Friday, August 17, 2012

Help Wanted!

As many of you know, I volunteer for a charity called Wish 2 Breathe which is a local campaign of the National Foundation for Transplants.  Among our many plans for fundraisers, we have decided to participate in a Fall craft festival.  We'll be selling all sorts of handmade craft goodies at our booth in October and if all goes well, offering goods online through Etsy too. 


I'm thinking of offering holiday cards and gifts tags.  What sort of items do you think I should have on offer in our booth?

This is one of my favorite ideas for the gift tags:


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

It's Here ~ Cricut Artiste!

My Cricut Artiste cartridge has arrived and I am so excited to share it with you!  This new cartridge offers 700 shapes and includes dozens of 3D projects from flowers and rosettes to gift boxes. 


Our Cricut Artiste Collection includes the cartridge, a special booklet of instructions for 3D projects, three coordinating stamp sets and three sheets of Dimensional Elements in coordinating shapes (check page 15 of our beautiful new catalog).  The new catalog contains a huge variety of additional coordinating My Acrylix stamp sets too!

Close to My Heart is celebrating National Stamping Month.  You get the exclusive My Acrylix It’s Your Day double stamp set for just $5 when you place a minimum order of $35 in full retail products between August 15th and September 30, 2012.   Take advantage of this sweet deal when you purchase your Cricut Artiste Collection and don't forget to add our Stamp of the Month set to create an awesome bundle of savings!