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Butterfly Bamboo Pillow

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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Featured Designer Project

This month my Something to Cherish art style is featured on the Fairfield website. I am excited to teach you how to make a whimsical and nostalgic bamboo filled pillow that you and your environment can feel good about. Repurpose pre-printed fabric with a butterfly painting and hand stitching application that comes from the heart

Get the pattern and directions here!

If you make this project, I’d love for you share it with me on my Facebook page. Happy creating! ~ Cherish

Categories : About Cherish, Arts & Crafts, CHA, Community/Philanthropy, Design, Education, Embroidery, News, Process, Publications/Websites/Blogs, Resources

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Social Networking for Designers Class: Making the Most of Your Online Presence

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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Can you guess these social media icons and the cityscape over which they hover? (answer below)

If you are a Designer or EPM planning on attending the CHA Summer 2010 show, you must put this class on your schedule. I would love to meet up with you there as well. I am humbled to be on a panel with these seasoned pros and I know you will be motivated as well with the rich content that is coming you way. We are going to have a lot of fun discussing how we can use the Internet to promote art and products throughout the industry and beyond. See you in Chicago! – Cherish

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Social Networking for Designers: Making the Most of Your Online Presence

Moderated by leading Designer, Katie Hacker.

Join us for a panel discussion about the benefits of using social networking to promote your business. Well-known designers Cherish Flieder and Claudine Hellmuth join media savvy manufacturer iLove to Create and publishers Quayside Publishing Group and Crafts ‘n Things magazine to discuss how designers and EPMs can work together to use new media to their best advantage.

Monday, July 26, 2010; room 9
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Cherish Flieder
Designer, Illustrator, Licensor
Something to Cherish div of Cherished Solutions
Abby Foster
Editor, Crafts ‘n Things
Amos Craft Publishing
Stefanie Girard
Quayside Publishing Group Craft Blogs
Katie Hacker
Katiedids
Claudine Hellmuth
Artist
Ranger Industries Inc
Pattie Wilkinson
iLoveToCreate / Duncan Ent

Register Now!

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More about the panelists:

Cherish Flieder

Designer, Illustrator, Licensor
Something to Cherish div of Cherished Solutions
Cherish Flieder creates and implements conceptual licensing collections with her art brands Something to Cherish? and Painting for Life? for product development, books, packaging, and other marketing materials. As an adjunct instructor at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Cherish teaches Internet marketing and computer illustration classes. She is also the founder of www.ArtOfLicensing.com, with over 2200 members on LinkedIn, making it the largest due-free group and international art licensing community.

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Abby Foster

Editor, Crafts ‘n Things
Amos Craft Publishing
Abby Foster has had the pleasure of working in the craft industry for twelve years. She is the editor of Crafts ‘n things magazine, published by Amos Craft Publishing.
Previously, Abby was editor of 101 Bridal Ideas magazine.

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Stefanie Girard

Quayside Publishing Group Craft Blogs
Stefanie Girard, Craft Marketing Specialist for Quayside Publishing Group, is the writer and producer of the publisher’s blog — Craftside.typepad.com. She is the Recycled Crafts Editor at CraftGossip.com, in addition to writing her own blog, SweaterSurgery.blogspot.com, which takes its name from her book, Sweater Surgery, published by Quarry in 2008. In addition to writing and designing for all aspects of Internet Marketing, Ms. Girard has designed hundreds of specialty projects for craft manufacturers and produced how-to TV shows for both HGTV and DIY Networks

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Katie Hacker

Katie Hacker

Katiedids
Katie Hacker has written more than 20 books about beading and crafts which have sold nearly a million copies. She is the host of the public television show Beads, Baubles & Jewels and is a columnist for Beadwork magazine. Katie’s new product line, Katiedids Creative Components, is now available from Beadalon. Read her blog at KatieHacker.com.

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Claudine Hellmuth

Claudine Hellmuth

Artist
Ranger Industries Inc
Claudine Hellmuth is a nationally recognized collage artist, author and illustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-retro collages that she calls Poppets®

Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion magazine, The New York Times, on HGTV’s “I Want That!” and on the DIY Network’s program, “Craft Lab.”

In addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine has developed a product line with Ranger Inc. under the brand name of “Claudine Hellmuth Studio”, teaches collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 3 books and 3 DVDs about her techniques.

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Pattie Wilkinson

iLoveToCreate / Duncan Ent
For more than 20 years Pattie – or “Pattiewack” as her friends call her – has been doing what she loves and eagerly shares her creative process with fans in her online videos and blog at PattieWack.com. Her media adventures include appearances in a video series for Today’s Creative Home Arts club, the New York Daily News and Santa Paula Times, and TV Networks such as Lifetime, CBS, PBS, FOX, DIY, HSN, TNN and QVC.

You’ll find Pattie at the iLoveToCreate™ CHA booth demonstrating the latest in crafting, and at the SuperShow Craft Academy from 6-6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 30 and from 3-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 31, where she’ll be urging her crafty fans to “Have fun with it!”

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Answers: The Icons in the above image are: icons for Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo! and YouTube (the icons were designed by Eli Burfurd). The city is down town Chicago, sunset at Navy Pier right before the most amazing fireworks display took place.

Categories : About Cherish, Art Licensing, Arts & Crafts, Digital Press Releases, Education, Marketing

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Twitter Updates via Wordle

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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

If my Twitter account was a picture, it might look something like this …

Are you on Twitter too? Let’s tweet! (@cherishart)

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Kreativ Blogger Award nominated by Jen Goode

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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

I never expected my blog to be nominated for an award. I am honored to accept the Kreativ Blogger award from fellow art licensing artist, internet guru and renowned penguin artist, Jen Goode – jgoode.com.

The Kreativ Blogger award originated in May 2008 in a post by Huldas Verden, a blogger from Norway. This award comes with the following requirements.

The Rules

You must thank the person who has given you the award.
Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
Link the person who has nominated you for the award.
Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
Nominate 7 other Kreativ Bloggers.
Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
Leave a comment on each of the blogs to let them know they have been nominated. (Note – like Jen I used other social media methods to notify each person since it doesn’t make sense to post something this cool as a plain old comment on an unrelated blog post.)

7 things of Interest About Me

I am inspired by Art Deco, Art Nouveau and the Red Rose Girls of early American illustration history.
I knew I wanted to be a professional artist since I was 12 years old and took my first college art classes when I was 16.
Hiking to beautiful places and painting en plein air with my little set of watercolors is a great joy.
I am super inspired by many mediums and constantly experiment with new approaches to image making.
I enjoy problem solving, it keeps me up late at night sometimes, but I love the thrill of putting it all together.
Swing dancing is a favorite past time. My first date was Swing dancing with my sweetheart, now husband, Benjamin Hummel. We have no plans to stop dancing any time soon.
I am enthusiastic about meeting new artists and getting them “linked in” with great educational information and resources. I guess this is why I like to teach at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design too!

My Kreativ Blogger Nominations

Drumroll please … I would like to nominate (in alphabetical order) the following artist bloggers for their creative contributions to the arts, licensing and the blogosphere.

Brenda Pinnick – designer and color expert – brendapinnick.com/blog
Carol Eldridge – illustrator and designer – caroleldridge.typepad.com
Claudine Hellmuth – collage artist and illustrator – claudinehellmuth.blogspot.com
Diane Knott – watercolor artist and designer – dianeknottsmusings.blogspot.com
Gwenda Kaczor – digital illustrator – gwendakaczor.blogspot.com
Paulette Insall – mixed media artist – pauletteinsall.typepad.com
Priscilla Burris – children’s book illustrator – burrisdraw.blogspot.com

Congratulations to all the nominees. I look forward to your award posts.

Jen, thanks again. I am touched and honored to be recognized for my service to many artists who are on their path to success!

Categories : About Cherish, Artists, Publications/Websites/Blogs

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2,000 Members Art Licensing LinkedIn Group

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Monday, March 29th, 2010

For media inquiries contact: Cherish Flieder

LinkedIn Art Licensing Community Reaches 2,000 Members

Cherish Flieder is pleased to announced today that the ArtOfLicensing.com group on LinkedIn has reached the milestone mark of 2,000 members. This makes it the largest due-free online networking group for an international art licensing community.

Members including licensors (artists, illustrators, designers, and licensing agents), licensees (product manufacturers, producers, corporations) as well as supporting roles such as attorneys, technical professionals, and media members. Members also include many international art licensing professionals which promotes avenues of communication for cross-cultural ideas.

ArtOfLicensing.com also has a following on Twitter (Twitter.com/ArtOfLicensing) and Facebook (Groups.to/ArtOfLicensing) as well where members can dialogue about art licensing issues on their preferred social media platform. Through Twitter real-time feed of participating art licensing artists is also offered. Visitors can see a cross section of artists’ “tweet” updates that can be bookmarked in an RSS reader or enjoyed live on the Twitter platform (Twitter.com/ArtOfLicensing/art-licensing-artists).

The ArtOfLicensing.com group was founded in July 2008 by designer and art licensor Cherish Flieder (SomethingToCherish.com) as a way to bring those in the business of art licensing together in a supportive and cooperative format.

Members find LinkedIn’s platform easy to navigate and a natural extension of their individual LinkedIn profiles. Members exchange helpful ideas, news items, resources, report on trade shows, trends, and share information on marketing, copyrighting and licensing processes.

For information on participating in this group, please visit: ArtOfLicensing.com

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About LinkedIn:

LinkedIn (LinkedIn.com) is a business-oriented social networking site of more than 60 million professionals from over 200 countries and territories around the world. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members. A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.

About Cherish Flieder:

Cherish Flieder (SomethingToCherish.com) is not only a painter and designer, but conceptual artist that has skills to help any client with a wide array of graphic, illustrative, and marketing needs. Her design studio, (Cherished Solutions, llc, and brands Something to Cherish™, Been Cherished™ and Painting for Life™), works with publishers, manufacturers, and other niche businesses to achieve their goals in the marketplace by creating designs and illustrations and pairing them with thoughtful marketing objectives. Cherish works on the creation and production of conceptual and cohesive licensing collections, product development, books (especially children’s books), packaging, and other marketing materials.

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