The Peach Fuzz Challenge!

Time I entered another Spoonflower Challenge. 

VOTE HERE! The results are in! 

there were 1800 entries

This one involved Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024.

Peach Fuzz!

We were limited to this palette, plus tints:

I recolored a leopard print from my archives:

see the winners

I already uploaded this to Redbubble, so you can have all the things in Peach Fuzz Leopard ;-)

Redbubble Link

What do you think of Peach Fuzz? Would you wear this color?

Linking up with

Shelbee's On the Edge

Spoonflower Buttercup Challenge

"For this week’s challenge we want you to find inspiration in the buttercup (or Ranunculaceae) flower family."

My entry is "Buttercups"

intended for Home Decor

Vote if you can!
Here is the link

[voting has closed]

Voting closes 6/27, noon EDT

Spoonflower x Pantone Ultra-Steady

Ready for another Voting Challenge?

This time, there were color restrictions for a design to go on wallpaper.
These, plus tints:

VOTE!
until May 9th

Spoonflower x East Fork Challenge

Time for another Spoonflower popularity contest.

For this challenge, we were told to be inspired by the glaze colors of these dishes from East Fork:

I took the actual pottery (and other East Fork items) as my inspiration!

Traced them in Procreate...

Worked some Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop magic, and, voila!

I call it "The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"

There are 2158 entries in this contest (yikes... it gets worse every time)

• 03/28/2023: Submissions close at 3pm EDT
• 03/30/2023: Public voting opens
• 04/04/2023: Public voting ends at 3pm EDT
• 04/06/2023: Spoonflower will announce the winner

I wasn't even close. I gave up looking to see how many votes I got. WAY too many entries.

The rules: Artists must use both East Fork glaze colors, Butter (#F4EDBA) and Piglet (#F2DDDD) as the main colors. Additional colors can be incorporated, but we recommend only adding neutrals and keeping it simple with no more than 4 colors total (not including black and white) to ensure your design coordinates well with East Fork products. Honoring the glaze colors is key!

Red Velvet Cupcakes for a Spoonflower Design Challenge

Time to vote on my Red Velvet Spoonflower entry! CLICK HERE TO VOTE

Vote for as many or as few entries as you like by clicking on the preview images. For fairness, designs are presented in a random order for each person who votes. Your votes are submitted only after you reach the end of the voting pages and submit your votes. There are 1403 entries in this contest. (Yikes)

It's a LOT of entries to sift through, and 1/3 if not 1/2 of the entries did not follow the design brief:

For this official Pantone x Spoonflower Design Challenge, we invite you to create a design featuring Viva Magenta, a color which was selected to represent the bravery to break boundaries, fearless optimism, and Pantone’s pillars of Art + Design and Science + Tech. Use only Pantone’s Ignite palette below for this challenge, showcasing Viva Magenta as your dominant color, sparking energy within an otherwise soft palette. 

Pantone’s palette, Ignite:

18-1750 Viva Magenta, Hex: #BB2649 (your dominant color)
13-1404 Pale Dogwood, Hex: #EDCDC2
13-1010 Gray Sand, Hex: #E5CCAF
13-3804 Gray Lilac, Hex: #D4CACD
15-1216 Pale Khaki, Hex: #BFAF92
15-1115 Fields of Rye, Hex: #B7A990
15-6307 Agate Gray, Hex: #B3B1A1
13-4111 Plein Air, Hex: #BFCAD6

• 12/02/2022: Submissions open
• 12/20/2022: Submissions close at 3pm EST
• 12/22/2022: Public voting opens
• 01/03/2023: Public voting ends at 3pm EST
• 01/05/2023: Spoonflower will announce the winner

I got 56 votes, the winner got 338

Thanks so much!

Linking up with

Shelbee's Spread theKindness on the Edge

Hand Drawn Floral Fail

Here's a Spoonflower challenge that I didn't rise to. A hand drawn floral.

What's wrong with it, you ask?

When I uploaded it (five minutes before the deadline), it looked like this:

Can you see where the repeat is bad?

ARGH!

I went back and fixed it and decided to leave off the line work. 

It didn't need to look "hand drawn" any more, I had missed the window of opportunity.

Spoonflower link

Maybe I'll add the lines back in. Not sure.
I'm liking the soft watercolor look:

Hopscotch Fun

I'm on week 4 of the Summer of Creativity course and this week's theme was Humor.

That's a puzzle in the lower left. Yes! Redbubble offers puzzles now!

Get the 1000 piece version and drive yourself crazy!

[puzzle link]

You may need this laughing exercise while working on that:

Spoonflower is doing a "Sports" design challenge and I'm adding the Hopscotch placement design into the contest. I think it might be a good design for bedding, which Spoonflower offers.

The scale is too small, I had to reduce it for the contest and will make it bigger after it's over.

Wait. 

Is hopscotch a sport or a game? 

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.

I'll update with a link when voting starts 7/30.
Voting is open until 8/4 There are 486 entries in this contest. (Yikes)
Not a winner. Boo.

Linking up with

Michelle's Creative Compulsions

Shelbee's Spread the Kindness

Vote! Spoonflower Cheater Quilt Challenge

A QR code and clouds. My submission for this week's Spoonflower challenge.

What site does the QR code jump to?
You'll have to aim your smart device at it to find out!

Cast your vote here! There are 550 entries!!!

The challenge, from Spoonflower:

In the hands of our imaginative designer community, this week’s 1-Yard Cheater Quilt challenge is sure to break outside of the creative box. Think beyond the traditional 6″ block cheater quilt; the 1-yard (42” x 36”) canvas is your playground for color, shapes, composition and style. Will your eye-catching quilt double as a modern wall hanging and offer a sleek aesthetic or maybe you’d like to cater to children? However unique you decide to go, keep in mind that your quilt should not be set to a centered repeat. 

Winners will be announced September 12

#Fluevog Deee!

Fluevog link

It just so happens the Deee is very close to the colors in the Spoonflower Limited Pallette challenge:

A repeat is born:

Voting is July 11-16 -- there are 830 entries to wade through. Gah!

Spoonflower Limited Palette Challenge

The colors we were allowed to use:

First idea, pattern from my Goth "collection" [a collection currently with only two designs]:

[Currently displayed ginormous so can see design -- maybe that's OK]
link to Spoonflower

Then I saw this on Instagram:

View this post on Instagram

A lovely lady I met last week was so kind as to let me take a photo of the fabric on her vintage blouse. #floral #inspo #bohostyle #bohodecor #instastyle #textiledesign #design #textiles #textiledesigner #happy #repeatpattern #colorful #ss2020 #fashiondesigner #fashiondesign #trendresearch #nofilter

A post shared by schauleh vivian sahba (@bouclesf) on Jan 15, 2019 at 9:03am PST

Which led me to this:

link to Spoonflower

   And I thought, what if I try the limited palette on it?

link to Spoonflower

Voilà, my Challenge entry!

Now it's time to vote -- CLICK HERE
Spoonflower randomizes the entries, and you will have 762 to wade through!
Thanks in advance!

Linking this up with
Catherine's #ShareAllLinkup
and
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week

Monochrome Dot/ Stripe for Your Consideration

A new Spoonflower Challenge is up for voting.

The brief: This week’s theme is a twist on a community favorite, the limited color palette. After selecting one color (hue) of your choice, put your skills to the test by creating a repeating design only using tones, tints and shades of this hue. Black and white can be included.

Here is my entry:

Vote here until 3/26.
There are 755 entries, displayed randomly. Thanks in advance for slogging through them!

And the results are in...

How did I do in the Spoonflower challenge?
Did not make the top 25, alas.

The top ten:

Did any of my own votes make the cut?

Nope. Never did consider myself part of the vox populi.

The next challenge I'm entering is another "limited palette" theme called Monochrome.

This time, I'm entering a painterly abstract design, which I'll share next month at voting time.

Submissions close on March 13, for all you print designers out there.

Fluevog #vog_Fantine Print

The Fantine print needed no corrections, aside from some color adjustments. (Original post here).

Available on Redbubble items [I get a commission].

I also worked up a colorway for a Spoonflower limited color palette challenge.
The rules were to use "at least 2 of the following colors: Navy (#031838), Light Orchid (#D3A0CC) and Burgundy (#81001E) and black/white are optional".
I opted for Navy, Burgundy, and White, which turned it into patriotic goth.

If you feel like voting on my design, click here [only active 2/15-20].

Astro Cats

See it on Spoonflower 

It's Astro Cats for another Spoonflower Challenge!

You need to see a closeup:

[I know, the repeat has issues... I'll fix it, later] 

Here is the design brief:
"A true geometric "trompe-l'œil," geodesic shapes appear curved but are really made up of entirely straight lines. Create an original design inspired by geodesic lines."

Voting is open, now until March 7. Go take a look!

Spoonflower Mosaic Challenge

See it on Spoonflower

It's time for another Spoonflower Challenge entry, the theme this week is MOSAICS.

I've been meaning to get this art into repeat for a while. It's the same colors as my Web Color Chart

See it on Spoonflower
See it on Society6
See it on Redbubble

but more usable for printing on leggings (or whatever).

Soon I'll have some! (Maybe I'll try Redbubble this time, to compare with the Society6 ones)

Anyway,

the Challenge includes voting. If you feel like helping me win the popularity contest, 

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!!!!

There are 287 entries to wade through (and don't try to do it on your phone -- really difficult!!!!) and they're displayed at random, so no telling when my Mosaic of web colors will appear.

Voting closes 2/28, so get on over there as soon as you can!

Mwah!

#August2016crayons Spoonflower Weekly Challenge

Design brief: "Life is like a box of crayons, so color your world! Create a design with color and fun!"

find this on Spoonflower 

I did some sketches of crayons (using the color of the crayon to sketch it) a while ago.
Thought they'd be the perfect thing to use for this week's Spoonflower Weekly Challenge.

Here's one of the sketches:

Crayolas have the craziest names now!

#Aug2016ABC123 Spoonflower Weekly Challenge

ABCs, 123s 

Design brief: "Letters and numbers, the building blocks of our world. Let your creativity fly as you design with letters of the alphabet and/or digits to your hearts content." 

find this on Spoonflower 

Shall we venture backwards in time to see other design options that I came up with? 

My building blocks:

I typed A-Z and 0-9 into an Illustrator document. I then printed it out several times, and cut some of the prints into strips using a paper cutter. I took photos of my various layouts as I made them. I know I could get a cleaner final file by splitting the elements in Illustrator, but it was fun fooling around with scraps of paper and I was able to try out different things quickly.

I got the letterform splitting idea from stumbling across the work of Cecil Touchon last week 

(from WGSN? Artsy? Can't remember!)