CWDkids

Announcing the Top 10 Mermaid Fabrics!

May 28, 2015

In this week's very special Design Challenge, we partnered with CWDkids to highlight the majestic and mysterious undersea beings from oceans near and far. Don't miss the top ten mermaid designs (and the limited edition fat quarter bundle!), and please give a huge shout-out to first-time Design Challenge winner Nikki Upsher for her winning design! Nikki has the amazing opportunity to work with CWDkids on a line of children's PJs! Check out all the beautiful mermaid designs on our Facebook page in our Mermaids Design Challenge photo album!

1. Final_Mermaid_Pattern_larger by nikki_upsher
2. mermaid by ebygomm
3. Happy as a clam by mhdesign
4. Mermaid Lullaby (Candy) by nouveau_bohemian
5. Captain Jack and the Mermaids by theboutiquestudio
6. mermaids & cats by kostolom3000
7. my little golden fishes by penguinhouse
8. Mermaids by Friztin by friztin
9. United Colors of Mermaids by cassiopee
10. Mermaids by bluecoin

Vote for Your Favorite Mermaid Fabrics!

May 22, 2015

Can we tell you a little secret? Mermaids are real. We swear! This week, we're teaming up with our friends at CWDkids to bring you a very special design challenge – mermaids! The chosen winner will have the amazing opportunity to have their design made into CWDkids best selling children's PJs! Swim on over and vote for your favorite mermaid design now!

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CWDkids Mermaids Design Challenge

April 30, 2015

We are so excited to partner with CWDkids and the members of our amazing creative community to create a unique new line of childrenswear!

CWDkids has offered high-quality, unique childrenswear for over 25 years. They’re seeking our community’s fresh take on mermaid pajamas in this very special design challenge!

WHO: Spoonflower and CWDkids are teaming up for a very special fabric design challenge.

WHAT: Our Mermaids Design Challenge is designed to inspire fabric designs for fun, modern pajamas featuring a mermaid theme. The good folks at CWDkids will choose one winner from the top ten vote-getting designs. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize, and his or her winning design will have the chance to become part of the latest offering of CWDkids pajamas to be released in spring of 2016 through CWDkids.com. All top-ten winners will receive $50 in Spoondollar credit.

Please see the CWDkids Style Guide for information about what makes a successful childrenswear design.

WHEN: The design deadline is May 19, 2015. Voting will take place May 21 – May 26, 2015. The winner chosen from the popularly-voted top ten designs will be announced on May 28, 2015.

HOW: To enter, create your own Spoonflower account, upload an original fabric design to the account, and enter the design in the Mermaids contest using the drop-down menu for entering contests. Designs should be created especially for this contest, and all artwork must be your original work. Since the winning design will be featured on CWDkids' pajamas, designs should feature no more than 8 colors, and design elements should be roughly .75" to 3.5" (approximately 2 cm to 9 cm). Please see the CWDkids Style Guide for additional information and photo examples.

A note about your design file: If your design wins, CWDkids will need a vector file to adapt for their printing purposes. We encourage you to prepare your original file for this, but you should create a copy of your file saved to 150 dpi to upload to Spoonflower. Your Spoonflower preview will be viewed at 150 dpi in a fat-quarter size (21” x 18”).

See full details and official rules here.

GET STARTED!

CWDkids Mermaids Design Challenge

April 27, 2015

We are so excited to partner with CWDkids and the members of our amazing creative community to create a unique new line of childrenswear!

CWDkids has offered high-quality, unique childrenswear for over 25 years. They’re seeking our community’s fresh take on mermaid pajamas in this very special design challenge!

WHO: Spoonflower and CWDkids are teaming up for a very special fabric design challenge.

CWDkids Style Guide

April 27, 2015

Designing for Childrenswear

At CWDkids, we pride ourselves on dressing kids like kids! For us, that means bright and happy colors, playful and imaginative prints, and styles that kids just can’t wait to put on. Our best-selling prints are unique, on-trend, and timeless.

We are seeking a new print to add to our best-selling girls’ sleepwear collection for Spring 2016. In line with the current trend forecast for Spring/Summer 2016, we are drawing inspiration from the ocean deep to add the mythical, yet fantastical mermaid!

The winning design in our very special Mermaids Design Challenge will be considered for the Spring/Summer 2016 line of two of our most popular pajama sets: the Girls Ruffle Edge Pajamas and the Girls Short PJ Set.

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