I really love gardening and am sad that the growing season here in Chicago is so short. It was an absolute pleasure designing for this week’s Spoonflower challenge, Garden Bedding
I went with a very painterly style for this challenge and basically created my dream flowerbed
Passementerie, that is a new word for me this week and the prompt for the Spoonflower design challenge. It is a type of decorative trim used in textiles.
I designed and intricate beaded loopy pattern in my favorite blues.
Loopy beaded Passementerie Trim
I also created a few more patterns based around this design! See the whole collection here
Another wallpaper challenge this week for the Spoonflower challenge and the prompt is hidden whimsey. I designed and underwater pattern with hidden seahorses. It is awash underwater magic!
I also created a few more colorways
This week the Spoonflower design challenge is pets on vacation and I am sure the entries will be stuffed full of cats and dogs. But I went the pet hedgehog route and imagined them camping and sitting beside a camp fire!
I really love moss … it is probably because I grew up in wales where it rains quite a lot and as a result there is a lot of moss everywhere! It is the prompt for the Spoonflower challenge this week.
It is actually quite tricky to draw and capture it’s true loveliness but I battled on and took inspiration from planters… but gave it a whimsical twist.
I think I may have had too much time on my hands because I have designed quite a few designs for the Spoonflower design prompt this week, Room specific wallpaper.
I thought this would be cool for a home office
And this would be fun for a library or reading nook
and I went to town on designs for laundry rooms which build nicely on my Laundry Day collection
At the moment I am leaning towards the Library Book bloom design but maybe there will be a last minute switcharoo to the home office city.
Gosh, of all the design prompts I have worked to for the Spoonflower challenges, Time machine has to have been one of the hardest.
I came up with a design or past and future vignettes with buttons to fast forward or rewind.
Also did a version with words and then another version without words or buttons
It would make fun bedding for a kids room!
I really love color, so designing in earth tones is always quite a challenge for me, particularly when they are all brown based.
However the color palette specified for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Earth Tone Throw Pillows” spoke to me in a weird way and before I knew it a design I am really happy with popped right out!
Hilda the Highland Cow!
I also did a few other designs and also added some color to my original Hilda. All are now for sale in my Spoonflower shop in The Highland Cow Collection
2023 is the Year of the rabbit, and the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.
I took a Bauhaus approach with my design, riffing off what I created for my Year of the Tiger design last year, and went with a spring like color palette…Easter Bunnies!
and of course I messed around with a few more design in my usual excess self!
I had such fun researching plants for this week’s Spoonflower challenge prompt – Poisonous plants. What amazed me was that I already have so many of them growing in my garden! Who knew bleeding heart was toxic!
Toxic Garden
