Chili Tattoos For Spoonflower

Sun, Sand & Chili, Duvet. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.
Sun, Sand & Chili, Duvet. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

This week, the Spoonflower design challenge is Flash tattoo sheets. They are collections of tattoo designs. It is how the artist displays ideas for those who do not have a custom design in mind. Yeah, I didn’t know that either.

I found the expected while researching. Bikers themes, skulls, spiders, hearts with thorns. Military and the occult. I was stuck for a bit. Thought of flowers, then settled on a desert theme. Duh, Sheila.

Sun, Sand & Chili, sample. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.
Sun, Sand & Chili, sample. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

I recycled some native symbols from one of my first designs (2014). But this time I created them from scratch. I used the pen tool in Photoshop to make the cacti, and the chilies. And basic shapes to make the sun. I added thorns to the cacti, but they are not as visible in the low res images here.

Voting is now open, until the 8th. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😆

Biscuits & Bones. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.
Biscuits & Bones. © 2022 Sheila Delgado.

Biscuits & Bones placed at 284 of 628 entries with 43 votes. That is 45.2%. I made some changes to the original, using suggestions from Laurelle Cidoncha. Thank you Laurelle! 🙂 I flipped some of the words around.

I’m so grateful for your time, voters! Thank you! These challenges wouldn’t be nearly as fun without the curious wondering and waiting. 😆🤔😉

We had snow briefly early this morning. Sun comes and goes, and it is cold and windy. We were supposed to have rain most of the day, but it has yet to start. Fingers crossed.

Happy day to you! 😉

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What draws us into the desert is the search
for something intimate in the remote.
 Edward Abbey

I left a piece of my soul that will always
rightfully belong in the desert.
M.B. Dallocchio

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow,
there would be no plants in the desert.
Matshona Dhliwayo

6 thoughts on “Chili Tattoos For Spoonflower

  1. Nelvia

    Always love hearing about the thought process. Glad you are enjoying and each challenge you seem to be improving.

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    1. Sheila Post author

      Thank you, Nelvia. 🙂 I hope so. I do enjoy the learning. I often want to do, something I don’t know how to do. Haha. 🙂 Happy creating to you! xoxo

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  2. Val van der Poel

    This design is very cute but I think that the images are too small for large items like the drape. Hope the vote goes well.

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    1. Sheila Post author

      True Val. 😉 I could change the scale for larger items. 🙂 Thanks for taking a look, Happy creating my friend! 🙂

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  3. Dorothy H Seiter

    Sheila, you are a design wizard and a remarkable energizer bunny with your participation in Spoonflower’s challenges! I love that with the Flash Tattoo design folks could purchase bed linens, have tattoos right up against their skin all night long, then throw back the covers and be tattoo-free come morning hahaha!

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    1. Sheila Post author

      Haha, there you go, Dotty. My kind of tattoo, removable.;) Haha. Thank you my friend. :0
      Have fun with your black and white explorations! xoxo

      Reply

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