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Follow the steps below for submitting your own design into one of Spoonflower's Design Challenges. Approximately 2-6 challenges are open for entries at all times. 
 

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. Designs must be uploaded following the date of the announcement of the contest theme in order to be eligible.
3. Adjust your entry on the design edit page.
4. Digitally proof the design and set it For Sale. If you aren’t already, you will need to become a verified seller. 
5. Click the Enter Design Challenge button (as shown in the screenshot above). 
6. Select the correct Design Challenge from the dropdown menu under What challenge do you want to enter?
7. Review the voting preview image to make sure your design displays properly.
8. Confirm your design fits the prompt by clicking Yes and adding a thoughtful title and description
9. 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.
     
   • Designs must be publicly For Sale to be included in the challenge. 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
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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, hover over your profile icon in the top left and click My Design Challenges from the dropdown menu. Then, click Withdraw under the design that you wish to withdraw. 

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 typically promoted on the homepage 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 PLUS, 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.
• PLUS 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

Our trade programs offers an exclusive Trade Discount for Interior & Commercial Designers. Apply to be part of our trade program here.

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?

Welcome to Spoonflower!  Here at Spoonflower, you can shop thousands of unique designs, all available made-to-order on a range of high-quality fabrics, wallpapers, and home decor. Our unique print on demand process allows us to keep thousands of designs in our Marketplace without warehousing physical stock of each design and give customers the ability to upload their own custom designs.  We print any design onto any product in our inventory – fabric, wallpaper, and home decor – all while honoring our commitment to sustainability. If this is your first time purchasing from us, this article explains how Spoonflower works – from the moment you place the order to when it arrives at your door.  
 

1. You Place Your Order

   You can choose to have any design printed on over 50 different products. Our design library features thousands of designs created by independent designers from across the world. Each item is made to order just for you! Every time you make a purchase from our Marketplace, you’re supporting an independent artist who earns a 10% royalty on every sale. And every design for sale is essentially always “in stock,” since we physically create it when you order it!
    

2. We Print Your Order

   Your specific items will be made to order with care right here in the USA by our expert team.  You can order a single swatch without having to commit to larger quantities and Spoonflower’s printing methods create very little by-products. We employ both direct-to-fabric printing for natural fabrics with water-based ink and dye-sublimation for polyester fabrics with water-based dispersed dyes.
   • Natural Fabrics: For our natural fiber fabrics, we use a direct-to-fabric print process that mixes colors on the fly in response to the design information being sent to the printer. Compared to rotary screen, reactive dyes and other comparable print methods, our printers use non-toxic pigment inks that account for 95.63% less water and emit 83% less carbon (CO2e).  
   • 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.  
   • Home Decor: In addition to our fabric by the yard, we also offer our digitally printed fabric as finished Home Decor items! From table linens to bedding to curtains, these products are available with any design in our Marketplace. Many of our Home Decor products come with a choice of multiple fabrics bases to have your product made from. These products are sewn to order which means we don’t end up with excess wasted inventory – we make just what is ordered! All Home Decor items are sewn in the USA.  
   • Wallpaper: Just like our fabric and Home Decor options, we also offer Wallpaper that is printed on demand. Spoonflower Wallpaper is printed with non-toxic, Greenguard Gold certified inks. This means that our inks have been tested for over 15,000 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) known to pollute the air, and confirms they have low chemical emissions. We have both traditional wallpaper and DIY options to meet the needs of all types of projects! Our DIY papers come in a variety of roll lengths – which means we can print just what you need, whether it’s for a small craft project or an entire room.   
      

3. We Inspect Your Order

   Every order goes through automated and manual quality assurance procedures before it is shipped to you. We have a strong color management system used to limit color variation from order to order.  Learn more about color here.
    

4. We Ship Your Order

   Once your items are completed in our US-based facilities, we’ll ship them to you! Choose from one of our three different shipping options to meet your specific project needs.  We even have expedited options with guaranteed delivery dates if you’re working under a tight deadline! Tracking is available under the order history in your account and will be sent to you via email after an order has shipped. Learn more about our shipping options here.
    

5. You Receive Your Order

   Lastly, your custom printed order will arrive at your doorstep! Inspect your order upon arrival, as you have 30 days from when your order has been shipped from our factories to let us know if there’s an issue. Check your order promptly after you receive it to avoid missing the window. Learn more about our Happiness Guarantee, here.