Cyber Week Sale!

November 30 - December 4

For five days only, a selection of items from Close to My Heart's current product inventory can be yours for 25% off retail price.  Get supplies you need to make handcrafted gifts and cards for the holiday, including our Cricut Artfully Sent Collection.

Mystery Hostess

To make this an even sweeter deal, when you order from my website and join the Cyber Sale party, your name will be entered in a drawing to win $25 in hostess rewards.

Items included is this fantastic deal are listed below.
Z3111 Base & Bling Snowflake Charm Faux Gold
Z3112 Base & Bling Jingle Bell Faux Gold
Z3135 Base & Bling Snowflake Charm Faux Silver
Z3136 Base & Bling Jingle Bell Faux Silver
Z3138 Base & Bling Red Bead Charm Faux Gold
Z3139 Base & Bling Red Bead Charm Faux Silver
Z3180 Picture My Life™ Going Places Scrapbooking Program
Z3147 Cut Above™ Dapper Giraffe Card Kit
Z2028 Designer Creations Short Stack Album
Z2036 Designer Creations Slate Paper Bags
Z2037 Designer Creations Lagoon Paper Bags
Z2038 Designer Creations Ruby Paper Bags
Z2039 Designer Creations Honey Paper Bags
Z2049 Designer Creations Cupcake Box
Z2050 Designer Creations Takeout Box
Z2053 Designer Creations Buttoned Bag
Z1838 5" x 7" Hinged Display Tray
Z1750 Designed Décor Display Tray
Z2006 Designed Décor Red Magnetic Chalkboard
Z2015 Designed Décor Black Shadow Box
Z2016 Designed Décor Colonial White Shadow Box
Z1833 My Creations™ Kraft Container
Z1871My Creations™ Kraft 3-Ring Album
Z1953 My Creations™ Journaling Cards Box
Z1956 My Creations ™ Hip Pics Album
Z3043 My Creations™ Black Mini Book
Z3044 My Creations ™Kraft Mini Book
Z3069 My Creations ™ Mini Mix Album
Z3137 My Creations ™Pint-Sized Container
Z3168 Cricut ® Artfully Sent Collection
Z1476 4¼" x 5½" White Daisy Envelopes
Z1477 5"x7" White Daisy Envelopes
Z1478 6"x6" White Daisy Envelopes
Z1756 3"x3" Colonial White Envelopes
Z1757 4¼" x 5½” Colonial White Envelopes
Z1758 5"x7" Colonial White Envelopes
Z1759 6"x6" Colonial White Envelopes
Z1851 Scallop Border Punch
Z1997 Triangle Border Punch

Here's to the holiday crafting spirit!
Michele

Triple Play: You can create cards too!

Using the products in the kit and adding 2 sheets of colonial white card stock, you can create a card kit that makes a great gift or even keep for yourself!  Fellow consultant Gloria Rogers has a tutorial on how to make the mini card kit. 

How do you get yours?

1) Purchase the kit outright for $29.95 (CC1010).

2) Place a minimum order of $25 in My Acrylix stamps (excluding Stamp of the Month sets, Workshops on the Go exclusive stamp sets, and K-size custom stamps) and purchase the kit for only $15 (CC1010A).

3) Place a minimum order of $40 in My Acrylix stamps (excluding Stamp of the Month sets, Workshops on the Go exclusive stamp sets, and K-size custom stamps) and purchase the kit for only $5 (CC1010B).
 
4) Hostesses who hold a qualifying Home Gathering with minimum sales of $300/$350 will receive a Triple Play mini album kit FREE (CC1010C).


5)  New consultants who enroll during the month of September will receive the Triple Play mini album kit FREE as part of their New Consultant Kit. No additional tax or shipping/handling will be charged.
 
Visit my website today or email me to place your order. 

National Stamping Month Promotion: Triple Play

Not one, not two but three mini albums and everything you need to assemble them in one great deal!  Celebrate National Stamping Month with this beautiful, easy to create, mini album kit.  Three different color themes offer a faster, simpler and easier opportunity to add your photos for stunning results!  How do you get yours?

1) Purchase the kit outright for $29.95 (CC1010).

2) Place a minimum order of $25 in My Acrylix stamps (excluding Stamp of the Month sets, Workshops on the Go exclusive stamp sets, and K-size custom stamps) and purchase the kit for only $15 (CC1010A).

3) Place a minimum order of $40 in My Acrylix stamps (excluding Stamp of the Month sets, Workshops on the Go exclusive stamp sets, and K-size custom stamps) and purchase the kit for only $5 (CC1010B).

Good deal:
When you place an order for $25 in acrylic stamps and receive the kit for $15, you pay $40 for product valued at $54.95.  You save $14.95!
 
Best deal:  You buy $40 in stamps & $5 for the mini album kit, you pay $45 for product valued at $54.95.   You save $24.95!
 
Triple Play Kit Contents


Colors: Bamboo, Blush, Desert Sand, Garden Green, Hollyhock, Indian Corn Blue, Outdoor Denim, and Sunset

1 – My Acrylix® Love This Stamp Set

4 – Exclusive Inks® Mini Stamp Pads (Desert Sand, Hollyhock, Indian Corn Blue, and Sunset)

9 – 4" x 12" Panels (3 each of 3 color schemes)

1 – 72" Length White Grosgrain Ribbon

3 – Hook and Loop Velcro Fasteners

1 –Brochure
 
All accents are precut cut for your stamping. 

Watch for future posts using a kit to make a card set and holder.

Goodie Box day...Again!

Need I say more?  Another day to get great products at half price!  Is today your goodie box day?

Jackpot June Continues

Today is chipboard day.  I love using chipboard on my scrapbook pages.  You can see som of my chipboard projects here, here, here, and here.  You can stamp on them, use liquid glass, heat emboss, cover with paper, ink them solid or even leave them plain white!  Dress them up with buttons, brads, waxy flax, and many other embellishments.  Love them!  Stock up on your dimensional elements aka chipboard here.

June 4th Jackpot - Goodie Box Day!

Today is a Goodie Box day! Get a box filled with popular products at 50% or more off of retail value. Plus you'll get a deal on shipping/handling. Purchase this Goodie Box (retail value $80 US ) for only $40 US/ .

Buy now! This offer is while supplies last and will be snatched up quickly

June 3 Jackpot. WOW!

This is an amazing day for the Jackpot June Deals.  Five different paper packets on sale for $10 and the jackpot item is a FREE Acrylic Album ($14.95)!  Take a look here and see if this is your DEAL. 

Paper packets include
MY REFLECTIONS BOOM DI ADA PAPER PACKET

MY REFLECTIONS DAYDREAM PAPER PACKET

MY REFLECTIONS EMPORIUM PAPER PACKET
MY REFLECTIONS GAME ON PAPER PACKET
MY REFLECTIONS PERFECT DAY PAPER PACKET

Acrylic Album with Daydream Paper Packet

June 2 Jackpot! Goodie Box Day!

Today is a Goodie Box day! Get a box filled with popular products at 60% off of retail value. Plus you'll get a deal on shipping/handling. Purchase today's Goodie Box (retail value $200 US) for only $80.


Buy now! This offer is while supplies last and will be snatched up quickly.

JUNE 1 Jackpot Item is...

For those who are just getting started with their scrapbooking or have limited time, today's deal is for you!  Level 1 kits are preprinted layouts with additional cardstock and B&T paper and My Stickease waiting for you to crop and adhere your photos.  Fast, simple, easy! 

Today you can get the following Level 1 Kits for a 30% discount. 
MY REFLECTIONS BLUE RIBBON LEVEL 1 KIT
MY REFLECTIONS BOOM-DI-ADA LEVEL 1 KIT
MY REFLECTIONS GAME ON LEVEL 1 KIT
MY REFLECTIONS MAJESTIC BLUE LEVEL 1
MY REFLECTIONS ITS A GUY THING LEVEL 1

And

When you purchase one of these items, you may hit the jackpot and get the
Hollyhock and Heavenly Blue Ribbon Rounds for free!  Want to assure you hit the jackpot?  Buy one of each. 

Shop here for today's jackpot savings. 

Jack Pot June is Here! Discounted and Free CTMH Products

This Close To My Heart special, starts TODAY and provides you with a different deal each day. . .


Check out my web site daily for each new and exciting offer!

• Some days you can grab loaded Goodie Boxes at 50% or more off retail value.

• Other days are Jackpot Days. These days give you a list of 5 products offered at special discounted prices - - one of which will trigger the Jackpot - - a surprise product you’ll receive free! Take a chance and hope that you buy the right item that gets you the free product, or play it safe and buy one of each, guaranteeing that you will hit the Jackpot!

Either way, you will save money on favorite scrapbooking and stamping supplies by grabbing a different bargain each day in June. Deals include discounted shipping/handling, too! These special offers are available only online so be ready every day to check out my website and get your deal! New deals are posted each day at 8:00 am (PDT).

Jackpot June purchases must include ONLY Jackpot June items (the Goodie Box or the discounted items) and nothing else.

This will streamline orders and allow Close To My Heart to offer discounted shipping for this exciting promotion.

My School Days

When I look back, I have found that I have been a scrapbooker for much of my life. The summer after my freshman year in college, I went home to work and in my spare time, I put together a scrapbook of my childhood/teen "formal" photos with rubber cement. My mom had painted (she was an amazing artist) a scrapbook cover for this "album" but this project never got put together. So, I pulled out the pages and using the versatility of the Miracle kit redid these photos.

As I scrapbooked these photos again, I found myself appreciating some different thoughts and memories about my childhood. In my elementary school photos, with the exception of two of the outfits, my mom sewed all of those clothes I was wearing. The other two were hand - me - downs. In my junior high and high school photos, I had sewn the outfits I was wearing.


My parents said that I could get my ears pierced when I was 10. I noticed my pierced ears in my 5th grade photo. I made the same age requirement for my girls and they both now have their ears pierced, a rite of passage maybe.



Scrapbooking in retrospect has given me a fresh perspective on my life, the gifts, the growth, and who I have become. I look forward to re-scrapping some other photos in the future!

Miracle Has Arrived

Join the National Scrapbooking Month celebration in May with this special Miracle kit offer. It's a beautiful spring-themed scrapbooking kit that includes new, coordinating B&T Duos® die-cut papers, B&T Duos, Irresistibles™ chipboard die-cuts, My Stickease® adhesive images, Flip Flaps™, plus more favorite accessories and papers. Included is an instruction brochure for easily creating two beautiful two-page layouts—with no stamping required! You can get a Miracle scrapbooking kit FREE or at a discount during the campaign. Here are the details:

From April 15  –May 31 or while supplies last:
Purchase the kit outright for $19.95/$23.50 (CC1009).

Place a minimum order of $40 (excluding Studio J™ orders) and purchase the kit for only $10 (CC1009A).

Place a minimum order of $60 (excluding Studio J orders) and purchase the kit for only $5 (CC1009B).

Host a Home Gathering with minimum sales of $300 and receive a kit FREE! (CC1009C)

From May 1–31, sign up as a new Consultant between and receive a kit FREE

For more details about the kit contents, follow this link.  Watch for my artwork and ideas using this kit in upcoming posts. 

Miracle of Spring

Spring is here and National Scrapbooking Month is beginning to show its buds!  Beginning April 15th, CTMH will have a special paper kit available to celebrate this event.  MIRACLE is a spring inspired, easy to assemble scrapbooking kit featuring crystal blue, sweet leaf and bamboo colors with floral and butterfly images.  No stamping is required but the kit contains embelishments, chipboard and an easy to follow cutting guide to make two 2 page layouts.  Here's a sneak peek!

How do you get your paper crafting fingers on one of these kits, you ask?  Well, there are several ways, of course.  Beginning April 15-May 31, while supplies last:

First, you can buy it for $19.95. 

Second, you can buy it for $10 with any $40 purchase

Third, you can buy it for $5 with any $60 purchase

Fourth, you can get it for free when you host a gathering that totals $300

Fifth, sign up to be a consultant in May 2010 and it will be included in your kit for free!

How will you get one?  Contact me today to get yours!

Miracle Kit Contents

5 – Colonial White Cardstock

1 – Bamboo Cardstock

1 – Floral B&T Duos® Paper

1 – Stripe B&T Duos® Paper

1 – Crystal Blue Circle B&T Duos® Die-Cut

1 – Sweet Leaf Bracket B&T Duos® Die-Cut

1 – 6" × 12" My Stickease® Assortment

1 – 6" × 9" Irresistibles™ Chipboard Die-Cuts

1 – Mini-Medley Accents Colonial White Collection

12" Colonial White Waxy Flax

3 – 4" × 6" Memory Protectors® Flip Flaps™

2 – Sponges

1 –Brochure

Eighth Anniversary Gift: Linen

You gotta love the internet.  A little research shows that the anniversary gift for the eighth year is linen!  That is so awesome!  So I am giving away a 12 x 12 linen album of your color choice for free!  How can you enter to win? 

Current color options include black, cranberry, dark cocoa, garden green, hollyhock, and outdoor denim. 

Well, my goal is to increase my blog followers and readership!  I want to share my thoughts, ideas and artwork with you so hopefully you can learn more ways to use the products from CTMH.  You know, the ones you bought and now aren't quite sure how to use it or can't remember what I showed at the workshop? 

So, read my blog and leave a comment, sign up to be a follower or, sign up to receive email notices.  (If you sign up for the email updates, email me with your name as I have no way to monitor this.)  I will compile the names of people who have participated and draw a name at random on May 1st to see if YOU are the recipient of a new 12 x 12 linen album.

Only a few more days to "Dare to Dream" with CTMH

We are approaching the final days of the March consultant sign up special.  But I have a couple of secrets to share that make this deal even more appealing!

1.  Cherries

2.  Acrylic card bases

3.  Glitz glitter glue

4.  Alterable board book

5.  Miracle (s)  See the next post for more details about this.
I will tell you more about these "secrets" in a minute but just a reminder.

The current special includes the FOUR NEW stamps of the month from the Summer 2010 idea book, adding $92 value to the kit.   All in all, you will receive more than $400 in fabulous new products for just $99.  Everything you need to start a dream business!

Now about the secret words, these are hints about NEW PRODUCTS coming out in the Summer 2010 Idea Book in May.  But as a consultant, you can see and purchase new items beginning on April 1st 2010!  And for a 22% discount!  Ever dream about becoming a CTMH consultant?  Maybe now is the time to stop dream and start being!  Contact me today to take advantage of this special!

March Madness Deal or early access to Studio J.

I was first introduced to Studio J last summer.  Then in November, I got to play with the program and December received my first layouts made in Studio J.  Since then, I have had the opportunity to really try it out, scrapbook photos that I wasn't sure would ever get in a book, and photos that were just taken and I didn't want to wait to print them! 

If you are interested in Studio J, as a customer, you will have the opportunity to use it later this spring.  BUT, if you are like Veruca Salt and want it now...and even better, at a 22% discount, you can have it!  Just ask me how to become a consultant with Studio J access.  And with the purchase of 10 layouts a month, you will easily maintain your quarterly minimums.  This month, you will also get all four stamp of the month sets from the Summer Idea book...before me!  This sounds like a March Madness deal to me! 

Here are a couple of recent layouts I have made.

This Halloween paper packet is only available on Studio J.  So much fun for those spooky photos!

Why I love being a CTMH consultant! Why you will love it too!

I love receiving gifts, the pretty wrapping, the anticipation of unwrapping, and the surprise of what may be inside! I have this little bag and in it I have a toy horse, a luggage tag, and some paint chips. What do these mean? These are items that represent only a few of the "gifts" that I have gotten to do as a result of the extra income I get from my CTMH business.

THE HORSE
My daughter Alli has been a horse lover since she was about 4 years old. As she started taking lessons, I had this urge to live out my childhood dream and learn to ride as well. I began in a "mom's" class at the arena where she was riding. I was able to take lessons for about two years, using my CTMH income. I loved it and although other commitments have taken me out of the arena, I feel very blessed that I know how to ride and care for horses. It's a good thing...Alli will start leasing her own horse in April.

THE LUGGAGE TAG

In the fall of 2008, Jeff and I celebrated our 20th anniversary on board the Norwegian Jewel in the Mediterranean, compliments of CTMH. Yes, I earned that cruise through the incentive program offered by CTMH. The entire trip was a gift of a lifetime. The opportunity to explore the art and history of Italy, the civilization of Pompeii, the beauty of the Amalfi coast and the wonders of Barcelona were amazing. I am so thankful for the gift of experience and celebration on this memorable cruise.

THE PAINT CHIPS

We have lived in our home over 10 years and I have wanted to add some color to the walls. I was able to do so this winter with the CTMH income I saved throughout the summer and fall of 2009. I love the khaki and red colored walls in the living room, the sunny yellow in the bathrooms and the subtle sage green in our bedroom.

You can experience gifts like these as well! From the moment you become a CTMH, you are given access to the consultant website with ideas, training, support and information you will love! Then your kit arrives, for $99, you receive $300 in product! It's like Christmas! And in the month of March, new consultants will also receive the four “stamp of the month” sets from the Summer Idea Book 2010. That means, new stamp sets before even current consultants get them! And it adds another $90 value to the kit.
The gifts don't end there! You receive $25 in product credit when you have $300 in sales in the first month and $125 in product credit when you have $1800 in sales in the first 3 months for a total of $150 in product credit.

WHAT'S NEXT

That is up to me! I can decide what my next goal is and when I want to reach it! You can too!

Contact me if you want more information how you can receive $400 in CTMH product for $99...that is a great gift, full of potential to keep on giving!

Textured Cardstock: What to do with it! What's the benefit?

As you know, the special for the month is the textured cardstock collections.  I have been playing with this over the past week or so and want to give you some tips and hints!

1.  Use it on cards to dress them up a bit.  It gives simple cards a classier look.

2. You really get two coordinating colors. The "back" of the cardstock is a lighter color than the front.  On this card, I used the back of the baby pink for the bottom strip. 

 3. When you ink the edges, the texture stands out for a great "distressing" effect.

 

4.  Use textured cardstock to cover dimensional elements, it adds even more dimension.

More techniques to come in a future post.  Stay tuned!

Hearts for Haiti

My blogging time was sparse last week so hopefully I can share some new and fun ideas and thoughts with you this week. 

But first, I want to recognize that many of us have been watching the devastation that has taken place in Haiti two weeks ago.  Some of us may even know someone who has been directly affected by this tragedy.  Close to My Heart has been watching too and has opened up an opportunity for you to share your heart. 

"Our hearts go out to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, and like so many of you, we’re eager to help. We’re excited to announce Close To My Heart’s February Constant Campaign, Hearts for Haiti—where customers can get a great deal while doing great good for those affected by the devastation in Haiti."

From February 1-28, 2010, our 12” x 12” textured cardstock combo packs are buy one, get one FREE—and with every offer purchased, Close To My Heart will donate $2 US to Operation Smile’s Haiti relief efforts.   Close to My Heart has been a donating a portion of their profits from every stamp set purchased to Operation Smile for several years.  This is an additional charitable donation to go directly to the Operations Smile's work in Haiti. 

Watch my blog throughout this month for fabulous ways to use textured cardstock in your artwork.  You can order your textured cardstock on my website or by contacting me directly. 

A Little Birdie Told Me

The Felicity stamp set has this little and another even littler bird.  It looks cute sitting atop the large flourish stamped in twilight.  This card is for my friend Paula who is celebrating her birthday today! 

The exciting National Papercrafting Month Constant Campaign featuring the Felicity Collection starts December 15, 2009 for hostesses and customers.  Let me show you how you can earn it for free!