Saturday, December 12, 2020

Moments Like These Calendar or Scrapbook Pages-You Pick!!!

 Moments like These

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


Moments Like These will only be available until 

December 31, 2020 or till supplies last!!


Thanks for stopping by!!


XOXO
Dots

Saturday, October 31, 2020

2020 Close To My Heart Subscription Album

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
or you can leave them as is.

2020 Subscription Scrapbooking Album



Subscription Information

Monday, October 26, 2020

Comfort & Joy Scrapbooking and Cardmaking Workshops

 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!!

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Bloom With Grace Cardmaking Workshop Cutting and Assembly

 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.

Subscription Scrapbooking Easy, Fun, Fast November 2020

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:

 

November 2020 Layout 1


November 2020 Layout 2



Craft With Heart Subscription

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

Dots

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Sketch Challenges for Cards and a Single Page Layout

 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.

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Sketchy Challenge:

My interpretation:


 Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge:




Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 547:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 389:







The supplies I used for all the challenges:
  1. Wood Grain Paper
  2. Bloom with Grace paper
  3. Copper Ore paper
  4. Sapphire Cardstock
  5. Sage Cardstock
  6. October Stamp of the Month All My Love
  7. Heart Shaker Window and Foam
  8. Heart Shaker Window and Thin Cuts
  9. Silver Loose Sequins
  10. Hugs and Hello Wood Sentiments
  11. Various Markers
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!!!

XOXO

Dots

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Autumn is Calling The October 2020 Subscription Layouts

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.




Thanks!

XOXO
Dots

Saturday, October 3, 2020

My Cards for Card and Color Challenges


 Using the beautiful Bloom with Grace Close To My Heart papers, I created cards for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and the Mojo Sketch Challenge. With the color inspiration from the Color My Heart Color Challenge, I created these 2 cards for my card stash.






Supplies:
Bloom with Grace Papers
Heart Shaker Window and Foam + Acetate

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!

Thanks!!

XOXO
Dots


Thursday, October 1, 2020

Be A VIP Customer with Close To My Heart

 Be a VIP Customer

*Join for $35 and get $15 $25 to spend now! *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!!


Thanks!


XOXO 
Dots




Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Summer Vibes Scrapbook Workshop Kit

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

A Summer Vibes Cricut Picnic




See You at the Beach




Although this kit is no longer in the present catalog, it is still available.


Such a fun kit to put together!! 

Thanks!

XOXO 
Dots







Saturday, September 19, 2020

Creating a Heart Shaker Card with Tiny Heart Confetti!

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.


Here's my process video:




Supplies:



Thanks for stopping by!!


XOXO

Dots



Thursday, September 10, 2020

Adding New Colors to the CTMH Color Palette

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. 







Supplies

  1. Workspace Wonder Carousel Top & Bottom
  2. Workspace Wonder Stamp Pad Stack
  3. Organization

Thanks for watching!

XOXO
Dots


Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Bloom With Grace Cricut Collection Layouts

 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!









Supplies:

Thanks for coming by!!

XOXO

Dots

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

A Cricut Picnic with Summer Vibes Papers from Close To My Heart

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.


My Picnic Summer Vibes Layout



Cricut Collection for Summer Vibes




Supplies:
Summer Vibes Cricut Collection


Thanks for coming by.


XOXO
Dots



Monday, September 7, 2020

Easy Scrapbooking-Sept. 2020 Subscription Layouts Craft With Heart

 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.



September and October Layouts

Subscription Supplies: 


These great kits do not involve any cutting! All you need is adhesive!!

Thanks!!

XOXO

Dots




Sunday, September 6, 2020

Scrapbooking and Cardmaking for the Busy Crafter or the Not So Crafty Crafter

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.


Subscription Information:

For the too busy to craft or the not so crafty crafter, this is the program made just for your!!

Thanks for coming by.

XOXO
Dots

Thursday, September 3, 2020

A Craft Fun For The Whole Family

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!


Thanks!!


XOXO
Dots