March Campaign - Like FREE stuff - Cricut FREE stuff? Read on...

NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO JOIN CLOSE TO MY HEART because when you sign up as a new Consultant between March 1–31, you'll receive a FREE Cricut® Art Philosophy collection*! The collection's retail price of $99 adds incredible value to your New Consultant Kit and will give you hours of creative fun with the included exclusive Cricut® cartridge, three coordinating My Acrylix® D-size stamp sets, and three sheets of matching Dimensional Elements shapes. Already own the collection? You can always give your free one as a gift or choose to receive $100 in select product credit** instead. Now is the time to embrace the philosophy of fun—Consultant and Cricut® fun!  Go to my website for more information.

Its a perfect time to join me!

January Stamp of the Month

This stamp is only $5 with a $50 purchase.  You can go to my website here to order!

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!