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Close To My Heart contest

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Win a free My Crush Book! Check out the following link to Jeanette Lynton's blog post for details on how you can win a fantastic My Crush Book.  I LOVE these books.  They are so much fun.   www.jeanettelynton.com  

September Team Blog Hop

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  Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring projects   made with Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridges.  If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Tamara Lisowski's blog then you are in the right place!    We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!     I am so happy that CTMH now has a third Cricut cartridge!  It is called Artbooking and is focused on scrapbooking layouts and mini albums.  It has some amazing images that can be used for all kinds of projects and I

August New Product Blog Hop

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 August Team Blog Hop Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring projects   from the new   IDEA BOOK .  If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Alyson Mayo's Create with Alyson blog then you are in the right place! We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!   I have been dying to use my new Cinch machine.  Up until this week I hadn't had time to take it out of the box.  I decided that this would be a great way to show off lots of items from the new Fall/Winter Ide

July Special

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Work the Workshop   50% off the Workshops on the Go Canvas Art Kit!         Get the discounted Workshops on the Go canvas art kit (G1062) in July—no qualifying purchase required! From July 1 to July 31 you can get this trendy kit to create your own canvas art to hang in your home, regularly priced at $39.95, now discounted to $19.95—more than 50% off! Take papercrafting to the next level with this adorable home décor piece that you can display for all to see. *Offer valid July 1–31, 2013, while supplies last. No qualifying purchase needed. No limit per order. No refunds or adjustments on product already sold. Contact me right away to be sure you don't miss out on this great special!  paperplayroom@hotmail.com  

June Team Blog Hop

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Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring projects with a SUMMER THEME .  If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Michelle Hughes'  The Right Hughes  blog then you are in the right place! We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!   This layout features the Chantilly paper pack.  It's funny because when I first got this paper I didn't think that I would use it much as it is a little more feminine that what I usually use.  I've used almost all of it though and r

May Team Blog Hop

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Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring projects Inspired by Pinterest .  If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Brae Montgomery's  The Brae-er  blog then you are in the right place! We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!       It's been a very busy month and I wish I had found time to post more but it just didn't happen.  I'm happy to be back with another team blog hop.  This month our hop is "Inspired by Pinterest".  I really enjoyed thi
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It’s a Papercrafting Pajama Party!   Close To My Heart is teaming up with Big Picture Classes to bring you a live webcast with step-by-step instructions for making this Happy Thoughts kraft container.     Tune in for the FREE webcast on Thursday, May 30 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm (MDT) at BigPictureClasses.com . During the presentation, you’ll learn to make several projects from a variety of sponsors, including Close To My Heart’s Happy Thoughts kraft container. If you’d like to interact on the message board, participate in live chat, post to the gallery, download handouts, or enter any contests, you will need to log in to the Pajama Party “classroom” by creating a FREE account on the Big Picture Classes website . To make our Happy Thoughts kraft container, you will want to have the following items—or similar products—on hand: My Acrylix® Frame Flair Stamp Set (D1546) My Acrylix® Happy Thoughts Stamp Set (C1536) Chantilly Paper Packet (need 1 sheet of B&

April Blog Hop

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Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring  creative techniques .  If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Rosalynd Kelly's of In My Scrappin' Room  then you are in the right place! We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!   I decided to focus this month on CTMH True Fit Folios  to show you how to create a very unique interactive layout.  These folders are designed to be fully inserted into your memory protector and allow you to store memorabilia.  I decided t

Home Decor

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I completed this project a little while ago but it took me about a year to get all of the pieces together.  I had this idea for my entry way and I love how it all came together.        It basically started with the mirror and then I decided I wanted family portraits but rather than just putting them in a frame I wanted to frame a scrapbooking layout.      I wasn't sure what I was going to do in the space above the scrapbook frames initially but thought about plaque mounting our hand prints.   Then I found out you couldn't plaque mount more than one piece of paper so that wasn't going to work.  I ended up finding these frames on clearance at Michael's and they filled the space nicely.  There was quite a bit of trial and error to decide how to make the hand prints and Mitchell ended up with a purple hand for a couple of days.  I finally found that just inking our hands with CTMH ink worked perfectly   I found the saying and was planning on cutting

Workshops

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Workshop Page Please check out my new workshop page.  I have my next workshop posted and hoping to have another one added shortly.  The tab is at the top of the page or you can click here.      

Later Sk8r

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Here are the rest of my Later Sk8r pages as requested from the blog hop.  I appreciate all the kind words I received and the interest in more of my work.  I am happy to share.  These are the pages that we did at our last club meeting.  If anyone else is interested in joining our monthly club then just let me know and I will send you the details.  It's great fun and we accomplished a lot this past month.    This first layout if the workshop kit layout.  I changed up the title a little and used some dimensional elements and the tiny epoxy letters.  I love these little letters.   Here is a close up of the title.   These two layouts are both from the stickease pack.  I love that these layouts can be done so fast.  It only takes about 40 minutes to complete each of these layouts.  Super fast and super easy.  The hardest part is selecting your pictures.    Thanks for looking and as always I love to get comments and I'm happy to answer questions.  Stay
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Welcome to our first team Blog Hop featuring product from the current CTMH Idea Book .  If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Rosalynd Kelly's of In My Scrappin' Room  then you are in the right place!   We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!       I had a hard time deciding what product to feature so I finally decide to show off two of them.  My first is the Canvas Art Kit.   I just love how this turned out and how fast and easy it was.  It comes with everyt
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Upcoming Workshop I'm still working out the details for this upcoming workshop and will provide them when they are available.  This is a little matchbook mini album with lots of room to add pictures and journalling.  It's a great gift for Father's Day.  I am thinking that I might pair it with a gift for Mother's Day and have both workshops at the same time.  I'd love to know if you might be interested.  The cost for this will be under $10.

Another inspired project

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    Here is another project that I completed just last weekend. It was inspired mostly from Heidi Swapp and most of the product is hers.  I'm so happy that some of her product is now available at Michael's stores.     This is my first official Memory File project.  I decided that it was time I scrapbooked some of myself.  I went through my boxes of old pictures and this project includes some of my favourite ones.  The cover has a little bit of all my favourite lines.  The black mat is from Teresa Collins' Vintage Finds.  The banner is from the  CTMH You & Me kit .  The letters and ribbon are from (Mist)-a-bles and the rest is Heidi Swapp.   So, I love Mustard Colorshine.  If you don't know what Colorshine is then you really need to see it in person.  It has a wonderful iridescence.  I used a ton of it on this project but the mister broke somehow and I didn't manage to exchange it until I was almost all done.     The inside of the