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My brand new folk art-inspired “Circle Craft” surface pattern design is full of sketchy hand-drawn abstract circles in a Maximalist Red palette! Although I finished it before Christmas, I just entered it in the next Spoonflower “Craft Maximalism” Design Challenge! It did take a LONG time to get the colours just right, but heck! I love the process! If you'd like to vote in this Challenge, you can link to the Voting Page HERE! Public voting closes Tuesday Jan 20 2026. I'd love your vote for this one as always! AND Happy New Year!! 
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I’ve just entered my new “Flower Bouquet Tiles” floral surface pattern design in Light Delft Blue in the current Spoonflower “Delft Tiles” Design Challenge! I say “new”, but I created these floral bouquet illustrations awhile ago for a wall art series (in some different colours) requested by one of my agents at the time. But when I parted ways with that agent, these florals just kinda lurked around on my hard drive...until this Challenge was announced! Because these florals were originally created for square art prints, they seemed perfect for a tile layout! So, here’s my NEW “Floral Bouquet Tiles” pattern design! If you'd like to vote (I'd appreciate your vote, of course!), you can check out the Voting Page HERE! And find this design in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor (this links to the Large-Scale version, it also comes in a Small- and Medium-Scale too). And keep scrolling to see my new "Flower Bouquet Tiles" pattern design in other colourways!  You can find this new floral pattern design in my Happywall Shop on Wallpaper too! Ships from Sweden.   And here are more colourways of my "Flower Bouquet Tiles" print design: Dark Delft Blue and my Light Soft Blue and Pretty In Pink Colour Palettes! All are available in my Spoonflower and Happywall Shops too!    Two Overlapping Spoonflower Floral Design Challenges: "Retro Nouveau" and "Vintage Florals"!12/8/2025 Not exactly sure why (probably due to US Thanksgiving?), but Spoonflower is currently running two over-lapping design challenges all about floral pattern designs: "Retro Nouveau" and "Vintage Florals". Here are my entries! Although voting for the "Retro Nouveau" Challenge closed Tuesday Dec 2 (again, sorry for the late notice), you can still vote in the "Vintage Florals" Challenge until Tuesday Dec 9. Link to the Voting Page HERE! And be sure to check all the Florals and Botanicals in my Spoonflower Shop HERE! “Retro Nouveau” Wallpaper Design Challenge There seemed to be a bit of confusion as to what this Challenge entailed: “This mashup mixes the organic motifs and ornate shapes of Art Deco with the bold colors and geometric patterns of a retro vibe.” So on one hand, it sounded like a request for Art Nouveau designs (and the accompanying image seemed to support this), but then “Art Deco” and “geometric patterns” was also mentioned. Hmmmm! So I decided to create an Art Nouveauesque (is that a word?) floral superimposed on a geometric Art Deco background...And included some of the Challenge’s suggested colours (Dusty Pink, Burnt Orange, Emerald Green, Golden Ochre) for good measure! Here is my brand new “Maybelle” floral pattern design which I’ve entered in this Challenge! Winners will be announced on Friday December 12 (NOT on a Thursday which is usual)! 
"Vintage Florals" Design Challenge I think there’s something very comforting about a nice big vintage floral pattern design, like a blanket you’ve had forever that used to belong to maybe your grandma (or maybe you don’t even remember where it came from!) and that you should, but just can’t, throw out, even if you’re trying REALLY HARD to “purge” your closets and bookshelves and storage rooms, which I’ve been doing recently with varying levels of success...So here's my brand new "Big Bloom Hydrangeas" floral pattern design in soft vintage “faded” Antique Colors: Maroon, Pink, Dusty Blue and Blush on Deep Blue. Maybe this one will become someone’s future “un-purgeable” blanket! I like the vintage English Cottagecore feel of these blooming flowers (while being a bit Maximalist too!)...But look closely, there is a bit of an abstracted “modern” twist to how I created each bloom!  
And OF COURSE, it comes in some other colourways too: Antique Apricot and Teal (left pic below) and Antique Rose and Lavender (right pic below)!
 I want this dress, btw! :)
Just Another Catchup! My Entry for the Spoonflower "Thrift Store Treasures" Design Challenge!12/8/2025 I’ve been playing around with geometric shapes in my pattern designs lately, and I do mean PLAYING! My new "Stacking" geometric shapes pattern design was inspired by vintage stacking toy blocks, so I entered it in the Spoonflower "Thrift Store Treasures" Design Challenge in a Vintage 1950s Charcoal colourway (below left)! Voting closed Nov 4 2025, sorry for the late notice! BTW: "Stacking" is also available in a coordinating Cream colourway too (below right), and both are part of my "Playtime Chic" Collection now available in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in several scales. Find the entire Collection HERE!
My "Stacking" colorful pattern design is pretty great for adding a little playfulness to your spaces! You can find them on Wallpaper in my Happywall Shop (ships from Sweden) and my Giffywalls Shop (ships from USA and India) too.     My "Colouring Book Snakes" Pattern Design has been Published in Uppercase Magazine Issue #67!10/24/2025 It is such a great honour to be included in the newest Issue #67 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2025) of Uppercase Magazine, one of my favourite magazines! We had a bit of a wait here in Canada to get this issue (due to a postal strike), but it did finally arrive. Here is my "Colouring Book Snakes" pattern design that I submitted for a feature all about "Readers' black & white artwork, projects and designs, where lack of colour is a specific design feature". When I saw that brief, I immediately thought about my Colouring Book Series of pattern designs that are necessarily created in Black & White! Scroll down to see some more of my colouring book designs in this Series! . If you don't already know (!), Uppercase Magazine is a fantastic ads-free magazine published here in Canada. It's always so FULL of inspiration, interesting features about art, culture and design. I love it and look forward to getting each new issue.
OH and BTW: I couldn't really help creating "coloured" versions of these designs too! In other words, I felt the need to colour in my colouring book pages!
"Marble Swirl" is My Entry for the Next Spoonflower "Stone Flow" Wallpaper Design Challenge!10/20/2025 My brand new kinda ga-roovy surface pattern design is my stylized take on the veining and variegation of natural marble stone...I call this one “Marble Swirl” and I’ve been experimenting with a bunch of interesting kinda ga-roovy colourways too (scroll down)! . I'm entering this one (in the first colourway) in the upcoming Spoonflower "Stone Flow" Wallpaper Design Challenge. Public voting for this Challenge opens this Thursday October 23. I'd love a vote for this one and you can link to the Voting Page HERE!  And here's more colourways, OF COURSE! You can find them all now in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in several scales!
Whoops! I did it again...I forgot to post my entries for the last couple Spoonflower Design Challenges: "Jewel-Toned Boho" (which ended Sept 25), and "Garden Tapestry" (which ended Oct 9). So here is my catch-up Post! . BTW: All these designs are now available to license. Just get in touch HERE if you'd like to discuss licensing these designs for your products. . AND you can also SHOP these designs in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in several sizes and colourways, and in my Happywall Shop on Wallpaper (that ships from Sweden)! "Jewel-Toned Boho" Design Challenge: For the "Jewel-Toned Boho" Challenge, I entered my "Dahlia Diamonds" abstract floral design (see below). Happily, it placed in the Top 100 (63rd out of 1433 entered designs)! If you voted for this design, I do thank you. 
I couldn't resist, I did have to try out my "Dahlia Diamonds" design in a bunch of fun colour palettes too: Pretty In Pink, Palazzo, Warm Earthy and Cherry Bomb. Check them all out in my Spoonflower Shop!
"Garden Tapestry" Design Challenge: For the "Garden Tapestry" Wallpaper Design Challenge, I entered my new "Flower Patches" boho floral design in a Warm Earthy colour palette (see below)!   My "Flower Patches" design also comes in a Rainbow Brights Colourway too (see below)! 
Find all these brand new surface pattern designs in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor AND in my Happywall Shop on Wallpaper (that ships from Sweden)!
If you are a licensee or manufacturer who would like to know the latest in upcoming print trends for kidswear, the brand new "Prints & Graphics Sourcing Guide: Kidswear A/W 26/27" has just been released by WGSN, the world's leading consumer trend forecaster. This Guide includes several of my pattern designs in its identification of the key trends for Autumn/Winter 2026/2027 Kidswear! Here's a sneak peek! . Please NOTE: You must be a WGSN subscriber to access this Guide. 
My Designs Spotted at TIFF 2025 in Celebrity Portraits Shot by Chris Chapman for The Ankler!9/9/2025 My designs have been spotted at the Toronto International Film Festival 2025 (running this year from September 4-14) in a series of celebrity portraits shot by Chris Chapman for The Ankler! Be sure to check out all of Chris' celebrity portraits shot for The Ankler at TIFF 2025 HERE! . All photos are ©Chris Chapman Photography and used with permission.
What do you think this zebra(s) is thinking about? I’ve just entered my brand new “Zebra Herd” pattern design in the next Spoonflower “New Animal Prints” Design Challenge! Public voting for this Challenge opens this Thursday August 14 and you can link to the Voting Page HERE! . If you'd like to SHOP this brand new design, it's available on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor in my Spoonflower Shop in several scales. Click the image below to link directly to the Medium-Scale Fabric!  And because everyone LOVES a closeup...  Channel your inner 1970s child with my brand new “Far Out Flowers” print design that I've entered in the Spoonflower "1970s" Wallpaper Design Challenge! Groovy! I kinda love it and this just might be the start of a whole new series of pattern designs. Voting for this Challenge closed Tuesday August 12, so sorry for the late post! . UPDATE! The results for the "1970s" Wallpaper Design Challenge are in! My groovy "Far Out Flowers" pattern design was voted #15th out of 1690 designs! With thanks to all who voted for it! . And keep scrolling down for my "Groovy Daisies" simple coordinate (in two colourways) that I love all on its own too. . Click the images below to find these designs in my Spoonflower Shop! 
 See below for my "Groovy Daisies" coordinate in Turquoise, Blue, Purple and Cream on Beige AND in Orange, Yellow, Pink and Green on Purple! More Groovi-ness! Click the images below to find these designs in my Spoonflower Shop on Fabrics in a Medium-Scale. All the designs here come in other scales too and are available on Fabrics, Wallpaper and Home Decor!
I've been SO busy recently that I've completely neglected posting all my recent Spoonflower Design Challenge entries! So in an effort to catchup I'm going to post all my recent entries in this one Blog Post! Click the Images to see each entry in my Spoonflower Shop! Retro Halloween Design Challenge: "Halloween Sweeties" in Green and Purple (left image). Challenge ended June 17 2025. This one is also available in Red and Turquoise too!
Cottagecore Wallpaper Design Challenge: "Apple Checkerboard". Challenge ended July 17 2025. 
Festive Animals Design Challenge: "Polka Dot Birds" in Christmas Holiday Red and Green. Challenge ended July 31 2025.  "Polka Dot Birds" also comes in other colourways too: Warm Brown, Green and Turquoise (left) and Bright Fuchsia Hot Pink and Royal Blue (right)!
Very happy to announce my new collab with Boozelele who make fantastic Western-inspired shirts and dresses (and more!) Have a look below to see the vintage styles and colourways!  Marvelous Meadow Blue Women's Dress  Marvelous Meadow Blue Men's Shirt
New Collab! "Solve" My Pattern Designs in the Patterned Puzzle Game App Available on Apple Arcade!7/10/2025 I've just partnered with Borderleap, the creator of the popular Patterned Puzzle Game available on Apple Arcade! You can now "solve" my “Pasta Con Mollica di Pane” pattern design in this artistic app. It’s super fun and meditative to try and create the repeat pattern and watch your progress colour-ify (I’m pretty sure that’s a word, btw) as you place each puzzle piece in the correct position! It’s super satisfying, I know because every time I solve it I feel the need to reset and restart it and then solve it all over again! Check it out on Apple Arcade HERE! Follow on the pics below to see how you can "solve" the puzzle (as seen on my iPhone)!
And the finished Patterned Puzzle is below! BTW: Whenever you solve a puzzle in Patterned you have the option of saving it as wallpaper for your phone too!  I've just partnered with Giffywalls where you can now purchase my Wallpaper and Wall Mural designs. Although the selection there is still quite limited, I invite you to go have a look. All Giffywall products ship from the USA and India. BTW: If you'd like to see one of my designs offered for sale in my Giffywalls Shop, just reach out and let me know which one and I'll see what I can do for you!      |
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