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20 Inspiring Ways to Use Removable Wallpaper

November 25, 2016

Removable wallpaper might just be our most versatile product at Spoonflower. You can use it for giant wall stickers, accents in your home, dressing your tech, lining drawers, and the list goes on and on! Below we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite wallpaper projects from bloggers and Spoonflower employees that we hope will inspire you to tackle your next home dec aspiration.

1. This stunner of a budget rental kitchen remodel had our jaws dropping.

Before:

Check out the full post on Apartment Therapy

After:

Wallpaper used is Springtime In The Butterflies ~ Garden ~ Brillig by Peacoquette

2. Giant DIY Wall Stickers

DIY wall stickers, whale and fish in child's nursery

The fabulous Audrey of This Little Street created free downloadable templates and easy instructions to make these awesome wall stickers!

DIY on a Dime : How To Make 36 Photo Magnets for Under $10!

November 8, 2016

If you’re anything like Spoonflower team member Meredith, you’ve probably snapped your fair share of instagram photos. If you’re also like Meredith, you’ve probably never printed any of those artfully filtered photos! Today, see how she changed her ways by creating 36 custom Instagram photo magnets for under $10!

Instagram magnets add a pop of color on any 'fridge!

Spruce up your refrigerator with DIY photo magnets.

If “never printing your camera phone photos” was a sport, I’d be the grand champion. However, this holiday season, I’ve finally decided to change my ways while also making the perfect personalized gift… and on a budget! With the help of Instagram, Photoshop and just one swatch of Spoonflower’s woven wallpaper, I used photos that may have never seen the light of day and transformed them into beautiful photo magnets! Follow along as I show you how I made this personalized gift. [Read more…] about DIY on a Dime : How To Make 36 Photo Magnets for Under $10!

How the Walls of this Pizza Shop Went From Blah to Pi-zza!

November 7, 2016

When you think of pizza, what comes to mind? Gooey cheese? Endless amounts of toppings?…Spoonflower wallpaper?

When local pizza trailer ( yes, that’s a thing in Durham!) Pie Pushers began planning the opening of their first store-front location in downtown Durham, they reached out to Spoonflower with a unique custom printing idea. While we knew this partnership would be the perfect blend of design, community support, and lots of creativity, we were mostly focused on one thing…pizza.

With the help of Spoonflower’s smooth wallpaper, learn how owner’s Mike Hacker and Becky Cascio transformed the two shop restrooms from blah to pi-zza!

The Pie Pushers’ logo inspired the all-over wallpaper repeat

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!”

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!

Meet the Designer: Kristi Heck

April 25, 2016

Today we'd like you to meet designer Kristi Heck as part of our new Meet the Designer series. Hailing from Panama then California, and most recently the great, green rainforest of the Pacific Northwest, Kristi is inspired by her natural environment and uses acrylic paints to create scenes involving friendly creatures, soil, vegetables, and lots of vivid color. She's down to earth in more ways than one–keep reading and get to know what gets Kristi's creative juices flowing.

Where do you currently live? I live in Hood River, Oregon.

My day starts with the little dog whining to be invited on the bed. Once she’s up (sitting on my chest, attempting to lick), the big dog arrives. His warm fuzzy head smells like corn chips. After a quiet moment, I’m up: feed dogs, make coffee, drink coffee with husband, pack lunches, wake kids, get dressed, breakfast kids, walk dogs and kids to school, return with just dogs. Then it’s down to my studio to work…

I fell in love with fabric design when… I turned around. This love (sort of, not really) snuck up on me. Our house is chockfull of textiles: Pendleton wool, reverse appliqué molas by the Guna Yala of Panama, Indian kantha quilts, chunky knits, plush flokati, African Dutch wax block prints, and a crazy variety of patterned throw pillows. I’ve always loved designing with fabrics; I’m brand new to designing actual fabrics. Our family moved to Hood River mid-December 2013, our first winter in about ten years. Time lived in Southern California combined with six years in the Republic of Panama had left us cold. Literally. So I over-dressed and began painting creatures hibernating. Soon, the animals migrated into human beds. Painting their bedding was my favorite part. I thought I’d try designing fabric versus just painting it, but the ability to create a repeat pattern eluded me… I have dozens of horrible designs stashed in file folders titled “Trials” and “Tribulations.” Then I found the class “How to design fabric” at creativebug.com featuring Spoonflower. Click! Apparently, my visual brain required a visual demo, as I later uncovered near-verbatim written instruction in multiple fabric design books I already own!

Wallpaper hack: Custom Laptop Skin Using Just A Swatch

February 2, 2016

Are you ready to level up your laptop case? About time to freshen up those tired old stickers that have been there since you created your Myspace account? If so, listen up! By far the favorite wallpaper hack among Spoonflower employees is the peel-and-stick laptop skin. There's a reason why just about each and every laptop in the Spoonflower HQ offices is adorned with a swatch of Woven Peel & Stick wallpaper! It's affordable (a swatch is just $7.50!) and super easy to peel off and change with the seasons of life. Plus, with all the options in our indie Marketplace or the ability to design your own, you can truly let your creativity run wild. Watch our video tutorial below to find out just how easy this wallpaper hack really is!

You Are So Very Loved by Noondaydesign

Craft Your Holiday Menu For #MakeItMonday!

November 23, 2015

This week, we thought we'd help you prep for the seasonal gatherings to come with some artsy, holiday menu crafts! If you're looking for an excuse to get ahead on your menu planning and put your design skills to use, then try creating some special menu artwork to display your delicious lists of seasonal drinks, holiday dinner items, and festive snacks for all to see! Cheers to all the amazing meals we hope to share with our friends and family this season!

Print your menu on fabric like this small pouch from Scout

Print custom menus on Spoonflower's Woven Peel and Stick Wallpaper and apply to your kitchen space or dining room wall. Find the tutorial here!

A great meal is something to be thankful for–a great reminder for your menu printed on a Linen-Cotton Canvas dinner napkin! Via Almost Makes Perfect

For a list of creative holiday menu ideas, see Martha Stewart's list of ideas! Don't forget to share your crafting adventures with us throughout the week using the hashtag #MakeItMonday and #Spoonflower!

~Jenny

Boot Camp: Decoding Wallpaper Design

August 31, 2015

While fabric patterns can repeat in every direction and come in a variety of sizes, designing for wallpaper requires you to always have the width of the roll in mind. Wallpaper rolls have to match up, so the repeat has to be very precise.

Since Spoonflower wallpaper rolls are 24 inches wide, your design’s width has to divide evenly into 24. For example, designs that are 24, 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1. Length doesn’t matter as much because rolls can be printed up to 15 feet long, so you have plenty of room there. What if my design doesn’t divide evenly into the 24-inch width?

Your design will be resized automatically if it’s not evenly divisible into 24. If your design file is pretty big the system might scale up, or scale down your design if you don’t have enough pixels to work with. Double-check the dimensions to the right of the preview to determine how much the scale has changed.

Your wallpaper, fabric and gift wrap settings are independent from each other, but If you needed extra precision, you could upload copies of the same design and only order it on specific products.

Can I make a mural using Spoonflower wallpaper?

Yes, it’s possible to make a mural, but it takes some careful planning, some powerful software and a really big file.

Let’s say you wanted to make a mural that is 6’w x 4’h. Since wallpaper rolls are 24 inches wide, you would need three custom rolls that are four feet long — Spoonflower can print short rolls too, you don’t have to buy a full roll. With your high quality file open in Photoshop, you would need to divide it into 24 x 48 inch sections, and upload each one separately. Then each section would print on individual rolls. This may take some finagling to get it right, and test swatches can help you determine if your mural is lining up properly before committing to the full project.

Do you have any other tips or tricks for designing for wallpaper? Please share in the comments below!

How to Install Woven Peel & Stick Wallpaper and Smooth Wallpaper

June 30, 2015

Excited to install your new Spoonflower wallpaper but not quite sure where to start? Join the Spoonflower help team today as they show you a step-by-step process to installing both our Woven and Smooth wallpaper!

Installing Woven Peel & Stick Wallpaper:

Installing Smooth Wallpaper:

The design we used is: Peonies Drawing Canvas Texture by Katarina available on both smooth and woven wallpaper.

Have you used either, or both, of our wallpapers in a project? Please share what you've created or updated with Smooth or Peel & Stick wallpaper in the comments below!

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