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

The Best Moments are Free!!!

Hello!

I'm so happy that June is here and we finally have some nice weather!  At least we do here in Michigan.

Today I will be finally getting the rest of my plants in the ground, but before I go do that I wanted to tell you about an all new special we have for June!  Plus another one that ends on June 30.

The Special is called "The Best Moments are Free"!  You buy one of 4 stamp sets and you get all of the materials to make a double page layout for free.  The stamp sets are $18.95 each.  This is up to a 40% discount.  If you buy all 4 of the stamp sets you save an additional 25%!  3 of these sets are in our current idea book but the "Then and now" set is exclusive for this sale.  Here is the link to this promotion!  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1906-best-moments.aspx.  Here are some pictures of the kits!

Go to the link above to see close ups of the materials.  This is a picture of the exclusive stamp set for this promotion!

Just imagine the beautiful layouts you can make with this set.  I can't wait to get mine!

 The other promotion I wanted to share with you is called your the best!  It is an adorable wooden mini scrapbook kit.  It can be for your Dad, Grandpa or any favorite guy in your life.  Oh heck, you could use it for anything.  Here is the link with all the information!

https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1905-youre-the-best.aspx.

Now to make the exact album you do need our Artbooking Cricut Cartridge which never disappoints with over 700 images and it comes with four stamp sets.  You could always just buy the album for only $7.95 or the stamp set which is $18.95 and make up your own pages but you must check out the cartridge bundle too if you are a Cricut user!

Now one last thing.  I just wanted to show you a picture of the Stamp of the month set which is only $5 with a $50 order or you can buy it out right for $18.95!

Isn't it cute?  Well that is it for today.  I must get outside and do some planting.  I hope you enjoy your day!

Happy scrapping,

Ronda