Welcome December!

December is one of my favorite month.  With the Holiday Season coming soon and all the activities filling our days and weekends, before we know it Christmas will be there.  I am just finishing my Christmas cards and they are ready to send to the people I love, that live faraway.

But today is a special day it is the first ever Cyber Monday at Close To My Heart. We have a great special for you today only.  

Get our Cricut Collection at 20% of our regular price.  Each cartridge is coming with 3 beautiful stamp sets and dimensional elements or a pack of White Daisy cardstock for the new Artfully Sent.  Go to my web site to check it out.   This offer is for today only!

But this is not all!  For the month of December when you order for $50.00 you qualify for the DEAL OF THE DECADE. You can then purchase any D or C stamp sets from our Annual Inspirations book at a discounted price of $10 each. Best of all you can get as many as you want. 

These will make great gift to the crafty person on you Christmas list or for yourself.

Cricut Artfully Sent Collection

This is a card maker dream come true!

Finally the new CTMH Cricut Cartridge is available to order. We made a few cards at convention  and I  fell in love with it. We can make beautiful 3D pop up, scenes, sentiments, sleeves and pocket cards.  I can't wait to receive my order.

To order your cartridge you can go online.  

Contact me if you place an order of $150.00 and you will receive $25 of selected products. This offer is not valid on line.)  

Even better, if you host a gathering, the total of all your orders is $250.00 or more, you could buy this cartridge for half price. Now we are talking! This can also be an online gathering. Just contact me.

Talk to you soon,.. I need to place my order.

France

The New Annual Inspiration Idea Book is now available.

Your will love this new book!

What new?  Here is a list of some of the new products

9 NEW paper packs,
9 NEW scrapbooking Workshop On The Go,
5 NEW Picture My Life kits,
5 NEW colours,
4 NEW embossing folders,
2 NEW card making Wokshop On The Go,
1 NEW Close To My Heart exclusive Cricut Cartridge.
and  NEW Stamps sets that you will love and more inspiring new products  to get your creativity going...

Have a look for yourself..... just click here

If you are in Calgary and would like a copy, I have some for sale for $6.50 each or free with a
minimum order of $35.00.

Stay tune, I will post some information on my upcoming open house where you will be able to come and see some of the new products and do a make and take.

In the mean time,

Happy browsing!

I love Halloween,

When I was a kid I use to spend the few weeks before Halloween looking for the perfect costume. I would put sometime a special request to my mom so she could help me by sewing my ideas together.

To get into the spirit of Halloween, I did this special treat box for the before and after school boys I am looking after.  I got this inspiration from a fellow consultant Sharon aka the Oki Stamp Queen.

Here is my project:  A "Scary treat box".  I had a lot of fun doing it as it was really easy with the Close to My Heart Artist and Artbooking Cricut cartridges.

If you want I can send you a kit for $6 + shipping or you can pick up if you live in Calgary.
The kit will have all pre-cut pieces and instruction (adhesive not include)

Here is what you need to complete this project

• 1 piece of cardboard 4 1/2" x 8" for the base  *
• Cardstock : Black (2), White Daisy, Sweet Leaf, Sunset and Honey
•  Clear Acetate  to hold the skeleton together and the flying bats *
• Adhesive Spring
• Spider webb *
• Cricut Artiste Collection
• Cricut Artbooking Collection
• Cricut Art Philosophy
• Cricut Paper Doll Dress Up * (to cut the ghost)  aslo and easy shape to cut by hand
• Adhesive of choice, Mini Glue Dots, 3-D foam, Tombow Mono Adhesive and Bonding Memories Glue
• Green spakles for the cat's eyes *

 All products are Close to My Heart execpt when marked by a *

Here are the pieces that need to be cut with Cricut

Artiste: 

•  Page  76 - cut casket at 6" leave off the real dial size to make the lid and base of casket fit together perfectly. 
•  Page 76 - cut  casket base at 5 3/4" to raise the skeleton and to  make the hidden candy box. It will fit nicely inside.
• Page 76 - cut 1 cat 2" 
• Page 76 - cut  1 skeleton at 5 1/2" 
• Page 76 - cut 1 tombstone at 4 3/4"

 Art Philosophy

• Page 68 -  with the shift key, cut 2 - 2" flowers and 2- 2/4" flowers
• Page 56 - cut 7 leaves at 1"

Artbooking ( with the real dial size on)

• Page 70 cut 1 spider at 1"
• Page 71 cut  "Boo" at 3/4"
• Page 71 cut "Beware" at 1/2"
• Page 71 cut 3 bats at 1/4"

Paper Doll Dress Up

•  Page 49 cut 1 ghost at 3"

Clearly the Best: A Burst of Creativity (S02E01)

Hello Papre Crafter,  I love these techniques to make beautiful cards using your scrap of paper.
If you are like me you probably have tones of those little pieces.

Artboooking Made Easy Part 2

Artboooking Made Easy (S01E02): A+ School Layouts

Art Booking is out of this world!

I love this exclusive Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridge.  See all you can do: