Kristina Baldwin

Canvas Art with Close To My Heart

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One of Close To My Heart’s *NEW* Workshops on the Go is a canvas art kit.  The Workshops on the Go Canvas Art Kit includes everything you need to make a beautiful 12″ x 12″ canvas display.  It has the printed canvas display, an exclusive stamp set, Cashmere Baker’s Twine, Clear Sparkles, Sparkles Flourish, Dimensional … Read more Canvas Art with Close To My Heart

A Fun Valentine

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  For Valentine’s Day I wanted to share a fun valentine with you.  With mustaches being all the rage these days, this makes for a cute card!  “I {mustache} you a question…will you be my valentine?” 🙂 Card uses the Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut out the mustache (at 1″) and then the Perfect Fit-Dad Stamp … Read more A Fun Valentine

It’s a Girl Baby Shower

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Baby Girl Diaper Cake

  For the past couple of weeks I’ve been coordinating and preparing for a baby shower for our Kindergarten teacher.  She is expecting her first child…a little baby girl.  The first thing to do was to make the classic gift…a Diaper Cake!  We were able to get several of the smaller items on her registry … Read more It’s a Girl Baby Shower

Crazy for Cards!

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Ready for another fun event?  Are you crazy for cards?  Well, join us for our fabulous card event next month! Here are the details… You’ll make a total of 15 cards with envelopes (you’ll be prepared for almost any event…birthdays, weddings, sympathy, babies, graduation and thank yous!)  Lunch and snacks are included All supplies except … Read more Crazy for Cards!

Muslin Gift Bags

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Now that the *NEW* Spring/Summer CTMH Idea Book is in full swing, there are many, many wonderful *NEW* products to discuss and showcase.  In this short 2-minute video you can see just how quick & easy gift-giving can be with our *NEW* Muslin Gift Bags!  Watch how you can say ‘thanks’ by giving a gift that … Read more Muslin Gift Bags

Random Stamping How-To

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Ever see a darling project that you wish to re-create but can’t find the patterned paper it was made with?  This sometimes happens to me when I’m looking through the Close To My Heart Idea Book.  It’ll take me a minute, but then I realize that darling paper was created by random stamping!!  What’s random … Read more Random Stamping How-To

Merry & Bright Layout

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Sometimes the simplest embellishments are the ones we overlook!  This is true in this layout…the only embellishment used is the Gold Metallic Marker. But boy does it pop, right? If you look closely, this Merry & Bright page uses dots created with the gold metallic marker to add extra sparkle around the edges of the … Read more Merry & Bright Layout

Create Your Own Patterned Paper

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This installment of “Clearly the Best: Stamping with Close To My Heart” features a stamping technique for creating your own tone-on-tone patterned paper.  It’s a short 4-minute video that will inspire you to add a little depth to your projects simply by adding some tone-on-tone stamping.  I know you’ll enjoy it!

Smitten Valentine’s Card

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Another card made using this month’s stamp of the month–Happy Valentine’s.  Pretty simple.  The only real time intensive portion was on the cracked glass technique on the rose.   The cracked glass technique is really quite simple if you are familiar with heat embossing.  At its core, it’s simply creating layers of clear embossing on … Read more Smitten Valentine’s Card

Behind the Scenes

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Ever feel like you’d like to learn a little more about the basics of stamping?  Well, here it is in a nice short 4-minute video! This video episode of CTMH’s “Clearly the Best”  features some core basic stamping techniques that will help you enhance your projects.  Enjoy!!

Owl Whooo’s Your Valentine Card

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Working with the papers contained in the Whooo’s Your Valentine Kit I created this card (well, I had to add some Slate CS, but otherwise all the other cardstock–even the glitter paper were in the kit!) I also utilized our Silver Metallic Marker and Black Sparkles.