I could not have been more excited when the Follow Your Art Suite was introduced at OnStage this month. It confirmed what I have been thinking about the direction of my business.
Crafting is so much fun. But, it is so much more than that and I've been trying so hard to figure out how to share that with you.
Crafting has always been a part of my life and here are the ways it has helped me:
- Provided a calming, repetitive activity to keep my hands busy and end up with a beautiful end result project
- Find group of friends who shared same interest
- Had tons of fun with shared activity and no trying to figure out what to say or do to fill up empty space
- Support group of people who are there for me at time other than when crafting
- Activities to keep my mind engaged
- Ability to express feelings/emotions through my crafting experiences
- Focused on others as I intentionally created handmade gifts for them
- Ability to easily give random acts of kindness from my stash of what I had created
- Tangible reminder of good times
- Easy way to express thanks
- Peace
- Joy
- Friendship
- Relaxation
- Creativity
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When creating this card, I was inspired by the Paper Craft Challenge of paper piecing and the Global Design Project Sketch. I really debated about whether to put a card layer between card base and rectangle with stamped/paper pieced image I thought about putting a solid, contrasting color card layer. Finally, I decided to go with the DSP. I don't know about you, but I've yet to see a craft area without multiple elements of past or future projects.
Even though my paper piecing was on the spools of ribbon this time, I still felt like I was playing paper dolls. What a fun, relaxing way to slip back into childhood for a moment.
Finally, I had to add some sparkle embellishments to go with the sentiment. "You Make Everything Sparkle" I added some glitter enamel dots and my favorite way to add bling to a project (wink of stella).
What ways has crafting made a positive impact on your life?
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