Author: Julie Sauvageau
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Part of a family
A small blog post to share how awesome we feel when someone select, among all millions of patterns existing on the web, one of MY pattern. It’s a sentiment hard to describe. It’s even more difficult to elaborate on how touching is to see the family where our pattern is landing. Few weeks ago, at…
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Procreate – Highlights with the pen
This is my new favorite thing: using the color effects but with the pencil (not applying to the full design). I will explain with a quick example! Let’s say I want to provide a new color for my “China Ink Flowers” collection (that you can find here). For some (many…) patterns, I will apply the…
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Free Activations: Rescale Requests Template
Spoonflower is offering a free activation for your patterns when it’s a different size of a pattern you already activated (proof printed) in the past. The process is well explained here – but it can be painful to provide manually all information they request… I have 2 things for you: a small template that will…
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Time to tag your patterns!
Tags are important: they will make your patterns easy to find. You don’t know what tags to use? A good tips is to scan the search options of Spoonflower and leverage their tags: and they recently revamped the colors tags! You need to select carefully. Try to avoid the obvious « pattern » or «…
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How to create the repeat?
Getting a pattern to repeat on a fabric is not easy at first. But fortunately, many sites will show you how. In this post, I’ll be sharing my favorite (I didn’t invent anything, these links helped me so much!) The place where it’s very well explained is here: on the Bardot Brush site. I recommend…
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The violin 🎻
I did, during October, a digital painting of a violin – then I created a collection named « Music ». This is one of my favorite collection. You can take a look here. I love the final result and the mix with a piano keyboard was gorgeous (my opinion of course – I’m not a…
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Designing Tea Towels
Tea towels and hanging walls will require some planning: for the size and orientation. Instructions from Spoonflower are here. It’s very well explained but below, you will find some quick tips related to Procreate specifically! This hanging wall was done as an entry for a weekly challenge – shoes can be free! Link here. Some…
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Default Brushes in Procreate: Amazing!
I’m a big fan of the default brushes offered by Procreate. I will probably stick with this amazing set, and never spend any money buying brushes. I would probably create my own instead: it seems to be fun and it’s easy to duplicate an existing one to tweak it for our need. Well – I…
Wildwater Design 