25% Off Cardstock Sale

Oh my goodness, this doesn’t happen very often! Close To My Heart is having a 25% off sale on cardstock. You can pick single color packs, or assortment packs. You can see the different assortments in the photo below.

ctmh cardstock sale

Click this cardstock sale photo to go right to my CTMH shop.

You can shop at:  KristieSloan.CloseToMyHeart.com

The cardstock has a white core, and I ink the edges for some of my projects. It also cuts as smooth as butter for electronic cutting devices!

Here are direct links to the paper pack assortments. All single color packs are available in the shop. Note: the sale price doesn’t show until you place an item into your cart.

Hurry, because this sale only runs through June 30, 2017!

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

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!

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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:

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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

 

How to Use Thin Cuts with Stamping

c1641 Springtime wishesHave you ever stamped something and wanted to cut it out, but didn’t want to do a bunch of fussy cutting? I’m sure most of us have! Yesterday, I showed you some cards where I used Close to My Heart Thin Cuts to cut some coordinating stamped floral images.

I thought you may like to see exactly how to use them. Take a peek at this video.

Did you notice how she showed the little magnetic sheet to keep them all in place? Well… I was thinking about the magnetic base that is available to use with my Big Shot, and thought this was a good idea to just stamp my images and put them on the little enclosed magnetic sheet to hold my Thin Cuts in place. NOT a good idea! As soon as I lifted my cuts off, and realized I had almost cut through my magnetic sheet, it dawned on me how goofy that was! However, it didn’t cut all the way through, so all is well. I never said I was perfect! Laugh amongst yourselves!

Here are Thin Cuts currently available. Once you click on one, it will also show you the coordinating stamp set.

Until next time…

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures

KS

Stamping on Tissue Paper

Today’s Artful Adventure is exploring a technique using stamps and tissue paper. This is great for getting crisp images onto areas where using traditional stamping methods may not give you the desired look. Be sure to see below the video for some additional information.

Since this provides a translucent look, any color of tissue can give you some great layering possibilities.

I used Ranger’s Glue N’ Seal to adhere the tissue, you can use any product you like for this collage-type method. Products like Mod-Podge, liquid matte medium from Liquitex, Golden’s Gel Medium, or anything you prefer will work for this method.

If you like the stamp set I used, it is the ‘Treasured Friendship‘ set from Close to My Heart, and is available in the current 2015-21016 catalog.

I hope you’ll try this method and feel free to share with us over on the FaceBook group!


make it monday blog circleNow, since it is Make It Monday, let’s move on to see what is next this week. Be sure and visit Karen at PhotosKeptAlive.com to see how she was inspired by a sketch!

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!

KS