Close to my Heart Consultants Wanted!

Have you ever thought about becoming a Close to my Heart consultant?  It's a great way to support your scrapbooking/stamping hobby, make some extra money and get involved with a GREAT group of fellow paper crafters!!

It's a great time to join in the fun!  For just $129, you will get your new consultant kit (in this cute box!) and all the supplies you need to start your own business.  Oh and did I mention you get NEW products!!!  Along with our NEW catalogs!!!

See that box on her lap?  The medium organizer?  Yep...that is part of the kit!!  And see all that cool product in that organizer?  Yep...ALL that come in there too.  It is a $445 value for just $129 and you will get your business started!

AND, join my team today and I will get you on our team facebook page where we share LOTS of ideas.  You will be trained by me and Close to my Heart.  There is a lot of resources available for you. AND I also hold monthly meetings and swaps!  So get started now.  Simply go to my website and sign up today!

August Monthly Group Layouts

It's August and we are making these layouts at my August Monthly Groups.  Want to join us?  Check out the "upcoming events" tab.  All my August dates are there.  Let me know what date works for you.

Check out this arrow washi tape and the arrow cricut shapes.  Love it!

If you can join us, just let me know.  I would love to have you.

Let's Get Organized with Close to my Heart!

Are your supplies a mess?  Close to my Heart has BRAND NEW organizing supplies!  AND, they are our August Special.

Get this Accessory Roll Up that has 16 clear plastic pockets with zippers to hold embellishments, supplies OR, your jewelry!!  How cool is that!  AND, if you get this for just $18.95, you will also get our new Base and Bling style sheets FREE!  This is a $7.90 value.  These sheets work perfectly in our base and bling collections.  AND HINT...this is a GREAT way to make some Christmas gifts!  Oh yes I did say that C word!  Not only can you make necklaces with these sheets, but you can make keychain holders too!  And why not get an Accessory Roll Up for that special person too!  What a GREAT gift!!  It's not just for your scrapbooking supplies!!

AND, I love how it has zippers that go both ways, so you will not have all the compartments open!!  

And here is our Marker Roll Up.  Great way to get your supplies on the go!  And, if you purchase this organizer for just $17.95, you will get our Balloon Wishes stamp set FREE!  ($17.95 value)

AND, the REAL cool thing about this is, we are giving you a sneak peak into our NEW Catalog that will be out September 1st!!  YEA!!  Can't wait!

Join me for my New Catalog Celebration (aka Open House) on Sunday, August 30th from 1:00 - 5:00!

Make Your Own Paper!

Have you ever needed a certain paper for your layouts and you just don't have it?  Think about MAKING your own paper...then it is JUST what you need, the colors you need and you don't have to buy too much "extras"!  I like to use what I have.

This is the PERFECT example.  I made this layout for my downlines.  We have our convention at Disneyland and we are doing the UP theme.  From Disney Pixar's UP.  So I knew I wanted to have balloons all over it and I knew I wanted it to be Mickey ish...so I took our Artiste Cricut Cartridge, cut out the balloons, used the coordinating balloon stamp and TADA!  I also added some little black circle for Mickey's ears.  How cute is that!!!  

Oh and the colors...our team colors are lagoon and pear (blue and green) so I was able to combine all these things together for a great custom layout...but I used everything that I had!!  I didn't have to run out and get Disney themed paper!  How fun is that!

Graduation Gift

A sweet friend of ours has a daughter that graduated in May...here is the little package I made for her.  

She is going to BYU Hawaii, so I thought I would decorate it accordingly.  I used discontinued products...she isn't going to care and I get it used up.

I stamped a little card for the inside and grabbed my discontinued bakers twine and started to roll dollar bills!  

I filled the box.  Now, it took a while to roll them all and it will probably take her a while to UN roll all of them and she will have curly bills, BUT, it will be so fun for her.  LOL

Think about doing this for other things besides graduations.  I can see doing it for birthdays too...roll as many as they are old.  How fun would that be?  Hmmm...might be a good tradition to start for grandkids!  Now I just need those grandkids!  LOL  

Grab your stash and use it up!

4th of July Layouts

Everything is snap, crackle and pop out there!!  And I am ready!  I made these 2 layouts using products that I have.  The left side of this layout is using our Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  I cut the stars out of Outdoor Denim cardstock and put it over a piece of white...matted the whole thing with Cranberry. On the right side I just used a pice of cranberry cardstock and put white stripes down.  EASY!

This layout I used one of our stamp sets and stamped all over white cardstock and done.  Now I am ready for all those firework pictures!!  

Here is a picture of the cardstock stamped

July Stamp of the Month and Jackson Paper Pack

It's July and it's time for the July Stamp of the month!  YEA!  Here is a layout I created using the July stamp of the month.  (see the Life is wonderful and arrows) I used our Jackson paper pack and some pictures from a recent trip to South Dakota.

Below is a close up of the Life is Wonderful (stamp of the month).  

Here you will see my clouds.  LOVE THEM!  I used the Close to my Heart Artbooking Cricut Cartridge to cut out the clouds.  Then I sponged the clouds with Slate stamp pad (grey) because it was raining all day, but we didn't care! We put on our raincoats and off we went!  

AND, I had to add some raindrops to my clouds!  LOL  These are from our Junebug Puffies.  So fun. So if you have pictures outdoors in the rain, make sure you add clouds and rain drops to your layout!!

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