There Are at Least 7 Ways to Make Money With Your Doodles. Let's Make Your First One.
The From Doodles to Dollars® Workbook walks you — step by step, screenshot by screenshot — through turning one simple sketch into your first seamlessly repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator. No design degree. No prior experience. Just follow along.
I'M READY TO CREATE MY FIRST PATTERN!YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF SEEING YOUR DESIGNS ON FABRIC...
Remember when you read Craft a Career You Love in Surface Pattern Design?
You saw the possibilities — licensing, direct sales, teaching, subscriptions, and more. That's the "what." This is the "how."
I created my very first repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator at 58 years old, having never touched the program before. If I could figure it out, so can you — and I've put every single step into this workbook so you don't have to guess.
Yes, You Can Do This!
Here's what I want you to know: every single one of my students started exactly where you are. Not with talent. Not with tech skills. With a doodle and a decision. This downloadable workbook is that decision, made easy.
YES! I'M READY TO CREATE MY FIRST REPEATING PATTERN!Here's What Women Just Like You Created:
Follow The Workbook & You'll Have…
- A completed repeating pattern
- A file ready to upload to print-on-demand companies
- Infinite opportunities to order and sell products with your own designs on them
Turn your dream into reality. The From Doodles to Dollars® Workbook covers every single step.
INTRODUCING
From Doodles to Dollars® Workbook
You Are Ready To See Your Designs on Fabric, Wrapping Paper and More?
This workbook shows you step-by-step how to turn your doodles, sketches or watercolor work into repeating patterns using Adobe Illustrator:
- Import your doodles into Adobe Illustrator
- Turn them into vector art. Add color with 3 different techniques
- Create your very first repeating pattern, step-by-step
- Stuck? The workbook includes the most common mistakes and how to fix them
With my proven framework and step by step instructions, you'll turn a dream into reality. Ready to hold a product with your design on it in your very own hands? Let's do this!
Your Path from Doodles to Pattern
in Four Friendly Parts
Every step in the workbook includes real screenshots from my own screen, plus a full appendix summary you can print and keep next to your keyboard.
LESSON 1
Sketch & Import
We start where all great patterns start: with simple, playful doodles. (You can always get fancy later!) Then I show you exactly how to bring your doodles into your very first Illustrator document — click by click, no guessing. Step-by-step.
LESSON 2
Image Trace & Color
This is where the magic kicks in. You'll watch your hand-drawn doodles transform into crisp vector artwork, and then learn three different ways to add color — including one delightful technique that involves coloring outside the lines. (Yes, really. It's my students' favorite.)
LESSON 3
Create Your Pattern
The moment you've been waiting for: we bring it all together and build your first repeating pattern. When you see your own artwork repeat seamlessly across the screen for the first time — that's a feeling you won't forget.
LESSON 4
Common Mistakes & How to Fix Them
Become your very own Sherlock Holmes. I'll show you the most common errors every beginner makes (I made them all myself!) and exactly how to spot and fix each one — so a small hiccup never turns into a dead end.
But I've never used Adobe Illustrator… Perfect. This workbook was made for you.
- I guide you click by click. You'll see every move with screenshots — every menu, every button, every step. Nothing is assumed.
- No prior experience needed. Most of my students have never opened Illustrator before going through this workbook.
- Don't own Illustrator yet? Adobe offers a free 7-day trial. You can complete your first pattern before spending a penny on software. It runs on both Mac and PC.
If you can doodle, you can do this. I promise.
YES, I'M IN!NICE TO MEET YOU
Hi, I'm Anne — and It's Never Too Late To Create®
At 58, I packed thirty years of corporate experience into a cardboard box after being laid off. When nobody would hire me because of my age, my husband pointed at the art supplies gathering dust in our basement and said, "I think the universe is trying to tell you something."
He was right. I discovered surface pattern design, taught myself Adobe Illustrator and within months I was selling my designs at shops and craft fairs.
Today I've taught thousands of women to turn their doodles into patterns — and I've built my entire teaching approach around one belief, which I loved so much I trademarked it:
It's Never Too Late To Create®
If I could do this with no art degree, no design background, and no tech skills — so can you. Let me show you the way, one friendly step at a time.
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What You Get
→ 44-page PDF workbook, instant download
→ Written, step-by-step instructions with screenshots at every stage
→ My "3 Golden Rules" method for flawless repeats
→ A troubleshooting section for the most common beginner mistakes
Here's What Students Have to Say:
Your Questions, Answered
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Your first pattern is closer than you think.
One doodle. Four step-by-step lessons. And that unforgettable moment when your own artwork repeats seamlessly across the screen and you say: "I actually made this."
Let's begin. You can do this!