National Stamping Month

I fell in love with papercrafting years ago but it wasn't until I was introduced to Close To My Heart that I fell in love with stamping. More specifically their clear acrylic stamps. Stamping is a great way to personalize your papercrafts. You can do so many things with a stamp that you can't do with sticker-color coordination, masking and multi generational stamping just to name a few. With CTMH's My Acrylix Stamps creativity knows no bounds. I encourage to pick up those stamps this month and give it a try. I know you will love it as much as I do!


Septembers Stamp of the Month-Thriller is perfect for getting started on those Halloween layouts, cards or party invitations. You can earn this stamp set at a discounted price or for free with qualifying purchases of your favorite CTMH products.

ONE’S GOOD, TWO’S GREAT, and three’s best of all! Celebrate your love of stamping by using stamps to embellish the three mini albums in our exclusive National Stamping Month kit, Triple Play. With inks, stamps,albums, and pre-cut accents for stamping,you’ll complete all three albums in a jiffy. Since each album has its own color scheme, all three are unique and ready for many different kinds of photos. Make one for yourself and two to give away—if you can bear to part with them!




In honor of National Stamping Month, you can get huge discounts on the Triple Play kit when you purchase My Acrylix® stamps from your wish list, or get it free when you host a qualifying Gathering or become a Close To My Heart Consultant. Here are five ways to get this outstanding mini album kit: (Note: We’ve saved the best for last, so be sure to read all five!)

1. Buy the Triple Play kit for $29.95 US / $34.95 CAN.

2. Purchase $25 / $30 in My Acrylix® stamps and get the Triple Play kit for just $15.

3. Spend $40 /$47 on My Acrylix stamps and get Triple Play for only $5!

4. Host a Gathering with sales of $300 / $350 or more and get Triple Play FREE!

5. Join Close To My Heart as a Consultant and get the kit FREE! National Stamping Month is always fun, but this year you’ll get three times the excitement with Triple Play!

*Qualifying stamps set purchases exclude Stamp of the Month sets, K-size custom stamps, and Workshops on the Go™ stamp sets. Tax and shipping/handling may apply. Offer valid for customers and hostesses August 15–September 30, 2010. Offer valid for new Consultant enrollees September 1–30, 2010. Limit one discount-priced Triple Play kit per order per customer. Offer valid while supplies last.

Wonderful Washington D.C.

I'm just back from Washington D.C. where I just spent 5 amazing days with some of the craziest, sweetest, funniest and talented women I have had the pleasure to meet in a long time. We were attending Close To My Heart's 2010 convention (my first). We laughed, we cried, we laughed til we cried. I think one of my favorite things were the "fancy-stache" pictures. Our adotive team's leader made these for us and they provided plenty of entertainment.

The thought of these is sure to keep me laughing for days.

Well I'm off to get my husband ready for deployment to the gulf coast where he is going to help with cleanup efforts. Until later...

I love, love, love CTMH's how-to books

If you are anything like me you collect paper, stickers and ribbons. I love all of these things for their color and dimension. Problem is sometimes I buy all this stuff without any real purpose. So as I sat and sorted through all this stuff I decided it was time to use it. Where to start? With one of Jeanette Lynton's how-to books. I picked my paper and looked for a pattern and PRESTO! Instant sucess. Paper I never thought I would get around to using became a beautiful layout.

Close To My Heart offers some great paper crafting products and one of my favorites is the 3-D cube. This cube is so easy to decorate because it comes flat. When you are finished embellishing you simply fold it together and secure however you wish. I had so much fun decorating a couple of these I had to share them.

I used this cube to showcase my brand new niece. I chose the Top Stich Paper pack and various stamp sets to make it.

This cube was inspired by one created for CTMH's spring Idea Book. I changed it up a bit as I did not have the same stamp sets. I took different elements from sets I already owned and voila'.

These make great gift ideas, so the next time you need a unique gift pick one up and give it a try.

So one of my newest friends is my Miche purse consultant. (I love purses!) She asked me to make some thank you cards for her and they turned out so cute I really didn't want to give them up.(I'm sick, I know) But here they are in all their adorableness.