Let's Stay Home together Artwork

Stay Home and Stamp! Last week we released a new stamp set, Let's Stay Home, designed to equip you with sentiments and images that are especially suited to our present circumstances. Here is some new artwork we have created with this set to help you envision some ways to use the set in your own memory keeping.

Spending more time at home? The "Home is where the heart is" sentiment paired with the adorable house icons make a great accent for a scrapbook page focused on all of the activities you are doing in your home. The house images are attached on the stamp, but are easy to trim out to fit your page just the way you like.

The images in this set work beautifully in pocket pages and mini albums like this one, showing more images of our collective "new normal." The "Play" and "Read" icons are sure to come in handy when capturing the story of right now, and they are a great size for accenting 6" x 8" pocket pages in an Everyday Life album.

You may find yourself paying a bit more attention to the news recently than you normally do. If that's the case, the Let's Stay Home stamp set is there to help once again with timely sentiments like "In the News" and "Current events." For especially noteworthy events, consider using numbers from the Classic Alphabet Thin Cuts set to create a bold, eye-catching element on your page.

See More Artwork on YouTube

We've just released a new YouTube video showcasing this and other artwork and talking all about this new stamp. Watch the video now, and keep your eye on our other social media channels for more great artwork ideas and inspiration.

10 Reasons Why Close To My Heart Consultants Live the Dream

10 Reasons Why Close To My Heart Consultants Live the Dream by Close To My Heart

Here is a blog post from Close to my Heart - I could not have said it any better! Every week, Close to my Heart makes all kinds of great addition to their blog, but I thought I would have to share this one. Hope you will enjoy it and share with :). Check out the blog at Close to my Heart and see some of the great artwork that has been shared in the past!

Why should you join the Close To My Heart Consultant family? We’ll give you ten good reasons:

1. You work with beautiful products that practically sell themselves.
With unique papers, Cricut® cartridges, and exclusive stamps, our products will keep your memory keeping on-trend and downright fun. To make matters even sweeter, when you’re a Consultant you get these products at a great discount—and who doesn’t love a discount on beautiful products? The toughest part of your job will be trying to resist purchasing the whole idea book in one order!

2. You make friends that will last a lifetime.
No doubt about it, the people you meet as a Close To My Heart Consultant will change your life. Ask any Consultant—the trust, love, and unity you feel when you’re a Consultant is reason enough to join today. Your new community of friends, business partners, and mentors will be an incredible support to you throughout your journey. Close To My Heart will become your second family, and when you’ve got family, you’ve got everything you need.

3. Your job is literally a work of art.
With a job where you work with art every day, you’ll be living the dream! You’ll have a great outlet for sharing your artwork, your business supplies will include paper and stamps, and you’ll teach what you’re passionate about. This isn’t your everyday business; you make money by doing what you love!

4. We’ve got your back.
Throughout your entire journey with Close To My Heart, we at the corporate office stand ready and willing to help. You’ll have access to every form, flyer, and newsletter you need. With an entire online library of training videos, business classes at almost every event, and a Consultant Services department dedicated just to helping you, you’ll always know you have a place to bring your questions. And your Team members (and even other Consultants you haven’t met yet) will also always be there to answer your questions, calm your concerns, or simply lend a listening ear.

5. You'll become the business guru you always knew you could be.
You’ll gain some serious muscle as you work on building your business—business muscle, that is. A lot of your experience will come through fun travel and trainings with people you love to be around. You’ll have plenty of opportunities for “work” that will usually feel a lot more like play!

6. You can rest easy knowing your business is built on a solid foundation.
Not only will you find stability in taking control of your own career, but you can rest easy knowing Close To My Heart has unmatched longevity and stability. Our Founder & CEO, Jeanette Lynton, has been in the papercrafting business for over 30 years—that’s a lot of business savvy! Even cooler: Close To My Heart functions free of debt.

7. We throw pretty amazing parties and you’re always invited.
We do ‘em big, we do ‘em small, but all of them are fantastic! From annual Conventions to regional events across the globe, there is always something happening with Close To My Heart. These events offer countless perks, such as business training, product training, creative sessions, networking opportunities, and TONS of fun.

8. Sticky Boy. Enough said.
Come meet the world’s number one expert on clear, sticky, and sassy, the one and only Sticky Boy. You can’t help but fall in love with him immediately. Plus, if you attend Convention, you’ll have the chance to get your very own Sticky Boy to keep!

9. You have the chance to travel to exotic lands across the globe.
Who wants to go to the Caribbean on us? How about Hawaii? Central America? Abu Dhabi? If you work hard, we’ll make sure you’ll play hard. Guaranteed.

10. You get a free shoulder tote if you sign up this month!
Yes, that’s right—the adorable, trendy shoulder tote is yours when you join in the fun. Better yet, joining this month gives you the opportunity to earn its magnificent matching organization piece: the rolling tote! Could there be a better way to get your business in order right from the beginning?

You see, when it comes to business opportunities, it doesn’t get much better than Close To My Heart. Get in touch today to join the family! We can’t wait to meet you.

Here is how you put the tote together:   https://youtu.be/1bxEeP5jiuY

Artbooking Made Easy: Friendship Layouts (S01E13)

 

Here’s a friendly suggestion: try the friendship-themed keys of the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge, found on pages 78 and 79 of your booklet. Your layouts will shout in celebration of your cherished relationships! With your own ingenuity, you can use these cuts over and over again in creative ways so no two layouts look alike. For more friendly inspiration on how to use these keys, watch the video!

Back from convention and here are some of my team members - actually Jo and Linda have been with me for eight and six years!

I have been with Close to my Heart for almost 20 years now and I must say, this has been one of the best conventions! It was great! We had a good time, great friendship and we learned a lot. It helped, that we received the best Idea Book yet!

Here are some of the new things coming your way:

• Alcoholic Markers
• Chalk Marker
• New Organizers - yeah, you will love them!
• Lots of new bling!
• Wonderful great new Workshops, including Home Decor workshops and card workshops
• Did I mention our great new Cricut Cartridge? You have to see it and all the great things it can do. I am working on a little video to show it to you! I brought it home from convention since I got one for free!
• New pigment ink stacks
• Studio J has discontinued memberships, but added great new express layouts - all layouts are only $6.95 and you get your JPEGS for free! You can do fast layouts.
• Bulk CS will be available again - but make sure, you get the CS that will be retired.
• A great new way to sign up as a consultant - only $49, our new Essential consultant kit. Available now!

Online gatherings - you don't have to clean your house for it ... :) Contact me and I will set it up for you. And yes, Studio J will count towards it, you can even earn Studio J layouts for hostess awards!

Whew, that is it, in very short version for some of the new items! But be sure to keep checking back, because I will show you in more detail how to use some of our new product. It was a lot of fun to see how versatile and easy it is to them. Our new cartridge can make mini albums. All you really have to do is set, cut, glue and put pictures in and oh, add bling - how much easier do you want it?

Want more pics?

 Oh yeah, I did say, we had some entertainment! While we had dinner, they sang for us! The Texas Tenors were great outstanding.

One other thing I wanted to mention about this years' convention, six years ago CTMH started a tradition to award a very prestigious award to one consultant - the Spirit of Close to my Heart. Our Team Leader, Karen Pederson was awarded this great award this year. Yeah - she really deserves it. We are part of an awesome team - the Pacemakers. So, if you join my team - you will be part of a great family and legacy :)

Its time again for me to go to another convention - this time we are going to Dallas! Yes, we have been there before. It was fun then and it will be fun again. We will be at the Hilton Anatole this time. Just remember, if you want to join a bunch of gals having about 4 days of "girls night out" - you want to join CTMH. Every year, my husband know - convention time is mine! I have been with Close to my Heart for over 18 years and every summer I get my own little vacation, with stamping, creating and having fun with my friends. Every time I go home with new products, a new book and head full of great new ideas that I get to share with you when I get home. Can you understand I am always fired up when you see me again?

Once I get home I will have the new book available! If you want to find out out some of the chatter, you may want to try and follow the chatter on #CTMHtx. Easy - easy as pie! Well, lots to pack and get ready for yet - have a good one.

By the way - if you want to check out some of my Studio J layouts - go to my facebook page and check my 5 latest lay outs. Once I get back from convention I will post them as well.

More Leadership pictures

This is the part of the Pacemaker team that attended the Leadership conference this year! It is always fun to meet the ladies every year at these events. That is how we keep our friendships alive and learn from one another. A little note - I just noticed that Jeanette Lynton posted this picture on her blog :)

And of course we all have to pose in front of the backdrop of the stage ... :) We need to have fun!

Some Leadership pictures

I promised that I would would add some pictures from my recent trip to Long Beach at my Leadership Conference with Close to my Heart. At the conference I also celebrated 15 years being with that great company! Time flies by when you are having fun! This is part of the small group of other consultant who made that great landmark - great friends! I have a picture me hugging Jeanette - the lady with the red jacket and black pants - but lets just say - I am not showing my "better" side - (ha).

You will see those cute little pink cardigans show up all over the place - those were part of the packet of going to Leadership this year. This was our last Leadership conference. We now will only have one big event per year - Convention. But never fear, our company does them up big - next year we will be Washington DC. I have never missed convention and will not miss that one.

The great lady hugging me is Karen Pederson - my upline! Love her! She has been a great support for many years. That is what it is all about.