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 14, 2025 | Build & Bloom blog hop, Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
Our blog hop has a new name! It’s now the Build & Bloom Stampers blog hop. I love the new banner. This month’s theme is Festive Season, which is great as I need to get all my Christmas cards made! I’ve used the Traditions of Christmas DSP and Christmas...
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 | 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...
by Crafty Carol | Sep 16, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
The Peaceful Garden suite caught my eye as soon as I browsed the September to December mini catalogue. The range of sentiments in the stamp set means it is suitable for just about any occasion. The dies are gorgeous, with two doves, sentiment frames, stars and foliage...
by Crafty Carol | Sep 9, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
This month’s theme is Embossing, which gives a lot of scope for many different cards. I thought about using an embossing folder to add a background, or to use my brayer and colour an embossing folder, or heat embossing…I love this topic! In the end, I...
