Artbooking Video Tutorial and a FREE Cricut Cartridge

I'm sure you're all aware that if you join my team this month, you get your choice of one our Cricut Collections ($99) FREE!!!!!!! Here's a little video tutorial using the Artbooking Cartridge. What are you waiting for? Head on over to my website to join! More information about the special is in this post.

Holiday Blocks Kits For Sale!

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY:

• Did you like the Holiday Blocks project I shared in my last blog post? The photo above is just one of the 6 holiday words you can display with this project! (see photos below of all of the words)
• Would you like to be able to purchase it as a kit, all pre-cut and ready to put together?  
• With 4 little blocks, isn't it cool that you can decorate for 6 holidays?

Your wish is my command!
For $37 (which includes shipping)* you get:

• 4 My Creations (sturdy, heavy chipboard) Blocks (3"x 3"x 3")
• All necessary papers pre-cut and ready to adhere to your blocks
• All embellishments needed
• photos and step by step instructions on how to finish this darling project

To purchase this project, just scroll past the photos below and click on the "Buy Now" button.   

*Kit may only be shipped to U.S. addresses.

Get your kit NOW!

Handcrafted Holidays Blog Hop - Holiday Blocks for All Year Round

Do you remember not that long ago when I participated in an over-the-top blog hop featuring products from the new Close To My Heart holiday gift guide? Well, that hop was such a success that we decided to do it again, this time with ideas for home decor and gifts for the holidays. We've even added a couple new artists that I'm sure you'll love!

Welcome to our Handcrafted Holidays Blog Hop! We are thrilled to share some of our ideas for the holidays.  If you have come here from Lynn Como's blog, you are on the right path. This blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around. If you get lost along the way, you'll find the complete list of participating consultants here.

For my project, I decided to use four (4) of our fun and inexpensive My Creations Blocks (only $3.95 each, approx 3" square) to create words to use for holidays all year round. Since we all know that cubes have 6 sides,  I knew that I had the potential of creating 6 different words that could be used throughout the year.  You can see them all below.  

I will be offering this project as a kit soon so stay tuned here on my blog next week for more details.

Now hop on over to Lisa Stenz's blog to see her work!  Be sure to visit all of the Close To My Heart Consultants in the hop to get some great crafting ideas.  Contact me or shop directly from my website to get your products for your holiday projects today.

Some of the products I used to create this fun project are:

My Creations® Block	Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection	Green Glitter Paper	Brown & Tan Glitter Paper	Black & Grey Glitter Paper
Enchantment Cardstock Combo Pack	Adventure Cardstock Combo Pack	Whimsy Cardstock Combo Pack	12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock	Green & Blue Epoxy Bubbles
Pink Glitter Gems	Sparkles Clear Assortment

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Baby Card for Mojo Monday and Close To My Heart New Products Installment #3

Be sure to check out yesterday's post and enter to win a brand new Designed Decor Frame Kit ($43.85 value).

Ready for some more new products?  I'd love to share the new paper packs that made their debut on August 1 in the brand new Autumn/Winter Idea Book. There are 6 of them (Baby Cakes, Laughing Lola, ProPlayer, Huntington, Sarita and Frosted)  and they are all delicious.  I've already stocked up with at least one of each!  As you read about each pack, notice that I've provided links to the products I'm referring to on my website  for your convenience.

1. Baby Cakes Paper Pack:  The card you see at the top of this post was made with the Baby Cakes papers.   I love that they can work for baby items, but also are versatile enough for so many other things.  The trendy greys, yellows, oranges and browns in this kit make it perfect for boys pages, girl pages, Autumn pages, family photos and so much more than baby pages and projects. And, with all of the matching accent stickers and bling you can get to go along with it, it's a must have!

I used the Baby Cakes papers to create this card inspired by this week's Mojo Monday sketch. 

Here's a close up of the card. The products used list is at the very bottom of this post.

Here is some more artwork made with Baby Cakes by the fabulous Art Department at Close To My Heart:

2.  Laughing Lola Paper Pack:  This paper pack is bright, fun, bold and fashionable!  I recently used it to complete this layout (based on one done by the CTMH Art Department) of our dancing daughter-in-law, Daysha. We will actually be making this layout, along with 2 more at my September Play Group Scrappin' Classes.  Be watching in a week or two for the announcement of this kit and how to purchase it then. Anyway, CTMH has also provided all kinds of fun accent options that match this paper packet.

This beautiful home decor item was created using Laughing Lola by the Art Department:

3.  ProPlayer Paper Pack:  I love this pack! The blues, greys, reds and blacks combine for such a masculine feel.  The matching accents are just perfect too!  Whether you want to use this packet theme specific for "gaming" photos, or whether you just want to include some photos of your boy(s), sports photos, family photos, or even swimming photos (the possibilities are endless!) you'll love the way they are complemented by these papers!  I can't wait to scrapbook some of my boys' sports photos on this paper. The matching accents are killer too!

How cute is this new Flip Stand Album?  Love it too!

4.  Huntington Paper Pack:  Don't you feel warm just looking at it?  It's full of warm, cozy, Autumn feeling colors and combines that with elegance. In fact, I almost want to redecorate my home to match.  Looking at these papers makes me feel like I'm all snuggled up in a warm family room by the fireplace.  Just gorgeous. The matching accents perfectly complement the elegantly warm papers as well.

Beautiful layout using the Huntington papers made by the CTMH Art Department.

5. Sarita Paper Pack:  Blues, golds, oranges and geometric prints!  Perfection.  These papers, along with their matching accents are so versatile, they really can be used for ANYTHING! 

Sarita layout made by the CTMH Art Department

6.  Frosted Paper Pack:  Calm, cool and collected. That's exactly how I'd describe this paper pack.  I love it for Christmas and/or Winter photos, as well as anything you really want to see POP.  Bright colored photos would really take center stage on these muted, soft colored papers.  Beautiful! The matching accents are equally as "cool"!

Frosted layout made by the CTMH Art Department

As promised, here is the CTMH products used list for the Baby Cakes card I created and shared at the top of the post:  New Arrival Stamp Set, Baby Cakes Paper Pack, Whisper Cardstock, White Daisy Value Pack Cards and Envelopes, Chocolate Stamp Pad, Watercolor Pencils, Just Blooms Paper Flowers (retired), Honey Mini Medley (retired), 3D Foam Tape.

Have a great day! 

FRAME GIVEWAY and New Close To My Heart Products Installment #2

Welcome!  Today I want to focus on a two new Close To My Heart products that are beautiful for your home!  And...(drum roll please) I will be giving one of them away ($43.85 prize!) for FREE.  Yeah, baby!  You can also purchase either (or both) of them on my website, 24/7...we never sleep!

New product #1:  Our new Designed Decor Colonial White Frames are so stinkin' cute!  I love them.  The interior dimensions of this frame are 12" x 13 1/2".  The wood is painted a warm, creamy colonial white and the inside is lined in chicken wire.  There is also a sawtooth hanger on the back. The possibilities of what you can do with this frame are enless.  I'll share a few ideas on a moment. But, first a bit more about the frame itself:  You can buy them by themselves or in a workshop kit. In fact, I am giving away one workshop kit ($43.85 value). The workshop kit includes: 1-Designed Decor Colonial White Frame, 1-My Acrylix Frame Stamp Set {so cute!}, 33-Kraft Paper Die Cut Shapes, 6-Mini Wooden Clothespins, and 1-Bakers Twine Hemp {1 yd}.  You have between now (August 7) and Friday, August 16 to enter.   I will be announcing the winner on my blog on Monday, August 19. Important note: you must live in the USA to win.

Here's how to enter:

a Rafflecopter giveaway Great Ideas of ways to use this frame:

• To hang jewelry on using our new Hook Clips
• To clip little girl hair bows too
• A collage of family photos
• A collage of vacation photos
• To fill with photos of your child from each year of school (first day of school or school photo)

Here's a fun photo of a frame being used to hold hair accessories and jewelry:

And another great idea: as a display to remind you of goals or other fun things:

New product #2:   Another Designed Decor Frame:  this one is painted stylish black and the center is lined with 5 heavy duty clothes line wires.  So cool! Perfect for job charts, fun photo collages, to display fun artwork, and so much more!  Inside dimensions are 13 1/2" x 12". Here are two fun examples of ways to use this frame:

 

I'm so excited to be able to share this awesome Designed Decor workshop with one lucky reader!  Be sure to check back on August 19 for the announcement!  In the meantime, keep checking back for more fun blog posts.

July Specials with Close To My Heart

I just returned late last night (technically this morning) from the Close To My Heart annual Convention. It was fabulous!  The new catalog that will debut August 1 is beautiful!  You will love it!  The photo at the top is of my two wonderful friends (and roomies) and I (Michelle, Amy, me).  Every year at Convention, CTMH treats the Directors and above to a wonderful dinner. This year, since we were at DisneyWorld, they treated us to 4 hours at Epcot, a ride on Soarin', front row at the Illuminations light show, and an amazing dinner at the Coral Reef restaurant. Mickey even snorkeled by in the huge aquarium to say hi!  In this photo we were in "France" at Epcot and had just finished some scrumptious salted caramel ice cream. Yum!  Join my team and join me at Convention next June...in DisneyLand!  I would never have met these two lovely ladies if it weren't for CTMH.  One lives in Idaho and the other in South Carolina, but because of the love of CTMH we share, we are like next door neighbors!  Oh, and we do sleep together once a year. lol.

Even though that new catalog is great, you don't need to spend all of July just waiting for August 1. There is plenty to be excited about this month as well.  Let me explain...

1.  Work the Workshop
2.  Let's Get Patriotic
3.  July Stamp of the Month

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1.  Work the Workshop:  Get the discounted Workshops on the Go^® canvas art kit in July—no qualifying purchase required!

From July 1 to July 31 you can get this trendy kit to create your own canvas art to hang in your home, regularly priced at $39.95, now discounted to $19.95—more than 50% off! Take papercrafting to the next level with this adorable home décor piece that you can display for all to see.

If ordering on my website, you'll be prompted to add this to your order if you'd like.  If you are ordering from me directly, just let me know you want it. Easy, peasy!

2. Let's Get Patriotic: This special began in June and goes through July.  If you haven't taken advantage of it already (or even if you have), NOW is a great time to get a dynamite patriotic stamp set(s) AND have $3 from each set purchased be donated to support the USO.  There are 2 to choose from:

Courage (order #B1437, $9.95, only available through July 31):

 Home of the Brave (order #D1576, $17.95, only available through July 31):

You can easily add them to an order on my website, or give me a jingle (801.360.9896) and I'll be happy to place an order for you.

3. July Stamp of the Month:  Juicy!  This sweet and summery apples, peaches and cherries stamp set is sure to be a hit when making cards AND scrapbook pages.

This gorgeous artwork was created by the Close To My Heart Art Department with this scrumptious set.  You can own this set for only $5 ($17.95 value) with every $50 you order (before shipping and tax).

July Stamp of the Month:  "Sweet Life" (only $5 {$17.95 value} with a $50 order). Carrier sheet actual size is 6" x 6"

July is a GREAT time to celebrate the fun of CTMH with 3 great specials.  Contact me if you have any questions (pedermom@aol.com, 801.360.9896).  I'm here to help!