Just in time for summer, we’ve brought back a popular paper pack from a few years ago. You can purchase the Seaside paper pack, cardstock and stamp set separately or save 25% when you buy the bundle.
We’ve also created a beautiful workshop to make 4 scrapbook pages and 6 cards. You can download the direction for free HERE!
You can also get a pack of the Seaside paper FREE when you join my team or host a qualifying party in June!
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Celebrate the best moments during June with four My Acrylix® stamp sets and coordinating layout kits designed to preserve some of your favorite memories. This special features three stamp sets from our Seasonal Expressions idea book and one exclusive set—Then & Now—designed just for this special.
For this month only, select stamp sets are paired with materials for creating a 2-page scrapbooking layout at no additional cost! You pay the price of the stamp set and get the layout materials FREE—a savings of up to 40%!
All 4 of these stamp sets and layout kits can be purchased separately or in a bundle. You will save over 50% off retail when you buy the special The Best Moments Are Free bundle! You can also get one of these workshop kits FREE when you become a Consultant or host a qualifying party in June!
You can also get one of these layout kits free when you join my team or host a qualifying party in May!
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Today’s post is brought to you by the Scattered Hearts Team! I’m proud to be a member of this leading team at Close To My Heart. This team is full of amazing artists and I have a real treat for you today: a blog hop of projects made by team members using the Close To My Heart Cricut collections.
If you arrived from Pink Cloud Scrappers with Lori, you are on the right path. My project is this beach layout using images from the You Are Here cartridge and stamp sets.
The hardest part of this project was deciding where to start since this cartridge has 700 images. They are all travel related and I love to travel, but the sand castle really won me over so my first You Are Here page has a beach theme.
If you’d like more information about this project, continue reading. If you are ready to see the another Cricut project, hop on over to Scrappin with Heather to see what she’s made.
One of the things I love about this layout is the use of our new two-toned cardstock. The front of each sheet is the original color, but the back side is a slightly lighter shade. I love how it works for the sandcastle — using two different colors in our palette would have made the contrast too bold. But cutting the layers out of the two sides of our new Toffee paper made it just enough to highlight the details.
You can also see the difference two-toned makes in the Lagoon water. Our paper still has a white core which helped me create the waves in the ocean.
This layout also introduces our new Color of the Year, Bashful. This beautiful soft pink is so trendy and was the perfect addition to my beach layout.
We have a full lineup of Bashful items including Cardstock, dye and pigment inks, reinker, glitter paper, albums and even the pearls.Don’t they add so much to the cute beach bag on this layout? You will also see this trendy color pop up in other products through out the year.
The You Are Here cartridge is part of a bundle that includes a paper pack plus three great travel stamp sets that coordinate with the images on the cartridge. This tag was made from a cut on the cartridge and stamped with one of the includes stamps. Toffee paper and ink were used to get the soft tone-on-tone look which was perfect for this layout.
Click on the link below to open to the Design Space file I used to create this layout. Remember you have to purchase the You Are Here Cricut Collection before you can cut the images.
YOU ARE HERE BEACH LAYOUT DESIGN SPACE LINK
Project Recipe:
Lagoon, Bashful, Toffee and White Daisy Cardstock
You Are Here Cricut Collection (Z3389 for physical cartridge, Z3387 for digital only)
Love stamping, but hate “fussy cutting”? Thin cuts are a great way to have perfectly cut stamped images and we have just introduced four new sets that coordinate with stamp sets in the Annual Inspirations Idea Book.
You can use these thin metal dies with your favorite die-cutting machine (I use Cuttlebug) to quickly and easily cut shapes ont he stamp sets. The Thin cuts are packaged on their own magnetic sheet and work well with most die-cutting machines.
The first new set of thin cuts coordinates with the School Kids stamp set (D1706). Images include all three children, an apple and the school house.
We also have a new thin cut to go with the Wreath stamp set (A1193). I love this stamp set, but cutting out the wreath is so tedious. Now, I can literally just crank them out.
The next thin cut coordinates with images on the Sweet Birthday (B1532) stamp set. Images include the candle, cupcake and party hat.
The last one is my favorite. These new thin cuts coordinate with the Swirly Seashells (C1664) stamp set. Note that each of the shells on this stamp set can now be cut from the thin cuts!
Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be jpegs.
I first heard this from Stacey Julian in the keynote speech at the Close To My Heart convention this summer. (I Googled and was not able to determine who said it first). Anyway, the point is that we take tons of pictures these days, but often they are unaccessible. We have cameras in our phones, our tablets, and mp3 devises. But most of these pictures reside on our devises tucked away and out of site.
Today, we are picture rich, but memory poor
I can hear you, “But what about Facebook, Youtube or Twitter?” Think about it; Do you want to depend on these services to tell your story? Even if you were sure these sites will be available 20, 30, 50 or more years from now, do they provide the context needed to understand the story behind the pictures?
Not all pictures are created equally
(Another Stacey Julian quote.) Today it is so easy to take pictures and that makes it overwhelming when we think of printing some to frame or put into albums. Instead of feeling obligated to treasure each and every pictures, consider which ones make you smile most.
First, pick some of your very favorites to display in your home. I love going to peoples houses and seeing the progression of their babies growing up, wedding photos and family portraits. Collage frames are a wonderful way to display lots of related (or unrelated) snapshots.
Then consider placing the best of the rest into an album for the family to enjoy. A great way to do that is digital scrapbooking. Using the Studio J online program you can quickly and affordably turn your pictures into great memory pages. Don’t try to do it all at once. Just pick a recent event you would like to document and go from there.
For the paper scrapbooker, Studio J layouts integrate seamlessly with your paper pages. When placed side by side next to your paper layouts in an album, they look like they belong.
Not a scrapbooker? That’s fine to. When you get these prints, simply place them in any 12” x 12” scrapbooking album to create a beautiful memory book.
Here’s a couple layouts I created after our final summer outing with the family.
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| Footloose Kit |
What I love about this layout is that is it simple and clean, yet has great detail. I love the stitching, especially the “waves” along the bottom.
The last thing we did before we left the park was take family pictures. They may not be professional but they capture the memories of a fun outdoor weekend perfectly.
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| Flirty Kit |
There was no one around to ask to take our picture so we used a claw type tripod to secure the camera to the rail. Worked great except for the big hand rail in the lower right corner. I camouflaged it somewhat with a flourish and Stickease.
You will not believe how easy Studio J is to use. Click hereto open an account and start trying it out for free.
Two reasons NOW is the best time to get started:
1) During the month of October, when you buy 9 Studio J layouts you get one free!
Email me to RSVP to Studio J Café or to send me any questions you have.
2) I’m hosting “Studio J Café” next Monday evening at 7:00 – 8:30. Anyone interested in learning how to get started is invited to come. Absolutely no obligation! Simply bring your wifi enabled laptop (or let me know if you need to borrow mine) and a few digital pictures. Email me to RSVP.
