Artful Lettering Touches for Your Holidays

If you aren’t familiar with Joanne Sharpe, I’d like to introduce her to you. She is is a gifted artist and teacher, who is known for her colorful and whimsical work. She has a number of online classes, but I wanted to call your attention to her  Five Golden Letterings class which is absolutely free! It will cost you nada, zilch, zero…nothing!

Five Golden Letterings Free Class by Joanne SharpeThe class was done in 2012, but I’m sure you can find some useful ideas.These ideas are just as useful now as they were when she created the class.  Watch the videos and see which techniques you’ll want to try!  You can even use other colors besides gold! Shhh… I won’t tell!

She will show some great ways to spiff up wrapping paper, gift bags, and cards!  It’s amazing how a handful of supplies can be used to de-stress and make something artful and useful all at the same time!  There is no doubt you’ll find ideas to artfully add some special touches to your holidays!

Stop by and check out her Five Golden Letterings class!  Then come back and share with us what you’ve made!

You can also find Joanne on her Whimspirations blog.

 

Creative Christmas Bundle – 1 Day!

Just one day until the Creative Christmas Bundle launches!

One of the products in the bundle is a set of adorable advent calendar pockets designed by Connie Hanks from Clicky Chick Creates. The numbers I’ve been using in the countdown are from her set!

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Meet Connie Hanks:

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Life continues to take me on an amazing journey. I’m a mommy, wife, photographer, scrapbooker, crafter, volunteer-extraordinaire and child of God who never outgrew seeing the world as colorful as a fresh box of Crayola crayons! I’m blessed to live with my “4-family” in beautiful San Diego, California with my loving husband Steve with whom I fell madly in love with at just 19 years old (many, many moons ago!), and my 7- and 5-year-old daughters that you will see are the stars of most of my photographs and scrapbook pages. I love to dream, travel, play with my daughters, sing while my hubby plays guitar and rarely miss an opportunity to be behind the lens when I’m with family and friends. No matter what title I might bear, or what hat I wear, I am a creative soul to my core. I love writing my memories, my stories to share, pairing them with photos and getting inky, dirty-fingers creating layouts, cards and anything crafty. I am creative. Behind the lens. At my desk. In the kitchen. With my daughters. It all makes me a happy, blessed, grateful wife and mama <3

I started Clicky Chick Creates in 2013 as a way to share my colorful view of the world in photography and crafts. In 2014 I began sprinkling in lots of creative tips and tutorials. I hope you enjoy my creations and join my mailing list so you don’t miss a single colorful adventure!

 Connie’s Holiday Tips:

Making a teacher’s card, a handmade gift for a best school friend, are fun ways to get crafty time not just for me, but with my children.

Sign up for email reminders and hold tips.

Creative Christmas Bundle – 2 Days!

Advent Numbers by Connie Hanks for the Creative Christmas Bundle Just 2 more days until the release of the Creative Christmas Bundle! It will only be available for one week, November 24th – December 1, at a VERY special price. So don’t miss out! 

One of the 15 crafters and designers contributing is Beth Soler from Scrapping Wonders. Like so many of us, Beth uses her phone to take a lot of photos. However, she also USES those photos. She loves to find apps, tips, and tricks to make it easy to get those photos off the phone and actually use them. I think a lot of people are worse about using their photos from their phones, than they are just getting them off their camera!

Beth’s contribution to the Christmas Creative Bundle is a class showing us apps she uses. She has made it easy for us by using videos to walk us through how she does it! If you ever use your phone for snapping photos, you won’t want to miss her class!

Meet Beth

Beth Soler from Scrapping Wonders

I have been scrapping and crafting for ten years. I love preserving and sharing family memories, recording history for my husband and three active kids, extended family and friends. I love all things crafty as well.

I am a phone-photo NINJA, stealthily snapping photos, then swiftly and skillfully transferring, organizing and using those photos in super-fun projects to save and share.

My techniques and project tutorials will train you to be phone-photo NINJA, too. As an independent consultant for Close To My Heart, I am also your link to exciting products to make your projects shine.

 

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Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures,

KS

 

Retiring CTMH Products

There are just a few more days before these Close To My Heart Products will be retired. Many items are already gone. If you there is anything you really are fond of, now is the time to grab it.

The new catalog debuts August 1st!

Here is a quick link to the current Spring/Summer 2014 Catalog.

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You can download a list, or see below.

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KS

The CTMH stamp of the month is this fun Circus Alphabet set. It is $5 with a $50 order.

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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