Gift Card Thin Cut

Aren't these gift card boxes cute?  I made it with our Gift Card Box Thin Cuts.  It is $34.95 BUT,  it is on sale this month for $26.21!!  This is along with a lot of other thin cuts.  So get out to my website and check out the thin cuts on sale.   This sale ends March 31st...but supplies are limited so get out there soon.  AND, while you are out there...check out our clearance section AND going soon...you will find some of the thin cuts in there too.

On these boxes, they actually do fit a gift card, but I can see putting small candy in them too.  And you can personalize them to your needs.  I used our Make Waves paper pack X7227B $9.95.  This is also on a "while supplies last" so make sure you get out there and check out all the great sales on great products!

Get Your Albums Ready

So many times the hardest part of getting our scrapbooking done is getting the pages in the actual album.  So I wanted to share with you what I do at the beginning of each year.

On January 1st, I take a picture of my husband and myself...and the last 2 years our grand daughter has been with us, so she is in the picture too, and that is the pictures that goes on the first page of my album.

By doing this, it gets my album for the year all ready for all those pictures.  The picture below is the page I made (and if you came to my open house you made it too...I do have a couple  2017 pages left for sale, but the 2018 are gone...but you can create your own)  If you would like to purchase a 2017 first page, email me and I will save it for you.  It is $4.

I find by creating this page ahead of time, gets me motivated to get that years album ready and then I will have it when I have pages ready.  I use Close to my Heart post bound albums...we also sell D ring binders too.  I put about 30 page protectors in it so all I have to do is slide the finished pages in.  The other thing I love are these label holders.  They are 2 for $4.95 and they clip to the spine of your albums.  This allows you to know what album you are looking for.  I stamp the year on it and I am ready to go.

It makes it so easy to find albums and not have to pull them off the shelf and find that it is the wrong album.  So having these on your albums is great.  The label holder clips to the spine.  It clips tight enough not to come off but not too hard that it dents the albums.

I know it is March, but it isn't too late to start this.  You can do it.  Get out your supplies, make yourself a 2018 page...find a picture for it (you know you have a bunch), get your album and label holders, put some page protectors in the album and you are ready to go.  Don't put it off!  Take the challenge!

If you need an album, page protectors or these great label holders, check out my website to get those supplies ordered!

March Scrapbooking Group Layouts

Here are my March group layouts.  We will be using our Make Waves Paper Pack.  This is a great, bright colored paper pack!  And I just happen to have a grand daughter to put on these pictures.
If you would like to make these layouts, check out my blog at shari froemming.blogspot.com under the "upcoming events" tab and check out the dates available.  If you would like to attend, contact me with the date that works for you.

Want this paper pack.  Go to my website...gottastamp.closetomyheart.com and click on shop.  You will be able to see the Close to my Heart catalog with all these paper packs and accessories.

February Scrapbooking Group

Here are the pages that my February monthly scrapbooking groups will be making.  If you would like to join us to make these, check out the "upcoming events" tab here on my blog for dates and contact me to reserve your spot.

This is from our Chelsea Gardens paper pack.  It is from our NEW Seasonal Catalog.

Birthday Layouts with Chelsea Gardens

I just had to share these layouts I made using Close to my Heart's Chelsea Gardens paper pack. My daughter in law's birthday is soon, but we celebrated last Friday. Printed the pictures and DONE! I just love this paper pack. I added some balloons from our Cricut cartridge (Art Philosophy) and stamped it the coordinating colors.

If you would like to check out more using this paper pack, check out my blog...sharifroemming.blogspot.com. We will be using it in February if you want to join us! Click the "upcoming dates" on the blog to see what days we are making layouts with this paper pack

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New Catalog

It's time for the new catalog...and here is a cute card I made with our Good Thymes Together stamp. They are so cute! 

I used liquid glass on the jars and balloon and I colored the butterflies with watercolor pencils and then blended it with a clear shimmer brush. 

The butterflies are from Chelsea Gardens Cardmaking kit (Z4158 with thin cuts $33.95, stamps only C1709 $13.95). I love those butterflies! 

Get your new catalog today!

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Sweet Baby Layout

Well, you already know that I have the cutest grand baby ever, and I just can't get enough pictures of her.  And more importantly, I am happy to preserve those memories!  

I used a few of Close to my Heart's new products on this page...

*New Basics Fundamental Paper Pack (grey paper) Z3353

*Block Alphabet Thin Cuts Z3386 

*Sweet Baby Stamp & Thin cuts Z3376

*Bashful cardstock (paper of the year) X5941 and Bashful Glitter Paper Z3360

*Z3344 Basic Tags Thin Cuts

*Bashful Pearls Z3369

*Better Together Complements

Wow!  I didn't realize all the cool new products I used on this layout.  I love how it turned out.  I cut the elephant out using the thin cut, then stamped him on our new Pebble cardstock...stamped his ear again, cut it out and popped it up.  Used a grey colored pencil to outline the elephant.  THEN...here is the cool part.  I stamped the nails and cheek of the elephant, cut them out and added them here.   How cute it that!

All I have to do is have my daughter in law journal on it and it is done!