Announcing Close to My Heart's first ever Cyber Monday Sale!

You heard me right - - our first every Cyber Monday Deal. Are you ready for this?

20% off All CTMH Cricut Collections!

December 1st, 2014 only from 12:00 midnight Mountain Standard Time to 11:59 pm Mountain Standard Time. (that's a 2 hour delay for all my local customers)

This is an item that is normally never discounted, so if you have been wanting to add one (or more) of our amazing collections to your Cricut collection - now is a great opportunity.

Head on over to my personal business address to start shopping: https://melissaharris.ctmh.com or send me an email or call if you'd prefer to order over the phone.

Spooky Artfully Sent

I put this together at a crop I went to on Saturday. As one does (at least I do), I brought way too much with me, but forgot several vital things that I really needed or ended up wanting. The one vital thing I left at home was a Cricut Mat. Our generous hostess lent me one so that I didn't have to make a trip home or to a craft store to pick one up. There were also several embellishment type things I might have added, but I decided to have a "make it work" moment and am pretty happy with the result. I gave the card to the very kind Corinne as a thank you, but made sure to get pictures first. This is one of the many pop up cards on the cartridge.

 Front

(I also used some cuts from Artbooking on the front,)

Inside

Close up

(Love the detailed cuts on this cartridge!)

Artbooking Made Easy: Trailblazing Travel Albums

With spring break coming up for many I thought this would be useful for planning ahead for when you get home and want to scrap your pictures (or is you are unlike me and super organized you can have the album premade and ready to go for when you get home).

Looking forward to spring!
Melissa

Sparkle & Shine and Artbooking

I recently designed this layout using our Sparkle & Shine Paper, Glitter Paper and the Artbooking Cartridge. I just love the overlays that this cartridge produces! Can't wait to take some family photos to add to this layout.

Artbooking Made Easy: Festive Mini Albums (S01E09)

Here are some super fun mini albums you can make with Artbooking.

Inspired By- - - Owls

Recently I bought a new lunch box for work and these cute, whimsical birds caught my eye. The store was wise enough (sorry I couldn't resist) to place the coordinating water bottle next to it. I didn't really need a new water bottle, but who could resist?

Okay, I'll try to refrain from anymore puns. Earlier in the summer I created this cute birthday card with the stamps from our Whoo's Your Valentine Kit that we offered earlier in the year and some of the Dream Pop papers from the May scrapbooking month special. 

When our new Artbooking Cricut Cartridge came out and had these cute owls on it I knew I wasn't done with them. I love the woodgrain looking overlay and the dimension it adds.

What or who is inspiring you today?

:-) Melissa

Free Cricut Artbooking Class

It is time for the launch of the 2013 Autumn/Winter Idea Book & our latest Cricut Collection Artbooking! Trust me when I say you are going to love it! I don't know how the folks at CTMH do it, but they just keep coming up with amazing designs. As with all our Cricut collections you receive 3 coordinating sets of chip board and 3 coordinating acrylic stamps sets and there are over 700 images on this cartridge. Each key has all you will need to complete a layout or minibook of various sizes. The images can also be adapted to cardmaking and other paper crafting.

Join me August 14th from 7-9 for a Free Artbooking Class. You will get to make a project, receive a free Idea Book and see some of the other new products from the Idea Book. Order your Artbooking Collection before August 16th and I will give you free shipping! Please RSVP by August 13th (comment on the blog, email, phone or snail mail). Orders placed through the Fall/Winter Idea Book Launch link on my CTMH web address will be eligible for the Hostess prize drawing.

Join me for a fun evening and be inspired!