Today’s Back to Nature Card makes the perfect masculine card. Over the weekend I had a team meeting where I taught this fun distress technique. It’s a great way to add some texture through a distressed look but still maintain a clean appearance. I love how my card turned out. I previously taught this technique … Read more Back to Nature Card
Who’s ready for a little creative inspiration? We all can use some, right? As a special gift from me to you each month, when you place an order with a subtotal of at least $50 or more, you’ll receive an exclusive PDF file containing 3 project tutorials. While the projects will feature the current Stamp … Read more A Little Creative Inspiration
Are you ready to get FREE registration to the Virtual CTMH Convention this year? I love our Close To My Heart family, and I can’t wait to welcome even more friends into our crafting community with this month’s Sign Up & Celebrate Special! When you sign up as a new CTMH Maker in June, your … Read more Get FREE Registration to the Virtual CTMH Convention
Ready to be inspired with today’s Best Dad Ever Card? Now is the perfect time to create your handmade Father’s Day cards. And with Close To My Heart’s No Ordinary Dad Special, you have 3 fabulous stamp sets to choose from. Or if you like all 3 of them, you can get the Stamp Set … Read more Best Dad Ever Card
It’s time to return to the happiest place with Close To My Heart. If you are new to Close To My Heart then you missed last year’s Happiest Place Special that featured a whole suite of products from exclusive stamps to beautiful foil cardstock. Well, you’re in luck! We’re having a Return to the Happiest … Read more Return to the Happiest Place
For this week’s Make It Monday (63rd edition) and Memorial Day, I wanted to share a simple thank you card. Today was the perfect occasion to create a thank you card and to use some patriot colors. The beauty of our *NEW* Stars & Sparklers Collection is that it contains our classic Red, White & … Read more A Simple Thank You Card
Ready to learn how to do Tone on Tone, Kissing & No-line Watercolor Stamping? These are the 3 techniques that we are going to explore in this week’s stamping video. It’s the final video to the 4-part series on stamping with Close To My Heart. If you’ve missed any of the other ones you can … Read more Tone on Tone, Kissing & No-line Watercolor Stamping
Introducing my *NEW* Serenity Card Kit. If you love having handmade cards on hand for when you need one at a moments notice. Or you are currently in need of a thinking of you or sympathy card, then this is the kit for you! My Party Time Celebration Card Kit was such a huge hit … Read more *NEW* Serenity Card Kit
Need to send a card to say you really are amazing to someone? Why not add a little humor to it with the Cheerful Humor Stamp Set? I’ve been loving this set so much! I’ve paired it with the exclusive patterned papers that came in the kit. But I’ve also used it with the National … Read more A Card to Say You Really Are Amazing
Don’t miss out–the final hours of the CTMH Flash Sale are upon us. The Flash Sale is ending soon. If you saw my announcement about it on Friday, you might have thought it ended yesterday. I just realized I mistakenly put that it ended yesterday at 10:59 pm. But really it’s TONIGHT at 10:59 pm … Read more Final Hours of the CTMH Flash Sale
For this week’s Make It Monday (62nd edition), I’m going to share how to create a Floating Box Card. I had created one of these box cards last month with our April Stamp of the Month. It was a huge hit. I’ve had many requests on how to make it. And friends, it’s SO easy! … Read more How To Create a Floating Box Card
It’s time for a 4-day CTMH Flash Sale! You’ll find some great items and some incredible deals offered during this Flash Sale. There will be those basic necessities like page protectors, Flip Flaps (we all love those, right?!), cards & envelopes and more. Plus, you’ll also find find some must-haves like stamps, dies, holographic papers … Read more 4-Day CTMH Flash Sale
Today we are going to learn how to do Masking, Base & Shade and Backside Stamping. It’s the 3rd how-to video in the 4-part series I shared with you over the last 2 weeks. As was true with last week’s video, you’ll continue to build on the same techniques you’ve learned previously. The first technique … Read more How To Do Masking, Base & Shade and Backside Stamping
It’s National Scrapbooking Month so how would you like to learn how to scrapbook in minutes? Sounds a little too good to be true, right? But you can totally do it! Each time when my Craft with Heart Subscription boxes arrive (I get both our scrapbooking and cardmaking versions) it’s not only like Christmas, but … Read more How To Scrapbook in Minutes
Are you ready for some *NEW* Father’s Day stamps? Now is the perfect time to begin crafting all those special cards and gift bags for Father’s Day next month. Plus, these stamps will be perfect companions for scrapbooking about your dad, too. There are 3 new stamp sets as part of the just released No … Read more *NEW* Father’s Day Stamps