Crystal Stine - Creative Basics: 30 Days to Awesome Social Media Art

About Crystal

Crystal is smart, she knows what she's talking about and I wish I knew everything she knows.

Myquillyn Smith, The Nester

Author of The Nesting Place

Crystal is full faith, generous and innovative. She's not afraid to try new things, to take risks and go big. She is more than willing to share her wealth of knowledge and contagious joy with you. I have learned so much from Crystal as a virtual assistant and as a leader in social media

Aubrey Barela

Virtual Assistant

Good graphics are where it's at online these days. But knowing how and where to begin can be overwhelming. Crystal Stine's step-by-step course will walk you right into great online graphics whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro.

Lisa-Jo Baker

Author of Surprised by Motherhood

About Creative Basics

I've struggled for a long time with the technical aspects of blogging and especially graphics for my photos. As a food blogger, I have a good handle on iPhone photography but for the life of me, couldn't figure out how to make my graphics pop.

With Crystal Stine's Creative Basics course, it's like she's sitting with you at your computer taking you step by step and helping you create beautiful graphics.

In this course, you'll learn how to master both Pic Monkey and Canva and some iPhone apps as well. Crystal's course has helped me tremendously and if you're wanting to take your images to the next level, I encourage you to get this eBook!

Kate Battistelli

What a fun and helpful course! Crystal takes the reader step by step through the process of creating fun graphics, and she makes it incredibly user-friendly. The steps are not overwhelming and can definitely can be done in a day. She gives photos, resources, and examples of everything she teaches. I also love how encouraging she is along the way, it's like she's celebrating with us in our progress of learning to create graphics! I'm so thankful Crystal is willing to share her expertise in this area with others.

Eryn Hall

Host of the Declare Conference

MamaHall

I can't say enough about how helpful and fun this course was! I've been blogging since 2007 and have learned bits & pieces along the way to liven up my photos but this course definitely took me to the next level. The daily assignments were bite-sized and not overwhelming but also built on each other so you were able to build and reinforce your skills along the way. The final thing I didn't add? I just had my 69th birthday during the month we took this course. It proves you CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
Martha Brady

GrittyGrace

I have positively enjoyed Crystal's course. I have learned how to use all the extra pictures I take to enhance my blog. I never would have thought to use Canva or PicMonkey without her instructions, and because of that, I feel that I've gone from a ho-hum blogger to a "Wow, look at that!"

Like many people with a small business I relied on larger companies for my media. The problem with that is all of it has someone else's watermark embedded in it. All I was really doing by using it was sending more business to them. With Crystal's course, Creative Basics, I have learned to make my own amazing media. I can tailor it to my clients and to the media format I need. This course has taught me to change the formatting of my images to fit my Blog, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, & even Twitter.

With the first post I made myself for Facebook my reach increased three fold. People are sharing my creations! This in turn is bringing more traffic to my blog and increasing my client numbers. The Creative Basics course is the best investment I've made this year and I had fun doing it.
Rebecca Moninghoff , LMT, CMCP

In today's visual world, graphics and photos or a combination of the two, are more important than ever. Images are a critical element of any blog or website. You're going to have trouble hooking and keeping subscribers or fans without a store of visuals. So you owe it to yourself to learn Creative Basics from Crystal Stine. Crystal made it so easy for me, a very non-visual person, to make eye-catching graphics, which garnered comments.

In just 20 days, I had a command of free graphic design programs PicMonkey and Canva. I learned about new and free design apps and photo sources. Thanks to Crystal Stine's Creative Basics course:

• I'm more confident creating graphics than I ever imagined I would be.
• I gained several new followers on Instagram and Twitter.
• I brainstormed several new ways for presenting my food blog posts in a more visually-friendly way.
• I've been inspired to provide graphics to my readers on a daily basis.

I can't say enough good things about Crystal and her course.

Jennifer Osborn

As an older gal, I confess techy stuff intimidates me. When I heard about Crystal's Creative Basics course, I got totally excited. I have been following the lessons all month and have made some really lovely things for my blog, Facebook and Pinterest page. Crystal's instruction was so clear and encouraging that I had fun, gained confidence and learned some great stuff! Highly recommend her work to everyone!

Christine Field

RealMomLife

Creative Basics gave me the tools to find my creative side again. It introduced me to new apps for creating graphics and it helped me use the ones I already knew of in better ways. Crystal keeps it simple and attainable, but also gives the confidence to take what you've learned from the course and discover more in each app. Now instead of seeing quote graphics and wishing I could create something similar, I know that I can create something better!

A wonderful resource! I've always seen what other bloggers post, and wondered how to make graphics like theirs - and now I know! It's easier (and more fun) than I anticipated. This has definitely connected my blog with my social media - I love having a unique eye-catching picture or quote to put on Instagram or Facebook that goes along with a post I've written.

Crystal has put together a very doable course to help us learn more about making creative images to share on our social media channels and blogs. I loved learning about the other web sites and apps she shares, and how each step builds upon each other. Highly recommend it!

Yvonne Reynolds