by Crafty Carol | May 3, 2024 | Craftalong Videos, Instructions
One of the background stamps in the new annual catalogue is a background stamp called Leaf Collection. (You can view the catalogue via the link opposite.) Now I don’t often use background stamps but this one is really versatile and I’ve seen many beautiful...
by Crafty Carol | Apr 26, 2024 | Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
One of our lovely UK demonstrators, Diane Marlow, shared a swap with me at On Stage and gave me the idea for this card. I’ve called it a reverse frame card – it uses a Stylish Shapes rectangle die to cut away part of the image and “sink” it into the card front,...
by Crafty Carol | Apr 19, 2024 | Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I’m calling these reverse triangles cards and they seem very popular at the moment! They are a good way to use up a little of your DSP stash and are very easy to make, as you will see. All you need is some DSP that has coordinating and contrasting colours or...
by Crafty Carol | Apr 12, 2024 | Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Huge thanks to our lovely UK & Ireland Demonstrator Support manager Helen Simms for this card idea. We made it at our monthly Craft and Chatter get together and I wanted to share it with you. I’ve called it a Rustic Trellis card as the cross pieces are placed...
by Crafty Carol | Apr 5, 2024 | Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Sometimes it’s easy to miss things in our catalogues. I missed the Patchwork Pieces dies when I first looked through the catalogue, however I saw them last month and decided to get them. Sadly, these dies are going to be retired (typical!) so I thought I’d...
by Crafty Carol | Mar 26, 2024 | Craftalong Videos, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I want to make a table decoration for Easter to go alongside the card I made last week. The gorgeous Easter Lilies bundle has some beautiful petal and leaf dies which I used to make this Easter table decoration. The first one I made is in the picture above. I also...
