A tidbit about subscriptions

The subscription program - to have layouts delivered to your door - cost $7.18, $8.69 or $11.45 (plus tax) per double layout, depending on how you order. 
When you order the subscription, it is separate from all other sales.  You manage the subscription online. I cannot order it for you, but I'm happy to help if you need it.
Because it is a separate program, the subscriptions do not count towards anyone's party; you do not get hostess credits.  CTMH could have let the orders count towards a party - but instead, chose to give you that credit immediately, in the form of a lower cost. 





All the current period layouts are shown online, prior to ordering - no surprises!  You will also receive an email before your next charge, and can cancel anytime between payments. 
If you would like to see what comes in a pack before you actually order, my subscription should be here next week.  Pop over on October 20, at my next crop, to get a hands on look for yourself.  Or click here to get started!
Happy scrapping!

Free Halloween card

At the crop on Saturday, I worked on cards for the next card workshop.  My set of 3 included this Halloween card.

Than I realized my card workshop is scheduled for October 25 - too late for a Halloween card.  So instead of including this card in the workshop, I will be offering it for free at the next crop on October 20th.  The first 8 people to attend and claim a card, can have them!
If you would like to  make this from  your own stash - this is what I used:

Hello Pumpkin card stamp set and dies

Hello Pumpkin scrapbooking stamp set

Black ink

Nectarine ink

Pebble ink

Lemon ink

Marigold Shin-han marker

Golden Yellow Shin-han marker

Hello Pumpkin Paper

Nectarine cardstock

Cats & Bats cardstock (retired but in my inventory)

Orange sequins from the Prickly Pear sequins (retired)

adhesive

pop dots

card base

2018 Week 29

If you follow me personally on FaceBook you know we had a swarm of bees relocate to one of our front porch columns in May.  They even started building honeycomb!  But we called a local bee keeper and they came and relocated the swarm.  That story was definitely scrap worthy!
The Flower Market cartridge has an amazing amount of things in it - that are not flower related!  Like the cuts for this page.

Hello Pumpkin Shaker Card

The Hello Pumpkin set for Halloween this year has some of the cutest stamps.  I don't usually send Halloween cards, but why not?  Who doesn't love the surprise card in the mail - whatever the reason?
Here's a picture tutorial on how I did it.

 

Trim the PML card to card size. Using the die from the Hello Pumpkin card kit, cut the PML card slightly to the left.

 

On a white piece of cardstock, just 1/2" smaller than the PML card, lightly pencil in the edges of your cut.

 
 

Stamp your pumpkin within the pencil marks, then erase the marks. 

 

 

The pumpkin will peek through your PML card cut.

 

 

Use the thick roll of foam tape to build your sequin well.

 

Make a solid wall around the pumpkin, and add some foam tape of the same depth to the outer edges. Do not peel the paper from the tape until after you fill it with sequins.

 

Using regular adhesive, tape some clear film to the back of the cut on the PML card.  I use the film that comes as a cover on Cricut mats.

 

Add a pinch of sequins to the well you created. I used a large pinch, shown here but a smaller pinch would have worked well too, for this small space.

 

Peel the tape from the bottom and stick the PML card on top - matching up the pumpkin stamp with the cut.  Put this shaker piece on your card base.

 

Add your other decorations.  The ghost and candy corns are from the Hello Pumpkin scrapbooking set.  I sponged a little pebble on the edges of the ghost before I cut him.  The candy corns are colored with shin-han markers.  Both are fussy cut by hand and white spaces where touched up with the clear shimmer brush.

 

 

2018 Week 28

How's this for a page?  The footprints are from a retired stamp set.  they are really a hiking boot print, but I used the back side of the stamp to get the solid image.  The owl is from the Artbooking cartridge, the bus is from the You are Here cartridge.  I cut two buses, then trimmed one to make the purple bus a triple decker.  The thunderbolt and the glasses are also from CTMH cricut cartridges!

September Bells & Whistles - School page

I have 7 of the Bells & Whistles kits for the September 21 workshop.  Yes, I am a terrible salesman - as this is once again from the archives. But it just goes to show, that when you like something - get it then, for you never know when you are going to need it, but you do know that you like it now!

This layout is designed to help you with those big things you get from school, that can be so hard to scrap.  The page on the left holds an 8X10 class photo or certificate.  The spaces on the left hold a 5X7 school portrait, and two 3X4 smaller photos - or they can be turned into journaling spots or more space to decorate, depending on what pictures or memorabilia you have. 
I post the workshops on Facebook, and before I got around to posting it here in the blog, this workshop filled up.  I hope showing it here can inspire your own page!

2018 Week 27

Just another personal layout for inspiration and to keep me on track!

Convention registration is now open for 2019.  Who wants to go with me this year?

Hint of Vintage; Sept Card Class

The September Card Workshop is Thursday, September 13, 5:30PM.  Cost is $5 to make these 3 cards. 

The pink shades from the Oh What Fun paper pack inspired me to go vintage with some Christmas cards - even though in the end, that's not the paper I used.  I also dipped into the archives for the stamp sets - but you are working with some of the new products.

For this card I used the pink polka dots from Central Park.  There is some paper in the Oh What Fun pack that work with this too, but for a class, I didn't have quite enough.  The patterned background is a new stamp, D1805 Repeatable Backgrounds.  The pine branches are from a retired set, but you can achieve a similar look with B1632 Wonder of the Season.  The ornament is cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge.  If you missed getting this cartridge, I have one in my inventory.  Silver glitter was found in your vintage cards - A LOT, which makes them so fun.  Here I've used silver foil, silver shimmer trim, silver embellishing thread and silver gems.

The stamp on this card is retired, but the wow factor on this card is the new gloss texture paste. You can see a little of it in the picture. This card uses the new Carolina ink, Carolina and Bluebird papers, white glitter paper, stencil film, stitched oval dies and silver gems.

Again, another retired stamp set for this one.  The papers are from 'tis the Season.  For the candy canes, I split apart the sections of one of the paper houses from the new Season of Joy cartridge and cut it from the striped 'tis the Season paper.  The rows of glitter are Stickles. A little New England Ivy canvas bow and it's very vintage.
None of the cards have any sentiments - you can choose from my collection or add from your own.  There is a space on each where it could be added to the front, or you can just say something on the inside.
Card classes for the rest of the year will be Christmas cards.  This workshop introduces some cards that take a little time to create - but if there is one you want to copy for  your personal set of cards this year, there is plenty of time to get started!

CTMH Subscription Service

Beginning September 1, 2018, Close to My Heart is offering a subscription service.  Every month you can have a kit show up on your doorstep in a pink box!

These kits are the Cut Above format. They include everything you need to make TWO double layouts, except adhesive and your album.  It even includes the page protectors.  These are the layouts you will receive the first four months - September through December.

 

You can also see these in the holiday catalog on page 11.
This is a subscription service. Once you sign up, you are enrolled and automatically billed each period until you end your subscription.
There are three different ways to sign up for the subscription.
1 - Monthly subscription. You sign up using your credit/debit card and receive one shipment for one double layout every month.  You are able to cancel any month.  The cost is $17.95 plus $4.95 shipping each month - plus your local tax rate.
2 - 4 month subscription.  You sign up using your credit/debit card and receive one shipment with four double layouts every 4 months.  You are able to cancel between shipments, but there are no returns or refunds on layouts you have already received.  The cost is $64.60 plus $4.95 shipping for the 4 months -plus your local tax rate. This is equal to $16.15 per layout and $1.24 shipping.
3 - Yearly subscription.  You sign up using your credit/debit card and receive one shipment with four double layouts every 4 months.  You can not cancel between shipments - you will receive 3 of the shipments for a total of 12 double layouts.  If you cancel your subscription, it will cancel for the following year. The cost is $172.32 - plus your local tax rate.  There are no shipping fees added if you select this option.  This is equal to $14.36 per layout and $0 in shipping!
If you receive all 12 layouts:
Option 1 costs $274.80 plus tax.  (billed monthly)
Option 2 costs $208.65 plus tax, a savings of $66.15.  (billed every 4 months)
Option 3 costs $172.32 plus tax, a savings of $102.48 over Option 1 and $36.33 over Option 2. (billed once a year).
**You can only cancel the subscription between billings.**

You can click here to subscribe, get a closer look at the layouts, and read how CTMH describes the program.  Clicking this link takes you to the right place but it does not automatically sign you up.  So go check it out!

This subscription service is separate from the hostess program.  Orders made for the subscription service do not count toward a gathering or stamp of the month qualifications.