I love Spoonflower.com and their amazing products! I have been using them for years to print my own fabric. They also print wallpaper and giftwrap and their sister company, Roostery has print-on-demand home decor products too that you can make from your own designs! I am excited to be a part their blog and help share my design tips. I have written three articles to help you with your design process on Spoonflower.

Article 1: Everything you Need to Know about Designing for Products

In this article you will learn the importance of scale and how to use it properly when designing for products. I will walk you through designing for wallpaper, fabric and home decor and things to consider while designing.

Article 2: Designing on Spoonflower? Don’t miss these 5 tips!

In this article you will learn the technical tips to ensure your designs are perfect. I walk you through the proper ways to format your fies for printing, work with color and use tools such as the color map.

Article 3: The Secret to Designing Surface Designs

Do you need tips to perfect your patterns? Look no further. In this article I have the pattern tips to make stronger pattern designs. Learn the process to plan your design, ways to improve your layout and select color palettes!

I enjoyed sharing my tips and tricks with tne Spoonflower community and wish you continued success with your art and patterns! Also check out my store on Spoonflower.com and see my fabric and home decor items for sale!

I couldn’t be more excited to share these new illustrations with you!
I have been creating them for the last couple of weeks in a flurry to get them out into the world. I knew once I saw the first one emerge it was something special. I couldn’t wait to get to the next one to see how it would come out.

They started with an idea for creating illustrations of women. I love all the illustrations I see now and wanted to see how I could put my spin on it. I had a few musts:

they had to be women of color
they had to have freckles (like me). I don’t often see freckles on women illustrations
they had to be wearing patterned outfits
they had to have dynamic hair

Here is the first one I created. She is near and dear to me and I see a bit of myself in all of them. I love making them and creating their looks. They even get original outfits I design from my patterns!

I call her “Lady B”