by Crafty Carol | Aug 14, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
As you know, I love a fun fold card, especially one that has a surprise. This simple pop-up gatefold card certainly meets that requirement. It opens like a normal gatefold card but there is a pop-up element inside the card that appears when it is opened, as you can...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 12, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
Another month, another T4S blog hop! This month’s theme is Nature, which gives a lot of scope for different cards! I wanted to use the gorgeous Lovely Garden DSP as my background and the Spotlight on Nature bundle for decoration. I decided to use the Spotlight...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 7, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
At today’s Craftalong we made a diagonal joy fold card. This fun fold card is far easier to make than it looks and can be used for any occasion. I made it on the Craftalong using the gorgeous Kintsagi suite products, but I also made a video of how to make this card...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 5, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Last week, I made three landscape orientation cards. This week I’ve gone portrait. I made two more quick and easy Along These Lines cards in my Craft Live today. Both were birthday cards, one simple and one with a little more added. The same card designs can be...
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...
