Why This Embroidery Hoop Artist Wants to Learn how To Create Digital Products: A Blog Tour with Blacksburg Belle

Hello! Today, I’m so excited to be writing a special blog post as part of a blog tour with creative business coach extraordinaire April Bowles-Olin of Blacksburg Belle to spread the word about her upcoming CreativeLive class:  Create Digital Products that Sell While You Sleep.

There are so many reasons why I wanted to participate in this blog tour with April and many of her loyal readers.

#1: I  love digital products.

Before I dove headfirst into running my own business, I was an obsessed avid digital scrapbooker and used Photoshop almost everyday to scrapbook photos of my family. If you’re not familiar with “digi-scrapping”, it’s basically using Photoshop or other graphics program to design scrapbook pages. The finished scrapbook pages live online on personal blogs and galleries. They can also be printed out and stored in traditional scrapbook albums. Many of the digital papers and elements used in digital scrapbooks are purchased online as digital downloads. (I have 4 external hard drives to prove how guilty I am of loving my digital products!)

#2: I love CreativeLive.

I was lucky enough to be a studio audience member this past summer at a CreativeLive class on how to start a handmade business taught by the warm and bubbly Kari Chapin. I learned so much from the course and have been a huge CreativeLive fan ever since.

#3. I would love to learn how to create my own digital products one day.

This brings me to the main reason for this post and how April’s Creative Live class can help me. Why do I want to learn how to create and sell digital products? I’ve always been intrigued by digital products since my scrapbooking days and even toyed with the idea of designing my own digital products, specifically scrapbooking products. Fast-forward to 2011 when I started my handmade business, creating embroidery hoop art, wreaths and felt flowers which is about as far away from digital products as you can get.

But, I continue to use my much beloved Photoshop to edit my photos, create logos, ads and graphics for this blog, and my own product tags and business cards (which I print out on my home printer).

What other things could I be designing?  Could I really create something digitally that others want to buy? Would it be patterns for my hoop art and wreaths? Instructions on how to create felt flowers? Or an e-book on how to photograph hoop art or other handmade items? The possibilities are very intriguing to me! I would love to learn more about creating digital products and April is the person to help me do it!

Her class,  Create Digital Products that Sell While You Sleep, will broadcast live November 10-11. You can RSVP here to watch it for free! I’ll definitely be tuning in. Here’s what April has to say about her course:

“Are you ready to make your creative work more lucrative, stable, and sustainable in the long-term? Join April Bowles-Olin for an introduction to digital products and how they can enhance your creative business. This course will show you how to produce and position viable products for generating multiple revenue streams and passive income. RSVP right here to watch it live and get access to the workbook for FREE. This post is part of the Create Digital Products blog tour.”

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 A Gift For You: Free Desktop Wallpaper

If you got to the end of this post, thanks for reading! Before I go, I wanted to share something I made, which seem appropos for this blog post. (Hint: it is a digital product!)  I love quotes and have enjoyed sharing the quotes graphics in the past. Here are few examples I’ve pinned on Pinterest. But the other day, I combined a quote with one of my photos. It’s now my desktop wallpaper (1920 x 1200 px), but if you like and want it for your desktop, you can download it for free here. Enjoy! (And please let me know if you have any problems downloading it.)