by Crafty Carol | Dec 23, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Instructions
I’m very excited – Christmas is coming very soon! So for the last week of my Christmas Countdown, I’m showing you how to use the lovely Cracker Treat box dies to make a set of crackers AND a box to hold them. The lovely Cracker & Treat Box dies...
by Crafty Carol | Dec 13, 2022 | Instructions, Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
The December blog hop topic is Celebrate! This is easy for me as I love Christmas – the decorations, the twinkling lights, the mince pies and the chocolate – and I also love giving Christmas cards and gifts to my family and friends. No matter how early I...
by Crafty Carol | Dec 12, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Craftalong Videos, Instructions
The beautiful Stitched Star dies have seven different sizes of stars which makes it easy to create these pretty star decorations you can use to adorn your house or tree at Christmas. There are seven sizes of stars in the set and I have used six of these, leaving out...
by Crafty Carol | Dec 2, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Inspiration ideas, Instructions
Christmas is getting closer so for week 10 of the Christmas Countdown I show you how to make some quick and easy gift tags using punches, dies and stamp sets. You can use these ideas as the base for gift tags for other occasions during the year too. I also show you a...
by Crafty Carol | Nov 28, 2022 | Craftalong Videos, Instructions
Following a comment on my previous “How to make a gift box” video, I thought it might be helpful to show you how to measure any gift and work out what size of card you need to make a gift box. There are three key measurements to take. NOTE: If your gift is...
by Crafty Carol | Nov 18, 2022 | Christmas cards and gifts, Craftalong Videos, Instructions
This week for our Christmas Countdown I’m showing you a simple technique which produces two different colours from one ink pad. I still need plenty of Christmas cards, so this card uses the gorgeous Leaves of Holly stamp set and the coordinating Holly Berry dies...