process: designing notebooks! (Patreon)

hiiiiii!! i've spent the morning trying to work out some notebook designs — i can't decide if i want to do a repeating pattern type thing (i'm really drawn towards doing something "garden toile" -esque, which is the second image, but making it a bit more my style and a little less frilly and romantic), a little illustrated scene (like the fika one above), or just making a printed version of my handpainted rainbow "oh no" design. how do y'all feel about having little nameplates for your notebooks? do you like having a place to write in a title for your journal, or do you like it better when the front is finished and complete?

also, yes i realize the toile pattern sketch is very rough and not lined up properly at all lolol i just wanted to block something out to get a rough feel for it

i'm torn!! i want to do an A5 design, and an A6 design — i'm thinking that a scene might work best for the A5 design and a repeating pattern could work nice on the smaller A6 size. i'd love to hear y'all's thoughts!!