Wedding Guest Sign In Book You Can Make Yourself

I gotta admit, I was pretty excited when Close To My Heart asked me to come shoot a quick video about the wedding sign in books I've made for my kids.  I hope you'll enjoy it!

The Create Kindness Card Kit from Close To My Heart

This beautiful video captures the exact essence of the September Create Kindness Special. Celebrate National Stamping Month by getting one and spreading the love!  Get yours here.

Video for National Scrapbooking Month—Happy Times

I hope you enjoy this fun video that shows gorgeous artwork made with
this month's Happy Times paper packet and coordinating stamp set. You
might even recognize a few of the people in the photos on the layouts at
the end of the video.



Remember, May is National
Scrapbooking Month and this paper packet and stamp set are ONLY
available in May to celebrate.  You can get them in a couple of
different ways...



1.  Happy Times Paper Packet:

• FREE with every $60 you order (before shipping and tax). When ordering on my website, you'll be prompted to add your set(s) before checking out.
• Packets can be purchased for $14.95 (CC1063).  

2. Happy Times Stamp Set:

• Can be purchased for $17.95 (CC1064)

Baby, You're Worth It!

This month is a wonderful time to sign up to be a Close To My Heart Consultant.  This month, with the "Baby, I'm Worth It" special, you can become a Consultant for $75.  This gets you a kit valued at $214, including $50 to spend on stamps, papers and inks of your choice.

In addition, if you sell $350 in  your first 30 days, you'll also get a Cricut Collection of your choice ($99 value) or your choice of $100 in select products. WOO HOO, AND, there are 3 stamp sets you'll earn as well...for FREE.

And that's not all!  With $350 in sales, you earn a minimum of $77 commission.

Think about it, you invest $75 and sell $350 in your first 30 days and get:

• Kit valued at $214
• $100 in free product
• 3 FREE stamp sets valued at $54
• $77 commission

THAT'S $445 for a $75 initial investment. WOO HOO!

To sign up, just click here.  It's easy, peasy and only takes a few minutes. Once you get signed up, I'll get an email within a day from Close To My Heart and then I'll be in touch to help you get going.


This video will tell you quite a bit about the Close To My Heart Consultant Kit and becoming a Close To My Heart Consultant

Share The Love Valentine Card and a Video

Close To My Heart is committed to being a company that not only has great products, but that does great things.  We have been a proud supporter of Operation Smile for many years.  Since February is a month all about LOVE, CTMH decided to SHARE THE LOVE with Operation Smile.  They created an exclusive stamp set called Share the Love that can be purchased this month.  $7 of the proceeds from each stamp set go straight to Operation Smile.  How cool is that?!!!

I created this fun Valentine using the Share the Love set.  I had fun creating that arrow background by using a Lagoon stamp pad to stamp them on Lagoon Cardstock.  I think creating your own patterned paper is something that people forget they can do with stamps. Give it a try!

I will actually be sharing something I created with the set each Friday, right here on my blog. It's Friday, so here's my first share.  CTMH will also be sharing artwork with this set throughout the month on their social media channels.  AND, they want you to do the same. If you create something with this set, just add the hashtag #ctmhsharethelove to bring attention to this worthy cause.  To purchase this set and share the love with children in need, just click here. It takes $245 to pay for one operation. That means for every 35 sets sold, we are paying for a brand, new smile on a child.  COOL beans!


Last year our own Monica Wihongi (CCO at CTMH) went to Mexico on an Operation Smile mission and got to see first hand the marked difference this charity makes in the lives of so many. Here's a video of that mission (and yes, that's Kate Walsh from Grey's Anatomy).

Freedom Layouts with the Artbooking Cartridge (video)

Enjoy this fun video showing some great layouts with the Artbooking cartridge!

Artbooking Made Easy

I think you will agree that the new Artbooking collection from Close To My Heart and Cricut is REVOLUTIONARY! Not only does it create a whole layout with the ease of one key, but it also creates several mini-albums.  Here's what I'm talkin' about:

You can get your Artbooking Collection on my website, 24/7...even in your jammies!

CTMH/Cricut Artbooking Collection: 
Collection includes:
1 – Cartridge (700 images: Font, Mini Books, Layouts)
3 – My Acrylix® D-size stamp sets
3 – 12" × 9" Dimensional Elements (3 sheets of different shapes)
Creative Feature Keys: Title, Photo Mat 1, Photo Mat 2, Icon, Border, Overlay.

Whooo's Your Valentine Special, December Stamp of the Month, FREE Gift, and I'm Back!

I have been out of town for the past week and had great intentions of posting while I was gone. I even uploaded several things from my desktop computer to Dropbox so that I could access them on my laptop while out of town and use them for a few blog posts. For some darn reason I was unable to access what I uploaded so my great intentions were for naught.  I also had plans to keep up with all of my regular blogs while I was gone and just had no time.  Please forgive me for not commenting over the past week. What is that saying? The road to *#@! is paved with good intentions?  Oh dear! I'm in trouble!

I have a few important things to share today to make up for lost time:
1.  Whooo's Your Valentine
2.  December Stamp of the Month
3.  FREE gift!
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1.  Whooo's Your Valentine:   You may or may not know that January is National Papercrafting Month.  Since we at Close To My Heart love to party, we are celebrating a bit early. Our National Papercrafting Month Special ("Whooo's Your Valentine") began on December 13 (yesterday) and runs through January 31.  Yippee! 

Spend $35 (either on my website or by contacting me: 801.360.9896, pedermom@aol.com) and get the exclusive "Whoo's Your Valentine" treat tube kit for only $10 (valued at $40)!

The kit includes:

• 12 die-cut boxes

• 3 cardstock sheets

• 1 sheet of silver glitter paper (so pretty!)

• 12 treat tubes

• An exclusive D-size stamp set created specifically for the kit!  (see below)
  
  

  

  Whooo's Your Valentine Exclusive Stamp Set (carrier sheet actual size is 6" x 6")

   

These little goodies are perfect for gifts and classroom projects. The "Whooo’s Your Valentine" kit will make Valentine’s Day a cinch! If ordering on my website, you will get a prompt at the end of your order to add it. Easy Peasy!

Here's a video to tell you a little more about it:
 

2.  December Stamp of the Month:  I know I have already shared a few things about this special, but the coolest part of all is that if you spend $50, you qualify for the December Stamp of the Month at $5 ($17.95 value) AND it will also qualify you for the "Whooo's Your Valentine" kit for only $10. That means you would spend $65 ($50 order + $5 Stamp of the Month + $10 "Whooo's Your Valentine" kit) and have $107.95 in merchandise. That's about a 40% savings.  Nifty!  The December Stamp of the Month is a great set!  Today I thought I'd share a Valentine card I made with it since we seem to be all in the Valentine spirit.

3.  FREE Gift:  Just because we are celebrating Valentine's Day a bit early, it doesn't mean that we aren't still in the holiday spirit that comes with this time of year. As a reminder, if you spend $50 or more on my website this month, you get this awesome glue pen absolutely FREE!  So, my advice to you is to take advantage of all 3 of these specials on my website and you get the advantages of all of them.  Using my website is the key because this FREE glue pen only comes with website orders. 

Hurricane Sandy Service and Gratitude

Today I am grateful for service, for being part of a church that serves.

I saw this beautiful video this morning on my friend, Naomi's blog. I hope you will take the time to watch.  To quote Naomi, "It is a beautiful video of some of the recovery efforts put on in NYC by members of our faith.  I'm not sharing this video to promote my faith in your face or discredit any others who have been helping night and day the past few weeks to rebuild what Sandy destroyed, but I found this film to be so inspirational, it brought tears to my eyes. Whether you are of our faith or think we are complete crazies (hey now!), this is what it's all about, people.  A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who have selflessly served during this time of need." 

When Hurricane Ike struck the coast of Texas and Louisiana a few years ago, my son Easton was serving his mission for our church in the Galveston area. Galveston was one of the hardest struck areas by Ike. Easton spent several weeks and months being part of this "Helping Hands" effort. That service was one of his most favorite parts of his 2-year mission. This video brought tears to my eyes as I not only felt gratitude for being part of a church who cares, but as I felt gratitude to a son who serves!

Grab some kleenex! You'll need it!




Mormon Helping Hands :: Hurricane Sandy :: Rockaways, NY from Joshua Brown on Vimeo.

National Scrapbooking Month Video and Layouts

If you are a scrapper, you know that May is National Scrapbooking Month. Each year, Close To My Heart celebrates with a gorgeous, exclusive scrappin' kit that is only available during May, and this year is no exception. Take a little over 4 minutes to learn a little bit about this kit by watching this FAB video. I've also posted photos of my completed layouts below. Enjoy!



My completed layouts (click on either image to see it larger and in more detail):


There are 3 great ways to get this kit:

1. Purchase $50 in CTMH products and get it for only $15
2. Purchase it outright for $34.95
3. Get it FREE by signing up to be a Close To My Heart Consultant for only half price ($64.50, usually $129) in May.

Head to my website to start shoppin'! You'll be prompted to add this kit at the end of your order. You gotta love it, baby!

Little Video about Being a Close To My Heart Consultant

Take a few quick minutes (just a little over 3 and a half minutes) and watch me tell you a little bit about what I do and why I love it so much.



I would LOVE to help you get started as an Independent Consultant with Close To My Heart. It's only $129 to get started and you can easily make that and MORE back in your first month. I've been a Consultant with CTMH for over 18 years, so there is OBVIOUSLY something here worth being a part of for a long, long time! I love it!

To sign up, head to my website, click on "Your Opportunities", the scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link that says "To Sign Up To Become a Consultant, Click Here."

My suggestions on your 3 Kit "Choose Me" Options: Choose Me Kits #2, #3 or #4, and #5. I also strongly suggest you sign up for your own website. It's only $5.95 per month for your first year! With Studio J (CTMH's perfect answer to digital scrapbooking) taking the industry by storm, you'll want your own website so your customers can take advantage of this through YOU!

Spray Pen Tutorial

Hey, Ho!

I'm so excited to share this awesome little tutorial for Close To My Heart's new Spray Pen. This pen comes in the basic kit we will be using in my February Play Group classes (click here to see the layouts and get class information). It's pretty darn cool! It's less than 3 1/2 minutes in length so I hope you'll take the time to watch and learn this fun new technique.

I used this cool technique on this card (made with the January Stamp of the Month, which you can read all about here):

Here is the video. You can also view it on YouTube at:

Bren and Paper Flowers

Oh my! You HAVE to watch this great video on making paper flowers (see photo here) by my friend, Bren! We are Close To My Heart oldies together. She has actually been with Close To My Heart one year longer than I have...eighteen years! She is an amazing artist. When we both started with CTMH we had young families. Now we are both grandmothers to beautiful granddaughters that were born last year. It's been fun 'growing up' with you, Bren!

Here is a photo of the two of us being our silly selves. We were at another friend's (hi, Sue!) scrapbook retreat in Lake Tahoe! So much fun!

You can see Bren's blog here.

Click here to watch her awesome video on how to make paper flowers.

Off to make some....