Phew, it is the last of the Spoonflower bedding challenges this week. The prompt is Monochromatic Duvet covers.
I went totally Bauhaus retro with my design.
Of course a whole collection “Bauhaus Fall” rolled out from this one design as seems to happen a lot with me these days!
The Spoonflower challenges are moving onto Duvets this week and the prompt is Tween Spirit.
Tweens are a difficult age but then so are full blown teens! My inspiration for the design I created this week was the postcard montages I used to make on my bedroom wall. I’d collect all sorts of postcards and craft a beautiful artwork. I actually still have some of those postcards!
I picked a color scheme of “oh so trendy” pink and green and created a pig patchwork of designs
I also rustled up a whole collection based around these postcards
Here comes another Pantone palette Spoonflower challenge, and I have to say the pressure is on. I have won ALL of them so far this year first with my Viva Magenta Vineyard and then my Ocean Action. I am thinking my Pantone run is over and I will probably BOMB in this challenge.
As usual the color palette was a bit of a challenge with none of the colors or combinations really jiving with me. I took inspiration from the color palette name “Mega Matter” and thought about the structure of living things and got led down a brainstorming path of x-raying flowers and the amazing translucent effects it produces. But enough blabbing onto the design itself.
Of course I went a little bat crazy with my ideas and all of these patterns are now for sale in My Mega Matter collection
Over the next few weeks all the Spoonflower prompts are for bedding, which is fine in my book, but the mockups used for voting make it very difficult to see the actual designs. For a contest this is very challenging!
The first one kicks off with the Sky. Now I am sure there will be loads of spaceships, blue skies and stars but I went with some simple clouds in vibrant warm colors.
Sunset Clouds
It is another East Fork challenge over at Spoonflower this week. As usual we have to use are given a pre determined color palette and once again are asked to design table linens… this time with an Autumnal feel.
My design features a pair of squirels sharing an acorn.
Share the Acorn Harvest
It might be the height of summer but this week I have been designing Halloween prints. The Spoonflower challenge is Monster Mash and I have gone over to the dark side and unleashed a Grrr Monster complete with scary teeth and hands you won’t want to hold!
Mr Grrr the monster also appears in a number of other designs. I had a lot of fun with him!
Visit my entire Halloween Collection
This week’s Spoonflower challenge is to create a design at home on table linens in the French countyside.
I don’t know why but I was stuck on a loop of olive oil and here is my entry for this week.
The bottle designs also inspired a mini collection as quite often happens in my design process!
There appears to be a trend for wallpapering ceilings, can you imagine trying to do that? Yikes. The types of designs that work best are non directional…. a design that will look good whatever angle you view it from.
So Non directional wallpaper is the prompt for this week Spoonflower challenge.
I came up with a boho paisley design and did 2 colorways.
I have to say I had a really hard time deciding which one to enter so I plonked both into the FB Spoonflowers groups and let them pick. The orange one won hands down so that is the one I have entered!
This week the Spoonflower challenge is to create a design using a flower from the buttercup family. Who knew Ranunculaceae flower family encompassed so many flowers. Despite researching all those flowers, I kept being pulled back to the simple buttercup.
I grew up in Wales where there are plenty of buttercup meadows and lots of sheep… hence the inspiration for my whimsical design this week. It was such a fun one to design and completed in about an hour, which tells me it was just itching to get out of me!
Buttercup Meadow
Another wallpaper challenge this week over at Spoonflower and the prompt is Birds of Prey. I picked three birds, an eagle, an owl and a flock of turkey vultures.
Waking Up with Birds of Prey
I have actually used this design style and color palette before in my Lead me to Nature Collection. I was compelled to use it again for this design and it makes a nice addition to the collection.
I also created a simple line art collection which I think will be more saleable for wallpaper.
