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.
Get ready for 2021 with this exclusive calendar project featuring pages for each month of the coming year!
The Moments like These special features a collection of products designed to get you ready for a new year! Use the die-cuts, stickers, and base pages in the Cut Above® layout kit, to create 13 single 12″ × 12″ pages you can add to a scrapbook album or to the pages of a calendar! Save 30% when you purchase the bundle that pairs this kit with the exclusive My Acrylix® Moments like These stamp set and a base calendar!
See a pick preview of the pages and the calendar
Moments Like These with Calendar
Moments Like These with Calendar and Stamp Set
Moments Like These Kit
Blank Calendar ready for facing pages
I've made four videos showing how each page comes together.
Moments Like These Calendar or Layouts-You Pick!! Part 1
Moments Like These Calendar or Layouts-You Pick!! Part 2
Moments Like These Calendar or Layouts-You Pick!! Part 3
Moments Like These Calendar or Layouts-You Pick!! Part 4
Craft with Heart™ Scrapbooking from Close To My Heart
Be ready to preserve memories as you make them with a Craft with Heart™ Scrapbooking subscription. As a subscriber, you’ll receive regular deliveries of Cut Above® layout kits, each kit featuring two beautifully designed two-page layouts. Your layouts come together in minutes thanks to pre-printed base pages, with complementary die-cuts and stickers to help you preserve your memories in style.
December 2020 Subscription
Any of these pages can be embellished to your hearts content
Get a jump start on the holiday festivities with this exclusive collection, which features classic designs that make it ideal for all of your crafting traditions, from holiday cards to scrapbook pages and everything in between!
In these videos, I am showing you both the scrapbook pages and the cardmaking workshop. You will be so ready for your sending out your Christmas cards and for scrapbooking your Christmas pictures. Comfort and Joy Scrapbook and Cardmaking workshops are available until Oct. 31st. Purchase while supplies last!!
The Bloom with Grace Cardmaking Workshop from Close To My Heart shows you how to create 16 cards, 4 ea of 4 designs. The cards have inspirational sentiments which would be useful and helpful to this COVID environment. People have lost jobs, miss out on seeing family members in general everyone is experiencing tough times. Some inspiration and cheery yellow flowers would be a nice change of pace! The Tri Blend markers used are Brown Grey, Gold Yellow, Yellow Green.
Easy, Fun, Fast!! Two 2-page payouts completed in 32 minutes. No Time, No Problem! All you need is adhesive and you are good to go. Easy to follow instructions that don't require much reading. In fact, you can just look at the pictures in the instructions to put these layouts together.
This is a great solution for busy folks who still want to keep their pictures organized and journaled so their memories live on. It's so easy to take 30 minutes each month to create really professional looking pages. Just add your pictures and a few details of who, what, where, when and if more info is needed, and the why and how. These is the basics of your story.
Here's my video putting the 2 two page layouts together:
I have completed several challenges this week. They are some of my favorite challenges too. They are the Creative Scrapbook Magazine Sketchy challenge. These are always in a masculine style since they are for hubby's hobby of building a plane in our garage. The next one is Mojo Monday Sketch 547. The last one is from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. I used metallics in all of them so I am also using the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge.
I love this month's stamp set. It is fun to use and color. It has perfect sentiments that cover a multitude of needs. And, it is beautiful! You can't go wrong with this Stamp of the Month, All My Love. It even has my sign-off, XOXO!!!
Get ready for autumn with these lovely fall layouts!
Too Easy, So Fast!! Two 2-page payouts completed in 44 minutes (including boo boo fixes). No Time, No Problem! All you need is adhesive and you are good to go. Easy to follow instructions that don't require much reading. In fact, you can just look at the pictures to put these layouts together.
These card challenges are always a fun way to use your scraps while creating something lovely to send to family and friends. It's a win/win way to be creative and create something that is useful and appreciated!
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*Earn 15% spending credit of full retail amount paid.
*FREE Stamp of the Month with orders of $50 or more.
*Access to exclusive products throughout the year.
*Exclusive workshop bundle available for purchase.
* FREE Facebook Live event for workshop.
Sign up for the program by Dec. 31, 2020 to get $25 of credit to your account!!
This is my Summer Vibes Workshop video that is the completion of a Facebook Live event I was giving but had technical difficulties, as they say. The live event stopped for reasons beyond me, so I decided to continue it in the same manner but on YouTube. This is not over dubbed or speeded up. You can cut along with me and create along with me here. My husband and I thought we had everything figured out. We will continue to work towards the Live events. My next event will be working with Bloom with Grace. I can't guarantee it will be on Sept 27th, 2020, since hubby is having health issues. We will see....
Summer Vibes Scrapbook Workshop
Summer Vibes Cricut Shapes
Summer Vibes Cricut Shapes My Cutting and Assembly
Summer Vibes Scrapbook Workshop Layouts
My Summer Vibes Layouts Using Summer Vibes Cricut Cuts
This is my first heart shaker card and I wanted to try it out. I love the tiny open and closed heart confetti you can make with the heart thin cuts. Except for my clumsy fingers it is easy to make. 2nd time will be a breeze!! You can use any colors of cardstock or pattern paper you choose. I was adding a touch of fall to mine.
This is a quickie video of how I label and organize the annual Close To My Heart addition and subtraction of colors. CTMH has their finger on the pulse of trends including colors. We have 7 new colors and discontinued colors. Every year we have a Color of the Year. This year it is Blue Belle, a grayish blue color. My stamps live in our Workspace Wonder Stamp Pad carousel (8 stamp pad stacks make up the carousel). The cardstock is kept in a Kallax from Ikea.
These 2 layouts are created with the Bloom with Grace Cricut collection. The beautiful sunflowers and pumpkins were fun to make. The sunflower layout is all thought out for you. The entire layout is one of the images in the collection. All you do is feed the paper into your Cricut! Amazing!! The pumpkins I cut out are in lots of different sizes. I large one had to be a background for a picture and the smaller ones just wanted to be haphazard on the side. Sometimes the layouts just tell you what to do!
The first time I saw the red gingham paper from the Summer Vibes collection I thought of a picnic. The next thing that come to mind is watermelon with homemade ice cream following. So here is my interpretation using these papers with the coordinating Summer Vibes Cricut collection. I love the holographic sunglasses and bedazzled flip flops along with the "Chill" title (meant to be a pun). *The Summer Vibes Workshop with and without page protectors is still available even though it is from the prior catalog. The layout inspiration came from "Make It From Your Heart" vol. 3.
Are you ready for your kids to go to school? This scrapbook layout is probably more ready than you are! Like it or not, it's that time! We still want to record The first days of school even if they are different.Craft with Heart™ Scrapbooking subscription helps you preserve memories as you make them. As a subscriber, you’ll receive regular deliveries of Cut Above® layout kits, each kit featuring two beautifully designed two-page layouts. Your layouts come together in minutes thanks to pre-printed base pages, with complementary die-cuts and stickers to help you preserve your memories in style.
If you are leading a very busy life and do not have the time for hours of crafting, until you do, this program will help you out. This subscription program is also for the not so crafty crafter. The scrapbook pages and cards will make you look like a star!!
Keep your creativity flowing with Close to My Heart’s Craft with Heart™ subscriptions, where you receive regular deliveries of Cut Above® card or layout kits that will keep you connected with your passion. Cut Above kits give you a shortcut to beautiful artwork since they include pre-printed bases that you complete with die-cut shapes and stickers. Cardmaking kits also include exclusive stamp sets and mini ink pads you can use for a truly personal look.
Be ready to preserve memories as you make them with a Craft with Heart™ Scrapbooking subscription. As a subscriber, you’ll receive regular deliveries of Cut Above® layout kits, each kit featuring two beautifully designed two-page layouts. Your layouts come together in minutes thanks to pre-printed base pages, with complementary die-cuts and stickers to help you preserve your memories in style.
No cutting required! All you need is your favorite adhesive.
Kids who love to stamp and craft are invited to join us for our next CTMH Kids Crafts event this month, featuring cards that are sure to bring a grin to every crafter’s face! From the Funny Farm is a small card kit that can be very easy to make. The kit alone comes with 10 envelopes and cards to fold along with 3 pieces of 12 x 12 cardstock in 3 different colors. Without the stamp the kit is $5.95 and with the stamp set it is $20.95. The farm animals are adorable and the sentiments are puns.
From The Funny Farm Kit
Description
• Use the materials in this kit to create 10 cards, 2 each of 5 designs.
• CTMH Kids Crafts.
Kit contents: 1 – My Acrylix® From the Funny Farm Stamp Set 3 – cardstock sheets (1 Flamingo, 1 Green Apple, 1 Mint) 10 – 8" × 5¼" White Daisy cardstock sheets 5 – teal envelopes 5 – pink envelopes 1 – 2" × 3½" stamping block (¼" thick)
Additional supplies needed: Black Ink Pad of Choice Coloring Utensils of Choice
Save 20% when you choose the card kit that also includes the My Acrylix® From the Funny Farm stamp set and mini stamping block!
Offer available through September 30 while supplies last.
Here are my finished cards:
This kit is so fun to do. People will appreciate getting these funny little cards. These is a great art project that is practical, too. Sending cards to people you can't visit, would bring joy to those you care about. What a great lesson for children!