Celebrate National Stamping Month!

To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, Close to my Heart is offering a new double stamp set! You can get the exclusive It’s Your Day double stamp set for just $5 when you place a minimum order of $35 in full retail products from August 15 through September 30. You’ll love this double set—two D-size sets in one envelope—with trendy images that capture the flavor of your day-to-day activities, errands,
and musings—the little things that make up who you are and are worth remembering and sharing! With a retail value of $35.90, this set drastically increases the value of your qualifying purchase. Have twice the fun stamping during National Stamping Month with our new It’s Your Day double stamp set!

As I was scrapbooking this past week, I found a perfect opportunity to use this stamp set so I thought I might share a little artwork with you so that you can better see what you can do with some of the great images on this stamp set!  I used the Stella paper pack as well as shapes from the new Cricut Artiste cartridge...some of the images from the stamp set fit perfectly with the shapes from the new cartridge!  The font of the title you see here is also on the new Artiste cartridge.

 If you would like to place an order, head on over to my website and click on the "Happy Birthday to me" gathering at the bottom right hand side of the main page - for every $50 order placed, customers will be entered into a raffle for $25 in free product!  It is my birthday month but I am passing the gifts onto you!  This offer is only available through my website and that gathering link.  The raffle offer ends August 31st.


National Stamping month offer available August 15–September 30, 2012.
Tax and shipping/handling charges apply.
Limit one promotional item per qualifying order.

Items for sale have been listed!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have listed many items for sale under the tab "CTMH items for sale".  The majority of those items are no longer available and all are being offered at reduced priced!  All you have to do is email me  (GrigsterN@yahoo.com)  if you are interested in any of the items and we'll take it from there!

Thanks for looking!

New Fall/Winter Idea Book is here!

Here it is, August already....time to start thinking about back to schoo....wait a second, before that happens, it's time for a brand spanking new Close to my Heart Idea Book!

The Fall/Winter 2012 book is here and it is amazing! As always, CTMH has outdone themselves again!  There is a brand new Cricut Cartridge, Artiste.  $99 gets you the cartridge, 3 exclusive D-size stamp sets and 3 sheets of 9x12 chipboard shapes, one of which is an adorable mini album!

I ordered mine and it is on the way but I have seen some really cute things made with it - I can't wait to get mine and play!  

There are sooo many other great new products, new paper packs, stamp sets, 6 new ink/cardstock colors, new alcohol markers, pigment stamp pads, embellishments...too many to list!

If you would like a copy of the new Idea Book, please comment here with your email address, or feel free to email (GrigsterN at yahoo.com) or call me to secure one.

There is also a great promotion going on this month WHILE SUPPLIES LAST - If you join my team, which is one of the top 25 teams in the company, then you will receive an awesome damask bag with your kit for free!

They have even switched up the consultant kits so that you can decide what level you want to work your business right from the start!  The Essentials Kit is $49 and the Master Kit is $99. Both levels would include the free bag.

Essentials Kit

Master Kit - also includes everything in Essentials Kit

So while the rest of the world is focusing on back to school, you can be focusing shopping for some of the great new things from Close to my Heart and thinking about joining a winning team!

July Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the July Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  Things at my house have been crazy so I am very lucky to have found some time to create a project for the hop!  The stamp set featured this month is S1207 Live Out Loud. This month we have 56 wonderful consultants participating and showing off their creations. 

If you have come from Carol's Blog then you are on the right track!

 This month's stamp set is great for cards and scrapbook layouts alike.  I am not much of a card maker so I again made a layout using this stamp set.  I now have 2 wonderful girls that I am fostering and this layout showcases us and our personalities....this was the perfect stamp set!  The first shows the layout without photos, the second with.  I still have to add the journaling.

Products used (all CTMH except where noted):

S1207 Live Out Loud Stamp Set
Pennant Alphabet Stamp Set
Dotty for You Paper pack
Gypsy and Colonial White Cardstock 
Smoothie, Lagoon, Sunset, and Gypsy Inks
Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge
Just Blooms Paradise Paper Flowers
Sunset, Lagoon, Smoothie, and Colonial White Mini Medley assortments
Hemp - Natural
Dimensional Elements Letters

Now it's time to hop on over to Terry's Blog to check out her beautiful artwork for this month!

 If you get lost along the way you can go to Helen's Blog to see the complete list of all the participants this month. 

Be sure to visit all the consultants at their blogs to get some other great ideas! Remember, the July SOTM is only available until July 31st!  Contact me (GrigsterN at yahoo.com) or click here to see how you can earn this stamp set for just $5!

June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  It's so nice to be back on the hop!  The stamp set featured this month is S1206 Life is Tweet. This month we have 55 wonderful consultants participating and showing off their creations. 

If you have come from Judy's Blog then you are on the right track!

 This month's stamp set is great for cards and scrapbook layouts for events that are sweet like birthdays and anniversaries or just any tweet day!  I used this months stamp set to complete a layout featuring my first foster child and how "tweet" one woman was to give me many, many outfits and blankets and other things for her. 

Products used (all CTMH except where noted):

S1206 Life is Tweet Stamp Set
Bohemian Alphabet Stamp Set
Lucy Paper pack
Cotton Candy, Creme Brulee and Colonial White Cardstock 
Cotton Candy, Creme Brulee, Blush, and Pear Inks
Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge
Bitty Sparkles
Pink Button Assortment

Grey Wool Marker

This is the end of the hop but you can get back to the beginning by hopping on over to Kathleen's Blog to check out her beautiful artwork for this month!

 If you get lost along the way you can go to Helen's Blog to see the complete list of all the participants this month. 

Be sure to visit all the consultants at their blogs to get some other great ideas! Remember, the June SOTM is only available until June 30th!  Contact me (GrigsterN at yahoo.com) or click here to see how you can earn this stamp set for just $5!

Happy Mother's Day!

I just wanted to wish mothers of all types out there a Happy Mother's Day!  I myself get to partake in this holiday this year as well as does my sister-in-law and the new grandmom!  These are the cards that I made for the "moms" in my life.  Enjoy and have a wonderful day!  Also, these cards fit the challenge for the week over at the Heart 2 Heart challenges blog and it has been a while since I participated so I will link to that as well.

Just some crafty info for you:  The first and last cards were made with the Dotty for You paper pack promotion for this month.  Don't forget that if you place a $35 order you can add Dotty for You to your order for just $5!  The other cards use Roxy and Stella.

Dotty for You projects

I have been seeing so much artwork using Close to my Heart's Dotty for You paper pack and so even though I have been very busy with my new foster child I was inspired to clear some time while she was sleeping to make some projects with Dotty!  First up is a name banner that I made for her room, I had just enough mini-banner panels left from making a name banner for my nephew so it was perfect!

The second item is a welcome banner that now hangs on my from door.  I made this using CTMH's Mix and Mingle album.  Some of you may remember the one I did with Wonderland.  Well, since it isn't winter anymore I needed a nice bright springy one!

If you like these projects and want to get your own Dotty for You collection, you have until the end of May.  Simply place a $35 minimum order on my website and then add Dotty for just $5!  It's a great value that includes 24 double sided sheets of bright spring patterned papers!