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

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

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.

• 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:

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

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

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

1. You must thank the person who has given you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link the person who has nominated you for the award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 other Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. 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

1. I am inspired by Art Deco, Art Nouveau and the Red Rose Girls of early American illustration history.
2. 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.
3. Hiking to beautiful places and painting en plein air with my little set of watercolors is a great joy.
4. I am super inspired by many mediums and constantly experiment with new approaches to image making.
5. I enjoy problem solving, it keeps me up late at night sometimes, but I love the thrill of putting it all together.
6. 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.
7. 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!

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.