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Below is a collection of my favorite tools, courses, books, resources, desgn market places, home decor, wellness items and more.
Basically its a crash course on my daily shopping list.
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1 | Develop Your Artistic Vision
Your quest for a unique home aesthetic requires a unique set of skills - the kind that celebrates your individuality. I’ll guide you through the discovery process, with simple quizzes & guides to that the art you pick reflects your style, values & story.
2 | Follow Your Creative Intuition
Now that you’ve discovered your style and decided how art fits into your space it’s time to fill your life to brim!
3 | Embrace Your Artistic Flair
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While my most common medium is digital art I do like to dabble in traditional brush lettering, calligraphy, and watercolor painting.
Favorite Art Supplies
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Teela is amazing. Her brushes, tools and courses have all majoring influenced my work. In fact I'd say 85% of my brushes are hers.
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Arteza watercolors - Student/pro grade
Hoblien watercolors - pro grade
Paul Rubens - Metallic watercolors
The Pigeon Letters - Studio brushes
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So, I have alot of brushes, stamps and digital tools, It's a slight addiction. I have a blog post that breaks down my favorite designers here! But this notion database shows every brush set I own, the ones I actively have downloaded, who created them and my rating of them!
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Arteza Fineliners
Tombow - brush pens
Calligraphy - I buy all my nibs, handles and instructional guides from The Postman Knocks
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Procreate!
Affinity Design Suite (to replace Adobe. #notsorry!)
Canva
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Arteza watercolor pencils - I love how rich they are and very affordable too.
Canson drawing pads
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I love the big screen. Pressure sensitive apple pencil is a must too!
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We R Memory Keepers - I love their punchs, cutting boards and tools.
Happy Planner - Obsessed with their stickers and planners.
Paper - honestly whatever I can get on sale at micheals!
Recommended Online Courses & Memberships
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I review this course once a year. It's given my the stability to build my business, manage my pricing and the magic of how to pay myself.
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This is a top creator version of Skillshare. Art, business, lettering, and more. It's great.
As a teacher I’m a strong advocate in life long learning and in the digital age of online courses learning something new has never been easier! These are the courses that have changed my business, the way I create or my mindset significantly.
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My brand, my website & my social have all been elevated and made better because of this course. Ashlyn has several other courses that also helped my level up my writing and business voicing.
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The membership related to leveraging your art. I check in with art friends, get monthly updates, check in with design briefs and share wins.
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I've taken a few art specific business courses but this is the one that made the difference to me. It inspired me to actually get started and build the business of my dreams.
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This is a Spoonflower centric membership. But I've found there's a lot of good info for other POD platforms.
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This course is very inspiring when it comes to learning foundations to art, narrowing your signature style and mastering your creative mindset.
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This design briefs are everything. Monthly themes, colors, mood boards, keywords and motif ideas.
Favorite Books
Favorite Books
I’m a huge reader. This collection is my fun reads, and my learning reads. Though if I’m being honest I normally just read for fun.
Business Tools & Resources
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Wave - free accounting, this is all I need for now. highly recommend.
Stripe - I'm mostly online so this is my processor of choice.
Paypal
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Printify -
Every business has several foundational parts to it. These are my favorite tools and softwares.
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Google Suite - hey it works and it's becoming industry standard plus Drive is amazing
Notion - My whole business is stored and organized in here.
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Pixistock - Beautiful photos and awesome masterclasses to help level up social media marketing.
Pexels - My go to reference photo place.
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Squarespace - my site, my shop, my memberships and my courses all in one place.
GoDaddy - My domain host.
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The Contract Shop - I love this shop for easy to read contract and website legal terms.
The CEO Legal Loft - She has lots of little legals goodies right here.
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ConvertKit / Kit - my choice of email marketing. I like that I can make automations, sync shop purchases.
ManyChat - Instagram automations made easier.
Plann- Social media marketing planner and scheduler.
Home, Health & Decor
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I love all their florals. So much so I used all their stuff for my wedding. The colors are perfect and they make collections for each season.
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I love my little things that bring joy, organization and my taking care of myself.
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Tone It Up - my favorite combination cardio, toning and strength app.
Asana Rebel - Learning to love yoga to practice my mindfulness and flexibility plus it can be one hell of a workout too.
Bend - Stretch break! This is a great app for stretching and relaxing
Ate - Mindful eating journal
Water Llama - Water Tracker made fun
Finch - My self care habit tracker and daily task manager in a cute way. I love my Birb.
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