Spoonflower Tips and Tricks From Professional Surface Pattern Designer Carrie Cantwell

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Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie chat with star Spoonflower seller, Carrie Cantwell who share with us her experiences on how to succeed on spoonflower.

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Key Talking Points

• Carrie is another lovely artist who took a leap of faith to leave a stable job to create something of her own.
• She discovered Spoonflower as a result of wanting material to cover her chairs! She loved the quality!
• She was buyer and became a contributor.
• Spoonflower is a great place to get your patterns seen and get found through the challenges.
• To help get found, research your tags to see what is doing well and why - all this is available on spoonflower. Evaluate what tag is selling.
• Spoonflower is how Peppermint Magazine found Carrie.
• The key is to create the work you want to create and use the same work to create different colorways.
• Learned how to master Photoshop and keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process.
  • Carrie's class available on skillshare is fantastic to learn how to create a half-draw pattern in 15 minutes. It didn't start off that quickly, experience and looking for shortcuts is key to speed.
• Ordering proofs from spoonflower is a must to ensure your patterns are working seamlessly. This ensures integrity for the customer.
• To help keep down the cost for the proofs, Carrie will wait until she has 42 designs and then will create a cheater quilt/patchwork print.
  • She'll use the patchwork quilt as gift wrap! What a great idea!
• Raspberry Creek is another fabric print-on-demand site.
• Benjamin Moore and Pantone have colors of the year to help you find the colorways for trends.

WHEW! That was a lot of fabulous information!!!

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For More Information and Fabulous Resources:

• For more information from Carrie, be sure to go to:
  https://www.carriecantwell.com https://www.instagram.com/carriecantwellart https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoa3wtyAse-qCwcxDni9eUg https://skillshare.eqcm.net/3P47Qn

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