Last chance - March - April Catalog

Last chance for ordering from this catalog is  Thursday - April 30

View the catalog here

Place orders on my website or contact me to place your order for you.

Also April 30 is the last day to get the April Stamp of the Month

Find Stamp of the Month here

Scrapbooking Mini Album - These Are My People

Watch Karen demonstrate how quick and easy you can assemble this 6 x 8 Cut Above Mini album. 
For those of you who prefer 12 x 12 albums, these pages can be added to your 12 x 12 papers to create layouts that will support more photo mats.  

Find your kit on my website

Last few days to save

CTMH is in the final week of our  Cardstock Carnival special Discounts (20%) on cardstock and (30% - 40%) on exclusive cardstock bundles will only be available through midnight April 30, 2020. Be sure to visit my website for the Cardstock Carnival promotion page to see the exclusive bundles and to place any last orders before the end of this special! Looking for an even bigger discount?  Consider becoming a member of my team ($70, but you get a $50 product credit, so essentially $20 to join) and get additional discounts on whatever you order.  See more information here or contact me.

National Scrapbooking Day - Online Card Making Workshops - May 2

Card Making Fun National Scrapbooking Day May 2

Online Workshop - CTMH Facebook Page

Join Close to My Heart for a day filled with creativity and fun as we celebrate 

National Scrapbooking Day on Saturday, May 2.    

Everyone is welcome to join in and watch this FREE event on our Close To My Heart Facebook Page.  CTMH staffers will be demonstrating some fabulous creative projects during the event that you can create along with them by using the products and bundles that are offered on my website.  Be sure to order ASAP to have your bundle by May 2.

Card Making Bundle #1

Here's a closer look at the stamp set.

 Look at the fun cards you'll be able to make with Bundle #1

Card Making Bundle #2

This one will be perfect for thank you cards for all those heroes and essential workers
 from this unique time in our lives.

A closer look at the 2 stamp sets with this bundle.

Make these cards or design your own.

Interested?

Be sure to sign up as going on FACEBOOK by May 1.

Finally, be sure to RSVP by clicking the "going" button on this event page before Friday, May 1, in order to be entered into giveaways that will happen between creative sessions! You may join this even and be eligible for giveaways even if you are working on your own projects and do not purchase any of the special bundles.

You MUST RSVP to be eligible for giveaways!

National Scrapbooking Day - May 2 - Online scrapbooking workshop workshop

Join Close to My Heart for a day filled with creativity and fun as we celebrate 

National Scrapbooking Day on Saturday, May 2.    

Everyone is welcome to join in and watch this FREE event on our Close To My Heart Facebook Page.  CTMH staffers will be demonstrating some fabulous creative projects during the event that you can create along with them by using the products and bundles that are offered on my website.  Be sure to order ASAP to have your bundle by May 2.

Let's take a look at the Scrapbooking workshop in this post.

 Here's the kit: ($64.95)

                     

Here are the layouts that you will be able to create.

Interested?

Be sure to sign up as going on FACEBOOK by May 1.

Finally, be sure to RSVP by clicking the "going" button on this event page before Friday, May 1, in order to be entered into giveaways that will happen between creative sessions! You may join this even and be eligible for giveaways even if you are working on your own projects and do not purchase any of the special bundles.

You MUST RSVP to be eligible for giveaways!

These Are My People Blog Hop

Welcome!

Glad you could join us today!  Hope that you are doing well and were able to enjoy and celebrate Easter in some way, although different than any tradition you may have in the past.  

If you are like me, you have had more time to work on your scrapbooking or other paper crafting during this Safer-At-Home period of our lives.  What an opportune time to use the special products we're sharing with you in this blog hop!

 A blog hop is just one big loop of fun and creative ideas. So if you're starting here, grab your beverage of choice, and sit back ready to be inspired by creative ideas while using any of the Close To My Heart - These Are My People products.

If you are coming from Lauren's blog,  you are on the right path.  At the end of this post you will see a link to Miss Carrie's blog for you to continue following the hop.  

These Are My People products are available now through April 30 or while supplies last.  As you go through this hop, you'll get lots of inspiration.

The product I chose to use for my project is the These Are My People paper pack and sticker sheet to design scrapbook layouts.

There are so many other items in the These Are My People line of products. On my website you will see:

• a cut-above scrapbooking kit
• a paper pack with or without stickers
• coordinating cardstock 
• a scrapbooking workshop (at a 20% discount)
• a stamp set 
• digital art 

These Are My People products are available only through the month of April or while supplies last.  After seeing all the great ideas in this blog hop, you're going to want one  or more of these products.  You can get them through your Close To My Heart consultant or find them here.

Thanks for stopping by today.  

Join me as we hop on to see the creative ideas at 

Miss Carrie's Creations 

Be sure to visit the other consultants who have joined in on this

 blog hop for lots of inspiration.  If for some reason you get lost along the way, you can find the entire list of participating consultants on Melinda's blog to get back on track.

Happy Easter Layout

Happy Easter

Here's a layout I created using papers from the 

These Are My People paper 

and the current Mix-ins pack.

The bunnies are from a retired Easter CTMH set from several years ago.

Hope you had a wonderful Easter though it was probably different than any Easter celebration you've had in the past.  I missed the family dinner we would have had if we weren't practicing the social distancing trying to keep everyone healthy.  We were able however, able to invite the grandkids over for a backyard egg hunt.  (All the plastic eggs were sanitized inside and out, Grandpa assured me!)  So for at least 20 minutes, it felt a little bit like regular family time, however, no hugs coming or going.

Special Online Events - Scrapbooking, card making

Connect with Us through Online Events If you have been missing out on the interpersonal connections that come from crafting together with your best crafting buds, we have some wonderful online opportunities coming up next month that we would love to have you join us for! National Scrapbooking Day Celebration As you may know, May is National Scrapbooking month, with National Scrapbooking Day being celebrated on the first Saturday of May each year. We are planning a FREE all-day event on Saturday, May 2 to celebrate! The event will be held 11:00 am–11:00 pm (MDT) on the Close To My Heart Facebook Page, and will feature creative projects as well as product giveaways throughout the day. Join us live or catch up on the video after the event has concluded! Get more details and RSVP to the event on the Event page. We're featuring six awesome creative projects as part of this event and would love for you to craft right along with us as we make them! To make that possible, we have created project bundles containing materials you'll need to make the projects. These bundles include brand new products that are not yet available to the public as well as exclusive items that are only available as part of the bundles! While purchasing the bundles is completely optional, you will definitely want to check them out to see the fun that we have in store for this special event. Get all the details about these bundles and see the artwork you'll make with each by visiting the National Scrapbooking Day page. See Bundles Later in May, we will be holding a virtual Album Retreat, which we are opening to all who would like to join us! At our Album Retreat, we will spend two days putting together an entire album of beautiful scrapbook pages, with an emphasis on elevated artwork techniques. The album we have designed for this retreat features 20 beautiful 12" x 12" scrapbook pages, including 8 two-page layouts, 2 single-page layouts, plus a cover page and a closing page. This event will be held May 15–16, and to participate, all you need to do is purchase the album bundle! There will be no separate registration fee; you can participate in this event for only the cost of the materials and the preparation work of cutting the projects and packaging them—oh, did we mention that the projects would be pre-cut? They will be! This will free up our time together to focus on technique instruction and assembly. We are even waiving the cost of the instruction, giving you an incredible value for participating in this unique event. We'll begin shipping project bundles for Album retreat on May 1, so we encourage you to order yours by April 30 if you would like to join us for the event! Album Retreat Bundle We hope you'll join us for one or both of these wonderful events! Whether or not you do, we hope you'll stay connected to us through our social media for continuing crafting inspiration and ideas!

April Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - O-fish-ally Awesome

Welcome!

Glad you could join us today!  A blog hop is just one big loop of fun and creative ideas. So if you're joining me here, grab your beverage of choice, and sit back ready to be inspired by creative ideas for using this new Close To My Heart stamp of the month.  If you are coming here from

Darlys' blog , you are on the right path.  At the end of this post you will see a link to Katy's blog for you to continue following the hop.  

The stamp of the month, O-fish-ally Awesome, is a set of 37 stamps that will be wonderful for designing cards or scrapbooks pages.  As you go through this hop, you'll see lots of creative and fun ideas for using this stamp set.  

O-fish-ally Awesome is available only through the month of April.  After seeing all the great ideas in this blog hop, you're going to want to add this to your stamp collection.  You can purchase this set for $18.95, or get it for only $5 with a qualifying order of $50 (US) through your Close To My Heart consultant or find it here  .

This is such a fun stamp set to play with!  For my project I made several cards.  I haven't been making too many shaker cards lately, so I was playing around with those.  I thought the "just keep swimming" phrase would be a good one to include in cards I will be sending to some friends during this time of social isolation.

I used papers from the Seas The Day Paper pack, Intense Black Ink, Watercolor paints, Waterbrush, and various Tri-Blend markers,  for all of the cards I'm sharing today.  For the shaker cards, I used the CTMH shaker window products .

Here's a closer look.

Here' a close-up of the inside.  You might be able to see the Liquid Glass that I 

used on the bubbles to make it look like water bubbles.

And on to the shaker cards

The brown "sand" is ripped Kraft paper with the sand stamp from this set.  

I put some 3-D foam tape to raise it a little and create some depth..

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Join me as we hop on to see the creative ideas using this stamp set on 

Katy Taylor's blog

Be sure to visit the other consultants who have joined in on this

 blog hop for lots of inspiration. If for some reason you get lost along the way, you can find the entire list of participating consultants on Melinda's blog to get back on track.