by Crafty Carol | Sep 9, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
This month’s theme is Embossing, which gives a lot of scope for many different cards. I thought about using an embossing folder to add a background, or to use my brayer and colour an embossing folder, or heat embossing…I love this topic! In the end, I...
by Crafty Carol | Sep 4, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
In my free live Craftalong on Zoom today we made a circle frame card. There’s no video for this card (I don’t record the Zoom session), but I have given instructions below if you want to have a go. I used the circular Stylish Shapes dies to make my circle frame...
by Crafty Carol | Sep 2, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
It’s a while since I made a slimline card, but as I had some slimline envelopes and because the Flora washi tape fits a slimline card so well, I made two slimline cards in my Live today. The first card is an eclipse card, where the die-cut letters are raised...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 30, 2025 | News
Stampin Up! have announced some significant changes. From November, both photopolymer stamps and dies will come in a new style of packaging which will be the same size (measuring 14.3 x 22.9 cm, or 5⅝” x 9″), making them easier to store. Die packages will...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 28, 2025 | Christmas cards and gifts, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I bought the gold open weave trim some time ago from a previous catalogue. It is so beautiful, but I have always struggled to find a way to use it for my cards. Last week I had a brainwave, so here are three tree-themed Christmas cards made using this gorgeous ribbon....
