Deal of the Decade

by CraftyAmanda in Close to My Heart, CTMH, Offer, Stamping | Leave a comment

If you know who Stickyboy is, then you are a close follower of Close to My Heart. If you do not, let me introduce you and tell you about the awesome deal CTMH is offering this month.

This is stickyboy.
He was introduced to the world 10 years ago this month.

That is why CTMH is offering unlimited* $10 stamp C & D sized stamp sets from the Annual Inspirations Book for all of December!

He is the first MyAcrylix stamp set from Close to My Heart.

Here is the video introducing Stickyboy!

* Unlimited once you make a $50 purchase.

Happy Crafting.

All New Rolling Tote

by CraftyAmanda in Close to My Heart, CTMH, Scrapbook, Video | Leave a comment

It’s here, it’s here! The new Close to My Heart Rolling Tote has arrived

If you hurry it could be under your tree for Christmas! CTMH has put a lot of thought into how this will incorporate with our organizing totes as well as how to keep our papers flat and out of harms way.

Here it is shown with one large, one medium and three small organizing totes. How great is that?

I can see me with one large organizer of stamps, another large organizer with embellishments, my medium with my re-inkers and pearl paint for spritzing the exact right color and my small organizers so I don’t have to be without my pigment inks. Yay!

The front pocket is HUGE. Look at all the room for paper, card stock, Annual inspirations or Wishes book.

If you haven’t already seen the video, it’s on youtube. Just search for CTMH Rolling Tote. The new Shoulder tote is shown at the end of the video too. I might actually be able to look like I have my act together and be color coordinated!

Did you see that both side pockets are large as well. It has shows it with the score board (which by the way is amazing) and another idea book. I think I could take both my Make it from the Heart books, my cutter, score board and still have room for more.

If you’re like me and ready to order yours today, visit my website!

Happy Crafting.

Flower Punches Modified

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Technique | 1 Comment

Hi Everyone,

I don’t know about you, but I have several punches in my scrapbooking tool box.

Several have been gifted to me, some have been purchased by me, and others have handed down on permanent loan. I like doing layered flowers, but the same flower time after time gets old, so I happened upon a happy solution to give my punches a face lift. The purple flowers started as a simple rounded petal shape. I then used my pinking shears and cut off the tip of each of the petals to give it this “scalloped” edge. Really changed the flowers quickly.

In this photos I am modifying flowers I punched out of our black glitter paper, but it’s the same idea. I will caution you that you will end up with lots of small bits around your crafting area, and in the case of using sparkle paper, you will have a shinny countenance when you are through.

I will be trying this with several more of my punches and see what new shapes I can create.

Happy Creating!

Sketch Challenge

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Magnabilities, Pattern | Leave a comment

This is the sketch that I gave all the crafters at the Otsego Club Encore Weekend. They were instructed to use it as inspiration to create a card. Other than that, there were no other guidelines. Unfortunately I had camera/lighting issues and was unable to take photos of any of the cards that were entered, but as I had done a sample for people to see, I was able to retake it when I got home. So, here is my take on the sketch.

The snowflakes & poinsettias were left over from last year’s Christmas card. The paper is Snowhaven I used a snowflake embossing folder on my card base front and tilted the papers from the sketch.

On the inside left I matted the snowman from Christmas Post and framed it with the evergreen

boughs from the Yuletide Workshop on the Go. I’m not sure how clear the photos show it, but I did rock and roll the boughs in New England Ivy & Cocoa for the pine cones.

The edges of the white cardstock were sponged in Glacier, Indian Corn Blue and Outdoor Denim.

On the right side, I kept it simpler with two pine boughs, colored the berries with our Shinhan Carmine marker. To tie into the front of the card, I added another poinsettia.

I’m glad that I made this sample as it allowed some of the other crafters to think outside the lines and we had a tough time choosing the winner!

The winner received a magnabilities necklace and as she had already been to my booth and made purchases as Christmas gifts, she was happy to pick another necklace for herself.

Happy Crafting!

An evening of creating

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Stamping | 1 Comment

I found some blank cards in some of the boxes from my Mom and decided I needed to use them. I dug out my scraps bucket and and here are some of the cards I created!