Join CTMH in July and be REWARDED

Join the Close To My Heart family as a Consultant this month and get your choice of a FREE Fundamentals Paper Packet* and its coordinating Complements. That's $48 worth of fabulous crafting goodies FREE!

These brand new products won’t be released to the public until August, so joining today is your chance to get them first! Yay! 

This is in ADDITION to your New Consultant Kit filled with fabulous products. 

When you sign up, you’ll also get $75 in Select Product Credit to spend on more new products, including the newest stamps, paper packets and new cardstock colours.

Ask me more about joining our wonderful Crafty Hearts’ Team TODAY!  

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Visit my website to read what you get in your NEW Consultant Kit or to sign up and start your new business TODAY. 

Crafty wishes,

Denise :) 

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* Choose from Whimsy, Adventure, and Enchantment Fundamentals. Standard New Consultant Kit shipping rates will apply. No additional shipping/handling will be charged for this promotion

From the Notebook

This month, we have a fabulous new Stamp of the Month called From the Notebook. 

It features a wonderful selection of fun journaling boxes, tabs, tags, icons and sentiments. 

Use the stamps to create your own pages and mini albums! This set is perfect for cards, gift bags, tags and scrapbooking layouts. 

Grab it only in July 2016 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you make a purchase of $75 or more on my website or order directly from me.

Check back here throughout July for more ideas featuring the Stamp of the Month, From the Notebook.

Crafty hugs,

Denise oxo

Scrap those scraps!

I am always looking for creative ways to use up the paper scraps that are inevitably left over at the end of a Paper Packet or Scrapbooking Kit.  You know those scraps that you probably should throw away but you just can't bear to part with?  Yes, those ones! 

I discovered the cutest idea (well 2 actually) by a wonderfully creative CTMH Consultant Jennifer Smith on her Blog and I fell in LOVE! These are the perfect pages for using up scraps.  In fact these pages arecreated with a whole bunch of 1/2 inch strips of paper and Zip Strips and they're just completely fun and fabulous.  

You can see the pages that Jennifer created here. Don't you love them! Isn't she super-talented?

I ran with the second page and had fun replicating it with two different paper themes- Magical and Whimsy Paper Fundamentals. They both turned out so well, but the different colour combinations make them look quite different to each other.

What do you think?  Is this a page design that you could fall in love with?  This page is perfect as a title page or a final page in an album.  My pages are designed to feature one 5" x 7" photo but you could modify the design for a different sized photo.  

The next time you have those few paper scraps and Zip Strips laying in the bottom of that packet, I hope you will look at them in a new way.  i know I do! 

Warmest crafty wishes,
Denise xx

The Long Way Home

This June, Close To My Heart has released a fabulous new Stamp of the Month called The Long Way Home. 

It features a wonderful selection of fun vehicles and funky signs, icons and sentiments. Use the stamps to create your own travel pages and mini albums! This set is perfect for cards, gift bags, tags and scrapbooking layouts. 

Grab it only in June 2016 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you make a purchase of $75 or more at http://scrapstampshare.ctmh.com.au

Keep checking back here this month for more creative ideas for using this month's fabulous NEW Stamp of the Month, The Long Way Home. 

Crafty wishes,
Denise xox

Celebrate with Cake- May SotM Australasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome aboard our Close To My Heart May 2016 Celebrate with Cake Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop. If you have arrived here from Maz Wood's Inky Fingers, you are in the right place. If you landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. 

Today, I would like to share with you a few projects that I have created featuring the May Stamp of the Month, Celebrate with Cake. This stamp set is available only in May 2016 for $27, or for just $7.50 when you spend $75 or more. 

Isn't this the most fun stamp set ever? I just love how you can create the cake of your dreams by adding the cake stand and layers that you love! This stamp set shouts "birthday, wedding, engagement, high tea, and more"- it's time to PARTY!!  

Below you can see a page layout I have created featuring Kaleidoscope B&T Paper, coordinating cardstock a couple of Cricut-cut flowers and Silver Sequins.  I have stamped the cake and sentiments in Memento Black Ink and painted them using CTMH Watercolour Paints.  

Here is a close up of the cake- you can see that the bright paint colours complement the fun of the Kaleidoscope papers beautifully!  I've used 3-D Foam Tape to raise up the image and make a feature of it on the layout.

I absolutely love this card (below) that I created with Zoe B&T Paper and the Celebrate with Cake stamp set! It's so bright and fun!  I stamped a selection of the cake layers, cake stand and sentiment onto coloured cardstock and cut around the outside of each image. This is a quick and easy way to add bold colours to the stamped images without having to colour them in.  I added extra colour to some of the pieces using my ShinHan Touch Twin Markers and added Liquid Glass to create fun "icing" on the Thistle layer and Bitty Sparkles to add some bling-worthy sparkle to the Pixie Layer.  I used 3-D and Thin 3-D Foam Tape to adhere the cake layers to the front of the card.

I love using Liquid Glass to add fun dimensions to my cards and pages. I think it worked perfectly for this cool drippy icing effect on the cake!

Finally, one of my very special friends was married last weekend and I wanted to create a simple, elegant card to give to her and her new hubby, so I created this card using basic colours Slate and Black, added a few Bitty Sparkles for some bling.  I was very happy with the understated look of the finished card.

Thank you for visiting my Blog to check out my page layout and cards featuring the May Stamp of the Month, Celebrate with Cake.  I would love it if you could leave a comment below before you hop to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop, Shaunna Richards' Passionate About Pages.

Remember, the May Stamp of the Month, Celebrate with Cake is only available throughout May 2016 from your Close To My Heart Independent Consultant for $27, or for just $7.50 when you spend $75 or more.  

Warmest crafting wishes,

Denise :)

Are you worth it? Join my CTMH Team in April and be REWARDED!

Signing up as a new Consultant with Close To My Heart during April is more rewarding than ever. Not only do you get your beautiful New Consultant Kit at a new, lower price, but when you submit $450 in personal sales within your first 30 days**, you get your choice of either a FREE Cricut® collection or $145 in Select Product Credit—and that’s in addition to the Straight To The Top start-up bonus that you’ll earn along the way!

If you have met me, then you know how much I love being an Independent Consultant with Close To My Heart. In this video below, the gorgeous Monica Wihongi explains some of the MANY benefits of belonging to this wonderful papercrafting family. 

In April, there are even more reasons to join my CTMH Crafty Hearts' Team, with so many more REWARDS and freebies for you, so click here to get started! 

I would love to share this amazing journey with you!

Warmest crafting wishes,
Denise :)

Life in Pictures April SotM Australasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome aboard our Close To My Heart April 2016 Life in Pictures Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop. If you have arrived here from Jenny's The Creative Heart, you are in the right place. If you landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. 

Today, I would like to share with you a few projects that I have created featuring the April Stamp of the Month, Life in Pictures. This stamp set is available only in April 2016 for $27, or for just $7.50 when you spend $75 or more. 

I collect old cameras! They are not in the very best condition, as they really are just to look at and appreciate, but I just love having these treasures from days gone by to remind me of a simpler time.  Can you imagine how excited I was when I saw the April Stamp of the Month, Life in Pictures?  Yes, I was VERY excited! LOL!

Here are a couple of the old cameras that I am lucky to own:

Needless to say, I was really looking forward to having a play with this gorgeous stamp set filled with so many cute cameras and adorable sayings.   

Just like last month, my projects are based on artwork from the Seasonal Expressions Idea Book.  I just love the creative ideas developed by the CTMH Art Department for our gorgeous Idea Books and I am always super-keen to try them out for myself. 

My first project uses Kraft Cardstock, Urban B&T Paper and Black and Gold Ribbon on a Colonial White Card Base with the image and sentiment stamped in Memento Black ink on Colonial White Cardstock.  The sentiment has been dove-tailed and mounted on Sapphire Cardstock.  It's simple and quick- the perfect card project to fit into my crazy, busy life right now!

You know me! When I get one a roll with a quick and easy card, I like to create variations of the same design.  The two cards below follow the same formula, but I have substituted the ribbon for Gold Foil Tape and Gold Shimmer Trim and added some Gold Sequins to one, but they are essentially the same design.

I also decided have a go at replicating the page layout in the Seasonal Expressions Idea Book.  Mine doesn't have any pictures on it as yet, but my plan is to use it as a title page for our 2016 album and pop little photos of our happy family into the photo spots! The page uses a combination of Sapphire and Saffron Cardstock and Paper Fundamentals as well as Slate Cardstock on a Colonial White base.  The little Polaroid frames are too cute and the images and sentiments are just perfect for this layout.  So simple, but oh, so adorable and I am just delighted with the finished page!

Thank you for visiting my Blog to check out my projects featuring the April Stamp of the Month, Life in Pictures.  I would love it if you could leave a comment below before you hop to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop, Lauren's CTMH Craftings.

Remember, the April Stamp of the Month, Life in Pictures is only available throughout April 2016 from your Close To My Heart Independent Consultant for $27, or for just $7.50 when you spend $75 or more.

  

Warmest crafting wishes,

Denise :)