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3 Design Trends You’ll Love for Spring

February 23, 2018

Working behind the scenes at Spoonflower, we get a unique peek at what trends have caught the eyes and hearts of the designer community based on what they’re uploading to the Marketplace. We’ve seen three styles grow in popularity and today we’ve rounded up a few designs to highlight their versatility. Whether you use them to kickstart your creativity for designing or as a starting point for your next DIY project, today’s picks are sure to inspire.

3 Design Trends You'll Love | Spoonflower Blog

Featured collections: Mermaids, Mint & Emerald, Mid-Century Modern

How to Create a Seamless Repeat from a Drawing

January 29, 2018

Surface pattern design is not just for the professionals! If you’ve ever browsed our Marketplace for unicorn, confetti or even motorcycle fabric, there’s a good chance you’ve been curious to know how designers have created their seamless repeats. Today we’re putting the tools into your own hands (professional, aspiring or otherwise) with a simple step-by-step tutorial that shows one way to create your very own seamless repeat design, no fancy editing software required!

Tools required:

Tape
8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper
Pens, pencils, markers or crayons
A straight edge or ruler
Craft knife or scissors
Optional: Cutting surface
Access to a scanner

Step 1: Create your drawing. The key is not to let any of your artwork go off the page—keep it contained!

How To Make Personalized Gift Wrap

October 27, 2015

There are some occasions where even the perfect gift just doesn’t seem quite personal enough. With the easy-to-use, free design program, Picmonkey, you don’t have to be a graphic designer to make beautiful, customized gift wrap that your loved ones will know you created just for them. Today, Spoonflower team member Theresa is here just in time for gift-giving season to show you just how easy designing your own gift wrap can be!

Theresa: Recently my little cousin got engaged, and while I was happy to pick up a gift she needed from her wedding registry, it just didn’t feel quite personalized enough for something as special as my baby cousin’s wedding! So I took to one of my favorite open-source design tools, Picmonkey, and designed the perfect gift paper using her engagement photos and the theme of their fall wedding for inspiration.

Damask Inspiration

January 1, 2015

This holiday season, add a little hand-crafted goodness to your gifts by creating a cute and cozy felt gift bow to add to the top of your perfectly wrapped presents. – See more at: http://blog.spoonflower.com/page/2/#sthash.PCnnlysr.d