by Crafty Carol | May 27, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
For today’s Live, I made a shaped layer card. I love to use layers in card-making, but normally I just use square or rectangular shapes. So I designed this card to show ways to use a different shaped layer which is simple to make. I’ve made it in two very...
by Crafty Carol | May 20, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
My upline and friend Gillian makes many different pop-up box cards and sells them on Ebay. She shared the measurements for these cards at our recent team get-together. A pop-up box card is an unusual shaped card that folds flat to post but sits up like a box when...
by Crafty Carol | May 13, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
This month the T4S blog hop theme is Masculine. This was a timely subject as I needed to make a birthday card for my brother-in-law for this week and I often find a masculine card difficult to make. As soon as I saw the theme for this month I knew I wanted to use the...
by Crafty Carol | May 6, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
My mum commented last week that she had run out of get well cards. So I decided to use the new Online Exclusive Hugs & Healing stamp set and make some for her. I paired it with the Everyday Happiness DSP, also available as an Online Exclusive, Lost Lagoon...
by Crafty Carol | Apr 22, 2025 | Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I love books! As many of you might know, I read at least two books a week, usually one “real” book and one on my Kindle – because there is so little to watch on TV! I was asked to make my version of a magnetic bookmark card after showing a magnetic...
by Crafty Carol | Apr 15, 2025 | Craft with Carol LIVE, Craftalong Videos, Gift ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
We made this sweet Easter basket in my FREE Craftalong today. They will hold a small egg or other Easter treat and they are simple to make. I’ve made quite a few as gifts for Easter this year. In the Craftalong, I made two: a larger Easter basket using 6” x 6”...