To have fun Worldwide Girls’s Day 2023, we flip to 5 ladies in our artist group who’ve discovered success on Spoonflower. From gaining confidence of their design expertise, to constructing a enterprise and even touchdown their dream job, these artists share how Spoonflower is powering their inventive careers.

Janine Lecour is an Atlanta-based digital sample designer who likes to design vibrantly coloured and exuberant patterns. Mixing daring sample motifs with eye-catching shade palettes, she strives to create a whimsical artwork expertise. One thing that offers the viewer a way of pleasure and optimism. 

They helped by highlighting my work and me as an artist. Publicity is a essential a part of rising your corporation, however gaining confidence in your type is simply as necessary. My confidence as an artist grew due to the spotlights I used to be part of via Spoonflower. I turned assured in understanding that I might create good, marketable patterns. This has allowed me to seek out my voice, experiment and develop my enterprise in numerous design markets. 

Kate Rhees is knowledgeable accountant turned eye-candy maker. With none formal artwork coaching, she realized every thing she is aware of from a Skillshare membership and her library card. Kate has licensed her artwork all over the world to many superb corporations giant and small. 

I used Spoonflower’s weekly Design Challenges as my “homework,” and though I by no means thought I might earn a dwelling, I assumed I might not less than use Spoonflower as my portfolio website. Slowly however certainly, my portfolio grew (and, facet bonus—I gained a group of fantastic Spoonflower artist associates!).  

My gross sales began rising each month. I acquired my first of many outdoors licensing offers, and I used to be so busy with design requests, I didn’t have time for non-design work. I needed to say goodbye to accounting. Leaving a terrific paying, steady job with superb advantages was one of many hardest choices I’ve ever made, however among the finest. I might by no means be the place I’m in my life with out Spoonflower.

The fabulously quirky Mount Vic and Me (est. 2013) is the brains of Kara Cooper, a designer and illustrator dwelling within the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The studio store resides in a 100-year-old store within the Blue Mountains—a mash of color, textures, retro enjoyable and nostalgia. Kara’s work is all in regards to the distinctive great thing about the Australian bush, natural world, in addition to her vary of political and feminist designs featured throughout artwork tea towels, t-shirts, socks, greeting playing cards, sneakers, skirts, mugs, cushions, upholstered classic chairs, wallpaper and materials. 

What began with simply me stitching tea towels utilizing cloth bought from Spoonflower has now grown into a superb studio store with employees, wholesale prospects throughout Australia and our on-line retailer.  

We work with a superb stitching producer who holds the Moral Clothes Australia accreditation and just lately began stitching with Nation Girls’s Affiliation in regional New South Wales. All cloth for these endeavors comes from Spoonflower, Linen Cotton Canvas for tea towels, Celosia Velvet^TM for upholstered upcycled armchairs and Natural Cotton Sateen for our skirts. Nothing is wasted, any leftover cloth is was shock cloth packs, or my daughter will make scrunchies to promote within the studio store.  

My favorite milestone to this point is that I’ve just lately hit 3000 cloth and wallpaper designs. That is HUGE! 

Initially from Bogota, Colombia, Linda has six years of expertise working in textiles for style in addition to dwelling and interiors. She presently works at Danica Manufacturers full time as a floor designer and continues to create enjoyable Spoonflower designs in her spare time. 

Spoonflower has performed an enormous half in my profession. I presently work full time as an in-house floor designer at my dream firm, Danica. I’m one in every of 5 floor designers on our crew and get the chance to design throughout all kinds of merchandise for 5 manufacturers and a few large shoppers I wouldn’t have had entry to alone.  

I really feel lucky to have the ability to make a dwelling doing what I like! This wasn’t all the time the case, I’ve labored in a complete of 4 corporations; it wasn’t all the time nice. That was why I began my Spoonflower store—I wasn’t being fulfilled creatively, and Spoonflower had all the proper components! Weekly on-trend Design Challenges that will assist me construct my portfolio and a platform that would offer rapid suggestions on my work.

Spoonflower additionally enabled me to {photograph} precise merchandise and swatches for my portfolio with out the price of manufacturing samples the standard route—all that with the bonus of potential passive earnings and a paying construction just like licensing. Spoonflower could be very respectful of artists and by no means claims possession of any of the artwork! I participated in each problem for nearly a 12 months to construct my portfolio.  

An surprising bonus that got here was the close-knit group of artists on Spoonflower, some I’ve met in individual and others I’ve spoken with for years now on-line. I by no means anticipated to fulfill so many like-minded individuals, nevertheless it all is smart as it’s typically exhausting to fulfill different native floor designers—most corporations solely rent one or two at a time. Plus, the extra I’m on this trade, the extra I understand what number of design corporations go to Spoonflower too! My first-ever licensing shopper additionally got here from the platform! 

Anna Denes is the artist behind DenesAnnaDesign. Initially, she’s a spouse and a mom to a few stunning kids. She studied style design at college and is a self-taught floor sample designer. 

I labored within the style trade for a few years in London after I completed college. After I was anticipating my first child, I needed to maneuver again dwelling to Transylvania to the countryside. In 2018, I realized how you can create repeat patterns when my first child boy was a number of months previous. Shortly after, I found Spoonflower and uploaded my first designs to the platform.  

I used to be nonetheless studying and experimenting with designs. It took me fairly a while till I used to be in a position to create patterns that I used to be happy with. I loved designing patterns for my garments, my dwelling and my youngsters. My Spoonflower store slowly began to get somewhat little bit of consideration on the finish of 2020 so I made a decision to actually concentrate on my store in 2021. I like taking part within the challenges, as I like the themes and it helps to develop my portfolio quite a bit.  

I’m actually grateful to have the ability to promote my designs on the Spoonflower platform and to earn an earnings whereas I’m dwelling with my youngsters. Final 12 months I gave delivery to my third child and I had a number of months the place I had little work carried out however I nonetheless earned a pleasant earnings regardless. It’s undoubtedly life altering. I’m grateful that I used to be in a position to construct a profession from the consolation of my dwelling, subsequent to my youngsters. I like to create patterns nevertheless it’s form of a necessity as properly. Creating patterns is how I recharge myself.  

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