Bring some personalized rustic beauty to your holiday festivities with the wooden ornaments and tags in the Merry Little Christmas special! With a variety of ornament and tag options, you can choose which ones fit your celebrations best. The included SVG files allow you to match any decor and theme!
The July Stamp of the Month, For My Beautiful Friend, is filled with sweet messages to send to someone special plus flowers, butterflies and even a dragonfly. I love the swish of paint image that allows you to highlight a specific word. I used it in the card above to add a watercolor brush to “Beautiful”.
UPDATE: Photos of completed book!
I’m really excited to announce a new virtual event that will be created for and lead by children! I’m reminded note I wrote in the margins during last year’s Business Builders conference while our founder and CEO, Jeanette Lynton, share her thoughts with us. She said, “As long as little girls have hands, there will be crafting.”
This fall many of you will be home schooling either entirely or part time to allow your school to maintain social distances. This would be a great addition to your curriculum! The stamp set is filled with positive messages and journaling prompts to help them maintain a strong sense of self during these uncertain times. This stamp set is exclusively available in this workshop — you can’t get it anywhere else!
This would also be a great workshop to do with your grandchildren or nieces and nephews. Their parents are likely overwhelmed with all of the changes and would love to have some help. Wouldn’t to be fun to see them create their own personal memory book? If you can’t physically be in the same place, you could join them virtually through zoom or other meeting app.
Each student will need the Born To Shine Album Workshop Kit which includes:
In addition, you’ll want to have an ink pad (Maya will be using Intense Black) and writing tools (like our black journaling pens) available for them to use.
If you are a 12″ x 12″ scrapbooker like me, you may not have thought the Happiest Place kit was for you. But with a little extra paper, you can tweek this kit to make 16 beautiful Disney-themed pages!
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Preserve the happiest of memories and create truly magical artwork with the exclusive collection, Happiest Place!
The cardstock pack gives you 12 more sheets of paper to work with in coordinating colors of Candy Apple, Glacier, Lemonade, White Daisy and Black. Half of these papers have silver foil stars or stripes on one side. This really extra accent really adds some pizzazz to your projects!
The Happiest Place Acrylic Shapes pack includes assorted matte black acrylic pieces that go along with the theme. The back side is shiny which means for each image (except for the words), you can choose matte or shiny!
The Happiest Place stamp set is the perfect way to add more words, images and icons to your projects. With stamps you can make your own accents with any color you’d like. This stamp set is available alone or you can get it bundled with coordinating Thin Cuts. The blue shading in the image below shows you what thin cuts are included. 
We also have two brand new sets of Digital Art: Titles and Designs. These collections include SVG files that you can upload to Cricut or other design software to add even more creativity to your Happiest Place projects! After downloading the images, you can manipulate them in a program like Cricut Design Space™. Resize it, remove layers, and much more! Each different color in the image indicates different layers that can be edited and cut individually with your chosen software and personal cutting machine.
The kit contents include:
Here’s a look at the sample pages that are shown in the directions for the kit.
These virtual sessions will be held on the Close To My Heart Facebook page. Be sure to RSVP to these events by selecting “Going” for each of these events so that your name will be in the prize drawings! Attendance is free, but you can order the kits on my CTMH website if you’d like to create along with us!
Tuesday, August 11 at 3 pm CST
At this workshop, we’ll be making the 16 just for fun greeting cards, four each of the four designs below. You can order the kit on my CTMH Website. In addition to the paper, cards/envelopes, stamp set and embellishments included in the kit, you’ll basic paper crafting and stamping tools, plus the ink pads listed on the site. To finish them as shown, you’ll also need watercolor paints and a brush — I recomend our small waterbrush.
Tuesday, August 18 at 3 pm CSTAt this workshop, we’ll be making the three 2-page 12″ x 12″ summer layouts below. You can order the kit on my CTMH Website. These layouts use custom die-cut pieces and stickers. There is very little prep work, but you will need a paper trimmer for a few cuts. The sample layouts include sparkly highlights created with Cool Mint stickles. If you’d like to recreate that affect, be sure to add a bottle to your order!
(Sample projects. Actual cardmaking & scrapbooking workshop projects will be posted soon.)August 26, 5 pm CSTThe Cut Above workshop kit makes a sixteen gorgeously decorative 8.5″ x 11″ scrapbook pages. This kit can be purchased separately or as part of the product bundle. The pages will come together quickly thanks to die cuts and stickers. You also get photo placeholders and printed instructions. Memory protectors and albums can be purchased separately. (Memory Protectors ARE included in the bundle.)
August 27, 5 pm CST
August 28, 5 pm CST
Although pictures and other details of the cardmaking and scrapbooking projects have not yet been posted, you can see the list of additional materials needed on the Event page.
All of these events will happen on the Close To My Heart Facebook page. You can watch them live or on replay at a later time that works for you. Over the last few weeks, CTMH has hosted workshops to make cards and layouts from the Aurora, Stitched Together and Brushed collections. You can still order some of these projects and watch the replays!
