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Masculine Valentine’s Day Card

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...

Happy Howlidays

by CraftyPaws | Nov 29, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Cutsie, Doggy Projects

I love stretching stamps. No, not literally stretching them out of shape (although sometimes I do that with sentiment stamps to make an arch or something like that- LOL). I like doodling to add details or mixing stamp sets to stretch the versatility of stamps....

Hand Over the Candy and Nobody Gets Hurt!

by CraftyPaws | Oct 11, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Cutsie

To mix it up a bit, I decided to make a shaped Halloween card for my friend Nae Nae (YT: Renea Villanueva) who LOVES Halloween. I used the Diemond Dies Candy Corn Mini Album Die and some scraps of yellow, orange polka dot, and white papers from my scrap box to make...

Using Die Cuts for Faux Embossing

by CraftyPaws | Oct 5, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Clean and Simple

I fell in love with the Hibiscus Die and Paisleys Die Set from Paper Smooches the minute I saw them. I knew they would be great for unisex cards (and could be great for scrapbooking my recent vacation to Hawaii–that’s still on my to-do list), and I got to...

A “Bonus” Watercolored Card

by CraftyPaws | Sep 29, 2016 | Cards and ATCs, Cutsie, Doggy Projects, Prim or Primative

When testing out new techniques, coloring mediums, or papers, I may try a “practice run” before trying to complete a card or project in a “final” version. While things may not come out exactly the way I want or expect, I rarely throw something...

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