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My experience with Minted Design Challenges

January 31, 2023 //  by ellen//  2 Comments

I created both baby designs for Minted almost a year apart. In fact, I made over 100 invitation and greeting card designs for Minted in 2022 alone, not to mention numerous surface pattern designs (that’s another post!) I first discovered Minted in 2011. I entered design competitions very sporadically throughout the years, never really taking …

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Category: Greeting card design, IllustrationTag: art challenge, Design challenges, greeting card design, Minted, Minted design challenges, Minted stationery design, personal development, stationery design

Ellen Morse surface pattern design of white plumeria hawaii inspired florals

Uppercase Magazine entry

January 16, 2023 //  by ellen//  Leave a Comment

Uppercase Magazine is having a call for entry for their 5th surface pattern design guide. They will select 100 designers to feature in their upcoming guide. I thought I’d give it a try so today I gathered a bunch of my pattern designs. I tried to narrow down 9 that showcased my best work, while …

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Category: Illustration, Illustrations on Products, surface pattern design, The business of freelance designTag: design contest, Surface Pattern Design, uppercase, uppercase magazine, uppercase magazine surface pattern design guide

Minted winner

Minted greeting card design

June 6, 2022 //  by ellen//  Leave a Comment

Shop now: Minted.com I am so excited to announce my greeting card design has won an Editor’s pick from Minted‘s Small Steps Big Moments: Greeting Cards Challenge contest! I’ve been entering my work at Minted for quite some time and got very serious about studying the greeting card market this past year. I submitted a …

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Category: Design business, Greeting card design, IllustrationTag: birthday card, chocolate cupcake card, greeting card design, kids birthday card, Minted

Coloring page Ellen Morse Originals

Mindless Doodles?

January 8, 2022 //  by ellen//  Leave a Comment

Sometimes ideas come when mindless doodling. My latest idea is self publishing a coloring book. This wasn’t on my  list of goals for 2022,  but I think it would be really fun and just came to me. There’s a reason art is therapy: Doodling in Procreate on my  iPad with a cup of coffee (or …

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Category: IllustrationTag: Buffalo artist, coloring book, coloring pages, Procreate

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