...extra this week! A new video

Today I'm having an extra posting in here to share the video that, my friend Carlie has to show. 
Featuring the storage solution with the CTMH large organizer(z1834), which is 14 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" in its internal dimensions!

There's room for all your stamping supplies on the go!

Enjoy the video:





Happy Wednesday.

Hello JULY!

Hello JULY, hello you!

REDISCOVER HAPPY.

Share the happy! Click here to download these free, colorful “you make me happy” tags now through July 31 and brighten someone’s day. Attach them to a gift or hide them around the house and watch the happy happen!

You can rediscover all the goodness Close To My Heart has now, for your eye's delight:

Earn money doing what you love with a flexible, rewarding career Click here to learn more about the opportunity.

Discover how papercrafting products can be yours for FREE when you host a Gathering. Plus having fun with friends!

Check out inspiring artwork and cool crafting supplies in our latest Idea Book, order a copy (mypaperidea@gmail.com) or see it online here!

Make beautiful artwork by purchasing great products from your Independent Consultant. Yes... that's me ;)!

Fun Crafts!

June and July specials "COURAGE" and "HOME OF THE BRAVE"

Hello!

Show your support of troops and country with new patriotic stamp sets — available only from June 1 to July 31, 2013! 

As a show of our support, Close To My Heart will donate $3 from each B-size My Acrylix^® Courage stamp set and $5 from each D-size My Acrylix^® Home of the Brave stamp set to the USO, the leading, most recognized military-support and services organization in the United States, or $3 from each B-size My Acrylix^® Courage stamp set and $5 from each D-size My Acrylix^® Strong and Free stamp set to the Canadian Hero Fund, which supports spouses and children of fallen Canadian military troops by providing post-secondary education in Canada. Show your support today—stamp style!

Click here to order yours today!

Fun Crafts,

easy to make - your own accent

Hi, today I'd like to share some pictures that show a easy and fun way to make your

own accent, or flower.

First you stamp your flower image in a white or lighter color cardstock, using a darker ink color.

Stamp again the same flower onto a darker color cardstock, this will be the center part of your flower later on.

Cut out the center of the darker cardstock image as shown above. And then the lighter cardstock image. Glue the first piece(center-smaller) onto the second piece (whole flower) and voila'!

You've got flower _of your own!

This layered flower can be embellished with a brad, button, ribbon, eyelet,......!

Have fun making more with different color combinations, you'll have tons of them ready to use on your projects!

Have a great day!

Lya - craftologista

Trying to make more time to enjoy the creative life.

February Special Campaign - Help Haiti - we can do it!

This month campaign is about helping the people in Haiti, as we know how critical is the condition they are in after the earthquake.

You may know already about the partnership that Close To My Heart maintains with Operation Smile - which gives a portion of the My Acrylix stamps set sale to help fund raise money and allows a child with cleft lips to a facial surgery.

Now the partnership extended to help Haiti too and you can check in there how you can be a part of this event:

"Our hearts go out to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, and like so many of you, we’re eager to help. And helping has never been easier! Throughout February, purchase a 12" x 12" textured cardstock combo pack and you’ll get one FREE—and with every offer purchased, Close To My Heart will donate $2 US to Operation Smile’s Haiti relief efforts. That means for only $14.95 US, you get two packs of our high-quality textured cardstock and you help this urgent, important cause. Offer valid February 1–28, 2010. Tax and shipping/handling charges may apply. Donations to Haiti will be made by Close To My Heart on your behalf to

Operation Smile’s relief efforts.

To learn more about their efforts visit www.operationsmile.org/haiti."

Visit and shop your papers today!

https://lya.myctmh.com/

So no matter if you are thinking about ordering to use these cardstocks right away or to stock them up, please remember that you'll be giving and getting back - helping the victims in Haiti while enjoying the leader in quality and gorgeous colors of the famous texturized CTMH cardstock pack. If you haven't the chance to try them out yet....

This is the time.

Let's do our "little" part to help a "big" cause,

Lya-craftologista

MORE STAMPAGANZA & HAPPY THANKSGIVING

This is an "all-in-one" pack of clear stamps set you may want to keep for yourself. It has cute and versatile images and words that fit the season's projects no matter if card making or scrapbooking!

It's a collectible stamps set! Get yours soon - this is one of soon-to-be retired set!

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Just to remember: STAMPAGANZA ends in 5 days!

And again, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Warm Hug from our Family to Yours.

Lya

Some updates here and there

Good morning!

Hope you're all doing well in this chilly weather - getting ready for the Thanksgiving and making plans for Christmas!

Today just some updates:

1. Jennifer McGuire and her team are announcing the 91 prizes winners! So be sure to check her blog out to see the list of the lucky people who sent cards for Kate and Eric Drive!
2. I'm sharing soon the pictures of the recent swaps - CARD & SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT - starting this weekend with some really creative ones!
3. Showing another favorite stamp set - STAMPAGANZA is ending soon - so if you plan to "stock up" with these versatile and cool My Acrylix Stamps, grab your freebie* ASAP! :)....Just couple days left! The stamps image you see here is from the E-size set (the big one) called BAROQUE ALPHABETS - U$34.95 value - you can earn it for FREE by purchasing two E-size stamp sets of equal value! This set is wonderful as you can use it to anything personalized or for the special holiday projects!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

November Trips - part I

Today we're heading to the 2009 Regional Celebration (Oregon-Portland) nov.6-7.

I'm so happy...and with reasons: it's our first time traveling together, driving across the state(my sweet husband, our busy toddler and me). It's my first R.C. and first time coming to Oregon too. But the biggest one is because today is my honey's and my dad's birthday!

Hooray!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU 2 = my best friends in life!

For the next days I'll share some more of our trip and the R.C.. :)

Now just a reminder - if you already got the news that now you can buy the Close to My Heart retired stamps ( no longer available in current catalog and only while supplies last) DIRECTLY from my CTMH website lya.myctmh.com , with the convenience of 24/7 shopping service just for you.

You'll find a section in the sidebar specially created for these "soon-to-be gone" stamp sets.

You can also take advantage of this month's STAMPAGANZA deal (buy 2 get 1 stamp set FREE*) to earn some of these goodies!

*The free stamp set will be equal or lesser value of the purchased sets.

The sample scrapbook layout you see here has the stamp image from the same set I've shown another day - I made a card ( remember?).

Well, this set (#C1301-thing of beauty) is in the RETIRED list and I find it truly worthy to share.

Have a great day!

Lya - C, with Love.

Sharing a story

Hello everyone!

As consultant I receive periodically, from our corporate office, emails with news, updates, and also stories from real people - either consultants or customers out there, mostly are remarkable as they share their experiences or ideas. And this one you'll see is just one of what I like to say...it's what SCRAPBOOKING is all about:

Memory Protectors® Helped Scrapbook Survive Fire

“I am a long time customer of Close To My Heart and had many scrapbooks done, including one for each of my daughters. We lost our home to a fire last year. Both of the girls' scrapbooks were on my kitchen table and we thought they were a total loss.

“Two days after the fire, we were rummaging through the ashes to look for some valuable jewelry and a friend came upon the scrapbooks. The table they were on was totally gone, as were most of the rest of our belongings, and both scrapbooks were badly burned but still fairly intact on the outside. We took them both out of the house and started looking at them and were super surprised to see that many of the photos were salvageable!

“However it happened, the Memory Protectors® sealed together and preserved most of the pages. We lost photos from the edges of some of the pages because of burning, and lost some to moisture from the water and chemicals used to try to put out the fire. But we were able to salvage an incredible amount out of those books. Both the albums and Memory Protectors were from Close To My Heart.”

“We just wanted to let you know how well your products did in such an extreme situation and that we have told all of our fellow scrapbookers about our ordeal.”
Kylie Mortensen, Customer, Trego, WI

Well, thank you Kylie for sharing your story and I do wish you can soon restore and create more amazing scrapbooks for all your family!

Have a great weekend!

Lya - craftologista

Sad News from Jennifer's Blog

Hi...

For those of you who visit my blog and Jennifer McGuire's, you'd probably know the Card Drive she is having - ending October 31 - for Kate(the little girl with cancer) and Eric (the 9 years-old boy who has ALD).

SADLY - Eric passed away at Oct.25 night, day before his birthday.

I believe that lots of card makers out there, who lovely made and sent cards to the kids, felt the same as I did. Sadness and heavy heart.

Just wish Eric could get to receive the cards. They would surely make him smile.

To know details about Eric and his Family:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/eno/mystory

Prayers and thoughts going out to Eric's Family.

Lya - craftologista

SHARING - CTMH SWAP

Hi there!

The images you see above are what I did last week for the CTMH BB Scripture Swaps. The pages are meant to fit in the My Creations Display Album (Z1054).

They are both 6" x 6" layouts with focus in following scriptures:

BELLA papers (the floral layout-sorry for the blurry picture): "Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in LOVE - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 NRSV"

SWEET HOME papers( the stripes layout): "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul...-Psalm 23:13 KIV"

The SWEET HOME is a paper pack featured in the new Autumn/Winter Idea Book and BELLA is from the Summer Idea Book. I like that while BELLA is sweet and plenty of flowers, the SWEET HOME collection has elegant and neutral colors and designs, allowing lots of possibilities and both feminine and masculine themed items.

The stamp set used for these layouts are: ENDLESS FRIENDSHIP ( D1354) and WELCOME HOME (D1370).

That's for today! Hope you've enjoyed!

I'll post in here the complete swap layouts when I have them all set, including the display album.

Night-night...

Lya - craftologista

Some updates here...

Just to let you know (if you don't yet)because of the amazing quantity of cards that are being sent in to Cards For Kate, Jennifer McGuire (she is so creative...) decided to add another child - ERIC - to the card drive, which I found great...both children are such sweet kids!

To know more about this heartwarming card drive - visit: jennifermcguireink.com

And also I'm so happy to say I'll be going to the Close to My Heart Portland Regionals Celebration in November!!

I already got my to-do list for the 2 swaps groups I've joined - 2 pages layout and cards plus THE CARD and the scrapbook layout (two-pages spread) for the event contests.

As I received the featured colors and guidelines by Tuesday only, I've decided about my layouts and card sketches and the selected supplies last night...now JUST need to cut ALL the papers and "dive" into the creative process until the end of the month. I'm very excited about this event.

By the experience of some fellow consultants, sounds like will be lots of creative inputs and...so much fun!

I also just finished the Scripture Swaps I've joined with the BB ladies as well the cards for both Kate and Eric...( I had some delays in the last one to have all in one pack) and just waiting to be wrapped and shipped out...!

HOORAY! :)

As for the pictures (both SWAPs, cards and layouts, AND the card kits I mentioned in another post) - I'll keep my words in posting them here by this weekend or so. Just need to get all organized by then...!

For now, the image you see here is the card I made and posted here before, just in the top view and also, the stamp set ( C1301 - Thing of Beauty) I used to create it.

Happy creating(a card? a scrapbook page?....think about it!)

Lya - craftologista

CARDS FOR KATE BY JENNIFER MCGUIRE

Once again, seems like Jennifer is doing another wonderful job through her blog, calling the lovely card makers out there to send handmade cards to Kate, a beautiful little girl who is now in a big battle of her life - fighting against cancer.

You can find out more clicking in the widget at side bar.

And I'm so happy to be able to help Jennifer - this amazing designer and card maker!

So don't wait, make some cards from your own and send them out to the McRae Family through Jennifer...and "REMEMBER, whatever you do, make it from your heart".

Happy Card Making, y'all!

Lya