January Scrapbooking Workshop -- Grateful Heart

Don’t you just love the Grateful Heart paper?!?  I loved it when I first saw it, and love it even more now that I’ve had a chance to work with it.  The colors are all so rich.  And photos on the page just make the colors pop!

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops. We typically meet every other month. The next workshop will be in March. 

September 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- Florence

We used the Florence paper suite this month, and it is really nice paper!  I’m still not sure what pictures I'm using it for, but I think I going to use a couple of the layouts for the first day of school photos.  I usually know exactly what pictures I’m going to scrap as soon as I see paper, but this month I’m not totally sure.  But I still really like this paper and really love the embellishments that match this paper suite.  Once again I need to apologize for posting pictureless pages.  I seem to have a time management problem lately and can’t get my pictures on my pages before I need to take the pictures!

I do plan to use flip flaps again – of course – and have placed a few on the layouts for purposes of illustration.  I almost always plan the spacing on the layouts to allow for perfect spacing for flip flaps.  I just love our flip flaps!  :-) 

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  We only have one remaining workshop in 2016 and that will be November 14^th and 15^th.  We will be scrapbooking with the Swan Lake paper suite found in the Holiday Inspirations Idea Book.  And then we will start out the new year in 2017 by meeting in January and then again in March.

August 2016 Scrapbooking Workshop -- Calypso

We’re scrapping with the Calypso paper suite this month, and I love it!  It’s perfect for all of those fun beach/river/pool/summer pictures we've all been busy taking these last few months.  I’m posting pictures of my pages without pictures.  My pictures will be ready tomorrow, but I wanted to get the pages posted tonight so I apologize that they are pictureless at the moment.  Again, I’ll be using lots of flip flaps – of course!!  How else can you get all those cute pictures on your pages?!?!?

The new Annual Inspirations catalog went live on August 1^st (which has 4 brand new exciting Fundamental paper lines – Whimsy, Adventure, Enchantment, Adventure, and 4 Basics collections), and the new Holiday Expressions will go live on September 1^st (which has FOUR brand new themed paper suites), so we’ll be voting on what paper we want to use for the next few workshops when we meet this week.

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.  The remaining workshops for 2016 are August, September, and November.   

January 2014 Workshop -- Sparkle & Shine

Major kudos and thanks to fellow consultant Dana Kessler who created the design for these great pages using the Sparkle & Shine paper.  I used her basic design and then tweaked them a little to use the embellishments we are using for this paper pack as well as the black and gray glitter paper.  Aren't these pages great -- sometimes it's just fun to create over-the-top pages  (click on any photo to enlarge)!

My Cricut has been chirping away in preparation for this workshop!  There are 23 different Cricut cuts on these three pages, all from the CTMH Artbooking cartridge.

I used multiple 4x6 Flip Flaps on the last two layouts -- they are so easy to stack.  Not only are they a great way to get lots of photos on a layout, but I also like to put my journaling under the last Flip Flap.  

Let me know if you are interested in joining our workshops.  We typically meet every other month.   The next workshop will be March 10th and 11th, and we'll be making pages using the one of the new paper lines from the new CTMH Idea Book that goes live on February 1st.   Let me know if you would like a catalog.

Cricut Tutorial Video

Happy Friday! Since some of us now have Close to My Heart's new Art Philosophy Cricut bundle, I wanted to share a couple of YouTube tutorial videos that another CTMH consultant created. I'm always amazed at all of the talent within CMTH and the willingness to share. Her name is Dawn Heuft, and she plans on making additional tutorials. I'll share them here.

Have fun playing with your new cartridge. I just got mine as well. Even though I've had my Cricut machine for a couple of years, I have barely used it!! I plan to learn all about it by using the new CTMH cartridge -- there are so many options!!

Stay safe this weekend as we prepare for hurricane Irene! I hope she is gentle as she passes through!!

Happy scrapping!!

-- Sherry

Close to My Heart Now Has a Cricut Cartridge!!

The latest buzz with the unveiling of the new CTMH Idea Book on August 1st is the brand new "Art Philosophy" Cricuit cartridge which is exclusive to Close to My Heart. There are 700 images on the cartridge (WOW!!!), and it coordinates with many, many stamp sets. Art Philosophy comes with the Cricut cartridge, 3 stamp sets, ,and three 9"x12" chipboard sheets with shapes that coordinate with the stamps. HOW COOL IS THAT!!! Below are some short videos created by the company about using the Cricut cartridge.