January Promotions from Close To My Heart

Hi folks,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful time welcoming 2016.

As it is the beginning of a new month, I just thought I would pop in and share the January promotions from Close To My Heart.

The January Stamp of the Month is "Beloved Bouquet"

As usual, you can pick up this D size set of 14 stamps for the full retail price of $21.25 or you can get it for $6 if you place a qualifying $50 order.

Here is some artwork from CTMH Home Office featuring this beautiful stamp set.

Be sure to stop by tomorrow when I'll share a card I recently created featuring this stamp set and one of the new paper collections from the new Seasonal Expressions Idea Book.

January is also National Paper Crafting Month and CTMH is celebrating by offering a special set of Picture My Life Pocket Scrapbooking Cards called "Live Your Day".

Check out the video here to see how to incorporate these cards into YOUR scrapbooking! I'm actually using mine in my Everyday Life Planner. I'll have a post in the coming days about what I've done so far with mine.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Card Making with CTMH Picture My Life

Hi folks,


Well, I have to share ANOTHER time saver that really helped me this year for making my Christmas cards - the Picture My Life™ Pear & Partridge Scrapbooking Program from Close To My Heart.

I picked this set up earlier this year when CTMH was having a promo where, if you purchased a PML kit, you could pick up the memory protectors for a discounted price.

Since dearly beloved's step-mom is an avid scrap-booker, I gave HER the memory protectors and kept the cards for myself. Of course, since then, CTMH  has come out with an a la carte version of the kit, that comes without the page protectors. Awesome for card makers or traditional scrapbookers.


So, despite me picking up this kit MONTHS ago, this morning at 3:30am I was getting myself out of bed (couldn't sleep - too much left to do!) and making some quick Christmas cards with the kit. In just over an hour, I whipped up these fifteen cards (so I still have LOTS of the PML cards left to make more cards for next year).

And here they all are:

(oops - didn't notice that ALL of the photos of this card were blurry)

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base
• Picture My Life™ Pear & Partridge Scrapbooking Program
• decorative paper tape from Lee Valley Tools (I love Lee Valley by the way - so many cool things there) & CTMH Silver Shimmer Trim
• stamps: Verve "Ornamental Christmas", "Holiday Greetings", "Joyous Noel"

As always, thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!