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Spoonflower Challenges: 2020

At the beginning of 2020 I challenged myself to enter every single Spoonflower challenge – that was a total of 50 challenges.

It was quite a journey, where I designed out of my comfort zone but with that achieved some real personal success. Out of those 50 challenges I

Won 1st place with my Ink Splat Indigo and green Tie Dye design

tie dye win

Gained top ten placement with a further 6 designs.

  • hippo-swimmers-banner
    10th place: Hippo Swimmers
  • prairie restoration is good
    4th Place: Prairie Restoration is Good is Good
  • cultivate your garden fabric
    7th I Love Gardening
  • blue climbing vine wallpaper
    3rd: Blue Climbing Vines
  • gothic halloween fabric design
    7th Spooky Halloween Haunts
  • eggtastic tea towel
    4th: Eggtastic

And placed high enough in another 23 of the challenges to be awards a free proof.

  • 45th: Hillside
  • 18th:
  • art noveau all paper pattern
    26th: Floral Climber
  • birdie surface design zoe feast
    31st: Among the Petals
  • 62nd: Ditsy Night garden
  • seals
    54th: Playful Seals
  • best nest bird noodles pattern
    12th: Bird Nest Noodles
  • midsummer wreathe
    63rd:Floral Crown
  • tessellated tranquility wallpaper pattern
    39th: Tessellated Tranquility
  • pelican lunch pattern
    45th: pelican Lunch
  • i spy ice cream trucks surface fabric
    60th I spy Ice cream trucks
  • smell those aromatherapy oils fabric pattern
    36th: Sumptuous Scents
  • 51st: Lizard Skin
  • row your boat textile surface pattern design
    21st: Row Your Boat
  • mushroom toadstool frog pattern fabric
    32nd: Mushrooms, Toadstools 7 Frogs
  • wonderful colorful christmas pattern
    35th Wonderful colorful Christmas
  • prairie birds seed heads pattern
    18th: Prairie Birds
  • 2021 teatowel calendar on the prairie
    30th: On the Prairie
  • winter birds and berries
    15th: Winter Birds & Berries
  • queen of hearts
    18th: Queen of Hearts
  • creative inchi worms
    71st: Creativeinchi Worms
  • one line birds
    20th One Line Birds
  • made with love spoonflower packaging pattern
    46th: Made with Love

The design challenges have been a lot of fun and certainly helped give my sales a kick up the rear end!

I am continuing again this year – check out my entry for the first challenge of the year – small scale geometric

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Bauhaus Small Scale Geometrical Design

A new year and a new design challenge – Small Scale Geometrics and oh my goodness did I go overboard on this one.

I started by designing this – Boxed Up Geometric . It is inspired by the Bauhaus style, using plain simple elements. I have been itching to have a go at this for ages.

boxed up bauhaus geometric pattern

It inspired a further 23 designs which now make up a new collection – Small Scale Geometrics.

I then had the dilemma on which one to choose to enter for the challenge. I put up some of my favorite choices on Facebook but the opinions were all over the place so I decided to go back to basics and enter the first one I created.

Let’s hope I made the right choice!

Vote for Boxed Up Geometric By Creativeinchi

Update

Well what a great start to the year, I came in at 13th place but as there were ties for both 2nd and 3rd place in actual fact I was 10th and got $20 Spoonflower credit …yippppeee! Thanks so much for all your votes!

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made with love spoonflower packaging pattern

Spoonflower Packaging Challenge

The final Spoonflower challenge of 2020 was to come up with a design they can use on their packaging.

The thought process behind my design was one that depicted a community of designers where each creation is crafted with LOVE. I call my pattern “Made with Love“

made with love
Vote for Made with Love by Creativeinchi

Update

Pleased as punch to come in at number 46 and earn my 30th automatic proof of 2020. Interested in seeing a breakdown of all my challenges, click here

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Pantone Colors of the Year 2021

Pantone announced their 2021 color for the year today and it turned out to be not one but two colors, Illuminating and Ultimate Gray.

Illuminating is a sunny bright yellow and Ultimate Gray is to me a downright boring gray … or grey , depending on which side of the pond you live on.

  • pantone illuminating
  • pantone ultimate gray

They remind me of the color combination you get with a hard boiled egg ..that little gray line the outlines the yolk.

The thought process from Pantone is that the yellow is for optimism and the gray is for dependability and sort of reflects the mood moving forward in 2021 and hopefully away from Covid and all the mess it has created.

Maybe I was ahead of the curve as I was using a very similar color paring back in 2017 with the create of my first fabric collection: contemporary circles

I have created a new collection on my spoonflower and RedBubble shops in celebration of the 2021 Colors of the year – only the two solids and a one design so far but I will be adding more patterns shortly!

Shop collection on

Spoonflower | Redbubble

pantone colors of the year 2021
illuminating and ultimate gray pattern
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One Line Birds- Continuous Line Contour Design

This weeks Spoonflower challenge calls for a repeat design created using a single unbroken line which captures movement- Continuous Line Contour

That. I can tell you, is quite a challenge!

My mind immediately went to something flying through the air and I revisited the design I had created for The Artistic Voice challenge and played around with it for quite some time to turn in into a design made from a continuous line.

one line birds
Vote for One Line Birds
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Blue Boho Spiralize Wallpaper

Blue Boho Spiralize Wallpaper

One of my favorites ways to use wallpaper is on the back wall of a bookcase or shelf unit so I was excited to see the Spoonflower design challenge this week. The prompt was to design a wallpaper specifically to as a backdrop in a DreamBox. A Dreambox is the ultimate storage and work area for craft projects.

My approach was to design something interesting to look at but not compete with whatever supplies are going to be adorning the shelves. In my experience craft supplies have enough going so I opted for a restful monotone blue design and Blue Boho Spiralize was born.

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Blue Boho Spiralize Wallpaper
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Inch Worms Fabric Design

I have had extra time this week to come up with a design for the upcoming Spoonflower challenge – Microscopic world which prompted a design illustrating hidden world we never knew existed.

I played around with virus, fairies and nothing really floated my boat until I started drawing tiny little inch worms. I have named my design Creative Inchi Worms – a riff on my Spoonflower screen name “Creativeinch”

creative inchi worms - inch worm pattern design

What a fun design to use in kids decor!

creative inchi worms - inch worm pattern design

Voting starts Thanksgiving day – 26th November

Vote for Creative Inchi Worms

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