I grew up in the UK and woodland were my playground. I really loved the spring when that fresh green appeared and the forest floors were carpeted in gorgeous bluebells! That was my inspiration for the forest biome spoonflower challenge.
I also did a light version too!
So with Spoonflower switching to challenges every two weeks now I find more time to build collections around the design I am create. This week the prompt is Court Sports and I came up with this
Tennis- Game Set Match
And he is the collection built around it
2024 and the first Spoonflower challenge of the year is Welcome Walls. I am kicking off the year the way mean to carry on and setting myself another goal of entering every single SF challenge which I have done and successfully completed for the last 4 years! There will be half as many challenges this year as SF are moving from a new challenge every week to a new one every two weeks.
So for my welcome walls challenge I was inspired to create something for foster kids coming into a new home. I wanted the design to convey love and caring while be welcoming at the same time.
This is what I came up with
of course I also created a little collection around my design
Welcome Happy Loving Home Collections
2023 and in the Spoonflower challenge world it has been a whirl. These challenges have grown and grown and it is now pretty typical to have 1500+ entries. Throw in the rising of AI generated designs and a new voting system, there have been a few issues to say the least. However I have kept to my personal goal and entered EVERY SINGLE CHALLENGE again. This marks my 4th year of doing so!
But that is not enough for me ( hahahaha), I now have to beat my previous results! Let’s start with a little recap of the last three years.
1 Win!
6 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
2 Wins!
11 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
3 Wins!
12 top ten placements
25 free proof placement
…drum roll please …
3 Wins, including 2 Pantone Challenges
8 additional top ten placements with 2nd place in the remaining Pantone Challenges
and a whopping 28 designs placed for free proofing
So a pretty decent year but I didn’t quite beat my 2022 results which I knew would be almost impossible!
Going forward Spoonflower will only be having challenges every two weeks so thing will definitely be different but I am again planning to enter EVERY single challenge!
Spoonflower and Pantone have once again collaborated to celebrate the Pantone color of the year for 2024. This year the color is Peach Fuzz.
Spoonflower/Pantone kicked off the beginning of 2023 with a challenge for Viva Magenta, the Pantone color for 2023. I won that challenge. They went on to have a further three challenges where I places, 1st, 2nd and 2nd. As a result I have been named the “Pantone Queen” and even had a little song compiled – to the tune of Dancing Queen– “Zoe’s the Pantone Queen….Pantone Queen on the palette scene….”
Now the pressure is on to maintain my reign hahaha!
I LOVE the look of block prints and even though this is a prompt we have had before (sort of) for a Spoonflower challenge, it is always fun for me to design in this style. I actually use it a lot of many of my creations.
On the Farm
It is a fun farmhouse print and would look great on kitchen linens
I also created a few stipe coordinates and you can see them all in the Rustic Life Collections
Floriography, here is another new word for me and the prompt for the Spoonflower challenge this week. Floriography is the language of flowers, a means of communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. The practice gained popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in Victorian England. During this time, flowers were often used to express emotions and sentiments that were not easily spoken aloud due to societal constraints. How cool is that!
I had fun researching this one and in the end created a floral with ” Timeless Memories” It features Forget-Me-Nots to express enduring love and remembrance, while Lily of the Valley adds sweetness and the promise of happiness. Ferns contribute sincerity.
This is the 200th Spoonflower challenge I have entered and it is quite fitting I am featuring Timeless Memories!
Timeless Memories Floriography
The design coordinates with my Shade Garden Collection
I am plodding on with my commitment to enter every single Spoonflower challenge again this year. There is so much drama going on around changes coming to the platform for designers and there is so much unknown stuff. Without designers it is a platform of NOTHING. It is all a bit distracting and disheartening.
So let’s go to a serene place for this week’s challenge and float away with some beautiful soft hued swans
Of course I also rustled up a little complimentary design too!
Both can be found in various scales in the Serenity Now Collection
The prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge is “Other Holidays” I have never designed anything for S Patrick’s day which is hugely popular here in the USA so I thought I’d have a bash at that. The strange thing is most Americans don’t realize that St Patrick is just one of the Patron Saints , We also have St David for Wales, St George for England and St Andrew for Scotland!
and I also rustled up a little collection to party on down with my hero design!
I have designed some odd things in the past and I definitely tapped into my weird side to create a surreal wallpaper for this week’s Spoonflower. I imagined birds breaking through from the outside world and pecking and removing design pieces from a wallpaper. Odd yes, I know!
