Episode 179 Three Simple Things to Help Your Creative Mojo

August 8, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.

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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 178 Design Suite Secrets

August 5, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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 program includes 17 courses. In this episode, Carina shares some of the Design Suite secrets.

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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 177 The Design Summer Slump is Real with Diane Rooney

August 3, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.

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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 176 What’s Standing Between You And Your Dream of Designing?

August 1, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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 designer.
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 175 New Approach to Design Education

July 29, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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 these new approaches and how these approaches are used in her Design Suite program.
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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 174 Things I Wish I Had Known Starting Out

July 27, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.
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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 173 How to Start Your Design Business Right

July 25, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.
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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 172 Getting Ready for the Best Season Ever

July 22, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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 money you make, how much you design, and how much you produce.
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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 171 Building Resilience As A Designer

July 20, 2022 by Carina Gardner

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.