This is a con­tin­u­a­tion of my orig­i­nal Seven Cre­ative Ladies arti­cle. Be sure to read the orig­i­nal post to get more cre­ative inspiration.

I was so inspired by the ladies in my orig­i­nal post that I couldn’t wait to do a sec­ond round. These are just a few of the many tal­ented, friendly, and inter­est­ing women I have got­ten to know recently. This time, I seem to have got­ten a very diverse group of women in many cre­ative fields. All serve to show how dif­fer­ently the cre­ative vein runs through dif­fer­ent peo­ple. Like in my first post, I posed two ques­tions to every­one. The responses are fan­tas­tic insight into what makes us all tick. Read More »

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I was approached by Danny Out­law of Out­law Design Blog to cre­ate a tuto­r­ial for his recently launched site. This was a fun project  and I’m look­ing for­ward to more projects like this in the future. This tuto­r­ial is great for those of you who enjoyed InDe­sign 101 and are look­ing to put your new skills to good use! Head on over to Out­law Design Blog to check it out:

Inde­sign Flyer — Out­law Design Blog

Thanks, Danny for the opportunity!

I’m far behind in this 31 Days chal­lenge, but I fig­ure it’s bet­ter late than never! The task this time is to ana­lyze another suc­cess­ful blog. I’ve picked Gra­ham Smith’s ImJustCreative.com to review, as it seems to be a sim­i­lar setup to my own com­bi­na­tion of port­fo­lio and blog. Here are some of my thoughts. Read More »

I love con­nect­ing with other design­ers to find out about how they got their start, and what makes them tick. It’s so inspir­ing to see how peo­ple from so many dif­fer­ent walks of life and from so many dif­fer­ent back­grounds can all have some­thing in com­mon. A pas­sion to cre­ate, no mat­ter what spe­cific avenue, is some­thing I love to see oth­ers express. And yet, the cre­ative spark can man­i­fest itself in so many dif­fer­ent ways. Read More »

Chris Rossi over at mod­bird has put together a great list on her site of busi­ness card print­ers. I’ve per­son­ally used Moo, uPrint­ing and VistaPrint and have got­ten great results from all. I absolutely love my Moo mini cards. She also has some really good points about the card design process and the impor­tance of hav­ing a good card. Check it out!

um, do you have a card?

(This post is Day 7 of the 31 Days to Build a Bet­ter Blog chal­lenge. To find out more about the chal­lenge, visit ProBlog­ger. To see all my arti­cles dur­ing the chal­lenge, click here.)

I recently came across an arti­cle that I thought was really interesting:

Why is a Graphic Designer Never Satisfied?

This is a really nice arti­cle for a few rea­sons. First, it’s a sub­ject near to my heart. I am an incred­i­ble per­fec­tion­ist. Read More »

I recently ran into a begin­ning designer who asked my rec­om­men­da­tion on what Adobe prod­uct she should pick up and start learn­ing. I was curi­ous about her ques­tion, since dif­fer­ent prod­ucts are good for dif­fer­ent things. I turned the ques­tion around and asked her what she wanted to do in the end, and she wasn’t really sure. Read More »

I found some fan­tas­tic resources that helped me fig­ure out how to use Word­Press to its fullest. I’m com­pil­ing them all here with the hope that it will help out any­one else that is new. Thanks to the design­ers who orig­i­nally wrote the arti­cles for shar­ing their wealth of knowl­edge with all. Read More »