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...
by Crafty Carol | May 20, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
My upline and friend Gillian makes many different pop-up box cards and sells them on Ebay. She shared the measurements for these cards at our recent team get-together. A pop-up box card is an unusual shaped card that folds flat to post but sits up like a box when...
by Crafty Carol | May 15, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
When I saw the Arches dies I knew I wanted them! They match with two stamp sets, Everyday Arches and Arched Wishes. I used these sets with the fabulous Wildflower birthday DSP for these easy arch shaped cards. We made these arch shaped cards at my in person...
by Crafty Carol | May 13, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
This month the T4S blog hop theme is Masculine. This was a timely subject as I needed to make a birthday card for my brother-in-law for this week and I often find a masculine card difficult to make. As soon as I saw the theme for this month I knew I wanted to use the...
by Crafty Carol | May 8, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Instructions, Techniques
This card uses probably the simplest fun fold there is! The front half of the card is folded back on itself, a very simple fun fold card to make. The decoration uses a lot of pieces so it looks more complicated than it is. I first made this card at our crafty team...
