Customer Appreciation Open House!!

SAVE THE DATE!! Sunday January 4th I will be having

Customer Appreciation Open House from 3pm-6pm.

Come and see what is brand new with the grand revealing of the Spring Idea Book that officially releases January 1st. This catalog has some fun and innovative new stamps and paper packs that really keeps up with the trends in scrapbooking and paper crafting. Here's a seek peek:

All of my loyal customers will recieve 10% off thier entire order (before s/h & tax) that they order at this event!! Better yet.....bring a friend that is new to CTMH and receive and additional 5% off and your friend will get 5% their order! What a great deal! All as a "Thank You" for your loyalty and friendship these past 7 months that I've been your Consultant.

During the Open House there will be make-and-takes, door prizes, gift certificate giveaways, refreshments, fun and more! Come on by on Sunday and see what the excitement is all about! This event will be held at my home: 16817 Larch Way #B108, Lynnwood.

It will be so terrific seeing everyone and having such a blast playing with the new products! Hope to see you all there!

National Paper Crafting Month!

The "Key to my Heart" stamp and paper kit is now available! This exclusive kit is only available through January 31st, so get yours today!

The paper pack you receive is so beautiful! It uses all of our newest most delicious colors: Juniper, Sorbet, Tulip, and Creme Brulee. The stamp set is an "E" size set that is our largest size. Let me tell you, these stamps are absolutely gorgeous! I've been waiting for CTMH to come out with something like this! I can't wait until mine arrives on the 22nd! I'll hopefully have time to make some things and post to share how cool this kit is.

Both the stamp set and the paper pack together are valued at $47.90, but you can get it for as little as $20 or even FREE! By only spending $75 you can purchase the "Key to My Heart" kit for only $20, or spend $130 and get it FREE. Better yet....host a qualifying gathering of $400 (which is really easy to achieve) and get the kit for FREE! Sign up as a Consultant and you can also get the kit for FREE in addition to the great deeply discounted consultant kits.

I will be having a Customer Appreciation Open House on January 4th from 3pm-6pm and will have the kit on display for everyone to see and play with. See the next post for the details on that event.

Any questions please feel free to comment here, or send me an e-mail at skunamuffin@yahoo.com Happy crafting!

December Club layouts

OK Ladies....here they are. Pictures of the layout we'll be making this Sunday for Club night. This time I didn't have pictures ordered through Snapfish yet to put any on to help with placement. That's why I also took a picture of the front of the workshop guide to help with picture placement.

This time we will be using paper and MyStickease from the snowy "Aspen" collection. This collection is really pretty. Hope you all have fun this Sunday!

Materials: All CTMH. Aspen L2 PP, Aspen MyStickease, natural twill ribbon, "New Fallen Show" SS, "Snowflake Kisses" SS, "Friendship" alpha SS, "Simple Stitches" SS, natural twill ribbon, twilight corduroy brads, twilight ink, outdoor denim ink, desert sand ink, Dermacoat acrylic paint, piercing tool, embossing stylus, blending pen, sanding kit.

Pictures of an old project

I came across these pictures today and decided to share them with you all. It's an accordion tag mini album I made for some friends of mine who had a baby. Courtney's now like 6 years old and just as cute! One of my favorite things is handmaking gifts for friends and family. Some of the panels on one side have pockets where I put more pictures. The other side has pockets with tags I made for the parents to write down their thoughts of the day Courtney was born. Sorry that some of the pictures are a little blurry, and obviously the flash was too much on the last shot.

Materials: Bear with me, it's been a long while since I made it. My memory of the products is a little fuzzy.

Accordion tags I got somewhere. DCWV paper. Making Memories fabric tags, brads, definition stickers, metal embellishments, and rub-ons. Misc. other items I don't know where they came from.

I've been a busy girl...

Sorry it's been soooo long since I've posted something. I have been incredibly busy lately and finally have a change to post some projects......quite a few projects. Doing a little blog catch-up.

This card is a simple 3"x3" card I made to send out for Thanksgiving. Yet again, I used some rogue stamps. *gasp!* I know, but they were cool. Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my CTMH stamps. It's OK to have a little variety. :) I used Liquid Glass to make some of the leaves stand out by adding dimension.

Materials: All CTMH. Colonial White CS, Liquid Glass, chocolate exclusive ink, sanding kit, sponge. Other--DCWV fall paper pack, Inkadinkado "Autumn" stamp set, dollar deals ribbon from Target

Going Public!!

It's now official! Close To My Heart has authorized us as Consultants to use our personal blogs for promoting CTMH products and events. I'm excited because now I get to share even more about this terrific company with all of you! Granted I have "cheated" a little by advertising my Christmas card workshop. Oops! ;)

All the product I use on most of my blogs is CTMH and I must say that the quality of their awesome acrylic stamps is the best around. I admit, I have in the past bought other brands of acrylic stamps, but they don't hold the ink and stamp clear and crisp images as well as CTMH. The papers are a cut above most of the ones you can get at your local store. Especially our heavy weight cardstock. I must say, our cardstock is the BOMB!! You can do so much with it. I really love all the ways that you can distress the paper and how in holds ink. So versatile!

One of the best things about CTMH products....everything coordinates! You can purchase patterned paper and then get the EXACT matching ink, markers, cardstock, and even cool embellishments! Takes all the guess work from trying to match a random paper to some leftover embellishments. This truly makes scrapbooking and stamping, as CTMH's motto says: "Faster. Simpler. Easier."

If you are at all interested in finding out more about CTMH's great products, or would like some advice on how to make your projects pop, please contact me. And as always, please check back here often to see what new projects I've been working on and get inspired!

Christmas gifts

Every year I make gifts for my family for Christmas. Sometimes I wish that I could just give them a gift card and call it good, but dang it! I just HAD to start making gifts. Now that I'm a consultant for Close To My Heart, the handmade trinkets are even more expected. Now I can never stop. Each year I try to come up with something different and that my family will actually use. One year it was a lap blanket, another year a mini scrapbook of my brother's wedding, another year was ornaments with family photos. It goes on and on.

This year I came up the idea of doing a wall hanging that they can use for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. I've only completed one side. The "fall" side is obviously meant for Thanksgiving, and the other side will say "noel" and use the Aspen paper pack. The first image is of the first one I completed. I realized it was FAR too detailed to make multiple versions (everyone has to have the same so there's no fighting of which is the best) so I kept that one for myself. :) The other ones will be tied together once I complete the other side.

Materials: All CTMH. Magic Moments L2PP, dimensional elements solo letters, "Playful Flourishes" SS, cocoa and indian corn blue inks, cocoa re-inker, acrylic paint, scallop scissors, cocoa and colonial white ribbon, goldrush and sweet leaf buttons, sunflower embroidery floss, Coluzzle circle cutter, liquid glass.

Other-ribbon from Target dollar deals, EK punches,

November scrapbook club

So here they are....my examples for the Notebook Workshop-on-the-go project for our club night. This is my absolute favorite paper pack! The colors are fun, and I love the aged look. These are pretty simple layouts, so hopefully we can get all sex pages done. (hopefully) ;)

Materials: All CTMH. Notebook L2PP, Notebook MyStickease, "Shining Star" SS, "Rustic" alpha SS, "Friendship" alpha SS, "Simple Stitches" SS, "Friendship word puzzle" SS, "Delightful" alpha SS, desert sand ink, chocolate ink, black ink, colonial white brads, hollyhock twill ribbon, dimentional elements "fresh shapes", black marker.