From Darkroom to a Digital Design Junkie
My creative career started in a photography darkroom 🎬 and eventually led to designing digital tools for live stream creators and event templates.
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📸 I started my career in traditional film photography, earning a degree and spending years photographing weddings, senior portraits, families, and boudoir sessions. Photography taught me how powerful visual details can be — lighting, color, composition, and the small design elements that make something feel special.
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📀 As photography evolved into the digital world, I naturally moved into tools like Photoshop and Lightroom. What began as photo editing quickly turned into a love for digital design and visual storytelling.
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🏢 That passion eventually led me into the corporate world, where I worked as a Corporate Communications Specialist, creating social media company profiles and redesigning logos, brochures, product literature, and internal communications for life insurance companies.
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👩🏫 Much of my design background is self-taught, and I discovered that I truly loved transforming ideas into clean, polished designs that people could easily use and understand.
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🤩 A few years ago, I decided to take that creative experience and open my own Etsy shop.
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🎁 At first, I focused on digital event templates: invitations, party planners, itineraries, and celebration designs that anyone could customize in Canva. My goal was to create designs that are beautiful but also incredibly simple to use. Design connoisseurs can edit their own details, photos, download, and send their invitation via text, email, or social media within minutes.
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👷🏼♀️ Around the same time, I became involved in the TikTok livestream community, helping moderate a GenX music livestream and supporting creators as they built their audiences. I began designing fan-club emotes, livestream graphics, and digital chat elements, and quickly saw how much these small visual touches help creators energize their streams and build stronger communities.
💡 That’s when a new creative direction emerged.
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🎨 Today, I design what I like to call “LIVESTREAM CHAT BLING” - emotes, graphics, and creator tools that help livestreamers bring personality, fun, and visual energy and chat engagement to their communities.
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👸 Designer Notes Co. is a one-woman creative studio, where every design is created with love, by me. Whether it's a Livestream creator tool or an event template, my focus is always the same: 📈 Create Luxe designs that are on Trend, Stylish, Easy-to-Use, and Instantly Useful.
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🔭 I’m constantly exploring new trends and ideas while expanding the shop with more templates, creator tools, and branding kits. I will eventually add some of my photography, handcrafted macrame wall hangings, and crafts. Be sure to follow my social accounts for announcements on new shop listings, sales, and freebies.
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🙏 Thank you for being here and supporting independent creators.
Ritarose - aka: Ritz
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SOCIAL LINKS:
🌺 Link in Bio: https://linktr.ee/theritzypixel
🌺 TikTok - Personal: https://www.tiktok.com/@puttin_onthe_ritz
🌺 TikTok - The Ritzy Pixel: https://www.tiktok.com/@theritzypixel
🌺 Instagram - The Ritzy Pixel: https://www.instagram.com/@theritzypixel
🌺 Website: https://theritzypixel.my.canva.site
