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

 

September 2015 workshop

September Workshop

 In September we wanted to have some more fun with some more of my favorite papers. However - the Nevermore papers would be wonderful to use for these projects as well!

I used the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge to cut the little flower (pg. 69) and the sentiment on pg. 53. The best way to get it curled up is to use our Quilling Tool. For the coffin, I used our Cricut Arstiste cartridge (pg. 76). I love the Thistle cardstock, don't you?

Other Products needed:

B1460 Trick or Treat Sweets

Z1919 Purple Shimmer Trim

Z3088 Coral Shimmer Trim

Z2114 Cocoa ink (for sponging)

Sponge (for distressing)

Z2105 Black ink

Z2010 White Stars - you can make them black with black archival ink!

If you are missing any of these items - just go to my website and start shopping!
 

Of course, you can pull all of these items together with your favorite adhesive, add your favorite candy for your favorite spook!

Have a Happy Halloween :)

Margit

October Workshop - More Christmas and Halloween!

 October Workshop - More Christmas and Halloween!

 Here are the projects we made at our last workshop - I am trying to catch up, as promised! If you would like to do the projects yourself, here is what you will need:

Halloween project: (By the way - think out the box ... so to speak ... this would make a great birthday gift box for a 50 year birthday celebration ... just saying ... ha!)

Flower - Z1790 Art Philosophy cartridge
Square - "
 B1460 Halloween Stamp set
Z2173 Slate Ink Pad
1388 Colonial White CS
X5930 Slate CS
X5769 Thistle CS
X7185B Scaredy Cat Paper Pack
Z3011 Scaredy Cat Assortment (for stars)
(I also used a sponge for distressing, a quilling tool Z1795 to roll up my flowers - that makes it so much easier to make those flowers!
Tip for flowers - we do have a tutorial on the flowers, but with the quilling tool, just start rolling up at the end. Then I put some glue on the bottom of the flower (liquid glue or hot glue) hold it together and the flower is done! I like to the let my flower relax a little before I glue. The quilling tool is also great to "fold" the edges of the pedals down. Makes it so much easier - hopes that makes sense :)

Fold-out Wreath Card:

Z3017 Artfully Sent Cricut Collection
C1598 Noel 
D1553 Deck the Halls
B1466 Sweet Salutations
X5931 Champagne CS
X5643 Chocolate CS

Z2103 Bamboo Ink pad
Z2111 Chocolate Ink pad
Z1263 Itty Bitty Sparkles (for me - a must have! Love Bling!)

As you can see I used random stamping on the champagne base card, cut out the wreath, decorated it with bling, stamped the round stamp with a reverse image and then the word image and I was done! This was just about a 5 minute card! Love this new cartridge!

O Holy Night

 A1168 O Holy Night
D1553 Yuletide Greetings
X5927 Ruby CS
1386 Black CS
1388 Colonial White CS
 X7187B Yuletide Paper Pack
Z2114 Cocoa Ink Pad
Z2103 Bamboo Ink Pad
 Z2010 White Enamel Hearts
Z3007 Yuletide Assortment (gold bling)Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim
Z1151 3-d Tape

For inspiration on this card I went to one of our "How to" books - Make it from the Heart. 

Hope this will get you going - next week is our next workshop already and we are going to do more Christmas! Yeah! If you want to have some fun and you are close to me - contact me.

If you are not close to me, we can have a "Party in the Box".  Contact me now if you are interested!

Have fun!

This afternoon I played around with the Art Philosophy cartridge and I thought I would share. I also used the B1460 Trick or Treat Sweets stamp set, Slade and Thistle cardstock along with the Slade ink pad.

This treat box was easy to put together, but surely will make someone happy - like someone in my family!

Don't forget right now you can still get a free stamp set with a $30 purchase in stamp set purchases!

Cut Above™ kits

If you are looking for some great card kits or treat kits to put together quickly? These are it. They are pre-cut for you. All the supplies you need are included. All you need to do is stamp the images, included the candy in the treat bags (oh, the candy is not included either, ha!). You are done! Your holidays are covered, they are quick and easy to do. Have fun creating :)

Go to my website in the shopping area and look for "Cut Above" Kits.

Artbooking Made Easy (S01E05): Halloween Mini Albums

Using just 2 Halloween-themed keys, you can make truly terrifying (and terrific!) mini works of art. Get great ideas for your own creepy creations in this video.

Don't you love those mini albums? I love how this video shows the steps of how to put the little pages together :). This video shows how to make little mini albums, but you could also use these very steps to just create a fun little card for Halloween. Give it a try! If you do not have this cartridge yet, you can get more ideas and the cartridge right here!