January 28th and oh how I LOVE your votes and so will my sweet little white kitty!
So….. I second guessed myself for my entry for the Re-imagined Damask challenge and ended up banging out another design at the last minute. ( check out my original idea) There is nothing like a time crunch to put my design skills through their paces… it actually added a fun dimension hahaha! Maybe it was fueled by a glass or two of something lovely. The Love of Wine was born!
I am not much of a fan of the Damask design style but staying on target with a 2021 personal challenge, where my goal is to again, enter every single Spoonflower challenge, I have come up with a design for this contest: Reimagined Damask Wallpaper
Here is my Damask Bird Delight pattern where sweet little blue and white birds flit about. The pattern is a mirror image typically seen with the damask style.
Yikes!… I had a sudden bout of self doubt and ending up designing something completely different right at the last minute …check out what I entered here
Through design you can transport yourself anywhere so while it is snowy, cold and lets face it, quite disgusting here in Chicago, it has been a pleasure to think of the warm climate of Hawaii and dream up a design for this weeks Spoonflower challenge – Hidden Hawaiian
The twist with this design prompt is that there should be something hidden in the design.
I took a whimsical approach and designed Tiki Masks – these little fellows have food and drink on the brain! Hawaiian Tiki Mask Hunger
I also did a version with a jungle green background but am planning on entering the lighter version .. but then again now I look at them together I am not sure which one to submit. They fit right in with “It’s My Life” collection where just about anything goes!
