by Crafty Carol | Oct 21, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas
Here is another easy fun fold to make for Christmas. It has very little stamping, with the decoration provided by the gorgeous Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper. The card is named for the column that pops up to the left of the card and allows it to stand...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 14, 2025 | Build & Bloom blog hop, Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
Our blog hop has a new name! It’s now the Build & Bloom Stampers blog hop. I love the new banner. This month’s theme is Festive Season, which is great as I need to get all my Christmas cards made! I’ve used the Traditions of Christmas DSP and Christmas...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 7, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
I saw this card made by Verna Mullen of Stampin’ Notes – she has a free project sheet available on her website at https://stampinnotes.com/column-center-pop-fun-fold-card/ with US measurements, so here I will just give the UK measurements I have worked...
by Crafty Carol | Oct 2, 2025 | Card ideas, Christmas cards and gifts, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
For my Craftalong (free via Zoom) this month I made a very simple card I’ve called a cut funfold card. The cut off panel forms the funfold part. There is no video for this card as I don’t record these free sessions, but I have included instructions below....
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...