Close to My Heart National Papercrafting Blog Hop - Live Your Day

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National Papercrafting - Live Your Day Blog Hop

This hop I am following {Wendy Kessler's Blog.}   We have almost 20 Close to My Heart Consultants participating in our Close to My Heart Simply Fundamentals Blog Hop.   If you lose your place while traveling through our blog hop, the complete list of participants can be found here.    Thank you for hopping through our Blog Hop.

Celebrate National Papercrafting Month with the exclusive Picture My Life™ Live Your Day scrapbooking program.  It is available for January only! 

There are so many uses for our Picture My Life Cards.  You can use them as designed in their special page protectors, but why stop there?  Add them to a traditional layout as a journaling or decorative block.  The sayings are wonderful!  Make a card with them or how about a mini album?  

I have a terrible habit of being late with birthday cards and presents.  I forget to look at my family calendar.  What I have wanted is a birthday book.  A birthday book is a small book where I can keep track of important birthdays.  Then when I am out shopping, I can easily check this book and get that important present and get it on time.

These cards were perfect for this project.  I grabbed our new shiny Instalife Album - Black and White and added the 4" x 4" Mini Memory Protectors and started making my birthday book. I love this little shiny gold, black and white album.  The outside of the album is coated, which will help it hold up in my purse.

For this project I also added some patterned paper from our Charlotte paper pack as well as the Charlotte complements and our cute gold Treasure Puffies.  

Here's my album cover.

The inside cover I used some of the complements.  I cut down a 4" x 6" Live Your Day Picture My Life card to 4" x 4" so that it would fit into the mini memory protector.  Then I added some more stickease and a gold puffy.  So easy!

January page.  On the right hand side, you can either write the birthdays on the card itself or take an Expo vis a vis transparency pen and write in the birthdays.  With the Expo vis a vis pen you can make changes as needed in your birthday list.  So this book can be used year after year.

February pages.  I cut the Be Happy from one of the larger cards.  I used all of the cards including pieces of the larger cards when I cut the 4" x 6" cards down to the 4" x 4" I needed for my album.

Here is a little better picture of the February left side (without the glare).

March pictures.  The base paper on the left is a Live Your Day Picture My Life card that I embellished with gold Treasured Puffies and clear Sparkles.  I used the patterned paper from Charlotte for the base paper on the right side.  The heading, BIRTHDAYS, is already printed on the Live Your Day Picture My Life cards.

March Left

March Right.

April pages.

May Pages.

June pages.

My next blog post will be the next six months of my album.  Thank you for visiting my blog.

By the way, I would love for you to leave me a comment and then please go to our next artist, {Catherine Nowak's Blog.}

You can purchase any of the supplies listed below at www.melindaeveritt.ctmh.com.  

Supplies Used

Picture My Life Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program	Instalife Album Black and White	Memory Protectors Mini 4" X 4"	Charlotte Paper Packet
Charlotte Complements	Treasured Puffies	Gold Foil Tape	Corner Rounder
Liquid Glass

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Spotlight on the Holiday Expressions Catalog

Welcome to the Close to My Heart 
Holiday Expressions Blog Hop

This hop I am following {Sheila Bennett's Blog.}   We have 30 Close to My Heart Consultants participating in our Close to My Heart Holiday Expressions Blog Hop.   If you lose your place while traveling through our blog hop, the complete list of participants can be found here.    Thank you for hopping through our Blog Hop.

Have you seen our Holiday Expressions Catalog?  It is chock full of Halloween and Christmas paper, stamp sets, and embellishments.  It is 37 pages of Holiday goodness.  We are showcasing some of the cute things you can make using some products found in this catalog.

Do you like to hand out goodies during the Halloween season?  I have made an adorable little bag that you can put candy, cookies, or some other kind of goody in to give to your friends or co-workers.  Maybe you have a teacher you would like to remember?  How fun this would be to give to that favorite teacher.

I have used our Designer Creations Honey Paper Bags and dressed it up using three of our Cricut cartridges, Artbooking, Artfully Sent, and Artistry.  Did you see how I dressed up the clothespin that I purchased at Walmart?  It has Black Shimmer Trim on it.  Super easy and a special touch.  You could even glue a magnet onto the back side of the clothespin and after the goodies are gone, the clothespin could be used as an important paper holder or as a refrigerator magnet.

I used the stamp set, Tasty Terrors to stamp the sentiment and the stars.  The stars were colored with our Shin Han Marker.  Do you have a Cricut Explore?  If you do, I would like to share my Design Space file with this link.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

By the way, I would love for you to leave me a comment and then please go to our next artist, {Michelle Stewart's Blog.}

You can purchase any of the supplies listed below at www.melindaeveritt.ctmh.com.  

Supplies Used

Tasty Terrors	Designer Creations Honey Paper Bags	Thistle Extra Thick Twine	ShinHan Touch Twin Golden Yellow Marker
Archival Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad	12" X 12" Black Cardstock	12" X 12" Eggplant Cardstock	12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock
12" X 12" Sunset Cardstock	Cricut Artistry Collection	Cricut Artfully Sent Collection	Cricut Artbooking Collection
Black Shimmer Trim

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Leaving for Convention in 3 Days

This is my favorite time of the year.  I will be headed to Disneyland in California for the Close to My Heart Convention in a few days.  I am going to add this cute badge to my name tag when I get there.  It will show that I am a member of the CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop.

The cute little frame I used above came from the Close to My Heart Artbooking Collection.  I welded some circles together to make a Mickey Mouse Silhouette.  The glasses came from the Chalk it Up Assortment.  I added some Bitty Sparkles and some Black Glitter Paper to add a little pizzaz.  Oh, and the purple paper with hearts comes from our Paper Fundamentals Collection.

Supplies Used

Paper Fundamentals Adventure Assortment	Paper Fundamentals Enchantment Assortment	Chalk It Up Assortment	Cricut Artbooking Collection
12" X 12" Black Cardstock	Bitty Sparkles	Black & Grey Glitter Paper

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Seaside Summer Mini Album

Good morning!  Are you as ready for summer as I am?  We are going on vacation in June and I found this adorable mini-album designed by Annette Green, an incredible designer and a former Close to My Heart Consultant, that will hold my pictures perfectly.

Being a Close to My Heart Consultant, when I find a cute project, not only do I make one for myself, but I offer it to my customers as well.  The stamp set Annette used has retired and I sold my only copy (GASP!!!).  So I redesigned the embellishments on this album to include some newer stamp sets and some of our adorable Close to My Heart Cricut diecuts.

Here is my album:

I am offering this class in April in the Memphis Area.

This is a 12 page mini album cut out of Kraft Cardstock, which makes it pretty sturdy.  All pieces will be cut out for you and all that you will have to do is to ink the edges, do a little stamping, and assemble it.

Date:  April 19th from 1 pm - 4 pm or 2 pm - 5 pm

Cost:  $20

Please RSVP to: mkgmt@aol.com

I am also offering this mini album as a kit for $20 and will ship it directly to you for an additional $5.  All of the stamping will be done.  All you will have to do is to ink the edges and assemble, following the full set of instructions that will be included.  To order, just click on the PayPal button below.  Be sure to include your shipping address.  I have kits ready to be shipped out now!

Close to My Heart National Papercrafting Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the Close to My Heart National Papercrafting Month Blog Hop! 

 I am following {Terry Ann Diack's Blog.}   We have 22 Close to My Heart Consultants participating in our Close to My Heart National Papercrafting Month -> Noted Blog Hop.   If you lose your place while traveling through our blog hop, the complete list of participants can be found here.    

Wonder of all wonders!  I did NOT make a card!!!  I really love the Mini Album that comes with this promotion.  The Mini Album is a strong, sturdy Kraft book that has 10 page protectors that will easily hold 4" x 6" pictures.  It is wire bound, but the wire is on the inside.  Check it out below in the picture.

The promotion also comes with a couple of sheets of patterned paper, two sheets of cardstock in special promotion colors, and 2 sheets of white cardstock.  Plus you get the most adorable stamp set and gold foil stickers.  With a $50 qualifying purchase, you get the paper, foil stickers, and the stamp set.  For an additional $5, you can also get the mini album which retails for $9.95.  The total value for the entire kit is over $34.  Wonderful deal!

So, what did I make with this kit?  I made my husband a Grandpa's Brag Book.  Hubby works as an audiologist and loves to show his patients pictures of the grandkids.  We are up to 22 grandkids and their parents are super busy with their lives.  I found that I didn't have a whole lot of pictures.  Then I remembered FACEBOOK!!!  A treasure trove of pictures.  

This was my workplace this afternoon.

           

So much fun looking at pictures, laughing at each child's unique personalities, and busily printing pictures (thank you new printer - YOU ROCK!) all different sizes so I could get multiple pictures of each child in this mini book.

Here's my album cover:

I wanted to make an album that my husband couldn't tear up easily, so there is no pouffy embellishments or anything that he can accidentally pull off.  I also wanted to stick to what is in the kit so I could show you what a great deal the kit is.

The album title was made with my Art Philosophy cartridge and glued down with my Bonding Memories Glue Pen.  I matted most of the pages with Cocoa cardstock (not in the kit), but that is all I have added.

For the inside cover below, I cut this cute little heart frame from Art Philosophy.  I am going to write something sweet once the album is entirely done and ready to be gifted.

Page 1.  Look at the number of pictures I can get on one page!  The stamped images are all found in the cute stamp set that comes with this promotion.

Page 3.  Some of the page protectors are smaller and will hold 3" x 4" pictures.  Don't you just love the patterned paper?  Very "Springy".

So much fun to play with!  I have had a ball today working on this album.  I still have about half of the book to finish and will do it tonight and tomorrow.  This is Page 5.

And here is Page 6.  Love these pictures!

Thank you for visiting my blog.  Want to get this incredible offer?  Just click on my link below to my website and place your order and it will be shipped directly to you!

By the way, I would love for you to leave me a comment and then please go to our next artist, {Melissa Robinson's Blog.}

You can purchase any of the supplies listed below on my website.  

Supplies Used

Year >> Noted paper kit

12" X 12" Cocoa Cardstock

Sponge Daubers Value Pack (12)

Cocoa Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad

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