Thoughtfully Crafted Design that Shares Your Story with Your People

You’ve worked hard to build your business, and it deserves to be easily seen and hard to forget.

At Rose Color Creative, we use thoughtful, impactful design to help you get more eyes on your brand, connect with more people, and grow your sales.

Schedule a Discovery Call

At Rose Color Creative, the goal is simple:

Help small businesses show up in a way that feels real, intentional, and true to who they are. Whether it’s branding, design, murals, or illustration, it all starts with listening to your story and creating something that resonates with your people.

I literally feel like you knew my brand better than I did and were instrumental in helping me define my brand. I felt like a VIP, and like you gave your everything to this project. I really appreciated the general business advice you gave me, and the various pointers about the use of my brand long-term.

Kelsey Hanson The Supply Sis
You perfectly took the words I used to describe what I am hoping to create and the vision I have for my business and turned it into my brand identity. I can't say enough good things about the process and the outcome! It is more beautiful and fun than I ever could have imagined. I get compliments specifically on how unique and attractive my brand is almost every week.

Eliza Beaulier Bright Yellow Coaching & Consulting
Rose Color Creative is the best of the best!! Mariah went above and beyond to make our project excellent, beautiful, and happen in a short amount of time. She listened to what our needs were and made sure to reflect those needs in her work. She is professional, talented, and is someone we will work with time and again!!!

Rebecca Wall With Ministries
Rose Color Creative has done an amazing job with all of our projects. They are dependable, professional, and just fun to work with. Their creativity and eye for good design is is incredible. We are grateful for their partnership and look forward to working with them on our next project!!

Eric Schroetenboer Fresh Wind Studios
Rose Color has helped us elevate and clarify our brand with exceptional quality of service. Communicating with Mariah and her team has always been easy - she accepts feedback and edits professionally, is incredibly adaptable, and provides excellent creative advice and guidance with her vast knowledge and experience in graphic design, illustration, and brand. We've worked with her on a large scope of projects - big and small, and our expectations were exceeded every time.

Samantha Dykstra All Belong
I could not be more appreciative of the collaboration with Rose Color Creative. From day one, I felt heard and valued as a partner in the process of bringing life to a brand that'd been brewing in my soul for some time. The ability to talk openly and feel the connection to the work as it came together meant so much to me. I had no doubt that the final product would be everything I hoped for and I can't even begin to describe how satisfied I am with Rose Color Creative as a whole. Truly amazing work from a truly incredible human.

Staci Ainsworth Re・Stored

On the Blog

Design Journal

Your Brand Is Not a Logo. It's a Story.

There's a moment most business owners experience at some point — usually after spending real money on a logo, a color palette, and a carefully chosen font — where they realize something still feels off. The visuals are beautiful. But something isn't connecting. Clients aren't reaching out with the words "I feel like you just get it." The inquiries coming in aren't quite the right fit. It looks like a brand, but it doesn't feel like one.

Here's what I've come to believe after years of working with business owners and personal brands: the gap is almost always a story problem, not a design problem.

A logo is how people recognize you. A story is why they remember you — and more importantly, why they trust you enough to hire you.

Read more →

7 Branding & Marketing Rules I am Officially Done Following (& maybe you should be too)

Read more →

A Gentle Reset for the New Year

Read more →

Questions to Answer when Creating a Brand

If you’ve heard me say anything about branding in the time we have known each other, I hope it is that branding is so much more than just a logo and some colors! Your brand comes across in all that you do as a business, everything from customer interactions to the Canva templates you choose. Sometimes it can be difficult to hone in on this brand language, which is why there are several steps in the brand process that happen long before final deliverables are created.

At Rose Color Creative we have a brand process that encompasses all of these things, but step number one is always to fill out a brand brief! The brand brief is a series of questions that walks through the many things that make your brand unique. Although we go through many different aspects of your brand, here are a few things I think are EXTREMELY important to answer while working on new brand or a rebrand…

Read more →