5 Helpful Financial Tools For Your Business
It is never easy to manage a business if you don’t have the right tools to help you, especially as creatives, and especially when it comes to numbers (especially if you’re like Mikaela!). Accounting for everything in your inventory, calculating everyday...
Free tools to edit images and create graphics for your business
I think by now most people know about Photoshop and Illustrator, and many small business owners know how great they are for editing photos, adding watermarks, creating graphics and designing quote images for sales, promotions and social media sharing to boost your...
How to create interactive workbooks using InDesign
If you’re looking to increase your mailing list signups, having an interactive PDF download as an incentive is a great way to encourage more people to sign up. A printable PDF is fine, but often people will download it, forget to print it out and never look at it...
How to create a mood board in InDesign
A mood board is a composition of images, colours and type that forms a theme, style or mood for your project. They’re really useful in determining the direction of your visual branding, and often form the basis of a more formal style guide down the track....
Meet the Maker Amanda Stevens – LLL Designs
Today I want you to meet my friend Amanda, whom I met several years ago when she first moved to Canberra. Amanda is a total handmade dynamo and market-superstar with a great attitude and fabulous products! Who are you and what do you do? Hey there I’m Amanda the...
Setting up your weekly schedule in Google Calendar
One of the simplest ways to help you get more of the right tasks done during a week is to set up a weekly schedule (sometimes referred to as a “model calendar”). Your weekly schedule will then guide your workflow for the week and allow you set times to...
Meet the Maker Venetia Major – Venetia Major Bespoke Jewellery
Today for Meet the Maker I’d love for you to get to know Venetia Major, a bespoke jewellery designer and all-round talented lady! I’ve known Venetia for several years through my sister-in-law, and I’ve always marvelled at her intricately detailed...
One of the best stock image sites for your business
Whilst I was putting together the Photos for Social Media Class guide (which can be accessed by members in The Makers Academy), it struck me just how many millions of images there are online, right now, that you can gain access to and use for commercial purposes, for...
Maximise your potential by valuing yourself first
In this day and age, women have achieved and contributed so much to the world that it seems impossible to imagine a time when women were not allowed to vote, go to school, compete in sports, or even have a job. We have come a long way but the fight and the struggle...
VIDEO – How to create your own blog post graphics in Photoshop
If you need some pointers on how to create simple graphics in Photoshop with text laid over images for your blog post titles, this video will help! I show you how to open a new document suitable for the web, embed an image background, create and style text to ensure...
Meet The Maker – The World Rocks! Jewellery Design
Today I’m introducing you to one of my very favourite new-found friends – Cindy of The World Rocks! Jewelry Design. Hailing from Canada, I met Cindy 5 years ago when she moved to Canberra with her husband Glenn. Cindy is so generous with sharing her...
Design tips for your business email signature
Why do you need an email signature? These days, in the times of algorithms across social media, page rankings in Google and exorbitant print-ad costs (along with declining print readership and no “click through rate”), email, for the time being, remains one of the...
The essential elements that make a good logo
Too often I see hustling mamas launch their new businesses with not enough thought given to their branding, specifically their logo, arguably the most used visual element of their brand. So many great businesses are starting out their biz adventure with sub-par...
Meet the Maker : Poyo Studio
Juliette Dudley has been a friend of mine since 2012 when she first came to a Makers Co Christmas Meet up in Canberra, and I’ve loved seeing her tackle new projects and challenges over the last 5 years with so much gusto, she’s a force to be reckoned with...