by CraftyPaws | May 24, 2018 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Cutsie
As many of you know, I’ve been a bit of a mess with the loss of my sweet dog, Biscuit last week. So today, I’m sharing a belated birthday card that I’ve made for one of my dearest friends. I thought the white rabbit looking at his pocket watch from...
by CraftyPaws | May 23, 2018 | Clean and Simple, Painting
For this third installment of my acrylic flow art series, I wanted to share with you all the steps for cleaning and varnishing finished acrylic flow art paintings. Basically, if you want to protect the acrylic paintings, you need to seal the pores in the canvas and...
by CraftyPaws | May 17, 2018 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Cutsie
What it is about boxes that cats love so much? As a dog person, I don’t get it, but I have so many friends whose cats spends hours exploring, sitting in, and napping in boxes. So I thought I would create this surprise slider card in honor of all those cats who...
by CraftyPaws | May 13, 2018 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Shabby Chic
I was thrilled to find this Altenew Oriental Orchid stamp set with Korean sentiments because I knew my mom would love any card I made with it (HERE’s the English version, which is also beautiful). I’m not a great stamper, and in the past, that would have...
by CraftyPaws | May 11, 2018 | Clean and Simple, Painting, Prim or Primative
This is part 2 of my Acrylic Flow Art series (as I was commissioned to do 3 large canvases (each 24″ x 48″) I knew I’d get at least a few videos and blog posts out of this project – LOL). If you’re interested in the formulas I used for my...
by CraftyPaws | May 10, 2018 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Cutsie
I am absolutely in love with yet another Katzelkraft stamp set. This one, called Monsters is filled with six quirky monsters that all seem to have a personality. I wanted to really let the actual stamp images shine so I decided to create some CAS (clean and simple)...
by CraftyPaws | May 10, 2018 | Clean and Simple, Painting
I had a commission to create art for a huge wall in an office lobby. I have been wanting to try acrylic flow art painting for a while and I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to give this a try. Little did I know when I committed to this, that flow art is...