Close to My Heart Special Deal!

Many of you know how crazy I am about scrapbooking, and also technology! I love scrapbooking the old fashioned paper way, digitally, and even hybrid (combing a little of both!)  So recently, when I found out that Close to My Heart was offering to throw in a Cricut bundle with new consultant sign-ups, I couldn’t resist!

The special Close to My Heart (CTMH) Cricut bundles are packed full with each cartridge having 700 images, 3 coordinating stamp sets, and 2 coordinating sheets of white chipboard embellishments! Because I love to share good things with you, I would be remiss if I didn’t tell YOU about the great deal going on until April 30th. Until the end of April, you can join Close to My Heart for $99, and select a free Cricut bundle (normally $99 alone!). That means you are getting over $408 of retail product for just $99. So what’s the catch? There is none!

Close to My Heart April 2014 offer

You will have from now until the end of September to decide exactly what you want to do with Close to My Heart — whether you want to continue as a hobbiest to receive the discount, or you want to build your business, or it’s not anything you want to continue with. It’s all up to you, no foul, no harm!

The company has both fantastic products and customer service! You are not required to keep inventory, so it is easy to get started with the new consultants kit!

Details:

  • Spring/Summer Consultant Kit is only $99 plus shipping and tax (about $124)
  • It includes over $300 worth of “real” product…inks, multiple stamp sets, 3 acrylic blocks, stamp cleaner and scrubber, several embellishment packs, trim, adhesive, liquid glass, inking sponge,printed chipboard, 2 design book and more
  • PLUS your choice of 1 CTMH Cricut Cartridge Bundle: ART PHILOSOPHY, ARTISTE OR ARTBOOKING that includes 3 matching stamp sets and 2 sheets of white chipboard embellishments
  • You do NOT have a quota for April, May, June so enjoy your kit, start showing friends and family the products and see if you have people interested in ordering from you as a CTMH Consultant
  • If you or anyone wants to order they can do so online through your free CTMH website you get and product ships directly to them so you don’t even have to deliver anything …remember you get a 22% on all orders placed including your own.
  • If you want to continue being a Consultant you have a $300 quota each quarter to meet…your first quarter is July, August, September (that’s only $100 a month and easy to do if you try).
  • If you don’t sell $300 total for July, August and September then at end of September you stop being a consultant automatically and get to keep all your kit …

So it is totally worth it to give CTMH a try….and join my team of consultants and I will help you in anyway I can while we have fun!

Why join my group?

  • You will receive a free “Whisper to Go” (that’s a project pdf instructions for the cartridge you selected when you join -courtesy of Cara Mlller)
  • You will receive a free monthly exclusive project pdf with color photos and detailed instruction for a different project designed by me using one of the CTHM Cricut Cartridges including a Cricut Craft Room and Design Space file
  • You get access to our private CTMH Team Facebook group to learn more tips and techniques using your CTMH products OR help growing your own CTMH team
  • You will be able to enter a monthly drawing for a PRIZE in our private CTMH Facebook group
  • You will be able to have fun using our CTMH products and sharing our projects and ideas

How to sign up:

SIGN UP TODAY (OR ANYTIME APRIL 1-APRIL 30TH) @ kristiesloan.ctmh.com Sign Up is easy. You can do everything electronically by going to my website:

  1. Go to kristiesloan.ctmh.com
  2. Click on “Opportunities,” select “Be a Consultant,” the click “Let’s get started.”
  3. It’ll take you into the application.
  4. It should only take less than 5 minutes to complete the application.
  5. You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail from CTMH within a few days (and sometimes immediately), at which time you’ll have access to the website (with the username and password you selected on the application). You will receive your kit in about 1 week!

I will be notified you signed up and will send you an invite to the CTMH Facebook Group and help you get started. Let me know what questions you have…I hope you will consider ordering the Spring/Summer Consultant kit and join me on this new CTMH venture and have fun doing it with me.

What’s in the Spring/Summer new consultant kit:

  • Read Me First Letter
  • Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Books (qty. 10)
  • Hostess Order Forms (qty. 25)
  • Customer Order Forms (qty. 25)
  • Close To My Heart Color Swatches (W471)
  • Spring/Summer 2014 B&T Duos™ Sampler (W1127)
  • Petite Perks™ Delicate Wings Incentive Stamp Set (qty. 5) (W2028)
  • Reflections™ Scrapbook Program (9037)
  • Originals Card Confidence Program™ (9036)
  • Workshops on the Go™ Skylark Scrapbooking Kit (G1072)
  • Skylark Complements Dimensional Elements (X7177C)
  • Skylark B&T Duos™ Bulk Paper (BULK322)
  • Skylark Bulk Resin Flowers (BULK340)
  • Durables Triangle Studs (Z1928)
  • Teal Shimmer Trim (Z1918)
  • Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ Pad (Z2195)
  • Desert Sand Exclusive Inks™ Pad (Z2118)
  • Slate Exclusive Inks™ Pad (Z2173)
  • My Acrylix™ Hopscotch Alphabet Stamp Set (E1028)
  • My Acrylix™ True to Life Stamp Set (C1575)
  • My Acrylix™ Believe in Yourself Stamp Set (C1574)
  • 3″ × 3″ My Acrylix™ Block (Y1006)
  • 4″ × 5″ My Acrylix™ Block (Y1012)
  • 2″ × 6½” My Acrylix™ Block (Y1010)
  • Non-Stick Micro-Tip Scissors (Z1836)
  • My Acrylix™ Stamp Scrubber (Z1782)
  • My Acrylix™ Spritz Cleaner (1778)
  • Bonding Memories™ Glue (1512)
  • Sponge (Z697)
  • Liquid Glass (Z679)
  • and Cello Bags (qty. 25) (W1152)

Check out the handbooks for each one of the CTMH Cricut cartridges.

Cricut Art Philosophy Handbook        Cricut Artiste Handbook        Cricut Art Booking Handbook

 

Ideas for Scrapbooking with Pocket Pages

Are you familiar with the idea of pocket cards and clear pocket pages for scrapbooking? If not, you should know that they are an easy way to “scrapbook” photos! Plus, all the cards that are available, are useful for other things besides the just putting into the little pockets to make a scrapbook page!

First, let me show you a video on Close to My Hearts’ pocket pages, called the Picture My Life Scrapbooking Program,  If you are interested let me know, or click here to see the current sets! Here are extra pages.

Now, that you have an idea of what pocket pages are about, let me tell you about the great classes which were held at the online event – True Scrap Pocket Pages. Layle Koncar had a great class explaining a lot of how she does pocket page scrapbooking.

We all know you are never “caught up” with scrapbooking, and Layle talks about planning, organizing, keeping notes for futures layouts. The class runs close to an hour and you can scoop up her class for $12.95 $9 for a limited time! 

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Pocket Scrapping 101: Back to Basics with Layle Koncar

As a dedicated “traditional” scrapbooker, Layle Koncar had to find a way to make pocket scrapbooking work for her – and she did it! She’s sharing her secrets to take you from pocket scrapping zero to hero in this comprehensive class, “Pocket Scrapping 101: Back to Basics.” If you’re new to pocket pages, this is a can’t miss primer for how to approach the system from Planning and Organization to Color and Design. And if you’re an experienced pocket scrapper, you’ll still find plenty of tips, hints, and time-saving secrets. This is one class you’re sure to watch again and again! Get this one-hour video class for only $12.95 $9 for a limited time!

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There are five other classes besides Layle’s! Using tips and ideas from these six ladies will surely give you the boost you need for pocket page scrapbooking! Whether you are interested in a Becky Higgins’ Project Life style, where you document weekly, or you just want to use pocket pages as a means to end, you’re sure to find helpful hints.

So take a peek at the classes, and then be sure to shop at my Close to Your Heart store, for all your pocket page goodies!


Get ALL SIX classes for 40% off the regular retail price!

Just add all six classes to your cart and use code:  SAVE40

APRIL ONLY!

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Sandi Keene Deli Paper Flower Video Tutorial

I wanted to share a wonderful video tutorial from Sandi Keene. Sandi is one of the members of Art to the 5th, which started the Documented Life Project. The project is wildly popular, and currently has almost 6,500 participants in a Facebook Group.  In this video Sandi shares how to use the popular Gelli plate printing technique, without having that particular plate!  For paper, even if you don’t have deli paper, you can still use this technique. You may want to try parchment paper, heavy vellum, printer paper…  You know that’s the fun of art, it’s an Adventure!

Imagine all the things you could use these flowers on: scrapbook pages, cards, tags, journal pages, mixed media pieces…  They lend themselves to all kinds of fun projects!

Enjoy the video and let us know what you make!

Next time, I’ll share a quick way to create these without even getting messy!

KS

Tell YOUR Own Stories – not just your family’s!

KS-smOver the past couple of years, there seems to be a real trend in scrapbooking circles of telling everyday stories. We learned that it gets tiring to just capture the high points of the year, as they tend to just look the same, everyone is just older! I mean really, how many photos of a kid and a birthday cake look different? Or how many holiday photos with someone looking down at a gift they are opening do you need? People are learning that sharing snippets of life, and everyday stories is more true to capturing what our lives are about. Not only our families’ lives, but especially our own individual stories!

My nature, my mom seems to be a basic scrapbooker. She has gone through all the old photos she has and written who the people are on the backs, and has slipped into albums. Even though it would be easier to enjoy the pictures if we could see the picture and read the info without having to slide the photo out and read it, at least the info is there! I know that is a lot more information than some people have of their families, and I am grateful for her efforts! However, we are missing the stories.

sample my story

This story is about making my wedding cake, and how I burned up two mixers while taking cake decorating classes; and chose to make a spice cake with cream cheese icing!

During the last two or three years, I have been making more pages about myself, telling my own story. At first it seemed a little odd to telling about myself instead of my kids. However, it always was so fun to see my kids read one of the pages and say, “I didn’t know that!” Imagine, I was Kristie, before I was ever a wife, mother, or grandmother!

If you are thinking that you could never tell your own stories, or you don’t even know where you would start, I have a great plan for that! I’ll be joining scrapbooking friends online during May, where we will get prompts to create pages! Trust me, you never know where the prompt will lead your thoughts for a page! I have had some of the best pages and stories come from this process.

Whether you have stories that are short, fun, long, or hard… they are YOUR stories to tell. Head over and check out LOAD 514 (Layout A Day). It is for all levels of scrapbookers, and all types (digi, hybrid, etc.). I invite you to join us. It will change the way you think about scrapbooking. Hurry over, learn more, and capture the Early Bird discount available for the next few days!

Click HERE for more information!

Imagine creating 31 layouts in just one month. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful addition to your scrapbook pages? Now YOU can join Lain Ehmann in this month long journey, which includes daily prompts, videos and so much more.

Register NOW through 4/10 and pay only $35 
(a savings of $15 off the $50 regular price).

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

  • 31 daily prompts on the topic of Past Perfect 2: Yesterday’s Memories, Today’s Pages
  • 31 daily videos
  • Private message board
  • Private gallery
  • Interviews with cool scrappy folk (guest stars announced soon!)
  • PRIZES
  • Inspiration, fun, and companionship galore!
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