Unboxing the Craft With Heart Scrapbook Subscription

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.

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You have three Craft with Heart™ subscription options depending on how often you want to receive your Craft with Heart™ deliveries.

• Monthly subscription: $17.95, plus $7.95 shipping, delivered monthly
• 4-month subscription: $64.60 after 10% discount, plus $7.95 shipping, delivered three times a year
• 12-month subscription: $172.32 after 20% discount, FREE shipping, delivered three times a year!

Billing occurs when you subscribe for the first time, and then on the first of the month. The length of the subscription you choose determines how often you will be billed.

• Monthly subscriptions: on the first of each month
• 4-month subscriptions: on the first of January, May, and September
• 12-month subscriptions: on the first of January, May, or September, depending on when you originally subscribed
• Subscribe from January to April, billing occurs on January 1
• Subscribe from May to August, billing occurs on May 1
• Subscribe from September to December, billing occurs on September 1

What Do They Look Like?

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December

These Cut Above kits are super easy to put together. Just add adhesive!!

I'm going to create the first one now. I'll make a video to show you!

Here's how you too can purchase a subscription.

Supplies:

• Craft With Heart
• Tombow Adhesive

XOXO

Dots

Hawthorn Cardmaking kit for Great Fall Cards!

This is the Hawthorn card kit that is shown in Close To My Heart’s new seasonal catalog. The 3 designs are easy to cut and put together. The kit includes complete easy to follow instructions, paper and cardstock, 15 cards and envelopes, a package of twine to coordinate with the colors, and best of all a wonderful fall stamp set and matching thin cut dies. Coloring is fun to do with watercolor pencils and a blending pen (not included).

You will be ready for any fall occasions where you need a card to send.

Supplies:

1. Hawthorn cardmaking kit
2. Watercolor pencils
3. Paprika Ink
4. Saffron Ink
5. Charcoal Ink
6. Stamp Shammy

Thanks for watching!

XOXO

Dots

2020 Reasons to Smile Close To My Heart Calendar

Close To My Heart's calendar for 2020 is called Reasons to Smile. It is a Cut Above kit meaning there is NO cutting, only gluing. It comes with 13 easy to put together scrapbook pages. You can add pictures as you go through each month. At the end of the year you have 13 pages ready to put into an album. There are die cut elements, stickers and picture backgrounds that are ready for your adhesive. The kit can come with a very cute stamp set to mark the dates for appointments for events. There are stickers for the days of the month. SO EASY!!!

Cut Above Reasons to Smile 2020 Calendar

Reasons to Smile Calendar kit with stamp set

Reasons to Smile stamp set

This stamp set is great for planners too. How cute are all those icons!!

Supply List

1. Cut Above Reasons to Smile 2020 Calendar kit
2. Journaling Pen
3. Tombow Adhesive
4. Tombow Refill
5. Piercing Tool
6. Microtip Scissors
7. Intense Black Ink Pad
8. Block set

Hope you love the calendar as much as I do!!!

XOXO

Dots

The New Close To My Heart Catalogs are Now Live!

Now available is the new Annual CTMH catalog and the Sept-Oct 2019 seasonal catalog.

See What is New Today!!

Shop:  https://dorothy.closetomyheart.com/

XOXO
Dots

Birthday Card Using the August 2019 Stamp of the Month

A great Stamp of the Month (SOM) for August gives us the ability to make cards for oh so many occasions. You can even tag the back of your card or envelope with the "from me to you" and some hearts. So Cute!!

The card was very easy to create. I embossed the dark side of a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 piece of sage cardstock. A 3 3/4 x 4 piece of the light side of the sage cardstock is the second background. Two pieces of B & T coordinating papers from the pack were cut at 3/4" x 3 1/2" and 2". Happy Birthday was stamped in Eggplant ink on a 2 x 3" white cardstock with a backing of 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" sugarplum cardstock. The flowers and leaves are from the sticker complement sheet. Easy Peasy!

August Stamp of the Month set

A quick birthday card and envelope

True Love Papers, Complements and Coordinating cardstock

Supplies

True Love paper pack

True Love Complements

Eggplant Ink Pad

Value Pack White cards and envelopes

Flower Garden Embossing folder

True Love Coordinating Cardstock

White Daisy Cardstock

Shop at:  dorothy.closetomyheart.com

Bye For Now!

XOXODots

Card Challenges for August From Mojo Monday and Atlantic Hearts

When I looked at the Mojo Monday sketch this week, my first thought was to use our new Sunflower Sympathy stamp and thin cut set that will be available September 1, 2019. As I started to create the card, I got a text saying a friends mother had passed. It's such a sad time for this family. I know they will miss her terribly. 

I love the use of the sunflower for a sympathy card. Little did I know it would be put to use so quickly. This is an example of why it is so good to have cards ready to go. The lighter looking stamp on the envelope is 2nd generation stamping. Also on the sentiment there is a faint leaf that is also 2nd gen. 

 Front of the card and envelope

 Inside of the card

Back of the card

Sunflower Sympathy Stamp and Thin Cut Set

Supplies:

1. Sunflower Sympathy stamp and thin cut set (Available September 1, 2019)
2. Toffee Ink Pad
3. Espresso Ink Pad
4. Fern Ink Pad 
5. Goldrush cardstock (I used the light side)
6. Value Pack White cards and envelopes

Thanks for stopping by. 

You can shop with me at: dorothy.closetomyheart.com

XOXODots

Seaside Sketchy Challenge

I've been incommunicado since July, so here I am getting back in gear. I'm starting off with the August Sketchy Challenge from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine. The paper I used for the challenge is the Seaside paper from several years ago for the "Bring Back My Pack". Close To My Heart will pick a favorite paper from years ago to highlight in the Bring Back My Pack. This particular paper was especially pretty (in my opinion). It's perfect for any beach vacation. Since I get in brain ruts, I love using the challenges to give me a goal to create a new page. 

Here is the sketch for August:

I had fun making my page:

Supplies:

Seaside paper pack  

Seaside is back in a new, slimmed down paper packet! This paper packet features 6 paper sheets and a full 12″ × 12″ sticker sheet, giving you paper and stickers in the same pack! We’ve refreshed a few of the colors to create this updated pack and paired it with a coordinating cardstock pack and stamp set.

Save 25% on a workshop kit that includes all of these items, which you can use to create the awesome artwork shown here!

This collection will only be available through August 31, 2019, while supplies last, so order yours right away!

I had some teal Shimmer Trim from my stash to sparkle things up a bit.

Thanks for stopping by! 

XOXO
Dots