Close to My Heart Stamps are Cleary the Best (Videos)

So CTMH is hosting a video contest, and so far the consultant’s have been working so hard on them. I love them, most of them make me giggle, just because of the parody aspect and they really are hilarious. All joking aside, Close to My Heart clear acrylix stamps really are top notch, and these consultants put together a video to share why they are special and what makes them so amazing and awesome  – so here are the video entries for the contest so far:

by Mandy Leahy

by Rachel Schumann

by Helen Onulak

by Teri Baxter

by Tresa Black

by Melanie Harmsma

by Elissa Stong

by Clerissa Lewis

by Ruth De La Cruz-Nava

by Michelle Nist

by Amanda DesJardins

by Brae Montgomery

by Christine David

by Kristina Baldwin

by Aaron Brown

by Melissa Laverty

What Are You Thankful For this year? Close to My Heart Scrapbooking, No doubt!

I couldn’t help but giggle when I heard the rumor. Creative Memories is not a bad company, its just a little on the boring side when you are an obsessive scrapbooker, such as I. So I have always kind of just ignored the products. Plus I’ve never had very good experiences with the consultants I have worked with in the past, so I just avoid them like the plague. Obviously, now I am a CTMH consultant and so years have gone by since I’ve paid much attention.

Well, this thanksgiving the CM workers put together a video about what they are thankful for. The best part? The dude that shows up about the 9 minutes 42 second marker – has a CLOSE TO MY HEART catalog on his desk (his arm is resting on it) – at CM! haha So even they love our products!

There is some concern that the video will disappear, so I used a program and now have a copy of it, but here it is in all its glory on youtube for as long as it remains. haha! (oh, and unless you are REALLY bored, you can just wait until the whole thing loads and then fast forward… the video is not THAT exciting.)

Current CTMH Paper Packs for Spring 2010

Animal cookies
Aspen
Back Country
Bella
Blue Ribbon
Boom Di Ada
Caboodle *NEW*
Daydream
Emporium
Evensong
Game On
Grace
Good Times
It’s A Guy Thing
Jingle
Magic Moments
Majestic Blue
Moon Doggie
More to Adore
Notebook
Perfect Day
Sarsaparilla
Silhouette
Simple Pleasures
Stardust
Sweet Home
That’s Amore
Tinkerin
Topstitch *NEW*
Twitterpated
Unforgettable
Veranda *NEW*
You Rock *NEW*

Celebrate National Papercrafting Month with Felicity!

Celebrate papercrafting with the stunning felicity collection!.

The collection features decorative die-cut paper, three gorgeous color schemes, and a D-size stamp set that include flowers, flourishes, argyle patterns, birds, and an entire alphabet! Your papercrafting possibilities are endless!

There are three ways to get the Felicity collection:
• Purchase it at full retail price for $34.95. (CC1008)
• Place an order of $60 or more in full-retail priced stamp sets (A,
B, C, D, and E-size) and receive one collection FREE! (CC1008A)
Excludes: Stamp of the Month, Art & Soul,® Workshop on the
Go,™ and customizable (K) stamp sets.
• Place an order of $125 or more in full-retail priced Close To My Heart products and receive one collection FREE! (CC1008B)

Plus!!
Hostesses get the collection FREE with a qualifying Home Gathering, and new Consultants who join Close To My Heart between January 1–31 will receive the collection FREE in their New Consultant Kit along with all the other awesome goodies.

Talk to me today about purchasing products, hostessing a gathering or joining Close to My Heart.

New Consultant Kit for Spring 2010

The New Consultant Kit has everything you need to start your business right, including forms and a huge supply of Close To My Heart products, all for only $99. It’s like celebrating Christmas all year long, when that awesome box of Close to My Heart goodies arrives on your doorstep.

Plus, if you are feeling inclined. You may add one or both bonus packs, witha scrapbooking or cardmaking emphasis, at a great price to complement your kit. Make your world a better place by touching hearts and changing lives as you share the joys of scrapbooking and stamping with Close To My Heart!

These are the bonus packs:

Life Delights Memory Showcase

This was posted last year, and when I revamped the blogs, all the pictures disappeared and I happened to JUST notice it. LOL SO I’m reposting with the pictures.
Onto the blog entry….

So I’m behind the times, yes I know.

Yesterday I finally pulled out my Life Delights Memory Showcase kit because I was tired of dusting it off. So why did I wait so long? Because I just could not understand why I would want to make an album of that design. (the accordion stand up thing). Let me just say now, I am going to be making loads of them. What a perfect gift idea. Who knew? (yes I realize many of you have known for a very long time, I just happen to be behind the times a bit and couldn’t get it).

The things I liked about it: When I opened the kit (yes I just broke the seal yesterday morning!), I was thrilled with the ease of the layouts, the sizes of the photographs required and the idea behind a “family showcase”.

I didn’t want to wait to get any different photographs enlarged to cut down to a 5×5 which was requested so I cut them to 4×4 and wrote and/or stamped on the bottom of the mat.

I changed it up a little but I mostly used their diagrams with the exception of a few My Stickease changes, a couple of rotated pages and different sized photographs (plus two added embellishments and two added stamps)

CTMH New Consultant Kit for Fall 2008

Close to My Heart has reduced the cost of our amazing kit! Now it is just $99 and contains a whopping $300 worth of products!
In addition, you offered something brand new – an add on pack. You have two to choose from.

Add on Pack #1 is designed to support those focused on scrapbooking and contains over $180 in valuable products, but is available as an add-on to your new kit for $60.

Add on Pack #1 is designed to support those focused on paper crafting and card making and contains over $150 in valuable products, but is available as an add-on to your new kit for $50.

These add-on packs can only be purchased at the time of consutlant sign up while purchasing your kit. Please contact me for specific items available in each kit.

But wait – there’s more!!!

For the month of October, CTMH Constant Campaign is designed to benefit the new consultant and offers Chocolate! What girl doesn’t love chocolate?

But it’s not the edible kind – look at these luscious items and be sure and sign up for your kit and become a part of our CTMH family.

The details:

When you join Close To My Heart as a Consultant during October,
you’ll receive a fabulous collection of current chocolate-inspired
products FREE with your New Consultant Kit. The Choose Chocolate!
collection has a retail price of over $100—making your kit even more
valuable and giving you an additional selection of wonderful Close
To My Heart products to “sweeten” your fi rst days with the company.
Here’s what you’ll get with your Choose Chocolate! collection:

Here’s what you get:
• My Acrylix® Chocolate Alphabet Small
• Caprice Paper Packet
• Caprice My Stickease™ Assortment
• Basic Textured Cardstock Combo Pack
• Designer Ribbon Rounds™ Heartfelt Collection
• Designer Ribbon Rounds™ Chocolate Collection
• Mini-Medley Accents Shades of Chocolate Collection
• Edge Anchors™ Heritage Assortment
• My Creations™ Artboard

Close to My Heart vs. Stampin’ Ups Color Comparison

I see this asked so frequently all over the place. On three different boards I frequent, there is always a question about which colors are which, so I thought I would post the information that I have on it. I have checked. There are a few that are not EXACT matches but for the most part, they would be the same. Hope this helps someone with the confusion of Close to My Heart’s colors and Stampin’ Up’s Colors. Being a CTMH consultant, it’s done from our color palettes.

Spring – Harmony
Amethyst ———Lavender Lace
Baby Pink ——–Pretty in Pink / Blush Blossom
Heavenly Blue —Bliss Blue / Soft Sky
Key Lime ———Gable Green
Sunkiss Yellow —Barely Banana
Taffy ————–Apricot Appeal / So Saffron

Spring – Blossom
Breeze ————-Tempting Turquoise
Kiwi ?
Lilac Mist ———-Almost Amethyst
Orchid Bouquet —Pixie Pink
Pink Carnation —Rose Romance
Spring Iris ——–Lovely Lilac / Bordering Blue

Summer –———Carnival
Clover Meadow —Green Galore
Holiday Red ——-Real Red
Hydrangea ——–Lovely Lilac
Orange ————Only Orange
Star Spangled Blue – Brilliant Blue
Sunny Yellow —–Yo Yo Yellow

Summer – Celebration
Bubblegum ——–Positively Pink
Citrus Leaf ——–Gable Green
Dutch Blue ——–Ballet Blue
Ocean ————-Tempting Turquoise / Taken with Teal
Topiary ————Garden Green
Watermelon ——-Pink Passion

Autumn – Harvest
Autumn Terracotta – Really Rust
Barn Red ————Ruby Red
New England Ivy — Always Artichoke
Outdoor Denim —–Not Quite Navy / Night of Navy
Pansy Purple ——–Eggplant Envy
Sunflower ———–Summer Sun

Autumn – Garden
Garden Green ——Mellow Moss
Goldrush ————More Mustard
Hollyhock ———–Rose Romance
Indian Corn Blue —Ballet Blue
Olive —————-Old Olive
Vineyard Berry —–Purely Pomegranate

Winter – Classic
Buttercup ———–Barely Banana
Cranberry ———-Rose Red
Garnet ————–Baroque Burgundy
Moonstruck ———Brilliant blue
Ponderosa Pine —-Forest Foliage / Handsome Hunter
Smokey Plum ——Perfect plum

Winter – Cozy
Blush —————-Pretty in pink / Regal Rose
Crystal Blue ——–Brocade blue / Bashful Blue
Honey—————-Summer Sun
Sweet Leaf ———-Gable green / Certainly Celery
Twilight—————Blue Bayou
Petal——————Pale Plum

Basic – Antique
Bamboo ————–River Rock
Black —————–Basic black
Desert Sand ———Creamy Caramel
Gray Flannel ———Sahara Sand
Grey Wool ———–Going grey / Basic Gray
White Daisy ———-Whisper White

Basic – Timeless
Brown Bag
Chocolate————-Close to Cocoa
Cocoa —————-Chocolate chip
Colonial White ——-Very Vanilla
Parchment ———–Barely Banana
Vanilla Cream ——-Very Vanilla

The Results Are In!

I promised I’d update with some of what I worked on this weekend. So here it all is.

I started out needing to get some new samples created for my CTMH business. You know, I was halfway through the instructions they post for us to copy and create when I thought, darn it I wish I had just done my own thing this time. So next time, you can count on seeing what they do, and what I have done.

(I have absolutely no use for bookmarks and tiny gift cards LOL – I’d rather create a few layouts and a couple of cards)

So here are some of the items I created this weekend, that I will use to show off our kits. (sorry the pictures are not real great, the colors seem off. For instance, the first card is the right color but the second card is made of the exact same paper and does not match. Weird.)

The first card, a full sized card is made using “Silhouette” Papers and “Soul Mates” stamp set.

The second card is a small 3″x3″ gift card made using the “Silhouette” Papers and “Joy Forever” stamp set.

Two 6″x6″ layouts using “Good Times” Paper Pack and “Party Invitation” Stamp Set. These will eventually make it into some type of 12″x12″ layouts. I don’t scrap small albums too often.

These next ones were my favorites to recreate – I plan to use them on a layout even though they are cards (except the one that is a tag – that’s going on a layout) They were also created using “Good Times” Paper Pack and “Party Invitation” My Acrylix Stamp set.

And here is what I did today with my leftovers from my weekend scrap session.

This is a mini-album except I plan to pin it to a 12×12 layout of my son’s 13th birthday with special journaling inside it. It only has two pages. I could have added more but I knew I was planning to use it on a layout.

Well, I am currently working on the layout for his birthday where this will be used, and when it’s finished I will show it off.

Oh, and there is a reason that I chose that particular quote on the album. He told us just before his birthday that he wished he could stay a kid forever, and he’s also a quick eater and we joke about that a lot. The significance behind “lying about your age” is an inside thing between us. It will totally make him smile when its complete.