by Crafty Carol | Oct 13, 2023 | Christmas cards and gifts, Craftalong Videos, Instructions
For my Christmas Countdown week 3, I’m making a U-card. I tried making one to fit our usual C6 envelopes, but it turned out far too small. So this card is larger, measuring when flat 17.5cm by 12.5cm (5″ x 7″) and it will fit flat in a 5″x...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 6, 2023 | Christmas cards and gifts, Craftalong Videos, Instructions
Welcome to week 2 of my 2023 Christmas Countdown, the second of twelve weeks of festive crafting inspiration. This week I’m making a quick and easy Christmas card using some of the gorgeous new DSP from the mini catalogue. How many Christmas cards do you need to...
by Crafty Carol | Sep 29, 2023 | Christmas cards and gifts
Christmas is coming! Welcome to my 2023 Christmas Countdown, twelve weeks of festive crafting inspiration. For week one, I show you how to make a gatefold card, a simple fun fold which can be used for many occasions, not just Christmas. I used the gorgeous Joy of Noel...
by Crafty Carol | Dec 23, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Instructions
For the penultimate week of my Christmas Countdown, week 11, I show you how to make a Christmas Tree box to use either as a tree decoration or you can use it as a table favour. Thanks to the lovely Kerstin Wolff, a German demonstrator, for the basic box idea. The box...
by Crafty Carol | Dec 23, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Instructions
I’m very excited – Christmas is coming very soon! So for the last week of my Christmas Countdown, I’m showing you how to use the lovely Cracker Treat box dies to make a set of crackers AND a box to hold them. The lovely Cracker & Treat Box dies...
by Crafty Carol | Dec 12, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Craftalong Videos, Instructions
The beautiful Stitched Star dies have seven different sizes of stars which makes it easy to create these pretty star decorations you can use to adorn your house or tree at Christmas. There are seven sizes of stars in the set and I have used six of these, leaving out...
