Close to my Heart and Picture my Life!

These are to things that are very close to my heart!  You already know that I love everything Close to my Heart.  But have I talked about Picture my Life?

What does that mean?  Well to me it means two things.  Number one is take pictures of my life.  Everything and Every one that is close to my heart.  Number two is Picture my Life cards or as we at CTMH call the PML cards.

What do we do with these cards!  There are two things that I use them for.  Number one, which I thing is the original purpose for them is scrapbooking!  There are two ways you can use them for scrapbooking.  You can use some of them for journaling directly on your pages or you can use a variety of pocket pages and slip your pictures and the PML cards into the pockets.  The second way you can use them is for cards.  I go through the cards and I put aside the ones that will work good for journaling or maybe the inside of a card.  Then I start creating cards with the rest.

The PML card packs come with 24 cards in them for $6.95.  12 are 4 x 6 and 12 are 3x4.  The 4x6 ones you have to cut down a bit if you are making an A4 size card, 4.25 x 5.5.  I usually cut them down a little extra and put a piece of card stock behind the card to bring out the colors.

Here are some pictures of the current Every Little Thing card pack. X7248E in the September- October idea book.

Aren't they beautiful?  You can find the link to them here.  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12485&ci=14806.

If you want to see them along with all of the other Every Little thing products then go to page 6 and 7 of the book.  The link for that is here. https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/products/online-idea-book.aspx

The next thing I want to show you is a group of Christmas cards that I made a couple of years ago using just PML cards and a little cardstock and some bling.

Aren't these just adorable and I put them together in a couple of hours.  So grab yourself a pack of card bases and envelopes which you can buy here if you don't have them.  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=239&ci=5863

And make yourself some beautiful cards to send.  I will be working on the pack I showed you soon and my next post will be about the pocket scrapbooking.

I hope you have a great day and happy scrapping!

Ronda

Share the Season's Blog Hop

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Welcome to the Close to my Heart Share the Seasons Blog Hop!

The possibilities with this set are so endless!  If you get lost while cruising the hop just click here to get the complete list.
  Here are a couple of cards I have made with this set along with the New Hawthorn paper and a retired Christmas pack called Tis the Season!

For the Christmas card I used Cranberry paper (also retired) to cut out the base square piece and then I used White Daisy to cut the largest frame from our rectangle thin cuts.  I used our now retired Alcohol markers to color in some of the stamps.  Don't forget to check out our new markers!

Keep scrolling to see the next two cards!

In the picture of the rectangular thin cuts the white pieces will give you a solid piece, I use that with a smaller one in a different color for the inside of my card.

 On my next card I used the fall stamps, I used our new Hawthorn paper along with Saffron and our new Paprika ink!  I love the piece of paper I used for the frame on this one.

To show use how endless the possibilities are I made another card with our new Every Little thing paper pack!  I just love how it turned out.

I used our new Wisteria paper with the black Frame and the September Stamp of the month!  Which is awesome.  I hope you enjoyed my cards and don't forget to look at all of the other blogs on the hop!

The next persons blog is Alyson Mayo.

Fall Garden!

I haven't posted anything from my garden this year so I thought I would post some things that are still growing now.

 First of all I grew this one tomato plant that was called a Biltmore highbred!  It was a nice growing plant, it didn't yield very many tomatoes but the ones that I did get were amazing.  Only one of them had cracks in it and they were all huge.  The last one I picked was 1 pound 6.6 ounces and it was amazing!  Here is a picture of the tomato and a picture of it on a BLT I made tonight.  It gives you an idea of how big around and meaty it was!  And it tasted so good.

I still have plenty of herbs growing!  I have a parsley pot and Oregano growing on the deck.  I also have Rosemary and Sweet Basil growing here with my Thyme (that never dies) and a small Lavender plant.

I have a couple of tomato plants struggling to ripen the fruit, a yellow cayenne, a Jalapeno, a purple Pino Nior and a sweet Orange pepper that have tons of peppers on them but it just hasn't been warm enough for them to ripen.  It is supposed to be in the mid 80's for a couple of days so hopefully that will help.

I planted my green beans in mid July and they are going strong and these Tomatillo's just won't quit.  I started with 4 plants, I made a batch of green enchilada sauce and now I am just waiting to get a few more to make some green salsa!

Now the last thing I will show you is the start of my beet plants coming up.  Hopefully the weather won't turn to cold before they mature.  This is the first time I have ever grown them.  Then look at these to lonely acorn squash's that are left.  I ended up with 5 all together from the one plant.

Well that is it for my Garden news.  I will let you know how my beets do and how the green salsa turns out.

I hope you have a happy and healthy fall!

Hugs,

Ronda

It's the season of Spooktacular!

Hello!  Who doesn't like a cute Halloween costume???  Well you have to check out this adorable new set that Close to my Heart just came out with today.  These little guys are so dang cute.  The papers are pretty awesome too.  I can't wait to get this in my hands!

Her is the link to view all this cuteness!  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1909-spooktacular.aspx.

You can get just the stamp set or you can get it with the matching Thin Cuts, the 4 guys in blue!  You can purchase the paper pack with or without the sticker sheet.  But really, who wouldn't want this sticker sheet?

Or you can get the entire work shop with a 20% discount. Here is what is in it:

Kit contents:

1 – Frightful Friends Stamp + Thin Cuts (CC10191)
1 – Spooktacular Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet (CC10194)
11 – cardstock sheets (2 Black, 2 Lemonade, 2 Pebble, 5 White Daisy)
1 – Black & White Dots (Z3314)
photo placeholders

So basically you pay $2 for all of that cardstock and the black and white dots and photo placeholders.

Don't forget to download the work shop instructions as they don't include them in the specials order.  Here is a look at the big workshop!

And a few pictures of projects!

I hope you will take a look at all of this cuteness and have a great week!

boo,

Ronda

CTMH and Cricut

If you are a Close to my Heart Customer you probably know that we have sold exclusive CTMH Cricut cartridge's for quite some time now.  Now that they have gone completely digital at Cricut, so have we when it comes to our Cartridges.  They are not even in our books anymore.  But that doesn't mean you can't get them.  What that does mean is that you can get all of our Cartridges on Cricut.com.  Even the ones that haven't been for sale in years.  They are available to anyone now.  Even the single images.

Now Close to my Heart has a new program for us Consultants called an Affiliate link to Cricut.com so anything that is purchase through my link I will still get a commission on.  We have a new Cartridge called Complete Creativity that is only available through this link.  Here is a sneak peak of it.

This Cartridge gives you complete images to make layouts and cards.  Taking the searching for images out of the picture.  You can also use all of these images by themselves!

Here is my link to purchase this:

https://cricut.com/en_us/sale/close-to-my-heart.html?sscid=91k3_4np2x&utm_campaign=2108634&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=shareasale.com

If you go to my website at paperdivas.ctmh.com and click my name at the top, scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a cricut icon.  This will also take you to Cricut.com through my affiliate link where you can shop our cartridges and any other products on their site.  Using this link will give me a small credit so I hope you will use it when ever you are shopping at Cricut.com.

Thank you for your support and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Every Little Thing!

Good Morning!

Today I want to share with you one of Close to my Hearts newest paper packs and all of the things that go so nicely with it.  It is called Every Little Thing!  It is so pretty in Wisteria (a new color), Julep (the color of the year), black and Evergreen (a new color).

Here is the paper pack.  You can get this with or without the sticker sheet.  Here is the link to purchase it. https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12481&ci=14798.

Here are some of the projects I have done with it.  First up we have a shaker card!

Did you know that you can stamp on top of the acetate?  It works best if you use the Stazon ink.  Believe me, I tried 2 others and wiped them off with our new shammy, which is awesome.

This is just a simple card.  I got the idea from the Every Little Thing card making kit.  I stamped the Wisteria ink on Wisteria paper with an old butterfly set.  The card making kit comes with a stamp and die set with butterflies.

This one I made with our Septemper, National Stamping Month Special. Share the seasons. It comes with 2 thin cuts and 2 stamp sets.  One Christmas and one fall or Thanksgiving and they are adorable.  I just used the 2 thin cuts along with the Every Little Thing paper.

The last thing I did was this layout of some of my scrapbooking friends at one of their homes on a lake.  The yellow paper is from an old paper pack.  The butterflies and flowers on the Blue paper are from the sticker pack.

Here is a list of the products I used and the link to find them.  

Every Little Thing paper pack:  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12481&ci=14798.

Shaker foam and acetate:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=11486&ci=15452

Shaker thin cuts set:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=11482&ci=11680

Julep sequins:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12620&ci=14895

Wisteria ribbon:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12624&ci=14907

National Stamping Month Special, Share the Seasons:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12787&ci=14378

Wisteria ink pad:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=11651&ci=15079

Wisteria paper:https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12467&ci=15113

We have a new way to buy paper too if you don't want a pack of 24 of the same color you can build your own pack of 12 or 24.  Here is that link for 24 https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12689&ci=15103 or here for the 12 pack.

https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12688&ci=15101.

Well I think I have covered enough for one day and I hope you like my projects and you will shop with me soon.  Just click on the idea book on the left side of the page.

Hugs,

Ronda

New Craft with Heart Card Subsription!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Labor day weekend.  Funny thing is, all I did is Labor but it was a good feeling to get some fall cleaning done.  Windows and floors are done and the house looks so nice with some fall decoration.

Do you want to start making your own cards but don't know where to start?  Look no further.  Close to my Heart has launched a new card subscription.  You can pay by the quarter or you can pay for the whole year and get a great discount and free shipping on all of the deliveries.  That is a saving of $23.85 just on the shipping.  When you pay for the whole year the subscription cost is just over $10.00 a month.  Click here for all the information you need to order your first box.  It is going to be so much fun to see all of the amazing cards that come off of this subscription.
https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/products/craft-with-heart.aspx.

Wouldn't you love to join me in making these beautiful cards?  Mine is already ordered!  Lets get together for a quarterly club and put them together.

I hope you enjoy your week!

Ronda

New CTMH Idea Books!

Hello everyone!

It seems here in Michigan, fall is starting to arrive.  It has been a beautiful Labor Day weekend and at my house it has been full of Cleaning, cooking, canning and campfires.  Not a lot of crafting going on but I have my orders in and I am ready to get started on some new products.

We have 2 new Idea Books.  A Core products one that will be good until August 31, 2020.  You can view it here:

https://orders.closetomyheart.com/CTMHConsultants/Marketing/idea-books/1909-core.aspx

and then we have a book for the months of September and October and you can view it here:

https://orders.closetomyheart.com/CTMHConsultants/Marketing/idea-books/1909-1910-catalog.aspx

I am really excited about these 2 new books and I hope that you will be too.

We have an awesome special for September called Share the Seasons.  You can view it here:

https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1909-share-the-seasons.aspx

It is going to be so much fun to play with!  I will be doing a blog hop on the 20th of this month so come back to the blog and check it out.  It will be so much fun see every ones beautiful idea with it.

And last for today, here is the Featured stamp of the month that you can only buy in September for only $5.00 with a $50.00 order or outright for $18.95!

If you would like to check out my entire website and see all of the products in categories here is the link to that:

https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/

I hope you enjoy your day!

Ronda