by Crafty Carol | Jul 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
I love the quirkiness of the Along These Lines stamp set from the 25-26 annual catalogue. If we are honest, it was the dog that I fell in love with! But there are so many things you can do with this lovely set and in my Live today, I showed you two different quick and...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 24, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Techniques
For my Live today, I showed two techniques for using blending brushes to give two very different effects. The first card uses coloured layers and a stamped image coloured with blending brushes as the focal point. The second card uses blending brushes to make a stripey...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 18, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
This card is a torn card, that is, the layers on the front are torn rather than cut which gives a lovely effect. This torn flower card is a highly flexible design. It can be made for any occasion and you can use any DSP or decoration you wish. I used some retired DSP...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 14, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Here is another card idea using the gorgeous Kintsugi Suite. This suite has the fantastic Kintsugi Inspirations Designer Series Paper, the Inspiring Imperfections stamp set and matching dies, the Joined Together embossing folder and some lovely flower accent gems and...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 8, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
This month’s T4S blog hop theme is Sketch. Sketches are a great way to get some inspiration as they give you a basic card layout which you can then adapt to your heart’s content. You can find plenty of free sketch ideas on page 24 of the annual catalogue,...
