Cricut Everyday Moments Series Day 2

As I promised here we are on the next single page layout from the Cricut Everyday Moment collection! This one is called Day Dream. As I mentioned yesterday this collection has, cards, single pages, double pages and 8.5 x 11 pages, a little bit of everything. If you read my post yesterday (HERE) then you know I am working my way through three single pages first and then we will see where we go!! But I am trying to include lots of tips for Design Space as well as assembling tips and tricks. I hope you are having fun watching and learning a few new things along the way.

These are the pages we are working on. Today I assembled the middle page and here is how it turned out. Here is the design space link with the changes that I made to the layout- design space link The colors changes include, Black, White Daisy, Mink, Glacier, Peacock, Eggplant and Ruby.

The series will continue, if you want to follow me you can watch on my business page- here or on my You Tube channel - here

Buy - HERE

Have a great weekend and I will be back next week with another page!! 

Cricut Artistry is here!

I know that lots of you had heard that there is a new Cricut cartridge coming from Close to My Heart. Well it's HERE!! All I can say is "Wow!". They have done an excellent job. When we were at Convention someone described it as Art Philosophy on steroids!

It is amazing!!!! 

Here is the product description.

Our newest cartridge includes shapes spanning a wide variety of themes, holidays, and seasons to add some visual spice to any project you create. Get back to basics with the unique font, banners, layered shapes, borders, backgrounds, and other fun icons you'll find on this cartridge. All of the designs are a must for any crafter!

The contents of the collection include-

1 – Cartridge (700 images: Shapes, Layers, Banners, Borders, Backgrounds, and Font)

3 – My Acrylix® D-size Stamp Sets

1 – Enchantment Cardstock Combo Pack

Here is the shopping LINK.

If you have a Cricut Explore or Cricut Explore Air there is also a downloadable version. This collection comes with all the extra goodies just not the cartridge.

You can find it- HERE.

There are a few other great new products this month that can all be found on my shopping website, HERE.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy! Chris

Home for the Holidays Ornament

I will start by saying this is one of the hardest projects I have photographed in awhile! LOL ! I did my very best. I tried inside first too dark.. then outside and it was way too windy. But here it is anyways.

This is for sure one of my favorite projects that I have made with the Home for the Holidays stamp of the month from Close to My Heart! It is a spinning ornament that I created using the Yuletide paper and some Neutral Baker's Twine. I cut the ornament shape from page 27 of the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge. (I used the Tag key and cut the middle out). I feel it turned out well.

Enjoy! Chris

#30yearsofhappy Recap

I just wanted to remind you there are just a few more days to get the fabulous #30yearsofhappy stamp set. Here is a collage of a few of the projects I have used it on this month.

The detail on the special are here.

September is National Stamping Month, and Close To My Heart is ready to celebrate all month long! When you spend $30 on any current retail-priced stamps during the month of September, you qualify to receive the exclusive C-sized stamp set #30yearsofhappy for FREE! This special offer is part of our celebration of National Stamping Month and in honor of our on-going celebration of our founder and CEO Jeanette Lynton’s 30-year anniversary in the scrapbooking and stamping industry. The exclusive stamp set features 30 mini images and sentiments perfectly suited for 30 days of happy stamping!

Make sure to get it before it is gone!

Enjoy! Chris

Family Is Forever Gift Bag

As I said before I think the September Stamp of the Month, Family Is Forever is a great addition for any scrapbook or card maker. Here I have used it along with a cut from the Artise Cricut cartridge, on page 79. Once the bag was cut I inked up the stamp in Chocolate, Topiary and Sorbet ink from Close to My Heart.

Here are the details about the Stamp of the Month- here.

Each month you can purchase a new D-size stamp set, available for one month only, for just $5 — that’s over 70% off retail! When you place an order of $50 or more in Close To My Heart products, you qualify for this special Stamp of the Month pricing.

Enjoy! Chris

#30yearsofhappy SWAK box

I know what a funny title but it is a super cute project! It is not very big but I thought it was perfect to compliment the #30yearsofhappy stamp set. I cut the box from pg.38 in the Cricut Artiste cartridge in White Daisy, then I stamped the whole box alternating between Lagoon and Hollyhock. Then I added a little tag to the front, stamping the "sweet" in Hollyhock again and popping it up with Foam tape.

I am thinking it is the perfect size to put a few Hershey Kisses in, don't you?

Here are the detail on the #30daysofhappy stamp set, here.

September is National Stamping Month, and Close To My Heart is ready to celebrate all month long! When you spend $30 on any current retail-priced stamps during the month of September, you qualify to receive the exclusive C-sized stamp set #30yearsofhappy for FREE! This special offer is part of our celebration of National Stamping Month and in honor of our on-going celebration of our founder and CEO Jeanette Lynton’s 30-year anniversary in the scrapbooking and stamping industry. The exclusive stamp set features 30 mini images and sentiments perfectly suited for 30 days of happy stamping!

Enjoy! Chris

#30yearsofhappy Cupcakes

So yesterday was my 18th Wedding Anniversary, so to celebrate we had cupcakes after dinner. This year Jeanette Lynton's 30th anniversary in the industry. See the connection? No?
Here it is...

September is National Stamping Month, and Close To My Heart is ready to celebrate all month long! When you spend $30 on any current retail-priced stamps during the month of September, you qualify to receive the exclusive C-sized stamp set #30yearsofhappy for FREE! This special offer is part of our celebration of National Stamping Month and in honor of our ongoing celebration of our founder and CEO Jeanette Lynton’s 30-year anniversary in the scrapbooking and stamping industry. The exclusive stamp set features 30 mini images and sentiments perfectly suited for 30 days of happy stamping! Plus, make sure you check out Close To My Heart’s Facebook page and Instagram during September to follow all the ways we’re celebrating #30yearsofhappy for a full 30 days!

Here is the link for more details on the great special stamp set, here.

And to celebrate my anniversary I used the stamp set to decorate the cupcakes. I cut pinwheels from pg. 50 of the Cricut Artiste Cartridge with the Chalk It Up paper.

That is the connection it is not #30yearsofhappy yet for Brian and I but it has been a great 18 so far.

Enjoy! Chris

Tool Time Tuesday

It is time again for the Tool Time feature! Close to my Heart has so many great tools to feature for not a ton of money. Here is a fun tool - the Quilling Tool. So fun as a tool to use with our amazing Cricut cartridge! It is great to add the realistic feel to a paper flower. The flowers that you can cut with the Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges are beautiful. You can find the tool and cartridges here at my website.
Here is an example..

This is such a great tool..

Here is a quick video to show some of the features and benefits.

Enjoy! Chris

Ivy Lane Lovely

The funny thing about the Ivy lane paper is when I first saw it I thought it is so formal how am I going to use it? So I said to myself think outside the box. This is a series of photos I took of my ballerina daughter in the middle of the winter with her pointe shoes on in the snow. Don't worry I made her wear an old pair. (one day I will post all the old ones she was hanging on the wall)

When I look at the picture I thought the pointe shoes and snow don't look like they go together so how about I make an out of the box selection on the paper too. I think the Ivy Lane paper ends up setting the photos off beautifully! How about you?

As always all the product can be found on my website- here.

Enjoy! Chris

Out with the Old! July Brae-er Team Blog Hop

Welcome to our July Team Braer Blog Hop that focuses on items that are being retired in our idea book.   You will see creations from our team that may include stamp sets, patterned paper, inks, embellishments and more from the Close To My Heart spring/ summer Idea book. To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we really love feedback from our blog viewers.... whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow our team's blogs, then please start at the beginning and join Brae at www.theBrae-er.com. If you came from Brae's blog of The Brae-er.com  then you are in the right place! 

I am sure you are aware by now that the current Spring/Summer Close To My Heart Idea Book is retiring at the end of July.  I can always tell what I am going to miss at this time because it is the "item or items" that I am hoarding. This time it was the Lollydoodle collection. I love it all! I put together a mini album that was inspired by one that Vicki Wizniuk made from the "Free to Be Me Collection" - here is a link. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to try something similar. So I set to work.

This is the album before photos....

The cover-

The front inside before-

The back inside before-

This is the album with the photos....

The cover-

The front inside-

Then the front pulled out-

The back after-

I hope that you have enjoyed my project and don't forget to get Lollydoodle before it's gone!

Your next stop on the Team Braer Hop is Michelle of www.CreationswithMichelle.blogspot.com.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Brae's blog at www.brae-er.com, as she has the complete blog list.

Enjoy! Chris

A Favorite Layout

When the Spring/Summer Idea book came out from Close to My Heart in January and I saw the layout on page 95.

I knew I had to try my hand at it. There were just so many things I loved about it, the colours, the hexagon and the overlay!
I have just been waiting to come across the right photos for it. I think I found them and this is how it turned out.

I made some changes to make it my own but I love everything about the page. My ladies at Scrapper's Club loved it too everyone was very excited to try their hand at it too this month. All the items needed to complete this page are currnetly available on my website but some will be gone at the end of the month! So make sure to check it out.


Ingredients: Cocoa Cardstock, White Daisy Cardstock, Colonial White Cardstock, Paper Fundamentals Basic Assortment, Teal Shimmer Trim, Honeycomb Stamp set, Keyboard Uppercase, Bitty Sparkles, Ink Pads- Sweet Leak, Bamboo, Cocoa, Lagoon, Desert Sand, and Olive, and Cricut Artbooking.

If you have any questions please ask.

Enjoy! Chris

Published Layout with CTMH

I am very excited to say this is my first layout published with Close to My Heart product. I loved the page ever since I completed it. It has a few of my favorite photos from my photography class that I took last winter. It was an amazing class. It just feels good to understand my camera a bit better.

The paper is ProPlayer and it is still available until the end of the run of this Idea Book in July. If you are interested be sure to head over and do some shopping.

The magazine is called Create and a great resource if you like to work from sketches. Check them out here.

Enjoy! Chris

Cricut Flower Card

This is just a quick card using the paper and stamp set from Ivy Lane Workshop on the Go from CTMH. These are my very first attempt at creating the flower from the Atriste cartridge page 54. It was super easy- roll them up and add some Liquid Glue! I think they turned out super cute!

Here is a video on how to make them for yourself.

Enjoy! Chris

Sounds too good to be true?

I am just checking in quickly to let everyone know about an amazing deal being offered by Close to my Heart during the month of April. Here are a few of the details. If you decide to sign up as a Close to my Heart consultant during the month of April, your consultant kit is $99- which includes more the $300 of product. Plus you pick an exclusive Cricut cartridge for free! Yes I said free. That is an unbelievable offer but it is true. In the end you have more then $400 of product for just $99.

There is more new for the month of April. There is a super cute Stamp of the Month. It is called, Balloon Talk. When you place an order of $50 or more during the month of April you can purchase this stamp for just $5.

I don't know of many things that you can get for $5 these days. It is a value of $17.95.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Enjoy! Chris

Stamp of the Month- Day Five

So I thought I would round out the week with a layout! This one features lots of new fun products from Close to my Heart. The paper is from the beautiful Skylark paper. I played around with the Artbooking cartridge and finished it off with some washi tape.

I think the layout was a fun way to end the week!

If you are interested in any of the Close to my Heart products visit my website.

Enjoy! Chris

Artbooking Made Easy: Crush on Artbooking

I have to tell you I am loving the Close to My Heart Artbbooking Cricut cartridge! I just got mine this week and I am so looking forward to a weekend away of scrapbooking to play with it. I love the idea of taking all the bit and pieces and odd cuts to use in a Crush book!







I am hoping to have lots of pages to share after my weekend away.

Enjoy! Chris