Boxing Week Sale and other specials

 

Dec 26 - Dec 31 there will be new offers posted daily at 12 am MST.  All sales count toward VIP bank credits and the SOTM.  Offers are available while supplies last.  Check out my website each day.

"We are good together" is the first VIP customer program workshop and virtual event.  You will need to buy your bundle VIP102 ($45.95 + shipping and tax) to follow along on the event Feb 25 at 2pm.  The bundle will be available from Jan 1 - March 31 and you can watch the video after the live event.  Not a VIP yet?  Check out my website and join.

Bring back my pack Blossom will be available Monday Dec 28 at 9am until February 28. The workshop bundle is cc122014 for $64.95 (+shipping and tax) You can also get pieces of the workshop.

Perfect Match - is available now until Feb 28.  This bundle is $34.95 (+shipping and tax) and makes great scrapbook pages and cards.  You can get ready for Valentines Day and other events you "love".

Check out the side bar

The side bar has links to some great things.  Check out what is there and link to my website for even more information

Merry Little Christmas

 

Make wonderful wooden Christmas ornaments and Tags.

Seasons in Motion

Do Fall and Christmas animated cards.  This is an addition to the animated cards already available.  This has a thin cut front to the card so that the motion takes place.

CTMH Kids Crafts - Feeling Grateful album

Close To My Heart has been doing great online classes for the kits of cards and scrapbook pages.  They have also started Kids crafts lead by Monica's 9 year old daughter.  

Moments Like These

Each year Close To My Heart has a calendar kit to make 12 x 12 pages on top and 12 x 12 calendar on the bottom.  I make 5 of these for gifts for the family.  There are calendar blanks so that you can design your own but each year there is a different stamp set available with everything cut for you just ready to adhere.  Check it out. 

November December Catalog

Every 2 months there is a new seasonal catalog that comes out.  This one has a whole month to go!  When you place an order, you can add one free.  

December Stamp of the Month

Every month there is a different D stamp for $18.95.Decembers is "Happiness never grows old".  If you purchase $50 of merchandise, you can get this stamp for $5 (plus shipping and tax which is on the full price)  If you are a VIP member and you get $50, you get the stamp free. 

Join and be a VIP shopper

Before December 31 there is a promotional sign up special.  You pay $35 and get $25 back in free credit.  January 1 it goes to $15 which will be the regular price.  You get 15% in credit for retail shopping.  You have access to special workshops.  Join with me, and we will also do some special things.  I do Zoom Classes for cards and scrapbook pages. I will design pages or cards that fit your needs.  You will be the first to know new things that are on the way.

Close to my Heart Core Product catalog

This is a catalog that goes from September 2020 - August 2021.  You will find paper packets, stamps and thin cuts plus the supplies you need to get your products done.  

Shop with me

This takes you to my website and allows you to explore all kinds of different things.  There are also Clearance items and Online items only.

Craft With Heart

Close To My Heart has Cut Above products (like the calendar) that are all precut.  These subscriptions are for scrapbooking and cards.  Check them out.  You can choose the price by how many times during the year you want your projects to show up.  You can see ahead of time the scrapbook pages and cards that you will be making.  There is some stamping required for the card but you get the stamp set, small ink pad and a small block to accomplish your tasks.

Be a Hostess

You can do an online party and people can check out with your party and you can gain the rewards.  I am willing to do a zoom class with you to showcase some of the projects you and your friends might be interested in.

Join my team

We are not called consultants anymore but called "makers".  Becoming a maker means more % off and more access to training.  Being part of my team means that I will be there for you to coach you in your business or hobby interests.  Contact me revskell@gmail.com 

Make it From Your Heart

This is the blog from Close to my heart.  There are free patterns, great training and showing off the products.  If you subscribe you can get this in your mail box.

Don't forget to subscribe to this blog!

You will find out what is going on.  You can post to challenges.  You can get excited about what you are working on.

Facebook

I have a business Facebook page: Barbara Page Kell's Close to My Heart Scrapping Fun.  You will see much of what I post here.  There are some people not on Facebook so I also post some things to Pinterest - Barbara Kell under Craft Time.

CTMH also has a Facebook page.  From here you can sign up for the workshops online that are free.  If you miss it, you can watch later.  Also if you click 'going' your name will go into a drawing for free products.  I will also post the classes on my Facebook page for your reference and ease of finding them.  

I am interested in helping you do the things that you really want to do.  I love to create designs.  I love to help people in classes - it is a Zoom class with heart and fellowship.  Visit often and let me know what your needs are.  I can post them on the blog or send them to you individually.  Have a great day and have fun creating and organizing all that is crafty.

The rest of the Christmas Card buffet

 If you are interested in making any of these cards along with the 12 previously posted, please contact me as soon as possible.

November cards

 Here is a look at the cards we are doing for November.  

CTMH has done some new animated cards for autumn and Christmas. There is now a thin cut you can use as well as the plastic lines.  I have a Big shot and need to use foam to help get all the thin lines to cut.  CTMH has its own die machine which words very well.

The Thin cut tag is really fun to use.  I did the Distress Oxide inks and used a water color brush to drag the color down on the tag.  

I got the 12 inch plates for the Big Shot to take in the whole waterfall thin cut.  The squares on the bottom show you what they look like.

I did the candles from the Thin Cut Happy Birthday border and used the packages from the Christmas Jingle Joy thin cut and stamps.  They look good as birthday presents as they do as Christmas present's 

Got Candy and using that guide for other paper

 Got candy was a great set of pages and candy toppers.  Our group, however wanted just pages.  There were 3 2-page layouts and a single page.  I duplicated the single page and have enough left over for another another 2 page layout.  First I will show you the Got candy pages and then an older packet I found called Sugar Rush. 

Now you can see what using a different paper does to the pattern.

It is fun to take a pattern and use it again with different paper.  I did have the embellishments from the other paper which helped it go faster.  I have tried this with just paper and found that I could use the Cricut and stamps and Thin cuts I have to make it really work.  Try it some time and post what you think about changing up the paper. 

Christmas Card Buffet

 I am doing a modified Christmas Card buffet.  My orders from CTMH won't be in until next week so I am sharing what I have now.  Please look over the cards and see if there are some you would like to do.  Look back in a week and see what the additional cards look like.

I will do Zoom classes in November.  I will do 5 cards per session but can do more than 1 session on any given day.  It will be $15 for 5 cards if you can come and get them or I am close enough to bring them otherwise postage will be added to the cost. You can choose 1 of each card you wish.  Those who pay early can request which 5 cards they want to do at their session. You can choose how many sessions you wish to do your cards.  I am limiting the number of cards that I am cutting out.  I can cut more but the papers may vary.  

Here are the samples so far.  I am looking forward to having a great time with you on Zoom. You will need adhesive.  The following will help you out to embellish and make your cards PoP.  I will stamp and will do the backgrounds for the kits.  You will have to do some coloring and cutting.

 Our Spectrum Noir Triblend alcohol markers are beautiful for blending.

3D thin foam can be used and the cards will still go through the mail.

The Tombow tap runner is what I regularly use.  If there is something that needs a few seconds to get into place or there are thin lines that need to be adhered, I prefer the Green liquid Tombow.  This is like "2 way glue" in that if you put it on a project and let it dry before putting it anywhere, it will be like 3m sticky note pads.  This is great for masking.  There is also a blue bottle but it is always permanent.

CTMH has a variety of shimmer brushes.  Gold and Sliver are good ones for these projects and many more.

CTMH now has Stickles Glitter Glue and Liquid Pearls.  The silver Z3562 or Icicle Z3785 Glitter Glue and the Carnation Liquid Pearls Z3799 are great for these Christmas Cards.

Card 1

Card 2

Card 3

Card 4

Card 5

Card 6

Card 7

Card 8

Card 9

Card 10

Card 11

Card 12

Make a special calendar!

 Every year CTMH has a great calendar bundle of Cut Above 12 12x12 pages, stamp set and calendar blank.  This year it is called "Movements like these and is available until Dec 31 as supplies last.

I will do a Zoom class with anyone purchasing the bundle from my website.

The Cut Above kits mean you don't stamp - just adhere the punch outs and stickers to the base pages provided.  The cutting guide is simple and really makes a superior present or calendar for yourself.

Check it out!

Join and be a VIP customer

 There is a new program with Close To My Heart.  You can join as a VIP customer.

Since this is new, there is a special in the sign up.  It is $35 per year.  This year you will receive $25 VIP credit if you sign up before December 31.  Yearly renewal is $35 with $15 credit for sign up.

Earn 15% spending credit of retail amounts paid. 

Get free stamp of the month with qualifying purchase. 

Access Exclusive specials throughout the year.

Having fun with Mixed Media

 I don't have a card group in October, so I thought I would work on my Christmas Card Buffet.  I have never worked with Mixed media before.  In my sorting and organizing my papers, I found some scraps from Halloween.  They weren't enough to make multiple cards for a group so I thought I would use this time and opportunity to play with the Halloween papers from various years and stamps from various years and mixed media. I played with Distress Oxide inks, Texture paste, Stickles Glitter Gel, and wet embossing.  It wouldn't be possible without the All purpose mat!

This is the Creativity in Motion (bundle CC9208).  The "hello" moves.  I stamped other things on there that don't move plus put the Halloween Gnome stamp sent images around the edges.

I used the Distress Oxide ink in the middle with the stencil and texture paste. There are 14 different colors on page 80 of the catalog or online..   The mini ink blending foam tool and pads are on page 81. 

There are different Distress Oxide inks and different stencils and Texture paste.  I used the heat gun to help dry the paste on all of these and it leaves it smoother than if you let it air dry.

The Stickles Glitter gel Nebula (Z3807) is amazing used with the distress inks!

I just used the Distress Oxide inks by themselves and stamped over them.  

This is the same but I cut the windows outs to have the color show through.  

I love the squares and how you can cut out different spaces for larger images.

There are a number of stencils you can get for the texture paste.  One has a number of squares.  I cut them a part for easier use on the cards.  You can also get stencil sheets to make your own stencils.

These last 2 I used the Distress Oxide inks directly on the cards.   The one below I used the wet embossing.  

I used the white powder above and the black below.  The white embossing was done first as a resist and the black was done after on top of the Distress Oxide.

You can share your playing with new techniques.  Check out my Facebook page for the different technique videos I have shared.  I am only doing the Technique Tuesday at 2pm now.  I also have print tips you can put on 4x6 tags to help you do new and different things.  Stay tuned for the Christmas Card Buffet Zoom classes- samples and sign up coming soon.