For today’s Make It Monday (43rd edition), I’m sharing this cheery thank you card that has inspired today’s Color Challenge! It all started by grabbing this month’s Stamp of the Month, Every Thank You. I immediately thought of the Star Patterned Paper in the Party Time Paper Collection and thought it would pair so wonderfully … Read more Cheery Thank You Card
For today’s Make It Monday (42nd edition), I’m sharing a Vision Board for 2021 and beyond. Since we’re fresh on a new year, now is a fabulous time to create a Vision Board. Plus, Close To My Heart just released a *NEW* Wood Frame that is perfect for holding your Vision Board! This Wood Frame … Read more Vision Board for 2021 and Beyond
For today’s Make It Monday (41st edition), I’m sharing this wonderful holiday tradition scrapbook layout. While this holiday season likely looked different for us all, I have no doubt that there was a tradition or two you were still able to keep. This layout would be a great way to document it! And today I’m … Read more Holiday Tradition Scrapbook Layout
For today’s Make It Monday (40th edition), I’m sharing this beautiful Glittery Handmade 2021 Card that I created using a pattern I shared with you about a month ago. I wanted to show you how you can use the same pattern (found HERE) and make a few minor adjustments and get a completely different look … Read more Glittery Handmade 2021 Card
For today’s Make It Monday (39th edition), I’m sharing this darling handmade stocking card. I blended 2 past paper collections for this card. It uses the Wood Grain Pattern from Timber and the Holly Pattern from Comfort & Joy. Plus, it uses the absolutely adorable The Jubilee Crew Stamp Set. Such a cute set! As … Read more Darling Handmade Stocking Card
For today’s Make It Monday (38th edition), I’m sharing this beautiful Snow Much Fun Animated Layout. I used our fun Animated Holiday Cheer Stamp Set to create this layout. The snowflakes are so cool when in motion–they look like they are twirling around! I also used the pretty Snowflake Patterned Paper from the Holiday Stack–which … Read more Snow Much Fun Animated Layout
Today there will be a Close To My Heart Cyber Monday Sale beginning at 2pm (PST). Just like our Black Friday Sale, you’ll find both current and retired product at great discounts. Additionally–again, just like Black Friday–we’ll have an exclusive item only available during this sale. Introducting our *NEW* DIY Wood Phone Stand… How fun … Read more Close To My Heart Cyber Monday Sale
For this week’s Make It Monday (36th edition), I thought it was the perfect time to share a Thanksgiving 2020 Scrapbook Layout. So I found a great layout pattern to share with you and then whipped up this layout so it’s ready for me to add my photos right after Thanksgiving. Today’s layout pattern is … Read more Thanksgiving 2020 Scrapbook Layout
For this week’s Make It Monday (35th edition), I’m sharing this adorable gnome holiday card. I created it with the Gnome for Christmas Stamp Set + Thin Cuts. I absolutely LOVE this set! All of the images in this set are so adorable. I used a pattern from our retired Wishes Card Pattern Book called … Read more Adorable Gnome Holiday Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (34th edition), I’m sharing this super fun Sending Warm Hugs Animated Card. The Seasons in Motion Special offers fabulous *NEW* animated stamp sets like the one I used on my card today–Animated Autumn Air. Plus, you can now get the fun *NEW* Animation Window Thin Cuts to create these … Read more Sending Warm Hugs Animated Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (33rd edition), I’m sharing this beautiful Thankful for You Card. I used our brand *NEW* Serenity Paper Pack to create this card. This paper pack is SO gorgeous. Seriously. While creating this card I realized that while you might not have this paper collection yet (because it’s only been … Read more Thankful For You Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (32nd edition), I’m sharing an easy way to scrapbook with a Pocket Scrapbooking Pattern. Pocket Scrapbooking is a quick and easy approach to scrapbooking that allows you to simply insert your photos into pockets of specially designed page protectors. You then use patterned paper or Picture My Life (“PML”) … Read more A Pocket Scrapbooking Pattern
For this week’s Make It Monday (31st edition), I’m sharing this fabulously easy Handmade Thanks Card. Over the weekend, I hosted an all-day virtual card class and crop. As part of the day’s fun, I provided a challenge of creating a handmade card using this particular pattern, which I’m going to share with you today. … Read more Handmade Thanks Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (30th edition), I’m sharing this lovely I Love Music Card I received from Janice Hodgkin. I love the simplicity of her design and how this would be perfect to use up those scraps we all have laying around. So I decided to make up this card sketch to inspire … Read more I Love Music Card
For this week’s Make It Monday (29th edition), I’m sharing this beautiful You Make My Heart Happy card. I love the rich, warm colors of Sangria and Toffee together–perfect for autumn, don’t you think? So I thought we’d do a little color challenge this week! This sentiment from our current Operation Smile Stamp Set, Every … Read more You Make My Heart Happy