The Team

 Design Team Members of Critter Crazy Challenges in 2024 -2025 =

Hi there, my name is Doris and I'm known as Kleido in the blogger world. I live in Germany with my husband and our cat and have been very creative since I was a child. After various handicrafts I decided to work with paper and mainly make cards - especially unusual folding - and packaging and I mostly work with digistamps, which I color in with watercolor pencils. I've had my own blog since 2014 and I've also been in various DT teams until I founded my own challenge blog in 2017. I'm also active in other teams and look forward to taking on this new challenge 2CCC from 1 October 2021! You're welcome to take a look at my blogs and follow me / us so that you don't miss anything. I would be very happy to receive comments and play along!

Love and creative greetings 

Doris

Kleido's BastelStüble (My Blog/Owner) 

Do-Al(l) Kreatives (Owner)

2 Crafty Critter Crazies (Owner) 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 (DT Member)        

Hello everyone, my name is Anne and I live in a small town in Yorkshire in the UK with my husband. I work full time for a lovely company looking after all their Quality Assurance and Health and Safety and when work is done I love to relax with some papercrafting, stitching or gardening.

I also run a sketch challenge blog and you can find my own blog at Paper and Ink

Hello from Hamilton, New Zealand. I am a lifelong crafter who has tried all sorts of crafts (especially those with fabric and paper) and am lucky enough to have a craft-tolerant husband. We have four children and eight grandchildren all living in NZ. I blog about my crafts, so check it out - CarolG ... creates (creationsnz). I don’t think I have a particular cardmaking style tending towards the unfussy, although I have been known to go WiLd from time to time and I do like to get inky. I love challenges and trying new things, so I’m looking forward to being part of such a creative team.   Cheers, Carol Gunn.       

Hello everyone, my name is Faith, known as Faith A in blogland. I am from Wales UK, The national flower of Wales is the daffodil, hence the name of my blog Daffodil Cards . We also have a dragon on our flag, because of this I adore dragons, it’s a critter! I was brought up with cats and a rabbit. After marriage I have had a few dogs too. We haven’t any animals at the moment. I have been a crafter all my life, in fact, name a craft and I’ve probably attempted it, I love taking photographs, I am known to take photos of cows and sheep in fields and horses in the wilds of the mountains here. A Master at all I do? Nope, I just like doing crafty stuff. And enjoying it. 

 My style? I don’t think I have one, whatever takes my fancy on the day. I’m so happy to have joined this talented Team, I just hope I don’t let them down!      

HEATHER MILLS
I've always been into crafty things. I started out with cross-stitch and making jewelry. About 17 years ago around the time my first daughter was born, I was introduced to card making with Stamping Up! I thought I might get into making scrapbooks, but quickly decided that I preferred the small size of cards. I really got into making cards in 2008 when my twins were born and I discoveredthe online world of card making blogs and challenges. I don't think I have bought a commercial greeting card since; I love making my own cards and being able to personalize them to the recipients! I'm so honored to have been asked to be a part of the Critter Crazy design team.

My name is Helen and I live in the little town of West Kirby in the Wirral which is in north west England.  I work full time as an Activities Coordinator in a care home and crafting is my escape in the evenings and at weekend.  I've been cardmaking for many years and love stamps, digi stamps, patterned paper and Promarkers.  I am lucky enough to belong to various Design Teams and I also run four challenge blogs. 

Hi, my name is Janet Hines, but my blog name is Sweetpea. Not so much after the flower, although I do love them, but I used to have chinchillas and I named one Sweetpea. I'm live in the UK and have now retired from my admin job in the NHS. I love crafting and have tried most things but my favorites are card making and knitting. You can visit my blog here Jan's Crafty Spot. I've been married to Ted for 38 years and we love our holidays together visiting the sea. 

Hi everyone,

I´m  the new member in the team of Critter Crazy. My name is Uschi and you can find my blog at Uschis Kartenkrams (https://uschiskartenkrams.blogspot.com). I´m 66 years old and live in a small town in Germany, in Lower Saxony near Hanover. I am married and I´m now grandmother to two grandchildren - a girl and a boy.

I've been addicted to crafting for as long as I can remember. Knitting, crocheting, pictures made of construction paper, figures and jewelry made of polymer clay, window paint, crafts with natural materials, ... I've tried everything except of sewing. Into stamping I got in 2011 through making greeting cards out of wrapping paper (the motives are getting cut out and backed with styrofoam). And since that time I´ve really been obsessed of crafting cards and gift boxes. I love sitting together with my crafting friends and trying out new card shapes or design options. And sometimes I sit alone for hours in order to try out new stamps or to surf the internet for new folding techniques.

In addition, I don't forget my family, and I still have a little time left for photography. Even though the photos on my blog may not always look as professional as I would like them to be.

I am a great fan of the East Frisian island of Borkum. Going there once a year for a two-week vacation is an absolute must.

I´m already pensionary and I'm happy that I have time to stamp, color, fold and design. And I'm happy if you like it. From January 2024 I can support the Critter Crazy team. I'm looking forward to this new role and feel very honored to have been asked.

Hugs Uschi

new for March 1, 2025 =

Howdy from the USA heartland! I'm Becca S. During the #95 February 2025 challenge, Doris announced that she was going to close the blog. About a week after posting that news, I inquired about taking it over. She accepted. We've already started transitioning during Feb 9-14. Critter Crazy will stay open as well as the team members staying on! Faith A will continue helping with the Bragging Rights posts. 

Throughout blogland, I own lots of specialty niche challenge blogs, manage two blogs for Shell Swinscoe and participate as a DT member for two owned by Deanne.

As a 6 year old I started my dabbling in fine arts with piano lessons that continued until about 7 1/2 and then I restarted from 8 or 9 until 17 years old. I still continue to play. Nowadays it's mostly church hymns and occasionally a children's tune or a wedding song. At age 10-17 through school band, I started playing the clarinet and bass clarinet. 

For practical arts at age 9 through the 4-H Club I started yearly projects that mostly revolved around food (cooking, baking, grilling, meal planning, teen foods), sewing 1, 2, 3 and 4, nature crafts, and several years with flower arranging. In high school through the FHA (now FCCLA), I did district and state in flower arranging plus participated on an Illinois State FHA Peer Education Team on Nutrition. There were only 25 from different parts of the state. I was on the team for my junior and senior years of high school. 

My bachelor's degree is Secondary Education in Home Economics and then about 21 years after getting that degree, I got a Master's of Education in Elementary Education with an Early Childhood emphasis. The bulk of my adult years have been teaching in different states and different levels and settings because of  the variety of my degrees and state endorsements. I've not officially retired but did stop when my mom's caregiving needs increased 1-2 years ago. She passed on August 31, 2024. 

My most difficult and proudest sewing accomplishment has been creating my wedding dress twenty-nine + years ago! The patterns, notions, silk shantung fabric, also tulle and a beaded headband to create a partial veil were all paid with $200!!! YES!!! Lots of late night hours and only finished the bottom hem on the morning of our wedding, but it was completed totally by me! 

Paper-crafting and blogging has steadily grown in my heart since 2010. It's been a huge stress reliever for me. Between church ministries, teaching, parent caregiving, doggy parent, and some weekday afternoon babysitting that has occupied my time previously, it's been a nice change lately to change and transition a bit. Meanwhile, blogland has also been in a bit of flux and change getting impacted by Covid. Also many who started blogging in 2010 are now retiring completely from creative blogging or have reduced commitments. I'll just share the acronyms to save on typing, but find me at these: AA, ConBC, MTTC and MTTCC, HAOOCAYR and P-R-S, HQCB, HQFCB/TFATU, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT, FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB and FQGGCB...oops...plus CCC!!!