Crazy for Pear & Partridge

What is it about the Close To My Heart holiday collection, Pear & Partridge,  that keeps me coming back for more?  For me, it's both the beautiful color combinations and the gorgeous bird images.

This inspiring collection is so versatile!  You'll use it for cards, tags and even home decor.  Close To My Heart has created several sample projects to start your creative engines:

Take a closer look at Pear & Partridge products:

• Workshop on the Go Scrapbook kit
• Workshop on the Go Cardmaking kit
• Paper Pack
• Christmas Joy stamp set
• Christmas Love stamp set

New Tag Class

Hello scrappy friends!  I am excited to announce that I will be teaching paper crafts at Green Lotus Studios.  My first class, Holiday Tags, will be on Tuesday, December 11th at 6pm.  We'll play with pattern paper, clear stamps, glitter, mists and more.  We'll create tags suitable for gifts and scrapbook pages.  I'll also show you the fabulous Cricut Artiste cartridge from Close To My Heart and gorgeous rosettes you can create quickly and easily.  These rosettes are a terrific finishing touch for tags or gift wrap, an awesome accent for cards and layouts, and a stunning addition to banners.

Source: jeanettelynton.com via Close To My Heart on Pinterest

Please sign up for class through the Green Lotus Studios web site.  Class fee is $15.  Please bring scissors and adhesive to class.  All other supplies are included.

It's Finally Fall!

It's finally Fall; my favorite time of year.  Every year I look forward to pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin cheesecake and costume parties.  I like to celebrate Halloween in a big way!  I decorate the house and the yard.  For the past 12 years, I've gone to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom.  This event features my favorite Disney parade of all time.  Be sure to wear a costume if you go and take lots of pictures!

If you're planning a Halloween party this year, you'll love Close To My Heart's Spellbound Cricut kit.  Check out the great stuff you can do with it in this video.

New Halloween Stamps

It's about time for Tricks and Treats!  I've decided to treat myself to some new Halloween stamps.  I'm excited to start creating with the Backdrop - Charmed set from our new Fall catalog.

I'm looking forward to some crafty time this weekend and time to play with new stamps!

Cricut Artiste fun!

Check out this fun video of projects made with our new Cricut Artiste cardridge!

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:

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!