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T4S August blog hop: Nature

T4S August blog hop: Nature

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...
More quick and easy Along These Lines cards

More quick and easy Along These Lines cards

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...
Two blending brush techniques

Two blending brush techniques

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...
Quick and easy DSP cards

Quick and easy DSP cards

by Crafty Carol | Jul 1, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions

Do you have a stash of DSP? I do, and I love to find ways to use it! It is easy to make simple but effective cards using your DSP, just by cutting it in different ways. These cards can be made for any occasion and are a great way to use up some of your DSP stash....
Make a simple but stunning Kintsugi card

Make a simple but stunning Kintsugi card

by Crafty Carol | Jun 17, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions

I knew I wanted the Kintsugi suite as soon as I saw it in the annual catalogue. By the way, if you want any suites or suite products, buy this month (June 2025) as all 27 available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalogue and Online Exclusives are...
How to make a tripanel card

How to make a tripanel card

by Crafty Carol | Jun 3, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions

I need more thank you cards – I seem to send a lot! So, for today’s Live, I wanted to show you how to make a simple tripanel card. The panels you use can be of any size, so this tripanel card is a great way to use up the scraps of DSP and/or cardstock you...
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