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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SWAA Nevermore Blog Hop

Welcome to September's Stampers with an Attitude Blog Hop.  Are you ready for Fall yet?  It has finally cooled down here and we are so ready to lose the 100 degree days.  Along with Fall comes one of my favorite holidays, Halloween, and Stampers with an Attitude are featuring the Close to My Heart Halloween paper pack, Nevermore.  Who is the Stampers with an Attitude?  It is the Close to My Heart team lead by my fabulous upline, Kimberly Moss. This month I am following  {Denise Elliott.}  

Our blog hop is a circular hop.  You just click on the link to the next blog at the bottom of this post and go visit the next blog.  If you get lost, I have all of the participating blogs listed at the bottom of my post.  Hope you enjoy seeing what our team has made for you.

I am enjoying all of our new Halloween Stamp Sets and embellishments as well as the  supercute Nevermore paper pack.  Look what I made!

What do you think about my card?  Yes, once again I used our new watercolors and watercolor paper, but look at the cool texture.  Can you guess how I did that?  Once I covered my paper with different colors of watercolors I threw on a ton of Kosher salt.  Then I added more water and even a little more color.  It dried overnight and I rubbed off the salt and stamped these cool Steampunk spiders.

But, there is more to this card than meets the eye.  Dontcha hate a naked inside of a card?  Me too.  So I pulled out the Close to My Heart exclusive Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge and made a superduper special Halloween card.  Now check this out.

The Happy Halloween pops out when you open the card.  I used the Nevermore patterned papers and that scary strip at the bottom is one of the zip strips from this paper pack.  I had to add a little glitter so the spider and the spider web are cut from our glitter paper.  The black glittery stars are from our new Black Paper Fundamentals embellishment assortment.

Want to make one of these and have a Cricut Explore?  I have a Design Space file to share:  https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/31276493

I want to thank you for visiting my blog.  The next very talented artist for you to visit on our blog hop is {Sheila Bennett}. 

Here is the September's Stampers with an Attitude Blog Hop Nevermore Artwork Block Hop List

1. Catherine Nowak ~ http://catscrapbooking.com/2015/09/13/stampers-with-an-attitude-blog-hop-nevermore/
2. Aggie Peters~http://busyaggie.blogspot.com/2015/09/stampers-with-attitude-blog-hop.html
3. Melissa Robinson - http://mlisrobinson.blogspot.com/2015/09/stampers-with-attitude-nevermore-blog.html
4. Vickie ODell - http://heartfulstamper.blogspot.com/2015/09/nevermore-stampers-with-attitude-blog.html
5. Wendy Taylor - http://mistygirlinspirations.blogspot.com/2015/09/swaa-blog-hop-nevermore-artwork.html
6. Denise Elliott - http://inspiredbyd.blogspot.com/2015/09/art-with-attitude-blog-hop-nevermore.html
7. Melinda Everitt ~ http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/2015/09/swaa-nevermore-blog-hop.html
8. Sheila Bennett ~ 
   http://sheila-bennett.blogspot.com/2015/09/nevermore-stampers-with-attitude-blog_13.html

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

Supplies Used

Nevermore Paper Packet	Cricut Artfully Sent Collection	Steampunk Scoundrels	Halloween Greetings
Watercolor Paper	Watercolor Paints	Paintbrush Set	Fundamental Assortment Black
Archival Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad	Sponge Daubers Value Pack (12)	Bonding Memories Glue Pen

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Artfully Sent Series - Border Cards

Today I am featuring this super fast video that will give your more ideas on how to use the Close to My Heart Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge.  If you don't own one, watching this may cause you to have to purchase one quickly.  These cards are stinkin' cute!



What I like about Border cards is that with a few patterned paper scraps, you have incredibly attractive 5 x 7 or 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch cards.  I am getting ready to fire my Cricut up right now to make that cute little fairy princess card.

I used the Border feature to make this card for my grandson.  It was very easy to make and so attractive and one of a kind.  He loved it!

By the way, the blue stars are actually our white stars colored with the Cerulean Blue ShinHan Marker.  I love that I don't need each color of embellishment, I can just take out my alcohol markers and color them.  

Supplies Used

Cricut Artfully Sent Collection	Scaredy Cat Paper Packet	Chalk It Up Paper Packet	White Enamel Stars
ShinHan Touch Twin Cerulean Blue Light Marker

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Close to My Heart Cricut Artfully Sent Cartridge

Have you seen our latest cartridge called Artfully Sent?  I was so excited when I bought this cartridge, but I was a bit overwhelmed when I opened the box and did not know where to start.  This short video will explain it a bit to make it easier to get started.



I love the way the Cricut handbook is uniform and each type of card can be found in the same place in the handbook.  I also loved all of the beautiful examples shown in the video.  Sometimes just a name of a card doesn't mean the same thing to each person.

Here is what comes in the Close to My Heart Cricut Artfully Sent Collection.

With this collection, you get 3 full size stamp sets that work well with cards, the Cricut cartridge, and a full packet of Daisy White cardstock.

Have questions?  Just comment here and I will get the answers for you.  Ready to purchase your collection now?  Click on the picture below to place your order.

Cricut Artfully Sent Collection

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Don't Miss Cyber Monday at Close to My Heart!

Cyber Monday Only: 20% Off All Cricut® Collections! For the first time ever, Close To My Heart is offering a Cyber Monday Sale on Monday, December 1, 2014. There has never been a better time to buy Close To My Heart's exclusive Cricut® Collections for 20% off the retail price. Whether you love scrapbooking, cardmaking, or creating 3-D projects, our four exclusive Cricut® collections make the perfect addition to any craft room! Sale starts at midnight (MST) on December 1 and ends at 11:59 pm Monday night (MST). You will be able to take advantage of this special deal on December 1st ONLY.  Just email me your order with your payment information (or ask me to call you for your payment) before 10 pm (CST) on December 1st.  I am taking orders now that I will place on December 1st. Or you can place your order yourself and have it shipped directly to you by going to my website,www.melindaeveritt.ctmh.com.  Orders placed on my website must be submitted between 12:00 am and 11:59 pm (MST) on Monday, December 1 in order to get the discount on your selected Cricut® collections.  Enjoy extra savings on Close To My Heart's exclusive Cricut® collections this Cyber Monday! Plus your purchase on December 1st of one of our Cricut Cartridge collections at 20% off, will already qualify you for theDeal of the Decade!!! (Scroll down to see this awesome promotion!) Questions or want to place your order?  Contact me at mkgmt@aol.com or call/text (901)  218-1847. Here are the links to our Cricut cartridge handbooks.  You will be amazed at the 700 images on each cartridge.  Remember too that each of these cartridges are collections containing 3 full sized coordinating stamp sets as well as chipboard elements or cardstock. Cricut Art Philosophy:  http://content.provocraft.com/b/pdfs/res/handbooks/art%20philosophy_handbook_web.pdf Cricut Artiste:  http://content.provocraft.com/b/pdfs/res/handbooks/Artiste_Handbook_web.pdf Cricut Artbooking:  http://content.cricut.com/b/pdfs/res/handbooks/ArtbookingCTMH.pdf Cricut Artfully Sent:  http://content.provocraft.com/b/pdfs/res/handbooks/closetomyheartartfullysent.pdf

Deal of the Decade This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Close To My Heart's revolutionary My Acrylix  clear polymer stamps-and we can't wait for you to celebrate with us! With a qualifying purchase of $50 during the month of December, you will be eligible to purchase ANY C- or D-size stamps from the Annual Inspirations 2014-2015 idea book for only $10. That's up to $7.95 of savings on a single stamp set!  Plus, once you achieve the qualifying order total, there isno limit to the number of eligible stamp sets you can purchase at this discounted price.  Remember, a purchase of $50 will also qualify you to receive the December Stamp of the Month for only $5, so if you purchase both the discounted Stamp of the Month and additional stamps at this special campaign pricing your savings will compound! It is truly the deal of the decade. Plus your purchase on December 1st of one of our Cricut Cartridge collections at 20% off, will already qualify you for the Deal of the Decade!!!

Artfully Sent Blog Hop

Welcome to the Close to My Heart Cricut Artfully Sent Blog Hop! 

 

 I am following {Adeline Brill's Blog.}   We have over 40 Close to My Heart Consultants participating in our Close to My Heart Cricut Artfully Sent Blog Hop.   If you lose your place while traveling through our blog hop, the complete list of participants can be found here.    

Have you visited the stores in the past week?  Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  And it is time to get a jump on making Christmas cards.  

The Close to My Heart Cricut Artfully Sent cartridge has 700 images on it.  This is an incredible cartridge for cardmakers and paired with my Cricut Explore, I am amazed at what I can make and how fast I can create.

There are 400 projects on this cartridge plus envelopes plus an alphabet.  You can use the overlays on your scrapbooking pages or your 3D items.  Plus you can edit your images in Cricut Craft Room or Design Space and design entirely new images.

The Artfully Sent Collection not only has the Cricut cartridge, but you also receive 3 full size stamp sets and a package of White Daisy cardstock (24 pieces) to get you started.

My card pattern can be found on page 49 of the Artfully Sent Handbook, and the inside of the card came from page 48.  I wanted to make a non-traditional Christmas card.  I found my color palette inspiration while driving to pick up my granddaughter.  I saw a house with these colors and decided to use them in my card

I used our Yuletide Carol paper pack and added some touches of Gold Glitter paper and Gold Shimmer Trim.

Here is my card.

                    

And here is the inside of my card.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  I would love for you to leave me a comment and then please go to our next artist, {Sheila Bennett's Blog.}

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

Supplies Used

Cricut Artfully Sent Collection	Yuletide Carol Paper Packet	12" X 12" Desert Sand Cardstock	Gold Shimmer Trim
Brown & Tan Glitter Paper

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Close to My Heart Artfully Sent Rocket Ship Birthday Card

I needed a special card for a very special birthday.  My grandson, AJ, was having a 13th birthday - a big milestone indeed.  He is now a teenager.

So I went into Cricut Design Space and found the perfect card design in our new cartridge, Artfully Sent.  It can be found in the Artfully Sent Handbook, pg 28,   Sentiment.  

I love the star patterned paper for this card.  Doesn't it just fit?  It is from our Chalk it Up paper pack. I used Canary cardstock for the inside of the card and it shows through in the sentiment.  I placed a piece of Lagoon cardstock and Cranberry cardstock behind the blast and the birthday to make them stand out.  Then I drew in the rest of the letters with my Marvy Uchida LePen Journaling Pen.

I LOVE Design Space!  I was able to cut the rocket ship out by itself in Whisper cardstock.  I used the "Hide Contour" button to hide the rest of the card and save paper.  I did the same with the flame coming out of the rocket.  I used our wonderful Sunset patterned paper from Scaredy Cat.  And then I popped the Rocket up with some 3D Foam Tape to add a little pizzaz!!!

I decorated the inside of the card with our stamp set, Robot Family (C1583).  You just cannot give a naked card!

I added a black star and 2 white stars that I colored blue with our Turquoise Blue (B68) ShinHan alcohol marker.

I had so much fun making this card that I want to make it easy for you to create it as well.  Here is the Design Space File for this card:  https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/project/21560196

You need to have the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge in order to cut this card.  You can purchase it here.

Supplies Used

Cricut Artfully Sent Collection	Chalk It Up Paper Packet	ShinHan Touch Twin Turquoise Blue Marker	Scaredy Cat Paper Packet
12" X 12" Whisper Cardstock	12" X 12" Cranberry Cardstock	12" X 12" Canary Cardstock	12" X 12" Lagoon Cardstock
White Enamel Stars	Scaredy Cat Assortment	Marvy Uchida LePen Journaling Pen	3-D Foam Tape

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