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...
by Crafty Carol | Aug 28, 2025 | Christmas cards and gifts, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
I bought the gold open weave trim some time ago from a previous catalogue. It is so beautiful, but I have always struggled to find a way to use it for my cards. Last week I had a brainwave, so here are three tree-themed Christmas cards made using this gorgeous ribbon....
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....
