I was tempted to do something very geometric for the backsplash challenge but got sucked into a delft ceramics look feel where I let rip with my favorite color combination, blue and white!
I also did a few other color combination without the obvious tile look as I think it may affected the salability and I ended up building out a whole collection around my hero design!
When I first started designing for Spoonflower I really didn’t enjoy the tea towel challenges but now they are one of my favorite! I update my calendar tea towels each year so I have quite a collection now!
I always end up designing a couple of concepts and then find it impossible to choose which one to enter. This year was no exception and I ended up posting my two finalists to a group on Facebook to gauge the reactions.
This is the design I decided to go with
Beach Hut Beach Days 2025 Calendar
Here were the other contenders
I really love designing boho or bohemian designs so I did a little jump of joy for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, “Refined Bohemian”
I went with a lovely warm earth tone inspired color palette.
With my love for this prompt I also created a load of other designs!
I created quite a few ditsy holiday patterns for this week’s spoonflower challenge by this is the one I am going with!
And here are other ones I created.
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is Conversational and I went around and around trying to find inspiration for this one. A conversational design is one that takes an everyday object and turns it into a design.
So I had my hair cut last week and as I sat rabbiting to my stylist I had an ahha moment!
I feel a little collection coming on but I have not yet got to it yet!
Yes Chef is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and there is nothing like designing to food related prompts to make me hungry.
I went for a Chef Special Full English Breakfast
It seems the preppy look never goes out of style but the look and feel of it has definitely morphed a bit over the years. Preppy is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge and went full on coastal preppy with my entry with palm trees, lush tropical foliage and of course yachts what is more preppy than a yacht!
To most it will seem odd to be designing for Christmas in the height of summer and that fact actually really stilted my design for the spoonflower challenge this week. Imagining snowy scenes when it is 102 deg F on my patio was irritating, but eventually the design juices started running and I am super pleased with how my design turned out!
Christmas Wonderland Patchwork
I also did a version without the patchwork and a patchwork block! They are all for sale in my Spoonflower Shop in the Patchwork Christmas collection
Hide and seek, such a fun prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I went for a totally kid orientated approach and created a maze for some funky little robots and hid numbers along the way. As a kid , I would have loved to have this on my bedroom wall and lie in bed solving the maze and finding the numbers! It would also make a great print for table placemats.
This week’s Spoonflower challenge prompt is Cottagecore Halloween. I had lots of ideas for this prompt and bashed out quite a few designs!
I eventually decided to enter my Graveyard ghosts!
Are here are my other designs… now all for sale in my Spoonflower shop in the Cottagecore Halloween collection
