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,...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 4, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I love a fun fold card. This triple flap card is much easier to make than it sounds and has a true wow factor for the recipient. It is based on a gatefold card but has an additional flap card inside. We made it at my free Craftalong this month (July 2025). Sign up for...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 1, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Do you have a stash of DSP? I do, and I love to find ways to use it! It is easy to make simple but effective cards using your DSP, just by cutting it in different ways. These cards can be made for any occasion and are a great way to use up some of your DSP stash....
