Hurray for a fun prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge . Out with blah neutrals and in with a prompt which welcomes color, A trip to the beach.

With the extra time we get for challenges now I am tending to play around with all sorts of designs and end up building a whole collection around the theme. If I am perfectly honest I prefer the tighter timeframe and lets face it, it results in less entries. I think one recent challenge had 24 pages of stuff to wade through. That is a big ask for anyone… I can hardly be bothered to even vote for myself let alone subject anyone else to the task.

Anyway, here is my entry

Beach Hut Beach Days

And here is the rest of the collection
Beach Trip Nantucket Bliss

Gosh I found warm minimal such a dull design prompt. why not just call it beige and be done with. Never the less I cracked on and produced so many designs I went design blind. I consulted my better half on which one to enter and let’s just put that baby to bed and move on. It will probably bomb but I am at the point of who cares.

Fleur Minimal

And these were the other contenders, they now make up a new collection Warm Abstracts in my Spoonflower shop

Gosh I have created quite a few frog themed designs over the years but it is the topic of this week’s Spoonflower challenge so I have dug deep and come up with a new froggy design. Actually I came up with three, the switch to a challenge every two weeks has given me a lot more time to play around. I prefer the time constraint of a challenge every week. It focuses the mind more and there are less entries per challenge. Having to wade through a staggering 20 pages this last challenge to find my design is no fun for me and anyone else voting. Ai generated designs are still prevalent too.

But let’s stop the moaning and get one with the design I have gone with!

King Frog

these were the other contenders

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

Tennis, Game Set Match

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!

Allotment Community Garden

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