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Great New Products are Coming Soon

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

Hi Everyone,
I just finished placing my consultant preview order for some of the new items being shown in the new Annual Inspirations!  (Everyone can order starting August 1st!)   I am very excited about all the new products coming out and I knew you would be too,  so I will try and post new items each day so you can join me in my thrill of the new direction we’re taking with CTMH.

Here’s the cover of the 2017-2018 Annual Inspirations

I’ll start with showing you the new colors in the Basics Collections.  All the current colors, excepting black have been retired and new ones have replaced them.  Black will be a stand alone color just like White Daisy.  Colonial White is also being retired.   Looking at the photo below,  you might notice that our cardstock is now two toned.  The true CTMH color on the dark side and the back is a shade lighter.   (so 20 new colors!) Just remember you can’t order until August 1st!

https://craftingwithamanda.closetomyheart.com/

Are you curious about the new names of these colors?   Here they are.

Toffee

https://craftingwithamanda.closetomyheart.com/Almond

Nutmeg

Espresso

Heather

Mink

Linen

Pebble

Pewter

Charcoal

CTMH also redid all the Fundamentals for the basics set.  I can already see these in both scrapbooking and cards!   I’m so looking forward to my goodies arriving.  Too bad it’s the start of haying season!

Fundamentals with beautiful Cmplements to make creating lovely items easy!

The last new item in the Basics collection is the set of pigment ink pads.  I have recently begun using my color pigment inks with clear embossing power on my projects and I don’t have to worry about everything matching!   One more item to add to my future purchases list.  🙂

Love seeing all the new products!

Happy Crafting!

Scrapbook LO Video Week #4

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Pattern, Scrapbook | 1 Comment

If you are looking for some quick scrapbooking to fit in this summer,  look no further than this Layout from the Cherish Book.

I choose to use all cardstock and am very happy with the results.  Here is my sample.

This layout was done on the February 24 Facebook Live Video,  and you can watch the video if you need help with the cuts,  or want inspiration for assembly.

FB Live Scrapbook Workshop – Close to My Heart(CTMH)

Week #4 SCRAPBOOK Videos Workshop guides are in the photo album Video #4 Feb 24, 2017. Grab your cutter, paper pack(s), adhesive and join us in some crafty fun time.If you miss walking through the cuts, remember you can always watch the video later, or watch it again and create another layout!To ensure you receive notices about my upcoming live workshop, like and follow my page https://www.facebook.com/CraftingWithAmanda/. Share this video with your crafty friends for entries into a drawing for a free close to my heart paper pack of your choice.

Posted by Crafting with Amanda Close to my Heart Consultant on Friday, February 24, 2017

Two ladies that participated in the live workshop,  sent me the photos of their take on this pattern,  and gave me permission to share them.

I hope you can find inspiration and would love to see what you create.

Happy Crafting!

 

Scrapbook Workshop Video #3 & Artwork

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

I took some artistic license to with this layout.

 

With the orientation of the photos,  I liked this better.

Another take on this same pattern was sent to me from Judy who joined in making this during the live video.  She too make the design work with her photos.  Great job Judy!

Here is the artwork for the original design.

If you want to try this,  the pattern is here and the video below will talk you through the cuts.

FB Live Scrapbook Workshop – Close to My Heart(CTMH)

Week #3 Scrapbooking -Video Workshop guides are in the photo album Video #3 Feb 17th. Grab your cutter, paper pack(s), adhesive and join us in some crafty fun time.If you miss walking through the cuts, remember you can always watch the video later after it's over. To ensure you receive notices about my upcoming live workshop, like and follow my page https://www.facebook.com/CraftingWithAmanda/. Share this video with your crafty friends for entries into a drawing for a free close to my heart paper pack of your choice.

Posted by Crafting with Amanda Close to my Heart Consultant on Friday, February 17, 2017

Happy Crafting!

Scrapbook & Card Workshop Video

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern, Scrapbook, Stamping, Video, Workshop On the Go | 1 Comment

Hi,

After much consideration and planning,  I jumped in with both feet and have started Facebook Live Video Workshop.  Currently I am doing them once a week on Friday Mornings and I hope I’m making improvements each week.   This video has both the scrapbook & Card workshop cuts at the beginning of the video,  then assembly is after.   If you just want cards,  skip to about minute 30 and that’s where I start the card set cuts walk through.  Here are the links to the Cutting Guides:

Blossom Scrapbook Layout

Hopscotch Card Set

Here is some of the artwork created with this video.

In the above cards,  I tried both the slate & the pacifica inks for the car/watch,  and I prefer the pacifica blue.  Which do you like?

I also made some cards with scraps from the layout.  I will post those soon!

Happy Crafting!

Technique Tag – Shimmer Brush & Rock N Roll

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

If you are jumping in on this post series,  you might want to see all the techniques,  and you can find them here. You also might be interested in knowing that one lucky winner (USA only) will received the set of tags I created and photographed for this series.  (Information at the end of the post!)

Intro & cardstock tearing

Background Stamping & Sanding Cardstock

Tissue Inking & using sponges

Pockets & Tags

Faux Stitches & Patchwork

Pop Dots & Window Panes

Sponge Backgrounds & Crinkling

Random Stamping & Doodling

Fabric Fun & Water Misting

Accordion Medallion & Baker’s Twine

DTP Inking & Dry Embossing

Fill Negative Space & Generation Stamping

Have you tried the CTMH Shimmer Brushes?   They are fun, fast & add great impact to our projects!  The photos don’t do the effect justice.

shimmer_ins shimmer_img shimmer_daisy

Do you like random stamping? This tutorial on random stamping shows generational stamping and Rock & roll. On the tag sample I only did rock & roll.   Just writing this makes me want to pull out some stamps and create a full sheet of paper using random stamping, rock & roll and generational stamping.

rock&roll_ins rock&roll_img

 

Now you might want to know how you can earn chances to win These tags.   There are several ways.  Write a comment on this post.  (1 entry)   Share this post link on your Facebook post and let me know on my FB page Crafting with Amanda that’s you’ve done it.  (1 entry per share).  Like my FB page.  (3 entries)  If you’re a pinterest person, for every technique tag you pin, you receive an entry.  (up to 35!)    At the end of the contest I will assign each entry a number and using a random number generator will pick a winner.  I will announce the winner on this blog, and then contact them to get the address where the tag book should be sent.

If you would like a copy of my technique instructions file,  leave a comment with your email and I will send it to you.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck!

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