Spoonflower have recently released Gold and Silver metallic wallpapers.  Designs will be printed on a gold or silver base to give a shiny, metallic finish.

Having looked through my design catalogue there are a few designs that are just crying out to be printed on a gold or silver base.  Here are my top 5 pattern recommendations for Spoonflower's new metallic wallpaper range.
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1.  Mirror Ball Wall

The silver base will complement and enhance the mirror tile effect of this design.  Although silver is the obvious choice for the base, it looks pretty good on gold too.  Mirror Tiles is a similar design that would also pair perfectly with the silver wallpaper base.

2. Entwinted - pink and gold

The original design features reddish-pink geometry interspersed with golden accents.  The gold wallpaper base adds an enticing warmth and richness to the original colours and gives the gold accents a more realistic feel.  

3.  Patterns from the Autumn Splendour collection

These patterns are excellent candidates for the gold metallic base, which adds a warm glow to the yellow, orange and red hues.

There are 17 variations of the Doodled Doodlebugs pattern on 10 different background colours.  The gold and silver bases affect each of the background colours in different ways.  In most cases the colours are warmed up when placed on the gold base, but in some cases the colours are quite changed - for example the purple background takes on a warm chestnut hue (as shown above) and the blue background appears more emerald.  In any case the results are striking.
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5. ​Ice Blue Ribbon Lattice

The cool, subtle blues in this design are a natural match for the silver metallic base.  

These are just a few of the nearly 500 designs in my Spoonflower shop.  There are so many other designs that could have featured in this post so why not pay my shop a visit and see what other gems you can find? 

One of the Spoonflower Design Challenges last year was "Pop Art Citrus".  I created a repeat pattern that I called "Orange Blossom Pop" featuring groups of oranges with orange blossoms and leaves on a polka dot background.  The original background was a shade of royal blue.  I didn't really love it so I went back and made some adjustments and, as always, tried a few different colourways.  One of those was the green background shown above.  I really liked the bold motif so I took away the other elements to create a piece of wall art.  Get the art print in my Redbubble shop and see the design on lots of other products here.

The challenge over at Spoonflower this week is to create a design featuring a composition of paper cut-outs to be displayed on table napkins. 

Instead of creating a brand new design I decided to tweak the teacup design that I created for the Chintz challenge back in November last year where I digitally cut chintzy patterned swatches with a teacup punch.  To adapt it for the current brief I removed the foliage from the background and reverted to a solid pattern on the teacups instead of the white heart cut-outs seen in the original design.  I also decided to go with a light blue background because I liked how it looked on the napkins.

Head over to Spoonflower to vote! Voting closes on 7th April at 3pm EST.

The latest Spoonflower Design Challenge is Faux Textured Wallpaper.  The brief was to "create a repeating design that you can’t help but touch".  I had lots of ideas for this, but not necessarily the time or the skill to make them happen.  In hindsight I should have saved my Mirror Ball design that I used for the Roller Rink Nostalgia challenge for this challenge.  But I didn't, so I had to come up with something else.  

I really like my collection of designs inspired by Spanish Tiles.  Originally in teal and white, I have tried one or two coloured variations of the Entwined design.  A while ago, while learning how to use mask layers in my graphics program, I played around with using textures with that design, so I decided to revisit those experiments for this challenge.

I was originally going to go with a blue and gold colour scheme, featuring blue glitter and gold foil.

But I wasn't completely feeling it, so in the end I opted for this pink and gold version.

The textures that I used here are glitter and gold foil. Did I make the right choice for my challenge entry?  Voting is open until 3pm EST / 8pm GMT on 17th March, so if you like what you see, please vote for me.

This design was created for the Spoonflower design challenge - Roller Rink Nostalgia.  When I thought of the brief I immediately thought roller ball, so that's what I attempted to re-create and I think that I did a pretty decent job!

I think that it would look amazing on a shiny fabric, like satin and it works really well with home decor and accessory items.

Mirror Ball is available on a variety of products (including the above) in my Redbubble shop and as fabric in my Spoonflower shop.