August CTMH newsletter

August 2021: Tutti Frutti Summer Spend $50 & get this stamp set for $5 Each month, purchase a new D-size stamp set (valued at $18.95) for JUST $5. Qualify for special pricing by placing a $50+ order in CTMH products. Special available until August 31st. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!  (Item # S2108, set of 15 stamps) Recommended Blocks: 1" x 1" (Y1000), 1" × 3½″ (Y1002), 2" × 2" (Y1003), 3" × 3" (Y1006), 2" × 6½″ (Y1010). Shop Stamp of the Month Holiday Stories Save on kits designed in collaboration with renowned storyteller Stacy Julian & tell the stories you love! Telling stories is a fun part of any holiday celebration & you will love having your own stories to tell with the Story by Stacy™ Holiday Stories I Love Workshop Kit. This kit guides you through the process of exploring the memories behind your most treasured photos & then writing detailed stories to go with them. The Holiday Stories kit includes stickers designed especially for the holidays — including some shiny silver foil accents — while the traditional Stories I Love kit includes stickers designed for any other stories you have to tell. Both are available at discounted prices for a limited time during this sale, including bundled together in the Holiday Stories Bundle! After picking out your Stories I Love kit, be sure to join us for a virtual crafting event hosted by Stacy Julian herself on August 17! Learn more about the event on our Facebook page. See Featured Products Boo Crew Prepare for extra fun this Halloween with an exclusive product collection featuring a new paper packet & coordinating items. The Boo Crew special makes Halloween crafting more fun than ever with an exclusive collection of products, including a paper packet, sticker sheet, stamp set, sequins & more! Save 20% when you purchase these items as part of the Boo Crew Product Bundle or the Boo Crew Workshop Kit. Check out the Boo Crew Workshop Guide for instructions in using the materials in your workshop kit plus some additional supplies to create three 12″ × 12″ two-page layouts & a set of papercrafted treat holders! View Collection CTMH July-August 2021 Catalog Close To My Heart is the “Let Me Show You How™” company. From easy-to-follow patterns in our how-to books to coordinated embellishments for fast & gorgeous pages, we can show you how to discover your creativity & celebrate relationships — with handmade projects from the heart! View July-August 2021 Catalog CTMH Annual Catalog Close To My Heart is the “Let Me Show You How™” company. From easy-to-follow patterns in our how-to books to coordinated embellishments for fast & gorgeous pages, we can show you how to discover your creativity & celebrate relationships—with handmade projects from the heart! View Annual Catalog Bring Back My Pack: White Pines Rediscover this popular Christmas-themed paper collection with new stamp sets & workshop kits! The White Pines collection features the same classic paper designs that made it popular the first time it was available, with a refreshed color palette & several coordinating products, including a new sticker sheet, a coordinating cardstock packet & FOUR My Acrylix® stamp sets! You can save 20% on this great collection of products with the White Pines Product bundle, which contains each of these special items. You also get discounted prices with the two workshop kits, which include materials for creating scrapbook layouts or cards using items from this great collection, plus a few additional items. View Collection White Pines Scrapbooking Workshop Guide White Pines Cardmaking Workshop Guide POLL: Which type of workshops & events would you like to see moving forward? Click reply to provide valuable feedback for our crafting community. Visit My Website Visit My Facebook Page Margit McCabe Become A Consultant Shop Promotions NEWS & UPDATES Upcoming virtual events from Close To My Heart: They're free - all you have to do is join here! Hope to see you there. If you'd like to use the same product, you can get the bundles ahead of time through my CTMH website. Please join me in my Facebook VIP group by clicking here. Happy August! -- Margit

 

Did you miss the last workshop?

Never fear - I will share the cards we made and more!


First let me show you the three cards we made at the workshop. I will only highlight a couple of cool little steps I taught. If you want to learn more details - please, contact me and I will be more than happy to help you out.

Let me point out - all cards have distressed parts! Yes, we always distress the edges of the cardstock! Use your scissors, your edge distressor. Use your sponge or sponge dauber. Distressing adds a lot more to your artwork.

 One of the gals asked me where I get my inspiration for the cards - I go to the internet, yes. But I also go to my previous idea books and I use our How to Books. I love to use them to get started and adjust the cards to what  need to do. They are well work their price! We have them for card makers and scrapbookers. You can't really tell in these pictures, but I used 3-d tape on all of my cards as well.

 One of the things I wanted to teach on the tie card was that - do not throw even the smallest piece of cs away! I used a sliver of background paper for under my buttons! It adds some color. I can always find a use for paper somewhere!

Don't you love this ribbon! The cricut makes cutting these ribbons out so easy! Our little booklets that come with the cartridges show you step by step how to fold these ribbons. Its 1-2-3 and they are put together!

Again, if you missed my classes - you can purchase the kits - contact me and I will be glad to help you out.

My Creations® Craftable Containers

Thanks to the My Creations^® line of products, you can make great projects from the outside in! These stampable, markable, craftable albums, bags, and ring boxes make the perfect packaging for the special projects and gifts you place inside them. Watch the video to get ideas for your own crafty containers.

This is a great look at our Kraft line products and how to use them! I love these products, because they are so versatile. You can do a lot with them or go easy - it is up to you how you decorate them. Put them in your bag and decorate as you go or decorate them at your next crop.

Have fun!

Eight Great How-to Helps (06)

In need of inspiration? Get it from any or all of Jeanette Lynton’s eight how-to publications, the finest guides in scrapbooking and cardmaking! With helpful hints for the novice crafter all the way up to the experienced scrapbooker, these affordable books are a must-have for you and your customers. See for yourself some of the blueprints, cutting diagrams, instructions, tips, and full-colour artwork for hundreds of layouts and cards here. You’ll be crafting like a pro in no time!

 

From the first day the first of these books were introduced I loved them! They are full of great ideas and instructions - and no advertisement. Yes, no advertisement. Don't you hate it, when you buy magazines and you get 20 pages of advertisement and 5 pages of ideas and instructions and who knows how much you paid for that magazine! Here you get every pennies worth. Every one of our idea book will refer to these books, what pattern was used to help you how to recreate the artwork yourself. Contact me, so I can help you make the most out of these books and all the great resources we offer! Have fun!

Discover CTMH ink colors!

Make a little music with colour-coordinated pages created with our exclusive palette. With four fabulous families to choose from, finding just the right colour of paper, ink, markers, and more is simple! See a sampling of products here; then get them in a rainbow of exclusive colours to paint your own crafting world.

This video was made originally for our Australian and New Zealand market, but I thought it would be great to share it with our US gals as well, because it explains our colors so well!

Be on the lookout real soon for another video for our How - to - books!

Have fun playing with color!

Margit aka scrappingbee :)

New Fall/Winter 2012 idea book is now live

Here is the new book you have been waiting for you can find all the cool new products in our online version right here. 

Here are some of the cool new things you will find:

• A new Artbooking Cricut Cartridge with 3 stampsets, 3 dimensional sheets and 700 designs - and your imagination is the limit. You can make layouts, cards, mini albums, home deocations and so much more with this cartridge. You will love it!
• Of course new scrapbook themed kits and card kits
• Workshop on the Go kits
• Wearable art - yes you can make it and wear it, give it as a gift or share and it does not break your bank!
• New decor items - love those frames!
• More organizational tools
• Did you love those early DOTS stamps? Do you know what I am talking about? We are bringing a bit history back. Next year we are celebration 30 years for Jeanette being in business with DOTS and some of her favorite designs are in this idea book for a limited time only! Catch them while you can.
• And of course lots of new bling :)
• There are probably a few more things I missed, you will have to go through the new book page by page to find out all the other new things to find them yourself ... can't take all the fun away from you - ha!

Retirement List for 2012

Here is the list! We will only carry the items as supplies last so, you want to make sure you get them while they are available.  Just go to my website and click on shopping. You can make it easy and just input the item number you are looking for. You can choose to "join" my online party or just place an order on your own.  

Anyone who places an order this month will get a free spring/summer 2013 book!

2012 Autumn/Winter Idea Book Retiring List

Item#   Description                     Idea Book Page No.

Z1349 Shimmer Designer Brads 127

Z1360 Rhinestone Designer Brads 127

Z1361 Brads Red Assortment  127

Z1362 Brads Pink Assortment 127

Z1363 Brads Blue Assortment 127

Z1364 Brads Green Assortment 127

Z1365 Brads Basic Assortment 127

Z1387 Wooden Designer Buttons 125

Z1391 Buttons Clear Assortment 125

Z1395 Irresistibles™ Eclectic Chipboard Die-Cuts (the alphabet) 130

Z1465 Irresistibles™ Make-It-Count Numbers 130

Z1681 Dimensional Elements  Numbers  131

Z1761 Dimensional Elements Ornaments 131

Z1762 Dimensional Elements Snowflakes 131

Z1765 Color-Ready Arbor Wooden Shapes 130

X7147C Stella Complements Canvas Shapes 68

X7148C My Stickease® Pemberley Assortment 68

X7150C My Stickease® Victory Assortment 69

X7153C My Stickease® Florentine Assortment 69

X7158C La Belle Vie My Stickease® Assortment 38

X7160C Flirty Complements Dimensional Elements 50

X7161C Moonlight Complements Dimensional Elements 56

X7162C Pear & Partridge Complements Glittery Rub-Ons 62

Z1464 Milepost Shapes 128

Z1466 Bling Assortment 128

Z1695 Urban Felt Alphabet  130

Z1696 Keepsake Felt Alphabet  130

Z1709 Just Blooms® Petals Paper Flowers 129

Z1460 Foundry® Ribbon Slides 126

Z1711 Foundry® Binder Clips 126

Z1712 Foundry® Number Plates  126

Z1461 Décor Journaling Spots 129

Z1687 Bohemian Assortment  128

Z1689 Timeless Charms 128

Z1692 Tough Tags 128

Z1694 Bouquet Assortment 128

Z1741 Haunted Assortment 128

Z1749 Autumn Lane Assortment  128

Z1763 Boutique Assortment 128

2012 Autumn/Winter Idea Book Retiring List

Z1772 Dimensional Elements In Color—Holiday 128

Z1393 Mini-Medley Accents Black Collection  126

Z1316 Designer Ribbon Cocoa Collection 124

Z1385 Designer Ribbon Blue Collection 124

Z1615 Designer Ribbon Red Collection 124

Z1616 Designer Ribbon Green Collection 124

Z1388 Newsprint Rub-Ons  130

Z1700 Dark Chocolate Tapestry Velvet Rub-Ons 126

Z1733 Black Tapestry Velvet Rub-Ons 126

Z1743 Festive Velvet Rub-Ons  126

Z1742 Parlor Velvet Rub-Ons 126

Z1407 6" x 6" Olive Quick Pic™ Album 122

Z1408 6" x 6" Pansy Purple Quick Pic™ Album 122

Z1054 My Creations® Display Album 132

Z1378 My Creations® Banner 132

Z1614 My Creations® Memory Game 132

Z188 Craft Jars 120

Z1352 4 1/2" Colonial White Circle Cards 123

Z1353 4 1/2" White Daisy Circle Cards 123

Z1731 My Originals® Sweet Surprises Card Kit 123

X7147B My Reflections® Stella Paper Packet 68

X7148B My Reflections® Pemberley Paper Packet 68

X7150B My Reflections® Victory Paper Packet 69

X7153B My Reflections® Florentine Paper Packet 69

X7158B La Belle Vie Paper Packet  38

X7160B Flirty Paper Packet 50

X7161B Moonlight Paper Packet 56

X7162B Pear & Partridge Paper Packet 62Z1252 Cutting Knife 135

G1041 Workshops on the Go® Avonlea Cardmaking Kit 22

G1043 Workshops on the Go® Pear & Partridge Cardmaking Kit 66

G1040 Workshops on the Go® Spellbound Cricut® Kit 14

G1042 Workshops on the Go® Scroll Album Kit 23

G1044 Workshops on the Go® Advent Calendar Kit 67

G1045 Workshops on the Go® Avonlea Scrapbooking Kit 21

G1046 Workshops on the Go® Clementine Scrapbooking Kit 29

G1047 Workshops on the Go® Dakota Scrapbooking Kit 35

G1048 Workshops on the Go® La Belle Vie Scrapbooking Kit  41

G1049 Workshops on the Go® Scholastic Scrapbooking Kit 47

G1050 Workshops on the Go® Flirty Scrapbooking Kit 53

G1051 Workshops on the Go® Moonlight Scrapbooking Kit 59

G1052 Workshops on the Go® Pear & Partridge Scrapbooking Kit 65

Retiring Stamps in the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book

Item#    Stamp name     Page #

A1104 A Tweet 90

A1111 A Tulip 68

A1116 A Melody 94

A1122 Bravo 92

A1128 Quick Cards—Shell 80

A1129 A Rainbow 85

B1365 Spring Up 71

B1369 Rosy Regards 67

B1374 Bee Happy 83

B1397 He Is Risen 74

B1402 My Peeps 72

C1439 Enjoy Life 95

C1440 Take a Picture 93

C1442 Tailor-Made 94

C1450 Eclectic Edges 99

C1452 Delight 71

C1455 Aspire 96

C1456 Heartfelt Treasures 68

C1457 Happy Camper 84

C1458 Paper Lantern 90

C1473 Remarkable Wreath 70

C1474 10 Things 105

C1485 Super Powers 47

C1498 Country Life 82

C1499 Perfect Day 80

D1195 The Works Alphabet 117

D1222 Tiny Typewriter Alphabet 117

D1296 Chocolate Alphabet Small 114

D1301 Hodge Podge Alphabet 114

D1303 Classmate Alphabet 114D1462 Splendid Day 77

D1464 Card Chatter—Love 106

D1467 Trees & Things 76

D1472 Simple Memories 66

D1478 Bingo Alphabet 113

D1505 Roar! 89

D1508 Diverse Backgrounds 102

D1509 Magic Adventures 78

D1511 Kick Back 81

E1013 Field Trip Alphabet 114