Episode 292 Why Struggle Equals Reward

Posted on by Carina Gardner

Carina talks in depth about what it took to get her Ph.D. Her struggles led to satisfaction in a field of study she loves. She talks about the rewards that come to those who are willing to do hard things. Learn more on today’s episode!

Episode 292 Why Struggle Equals Reward

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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/freetraining

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 290 Sometimes I Want to Cry When I Work Out

Posted on by Carina Gardner

Carina came directly back from a workout to tell her experience of weight lifting and how it relates to becoming a designer! She talks about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. Learn more about how it’s okay to do hard things and not like it when you are getting started!

Episode 290 Sometimes I Want to Cry When I Work Out

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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/freetraining

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 289 Successful Storytelling with Carriece Jefferson of Crafty Hands Club

Posted on by Carina Gardner

Carriece Jefferson from Crafty Hands Club is on the podcast today talking about how storytelling has become a focus for her magazine and membership. Learn more about this creative business in today’s episode!

You can reach Carriece Jefferson in 

Instagram @craftyhandsclub

Or her Website https://craftyhandsclub.com/

Episode 289 Successful Storytelling with Carriece Jefferson of Crafty Hands Club

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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/freetraining

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 287 Are You Addicted to the Vision?

Posted on by 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?

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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/freetraining

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 285 How Are You Losing Money?

Posted on by Carina Gardner

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

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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/freetraining

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 284 Are You Building Or Maintaining A Design Business?

Posted on by Carina Gardner

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?

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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/freetraining

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 283  Recap on the January Live Retreat in Quilt Town USA

Posted on by Carina Gardner

Carina dives into how adding Live Retreats to Design Suite happened. She recaps the 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

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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/freetraining

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 282 Why Digital is So Profitable

Posted on by Carina Gardner

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

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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/freetraining

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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.comWatch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 281 0 to $100,000

Posted on by Carina Gardner

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

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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/freetraining

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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

Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 280 3 Reasons Confusion Happens

Posted on by Carina Gardner

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

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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/freetraining

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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
Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/