Make and Design with Carina Gardner

Carina talks about the difference in the different niches of design. Knowing the difference will allow you to choose the one that works the best for you!  __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   __________ About Carina Gardner: Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design...

Carina stops by Pineneedles Quilt shop in Gardner Village in Utah to talk about fabric trends with Sandy Workman. Check out these 2022 Christmas fabrics and see what is new! Learn more about Pineneedles products at: https://www.pineneedlesonline.com/ __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   _...

What is the one thing you aren't paying attention to in your design business? Are you designing daily? Are you learning the correct software skills? If you are doing these things then what could you possibly be missing? Carina breaks down what most design businesses are missing in this episode. __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface P...

Carina emphasizes in todays episode how designers should be seeking ways to become smarter in their design work. She talks about why this is the differentiating factor between designers who are making money and those who are not. __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   __________ About Carin...

  Today Carina is talking to Sketch Skool’s Danny Gregory. Danny is passionate about being creative and drawing as a skill to be learned. You will love digging in with them as they talk all things art!   Find Danny at: Danny’s Essays: https://dannysessays.com/ https://sketchbookskool.com Spark: https://sketchbookskool.com/spark/ Podcast: https://artforall.buzzsprout.com Episode 187 on the Make and...

Carina digs into three ways you can make a living creating designs! Have you tried any of these ways to make money? With a great business strategy and beautiful design work these are some great ways to earn money doing what you love for a living. __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   _____...

Carina and her Social Media Manager McKenna Blanthorn take a moment (from Carina's car!) to dish on what happens after you get a Graphic Design degree. McKenna finished a graphic design degree just 2 years ago and Carina was a Graphic Design professor. Join them to get the inside scoop on what a graphic design degree can (and can't) do for you! __________ Download Carina’s free guide: Th...

Carina is digging into whether it is really hard to being a surface pattern designer. If you have been thinking of surface pattern design or Cricut design, listen in on what she has to say about how hard (or easy) it might be to get started in this industry. __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN...

The stepping stones to becoming a surface pattern designer require time and commitment. Today, Carina talks about the three steps you need to achieve to become a surface pattern designer. These are the foundational action steps needed to achieve your big dreams! __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.co...

Squad meetings are just one of the many benefits of our Design Suite Program . We find that the squad meetings are an important piece that many designers are missing when it comes to community. Diane Rooney, who currently moderates the squad meetings and is also a former Design Suite member, joins us to give the inside scoop on what happens in squad meetings.   __________ Download Carina’s free gu...

When was the last time you diagnosed your design business? Regardless of whether you’re deep into your design journey or just beginning, you should be doing monthly assessments of your design business. Listen to this episode to hear how Carina assesses her own design business.  __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here:...

In this episode, Sarah Cannon joins us to talk about how sublimation is trending with crafters!. Sarah is the Marketing Communications Manager at Sawgrass and understands the crafting market from her 10 years of experience in the field. This is an in depth look at how you can create a business as a sublimation crafter for products like T-shirts, tumblers, mugs, and more!   #sawgrass #sawgrassink #...

Tell me if you have experienced this. You sit down and stare at a blank screen…and you can’t think of anything to design! It is so frustrating! Here are three ideas for getting your creative juices flowing.  __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   __________ About Carina Gardner: Carina Gard...

At the time of recording this, Carina is finishing up the Design Suite handbook. Design Suite is her mastermind program. This program is where we explore how to become a great designer. When we say that we explore how to become a great designer, we mean that we like our people to be making money by the time they’re done with the program. Because we have people doing many different things, the prog...

In this episode, we are joined by Diane Rooney who is a past Design Suite member who has joined the CG Team. She currently moderates our peer design meetings and works with the Design Suite community and membership. Carina and Diane dig into what they are seeing in the membership and what happens to designers during this time of year. __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will...

What is standing between you and that big dream of becoming a designer? Some of you may already be designing, and that’s awesome! You can still take some nuggets from what I talk about today. For the rest of you, if you’re not making money as a designer, are you putting together the steps that will get you there? In this episode, Carina discusses how to get over the hurdles and start making money...

As a former college professor, Carina understands how the college system works. She recently got to attend a college orientation, which gave her a glimpse of what is going on in the college system at this time. Since she started her Design Suite program a little over a year ago, she’s really been thinking about new approaches to education and how she likes to be educated. This episode outlines the...

In this episode, Carina talks about the things she wishes she had known when she started designing full time 14 years ago. These items that are discussed are those that involve really starting and running a design business.  __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   __________ About Carina Gar...

Starting a design business is a very fun place to be! Being a designer is a wonderful career choice. Carina often sees designers that are just getting started that just can’t figure out what they’re doing and how to get going. She is hopeful that the strategic advice that she provides in this episode will help you as you’re getting started.  __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobo...

It’s almost that time of year again! Carina mentions that August has always marked the beginning of her fall season. August is a great time to start thinking about how we can have our best season ever. Carina emphasizes that it is helpful to sit down and create a game plan for how you can make this your best design season ever. You can evaluate the things you can do to control things like how much...

This episode discusses building resilience as a designer. Carina discusses that when she was teaching at the university, the main emphasis was on having a thick skin.  Especially when we’re starting something new later in life, it’s hard to hear criticism because many feel like they should have everything down. While this can be a difficult thing to teach, and for some to accept, this is an import...

In this episode, Carina gives practical advice and discusses the eight things you have to have in order to be a designer. Some of these items are physical things, while others are mindset things. However, they’re all extremely important.  __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY   __________ Ab...

We all want to avoid being that person with the tacky design. In this episode, Carina discusses the 3 tacky mistakes that she often sees in design, so you can make sure that you are avoiding these mistakes. By doing so, you can make sure that your design work is clean, professional, and beautiful!   __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface P...

Concerns over a possible upcoming recession are often brought up by designers and business owners. However, Carina believes that being a designer is recession proof because designers often possess a number of different skills. This episode breaks down how you can diversify your offerings and ways to make money so you can easily pivot and win.    __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips...

While Carina may encourage younger people to go back to college to get their design degree, going back to college may not make sense for those that are in other stages of life. In this episode, Carina explains why a focused concentration in the areas of knowledge you need to actually become a designer is key.   __________ Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming...