Happy New Year!

It's almost time to change my title...I can't actually tell you the last time I sat down and stamped...the craziness can stay...but the stampin I'm thinkin is on hold for awhile!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy new year! All the best in 2012!

Love
Shari

It's the end!

Yes...what a subject line! But for me it’s the end of an era...I’m no longer going to be selling any home businesses. Partylite, Uppercase Living and Close to My Heart. It’s taken me awhile to actually come to this conclusion, but I don’t have the time to create even for myself, nor do I have the client base to keep up with my monthly commitments anymore, everyone has everything!

I will be having a giant open house in November to celebrate my many many years of selling home businesses! I’ll have food, prizes and free shipping on all orders.

Thank you for your support in the past years! For my monthly scrapbooking ladies, I will still have one more scrapbook night as well as a card making night, that I will commit to!

I will be in contact with you in a few more weeks with the date of my open house, if you’d like to see any of the catalogues in the meantime, please let me know and I can get one to you! I’ll also have the November monthly specials for you to see.

Again I thank you for many years of fun and hope to see you at my final open house coming soon!
Shari

August-September Constant Campaign

To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, we are offering our first-ever double stamp set! You can get the exclusive My Acrylix® Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set FREE when you place an order of $82 CAN from August 15 through September 30, 2011. You'll love this double set—two D-size sets in one envelope—which includes lots of clever phrases and coordinating images you'll use in your handmade cards all year long. The double set has a retail value of $39.90, which drastically increases the value of your qualifying purchase! Have double the fun stamping during National Stamping Month with our new Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set!

UL is very excited to announce it's new jewelery line, stay tuned!

New catalogue is out!

Happy summer! And very exciting news, CTMH has a great new catalogue for fall/winter, it is available now!

Close To My Heart has teamed up with the makers of the Cricut machine and we now have our own exclusive cartridge! It is called Art Philosophy and it is paired up with 3 of our My Acrylix Stamp Sets and 3 Dimensional Elements Sheets to make some awesome artwork. On top of that, numerous other My Acrylix Stamp Sets in the Idea Book pair wonderfully with images on the cricut Cartridge. There are 700 different shapes on the Cricut cartridge, ranging from elegant rosettes and lace to trendy gift boxes and banners. Oh, and there is an alphabet too!

And the best news is that you get the Cricut Art Philosophy Collection for only $109.95. It includes:1 Cartridge (700 images, font, Shapes and 3-D items)3 Coordinating My Acrylix D Size Stamp Sets3 Coordinating 9x12" Dimensional Elements Sheets (tags, mixed shapes, banners)This collection along with all the other NEW Close To My Heart items unveiled in our New Fall/Winter 2011 Idea Book starts on Monday, August 1st.

Click HERE to see all the current idea books.

The August stamp of the month is called "Wicked" and it's a fabulous Halloween set...yes...already thinking of the upcoming holidays!

My Anniversary!!!

I totally forgot that it was my CTMH anniversary! I’ve been with CTMH now for 6 years! Holy smokes time flies!!! Although my stamp collections shows 6 years lol!

Check out my blog for different CTMH videos all the time, I’m trying to change them up when I think of it lol! They are right at the top of my blog you can’t miss it!
And don’t forget the SOM it’s a must have for every season!

This month I’m going to be placing an order by June 20th...if you’d like to order anything I’d like to offer you free shipping, as well as every order will get a little or big surprise from me! If you’d like to order anything please let me know b/f the 20th.

Have a great week everyone!

June is for digital!

This month’s constant campaign is a little different! It’s a FREE for all!
During our Studio J® Free-for-All in June, we're giving everyone a FREE Studio J® JPG file—no purchase required! Simply log on to Studio J, create a layout, then order one JPG file of your layout during the checkout process. It's as easy as that! We're offering one free JPG file per customer account during June, so customers who already have a Studio J or a MyCTMH® account are ready to log on and start creating. If a customer doesn't have an account, no worries—they can log on and create an account and then order their free JPG file with no strings attached. (remember a JPG file is not a print out of your layout, it’s just the file) Go ahead and try out some digital scrapbooking this month! Click HERE to go to Studio J.

Dates: Offer valid June 1, 12:01 am (MDT) – June 30, 11:59 pm (MDT)

May layout

I love this layout! I love this story from Robert Munsch...it's pretty hard to get through it without shedding a tear...my kids think i'm nuts! They'll get it someday...This is what I used for this layout...sorry my photos aren't more "professional"!

Magic layout lovely assistant 9034
sophia level 2 paper X7131B
desert sand 12X12 Z2153

Stamp sets:
magic tabs C1448
on the edge C1399
love you forever C1398
tiny typewriter alphabet D1222
rustic alphabet E1002

Ink pads:
cocoa Z2114
hollyhock Z2128
blush Z2106
sunkiss yellow Z2151
desert sand Z2118
sweet leaf Z2153

accessories etc:
pink collection ribbon Z1384
clear buttons Z1391
pink assortment buttons Z1370
colonial white ribbon collection Z1126
water brush 1771

Thanks so much for looking and stopping by!

Shari :O)

Scrapbook pages

It's been AGES since I've posted some artwork! Mind you, I've only had 2 scrapbook classes so far this year...it's been busy...and an unusual year for me! lol! So I have no excuses but that...

So this layout was from the book "Magic" called Hocus Pocus, from CTMH item #9034

Here's what I used:

Fanfar L2 paper X7138B

Stamp sets:
thrill ride D1425

pennant alphabet E1018

magic tabs C1448

waxy flax
buttons z1369-red z1371-blue

Thanks for looking!

Free acrylic block!

Throughout March, when you buy your favorite My Acrylix® stamps, we’ll give you a free My Acrylix block. Not only will you have the best stamps on the block, you’ll have the best block, too! Just purchase $30 CAN in stamps and you can choose from two of our most versatile block sizes: 3" × 3" (Y1006) or 2" × 6 1/2" (Y1010).

The Original Scrapbox...a dream come true!

Check this out!

"Canada Workbox Giveaway" click HERE to win this! Wouldn't it be amazing!

Go to "The Original Scrapbox" HERE to see what it is...you'll be stunned!

Go to THIS BLOG, to enter! Sorry...it's for Canada only!

Sad songs...

When all hope is gone,
Sad songs say so much.

Andrea Bocelli...

One of my all time favorite songs...I first heard this and ran out and bought the CD...played it...played it and played it...I can't get sick of it! I'd love to see him live...also Sarah Brightman...she's truely one of the most talented singers out there! And animated...she's always in character!

Downtown...

When your alone and life is making you lonely you can always go...downtown...

A year already?

It's been a year since we've been glued to the TV watching the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, they were amazing! I love the Olympics, I hate that it's only every 4 years...but then we get to enjoy them even more! I loved this song, the silence in the crowd, it's amazing!

the countdown is on!

30 days and counting to my vacation...I can't wait!

Happy Valentine's day...???

Going Classical

I have a secret...I love classical music! I became to love it more when I lived in Germany with my second host family, Familie Bohm...my favorite family =) My host father's name is Wolfgang and he loved classical music, and he ended up buying me a whole set of cd's! sigh...I miss them!

Storybook Love...

I LOVE this movie, and I LOVE this song! I've loved it for years, and everytime I hear this song I get goose bumps! I have no clue what about it I love so much...but I do! I actually prefer the origional version on the movie "The Princess Bride", it's played at the end during the credits, there's more arrangements with the guitar...but this will do! There's a bit of his chatter at the beginning if you can get through that...you'll enjoy the song!

Time to laugh

Tear jerker yesterday...today, let's laugh! Love the video more than the song i have to say...