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...
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...
