by CraftyPaws | Apr 21, 2014 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple
I love the crafty community. Whatever else is going on in your life, you can always find a great cause to support in crafty ways. Sometimes thinking about others when you are going through difficult times can help relieve your stress and anxiety too. There have been...
by CraftyPaws | Apr 19, 2014 | Banners, Prim or Primative, Vintage
Do you remember the section of the old Reader’s Digest magazine called “Laughter is the Best Medicine”? I haven’t read it in a long time, but I think the magazine is still published, and until 2009 the little pocket-sized magazine had the...
by CraftyPaws | Apr 16, 2014 | Drawings, Steampunk, Tags
I love Steampunk so I have been wanting to design a digi that I thought would be pretty, a little sexy, and hopefully versatile. There is a mysterious, other-wordly aspect to Steampunk that I wanted to reflect–less cutsie, more fantasy. I have designed two...
by CraftyPaws | Apr 10, 2014 | Cutsie, Doggy Projects, Tags
My friend, Anny (YT: StargrlAnny), is so kind, thoughtful, a talented colorer and paper crafter. For her 1 year on Youtube challenge, she asked folks to make tags in their own style. I can’t claim only one style so I decided to create a tag in a style that I...
by CraftyPaws | Apr 1, 2014 | Clean and Simple, Tags
For much of my life I had little self-control when it came to watching television. In fact, from 6th grade through 12th, my mother even eliminated television from the house to help me with my “addiction” (I don’t want to misuse this word, because...
by CraftyPaws | Mar 31, 2014 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple, Vintage
I have intentionally decided not to limit my crafting to any one particular style. Maybe it’s because I can’t make up my mind, but I think it is actually because I find all styles appealing in one way or another. So depending on my mood, the inspiration,...
by CraftyPaws | Mar 30, 2014 | Clean and Simple, Doggy Projects, Layouts
Doing spring colored layouts (LOs), cards, and ATCs can help improve your mood. I believe that. I come from the old school of layout making, using 3-5 pictures per layout, but lately I’ve seen that the trend is leaning more toward single picture layouts. In the...