Kristina Baldwin In honor of Veterans Day, I thought it would be a great time to let you know how you can get involved in giving back to our military. First of all, if you have a bunch of blank cards lying around, you can look into Cards for Soldiers. They have information about their specifications HERE. … Read more How To Send Cards To Our Troops!
It’s official, the Fall Soccer Season is over. Phew, we made it! I’m excited to have my Saturdays back as well as my Wednesday and Thursday late afternoon/evenings back, too (at least until Spring time!) My son’s coach asked me if I could make up the End-of-the-Season Gifts for each of the players on the … Read more End of Soccer Season Gifts
I love this image…it’s such great advice! Want some more great advice on how to boost your creative juices? We all need help once in a while, right? Hop on over to CTMH’s Blog to read their article “8 Ways to Boost Your Creative Juices” they posted earlier this week. Click HERE to read the … Read more Be Creative
Today’s card was created with Close To My Heart’s November Stamp of the Month—It’s the Little Things. I love these types of stamp sets–they have great solid images along with outline images for an amazing amount of versatility. The stamp set lends itself to layering of images–whether stamped from light to dark or stamped and … Read more It’s the Little Things Congratulations Card
Today’s Tool Time is all about the SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer offered by Close To My Heart. In this 1-minute video, you’ll learn all the benefits of this trimmer. Next to picking the perfect adhesive, finding the right paper trimmer is key to enjoying your time scrapbooking, cardmaking or papercrafting! And out of the … Read more Tool Time: CTMH’s Paper Trimmer
Happy Halloween! For many, it’s just not Halloween until there’s candy corn involved, right? I created this fun Candy Corn Box as part of a SUPER fun Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge Close To My Heart was doing on their *NEW* blog (found HERE.) And guess what? I won! Yay! You can see all the … Read more A Candy Corn Halloween
Today’s fabulous Halloween card is compliments of Terry M. The stamp set she used, Halloween Greetings is a real fun one. You’ll notice that it coordinates beautifully with images from the CTMH Cricut Artiste Collection. The other supplies used to create this card are: Archival Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (44751) Scaredy Cat Paper Packet … Read more If the Broom Fits Witch Card
Plus… equals a fun effect! Create beautiful watercolor splashes to your projects in a quick and easy method. Watch this short 2-minute video to learn more about CTMH’s Spray Pens used with a variety of Re-inker color choices.
Tomorrow is ‘Make a Difference’ Day so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to talk about the partnership Close To My Heart has with Operation Smile–an organization that provides free, life-changing surgeries to repair cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities. It only costs about $240 and 45 minutes of time to change … Read more How I Make a Difference as a Stamping Business Owner!
It’s only a little over a week until Halloween so I thought I’d share some fun Halloween cards I received from a swap I participate in. Today’s card was made by Terry M. I love how the design of this card allows you to use up those small scraps you have left over from other … Read more Frightfully Fun Halloween Card
I know we still have a few weeks of October, but I can’t help but share the upcoming November CTMH Special–Lucky 5! so you can be prepared (I know I want to be!) It’s the 5-Year Anniversary of Studio J–our amazing online digital scrapbooking and there are A LOT of great ways we are celebrating (5 … Read more Get Ready for November: Lucky 5! Special
This week’s Tool Time is about our amazing Stitch Guide. As you’ll see in this short, 2-minute video, you’ll use this tool with your piercing tool (which we learned about HERE) for creating an assortment of fabulous stitch patterns and shapes.
Close To My Heart has a *NEW* collection of quick and easy kits designed to make darling projects in no time at all. We made these Cut Above Halloween Treat Bags at my Stamp Club this month. We took the kit up a notch by simply adding an additional black circle to mat the sentiment … Read more Cut Above Halloween Treat Bags
Each month with my Stamp Club I always create a project using the current Stamp of the Month. Here is the card we created this month using the Home for the Holidays Stamp Set (this set coordinates with our Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.) It was fun showing off the ease and beauty of using 2 separate … Read more Polar Bear Home for the Holidays Card
Happy Boss’s Day! To mark the occasion, I thought I would share 3 reasons I love being my own boss as a Close To My Heart Consultant. 1. Choose when you work! Setting your own hours around your other commitments (family time, another job, etc.) is such a wonderful perk. 2. Love what you do! … Read more 3 Reasons I Love Being My Own Boss!