Peachy Keen

I entered the current Spoonflower design challenge: Western Americana. The prompt was “to celebrate the rich heritage and rugged landscapes in this adventurous frontier to create a crowd-pleasing design that looks like it would belong on home decor and apparel use cases you’d see in a saloon, on a ranch or at a rodeo.”

I decided to submit a more feminine design. Maybe one you’d see in a girl’s bedroom or maybe on her horse blanket or a dress she may wear.

I added this pattern to my spoonflower shop and named it Peachy Keen, an old western phrase. I have other color variations I’m playing around with as well that I will add to my shop at some point, but this color scheme best fit the challenge.

Cadence

A cadence is a rhythm, or a flow of words or music, in a sequence that is regular or steady, much like this blender pattern I designed and named Cadence. It is part of my Transposed Harmony collection, and is available in my Spoonflower shop as fabric in rust and mustard. It works well with the other patterns in the collection, or as a minimalistic standalone pattern. You can also buy wallpaper and other home decor in my Spoonflower shop as well.

I think it works really well at a larger scaler as a wallpaper and really makes this office space vibrant and fun. I could definitely see myself working in that space (although it probably wouldn’t look quite as neat if I did)! I also think it could be a fun wallpaper in a playroom as well with more playful decor. If you are going for a more subtle look, but don’t want just a plain paint color on the wall, I think it would be a great alternative as a wallpaper! It’s a very versatile design and could really be used in so many ways.

I like to show my blender patterns with one or two of the other patterns in the collection to see how they can work together.

Forte

In music, forte is an Italian term that means loud or strong. It's a dynamic marking that instructs musicians to play a passage with a strong volume or intensity. Forte was the first pattern in the collection that I designed with a dark background, and I felt that it gave the pattern a boldness that the others didn’t have.

I also designed a second colorway of this pattern in a dark blue with teal accents. I love how it compliments the hero pattern in the second colorway. I think all 3 of these patterns work so nicely together!

Alto

I have designed a second colorway of many of my patterns, but I thought it would be interesting to have another design variation and not just a different color scheme. I named it Alto – a harmony of the Melody pattern. This pattern is available in my Spoonflower shop.

Alto

Alto giftwrap mockup

Melody giftwrap mockup

Melody

This is one of the patterns I have been working on. I named it Melody since it was the first pattern I worked on in the collection, and it set the stage for the other designs. It is one of the hero patterns as it can stand alone but can also be easily paired with some of my simpler designs.

I started out by sketching musical symbols and some designs made up of piano parts. You can clearly see the piano hammer incorporated into this design, as well as the “rest” symbol, for those of you who are musicians. After I sketched, I scanned the drawings into my design program, cleaned them up and turn them into vector art so I had more freedom to change sizes and move pieces around. Vector art can be scaled to any size without losing any detail, unlike pixels. I think there may be a time to work in pixels for certain kinds of detailed artwork, but because I didn’t know the end use of this pattern, I wanted to be able to scale it to any size. Once I finished the motifs, I then started putting patterns together and working with color.

This pattern is now available in my Spoonflower shop. It can be ordered as fabric, wallpaper or on a variety of household decor items. I will be adding patterns to this collection one-by-one to my shop, so check back for more.