Original and custom art by a treat-oriented business nerd

My name is Becca and I'm the lady with the very busy brain behind Maker / Scholar. I'm an illustrator, a painter, and a Harvard Business School grad. I went to business school in 2019 because I love learning about businesses and figuring out how to make them successful. I graduated in 2021 with that same passion, but for the first time it was directed towards MY OWN BUSINESS.

I started Maker / Scholar as a way to sell my handmade holiday cards during Christmas 2020, a time where we were all desperate for meaningful ways to connect with the people from afar. But my love for greeting cards and thoughtful gifts goes wayyyy back.  My grandmother, Grammy, lived with us my entire life, driving us to school each day, making us our meals, and making sure every holiday (big and small) was celebrated. Sometimes it was as simple as coming home from school and seeing she had baked cupcakes with Halloween-colored sprinkles or that she had bought a new table cloth from Christmas Tree Shops (shout out CTS - miss u) that had fireworks on it for Fourth of July. She taught me how easy it was to make a regular old weekday your own private holiday just by adding a little bit of thoughtfulness... and some buttercream frosting.

Today, I make original and custom art focused on inspiring more of those delightfully surprising moments like coming home to find someone has baked you some seasonally-appropriate cupcakes. At Maker / Scholar, you'll find funny greeting cards, the perfect art prints for your bar cart, and adorable dog bandanas.  Because at the end of the day, I'm really just an artist who's obsessed with her dog.

Have any questions, feedback, or requests?  Please reach out!  You can find me at @makerscholar on Instagram or becca@makerscholarcards.com.  Toss me a follow on social media if you don't mind a lot of pictures of Butter (my rescue dog).