by Crafty Carol | Jun 10, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
This month’s T4S blog hop theme is Summer Sunshine. As soon as I saw the theme, I knew I wanted to use the new Online Exclusive Notes & Totes bundle. The stamp set has a sunshine stamp, and the dies make the most gorgeous tote bags, which can be used on...
by Crafty Carol | Jun 5, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I first saw a chevron fold gatefold card made by the lovely Connie Stewart. I have adapted it for our UK measurements for our June free Craftalong on Zoom. Please sign up for my emails so you’ll get all the info about the next Craftalong, there’s one each...
by Crafty Carol | Jun 3, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I need more thank you cards – I seem to send a lot! So, for today’s Live, I wanted to show you how to make a simple tripanel card. The panels you use can be of any size, so this tripanel card is a great way to use up the scraps of DSP and/or cardstock you...
by Crafty Carol | May 29, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Techniques
I love punches! Punches are an easy and quick way to add elements and interest to projects. We had great fun in our Carol’s Crafters team meeting today playing with punches. I got out all my current and old flower and leaf punches for us to play with. I decided to...
by Crafty Carol | May 27, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
For today’s Live, I made a shaped layer card. I love to use layers in card-making, but normally I just use square or rectangular shapes. So I designed this card to show ways to use a different shaped layer which is simple to make. I’ve made it in two very...
by Crafty Carol | May 22, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Each month I meet up with three demonstrator friends to eat, then craft, together. We each make a card and bring a box with all the supplies needed to make the card. Then we swap the boxes around and each make the other cards. We take it in turns to choose the topic...