home decor

Beat Holiday Hosting Anxiety with Inspo from these 9 Breathtaking Tablescapes

November 1, 2016

The holidays are hands down our favorite time of the year. Fall is in the air, and with it, the smell of bonfires, sugary treats, and spiced drinks. But the holidays also brings in-laws, relatives, and more than a little bit of pressure if you’re the chosen host for the feasts and festivities. So we’ve assembled 9 examples of breathtaking table décor to help you beat holiday hosting anxiety. With these as inspiration, you can’t lose!

Floridian tablescape with a tropical color palette

earlier this fall, Niki Stoller, owner and creative director of Seventh Bixel, styled this gorgeous 60th birthday celebration and Faith Danielle was the talented photographer.

These napkins were made with Spoonflower’s linen cotton canvas. Shop the exact design used here.

Photos by Faith Danielle Photo

Meet the Maker: Kathryn Zaremba

September 26, 2016

Our latest featured maker had an unconventional start growing up as a child actress and singer on sets and sound stages across the country. Later, Kathryn Zaremba received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and moved to New York City, where she was a design assistant to Jonathan Adler and illustrated textiles for Rachel Antonoff. Now settled in Washington, DC, she creates whimsical textile designs from a workshop she shares with other female makers called the Lemon Bowl. Plan a visit if you’re in the area, and read on to learn how Kathryn fuels her successful small business.

My day starts with: “COFFEE! Then usually checking emails and customer inquiries, depends on the day. I try to plan a couple of days (or several half days) that are dedicated to making. The majority of my work is creating pattern designs for wallpaper and textiles but I also make paper portraits. These are intricate cutouts I am commissioned by people to make, so it’s important to allot enough time for them!”

October Weekly Design Challenges

September 7, 2016

Red Hens by THREEBEARSPRINTS featured on a new Roostery Maran slipper chair

How to Get Festive With Scary Cute Halloween Placemats

September 6, 2016

Want to turn your table into a spooky setting for a Halloween feast? Heidi Kenney (our resident Queen of Halloween) is stopping by the blog today to share the how-to, using her cut-and-sew placemat template available in the Spoonflower Marketplace. Designed to be printed on 54″ wide fabrics (linen would also work), a fat quarter fits two placemats, and a yard gives you eight. Pick a FQ or yard up in Eco Canvas fabric, then follow her easy steps below to sew up these adorable placemats for a table-scape that’s fit for a family of goblins and ghouls!

Vintage Halloween Placemats by Heidi Kenney

design inspired by actual vintage paper placemats

An exciting new way to see, share, and sell your Spoonflower designs

August 8, 2016

Remember a few months ago when we introduced you to our new sister company, Roostery? They are a small team that’s working to help bring your unique home dec projects and ideas to life, no sewing skills required. You can take your Spoonflower designs or designs you love in our Marketplace, and order them to be sew up (in the USA) on various products like cocktail napkins, placemats, tea towels, and pillows. We’re excited to have Kate from the Roostery team stop by the blog today to share all the exciting updates the Roostery team has been working hard on over the past few months!

Roostery offers printing on 2 types of finished pillow

Catalan pillow with insert featuring “Goldfish” by jillbyers, and Serama pillow with flange detail featuring “Scattered Shells” by karinka and “Lily Trellis in Preppy Green and Navy” by willowlanetextiles

See your favorite designs on finished tea towels

Orpington tea towels featuring “Red Hens” by Threebearsprints and “Watercolor Diamond Chevron” by taraput

Meet the Maker: Maggie Revel Mielczarek of Leland gal

July 25, 2016

We’re thrilled to introduce our latest featured maker, Maggie Revel Mielczarek of Leland gal. Maggie splits time between Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Leland, Michigan, where her seasonal shop draws customers with colorful, unique prints inspired by waterside living. Buoyed by her background in art education, she taught herself graphic design and turned her eye for color into textile printmaking with Spoonflower. It’s no surprise that both her grandmother (pictured below at 103 years old!) and mother are artists and have passed on their talents and encouragement to Maggie. Follow her Instagram to stay up-to-date with her latest creations.

My day starts with a bit of a mom hustle, feeding two boys, getting one to school and the other back down for a nap and then hit the ground running with either a shift at the store, exercise, or checking things off my list.

Leland gal with her two boys

Find Your Sound

May 11, 2016

What does Spoonflower have in common with Kaila Mullady, the 2015 World Beatbox Champion? Watch (and listen!) as Kaila uses Spoonflower to transform her apartment from plain and boring to exciting, vibrant, and personalized. Custom-printed fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap never sounded so good. Find your sound. Color your world.

Check out Kaila as she beatboxes through the print-on-demand fabric process. Want to see more? Be sure to check out all Spoonflower videos on our brand new videos page.

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Win A Copy of “Furniture Makes the Home” and 4 Rolls of Wallpaper! {Now Closed}

May 4, 2016

Love furniture re-do projects like this one? Enter to win Barb Blair’s new book, Furniture Makes the Room + 4 rolls of custom wallpaper

To celebrate the launch of Barb Blair (Knack Studio’s) inspiring second book, Furniture Makes the Room, we’re giving away a copy to four lucky winners! One grand prize winner will also score 4 rolls of Spoonflower’s Smooth Wallpaper in any design ($240 value) to tackle some of those fab home décor projects in the book.

This promotion is now closed. Winners were notified on Monday, May 9.

Did you miss Barb’s tutorial yesterday for how to update an old jewelry box using Spoonflower paper scraps? Find it here!

5 Upcycled Furniture Projects to Help You Go Green This Month!

April 8, 2016

If you know a little something about the team over here at Spoonflower, then you probably know we sure do love a good furniture DIY project! We especially love a project that gives a piece of furniture once considered prime-for-the-dumpster a new life with a little tender loving DIY care! Today on the blog, we’re showcasing five of our favorite furniture upcycling projects from around the web.

Barb Blair, author of Furniture Makes the Room and Furniture Makeovers: Simple Techniques for Transforming Furniture with Paint, Stains, Paper, Stencils, and More could easily be considered the “Queen of Refurbishing” in our eyes. Whether she’s using Spoonflower wallpaper to turn a drab dresser into the dresser of your dreams, or working her magic with a bucket of milk paint, Barb has taken upcycling to the next level.

Introducing Roostery: Where Indie Design & Home Decor Meet

April 1, 2016

We’ve all had the experience of seeing a beautiful surface design on Spoonflower and thinking… “gosh, that would make a beautiful… pillow, tea towel, tablecloth maybe even a chair!” Then life gets in the way, and we just don’t get around to actually starting… or finishing the project we envisioned. Or for others, you may be after a custom product but lack the sewing skills to actually make it yourself (hey, we can’t all be good at everything!). Here at Spoonflower, we are excited to share that we have a small team that is working to help bring your unique home dec projects and ideas to life, no sewing skills required.