Ideas for male cards No 2

by Crafty Carol | Jan 17, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions

As a change from birthday cards, I made a male anniversary card as requested by one of my ladies. This one uses some retired specialty DSP (Symbols of Fortune) layered on gold foil with an embossed sentiment, but you can use any specialty or “ordinary”...

T4S January blog hop: Cards for Kids

by Crafty Carol | Jan 14, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop

It’s the first T4S blog hop of 2025. This month the theme is Cards for Kids, although I think this card could be for grown-up kids too! I’ve used the gorgeous Pets & More Online Exclusive stamp set as the centrepiece for this card. You can use these cute...

Ideas for male cards No. 1

by Crafty Carol | Jan 10, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions

I’m off on holiday for the next two weeks, so no Lives or videos, but I will be sharing some short posts showing cards I made for our Craft’n’Chat class this month. It was a bumper class with four different styles of cards for men. I hope they give you some good...

How to make a swing card

by Crafty Carol | Jan 7, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Instructions

In today’s LIVE Craft with Carol I made a fun fold swing card. I used the new Wildflower Birthday suite from the new mini catalogue. The DSP not only has beautiful gold detail double-sided papers, but it also has two sheets of card toppers and tags AND two sheets of...

T4S December blog hop: Fun fold teabag holder

by Crafty Carol | Dec 10, 2024 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop

It’s T4S blog hop time again – the final one of this year. This month the theme is fun fold. I decided it is now getting a bit late to make cards, much though I love a fun fold card, so instead I’ve made a holder for four individually packed teabags...

How to make a fun box fold card

by Crafty Carol | Nov 15, 2024 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions

Thanks to the lovely Tami White for this lovely fun box fold card project. It uses my favourite DSP this year, the Season of Green and Gold DSP and two bundles (stamp sets and accompanying dies), Greetings of the Season and Golden Greenery. You could make this card...