by Crafty Carol | Sep 2, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
It’s a while since I made a slimline card, but as I had some slimline envelopes and because the Flora washi tape fits a slimline card so well, I made two slimline cards in my Live today. The first card is an eclipse card, where the die-cut letters are raised...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 26, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
In today’s Live, I made a simple aperture card using the large rectangular die from the Nested Essentials set and the large image from the Charming Day stamp set. Any medium-sized die and a similar sized image can be used to make this style of aperture card....
by Crafty Carol | Aug 19, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
For today’s Live, I used the gorgeous Extraordinary Flora bundle to make two panel flora cards using the products in different ways. These cards are entirely flexible and can be made for any occasion. I used the stamp for the background, then die-cut the washi...
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 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...
