Christmas Crafts Take Over The House!

7 days until christmasIt is only one week until Christmas! It has been a whirl of craftiness in my home. My husband recently noted than my crafting had begun to creep from my craft room to the dining room table, to the kitchen counter, to the kitchen island, and now it has crept into another nook that has become a sewing/ironing area. I simply told him I am trying to get full use of our home. Those places didn’t even include the place I took over while making cards in the family room, while watching Hallmark channel Christmas movies. Thank goodness he has his own man cave, and really doesn’t care how much room I am using. He is simply happy that I’m USING products and tools.

There is still a lot to do, but I am enjoying the journey. I appreciate some of my crafty friends, and their love of creating decor as well as gifts! Thank goodness for the internet and the ability to connect with so many crafters! The one problem with that, is the fact that we have the opportunity to come across more ideas than we can ever execute. Yet when we have a number of ideas floating in our sub-conscience, there is no end to the new ideas we might come up with!

daughter in candy cane apron

Proud daughter in candy cane apron.

I decided to make some holiday aprons to have on hand when all the family arrives. I’m sure we will have to eat and will be in the kitchen. I recently bought a new sewing machine, and decided that some aprons would be just the thing to start with the get the feel of the new machine. After years of not sewing anything for my kids, because it just wasn’t cool to have anything homemade, you can image my surprise when my youngest daughter expressed how happy she was with “her” apron! I almost fell over! This was a photo she wanted me to take and she shared on social media. I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful it was to have one of my kids actually appreciate something I sewed. I guess that is just another difference in having adult children!

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!

KS

 

Rustic Home Online Scrapbook Club Workshop

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Online Scrapbook Club supplies for October – Rustic Home Workshop.

We are on a mission to enjoy our photos and memories in places other than our phones, cameras, and computers! For more information about our Artful Adventures Scrapbook Club, see this previous post. We had our first online LIVE event yesterday. The scrapbook pages featured the Adventure Fundamentals paper pack, which will be available through July 2017, so there is still time to access that information and video.

Order by around the 15th of each month to allow for shipping, and having time to cut your paper following the guide you’ll receive by email once your order is received in my Close To My Heart shop.

Remember, if you’re order will be $150 or more, you can receive your own hostess credit. Or you can hostess an online Facebook event and earn credit for products! Just click the contact tab above and get in touch with me.

Supplies for our October Workshop (7-double page layouts):

I will send the guide once you order the Rustic Home, Memo Fundamentals, and the All Together Complements.

Optional October Workshop– Jeepers Creepers:

Close To My Heart, Jeepers Creepers Workshop Your Way - G1110

Close To My Heart, Jeepers Creepers Workshop Your Way – G1110

Supplies for November Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Close To My Heart, Swan Lake Workshops Your Way -  G1112

Close To My Heart, Swan Lake Workshops Your Way – G1112

Supplies for December Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Close To My Heart, City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way - G1114

Close To My Heart, City Sidewalks Workshop Your Way – G1114

Contact me if you have any questions!

Artful Adventures Scrapbook Club

How to Join:

  • Order your products from my Close To My Heart online shop for each month you wish to participate
  • Order by the 15th of the month to allow shipping and cutting time!

What You Get:

  • Full Color Instructions with (7) Double Page Layouts, with easy cutting guides so you don’t waste paper. These will be sent around the 15th of the month
  • LIVE Online Class towards the end of each month to watch the layouts being assembled, answer your questions and inspire you to get your layouts done and in an album
  • LIVE Class Recording available for playback anytime

Imagine completing 7 double page layouts each month!

KS

Let’s Do This! Let’s See Those Memories!

Here is more information about the Artful Adventures Scrapbooking Club! I hope you will join us in creating some pages. Sign up below the video.

See previous post with supplies for each month.

Scrapbook Club Announcement!

What have you done with the photos you have taken over the past several months? cameraWhy not save your photos where you can see them and share them?

If you are like the majority of people, they are digital images and are living on your camera’s memory card, the cameral roll in your phone, or they have been transferred to live on your computer. If that’s exactly where your images are, are you getting a chance to view them and enjoy them; or share them with others? Even share them with those who are in the photos? If, ‘Yes,’ then I bow and applaud your actions!

If not, I would like to invite you to join me in getting some memories onto pages we can view and share! This will be a monthly event, and to get this party started, I am offering to share 7-double page layouts, which include the cut dimensions and layout instructions, all for the low cost of…. FREE!

adventure fundamentals workshop

Adventure Fundamentals

Register for the club workshop and you’ll receive the cutting instructions. Then, on Sunday afternoon, October 9th, you can join me for an online LIVE event and we’ll put our pages together! The event will be recorded so don’t feel like you miss out if you can’t attend live. The vibrant colors in the Adventure Fundamentals paper pack will be perfect for putting together summer memories! We’ll push through October with our scrapbooking, and also have our October LIVE event at the end of October.

You could use the cut instructions on coordinating papers you have, or follow along with me and, with just a few supplies, have as close to a done-for-you scrapbook as you can get!

To make it easy to follow along, future workshops will be sent to you after you have ordered the Close to My Heart paper packs we will be using. You may order each month separately, or all at once. It’s up to you! However, should your order reach $150, be sure and let me know before you place your order, so that you can receive Hostess credit!

We will be using these Close To My Heart products for this first September workshop:

adventure-fundamentalsgood-life-complements

You will also need your basic supplies:

  • Paper trimmer
  • Tape runner / Adhesive
  • Foam Tape or squares
  • Corner Rounder
  • Small scissors

To use the suggested Close To My Heart products order right away! The LIVE workshop info will be sent with your cutting instructions, and you’ll have email reminders closer to that day.

Artful Adventures Scrapbook Club

How to Join:

  • Order your products from my Close To My Heart online shop for each month you wish to participate (anyone may join us for September – just register below)
  • Order by the 15th of the month to allow shipping and cutting time!

What You Get:

  • Full Color Instructions with (7) Double Page Layouts, with easy cutting guides so you don’t waste paper. These will be sent around the 15th of the month
  • LIVE Online Class towards the end of each month to watch the layouts being assembled, answer your questions and inspire you to get your layouts done and in an album
  • LIVE Class Recording available for playback anytime

Imagine completing 7 double page layouts each month!

Even if you haven’t completed any this year, you can finish the year with 28 double page layouts if you join us each month!

Supplies for our October Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Optional October Workshop– Jeepers Creepers:

Supplies for November Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Supplies for December Workshop (7-double page layouts):

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures,

KS

 

Arts, Crafts, and Scrapbooking Updates

Today, I wanted to let you know about three things:

  • The new Close To My Heart Holiday Expressions idea book is available
  • Where you can find Tracie Claiborne’s Journal Your Life class
  • Donna Downey’s Find Out Fridays

The new Close To My Heart Holiday Expressions idea book became available September 1st. It is full of all kinds of items to create scrapbook pages, pocket scrapbooking, cards, and various paper crafting projects, including some Cricut projects. These items are available through December 2016. Don’t delay and miss out! See the Holiday Expressions now.

I promised I would let you know where you could get Tracie Claiborne’s “Journal Your Life” online class, so a little update today to give you the link. No, I don’t make anything from your purchase. She just put together a phenomenally helpful class on journaling. So whether you have been averse to journaling, or you are sometimes stuck, you may want to check it out!

Something else you may be interested in is Donna Downey’s new free series, Find Out Fridays. Each week we will have the opportunity to watch an artist open up a pre-selected group of materials they have been sent, and show us what they decide to do with them! I am sure those of you who are interested in art/mixed media, you will really enjoy this series.  Here is the first segment, with Jane Davenport.

Here’s to YOUR Artful Adventures,

KS