Make and Design with Carina Gardner

Sometimes we can get a little out of balance with our ideas of what it is like to be a designer. If we can balance our ideas and our implementation, we are building a great design business. Learn more on today's episode! Episode 287 Are You Addicted to the Vision? __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spendi...

Today Carina talks about her early career as a designer and how she refused help. It took her longer to reach her goals because of it. She talks about ways she got help and what she let go of to have the business that she has today. Learn more in today's episode. Episode 286 Refusal to Get Help __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern an...

Carina goes over some of the ways you might be losing money in your design business. Learn more about how you can make some changes that will make you more profitable in today's episode. Episode 285 How Are You Losing Money __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work https:/...

Do you know the difference between building or maintaining a design business? Carina goes through the different ways you might be building or maintaining your design products in this episode. Episode 284 Are You Building Or Maintaining A Design Business? __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Thin...

Carina dives into how adding Live Retreats to Design Suite happened. She recaps January 2023 in Hamilton, Missouri at the Missouri Star Quilt Retreat Center. Learn about the activities, tours, and workshops Design Suite enjoyed while they were there. Watch the youtube channel for excerpts of the event at www.youtube.com/carinagardner Episode 283 Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA...

Carina dives into how digital designing gave her stability that her contracts did not. Learn why digital is such an amazing way to become a profitable designer in this episode. Episode 282 Why Digital is So Profitable __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work https://www.carina...

Carina talks about starting her design business and what it took to get to $100,000. Learn more about the differences between contracts, digital designs, and so much more. Episode 281 0 to $100,000 __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/f...

If you are stuck somewhere in the design process, learn more about why that confusion is happening and how to fix it! Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 280 on the Make and Design Podcast: 3 Reasons Confusion Happens __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Patte...

To be a good designer, we also have to be able to explain why we designed something the way we did. Learn why words matter for a designer. Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 279 on the Make and Design Podcast: Your Words to Clients Matter __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, F...

Hindsight is 20/20 and there are many things Carina would have changed early in her design career. Learn about some of these things so that you can evaluate your own design business practices. Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 278 on the Make and Design Podcast: 3 Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Early in My Desi...

Are you super frustrated right now in your design business? Are you having trouble making money? Maybe you are missing this one thing. Learn more in today’s episode. Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 277 on the Make and Design Podcast:  If You Are Frustrated, You Are Missing This One Thing __________ Watch Ca...

Carina runs into aspiring designers whose main focus is the notoriety around being a designer. Learn more about what Carina has to say about fame. Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 276 on the Make and Design Podcast: If You Want To Be A Famous Designer... __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become...

What are the two things that will make you a great designer? Learn about it in today’s episode! Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 275 on the Make and Design Podcast: Two Things That Will Make You A Great Designer __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern...

Design isn’t just about design. It’s about a lot of different things that make your business grow. Learn more about winning in your design business in today’s episode. Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 274 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why You Are Not Winning As A Designer __________ Watch Carina’s FREE tra...

Design shouldn’t be magical and easy all the time. If it was, everybody would already be doing it! Instead it is the designers who role up their sleeves and get down into the hard work and strategies that make things really happen. Purchase Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper here:  https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 273 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why Des...

Learn to take advice from those you are modeling your design career after, not those who do not! Learn more about asking less of those who aren’t designers and more from those who are profitable the way you want to be profitable! Purchase Carina’s new book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 272 on the Make and Design Podcast: Stop Taking Bad Advice __________ Wa...

In Carina’s new book Design Profit and Prosper she talks about the three hurdles a designer must jump over to be successful. Learn more about hurdle number one in this episode! Purchase Carina’s new book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 271 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why the Software is Hurdle #1 __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Mo...

Carina talks to designers weekly and is astounded to see designers continuing to do the same thing that is not getting them results. Learn more about changing behaviors so that your results also change. Purchase Carina’s new book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 270 on the Make and Design Podcast: Stop Doing the Same Things But Expecting Different Results ____...

Carina’s new book goes through several models meant to help aspiring designers see where they can improve so that they can become profitable. Carina’s Design Process Model will help you see if you are making it through all the steps of design. Get the new book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 269 on the Make and Design Podcast: Learn About the Design Process M...

Carina already announced her new book, but she has another big announcement! In just another month you will see a new series of videos hitting her youtube channel that you will not want to miss. It includes new collections from her in a new format. Learn more in today’s episode! Purchase the book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Subscribe to Carina’s YouTube channel s...

Carina has a few favorite online markets that she has designed for over the last 15 years that she loves! Learn more in today’s episode! Carina’s new book is Now available! Purchase the book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 267 on the Make and Design Podcast: 5 Online Markets I Love to Design For __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-M...

The last couple of years Carina has been doing scary things, but it has also helped her grow. Learn how scary things can make us stronger. Episode 266 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why Scary Things Make Us Stronger __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work https://www.carinag...

Let’s talk about color and emotion! Carina loves it when we use color to help us change or state our feelings. Learn more in today’s episode.  Episode 265 on the Make and Design Podcast: How You can Use Color in Your Every Day Life __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Things That Don’t Work http...

Real change happens when new people come into our lives and there is a disruption in routines and habits. Learn about the two things that disrupted Carina’s life. Episode 264 on the Make and Design Podcast: The Two Things In My Life I Changed The Most For __________ Watch Carina’s FREE training, How to Become A Money-Making, Fulfilled Surface Pattern and Craft Designer Without Spending Time On Thi...

Carina wrote a book which is now available for presale on Amazon! Her new book Design Profit and Prosper is meant to help you understand the design process better so that you are taking the right action steps to become a money-making designer. Purchase the book here: https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper Episode 263 on the Make and Design Podcast: Why I Wrote a Book __________ W...