This one you don't want to miss!!!

Starting December 19th thru January we will be celebrating National Paper Craft Month! SO JOIN THE CRAZE! When you place a minimum order of $25 from the Autumn/Winter 2011 Idea Book, you can get TWO new products for just $15: the My Creations® Collage Cubes (a Spring/Summer 2012 sneak-peek product!) and the exclusive My Acrylix® Rock the Block E-size stamp set. 

That’s a retail savings of almost $30! You're going to love the Collage Cubes and the Rock the Block stamp set, which work together for interactive, 3-D fun. Start Shopping :)

Watch this Close To My Heart video to discover even more tips for streamlining your holiday card creation session.

December - 11 days to Christmas!

Yikes!  This year the Holidays just keep coming up faster and faster.  Anyone else with me out there?  Whew, seems like I can't keep up anymore.  Anyways, that being said, I did some little 'playing' last night & made some Christmas gifts last night.  These are the little 'Composition books' that I covered with CTMH paper, this is last years line that I had left over, but still very pretty.  Then I used the CTMH Cranberry ink and Ribbon.  The bling I used is also CTMH.  I sent one of these to Savannah's teacher this morning!  I'm trying to get her interested in scrapbooking! Hopefully this will spark her interest.  :)

These next two books I made with MM paper (I think) I bought a whole pack of it at Tuesday Morning for $1.99 - it had 25 sheets double sided!  These were fun to make, but I think the next ones I make will only have 4 pages instead of 6 as it makes it way to big after you put your tags & photo mats in it.  I made 2 of them - was going to give Savannah's teacher one for Christmas, but then after they decided Alabama teachers could not receive anything of 'value' I decided to keep it for myself and give her the other little book, hopefully that won't be considered 'value'.  

These were very fun to make - quick and easy and I got to use my new BIA - love that thing!  Merry Christmas everyone!

Happy November everyone!

When you place a minimum order of $25 in My Acrylix^® stamp sets in November, you can purchase a new D-size Holiday Wishes stamp set for only $5! That’s significant savings off the full retail value of $17.95 US / $19.95 CAN. And here’s a bonus: many of the images in the set coordinate with our Cricut^® Art Philosophy cartridge for added cutting and stamping fun! See the FAQ for details.

Just a few more days to enjoy the October Campaign...........

New Consultants who enroll for $99 (US&CAN) with Close To My Heart between October 1–31, 2011, will receive one FREE* New Consultant Kit add-on collection! Each of our three add-on collections is priced at $40 (US&CAN) and has a retail value of $80 US /$85 CAN–$130 US/$140 CAN, so this is an incredible deal!

*Shipping/handling is free on add-on collections. US tax will be charged on the retail price of $40.

This is an awesome deal if you want a wonderful way to support your habit/addiction of paper crafting!  You get fabulous products at a 22% discount and more!  Work your own schedule, spend more time with your family, friends and make a little $$ on the side!  What a deal!  Want to know more?  Just ask me! 

FISKATEERS CROP IN MURPHEESBORO TN

Enjoy using Fiskar's products?  Yeah, me too.  Back in August I joined them to be a 'Fiskateer' and am really glad I did.  I went to a crop in Birmingham in September and had a great time.  In fact I had so much fun I got my mom and my sister, Beth signed up so they could go to the next one!  We made a day of it, went to Murpheesboro, got sidetracked and off the beaten path, imagine that, we were enjoying ourselves so much talking we missed our turn.  So we got to see a lot of the hills of TN that wasn't on the plan!  But we made it there alright. 
Met some awesome people there, Bettye was the hostess with the mostess and provided Starbucks bottles with ORANGE bottle tops and provided our Fiskateers number so we could personalize our own bottles!  Too cute.  Got some more punches to go with my collection :)  So without further ado, here are the pictures to prove it.

Here Bettye is showing Annette and Bobbie (my downline) how to use the vinyl to decorate the bottles:

Nice big beautiful room to have the crop in - there is my sweet momma (in the black shirt sitting directly behind my sister Beth in the pink shirt)

 This table was set up for us to make cards to donate to the VA hospital.

 We met "Pinky" a designer for several different companies including Imagince, later I was able to find the same paper at thier local scrapbook store.  Yes, we HAD to check out the local SB store.

 Everything was Orange, Bettye did a fantastic job in decorating the tables.

 Pinky made the cakes for us - she got very creative.

 Chocolate fudge, cookies, candy corn, water and other goodies including healthy bananas and apples.

 We had ham and turkey sandwich's for lunch. 

Group Shot:

(Compliments of C.H)

 And my loot:

Now, we have to work on getting my other sister Anita signed up to be Fiskateers so she can join us at the next one! 

Making Cards

This month, I've have lots of birthdays and anniversaries to celebrate.  So decided to make some cards.

The tags were cut with my Cricut using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge, which is fast becoming my favorite cartridge!

Now I'm off to meet the gals at the Fiskars crop in TN!  Can't wait to show you what all I hopefully will get done today! 

Stay tuned!

Want to know more about Close To My Heart products and how they can make your life simplier?  Just ask me!  I'll be happy to show you how!

Sonoma Workshop

The 24 hour crop was fantastic.  We had 13 ladies on Friday night and about 10 ladies on Saturday.  We had LOTZ of food, junk food and chocolate - so we were all  happy!  Had to make a Starbucs run though to make it through the night, I took a couple of cat naps, but it was good and will do a repeat in the spring!  Looking forward to it already. 
My mom's birthday was September 12th, although we took her out twice to celebrate I had been lacking making her a card, so she told me that when I get to it, it better be a special card for her.  A couple of weeks ago, I went to a Fiskateers crop in B'ham, and made a junky card with all the little confetti stuff on the table, so it looked like it had sneezed on her card.  My friend suggested I make her a joke card first and then present her with the real thing.  So Friday night I did that, gave her the card and her gift, she thought it was beautiful and thanked me.  Then I reminded her of what she told me & presented her with the real deal.  I used the Sonoma paper pack to make it.

Yeah, I got the reaction I wanted :)  heehee

So, what did I work on over the weekend?  I sorted 500 pictures and realized on event I printed out 3 sets of - ugh, so someone will be blessed with about 100 pictures - a new scrapper :)  Gotta keep her busy.  But while most slept I worked on the Sanoma paper pack.  And this is the layout I made.  I think it might be my favoite pack to date.  But then again Close To My Heart keeps showering us with more paper packs surprises, so who knows what's next!  

No, I must get busy & get ready for church! 

(If you would like to see more of the paper pack & what all you can do with it - email me at happyscrappingom@gmail.com and I'll be happy to show you)

Have a great day everyone!

Help Wanted...........

Thiking about becoming a hobbyist or consultant?  Well if you have, NOW is the time to do it!  In October, when you sign up you get the normal $300 worth of products PLUS an additonal add on kit of your choice all for FREE!  That’s over $400 in product for just $99!!! Leave a comment for more details or if you have any questions! 

Would love to have you join my team!!

FISKAR'S September's Layout Challenge

I went to my first ever Fiskars (Fiskateers) crop this past weekend and had a great time.  Judy was there and she presented the September challenge, so I decided to try my hand of it, and this is my version.

And I walked away with a bag full of goodies:

and a nice CTMH door prize!  How cool is that? I got a pack of the NEW MilePost Shapes (Z1464)

My Scrapbooking Weekend

I enjoyed a great scrapbooking weekend.  Went to Cataco Friday night and fisnished two layouts using the Typeset Hostess Rewards Collection (50% off of a $77.35 retail value for having a $250+ gathering). Decided to use Savannah's 1st day of Kindergarten pictures, turned out pretty cute I think.  Has lots of variety of products to choose from! Love love love the canvas type stickease included in this set.

                                    

Saturday I enjoyed my monthly crop with the Hearts of Dixie Scrapbooking group here in Huntsville.  Had a good turn out and didn't get a lot done, but did a lot of talking (can you imagine) Continued to work on the typeset kit and added a 3rd page.  I will type up the journalling on this page later.  I finished a few more layouts but didn't take pictures of them. 

If you would like to know more about how YOU can earn one Close To My Heart's exclusive hostess collections contact me and I'll show you how!





Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

Using the NEW CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, I decided to play with it this afternoon!  Made this pretty card using the directions in the little booklet.  I say pretty good for my first try!  Want to know how YOU can make one too? 

Contact me and I'll teach you how!  

September Specials and Stamp Of The Month

GET A FREE MY ACRYLIX^® DOUBLE STAMP SET WITH YOUR QUALIFYING PURCHASE!

To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, we are offering our first-ever double stamp set!  You can get the exclusive My Acrylix®  Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set totally FREE when you place an order of $75 through September 30, 2011.  You will love this double set - two D-size sets in one envelope - which includes lots of clever phrases and coordinating images you'll use in your handmade cards all year.  And with a retail value of $35.90 this set drastically increases the value of your qualifying purchase!  Have double the fun stamping during National Stamping Month with our new Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set!

Stamp of The Month

Limited Edition (S1109)

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

You can take advantage of these great specials by going here

Just a birthday card

Took out a few minutes of my day today to make a birthday card for my daughter.  I hope you can see the details of the ebossing I did on it.  Her birthday was 2 weeks ago, but I knew she was coming into town this weekend, so I waited, thats why I used the Card Chatter Birthday stamp set (D1475). 

Want to thank my customers

Its because of them, I am still in business!  Thank you.

Seven free stamps sets all for the price of a Cricut cartridge

If you have a Cricut, you don't want to miss this deal.

It started this week and only goes til August 31st!

How about 7 stamp sets, 3 chipboard sheets and a Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge

 for about $123.70 (and that includes shipping and tax)?

What if I told you the value of all the above is $228.50, yeah, almost twice as much?

Well, because of our two special of the month plus our usual stamp of the month bargain,

you can get all of the above!

Here's the breakdown:

1) On August 15th-31st, buy your 700 image Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge for $99.00. This includes the three $17.95 stamp sets that correspond to the images on the cartridge plus three chipboard dimensional elements $4.95 for each) that also go with the cartridge.

 

 

2) Since you spent over $50 you can now buy the Wicked Stamp of the

Month for $5.00 (retail value $17.95).

 

3) Since you bought the stamp of the month, you now get the

 Typeface mini-alphabet set for free ($6.95 retail value).

 

4) Since you spent over $75 you can also get the Para-a-phrase

DOUBLE stamp set for FREE! (Retail value $35.90).

 

Shipping & tax run about $19.70 and so you're out of there

with $228.50 in value for about $123.70.

The Art Philosophy cartridge and everything else above are sold exclusively by

 Close to my Heart so you won't be able to get this elsewhere.

So buy BEFORE August 31st RIGHT HERE! Make sure you hit the "add items" buttons for the stamp of the month, para-a-phrase and typeface stamp sets (the typeface stamp set "add item" button won't appear until you add the stamp of the month first). Need help? Call me at (256) 682-6498.

***Spend $50 more and get $25 in hostess rewards too!***

Fun with Studio J

I played around with the Studio J software Close To My Heart offers us and my upline put a challenge out for us and this is what I came up with.  This is our new 'ROXIE' line of paper. 

Huntsville Crop

Had just a few ladies come to Saturday's crop.  But I figured with the weekend before school starting and it being Alabama's Tax FREE weekend, everyone was busy.  So I got a bit creative and made thank you cards!  So if you ordered from me - look for one of these in your package!  I appreciate YOU, my loyal customer! 

Looking forward to meeting my upline in B'ham this weekend for a bit of one on one training!  Wonder what NEW things I will get to learn?  Stay tuned!  

NEW WINTER CATALOG IS HERE!!!

Click HERE to see it.
Close To My Heart has teamed up with Cricut and now we have our own cartridge that cordinates with the images in the book - the stamp images outlined in red - can be cut with the Cricut!  Makes cutting a breeze!