by Crafty Carol | Nov 18, 2025 | Christmas cards and gifts, Gift ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I bought a large box of Lindt chocolate teddies this year to make into gifts for family and friends, so of course I had to make some gift boxes for them! Here is the first. This Lindt teddy gift box fits five small Lindt chocolate teddies or similar sweets. It folds...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 28, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
For my Live today, I made two Christmas cards using products from the gorgeous Peaceful Garden suite. I used Night of Navy card for the card bases with Basic White inserts, and I used the Peaceful Garden DSP and Glimmer paper for decoration. To provide some added...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 21, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas
Here is another easy fun fold to make for Christmas. It has very little stamping, with the decoration provided by the gorgeous Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper. The card is named for the column that pops up to the left of the card and allows it to stand...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 7, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
I saw this card made by Verna Mullen of Stampin’ Notes – she has a free project sheet available on her website at https://stampinnotes.com/column-center-pop-fun-fold-card/ with US measurements, so here I will just give the UK measurements I have worked...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 2, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
For my Craftalong (free via Zoom) this month I made a very simple card I’ve called a cut funfold card. The cut off panel forms the funfold part. There is no video for this card as I don’t record these free sessions, but I have included instructions below....
by Crafty Carol | Sep 30, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas
Do you end up with loads of scrap pieces of DSP that are just too big to throw away so you keep them? I do! So for my Live this week I decided to show an easy way to use up these DSP scraps to make some simple Christmas cards. To make cards like mine you need: Basic...
