Dots Scrapbooking is a Close To My Heart consultant blog. Learn about scrapbooking, card-making, and papercrafting. Learn how to incorporate different techniques such as, embossing, die-cuts, Cricut images, etc. into your creations.
I created a card using some new papers from Close To My Heart but the biggest assistance came from the MojoSketch 505. Love the sketch and I think it works beautifully with the new papers, a new stamp and the January Stamp of the Month. I am looking forward to the new catalog become effective as of January 1st, 2019. BTW-HOW did it get to be 2019?! (in a day & 1/2)
Creativity is more than something you do — it’s who you are. Keep your creativity flowing with Close To My Heart’s Craft with Heart™ club, where you receive regular deliveries of project kits that will keep you connected with your passion. This is my video showing you just how EASY it is to put together the January 2019 Something Fierce subscription layout.
See how easy it is to put the 2 2-page layouts together on my video:
While I was putting together one of our card kits on video, I was talking about how I kept my cards organized. I decided I could make a quicky video to show you what I used and how I try to keep my cards organized. So here we go... Here's the video:
Here I am putting labels on the top of our Large Organizer:
Our New Large Organizer is even bigger than our previous large organizer. As a result, I can fit more cards into the new one so I changed out my old organizer.
Creativity is more than something you do — it’s who you are. Keep your creativity flowing with Close To My Heart’s Craft with Heart™ club, where you receive regular deliveries of project kits that will keep you connected with your passion.
The monthly subscriptions are a no-cut, no-measure easy and fast version of scrapbooking. It doesn't get any easier than this and you get 2 layouts per month for your family photos. You can keep up with your pictures and still have great looking layouts that can be put together in 30-40 min. All you need is adhesive-I use Tombow.
The You Got This Card Workshop is my last kit from the our September-December 31, 2018. The cards are a set of thank you and encouragement cards. It is so nice to have cards readily available to send out without having to go out and send $$$ or one card! Here are what the cards are supposed to look like. I will be putting mine together tomorrow, so we will see.
Here is the contents of the kit:
My Supply List for creating the cards including the inks:
I created the cards from the Hugs for You Workshops Your Way. I wanted to show one of my clubs what they look like in person and to work out any kinks when you make these versatile cards. The cards have many uses including Valentines Day cards. I love the Stitched Thin Cut circles that is suggested in the instructions. It' also been awhile since we used the rock & roll technique, which I really love and wanted to show how easy it is do do. I decorated the envelopes that come with the kit also.
Create 12 cards using the materials in this kit and easy-to-follow instructions (also found below). Complete your cards using the exclusive stamp images designed to give you ultimate control over the creative process, so you can always make your cards your way.
Use these 4 thin metal dies to quickly and easily cut the shapes shown.
Size of shapes: 2¼", 1¾", 1¼", ¾".
Thin Cuts are packaged on their own magnetic sheet and work well with most die-cutting machines. I use the Cricut Cuttlebug.
Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge has two challenges till the end of the month. #322 uses bold colors and is the one I chose to do. Using the whimsical and fun papers called Oh What Fun shows how cute and fun the nontraditional colors can be.
I used my stash of pink Shimmer Trim (discontinued) to adorn the top of the card. The felt complements which is the pink present and the snowflake at the top of the tree, coordinate with the papers and the strip of fa la la is a zip strip from one of the papers. The candy cane green and pink stripe paper surrounding the Christmas Tree are the Picture My Life cards included with the pack of Oh What Fun paper. The inside was also decorated with 2 zip strips and the Wonder of the Season stamp set stamped with Raspberry ink. I distressed the edge of the card with the Sugar Plum Shimmer Brush. It made a beautiful edge to the card.
Today I am showing you the layouts that I created with the 'Tis the Season Work shop. Our kits come with easy to follow instructions that give you great layouts for your pictures. I usually choose to add my own touch. This because there is a failure to follow instructions in my DNA. I do that with cooking recipes also!! Just saying I have a problem with being told what to do. My YouTube video show you how I went about creating my pages. Here are the layouts:
Here is the fireplace I created using texture paste and re-inkers to color it. I decorated it with stockings cut from a PML card from the 'Tis the Season kit. The mantle was cut from a wood paper from my stash. The fire was created from the You Are Here Cricut cartridge and colored and blended with our Water color pencils and blender pen. The plastic stencil was cut from the Artbooking cartridge using stencil sheets we just started carrying. I am having fun with that!
I made a video to show you how I created my warm a cozy addition to a Christmas scrapbook layout.
I've combined Mojo Monday and Color My Heart Color Dare Challenges to come up with a new Christmas card. This is perfect since I've addressed my Christmas cards and need more!
I made a shaker card for the Mojo Monday 504 sketch and used the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge 321.
Create 12 cards using the materials in this kit and easy-to-follow video (also found below). Complete your cards using the exclusive stamp images designed to give you ultimate control over the creative process, so you can always make your cards your way.
Autumn colors are my favorite. Grateful Heart Workshop Your Way is a kit with the fall colors on full display. The guidelines that come with the kit are easy to follow and will give you three 2-page layouts with enough additional material to make a number of cards.
Here are the papers showing front and back:
This is the Workshop Your Way kit with all the elements included in the kit:
Here is my layout for the pictures I took recently in my backyard of many Monarchs feeding on their way to Mexico.
I added an additional element to the title using the Thin Cuts Block Numbers.
This layout is for the Heart 2 Heart Pumpkin Spice challenge. I do love the pumpkins from the CTMH Cricut cartridges!
I made a video for my YouTube channel to show how I put it together along with a cutting guide.
Shake things up this holiday season with the Holiday Sparkle Cut Above® card kit! This kit contains materials for creating 12 festive shaker cards, including printed card bases, die-cut pieces, stickers, sparkly sequins, and simple assembly instructions. Get a 20% discount when you get the Holiday Sparkle Bundle, which pairs the card kit with the My Acrylix® Love with All the Trimmings stamp set, specially designed to further customize the insides of your cards. These cards are so easy to make. I added some silver glitter snowflakes to the shaker windows. I made a video to show you how easy they are to create. You can get your cards ready well before Christmas. Order by October 31, 2018!!!
I have a new (to me) favorite card to make. It is called a double z fold card. I isn't new, I just haven't made it before. They are an easy, yet a showy little card. I made a video so you can see how easy it is.
Cutting Instructions:
Outer card-4 1/2" X 11 " scoring at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2"
Inner card-3 1/2" X 10" scoring at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2"
Supply List
Bunches of Love Stamp Set: https://goo.gl/H19SSe
Acyrlic Blocks: https://goo.gl/RVDNcJ
Intense Black Ink: https://goo.gl/k4tVkH
Sugarplum ink: https://goo.gl/ZM5qFn
Vivid Green ShinHan Marker: https://goo.gl/v8dbx6
Marigold ShinHan Marker: https://goo.gl/4hJxw6
Foam Glue Dots: https://goo.gl/WfWj1U
Bonding Memories Glue Pen: https://goo.gl/kT8rn7
Scissors Micro tip: https://goo.gl/GdbXE7
Tombow Adhesive: https://goo.gl/N45H4S
Shimmer Brush Clear: https://goo.gl/EnYAtA
Shimmer Brush Gold: https://goo.gl/C5ZbjF
Pewter Cardstock: https://goo.gl/YBa1tn
Boutique Paper Pack: https://goo.gl/QUEcxs
Sugarplum Glitter Paper: https://goo.gl/2YCi9S
Border Thin Cuts: https://goo.gl/xZmRVU
Hope you try to make a z fold card and find out how easy it is to create.
