Christmas in July Flash Sale!

 Christmas in July!

Thin Cuts, Sequins, paper and more and just have to come and check out all the goodness you might be able to to get for less during our Christmas in July Flash Sale!

July 2021 CTMH News!

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July 2021: White Pines Is Back! Bring Back My Pack: White Pines Rediscover this popular Christmas-themed paper collection with new stamp sets and 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

Wander Take on new adventures in crafting with this month’s featured paper collection, designed to help you create scrapbook pages, cards & more to celebrate everything you love about the great outdoors. See Featured Products 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 JULY STAMP OF THE MONTH: Strong Roots 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 July 31st. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!  (Item # S2107, set of 11 stamps) Recommended Blocks: 1" × 3½″ (Y1002), 2" × 2" (Y1003), 3" × 3" (Y1006), 2" × 3½″ (Y1009). Shop Stamp of the Month Return to Your Happiest Place! Get ready to make even more happy memories shine with the return of this popular product collection—now at 20% discounted prices! The Happiest Place collection is back at 20% discounted prices! Featuring an extra-large paper packet with 12 patterned paper sheets & tons of coordinating items, this collection will make your projects shine thanks to silver glitter foil accents on coordinating stickers & cardstock sheets! We’ve also created brand new workshop projects featuring this collection, making it easy for you to create beautiful artwork. Download the instruction guides below! See Featured Products Happiest Place Scrapbooking Workshop Guide Happiest Place 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 Host A Party 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. I'd like to wish everybody a "Happy Fourth of July" & bless those who protect us daily. -- Margit

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Holiday Expression 2018

Holiday Expression 2018

Oh my gosh! Everyone who has seen this new book believes this is one of the best books ever! But you have to see it to believe it. That is easier done that you believe - all you need to do is click here :). You can page through the book now. 

Normally, I would have introduced a new Annual Ideabook and a Holiday Expressions book - but this time there is no Annual book - this is it. This book has all of our papers, inks, embellishments. In 3 months, we will have a new Seasonal Book and our inks, papers, tools will carry over - our kits may not. The great news for you is, when you place an order you will get a free copy! Yeah!

What is in this book? Here are just some of the new things:

• We added "Story by Stacy"
• 6 new paper collections
• 2 Cut Above kits
• Tons of new stamp sets
• More Thin cuts
• We have changed our color palette - you will love it!
• organizers
• embellishments
• ribbons, ribbons, oh and ribbons
• a new digital cricut collection

That is it - hope you will love it as much as I do. If you missed some of the items from the previous books, you can always stop by in the clearance section or in the Going Soon section. 

Artwork Galore!

Arwork Galore

So, I took a break from posting artwork for a while - not from producing it - as you can see. Now, I want to finally share some again with you. If you are lucky and live close by you can come to my classes and work with me. However, if you would like to get any of these items as kits - contact me and I will see if I can put some of them together for you.

First, I will share some of my Christmas artwork. You can still get some of the products right now through the month of April. The Thin-Cuts are only available through March - as a sale item. So you might want to hurry up and get them if you would like to take advantage and get them.

 

 

 If you look closely on the flower you can see the shimmer of the shimmer brush - I love the shimmer brush! We have that brush in several different colors. See that little flower in the back? That is too stinkin' cute! Its part of our Making Waves embellishment pack. You have got to have that!

 Above was the February "Making Waves" Card Workshop - love that paper pack!

So, if there are any scout leaders out there, you may know when I talk about Woodbadge. My husband and I have been involved in the scouting world for over 30 years. I will not get into details right - it would just take too long - ha. But we have been to Woodbadge. One of our Woodbadge friends has asked me to make some mini albums for one of the courses he is helping to lead for guides. The motto for this course was "Making Heart Connections". How could I refuse! That was right up my alley, seeing the company I have been with for 24 years now! 

That's it for now - please let me know if you have any question and have fun!

Happy stamping,

Margit

Introducing the new Holiday Expression

Introducing the new Holiday Expressions for 2017

September - December 2017

The many products in this edition will take you through the holidays, but you can use many of them throughout the year. I love the new Silver and Gold set - but you will have to see for yourself. As always, we have added

• more stamp sets
• thin cuts
• embossing folders
• card kits
• embellishments

I love the many new art ideas that are contained in this edition. The book has 68 pages full of great products. Hurry - you will have until December, you know how quickly time goes :)

August Card Workshop - Florence

August Card Workshop using Florence papers

Here are the cards we made last month for our workshop. We used several methods of water coloring. As I post the separate cards I will note, which type we used. I loved this particular paper, alas it is now retired. But we have so many wonderful other papers, that you can easily find other papers you could use for cards to recreate the look.

Let me tell you the products I used for the cards:

C1647 A Bunch of Love
Z3251 A Bunch of Love Thin Cuts
D1687 Ornate Blossoms
1385 White CS
X5775 Sapphire CS
Z899 Memento Ink
Z3218 Rose Gold Foil Tape
Z3132 Water Color paints
Z2060 Thin 3-D tape
Z3188 Paint brush set
Z3197 Black/gold ribbon
Z3213 Florence sequence
Z3293 Shimmer pen
X7208B Florence pp
Z3224 Small Water Brush

 

For this cards I used the water color pencil method. 

• Stamp your images with Memento ink - I find its the best ink to use, will not run. I use it for water coloring, coloring with Alcohol markers and pencils. 
• Just let it sit for a minute or so and it will be dry - no heat setting required
• Outline your image with water color pencil
• Use the small water color brush - make sure it is not too wet. Test it on a piece of scratch paper
• Pull in the color from the edge into the middle of the image
• Done
• As you color, do not go from color to color. Always clear your brush on your scratch paper. Otherwise, you will blend your colors - unless you want that look ... :)

 

• Again, stamp with Memento ink
• Use a broad paint brush and color on card base. I have already adhered the two pieces of CS on the bottom to make sure I have the right spacing. At this point, I don't care about the ribbon and embellishment yet.
• This time I used the smallest paint brush of the paint brush set and used the water color paints
• Once everything is dry, assemble the card as shown

 

• Use the Memento ink for stamping
• I used the water color pencils again for coloring first
• Small brush to get water color effect
• Distress the Sapphire CS 

Once the water color was dry on all three projects I used the shimmer brush and applied it over the color. Its hard to tell in the picture, but it adds just the right amount of bling for me. You can find all the lovely items in my website store.

Have fun!

Margit