Episode 196 Profits and Digital Design

September 16, 2022 by Carina Gardner

One way Carina teaches people to make profits is through digital design work. This is a must-listen episode for designers who want to maximize their profits.

Learn more about Carina’s upcoming Profitable Designer Workshop at www.carinagardnercourses.com/profit.

Episode 196 on the Make and Design Podcast: Profits and Digital Design
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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY
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**About Carina Gardner:**
Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 195 Mastery Proceeds Money and Success

September 14, 2022 by Carina Gardner

Carina spoke at the Utah Creative Collaborative on Mastery and the information was so well received that we decided to add it here.

We highly recommend that you check out the youtube channel at www.youtube.com/carinagardner

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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY
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**About Carina Gardner:**
Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 194 When Your Health Deters Your Design Dreams

September 12, 2022 by Carina Gardner

In this Design Suite Chat, Carina talks to Diane Rooney and Bonnie Garby. These two members have been with Carina since she started her program 15 months ago and have fascinating stories of health struggles while becoming designers.

This inspirational episode will help you see that design is possible even in dark circumstances.

Find Diane at https://www.dianerooney.co.uk/

Find Bonnie at https://bonniegarbydesigns.com/
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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY
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**About Carina Gardner:**
Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 193 Learn To Become A Profitable Designer

September 9, 2022 by Carina Gardner

If you are trying to making money as a designer (which you should be!), you will want to check out this episode about profits!

If you want to learn more at my upcoming Profitable Designer Workshop at www.carinagardnercourses.com/profit.

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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.comCheck out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 192 How You Add Value As A Creative Business Owner with Kiley Ferons

September 7, 2022 by Carina Gardner

Today Carina is talking to creative business owner Kiley Ferons. Kiley owns a digital quilting magazine and creates quilt patterns. She is also currently working on an app!

Join Carina and Kiley as they talk about the digital wave taking over the quilting industry!

Find Kiley at:
Websites: https://kileysquiltroom.com/
https://modishquilter.com/
Instagram:https://instagram.com/modishquilter
https://www.instagram.com/kileysquiltroom
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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY
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**About Carina Gardner:**
Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 191 What is the Difference Between A Surface Pattern Designer and a Craft Designer

September 5, 2022 by 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!

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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY
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**About Carina Gardner:**
Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 189 Stop Ignoring This In Your Design Business

August 31, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.

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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY

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About Carina Gardner:

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 188 Learn More About How to Design Smart

August 29, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.

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Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY

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About Carina Gardner:

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Check out her most popular program Design Bootcamp here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

Episode 187 Don’t Judge Your Drawings with Danny Gregory

August 26, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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!