Dash of Inspiration: FREE Pattern Makers

A Dash of Inspiration, A Cup of Creativity by Doreen

FREE Pattern Makers

I ran across these fun little sites to make your own patterns and thought some of you might enjoy making patterns for your own projects. Once you create and save your little seamless pattern square, you’ll need to bring it into whatever software you use to create cards (Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Paint Shop Pro) and define/install the patterns you’ve created before you can use them to ‘fill’ a background.

All three allow you to use a color picker or enter your own color numbers to match your design.

Tartan Maker allows you to have beyond 10 color choices. You can change the band size for each color giving an unlimited number of pattern variations you can make. Also if you change the ‘yarn size’, you get larger results.

In case you aren’t having enough fun making plaid patterns, here is Stripe Generator 2.0 so that you can make striped patterns to match your designs! You can have up to five stripe colors, plus the background color. There are eight directional choices for the stripe variations and many other variables you can modify unlimited patterns.

Want to make some patterns other than plaids & stripes?  Try this fun pattern generator called BGPatterns!  Yes, you are limited to the ‘theme elements’ they provide, but you have those elements, plus color choices for both, choosing a texture; and then you can play with the size and rotation options, therefore the choices are almost limitless if you let your creative juices get rolling!

Enjoy this week’s FREEBIES!  As always, have fun and let your imagination run wild!

If you don’t know how to transform these little pattern squares into seamless patterns within your design software, visit this previous Tips & Tricks:  Creating Patterns.

So, until next week … Learn … Create … Inspire!