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Once you've created and saved your design, and confirmed you work still aligns with the Terms and Conditions links for the them linked through the Design Challenge page, follow these steps.

Submitting Your Design

Confirming Your Entry

Editing Your Entry

Withdrawing Your Entry

Submitting Your Design

1. Sign into your account, or create an account if you don't already have one
2. Upload your design
3. Adjust your entry on the design layout page and click Save Changes

4. Click the Enter a Challenge button on the left

5. Select the correct Design Challenge from the dropdown menu under What challenge do you want to enter?

6. Review the voting preview image to make sure your design displays properly

7. Confirm your design fits the prompt by clicking Yes and adding a thoughtful title and description

8. Happy? Click Submit Entry

   • Not quite perfect? Click Edit Design Thumbnail or Cancel and return to design library to adjust and re-save the settings and review the design until you are happy
     

   • After you submit your entry, your design will automatically be saved to public so it can be seen during voting. If you mark your design as private after entering it, your design will be removed from being seen in the challenge

Confirming Your Entry

Artists often write asking to confirm their design is entered. To confirm your design is entered:

• Hover over your profile icon in the top left
• Click My Design Challenges from the dropdown menu
  • On the My Design Challenges page you will see the challenges you’ve entered, votes you’ve received and top ten wins

Editing Your Entry

You are free to make changes to your design before the published contest entry window closes. Simply follow the steps found in Revising Your Design.

However, please refrain from editing your design after the submission deadline has passed. These changes will not be reflected in your entry and may impact the accuracy of how the design is represented in your Design Library and on the voting page.

Withdrawing Your Entry

To withdraw your design from the design challenge please take one of the following actions:

• Withdraw the entry

  • Navigate to the My Design Challenges page

    • Hover over your profile icon in the top left

    • Click My Design Challenges from the dropdown menu

  • Click Withdraw under the design that you wish to withdraw

• Remove the design from the public gallery
  • Scroll to the Marketing and Selling section on the design layout page
  • Remove the check that includes the design in your public gallery

If you are signed up to receive our weekly newsletter, you know that there are often great promotions at Spoonflower.  Not only do we offer periodic discounts on merchandise, but we sometimes also offer shipping discounts as well. This article goes over the different sales in the Spoonflower Marketplace, and what to look out for as you shop. The current sale is always promoted along the banner at the top of our site, with more details published in the promotional fine print!

Types of Discounts

Applying and Removing Promo Codes

Trade Program

Discounts for Military, Frontline Workers, Educators and Students

Common Issues & FAQ

Types of Discounts

Sitewide Promotion

A sale or promotion made available for all customers at Spoonflower for a certain period of time. Sitewide Promotions are automatically applied to all eligible items and do not require a promo code. These promotions are typically for:

• Merchandise: All goods sold by Spoonflower are considered merchandise. Merchandise included in a promotion may vary. Such promotions may be for all Fabrics, speciality Fabric(s), Wallpaper, Home Decor, Fat Quarters, Buy Now/Save Later, Buy More/Save More, etc...
• Shipping: This covers the charges incurred to ship the order. Free Standard (Worldwide) Shipping is the most common promotion.

Promo Code

A special, one-time-use discount code that the customer applies to the order while checking out. Promo codes often arrive:

• in email, or with our newsletter,
• through a postcard mailer,
• as a pop-up menu on our site.

You must save any site generated promo code. It will not be automatically added to your shopping cart.

Everyday Designer Discount (EDD)

Artists receive 10% off any fabric, wallpaper or home decor item with their own design, excluding Test Swatches and Swatch Samplers. For Fill-A-Yard® orders the 10% arrives as a commission in Spoondollars. For more detailed information review Designer Discounts, Spoonflower PRO, and Trade Program.

Combining Discounts

Only one discount can be applied per order with the exception of:

• The Everyday Designer Discount will always be applied when applicable and an additional discount can typically be applied on top of it.
• Trade pricing can be applied in addition to other discounts on other items in the cart.
• Pro shipping discounts can be applied in addition to other discounts on an order. 

Note: Specific terms and conditions will apply for each Sitewide Promotion and Promo Code that may differ from the information covered in this article. These terms and conditions will always be included with promotional emails and found on our site, serve as authority for our Promotions, and take precedence over any details found on this page.

Applying and Removing Promo Codes

Applying a Promo Code

1. Click the shopping cart icon in the upper right-hand corner of any page to view the cart.
2. From there, you’ll see your items on the left and a pricing summary on the right. On the right, click on + Add Coupon Code to reveal the promo code box.
   
3. Enter your code into this field and click Apply. A brief description of the promotion will appear and the total will be updated as applicable. If the code is invalid or not applicable to your order, you will see the phrase “Please enter a valid code.”

Removing a Promo Code

Click on the “Reset” button next to the promo code box to remove it. The pricing will immediately update. The code will remain active until it is used or expires. 

Trade Program

Interior Designers may apply to be a part of our Trade Program for:

• Free Swatches
• Trade Discounts
• Dedicated Customer Support

This application takes around 5 minutes and helps us learn about your business and if the program is right for you. You must include one of the following:

• a link to your website (preferred)
• a digital portfolio showing your work
• a social media handle with current images

as well as one of these qualifying documents:

• a business card with the included design profession
• a business license,
• a professional trade association membership card

Discounts for Military, Frontline Workers, Educators and Students

Qualified Military, First Responders, Educators, and Students, may be eligible for a discount on all orders through ID.me. Click on the verification button in your cart and follow the steps.

• ID.me discounts can be combined with the Everyday Designer Discount
• ID.me will always apply before any sitewide discounts and cannot stack
• ID.me will always apply before a promo code discount and cannot stack

This discount is currently only available to Spoonflower customers within the United States of America.

Common Issues & FAQ

See also: Shipping Rates and Delivery Options

See also: Order Status and History

See also: How long will it take to get my order?

There are a few key variables that customers take for granted when shopping for fabric in person. If this is your first time buying fabric, this small but mighty article explains how Spoonflower works, what to pay attention to before ordering, and what to do when your order arrives.

The Benefits of Print-on-Demand

The Principles of Printing Fabric

• Printing Methods
• Print Resolution
• Design Layout for Printing
• Continuous Fabric Lengths
• Color Representation

The Methods for Printing Wallpaper

Necessary Details for Ordering

• Fabric Width and Selvage
• The Importance of Test Swatches
• Print Lots (Dye Lots)

Receiving your Spoonflower Order

Virtual Factory Field Trip

The Benefits of Print-on-Demand

Spoonflower's unique print-on-demand strategy opens up new possibilities for creating, sewing and designing that are not available at a store. Our process allows us to:

• keep millions of designs in our Marketplace
• print any design on any fabric or wallpaper type
• honor our commitment to sustainability

 The Principles of Printing Fabric 

Printing Methods

A lot of fabric is dyed, but dyeing creates waste that is bad for the environment. Spoonflower prints fabric, instead, and creates very little by-product. We employ these two methods:

• Digital printing for natural fabrics and wallpapers
• Sublimation for polyester fabrics 

Digital Printing on Natural Fabrics and Wallpaper

Spoonflower creates thousands of colors while printing directly onto natural fiber fabrics or wallpapers. Colors are:

• determined and saved by the artist
• converted to sRGB when uploaded to our site
• printed by mixing various inks

While every printer has established settings, there may be slight color variation from one order to the next. We call each order a print-lot, and similar to dye-lots, it is best to order enough fabric in your initial order to be certain colors match.

Sublimation Method on Polyester Fabrics

For our sublimation process, your design is printed onto a special transfer paper that is then overlaid onto the polyester fabric. With the application of pressure and heat, the ink of the design sublimates into a gas that penetrates and bonds into the fabric. This often translates to longer color fastness and impressive color representation 

Due to this two-step process, polyester fabrics can print no longer than 8 yards/meters. As mentioned with the digital printing method, each order is an individual print-lot. Order enough fabric in your first order to ensure color consistency.

Print Resolution

Because we are printing on fabric rather than paper, the weave of fibers may influence the resolution of small-scale designs, as well as patterns with significant details or thin lines. 

The article Image Resolution and DPI goes into further detail about dots per inch and how Spoonflower determined that the sweet spot for resolution when printing your projects is 150 DPI.

Design Layout for Printing

Spoonflower prints all designs from the bottom left corner of the fabric or wallpaper.

 Keep in mind:

• We do not resize the design to fit a certain width or height of fabric. This means wider fabrics will have more repeats across the width of the design. Review the basic characteristics of all our products in Fabric Specifications and Details.
• We print each piece individually. This means if you order three one-yard pieces of the same design, they will print as three identical pieces. In other words, your fabric is NOT cut from a pre-printed roll, nor is it printed as three full yards and cut down.
• As a pattern prints from left to right, the design repeat is based upon the settings saved by the artist.

If your personal design measures more than one yard (36") in height, you will need to increase the continuous yardage/meterage to receive the complete image.

When ordering a Marketplace design, what you see in the image preview window matches the scale and visual layout. Review Visualizing Size and Scale of Marketplace Designs for the basics.

Continuous Fabric Lengths

We do not print partial yards/meters of your fabric. If you need more than one yard/meter of a design, you will only be able to order in whole yare/meter increments.

HACK: If you only need partial-yard increments of a certain design, our Fill-A-Yard® product may be for you. You will still need to order either one or two yards of total fabric (not available in metric sizes), but you may select and lay out your designs however you wish. Review the Fill-A-Yard® Guide to learn exactly how to create this unique product.

Color Representation

The exact color settings of your monitor will likely not match the printer settings that produce your order and small color shifts are to be expected. This is why we always recommend ordering Test Swatches before placing any larger order.

Consider the following:

• Our printing method works better with designs using variations of colors throughout
• Darker, heavily saturated fields of color printing in larger blocks can sometimes arrive with a slightly muted tone, especially on natural fibers
• While all base fabrics begin as white, the base color as well as the weave and texture of the fabric may mean there is a slight color shift from one fabric type to the next for any identical design. Review the image below to see a sampling of how colors show up differently on different fabrics.
• Complex color tones, such as gray and tan, are a mix of many individual colors and are more likely to vary across multiple print jobs due to environmental factors
• Larger areas of blue may sometimes present as slightly purple on natural fibers
• Natural fabrics printed with darker color tones, and colors requiring a significant mix of pigments, may feel stiffer to the touch upon delivery. This is because more ink must be printed and heat set onto the fabric to capture the design effectively. Over time, after additional washings, your fabric will soften significantly as the fibers relax and the inks become more pliable.

Please review The Importance of Test Swatches for more information and learn a bit more about color and design in this blog post.

Additional Articles about Spoonflower Products and Printing

Environmental Sustainability and Health & Safety FAQ

Fabric Print Length and Limitations

The Best Fabric Choices for Your Projects

The Methods for Printing Wallpaper

Regardless of the length you order, each roll of wallpaper will begin printing the pattern from the bottom of the roll. This means that when you order the same length roll of the same design, from 3' to 27' (100 cm to 1000 cm), each roll will print and arrive identically. 

Therefore, we do not recommend ordering rolls of varying lengths when walls are different heights because it is likely that the design along the top edge of the varying rolls will not align. Instead, we recommend using the tallest height when ordering, as the rolls will need to be the same length to ensure seamless installation. 

Necessary Details for Ordering

Fabric Width and Selvage

When looking at a Marketplace design on your screen, the selvages run vertically, along the left and right edges of the image preview window. If the image of fabric continued, it would run down your monitor or phone.

The Importance of Test Swatches

Because every monitor has different display settings, knowing exactly how a color will print is impossible. While two Marketplace designs may seem to be in the same colorway, the two printed designs may be different because:

• fabric weave influences how light reflects color
• fabric content and thread thickness can effect how colors print
• the white point of the base fabric impacts color representation
• the printing process yields different color results

Since color is an important part of any project, we always recommend ordering and reviewing Test Swatches before any large purchase. This will allow you to color match, find matching treatments, and be certain the weight and finish of the fabric is right for your needs.

Review Finding Coordinating Designs and Fabrics for ways to search more creatively for matching designs in our Marketplace.

Print Lots (Dye Lots)

Because Spoonflower prints-on-demand, each individual order is its very own print-lot. Large color shifts should not be an issue, but two orders printed different times may have slight variations. Just like when buying commercial fabric or yarn or wallpapers with dye-lots, it is always ideal to order enough digitally printed paper to complete your project all at once.

Additional Articles about Ordering

Searching the Spoonflower Marketplace

Visualizing Size and Scale of Marketplace Designs

Customizing Marketplace Designs

Determining Prices When Purchasing from Spoonflower

How to Place an Order

Receiving your Spoonflower Order

Shrinkage

Washing your fabric prior to use in important for two main reasons:

• Help the fibers relax back into natural shape after being printed
• Address any potential for shrinkage

Because we are printing your order and not cutting it from a bolt, your fabric may shrink during the printing process and on its first wash. Review Fabric Specifications and Details for fair shrinkage estimate and consult Caring for Your Spoonflower Products for more about washing fabrics.

Additional Articles About Care and Fabric Use

The Best Fabric Choices for Your Projects

Recommended Needles and Threads

Virtual Factory Field Trip