by Crafty Carol | Sep 30, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas
Do you end up with loads of scrap pieces of DSP that are just too big to throw away so you keep them? I do! So for my Live this week I decided to show an easy way to use up these DSP scraps to make some simple Christmas cards. To make cards like mine you need: Basic...
by Crafty Carol | Sep 18, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Inspiration ideas
This month’s class was all about making a stack of simple stamping cards. My BFF is having a knee replacement in October so wanted to have all her Christmas cards made before her op and I’m off travelling to Australia and New Zealand from the middle of...
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 4, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
In my free live Craftalong on Zoom today we made a circle frame card. There’s no video for this card (I don’t record the Zoom session), but I have given instructions below if you want to have a go. I used the circular Stylish Shapes dies to make my circle frame...
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...
