It's no secret that I love flowers. A recurring theme you'll see in both my graphic products and pattern designs. I even have a pinterest board dedicated to just flowers with over 325 pins and growing! I'm always on the look out for beautiful free floral stock images...
Clients often get a bad rap. They can drive you crazy with all their bad briefs, late payments and unattainable expectations. But often these problems are actually our own doing! Early on in my design career I pretty much blamed all the stress I experienced in my job...
When I first started my freelance business, I did what most people would avoid like the plague, the dreaded cold-calling! I knew clients weren't going to just fall into my lap, I had to go out and get them. So I picked up the local Yellow Pages and phoned all the...
Working from home alone can be a dream come true for some designers. I know for me, it's truly a blessing and something I don't take for granted at all. But you do run the risk of becoming too isolated, and as a creative, that could potentially have a negative impact...
As designers, a lot of us struggle with pricing ourselves at some point in our careers. How much should you charge? Should you raise your rate? Should you ever work for free? We discuss all things pricing in Episode 5 of The Honest Designers Show. You can't miss this...
So many of us are self taught in our creative fields. Even though I went the formal route to study graphic design, I'm actually almost completely self-taught when it comes to illustration. I did art at school, but that's about it. So I've experienced both sides of the...
This tutorial takes you through a step-by-step process on how to use the Personalised Portrait Creator to create your own unique custom portraits in minutes! If you need a little help combining your portraits into one document once you've created them, pop over to...
Have you ever had a project that you’ve been working on for what feels like forever! And finally get to release it into the world? Well that’s what today is for me and three other designers with the launch of our brand new podcast for designers! I’m so excited to...
This tutorial shows you how you can incorporate textures in Adobe Illustrator into your design work, and transform it from a simple design into something special in minutes. I’ve used my Tasty Texture Pack in this tutorial and created my layout in Adobe Illustrator....
I’m always amazed at how talented my customers are. I just love seeing the work of others and how they’ve used my design resources in their projects. This adorable animated video was created by Sam Robbins. She used items from two of my holiday graphic sets to create...
