#spoonflower challenge

[leegoguen]

Finally had some time to myself to create another pattern! This one is for the Hissterical Snakes Spoonflower design contest. I've titled it Art Sneko  If you have the time to vote, click here! Voting closes June 28th. Remember, you can always scroll until the designs are all loaded and ctrl+f "leegoguen" to find my design.  Thanks to anyone who takes the time to vote!

#spoonflower #spoonflower challenge #art #design #lgbtq+ artist #fabric #design challenge #snakes #snake #art deco inspired #cute #ball python

[rowanclair]

Exoflora 🪐🌷🍄

When I read that “otherworldly botanicals” was one of the Spoonflower themes for September I was absolutely thrilled and couldn’t wait to start - this was so much fun and I’m feel like every piece I make lately is bringing me a step closer to solidifying a comfortable style to work in.

#surface pattern design #alien plants #spoonflower design challenge

[musesandmayhem]

First time putting any of my designs here, but I'm really excited about entering it into one of Spoonflower's design challenges!!

The challenge was to use a limited color palette matching East Fork Pottery's glaze colors, and create a design that would work for a table linen. (Also, East Fork is an amazing company just FYI)

There are sooooo many beautiful and unique designs!!! You can use this link here to vote. It is a great way to support designers and artists for free!

#vote for me!!! j/k vote for what you like #Design Challenge #digital art #artblr #East Fork Pottery #Spoonflower

[sunshinesight]

Please vote for my entry in the Spoonflower Floriography Design Challenge: https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/floriography-2023-12/vote

Voting is open until 3pm on 12 December 2023.

my entry: vibrant tulips mix You don’t need an account to vote, but it requires a captcha.

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/15990785-vibrant-tulips-mix-by-sarahkdesigns

#spoonflower #design challenge #tulips #flowers #floral #vote #please vote #vote for me #sarahkdesigns #Sarah Knight #pattern #repeat pattern #floriography

[vinceaddams]

I'd vote in the Spoonflower weekly design challenges more often if there were maybe a few hundred designs, but ugh, there's just so many! Most of the time they have over a thousand entries. This week there are only 853 and it still took me 12 and a half minutes to scroll through them all.

I kinda wish there was a vetting process before the designs get put out there to be voted on, because there are almost always a few that don't fit the challenge guidelines at all, and sometimes they're just random MS paint squiggles or an unedited photograph of something unrelated. One time there was one that was just a photo of some concrete.

#and a lot of them are very ugly but that's fine as long as they actually fit the challenge theme #spoonflower #fabric #12+ minutes of scrolling is only worth it if the theme is sufficiently interesting #sometimes there are over 1500 entries. aghh.

[v-as-in-victor]

Well I think the squid says it all. Also I'm afraid the penguin text is somewhat mean but I don't really care.

#art #my art #valentine's day spoonflower challenge

[amandaroos]

Panda 152/1000 - Disco Revival Giant Panda Face

I made this panda pattern for the #spoonflowerchallenge "Disco Revival".

Tricky to figure out how to work a panda into this design prompt, but I like how it turned out!

www.AmandaRoos.com/pandas (links to all my panda stuff!) www.AmandaRoos.com/redbubble (stickers, backpacks, mugs, etc.) www.AmandaRoos.com/zazzle (wrapping paper, flip flops, etc.) www.AmandaRoos.com/spoonflower (fabric) https://amandaroos.blogspot.com/2022/10/panda-1521000-disco-revival-giant-panda.html

#giant panda #panda art #disco animal #disco ball #disco #disco revival #spoonflower #spoonflower design challenge #zazzle #redbubble #digital art #panda #cute art #cute #panda bear #amanda roos #amanda roos art #1000 pandas #animal art

[ardesignstudio]

Sleep Sheepy Clouds - My entry for this week's Spoonflower design challenge! The theme of week was to design the cutest possible children's bedsheets.

Voting starts 10:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday 8/3/23 and ends the following Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. EDT. Link below if you feel like checking out the art of the many talented Spoonflower designers (or if you want to join the fun and enter your own art, there are links to upcoming challenges within the below link).

#spoonflower #fabricdesign #surface pattern design #digital art #artists on tumblr #sheep #sheep art #art contests #art challenge

[scottpartridge]

Flying Raptors repeating pattern that I entered in Spoonflower’s “Birds of Prey Wallpaper” design challenge. 

#spoonflower #birds of prey #raptors #vulture #hawk #owl #falcon #kestrel #buteo #Accipiter

[jmtolman]

Candy Woodcut Cats

I made this for the Block-Print Inspired challenge! The cats were my second attempt at a block print style- the first didn't really sell the look. I made four custom cat brushes and used them for several designs, but the simple cat stack here won out. In these colors, they kinda remind me of jellybeans!

You can vote here on Spoonflower. Thank you! 

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#art #illustration #graphic design #surface pattern #spoonflower #fabric #cats #cute #block print #colorful #digital #2023

[gabalut]

My entry for spoonflower’s doodle bugs design challenge :)

Available on fabric, wallpaper, home decor etc. on Spoonflower and Society6

#art #artists on tumblr #painting #watercolor #cicadas #surface pattern design #my art

[leegoguen]

Wow it has been a while! My health and work have kept me from getting very much done in the ways of personal art, but here’s a sneak peek at an upcoming Spoonflower challenge I’ve entered! Voting opens on the 23rd, so keep an eye out for that post if you have the energy and time to go vote! I have a couple other ideas for patterns that I’d love to get a start on, but they’ll have to wait until my insomnia decides to ease up!

#snakes #tw snakes #art #artist #lgbtq+ artist #art deco inspired #cute #blues #teals #pattern #spoonflower #spoonflower challenge #thanks to anyone who's stuck around this long while I've been silent! #it's taking me a lot to accept how bad my illnesses actually are #but these past few months have really drilled it home #hoo boy

[rowanclair]

My entry for this week's Spoonflower design challenge. The theme is "Birding" and I chose to draw a grey heron, a majestic creature that I'm sometimes lucky enough to see in my garden or fishing in the local brook. And as for the shapes and colours... I just had fun!

You can vote in the challenge now here, as usual there are a lot of beautiful entries and it's really fun to see which birds people decided to draw. I'm a big fan of birds in general so it was tough for me to decide myself.

#surface pattern design #spoonflower design challenge #heron #herons

[shapeshiftersvt]

The Cryptid Collection

NO, THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE! THE TIMING JUST WORKED OUT THAT WAY BECAUSE OUR ANNIVERSARY IS TDOV, WHICH WAS MARCH 31ST THIS YEAR. (￣y▽,￣)╭

In case you missed, it, yesterday, we officially launched The Cryptid Collection!

Since it was the weekend and a major holiday, we decided to put off talking much about it outside of our website. But now it's Monday, so it's time to talk cryptids (even though we everyone is distracted by boops).

The Cryptid Collection is a collaborative design project created by co-owners Eli and Krista (hi, it's us, we're the main contributors to this Tumblr) exclusively for Shapeshifters. The collection has four main components: binders and sports bras made with fabrics of our own design, the fabrics which you can purchase for your own projects through Spoonflower, the vintage style travel posters, and the couture fashion looks which you can see in person at fashion shows across New England this year which will be listed on our Events Page as we confirm them.

While the collection was inspired by cryptids in general, we decided to spotlight six in particular: Mothman, Champ, the Jackalope, the Squonk, the Jersey Devil, and the Fresno Nightcrawler.

We'll talk more about them and why we chose those cryptids in particular later in the week. Today, we want to talk about the who, what, where, when, why, and how of The Cryptid Collection and cryptids in general.

You may be asking: Why a fashion collection?

It was originally Eli's idea. It had been something they'd been fantasizing about for a few years now, almost as long as Shapeshifters has been in business. The realization that it was something we could potentially really do didn't come until Fall of 2023, though, when we started talking about how to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We wanted to do something special, something that we'd never done before, and Eli decided it was time for both of us to finally admit that, after ten years of making and designing clothing and and graphic art, we might actually be qualified to call ourselves and present ourselves as Designers.

"It’s wild. I decided this year that I was going to commit to being the person I’ve fantasized about becoming. Terrifying." —Eli

So, a themed fashion collection.

But while it was their first and only answer when Krista asked what they wanted the theme to be, Eli didn't come up with the cryptid idea entirely on their own. Anyone who's been following Krista's artblr, @3ofpents, has probably seen the vintage travel posters she's been designing since Summer of 2023. Originally inspired by a book of color palettes from print media through the 20th century, the posters started out as a personal challenge to get Krista drawing more often.

The very first poster she designed was for the New Jersey Pine Barrens and the Jersey Devil, inspired by the state she grew up in. But the one that Eli cites as the one that really got them thinking was for our home state: Burlington, VT's own Champ.

"The tagline for that one was You’ll never swim alone. The friendly, ominous, terrible, wonderful mystery embedded in those four words is a vibe I think about a lot." —Eli

Krista's choice of cryptids as a subject for her posters, and the well of inspiration she drew from in designing her parts of this collection, stemmed from her childhood in New Jersey. While the Jersey Devil isn't as popular and well-known as some other regional cryptids like Mothman and the Loch Ness Monster, it is a huge part of New Jersey culture. Every kid in the state grows up learning some version of the Jersey Devil's origin story; and the local indie, alt, underground, punk cultures slap Jersey Devil imagery on their posters, logos, and products the way some states use their state shapes.

"In New Jersey, the story of the Jersey Devil holds a similar kind of legendary local pride as the story of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on Christmas Eve to take the British soldiers camping on the other side by surprise." —Krista

Eli's inspiration is coming in a separate post; cryptids can't be anything but queer, as far as they're concerned.

In the coming days we've got much more to say about various individual cryptids! Stay tuned.

#cryptids #cryptid fandom #shapeshifters #the cryptid collection #shapeshifters binders #this has been a ramble

[sunshinesight]

Please vote for my entry in the Spoonflower Year of the Rabbit Design Challenge:

https://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=680

Voting is open until 3pm on 24 January 2023.

my entry: bunny rabbits and tulips              

You don’t need an account to vote, but requires a captcha.

#spoonflower #design challenge #vote #vote for me #rabbits #bunnies #bunny #year of the rabbit #sarahkdesigns #pattern #tulips #floral #flowers #please vote

[sibilantwhisper]

Do you know the Black History of Hoodoo? It was the basis for my pattern I submitted for the Whimsigothic design challenge, now on sale at Spoonflower and just in time for spooky season 👻 Buy Hoodoo Pattern

#Hoodoo #grisgris #seamless pattern #mojo bag #surface pattern design #spoonflower #my art #adinkra