Calling all Crafters! Whether you are a scrapbooker, cardmaker or enjoy other crafts, the First Baptist Church of Arnold monthly day crop is the place to be! You will have lots of room to work on your projects with your own 8′ table and you’ll enjoy a delicious catered breakfast and lunch. We have a fun group of regular attendees and we’d love to have you join us! Grab your current projects and get ready to enjoy a day of creativity and community!
Here’s the dets:
March 18 from 9 am to 5 pm
First Baptist Church of Arnold
2012 Missouri State Rd, Arnold, MO 63010
$30 – Register by Saturday March 11th @ noon to receive a $5 discount. Deadline to register is Friday, March 17th noon.
Last month, we had a record number of people at the crop. Our space is not as large for March and we expect to fill up. Be sure to sign up right away if you plan to attend.
Each month, I design a layout that uses fresh new techniques and new products from Close To My Heart to share with the attendees. This month’s layout uses the Life’s a Hoot paper collection, shiny gold foil paper and stencils
For this layout, you’ll sponge ink to make these add blended purpose butterflies using a stencil from the Slimline Card Front Stencil Pack 2 (Z6096). You’ll also learn how to use your ink pads to add random splatters to your pages. Each attendee will receive the left page of the layout shown just for coming to the crop. You will have the opportunity to upgrade your kit by purchasing the companion right page.
All materials needed to make the layout is included in the kit. Ink pads and other tools required to complete will be available for your use at the crop. Just bring your favorite adhesives to assemble. Gather up a few of your favorite photos to complete your layout at the crop or have it ready for future memories.
Today I want to give you a little introduction to the March collection of the month, Life’s a Hoot!
Whether crafting scrapbook pages, cards, décor, or anything else, the Life’s a Hoot product collection will infuse your projects with playful designs and lovely color combinations! Coordinating papers, stamps, die-cuts, and more take the guesswork out of the creative process!
Let’s start with the building blocks of this collection — the papers! These papers are packed with amazing background designs. In fact, even though this suite of products features adorable owls, this theme does not appear on any of the patterned papers which makes them perfect to use for a wide variety of projects.
You can get these beautiful papers with our without the coordinating sticker sheet. There is also a pack of solid cardstock that will match perfectly. This sticker sheet includes titles, borders, images and other designs with shiny gold foil accents to add extra pizazz to whatever you are making.
If you’d like more patterns, titles and journaling spots, the Picture My Life cards are perfect for adding the theme throughout your projects. I love using them both on my pages, in pockets and on cards!
This pack includes 24 cards — 12 each 4″ x 6″ and 3″ x 4″. The double-sided cards feature unique designs, sentiments, journaling space and icons. Typically one side has the design in landscape and the other in portrait, sometimes in different colors in the collection’s palette.
Now let’s take a look at the stamp sets. There are two in this collection with the first is geared primarily for card makers and the second for scrapbookers.
One of the things I hear from scrapbookers often is that they have trouble finding stamps that with the scale and sentiments appropriate for scrapbooking. Each of our collections includes a stamp set just for memory keeping and there are lots of other scrapbooking stamp set available in our catalog and website.
This particular set is available with or without thin cuts to save you from fussy cutting out those owls! The shapes that have coordinating thin cuts are designated by the grey shading. In addition to the owls, you also get dies to cut out the flowers.
Bonus: both of these stamp sets are included in this month’s Stamptacular celebration. Get them now at the discounted prices!
If you prefer to use your Cricut or other cutting machine, there is also a Digital Collection which includes both individual images and layered projects. Once purchased, you can load these images into Cricut Design Space or other software that uses SVG files.
Finally, this suite of products has a set of lovely embellishments to help you finish your projects in style. This embellshment pack includes assorted acrylic shapes and a 6″ x 6″ sheet of Grape paperboard die-cuts.
Now it’s time for the fun part! Check out the artwork below for inspiration from the amazing Close To My Heart art team.
This collection also includes two workshops. The Scrpbooking Workshop makes the three fun 2-page layouts shown below. The kit includes materials needed to make these projects. You just need your favorite adhesives and cutting tools to finish them. Enhance your layouts with an optional technique of added detailing using the Teal LePen journaling pen.
The Cardmaking Workshop makes 16 cards, 4 of each of the designs below. To create the projects as shown, pull out your watercolor pencils to color these beautiful butterflies. Additional supplies are listed on the website and in the included directions, which also give you lots of tips and tricks.
Calling all Memory Keepers! Whether you are a new scrapbooker or experienced, the First Baptist Church crop is the place to be! You will have lots of room to work on your projects with your own 8′ table and you’ll enjoy a delicious catered breakfast and lunch. We have a fun group of regular attendees and we’d love to have you join us! Enjoy a day of creativity and community!
My gift to everyone who attends the crop is a scrapbook page using the new “Are We There Yet?” paper collection! Each month, I design a layout that uses fresh new techniques so that you learn some new tricks while you complete the project.
All of the tools and materials needed are supplied. Just bring your favorite adhesives. Gather up a few of your favorite travel photos to complete your layout at the crop or have it ready for your next trip. If you like having two page layouts in your album, you will have the opportunity to upgrade your kit to include a second coordinating page.
I’m still designing this month’s layout, but you can get an idea of what to expect by scrolling through the gallery below of layouts we have made at previous crops:
Scrapbooking layout titled Good Times with Red, White & Blue colors
“Baking Together” layout for scrapbooking kitchen memories.
I’m so excited to invite you to join me at the CKC – St. Louis Scrapbooking Convention on April 8 & 9 at the Gateway Center – Collinsville, IL. If you live in the St. Louis Area, you don’t want to miss this fun creative event that includes a Vendor Fair where you’ll find the latest from a number of companies, crop to work on your personal project with your friends (or meet new ones), and classes where you can learn new creative techniques and try new products. Registration is now open on the CKC website.
Registration is now open for the Creative YOU-niversity! This fun day include 6 workshop classes where you will make cards, scrapbooking pages and event Christmas décor! We expect the kits to sell out, so be sure to get signed up for the classes or Pass that is right for you before they fill up.
This fun creative event is October 9 at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, MO. However, if you are busy that day or are not in this local area, you can choose the Remote option! After the event, you can pick up your projects (at my house in Arnold, MO) or choose to have them shipped directly to you. Everyone who registered will be invited to join a private Facebook group where instructors will be available to answer questions after the event.
Here are the classes we are offering at this event:
Ooh La La Macarons Cards
I Adore You Pocket Plus Layout
October Mixed Media Cards
Give Thanks Flip Flap Layout
Holly & Ivy Christmas Cards
Holly & Ivy Christmas TreeI
Each class project is designed to TEACH you techniques that you can use on future projects. You can choose to join us In-person or create your projects remotely. All Day, Morning and Afternoon passes allow you to bundle your classes and get a free or discounted lunch and shirt.
On the check out page, enter my personal code RBRO in the Discount Code box so I get credit for your registration AND I’ll add a bonus gift with your kits!
I love the pages I made with the Wander Scrapbooking Workshop. In this post, I’ll show you my the modifications I made to these pages and how I finished them off with my photos from our trip a few years ago — it seems like yesterday, but these photos are from way back in 2017.
One thing I LOVE about these workshops is that you can assemble them exactly like the samples, tweak to fit your pictures or use the pieces to completely do your own thing. I’m a “tweaker”. My layouts are 80-90% like the samples, but I wait until I have my photos to nail everything down. Most often, I rearrange the pieces to fit an extra photo or two. Because of our simple color coordination, I can easily make additional photo mats from cardstock.
Prepare for extra fun this Halloween with the new Boo Crew collection featuring a new paper packet and coordinating items. Keep reading to see details of these fun new products and the projects you can make with the workshop kit.
In case you missed it, all of the products in our popular Happiest Place collection are on sale for 20% of through the end of July! This collection was first released last summer and it includes paper, embellishments, SVGs and an 8.5″ x 11″ Cut Above scrapbooking album kit. Using the FREE downloadable directions below plus a extra paper, you can transform this kit to make 16 beautiful 12″ x 12″ Disney-themed pages!
The theme for the May 2021 Album Retreat has been announced: “My 5 Senses”! All of the layouts in this 22 page kit will be centered around things that we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. These pages include papers and stamps from the yet-to-be released May – June catalog plus lots of fun techniques and interactive details. This is going to be such a fun book to make!
What is an Album Retreat?
For years, Close To My Heart has sponsored “Album Retreats” for consultants to make an album that features all new products and lots of techniques. It was a way for use to learn and be equipped to teach our customers. Because of the pandemic, in 2020 CTMH started offering these retreats virtually and since they were no longer bound to the space in a meeting room, these amazing events were opened up and are no longer “consultant -only”.
This year’s virtual Album Retreat will be held on May 14 – 15 in a private Facebook. During those two days, instructors will walk your through each step in the process to make these beautiful pages. If you cannot make it to all of the sessions live, that’s ok because the group will remain available for you to watch them afterwards.
How can I be part of this?
To participate in this event, simply purchase the album bundle (EB20214)—there is no separate registration fee! Your kit will include all of the base and cut papers needed for the pages. You’ll also get stamp sets and thin cuts needed to make these elaborate decorative pages. As we get closer to the event, Close To My Heart will send an email to everyone who has purchased the bundle with an invitation to join a private Facebook group where the event will be held. A list of additional materials needed to complete the project will be added in the coming days.
This retreat’s album includes 11 two-page 12″ × 12″ scrapbook layouts, for a total of 22 pages! Scroll down to see them all. Click on the images to see all the details.
