Carina begins today’s episode of Make + Design by telling us about Ink Club, which launched originally on October 1, 2021. Ink Club is for every creative so that you, as a creative, can find community.

The announcement about Ink Club fits today’s podcast topic, which is all about community and, specifically, two ways that having a community can help you feel supported in what you’re doing.

The first way to find support is to join a community like a club, a mastermind, or a membership group. Carina gives us a great example of a community that didn’t work and how starting a community that didn’t work taught her about the kinds of things that a community needs to offer in order to serve its members. To find a community, Carina recommends searching the web for your hobby/interest and the word “community.” Community can help you feel loved, trusted, and supported.

The second way to find community in your life is to build it yourself. With apps like Facebook, Clubhouse, and Instagram Rooms, there are many great ways to build a community.

Finding a great community can help you to level up by giving you a new set of “the five people you spend the most time with.”

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Access to Carina’s Ink Club membership can be found at https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/inkclub.

Carina’s Instagram fabric feed can be found at @carinagardner.

Download Carina’s free guide: The 7 Tips Nobody Will Tell You About Becoming a Surface Pattern Designer here: http://eepurl.com/dN2RcY

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com

Check out her most popular program, Design Bootcamp, here: http://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designbootcamp

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