Surface Pattern Design · Austin, TX

Beautiful Patterns.
Better Workflows.

Hand-painted watercolor fabrics for your next heirloom sewing project, and powerful Adobe tools to streamline your creative workflow.

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For the Sewist

Vintage-Inspired Prints
for the Modern Maker

From hand-painted watercolors to your sewing table. Get the vintage-inspired feel of Anthropologie, Sézane, and Ulla Johnson, and turn it into custom, heirloom-quality garments made entirely by you

Art Deco Fall - Olive And Burgundy

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Hellebores - Olive And Burgundy

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New Boho - Rust And Dusty Blue

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A scatter of crescent moons with hanging stars and various star shapes, digitally illustrated in dark navy, light blue, and taupe on a white background, creating a serene and nostalgic atmosphere.

Iemanja

Hand Painted Digital Crescent Moons Deep Navy Light Blue Medium

A scatter of simplified floral stems with elongated leaves and petals in cream, accented by dark teal and soft white on a taupe background. Hand-painted in gouache and vectorized, the medium scale motifs are evenly spaced in a loose, non-directional.

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Hand Painted Gouache Floral Stems Cream Taupe Medium Scale

A geometric grid featuring symmetrical fan shapes with rounded edges in bright magenta on a light pink background, digitally illustrated for a bold and structured aesthetic.

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Hand Painted Digital Geometric Grid Magenta Light Pink Medium

A scatter of small floral clusters with white petals and green stems on a soft peach background, hand-painted in gouache and vectorized, creating a light and airy feel with ample space between each motif.

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Hand Painted Gouache Floral Clusters Soft Peach Small Scale

An all-over floral in cream and green with visible brush strokes and detailed veining, hand-painted in gouache and vectorized on a deep navy background, creating a serene and interconnected layout with medium-scale motifs.

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Hand Painted Gouache Florals Deep Navy Cream Green Medium

Gouache-like floral stems with white petals and green leaves scattered on a soft peach background, hand-painted and vectorized for a serene and nostalgic aesthetic.

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Hand Painted Gouache Florals White Green Peach Background

An all-over floral with five-petaled flowers, fern-like leaves, and small round buds in cream, sage, and dark olive green, hand-painted in gouache on a peach background with a medium scale and a serene, even flow.

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Hand Painted Gouache Florals Cream Sage Peach Medium Scale

Abstract starburst shapes with irregular, hand-drawn edges in light grayish blue are scattered across a deep navy background, captured in a medium scale using vectorized gouache for a serene and nostalgic aesthetic.

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Hand Painted Gouache Starbursts Light Blue Navy Medium Scatter

For the Designer

Stop Doing the Busy Work.

As a Ruby on Rails developer and surface pattern designer, I build custom Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop scripts that turn hours of tedious formatting into a single click.

Illustrator

3 Genius Ways to Recolor Patterns in Illustrator Quickly

Recoloring your surface pattern designs doesn’t have to be tedious! In this post, I’ll walk you through three different methods I use to recolor patterns in Adobe Illustrator — whether you’re batch-creating colorways for Spoonflower, adjusting a single shade, or automating your entire recolor workflow. 🎨 Method 1: Recolor Artwork Tool in Illustrator This is […]

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Tools

5 Amazing Time-Saving Tools That Will Blow Your Mind

Let’s skip the boring parts of design — here are 5 automations for Illustrator and Photoshop that I rely on every week! 1. Magic Background Remover (Photoshop) This script is a lifesaver when you’ve scanned watercolor or gouache paintings on white paper: Once it’s done, you’ll have perfectly transparent PNGs with all that white paper […]

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Automation

Automation and its Amazing Benefits to Artists

Hey there, fellow creatives! 🎨 Are you tired of getting bogged down by repetitive tasks in your design adventures? Well, hold onto your brushes because automation is here to save the day! What’s the Buzz About Automation? Think of automation as your trusty sidekick in the bustling world of art. Imagine being able to resize […]

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Illustrator Pattern Template

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Samantha Cabral, surface pattern designer, Austin TX

Hello, I'm Samantha

Art and code,
finally friends.

I'm a surface pattern designer and Ruby on Rails developer based in Austin, TX — a mom of two who somehow ended up at the intersection of watercolor painting and software engineering.

My patterns start the same way every time: a pot of tea, a brush loaded with gouache, and a reference folder full of things that feel beautiful and old. The digital part comes later.

On the code side, I build tools that give creatives their time back — Adobe scripts that automate the tedious parts of running a design business, so you can spend more hours making and fewer hours formatting.

Latest from my Design Blog

December 16, 2025

Intentions as Inspirations for a New Fabric Collection

This has been my favorite collection in a while. I started with the idea of creating a collection based on my intentions for 2026: strength, focus, being present, and gratitude. Those are the things I want in my life for next year. Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, I prefer to set intentions. Are a resolution […]