FAB 4 and More....................

Become a Close To My Heart Consultant in April 

and receive the next 4 Stamp Of The Month Stamp sets for FREE!  

So, you'll get all of this and the 4 stamps below plus $50.00 credit. All for just $75.00.

Take a look at these amazing sets. 

As part of our Fab Four special, anyone who became a Former Consultant before January 2018 can also have a special no-kit sign up option that will allow them to sign up for only $50 USD/$60 CAD. 

Those who choose this option will not receive a New Consultant Kit, but they will receive the four new Stamp of the Month sets and their $50 USD/$60 CAD CTMH Cash sign-up bonus.

It’s an unbeatable deal, making April an ideal time to sign up.  

Finally, we will also be offering a fabulous bonus just for April hostesses as well!

If you would like to host a party in April, just let me know and I'll set it up for you.  

Happy Scrappin',

Janice

Close To My Heart Black Friday Special..........................

We’re holding a one-day flash sale on my website to celebrate one of the busiest shopping days of the year! The sale will give you a chance to get a 50% discount on all of our currently available CutAbove® Layout Kits. This includes our current kits as well as a selection of layout kits that were previously available. Some of these kits are only available in low quantities, so be sure to place your orders early!

This sale starts at 12:00 am (MST) on November 24 and will end at 11:59 pm on that same day. Sale prices are only available on orders placed through my website during these times. All discounted items ordered as part of this sale are commissionable and count towards Stamp of the Month and Hostess Rewards qualifying order totals.

Cut Above® Layout Kit—Party Time

Cut Above® Layout Kit—Little One

 Cut Above® Layout Kit—Noelle

 

Cut Above® Layout Kit— Live Beautifully

Cut Above® Layout Kit—Adventure

Cut Above® Layout Kit—The Story Begins (Baby Girl)

Cut Above® Layout Kit—The Story Begins (Baby Boy)

  
As an additional bonus, when you buy the Cut Above Layout Kit—The Story Begins kits (Baby Boy or Baby Girl), you are eligible for additional savings. As shown in the Annual Inspirations Idea Book, when you purchase one of these kits, you can purchase a My Legacy™ album of your choice at 30% off! That means that during this 1-day only sale, you can purchase these Cut Above Layout Kits at 50% off AND purchase a My Legacy album at 30% off—Talk about incredible savings!


I hope you all have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving with your family and friends.

Happy Scrappin',
Janice

PS. Watch for our Cyber Monday Sale too!

Smile | No Worries WYW | DT by Tarina Lafollette

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful week!

Today, I am sharing a layout made from the No Worries, Workshops Your Way, Scrapbooking kit. This layout was inspired by a card I found on Pinterest. More info about the card and its creator will soon be available on my Facebook page (hellotarina).

Taking inspiration from the card, I knew I wanted to have an array shape cut from the main layer of paper.

It took me a bit to choose the papers, because I was drawn to the sapphire blue paper w/palm trees as well as the herringbone patterned paper; which are both vibrant papers. I really loved the two together, but I needed something that wasn't too much like the white, not very eye catching, AND I didn't want it to overpower the photo. So, I decided to go with White Daisy for the base, the two that were calling to me, and the distressed wood plank paper, to start. I tried several different paper combinations to fill the array, but nothing felt right. That's when I remembered the branding strips! AND, there happened to be the exact the color I needed to balance the page! 

I also used the white burlap ribbon that's included in the No Worries WYW kit. I adhered it down right on the outer edge of the sapphire branding strip. I love how it brought a bit of dimension to that corner of the page.

Next up, ink splatters.

I used the CTMH Sapphire and Cashmere ink pads to splatter coordinating colors onto the white daisy paper. This helps tone down the starkness of the white. When adding the splatters, I made sure to turn the paper so that the point of the cut triangle piece was closet to me. This makes the splatters look like they're coming from the direction of the photo cluster.

Onto the photo cluster!

I backed the photo in the sapphire paper, leaving about a quarter inch border on each side. The photo mat still seemed pretty dramatic on the white base, so I used a combination of neutral papers tucked behind the sapphire mat to build some color. I also cut a photo corner for the left, bottom corner of the photo mat to help keep it balanced. I used the Edge Distresser to distress each of these papers just to give some more dimension.

It took me a bit to get each embellishment cluster the way I wanted, but I love how they came out.

The title 'Smile', as well as all the sticker and Kraft embellishments were from the No Worries Compliment pack. Some of them were adhered with my glue pen, some with adhesive dots, and some with foam tape.

Last up are the No Worries Sequins and Bitty Sparkles to give the photo cluster just a bit of sparkle.

Layout Recipe

(*included in No Worries WYW Scrapbooking kit but can be bought separately)

No Worries Workshops Your Way, Scrapbooking kit

*No Worries Paper Pack

*No Worries Compliments

*No Worries Sequins

*White Burlap Ribbon

Bitty Sparkles

Bonding Memories™ Glue Pen

Micro Glue Dots

3-D Foam Tape

Sapphire Ink pad

Cashmere Ink pad

Edge Distresser

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

~Tarina

@hellotarina

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Miss You Workshops Your Way Part 2 | DT

Hello Everybody!

Today I'm bringing you project  #2 of the Miss You, Workshops Your Way, cardmaking kit. I love how both projects have a second option, and because the switch is so simple, I decided to show you all what the Project #2 option  looks like too.

As you can see, the second option is simply flipping over the double sided B & T Duos paper. 

Let's say you wanted to create a card using the new Live Beautifully papers. You could simply switch out the patterened papers (and inks), and the Miss You stampset and card layout instructions would still work beautifully.  I may just have to make that my next DT project! lol

If you haven't gotten ahold of the Miss You, Workshops Your Way cardmaking kit yet, head on over to http://janicewilson.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Products.aspx?CatalogID=242. While you're there, you can also find other Workshops Your Way kits offered by Close to My Heart.

I hope you have a lovely and inspired week!

~Tarina

@hellotarina

Hello Card featuring Dreamin' Big | DT

Hello Everybody!

With the early spring flowers peeking their heads out of the ground and summer just around the corner, the Dreamin' Big collection from Close to My Heart has inspired me again.

Today's card was pretty quick and easy to make. It starts with a White Daisy card base, as well as the black & gray striped and flower print paper from the Dreamin' Big paper pack.

I trimmed a small piece of the black & gray paper and adhered it about 3/4s of the way down, on the card base.

Next up was the floral paper. 

I measured the smallest heart from the Basic Hearts-Thin Cuts dies, and trimmed the floral paper just bigger than the size of the heart. I then placed my heart die where I wanted the cuts to be(hopefully evenly spaced lol), marked them with my pencil, and ran them through my Big Shot. I set aside the die cut hearts because I wanted to use the negative space(the part the hearts were cut out of). I cut a few more hearts out of the white striped vellum from the Uptown Fundamentals pack from CTMH and stitched them down in between the cut out hearts. Any thread works for this, but for this, I used 3 strands of the Whisper Thick Twine.

Once I was done tying off the twine, I adhered the piece down with 3D Foam Tape.

For the sentiment, I used the 'hello' die from the hello & thanks Thin Cuts from CTMH and black cardstock. I was tempted to cut several hello's and glue them together which would create a thicker type die cut, but ended up emphesizing the word 'hello' with a Spellbinder's label die cut from White Daisy CS. I popped this up on 3D Foam Tape and added some Bitty Sparkles and Grey Enamel Gems to finish off the card.

Here's the card recipe:

White Daisy cardstock

Dreamin' Big paper pack

Basic Hearts-Thin Cuts dies

Uptown Fundamentals pack

Whisper Thick Twine

3D Foam Tape

hello & thanks Thin Cuts

Bitty Sparkles

Grey Enamel Gems

I hope spring inspires you to get creative,

and I hope you have a great weekend!

~Tarina

Happy Everything Card | DT

Hello Everybody!

This is my very first design team post here at One Scraptastic Grandma! and I am SO happy to be here! I would like to thank Janice Wilson for giving me this opportunity! I truly hope to craft up to your expectations!☺

Without further ado…..

I absolutely adore the Hello Lovely collection from the new Close to My Heart, Seasonal Expressions Ideabook, and I’m very excited to be using it along with the newest of CTMH products!

I started out with adhering the blush w/polka dots paper from the Hello Lovely Paper to a White Daisy card base. Next, I trimmed down the whisper paper w/diamond shapes to leave a small border on all sides. Before adhering, I used my CTMH Edge Distresser to rough up all four edges of this piece.

To make the tag, I started with a rectangle and trimmed off one of the corners. I then flipped the little trimmed piece to the other side of the rectangle, lined it up with the corner and trimmed off that corner also. This makes the trimmed corners the same size and angle. Using a tag punch or die cutting machine works great too! I adhered the tag about three quarters of the way down, and all the way to the right of the card front.

Tying the bow was the next step. I’m not sure if you’ve tried, but it’s not all that easy to tie a tiny bow with ribbon, but I Love how this one turned out (I’m pretty picky about my bows lol). The softness of the Blush Shimmer Ribbon made it much easier to tie, and gives this tiny bow just enough sparkle to make a statement.

For the heart I really wanted to use vellum, so I dipped into another collection I’m excited about. 
The Uptown Fundamentals paper pack has black and grey patterned papers, papers/vellum with gold foil, and the perfect, pin-striped vellum for the heart. also used the largest heart in the new Thin Cuts- Basic Hearts die set to cut it out.  When adhering the heart to the tag, adding just a little bit of adhesive to the center (from left to right) of the heart helps hide the adhesive from being seen.

Using the Way to Go stampset from the Annual Inspirations Ideabook, and Archival Black ink pad, I stamped ‘happy everything’ onto a spare piece of White Daisy cardstock and trimmed off any excess from around the greeting. I wanted the greeting to have a bit of dimension to it, so I used the 3-D Foam tape to adhere it to the center of the vellum heart. This also covers the adhesive used to adhere the vellum heart.

Saving the best for last, lol I added the bling! Bitty Sparkles and Gold Glitter Gems turned out to be just the right amount of bling to finish off this card.

Along with scissors and your favorite adhesive, here is the Card Recipe, or list of the products I used, to make this card.

~Card Recipe~

Hello Lovely Paper Pack

Uptown Fundamentals

White Daisy cardstock

Way to Go stampset

Blush Shimmer Ribbon

Gold Glitter Gems

Bitty Sparkles

Thin Cuts-Basic Hearts

Edge Distresser

Archival Black Ink pad

3-D Foam tape

I hope you enjoyed my first project, as I am very excited to get started on my next one! If you like what ya see, leave a comment down below.

We’d love to hear from you!

I hope you have a great weekend!

~Tarina Lafollette

@hellotarina

Close To My Heart's Brand NEW Exclusive Cricut Cartridge - Flower Market

Well crafters, here it is.  The full display of all the items on the new Flower Market Cricut Cartridge by Close To My Heart.  

There are 700 images on all of the Close To My Heart Exclusive Cricut Cartridges, 

Are you ready?

I present to you the NEW Close To My Heart Exclusive Cricut Cartridge - Flower Market Z3285

This collection comes with 3 D-Size stamp sets which you can not purchase separately and retails for $17.95 each and an Adventure Cardstock Combo Pack (20 sheets) which retails for $14.50. You get all of this for just $99.00.  I have purchased Cricut Light Cartridges for $40.00 and sometimes more before I realized they only had a few images.    We also have a Flower Market digital version of the collection Z3290 for just $79.00.

Did you see the elephant with the heart nose.  So cute.

I love the bicycle and the baby chick too.

I love all the different containers and vases in this cartridge.

Love that wagon and umbrella.

Did you see the sugar skull?  Love the 3-D floweres too.

I know I will use the Poppy a lot. They will be perfect for the VFW Scrapbooks.

Did you count the wreaths you can make with this one?  I can't keep track.

I love the jars and coffee mugs and cups,

This cartridge has something for all seasons and reasons.

Now, don't forget to hang the horse shoe the right direction, you don't want all the luck to run out.

Here are the Excluxive stamp sets that come with the Flower Market Cricut collection too.

 These stamps are perfect for making cards.

 Love the different background stamps.

This gives you so many opetions.

I am so excited to start playing with this cartridge, I can hardly wait.  My only problem is everything I own is still packed.  We are just getting started on the rebuild of my house, so untill it's done, no playing on the Cricut for me.  Watch for the post about that coming soon.

What do you think? I'm sure you are like me and need to add this cartridge to your collection.  I LOVE Close To My Hearts Exclusive Cricut Cartridges, I have all of them in my Cricut Juke Box so they are always handy and ready to go whether I am playing or working. 

If you have any questions please call me 503-708-6889 if I don't answer please leave me a message and I will return your call as soon as I possibly can. You can email me if you would rather jwilson@bctonline.com 

I almost forgot, if you make a purchase of $50.00 or more, you get the Stamp of the Month 

Purr-fect Halloween S1608  for just $5.00  

I love how they give you options for the cats eyes too.