NEW SPRING/SUMMER IDEA BOOK IS HERE!

Whoopie, it's here and online now! Close to My Heart's Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book!

 

You can also now purchase the current NEW Spring/Summer Idea Book for just $3.95, right from my website! This is a NEW feature that Close to My Heart is offering.  You can include the purchase with any order you place on my Website.

 Here are some of the new papers!  (swoon............)

I'm a "vintage" girl, so I LOVE this new paper!

How classy is this?

You should see the Display Tray made with these darling summery Jubilee papers!  There's a picture of it on page 42 of the new Idea Book.

My oh My! Love this and love the wood grain paper and the deep blues and greens. So much potential for summer layouts and cards.

Check out the online Idea Book for great new stamp sets, fabrics, washi tape, ribbons, albums, home decor, a new line of jewelry that I think you'll adore (page 79), and NEW (never before offered by CTMH) embossing folders to use with your Cuttlebug or other die-cut and embossing machines. There is also a special this month regarding the embossing folders. It's on the "embossing folders" link above.

Be sure to check out the Stamp of the Month set, Wild About Love and some cute ideas for using it, on page 11. I'll post pictures of it in the next couple of days.

Enjoy!

PICTURE MY LIFE - ALERT!

Would you love documenting your memories in minutes? Would you love a quick easy way to preserve your photos? 


COMING SOON IN FEBRUARY,  Picture My LifeTM scrapbook program from Close to My Heart. Easy, fast, fun!  

Look carefully - do you see the pre-divided page protector where she has slipped in her photos and the cards?

NOTE: Be sure to read my next post (on January 30th) for the unveiling of an AWESOME new way to print photos from your camera or iPad or tablet. 

If it's hard for you to find the time to make your photo books and scrapbooks from "scratch", with the cutting, gluing, trimming and stamping, then you’ll love the new Close to My Heart "Picture My Life™" scrapbooking program. It's meant for quick and beautiful memory-keeping. 

That's what it's all about right? preserving our photos, preserving the precious memories by keeping those photos in a safe place?
 

This is a really neat photobooking program that has eight different themes, all gorgeous! I call it "photobooking" as it's really not "scrapbooking". It's fast and easy and you put divided page protectors in albums, and fill them with your photos and the pretty and unique "journal cards" and "theme cards". No gluing, no cutting, no stamping, no measuring!

You can mix and match the themed cards for a truly unique look, or just use one theme. You’ll love the ease, affordability, and beauty of the Picture My LifeTM programs. Your own photos are all you need to add to make astounding artwork—in no time at all!

Each set (or "program" as it's called) (priced at $24.95) includes 122 (yes 122!) double-sided cards plus 10 unique Memory Protectors™ to capture life as it happens, very quickly. On one side of each card is space for journaling, and on the other you’ll find artistic sentiments and icons. CTMH designers have used some of the past beloved papers sold in previous seasons.

Included in each set are:

• 44 - 4"x6" cards (2 each of 22 designs)
• 78 - 3"x4" cards (3 each of 28 designs)
• 12x12 cover sheet (shown in the above picture)
•            decorated to match the program theme
•  10 -   12x12 memory protectors
•            with various compartments 

There is so much variety in the cards - way more than other programs of this type on the market.

Here's a sampling of a few of the cards in the Avonlea set:

 
Each of the eight sets has a theme, such as childhood, family, sports, "girly-girl", to friendship and travel.

The more I look at these cards, the more excited I get! I can hardly wait to get a set, or two...... or three...........

Sampling of Babycakes set:

 
Each program/set is designed to accommodate approximately 100 photos in your TEN included CTMH Memory ProtectorsTM, so with a balance of photos and cards, you’ll finish with about 20 remaining cards. That means you have plenty of choice and flexibility to make it uniquely yours! Of course, you can easily use more or fewer photos in your project to suit your story’s needs.

Sampling of Chantilly set:

I love these Chantilly papers!  Now I get to see and use them again! I'm thrilled!

Unique to Picture My LifeTM is an included 12" × 12" double-sided cover page with each individual program/set, using a beautiful My Reflections™ pattern.

  

Sampling of L8tr Skater set: 

The Picture My LifeTM program is so versatile that you’ll find dozens of other ways to incorporate it into your papercrafting. Use the cards to expand other projects you’ve started! Use the cards from this program on your other handmade "cards" that you send out for thank yous, birthdays and holidays. Use some of the cards on your "from scratch" classic scrapbook pages, as gift tags, or in your My CrushTM books or mini albums. What great embellishments!

Sampling of Laughing Lola set:

 

I've included a sampling of five of the eight program sets. Do you recognize some of CTMH's favorite paper themes from last year?

To view the other three sets,  you can view the online Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book on February 1, 2014 by going to my website HERE and clicking on the Products-Idea Books tab.  Two of the programs use NEW papers from the new Idea Book! They are gorgeous.

Two pretty and unique 12x12 albums will be listed in the new Idea Book, to purchase separately for these Picture My LifeTM programs.You can choose either post-bound albums or 3-ring albums.


Even though I LOVE to make the traditional, paper and glue scrapbooking pages, I'll be excited to give these program/sets as gifts to my friends and family, (and to use for myself - don't tell!) for quick projects, so I can get caught up on my boxes and boxes of photos that need to be put into books NOW. 

Are you excited yet? Let me know what YOU would use one of these sets for!

 

I'M ON CLOUD NINE! and some Sneak Peeks.

Did you know that January is National Papercrafting Month! It's another good reason for Close to My Heart to present another awesome special for you! 

With this CLOUD NINE cardmaking kit, you can create 10 cute cards (2 each of 5 designs) using three sneak-peek accessories from the upcoming Spring/Summer Idea Book, a new D-size stamp set, and exclusive Cloud Nine papers.  

Oh my, TEAL shimmer trim? gold polka dot washi tape? I would add a big smiley face here if I could!

Here's a peek at the 5 different cards you can make, and instructions are included in the kit:

Here's a darling card made by Sheila Bennett at Sheila's Stamping Stuff.  This gives you an idea of how you can change it up, and use different papers with some of the kit stamps  and assessories.

Using the mustache stamp from the Cloud Nine set (and probably white pigment ink), Sheila's card has the appearance of a bow on top of a gift box. Isn't that smart? 

To create the polka-dot box, she adhered some strips of the new gold Washi Tape to a square of black cardstock.  After adding some of the (new) Triangle Studs, a strip of the Washi Tape on the front of the envelope and on the inside of the card, the gift box look is completed. 

Both the Washi Tape and Triangle Studs (along with the teal shimmer trim shown in the above cards) are included in the Cloud Nine cardmaking kit, and are NEW items in the upcoming Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book (going live, on-line on February 1st)! Love these! 

THIS SPECIAL OFFER IS ONLY AVAILABLE DURING JANUARY, 2014.

There is a Cloud Nine blog hop going on right now. Go to Sheila's blog, Sheila's Stamping Stuff and you can continue on from there. You'll find some fun ideas and inspiration.

Here's the sweet stamp set that is included with the kit.








Also included in this kit are:

• Cloud Nine B&T paper (1 sheet)
• Lagoon cardstock (1 sheet)
• Honey cardstock (1 sheet)
• White Daisy Die-Cuts sheet (1)
• 1 roll Gold Polka-Dot Washi Tape (new item!)
• 1 roll Teal Shimmer Trim (new item!)
• 1 pkg Durables Triangle Studs (new item!)
• 10 card bases & envelopes
• Instructional Brochure

You can receive all three of these new embellishments (retail value $16.85) PLUS the stamp set (retail value $13.95) and other contents of the Cloud Nine cardmaking kit for only $15 with a minimum $35 CTMH order from the Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book. 

If you want to watch the CTMH video about this darling kit, please go HERE. You'll get excited about this kit after Christine, from Close to My Heart, shows you, "up close and personal" all of the pieces in the kit!

So get out the scissors, stamps and glue and Happy Papercrafting!
 
 

NEW AUTUMN WINTER IDEA BOOK IS HERE!

Here it is! The Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book!!  Full of new paper packs, new stamp sets, card kits, jewelry kits, frames and more!

There are now six new HOSTESS stamp sets that only a person hosting an online or home gathering can earn with hostess rewards. Those are on the first pages of the Idea Book.

The Stamps of the Month are also now shown in the FRONT of the Idea Book, rather than the back.  Check out the August Stamp of the Month, Chocolate Affair, for you chocolate lovers! It's FREE with a purchase of $50 or more.  What great gifts!  If you purchase, for example, $100 of products, you can earn TWO free stamps of the month!  Think Christmas, think gifts.
 

Click HERE to view the Idea Book online... right now.... right here!

HAVE FUN!
 

MUMS THE WORD... BUT I CAN'T WAIT!

I know, I know... I'm trying to keep quiet about the new Close to My Heart Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book that is going to make its debut on August 1st! But I just can't keep quiet!!!!! I have to post some little thing... that's all there is to it.

And of course, I can't just keep it to one thing!  Hum.m.m.m.m.... what is my favorite new thing? That is really tough.

I could say it's the:

 DARLING NEW STAMP SETS JUST RIGHT FOR COLORING!

........ or the.....

JEANETTE'S ARCHIVED STAMP SETS!

I can't wait to color on these!  These were hand-drawn by Jeanette (owner of CTMH) and will be "while supplies last".

I LOVE to quilt.  How cute are these???

 ...... or the.................. just one more? OK?????...........

BEAUTIFUL NEW "FROST COLLECTION"!

BLUES AND SILVERS... HINT HINT!

..............OK...... just one more thing and this is BIG!

EXCITING "MY CRUSH BOOKS"!!!!!!!!

Here's just a teeny tiny hint...............

I SO...SO...SO...SO...SO...SO want to show you more!  but I'd better wait..... and only SEVEN more days before you can view the entire IDEA BOOK online!  

Let me know if you would like one mailed to you... the cost is $6.00 which includes postage.

AND THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG!

  

SOME PRODUCTS RETIRING AT THE END OF JULY.

If you aren't a Close to My Heart Consultant, then you don't know that some of our products are retiring at the end of July, 2013, to make room for our NEW AUTUMN/WINTER 2013 IDEA BOOK products! 

It is sad (sigh.....) to see some of the products go, but it is also exciting to anticipate the new things that are coming! I will miss them. I wish we could get everything all of the time!

We CTMH consultants are so excited! The Close to My Heart Convention is going on right now in Florida, and many consultants are attending (not me). On June 27th, the new Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book will be revealed to the consultants attending the convention. (And I am going to be following many blogs to get sneak peaks of the new things being introduced in the new Idea Book!)

Non-consultants will be able to view the new Idea Book online at my website on August 1st! I may show some sneak peaks before then. 

There are usually 7 to 8 new paper packs in the new Idea Book! How exciting! I can hardly wait!  

Four of this season's paper packs will be carried forward.  They are:

Tommy - seen HERE.
Chantilly - seen HERE.
Surf's Up - seen HERE.
For Always - seen HERE.  

Phew...... the Chantilly textiles and For Always textiles, and Drawstring muslin bags, three of my favorites, will be carried forward to the new Idea Book!  .........so glad.  Here is a canvas wall hanging project that I made using the textiles, and HERE is one of my stamped, cute muslin bags.


For a list of the CTMH retiring products, go HERE. If there is anything you have on your wish list that you just can't live without, be sure to get it before July 31st! All of these are WHILE SUPPLIES LAST, so once they're gone, they're gone. (Boo Hoo).  I'm always sad to see old favorites go.

But then the new products appear and I'm happy again! 

I'm hearing that Close to My Heart is introducing some brand new, ground-breaking designs!