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!

Why Switch?

 

Have you considered making the switch? Are you with another company right now and would like to make a change? Now is a great time to check out Close to my Heart!

You can find more information and all the special incentives for the rest of this year right here!

Blast from the Past

When Jeanette Lynton began her venture into stamping 30 years ago, she drew by hand all her stamp images. Originally made of rubber and set on wood blocks, a few of these stamp sets are available to you in clear polymer for a limited time only! Enjoy the intricate and cozy line designs in conjunction with our alcohol-based markers for fun accents that will brighten your layouts as they take you back in time.

Blast from the Past

Almost 20 years ago I was introduced to the line of these beautiful woodmounted rubber stamp images. I never looked back after I signed up with D.O.T.S. We have come a long way, baby :)

I hope you will enjoy this look back into yesteryear as much as I do!

Starting November you will have a very unique and limited opportunity as a new consultant to earn a free product from the new spring product line. Contact me to learn about the details!

Artbooking Made Easy: Festive Mini Albums

If your photos from holidays past are haunting you by sitting untouched on your hard drive, now is the time to put them on display! With the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge, your photos will find a cozy home on the pages of a dazzling holiday mini album. In conjunction with the new Sparkle & Shine papers and embellishments, die-cuts from the Artbooking holiday-themed keys are just what you need to create merry and bright holiday projects.

Artbooking Made Easy: Festive Mini Albums (S01E09)

 Those mini albums are absolutely adorable! I love all those great tips in the videos as well. Check out my facebook page to see all the previous videos I have posted. Like my page to make sure you will not miss any segments!

I will also post my next card class coming up in November on my facebook page!

Have fun!

Embellishment and Trim

Soon I will be running out of space on blogger, so I can't put all my videos on here anymore, but don't despair! I will still share everyone of our great videos right here with you as they appear. You will just get all the great links from me and what you can expect. Just be sure to keep checking here and have fun!

Connect the Dots 

Create decorative lines on your layout using dots! With the right embellishments—Aqua Dots, sparkles, studs, and more—your dotted lines will be sure to draw the eye. Learn to do it yourself in this video.

Most of my projects have some type of sparkles, dots or some other embellishments on them them - come on - a girl has to have her bling!

Trendy Trims

Your layouts, wall hangings, goodie bags, and other projects will come to life with some of our fun new trims! Whether used as pattern pieces, background designs, or accents, these trims are sure to add a lot of zest and dimension to your papercrafting. See their versatility in this video!

The Holiday Gift Guide Blog Hop is Here!

This is the first time I participated in a blog hop, hopefully it will work out – if nothing else, you will enjoy everyone else’s artwork! (ha). Our new Holiday Gift Guide is now in full swing! For this card I used the C1567 stamp set, ruby ink pad, the Artbooking cricut cartridge, the X7176B Shine and Sparkle Paper Pack, honey marker, ruby marker, topiary marker, sparkles and our sparkle glue!

You can find all of those delectable goodies in our product section on my website. Here is the link for the new guide. You will also find that from Oct. 15 through Dec. you will be able to get a free starred item from this great guide for every $100 you purchase!

Please join the other artists for more artwork in this great blog hop.

Have fun and Happy Stamping!

Margit aka Srappingbee

Clearly the Best: Preserve with Pizazz (S02E02)

Family history is fun, especially when you add colorful papers and embellishments! There are so many ways to protect your pedigree and make it fun at the same time. Watch the video to learn how to turn a kraft pocket album into an attractive family history book.
 

Another great installment of this great how to video series! Everybody has a history they want to start preserving! It does not have to be fancy. These little pocket albums are perfect for collect little pictures, add fun little trinkets. Start your preservation now! I would love to help you get started!

Clearly the Best: A Burst of Creativity (S02E01)

Missing the sunshine of summer? Make your own! In this video you’ll learn to make a burst of sunshine on your cards with fun Background & Texture papers.

Hello everybody - I am so glad we have another segment of "Clearly the Best!"

This is a wonderful technique to dress any project up and make it "burst", don't you think? With Christmas coming up, you can make some wonderful ornaments not just on your cards, but you could make some ornaments for your tree or even gifts. Let your imagination fly! For this card Christine and Monica used the Cricut Artiste cartridge, you can find 700 images in this cartridge alone!

Have fun!

Artbooking Made Easy (S01E06): Designed Décor Flip Stand Album

Making home décor is easy with the Cricut^® Artbooking collection! Watch as various icons, shapes, and titles from the cartridge are used to make adorable pieces of artwork perfect for all the nooks in your home.

Don't you just love those little flip albums? I think they are stinkin' cute! If you want to have a little brag album handy - this is it. You can't stick it in your purse (we have other albums for that) but you can put it on your desk or anywhere in your house to pull out and show to a visitor! You can show it off to them if they want to see it or not (lol). Love them!

You can find those little babies in our Designed Decor section. Have fun with them, I would love to see what you come up with - share!

Project Inspirations: Background Stamps

Don't let the title fool you; background stamps are for far more than just background designs. Transform pieces of cardstock into attractive embellishments for your layouts with just a few easy techniques.

I love background stamp sets, they are so versatile! I highlighted just a few sets above. But as you browse through the sets that we offer you will see, that we carry quite a few you can use to enhance your projects. The sets may be called "background stamps", but you can easily make them your "main event" with your choice of placement or color choice. Have fun creating!

Simply Stitch It

Feeling a little wary of adding stitching to your papercrafting? Did you know it doesn’t require a sewing machine? Our new stitch guide makes stitching simple to do—and the look it gives is simply stunning! See it for yourself in this video.




If you are anything like me - I hate to pull out my sewing machine for a card or layout. This little tool makes stitching on paper so much easier. There was no way, I would have been able to get it straight on paper - with this tool it will be much easier. Have fun!

September Newsletter

September 2013 Fall Delights Dear Margit, We are finally moved into our new home in Florida! Yeah! In the evening we can actually watch the fireworks from our bedroom window or our front porch - very nice. But I am still in the process of organizing my creative room, some of my things are still in KY - by October, all of those things should be in our home. Be on the lookout soon for a little video on how I have everything organized. In the meantime, I am posting all the specials on my blog and facebook. Sincerely, Margit McCabe Close to my Heart 407-347-9437 Bring in the Big Savings! This month you can bring in some big savings with a couple of specials we have going. 1. Our National Stamping Month Special - with a $50 purchase you qualify for the set for only $10 (a $47.90 value). 2. And you qualify for our Stamp of the Month set for only $5 (a $17.95 value). You just got $115 product for $65! On my blog I also posted a nice little deal for you how you can save on one of our starter sets for our album kits. You can save 10% off that kit and you can save even more and you will get a gift from me! Read More Have a Crush? Fall in Love with quick and easy memory keeping. With our two new My Crush™ books, Modville and Bluebird, preserving everyday memories and mementos is a snap! The little things that normally get lost in the busyness of life will be safe within your book's pages. With just a little tape, glue, or even a paper clip, you'll be able to preserve life's adventures as they happen - ticket stubs, receipts, photos, and fast journaling And thanks to the coordinating My Stickease® images, journaling spots, alphabets, and envelope pockets in the four My Crush assortments, you'll make beauty in no time at all. Fall head-over-heels for the ease of scrapbooking on the go with our new, handy-sized My Crush books!  Check out the new My Crush books Even though you may not be close to me, you can always place your orders right from my website or contact me through email and I will be glad to place the order for you and have the order shipped right to you. As you place your order you can either join one of the ongoing online parties or better yet, lets get one started for you, so you may be able to reap the rewards for it! You can order your new idea book now from my blog, or you can get it free, by placing an order or be a hostess! As I want to set myself up now in Florida, I will appreciate any referrals you might have in this area. Of course - I will reward them with a gift! Take care for now and don't miss all the great new things coming our way in August with the new book. I will have an "Open House" for the new book, even if it is virtual! Take care, Close to my Heart PO Box 470698 Kissimmee, Florida 34747 801-391-5806 In This Issue Fall Delights Bring in the Big Savings! Have a Crush? Are you social? Are you social? Throughout the month I am adding content to my blog, my facebook page and now my pintereste board. As I do this, I do not want to keep sending out a newsletter - you may not appreciate it :). So, if you want to stay on top of what is going on you may want to start following one of those place: My goal is to start google hangouts on a regular basis. In those hangouts, I would like to showcase some of our cool products and show you how to use them. The hangouts will be recorded so you can revisit them. The nice thing about hangouts is, that you can ask me questions, once I am done with my demonstration. It's like a gathering on a national basis! How cool is that! You don't have to leave the house for it - yeah! So, lets' spread the word, join me in my google circle - you don't need gmail. I can start our google community and we are off! Read More Text | Link

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July Online Party

Its time again for our online party - yeah! This month you automatically qualify for our workshop special and with only $50 you can get our Stamp of the Month for only $5! You can save twice this month. Both sets are stinkin' cute! Check them out on the website! As you start shopping just click on "join" next to July Club and you are on your way.
 
If you cannot wait to get your hot little hands on our new product at a great savings - consider to signing up! All new consultants will get all new product in their kit. You can started here.

Hope you are taking advantage of all our great tutorials we are putting out. Close to my Heart is almost taking my work away by not having to show all the cool things you can do with our stamps - almost ... ha! I would love to show you more! So, get in touch with me - I would love to help you get started with your projects. Get those things out of the drawer! Things in the drawer are very expensive. Only when you pull them out and do something with them do they become a bargain!

If you are looking for a quick project - check out one of our Workshop of the Go kits. Everything is in one place. Love those kits! This month save on our canvas frame kit - too cool!

Need to get quick pages done - consider our Express Layouts in Studio J. Check it out, play around - you don't pay until you press the purchase button. And yes - they count towards a party, hostess rewards. It cannot get better!

Remember - I always have a drawing for the free product from the orders placed in those online parties. The more orders - the more I can give away. Maybe you want to have your own party to get it all - :).

Take care for now and happy stamping.

Margit aka scrappingbee

Cordinate your stamping with cricut

 

Hey there, here is another great video for you. Right now I am sitting at Starbuck's drinking my hot chocolate, eating a piece of my cake since I don't have internet yet in my new, old house (lol). The house is still a mess, but my scrapping room will look so cool! I've got it painted now, when I get back I will add some wall decor and soon I will have all my things back in there. I will have lots of room again to have workshops. I am so excited about that! Yeah! There will be room for my cricut as well - speaking of cricut - there are so many cool things you can do with the cricut! Oh the things you can do ... watch and have fun.

Base and Shade and stamp on multiple surfaces!

 

Here are the next two segments of our great series from our stamping tutorials. I love those videos. When I started as a consultant over 18 years ago I learned the base and shade technique, but I used wood mounted stamps. Back then I had to use a stamp guide and hope it would work and not mess up. More than once I ended up with scrap! Acrylic stamps made it so much easier to do both of those techniques! Have fun to play.

Margit aka Scrappingbee

Its time again for our online party - yeah! This Month you can get get our Stamp of the Month for only $5 with any $50 purchase!  The set is stinkin' cute! Check it out on the website!





This month is also a great month to check out Studio J, because when you purchase 10 layouts you will get the 10th layout free - there is no limit!

Hope you are taking advantage of all our great tutorials we are putting out. Close to my Heart is almost taking my work away by not having to show all the cool things you can do with our stamps - almost ... ha! I would love to show you more! So, get in touch with me - I would love to help you get started with your projects. Get those things out of the drawer! Things in the drawer are very expensive. Only when you pull them out and do something with them do they become a bargain!

If you are looking for a quick project - check out one of our Workshop of the Go kits. Everything is in one place. Love those kits!

Need to get quick pages done - consider our Express Layouts in Studio J. Check it out, play around - you don't pay until you press the purchase button. And yes - they count towards a party, hostess rewards. It cannot get better!




My special incentive this month is that for every $75 order you will receive a free marker set of your choice. Just email me with your choice  with "Free Marker set" in the subject line and I will send you the marker set. Remember - I always have a drawing for the free product from the orders placed in those online parties. The more orders - the more I can give away. Maybe you want to have your own party to get it all - :).

Take care for now and happy stamping.

Margit aka scrappingbee

September Online Party - Yeah!

Its time again for our online party - yeah! You can still get our National Stamping Month special with your $35 order and once you hit $50 you can our Stamp of the Month for only $5! You can save twice this month. Both sets are stinkin' cute! Check them out on the website!

Hope you are taking advantage of all our great tutorials we are putting out. Close to my Heart is almost taking my work away by not having to show all the cool things you can do with our stamps - almost ... ha! I would love to show you more! So, get in touch with me - I would love to help you get started with your projects. Get those things out of the drawer! Things in the drawer are very expensive. Only when you pull them out and do something with them do they become a bargain!

If you are looking for a quick project - check out one of our Workshop of the Go kits. Everything is in one place. Love those kits!

Need to get quick pages done - consider our Express Layouts in Studio J. Check it out, play around - you don't pay until you press the purchase button. And yes - they count towards a party, hostess rewards. It cannot get better!

Remember - I always have a drawing for the free product from the orders placed in those online parties. The more orders - the more I can give away. Maybe you want to have your own party to get it all - :).

Take care for now and happy stamping.

Margit aka scrappingbee

Swipe those stamps!

Love this technique! Although, I have been using some form of it before with our woodmounted solid stamps before. Play around with it and see what you can create. As I mentioned before. As you use your stamps you want to play, have fun and see what you might be able to create. Many of your projects will be one of a kind - but that is the fun of it!

Happy stamping.

Margit aka scrappingbee :)

Project Inspiration 2012 Autumn/Winter Idea Book: Harvest Banner

 Before the new book comes out, you don't want to miss out on any of your favorite product before they go away. Here is the list of all the retiring products. So, don't delay!


EXCLUSIVE COLORS:
Grey Wool 
Grey Flannel 
Vanilla Cream 
Parchment 
Brown Bag 
Baby Pink 
Taffy 
Sunkiss Yellow 
Key Lime 
Heavenly Blue 
Lilac Mist 
Amethyst 
Holiday Red 
Sunflower 
Sunny Yellow 
Dutch Blue 
Moonstruck 
Vineyard Berry 
Tulip 
Garden Green 
Spring Iris 
Petal 
Garnet 
Pansy Purple 

The following Accessories and Tools will also be retiring on July 31!!

ACCESSORIES / TOOLS:
Z1163 Double Scrubber (Note: Being replaced with a new version.) 
Z1006 Microfiber Cloth 
Z1404 Quick Pic 12x12 Album - Dark Cranberry 
Z1405 Quick Pic 12x12 Album - Outdoor Denim 
Z1406 Quick Pic 12x12 Album - Dark Chocolate 
Z4110 Snapease Album System 
Z1323 Clear Cards - 4 1/4" x 5 ½" Asst. 
Z1309 Clear Cards - 4 ½” Asst. 
Z1383 Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon 
Z1384 Designer Ribbon - Pink Collection 
Z1397 Canvas Badge Buttons 
Z1367 Bitty Brads Basic Asst 
Z1368 Bitty Brads Metal Asst 
Z1104 Clear Sparkles (Note: Being replaced with all round sparkles- YAY!) 
Z1698 Mini-Medley Accents - Pacifica 
Z1320 Mini-Medley Accents - Tulip 
Z1338 Mini-Medley Accents - Sunset 
Z1488 Mini-Medley Accents - Honey 
Z1403 Photo Hangers 
Z1402 Hinges 
Z1690 Bitty Buds Asst 
Z1691 Bottle Caps 
Z1693 Seaside Wooden Shapes (SOLD OUT) 
Z1688 Comic Badge Buttons 
Z1635 Heirloom Asst 
Z1337 Dimensional Elements Ornaments (Note: Updated to coordinate with Cricut Artiste) 
Z1224 My Creations All Sorts Mini Album 
Z1334 My Creations Mix & Mingle Mini Album 
Z1321 My Creations A-Door-Ables 
Z1152 My Creations Cube 
4275 My Legacy Writers 
Z338 Euro Personal Trimmer (Note: Being replaced with Fiskars SureCut Deluxe Craft Trimmer) 
Z339 Euro Trimmer Replacement Blades 
Z340 Euro Trimmer Replacement Blade/Scoring 
1766 Dotto Dots Dispenser 
1767 Dotto Dots Refill 

And Last But Not Least...Get Your Favorite Stamp Sets Before They Are Gone!!

STAMP SETS:
A1095 Always Remember 
A1099 Angel Sent 
A1107 A Twinkle 
A1108 A Flitter 
A1109 A Sip 
A1110 A Timber 
A1113 A Game 
A1115 A Holiday 
B1356 St. Nick 
B1359 Fright Night 
B1361 Tannenbaum 
B1362 Tag The Occasion 
B1381 Holiday Cheer 
B1393 Joyful Jar 
B1394 John 3:16 
C1379 Holiday Commentary 
C1382 Holiday Commentary - Spanish 
C1383 Holiday Commentary - French 
C1401 Friendship Alphabet Small 
C1408 Live Inspired 
C1419 Harvest Home 
C1420 Snow Days 
C1423 Captured Moments 
C1424 Nature's Gift 
C1425 Month By Month 
C1426 Thanksgiving 
C1427 I Believe 
C1429 Party Pennants 
C1465 Unscripted 
C1468 Winter Joy 
C1470 Gnome Garden 
C1471 Happy Clusters 
C1472 Bundled Buddies 
D1136 Giggle Caps 
D1137 Giggle Lowercase 
D1267 Rustic Numbers 
D1306 Treasure Life 
D1308 All Decked Out 
D1373 Childhood Portrait 
D1384 Snow Flurries 
D1386 Save The Date 
D1387 Made With Love 
D1397 Save The Date - French 
D1398 Save The Date - Spanish 
D1401 Authentic 
D1436 The Present 
D1437 Party Animal 
D1446 Adorn-able 
D1449 Father Christmas 
D1493 Fill In The Blank - Holiday 
D1499 Live Your Style 
E1002 Rustic Alphabet 
E1006 Baroque Alphabet 
E1011 Headline Alphabet Large 
E1016 Friendship Alphabet Large 

(Thank you to fellow CTMH Consultant Debra Van Patten for compiling this list.)

The following paper packs have carried over to the new Autumn/Winter Idea Book.  
All other paper packs in the Spring/Summer Idea Book will be gone as of July 31!!
Stella
Pemberley
Victory
Florentine

Begin Shopping For Your Favorite Retiring CTMH Products!!  
Don't Delay Or They May Be Gone!!