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How to Choose a Branding Palette To Match Your Personal Style
Color palettes are extremely important for the visual branding of your blog or website. It can immediately convey the mood of your site as well as hint at your target audience. A color palette can set you apart or cause you to blend in.
In this post, I'll share tips on how to choose a color palette for your blog that matches your personality, and I'll explore the reasons behind my own blog-recolor choices!
How I grew my email list 6x by using content upgrades
I've watched my email newsletter list grow by 10-20 subscribers daily since the beginning of 2015. In this post, I investigate how this is possible despite my erratic posting schedule. In the end—it all comes down to content upgrades! Read the post and download the free list of 15 content upgrade ideas.
I Quit My Job: Here's My Plan for Passive Income
Big changes are coming my way this fall: I quit my job, and I'm relying on my passive income plan! Read the post to see where I plan to focus my energy, what I intend not to do a lot of (client work), and what my financial goals are.
Traveling and minimalism
Traveling can bring us closer to the understanding of minimalism. Have only what you absolutely need and absolutely love.
How to Argue Yourself Happy
There's something so simple about happiness that is always true but is hard to remember. We can hang motivational quotes and snippets around our house, on our desktop backgrounds, on sticky notes on the fridge, but ultimately there's nothing more reassuring than reading a passage about happiness.
People Are Abstract Art
Every person, by definition, is undefinable. We’re all so complex; you can’t put a label on us.
My miracle morning
In comes Hal Elrod’s miracle morning. Here’s how it’s a game changer for productivity, happiness, and focus.
Easily create a color palette in Illustrator from a photograph
Color palette inspiration can come from anywhere. A lot of times, beautiful, harmoniously-colored photography is a great place to start. In this tutorial, I walk you through the best and most fool-proof way to develop and build a beautiful color palette from a photograph using Illustrator and the crystallize tool.
Create confetti by creating a custom scatter brush in Illustrator
Adding “confetti” to your artwork is a great way to add depth, dimension, and interest. It's easy to create your own confetti in Illustrator. Follow my tutorial to create your own digital confetti by creating a custom scatter brush in Illustrator.
Meal Planning for Working Moms
Meal planning was always impossible for me for whatever reason. I could never plan far ahead enough, leaving me with whatever was easiest to make for the night, or just reheating leftovers. Somewhere along the line I learned how to meal plan for the week, and it has a lot to do with my bullet journal.
Everyone's Got to Start Somewhere
Everyone's got to start somewhere. You can't compare yourself to others who are months or years ahead of you.
The Importance of Design Reviews: Giving Criticism and Getting Feedback
If you're a designer, there's always room for you to improve. It doesn't matter if you work at an agency, if you work for yourself, or if you are somewhere in between; developing your skills and taste as a designer is important to maintain your value. Always be growing! Giving and getting feedback can be awkward or painful. Here are tips for giving and getting feedback on your creative work.
What's the point?
What’s the point of having a creative business? A side hustle? Pursuing your passions? Do you ever lose sight of why you do what you do?
Protect Your Time
Create with consistency by scheduling time and then protecting it. No one is going to guard your time like you will, and if you want to achieve your goals you have to set some boundaries.
How to create a hand-drawn font with minimal sketching
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how thinking critically about your letterforms is a great way to save time, while simultaneously making your uppercase block letters feel more cohesive.
How to make a watercolor blog header from start to finish
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through how to make a personalized watercolor blog header from start to finish. This particular tutorial features hand lettering too, but feel free to mix and match the sections of the tutorial so you're working with mediums and styles you're comfortable with.
Equipment I use for lettering and illustration
Here are some tools I use to make my life easier for my illustration process and showcasing my work.
Learn how to create your own hand drawn font with me on Skillshare
BIG NEWS GUYS - I'm pumped about this one. A bit ago, Skillshare reached out and asked if I could teach a class on their platform. What? Mind blown! So I said yes, and my class on how to Create your Own Hand Drawn Font is live!
Five Things
We all get into slumps when we're down on ourselves. These periods of negativity are a regular part of the ebb and flow of positive energy. How do you turn around the negative slumps?