I was excited to come home from my trip to find some “happy mail” waiting for me among all of the junk mail and bills. Close to my Heart has special awards each year where they honor Consultants with Top Personal Sales, Top Team Sales, etc. I was honored to receive a special letter, certificate…
This month we will be using the beautiful Our Story Picture My Life Card Scrapbooking Program to create a mini album, 12″ x 12″ layout, and a card. You will have lots of PML cards left to create more projects as well. Use them to create some pocket pages or more cards and layouts. This…
Every year my daughter asks me to make the Valentine cards for her class. This year we used my Cricut Explore machine to make these classic heart-shaped cards. We used the heart and scallop heart shapes from page 71 of the Close to my Heart Artiste Cricut cartridge booklet. With a little slicing, attaching, and…
I am so excited to kick off the new year with January’s project kit. This month we will be using the La Vie En Rose Collection to make (3) 12″ x 12″ double-page scrapbooking layouts. This month’s local class will be held on Thursday, January 21st at 7pm. (If you’d like to order a kit to…
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I thought I would share a Christmas layout I created to help inspire you if you have photos that you would like to scrapbook from this year’s festivities. The photos I used on my layout are actually 8 years old. (I am slowly catching up on my…
There is nothing better than getting a fun, thoughtful gift that is wrapped in a fun, festive way. I have two great wrapping ideas to share with you today. The first box is perfect for wrapping all kinds of treats. It is cut using the Artiste Cricut cartridge. I cut the box on page 44…
Today’s card is a fun one because it has a little pop-up surprise on the inside. The outside was made very simply by matting a White Pines PML card to some New England Ivy cardstock and again onto a piece of Gold Glitter Paper with some 3-D Foam Tape. I decided that I didn’t want the…
Close to my Heart’s White Pines Picture My Life Cards (perfect for pocket scrapbooking) are so cute that I wanted to use them to make some Christmas cards. Over the next few days I will share some of the cards that I made with them. This 5″ x 7″ card was very simple to make. I…
The holiday season is here. Help dress up your gifts this year with this month’s project kit. This month we will be making sweet gift tags with a coordinating small gift box. This month’s local class will be held on Thursday, December 17th at 7pm. (If you’d like to order a kit to be mailed…