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!

More Scrap Cards –

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

Every spring for the last 4 years, I’ve had an opportunity to travel with friends for 5 days of crafting & fun. When packing I decided I could easily pack enough projects to keep me busy for weeks. I also knew I love cutting into new paper, so I brought all the scraps from projects made on the Facebook Videos to help me use up those pieces. Not all of the cards were scraps, I think a couple of them were cuts from previous patterns that I lost so I got to make it up as I go.

I love the lilac on these cards. I cut them from the Flower Garden Cartridge! They are so easy. One button cut makes all 4 layers and you do a little dry embossing, pop dot the layers and wah lah!

Hope these give you some inspiration.

Happy Crafting!

Card Workshop Video #3 & Artwork

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern, Video, Workshop On the Go | Leave a comment

I had a lot of fun making these cards. For me it was whimsy meets style. I used the cricut cartridge Artbooking.

I have to say that I don’t always enjoy the tediousness of assembling the cricut cuts, but sometimes it’s a great project when I need to feel accomplished but the brain power is on low. Assembling these fell into that low brain power night.

The pattern is quick and easy and can be found here.

These cards use the green side of the paper so I went in a “boy” direction.

Now, these used the pink side of the paper so I went to the flowery side.

If you want help with the cutting guides, or the assembly, you can watch the video.

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

Week #3 Card Set- 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!

Great Pattern (12 cards)

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

Club night project used the new “Anniversary Cards” workshop guide. Everyone got to pick their own patterned paper & cardstock. I choose For Always for my bulk and one of my old favorites “Dutch Blue” for the cardstock. I really like this pattern as it doesn’t need a lot of different patterned papers. I don’t know about you, but I have lots of old paper packs that have big scraps. This pattern will be great for working through some of my old partial paper packs.

You can save and print these images, or if you click on the “Anniversary Card” link you can download the original PDF file. (I’ve been told the PDF prints much clearer.)

This first card represents all 6 cards I made from pattern 2. I had 6 of the polka-dotty flowers in my embellishment stash and used one on each card. Yea it’s a win/win. I get quick beautiful cards & use up a miniscule portion of my embellishment stash. Love how the butterfly accented this card. Looks even better in person.Love the mix of flowers on this one! Another butterfly, can’t lose with a butterfly (or balloon). These flowers are made from a beautiful white shinny vellum and add some elegance to this card. Almost didn’t want to give up this gorgeous butterfly, but it looked so perfect I had to use it!

Now this is my favorite of the bunch. Wish I had more big blue flowers, or little ones for that matter.

If you create some cards using this “Happy Anniversary” pattern, please share your artwork with me!

Happy Crafting!

Card cutting Guides For quick cards

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern, Stamping, Video | 2 Comments

If you haven’t already tuned in, I have begun doing facebook live videos for scrapbooking & card making. Today I’ve decided to share a few of the cutting guides for the card workshops, and the links to the videos that walk you through the cuts and assembly.