by CraftyPaws | Jan 16, 2017 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Doggy Projects
A creative crafting community like ours is bound to come up with some crazy ideas, and Pepita (IG: @pepitahasenkeks), on Instagram, has launched a super fun wave of “melonizing” stamps. I’ve jumped onto the melonizing band wagon with some of my...
by CraftyPaws | Jan 13, 2017 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Cutsie
I am participating in a YouTube hop to help introduce a crafty friend, Kaja (YT: kajcyika.crafts), to the YouTube crafting community. There are 7 stops along the hop, and there are fantastic prizes that will be given away to 4 lucky people chosen randomly among those...
by CraftyPaws | Jan 8, 2017 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple
I’ve been dealing with some arthritis in both hands (apparently very common in women in their mid forties and beyond so I know I’m in good company! — LOL), so Copic coloring, watercoloring, or anything requiring fine motor skills has not been an...
by CraftyPaws | Jan 1, 2017 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Cutsie
As we leap into all the adventures that await us in 2017, I wanted to create a card that celebrates life. I dug through my crafty stash and picked out various stamp sets that included characters that looked like they were excited about life and combined them all...
by CraftyPaws | Dec 30, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple
I don’t normally make bulk cards, but I really needed to make several thank you cards to send some post-Christmas appreciation notes. I decided to make some fun spinner snowflake cards that I could make en mass and still have the recipients feel like they...
by CraftyPaws | Dec 25, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Cutsie, Doggy Projects
I have really fallen for bendi cards because allow for more elaborate paper crafting story telling–with their 3 layers, you can create a multi-scene card. To create the card structure, I used white card stock with the following dimensions and to cut the hills, I...
by CraftyPaws | Dec 20, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Cutsie, Doggy Projects
I just love the little Stampendous “Patient Pup” Christmas stamp. Something about the pup’s expression is so sweet. I just wanted to make this image the focal point of a simple card. I colored it up with Copic colors, coated the white fuzzy areas of...