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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...
How to make a shaped layer card

How to make a shaped layer card

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...
How to make a turtle pop-up box card

How to make a turtle pop-up box card

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...
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