28 Days of Coloring Book Images on Instagram!

Happy Monday, everyone! Woohoo! I hope you're all ready to take part in something awesome in February. I'm SO looking forward to this challenge, I can't even tell you.

If you love coloring, and you have all these pictures to share, you'll enjoy this little challenge. You can use pictures you did before, ones you're doing just for this fun, or whatever, but here are the rules:

• You must have colored the image (can be an app!).
• You have to list the title of the coloring book or URL of the website where you got the image in the description of your post.
• You gotta HAVE FUN!
• Missing a day is fine. There aren't any rules about that. Just browse the awesome artworks of your fellow participants on those days.

Here's the list of photos/days:

1: Name or Word (clean) - This is for your name, the name of your pet, or whatever, as long as it's a clean word.
2: Mandala - Your favorite Mandala!
3: Insect - Anything other than butterflies, they have their own day.
4: Food - Nom, nom, nom!
5: Object - Any object.
6: Fantasy - Dragons, manticores, etc... No fantasy people (those are day 26).
7: Book Cover - The cover of your favorite coloring book.
8: Flora - All the pretty flowers!
9: Baby Animals - Seriously, show us the cute.
10: Harry Potter - For all you Potterheads out there.
11: Gardens - Mashup of flowers, trees, shrubs, etc...
12: WTF - Adult words
13: Paisley - This. Because they're pretty.
14: Butterflies - The most beautiful of bugs.
15: Owls - Only the wise ones! Kidding. All the owls, all the time.
16: Inspiring Words - Lift one another up!
17: Random Patterns - An oxymoron? You know what I mean here, right?
18: Elephants - I've seen some gorgeous ones.
19: Scenery - Landscapes, etc...
20: Ladies - All the pretty girls!
21: Cats - Meow.
22: Aquatics - Boats, fish, undersea scenes, etc...
23: Tattoos - Not the ones on skin.
24: Technology - Geometric shapes.
25: Quilts - We all love these patterns. Seriously.
26: Fantasy People - Mermaids, fairies, ogres, etc...
27: Dogs - Cats had their day. Now it's time for man's best friend!
28: Super Heroes! - Ya know?

If you'd like to play along, here's a graphic you can share on IG:

And be sure you give me a follow!

Jo Michaels on Instagram

Let's have some fun with it.

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, write color on!

Jo

Branding Step Five

Happy happy Friday, good people of the blogosphere! On to the weekend! I hope I've given you enough information this week so you'll have a branding project to work on for the next couple of days. Today is all about look and feel. So, grab your pens and notebooks and let's get going!

What is look and feel, anyway?

To put it simply, look and feel is the consistent look of your presence and the feeling a visitor gets when they come to your page or see your ads. If you saw an ad belonging to Jo Michaels somewhere, you'd know it was mine because of either the logo or the color scheme. Polka-dots be damned, mine are specific colors. This is what you should be striving for.

Even my mobile site is consistent with the rest of my marketing. Yes, it matters.

I want people to feel like they're having fun when they visit my sites because I'm a fun person. Think about what you're projecting with your colors and design. Is your site stodgy and boring? Are your colors saying what you want them to? There have been deep looks into what feelings colors incite.

Take a look at this:

Yes, click it and view it full size. Keep it if you like. But, above all else, remember it when deciding on your color scheme. If you notice, the colors in my logo are blue and brown. I added peach (a tint of orange) to the backgrounds of my sites. Now you know why.

The feeling your pages incite matters. People want to feel happy when they pay you a visit. Let them, help them, show them the way.

Now you know what look and feel is; make sure you're using it for maximum impact.

Come on back Monday when I'll be giving you all a look into what I accomplished this week with my social networking schedule.

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo