Process In a somewhat open-ended challenge this week, Spoonflower asked people to pick a time period and design something for that era. I actually made this design a few months ago when I was just doodling and playing around. I first designed some trees made out of peacock feathers, but the longer I looked at…
Category: Spoonflower Challenge
Earth Tone Throw Pillow Design Challenge
Challenge & Process This week, Spoonflower asked us to design a fabric that would look great on a neutral throw pillow. They limited the color pallet to 4 colors, all browns. The last time they did this, I was really impressed with what people turned out. It was like the palette limitations forced creativity and…
Year of the Rabbit Design Challenge
Process I used this challenge as an excuse to paint bunnies. It was a fun, therapeutic process that took about 4 1/2 hours over a few days. My girls are big fans of this one. I bet I’d have takers for bunny sheets or pajamas. I used a watercolor brush in the Procreate app to…
Poisonous Plants Design Challenge
Design Process There are some beautiful poisonous plants! But I knew there would be zillions of beautifully illustrated botanical designs this time. So I took a different angle and put my plants in lovely vintage jars. Capturing the light and reflections in glass is always challenging. However, I love the colorful outcome. You can see…
Cross Stitch Design Challenge
Cross Stitch Design Challenge Entry This is design is a little out of left field for cross stitch (considering it’s actually embroidery), but it includes some of my Grandma’s work (the blue pattern), so I still enjoy it. At least, I think it’s my Grandma’s work. It was covering her sewing room chair. It still…
Pantone Color of the Year Design Challenge
Process Each year, Spoonflower designs a challenge around Pantone’s color of the Year. This year’s color is “Viva Magenta.” A twist this year is that they also specified the exact color palette we must use with the color of the year. As you can see, the rest of the colors are extremely mellow. Not easy!…
Favorite Things Design Challenge
Watercolor is my Favorite! Spoonflower gave us a lot of freedom in this challenge. Basically, they just gave us instructions to build a fabric design around one of your favorite things. I’d say painting floral watercolors is absolutely one of my favorite things. Thus, I took a favorite painting and made a repeating pattern out…
Funny Valentine Design Challenge
This week’s funny Valentine design challenge was a lot of fun! I brainstormed a few ideas, but the one that ultimately won out was candy conversation hearts for the introvert. Brainstorming what the hearts should say with my sister was a hoot! I went through a few design iterations. It was hard to capture the…
1920’s Wallpaper Challenge
This week, Spoonflower challenged us to think on the roaring 20’s for the 1920’s Wallpaper Challenge. Art deco was very popular in that era when the Empire State Building was built in New York City. I think design from that era is classy, structured, and bold. I dig it. It was easy to find inspiration…
Barkitecture Design Challenge
The Barkitecture Design Challenge on spoonflower this week is once again outside my design passion. They want people to design wallpaper for pets. 😆 Is that really a trend? Are we really decorating entire rooms for our animals now? Well, I went for something light that a human might enjoy too. My design features songbirds…