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:

"Queen of Everything" by Mary Engelbreit

The “Queen of Everything” art licensing will be gracing us with her knowledge and expertise this Wednesday!

It is not to late to get in on the free call and if you can’t make the call, no worries since you can listen to the recording for free later. All you need to do is sign up to reserve your space on this very popular call.

Art licensor and educator, Tara Reed is hosting the live interview with Mary Engelbreit. She will be asking her about 12-15 of the most popular questions that working artists have about art licensing.

DATE: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm PST / 6:30 pm MST / 7:30 pm CST / 8:30 pm EST
More Information

"Say It Loud" by Mary-Engelbreit

Mary Engelbreit is known throughout the world for her distinctive illustration style, imbued with spirited wit and nostalgic warmth. The unmatched following for her work has grown with a range of licensed products that stretches from calendars, to best-selling children’s books, millions of greeting cards sold each year, and thousands of gifts, crafts and home accents.

Starting in 1977, Mary Engelbreit licensed her art for a greeting card line and today boasts a list that’s grown to include nearly 6,500 products in all, with more than $1 billion in lifetime retail sales.

What a resource for artists wanting to learn more about how to succeed in the art licensing industry.

What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

As a designer, you know that there are probably millions of  ways to arrange color palettes. Our environment is continually informing us of colors that best represent a slice of our humanity at any particular time. Technology, current events and philosophical beliefs are just some things that move and shape our color trends.

Since following color trends is an ever changing, organic and creative process, there will never be one definitive resource on the matter. However, designers and manufacturers must stay on top of these patterns, to incorporate them, to respond to them or at least, just to be aware of them.

In my efforts to stay on top of this ever changing and inspiring world of color, I have created a handy color trends toolbar to include quick and easy links to some of my favorite sites on COLOR.

(click to zoom)

As a special gift, I would love to share this very helpful color trend toolbar – “Cherish COLOR”.

• Designed for anyone who researches color and trends along with those who just love color and art
• Especially helpful for manufacturers, licensees and artists
• No risk, completely anonymous, no strings attached
• It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and on all the major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and finally Safari.

This easy to install tool bar has links to the most popular and useful sites in the areas of:

• Color Trends + Palettes (Sites, Blogs, Google Search, Books)
• Color Mixing (Color Tools, Color Management and Color Software)
• Color Me Fun (+ Games)
• Built in Google search engine
• Internet Radio (Add your favorite stations)
• Note Pad
• Weather
• E-mail Notifier
• Plus customize it by adding many “gadgets” of your choice

Please feel free to contact me with any feedback. You are also free to share this free tool with any design professionals you know would benefit. Enjoy!

You may download the browser toolbar here!

I booked my tickets to Surtex/National Stationery Show in New York and as well as the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. I am looking forward to seeing all the new styles and trends, meet some incredible people and take a few workshops while I am there.

I am a perpetual student of licensing and as you know I love to share my resources as well. With that in mind, I have an incredible woman that you must meet!

She has transformed the way I think about licensing. She has helped her clients achieve wonderful levels of success. I trust you have heard of DILBERT™for example . . . she is a genius marketing strategist and has her own business called Character Matters with partner Tom Wilson (ZIGGY™).

Scott Adams and Jeanette Smith at the Reuben awards, as Dilbert™ wins the National Cartoonist Society's top achievement for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year (1997).

Her name is Jeanette Smith. I had the opportunity to learn from Jeanette last year at an advanced art licensing program she held out here in Denver. The information she has shared has really opened my eyes to new and fresh ways to do business as an art licensor (with or without an expensive trade show booth).

Like many of my art licensing friends, I am free from an agent and love it that way. Jeanette’s classes have given me the freedom, knowledge and support to venture out on this journey with out an agent. She teaches about not only finding the ideal manufacturer, but how to negotiate with them to get what you need!

As many of you know, I am honored to be the moderator on LinkedIn’s Art of Licensing Group (www.ArtOfLicensing.com). Jeanette is extending her support by offering us, the ArtOfLicensing.com community, updates on her upcoming classes.

If that sounds like something that you might be interested in, you would be remiss not to check out Jeanette’s upcoming webinars.