by Crafty Carol | Jul 24, 2025 | Card ideas, Craft with Carol LIVE, Inspiration ideas, Techniques
For my Live today, I showed two techniques for using blending brushes to give two very different effects. The first card uses coloured layers and a stamped image coloured with blending brushes as the focal point. The second card uses blending brushes to make a stripey...
by Crafty Carol | Jul 18, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
This card is a torn card, that is, the layers on the front are torn rather than cut which gives a lovely effect. This torn flower card is a highly flexible design. It can be made for any occasion and you can use any DSP or decoration you wish. I used some retired DSP...
by Crafty Carol | Jun 24, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Techniques
I wanted to show how to use the gorgeous Extraordinary Flora washi tape (165269) that coordinates with the Extraordinary Flora bundle (165245). (The die alone is no. 165244 if you don’t want the stamp set.) The washi tape images exactly match the die. There are...
by Crafty Carol | May 29, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Techniques
I love punches! Punches are an easy and quick way to add elements and interest to projects. We had great fun in our Carol’s Crafters team meeting today playing with punches. I got out all my current and old flower and leaf punches for us to play with. I decided to...
by Crafty Carol | May 8, 2025 | Card ideas, Craftalong Videos, Instructions, Techniques
This card uses probably the simplest fun fold there is! The front half of the card is folded back on itself, a very simple fun fold card to make. The decoration uses a lot of pieces so it looks more complicated than it is. I first made this card at our crafty team...
by Crafty Carol | May 1, 2025 | Card ideas, Inspiration ideas, Instructions, Techniques
We made this splatter card in the free Craftalong on Zoom today. I run a free online class on the first Thursday of every month. Sign up for my emails below to ensure you get all the information for next month of you missed today’s class! This type of card can...
