Last Chance to Join Close to My Heart for Only $49

Close to My Heart just announced that there will be a change in the New Consultant program and kit.  The smaller kit that is currently available will no longer be available after December 31st.  We will only be offering one New Consultant Kit.  The price will be $99 and the kit will have a value of around $300.

If you are interested in becoming a Close to My Heart Consultant and purchasing the $49 kit, you have until December 31st to do so.  After that, only the $99 kit will be available.

Here is what you get in the $49 kit (worth about $155).  

Interested or have questions?  Send me an email or click here to read my FAQs and to sign up.

Artwork with an Attitude Featuring Flip Flaps

Welcome to the Stampers with an Attitude Artwork with an Attitude Featuring Flip Flaps Blog Hop.  This month I am following  Sheila Bennett.  Our blog hop is a circular hop.  You just click on the link to the next blog on the bottom of this post and go visit the next blog.  If you get lost, I have all of the participating blogs near the bottom of my post.  Hope you enjoy seeing what our team has made for you.

This month our Stampers With an Attitude is  featuring artwork using the Close to My Heart Flip Flaps.  Flip flaps are wonderful inventions where you can add tons of extra pictures to each of your scrapbook layouts. I decided to use the 4" x 6" Flip Flaps (Z4114).   

If you know me or follow my blog, you will know that one of these days I am going to bring out all of my pictures and get them on scrapbook pages.  But not today.  I live to make cards and other types of art.  I really just like the creative process.  Playing with art relaxes me and is a form of meditation.

So, now to the flip flaps.  I wanted to do something different.  Here is what I came up with.

A flip flap card!  I thought of this while I was watching Turbo with my grandkids.  Why not make a card that can open up to extra pages using a flip flap?  Here's the card with the flip flap open.

See how it opens up to two more pages?  Gives the card a bit more personality doesn't it?  Here's the inside of the card as well.



You just have to decorate the inside of your cards!  It takes a little bit of time but the card really has a WOW factor.

Want to find out how I made this card?  I used the CTMH Babycakes Paper Pack (X7173B) and the Babycakes My Stickease (X7173C).

My card is 5" x 7" so I cut a piece of Sunset cardstock 10" x 7" and folded it in half to make the card base.  I added the cute brown scallops from the Stickease to the sides of the front.  The top and bottom strip is a portion of the zip strip that comes with this paper pack.

I used a little smaller than 4" x 6" paper as the base for the front and back of the panel in the flip flap.  With the added matting and stickease, I wanted to leave a little extra room to accommodate the layers.  I cut the edges of the flip flap where the adhesive is so that it would not show on the card when it is closed.  I wanted the adhesive to be beneath the panel that is placed over it and this panel overlaps the scalloped stickease that is already adhered to the cardstock.  I hope that makes sense.

Look hard.  Can you see the adhesive? It is only attached to the card base and not the stickease.  Now the panel lying to the left of the picture will fill over the adhesive and hide it.  That is how I wanted it to look.  It makes the card look cleaner to me.

Now, hop on over to our next Blog hopper, the very talented, Catherine Nowak and see what she has made for you to see!

Supplies Used
CTMH Babycakes Paper Pack (X7173B) 
Babycakes My Stickease (X7173C)
4" x 6" Flip Flaps (Z4114)
Joyful Birthday Stamp Set (B1419)
Framework Alphabet Stamp Set (E1027)
Mini-Medley Accents - Rosewood (Z1857)
Color Ready Garden Wooden Shapes (Z1718)
Sparkles Assortment, Brown and Tan (Z1753)
Sunset Stamp Pad (Z2191)
Chocolate Stamp Pad (Z2111)
Chocolate Ribbon (Retired)

If you get lost, here are the links to our participating blog hoppers.

1. LaJeania Hicks ~ http://scraptilyoudrop.blogspot.com/
2. Sheila Bennett ~ http://sheila-bennett.blogspot.com
3. Melinda Everitt ~ http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com
4. Catherine Nowak ~ http://catscrapbooking.com
5. Jen Patrick- http://roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com
6. Di Crawford ~ http://scrapwithdi.blogspot.com
7. Pamela O'Connor ~ http://reflectionsofmyartandsoul.com/blog
8. Hilary Reynolds~ http://stampcraftyreader.blogspot.com
9. Barbi Kelley ~ http://barbispapercreations.blogspot.com

See something you like?  Well I would love it if you would head on over to  my website and see what Close to My Heart has to offer!  I am sure that you will love our products as much as I do.

Subway Speak, Close to My Heart Style

I so have to do this.  I am decorating my creative space and wanted to come up with something creative, fresh, and exciting.  I am so loving this.  Take the time to watch the video.  It is worth it!

Artbooking Made Easy - Friendship Layouts

I am loving that not only has Close to My Heart brought out a fantastic Cricut Cartridge, but they are supporting it with this series of Videos that show you how to use it.

This video shows you how to use the Friendship key to produce a variety of different layouts.

All Play and No Work! Contest

I would love to see one of my readers win this fantastic Contest posted on our Founder and CEO's blog!

"Piecing together a layout is a breeze when you’ve got the right ingredients all in one place. When you have Close To My Heart’s Workshops on the Go™kits that breeze turns into a gush of wind, because all the ingredients are in one place, and for a wonderful deal! If you’ve got adhesives handy, each workshop will appear quickly before your eyes. They are so convenient and simple to assemble that the term “working on a layout” is all wrong. This is play!"

All you have to do to enter is go to Jeanette Lynton's Blog and leave a comment.  Now how easy is that?  Leave your comment by December 31, 2013 and you just might be one of 20 winners!

Frame it Up with H2H

Welcome to this week's challenge at Heart 2 Heart Challenges.  This week’s challenge is all framed up. How would you interpret this challenge?

This challenge couldn't come at a better time.  We are raising two of our grandkids.  May I say that it has been a long time since I had sole care of a young child?  These kids came to us from a not so great environment and had not  been raised with rules, schedules or consistency.  So I decided that they each needed a behavior chart.  I pulled out some poster board and started drawing lines and quickly lost interest in all of this work.  Not to mention I would have to do this every couple of weeks for 2 kids - no way, Jose!

I happen to own two of the newest Close to My Heart frames and picked out the Designed Décor Black Frame on which to build my cute little, useful behavior chart.

Here is my behavior chart:

The first thing that you will notice is that I didn't call it a behavior chart.  It is called Keith's Rewards.  The kids' therapist wants me to be more positive and less negative.  Rewards sounds pretty positive to me.

I was delighted to see the weeks of the day stamp set in the CTMH Cricut Artbooking Collection.  SCORE!  I used the Dimensional elements banners from the collection as well.  The days of the week are stamped with Pacifica, Ruby and Outdoor Denim ink onto a piece of White Daisy Cardstock.  I left room so that Keith can place stickers on the days that he does what is listed on the left.  All of the behavior notes and the days of the week are held on with our Mini Clothes pins so that they are removable.  Yay!  No remaking of charts.  No drawing lines.  I can even scan and copy the days of the week papers if I don't want to stamp them.  Why I wouldn't want to stamp them is beyond me, but no problem, I have it covered!
I used these stamps sets:

The letters for Keith's name was cut with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge.  I used the Cricut Craft Room to widen the letters.  I cut the letters out of cereal boxes with the deep cutting blade.  Each letter has 3 layers of cereal box to make it sturdy, held together with out liquid glass.  The paper covering the letters is from the CTMH ProPlayer Paper Pack.

So now it is your turn!  Please show us your artwork with your interpretation of all framed up.  I cannot wait to see what you make!  After you finish your artwork please go to  www.heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com and post a link to your project.  I cannot wait to see what you make!

Here are a few rules:  

*Our challenges are open to everyone!
*To enter, follow the challenge of the week and post your results to your personal blog or other online gallery.
*Be sure to go here and direct link to your challenge post so we can see your artwork!

*In order to enter a challenge, you must use Close To My Heart products but your project does not have to be 100% CTMH.
*If you use something from another company, please consider including details in your project's description.
* You MUST mention H2H challenges in your blog post (and a link back to us would be appreciated).
*Spread the word about our challenge blog by including our badge on your blog.

* I love to leave comments on our participants' blog posts, but word verification slows me down, so please turn yours off so that I can leave you some love on your blog!
*Most importantly, have fun creating - the Close To My Heart way!
Note: Any entries not following the above rules are subject to having their link removed.

I have entered my project in the Anything but Christmas Challenge at the Emergency Crafters Challenge and the Anything Goes Challenge at Challenges 4 Everybody.