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the unfolding

Where soul meets strategy, and story becomes design.

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After a quiet season behind the scenes, Sweet Pea Ink Creative is back with a refined vision, a reimagined brand, and a deeper commitment to soulful, story-led design. This is the unfolding — and it starts here.

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A woman in sunglasses and a cap smiles for a selfie. Text reads: "What Singing Taylor Swift Out Loud On My Walks Taught Me About Branding." Sweet Pea Ink Creative shares insights on confidence and self-expression.

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Personal

What Singing Taylor Swift Out Loud on My Walks Taught Me About Branding

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Cristina, owner of Sweet Pea Ink Creative, shares her habit of singing Taylor Swift loudly while walking, highlighting the importance of authenticity in branding. She emphasize that true branding goes beyond aesthetics, rooted in personal stories and experiences. Sweet Pea Ink Creative aims to create genuine brands that resonate, encouraging others to embrace their real narratives.

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Business

Showit vs Squarespace: Which Website Platform Is Right for You in 2025?

Teal blog graphic with the title "Showit vs. Squarespace: Which One Is Better?" displayed in elegant serif and sans-serif fonts. Below the text is a photo of vintage U.S. postage stamps, including a Statue of Liberty and bird illustration. Image designed for a blog comparing website builders Showit and Squarespace for creatives and personal brands.

Deciding between Showit vs. Squarespace? Discover the pros and cons to find the perfect platform for your website needs. Choose Showit if you want full design freedom and the SEO power of WordPress. Choose Squarespace if you want something quick, clean, and simple with minimal customization.

A soft, nostalgic collage from brand designer Sweet Pea Ink Creative, of vintage Americana and cottagecore summer vibes. Includes imagery of postage stamps, embroidered textiles, a "Howdy Honey" sign, vintage dishes, floral robes, handwritten notes, a seagull on a quiet beach, and ruffled white dresses paired with rain boots. The palette is muted and romantic with touches of sand, cream, and dusty blue.

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Branding

Nostalgia Meets Aesthetics: The Cozy Americana Trend

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Dive into the cozy Americana trend and learn how it combines soft visuals with a strong emotional pull for modern living.

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SEO

Your Instagram Posts are Now Searchable on Google: Here’s How to Make It Count

Black and white photo of delicate wildflowers in bloom, softly lit against a clear sky — evokes a quiet, nostalgic mood and natural beauty from brand designer Sweet Pea Ink Creative.

Instagram content from business and creator accounts is now appearing in Google Search, transforming profiles into visibility tools. To optimize posts for search, use keyword-rich captions, refine usernames, include location keywords, focus on grid posts, and write custom alt text. This allows for increased discoverability and organic traffic to brands.

Flat lay of custom floral branding mockups for FLWR Co. featuring elegant typography and vector illustrations. Designed by Sweet Pea Ink Creative, a Showit web designer and brand strategist. Highlights the professional difference between Canva and true vector-based design tools.

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Branding

Is Canva Vector Based? Understanding the Limitations

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Learn about the limitations of Canva for creating a professional brand identity and website. While Canva is user-friendly and useful for specific tasks like social media graphics, it lacks true vector capabilities and responsive design features, making it unsuitable for high-quality logos and scalable web design. A professional approach is recommended for building a brand.

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Branding

Is It Time for a Brand Refresh? 5 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Branding

Antique miniature portrait of a woman in a velvet-lined display case, featuring 19th-century fashion with a ruffled collar and intricate hairstyle. Vintage style evokes timeless beauty, reinvention, and the evolution of identity — ideal for a blog post from Sweet Pea Ink Creative about personal brand transformation in midlife.

Women in midlife often struggle to align their business branding with their evolved selves. Signs that a brand refresh is needed include outgrowing the original audience, inconsistencies across platforms, and feeling disconnected from one’s brand. A brand should authentically reflect one’s current values and wisdom to foster trust and connection.

a woman walking side by side with a horse

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Branding

Brand Strategy for Midlife Women: Craft a Soul-Aligned Story-Driven Brand

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Discover how Sweet Pea Ink Creative helps midlife women entrepreneurs build authentic, story-driven brands with Showit websites that capture true essence, not just trends.

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Personal

The Power of Storytelling in Branding

Silhouette of a person wearing a hat stands on dry, cracked ground at sunset with mountains in the background, evoking the signature style of brand-showit-website-designer Sweet Pea Ink Creative.

Ten years ago, Cristina experienced severe burnout as a teacher, leading to a transformative decision to return to marketing and graphic design. Through healing and walking, she found clarity in brand strategy, emphasizing that a brand is shaped by personal stories and resilience. Cristina found authentic branding connects deeply with audiences.

Two white business cards with the name "PHILLIPA LESEBERG" printed in large, bold black letters on a beige background, an example of a vector based logo, designed by Sweet Pea Ink Creative for standout branding.

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Branding

Vector Files vs. Canva: Essential Logo Design Tips

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A logo is essential to your visual brand, requiring vector files (.AI, .EPS, .SVG) for infinite scaling and high-quality printing. Canva exports lack necessary scalability and professional standards. Without a vector logo, you miss out on value and brand clarity. Sweet Pea Ink Creative ensures comprehensive brand suites for lasting impact.

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Personal

Why I’ll Always Root for the Anti-Hero

Two women in cowboy hats sit in metal tubs outdoors, holding flowers and raising glasses, with desert mountains and a champagne bottle nearby—a perfect moment captured by Sweet Pea Ink Creative, experts in brand design.

A heartfelt message aimed at midlife women, particularly Taylor Swift fans, encouraging them to embrace their life experiences as powerful brand stories. It emphasizes the importance of authenticity in storytelling and branding, inviting these women to express their complexities and truths through creative branding that resonates.

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meet the face behind the journal

I’m Cristina, designer, storyteller, and soul-led strategist behind Sweet Pea Ink Creative. Equal parts daydream and get-it-done, I believe branding should feel like a reflection of who you are, not just what you sell. The Unfolding is where I share behind-the-scenes thoughts, branding wisdom, and stories from the journey, raw edges and all.

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