Midwest Scramper

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Front & Center Inspiration

Learn how to cleverly move the stamp images designed for the back of your handmade cards to front and center using Close To My Heart's My Acrylix® Crafted with Love stamp set. It's versatility at its finest!

The stamp set featured in this video is "Crafted With Love" (B1399) - just $9.95 (+S/H). You can purchase it 24/7 HERE at my website!

Love Your Layout _ February 2012!

Watch the latest Love Your Layout episode to see how to make this fabulous Studio J® layout. In just minutes, you'll learn how to create your own patterned paper, crop My Stickease® accents between pages, plus we'll show you a fun new way to use text boxes.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Five For Free in February!

Check out the February CTMH campaign. For every Studio J 5-pack that you purchase during the month of February, you'll get an additional 5-pack for FREE! And remember...a 5-pack consist of 5 double page layouts. So that is 20 pages + page protectors and FREE shipping/handling for just $55 + tax. It would make a wonderful gift for that non-scrapbooker in your life!!! I don't know about you, but even if I had the time (and I don't) I'd be hard pressed to crank out 20 paper scrapbook pages for just $55...and don't get me started on how long that would take me! Studio J is so quick and easy...you'll pull together those 20 pages in a snap!
You can pick up your 5 pack on my website, HERE!

Dino-Mite Scrapbook Pages

In this video, CTMH shows you how to create the scrapbook pages featured on page 89 of the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book. Simply by choosing masculine or feminine colors, you can get double the use out of one single stamp set and create “dino-mite” artwork for a boy or a girl!

Feature items used in this video:

My Acrylix® Roar! Stamp Set (D1505)

Color-Ready Cork Alphabets (Z1450)

Mini-Medley Accents Pacifica Collection (Z1698)

Mini-Medley Accents Smoothie Collection (Z1697)

Bling Assortment (Z1466)

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

January - Love Your Layout!

Watch this Studio J tutorial featuring: 'The Sonoma Kit: Using My Stickease for journaling'

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Wall Candy!

A little wipe board that I made to hang by the door to the garage...it's meant to help the kids remember their stuff each day before school, but unless it learns to shout "Look at me before you leave"...it'll take some getting used to!!!

I used the 'Typeset' paper line (X7139B) for the topper and a 'zip strip' from one of the sheet of paper, along the left border.

The banner is made from the 'Milepost Shapes' (Z1464). I brushed the triangles with a mix of Vineyard Berry re-inker & 'Create-A-Shade Pearl Paint' (Z1039). Other accessories include the Mini Medley Accents' in black (Z1393), wooden buttons, and black hemp (Z282).

Stamped images are from the Typeset Workshop-on-the-Go stamp set, using 'Desert Sand' ink and second generation technique. Stamping those images was an after thought, but i am glad I did it b/c it helps hide the little bits of marker that don't get wiped away completely!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Happy New Year!

I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and are looking forward to the New Year as much as I am! Close To My Heart is definately starting the New Year out with a BANG! There is so much going on that I don't even know where to begin....

January 2012 Constant Campaign is a 'Perfect 10!'

I have to say that I was skeptical of Studio J, at first...not about the program itself, b/c it is truly 'Top Notch', but skeptical about how much I'd use it in my day to day scrapbooking. Well, I hammered out a bunch of layouts, for my sister, as a Christmas present and I am a skeptic no more! I loved how quickly I completed the layouts, even adding my own color schemes and embellishment clusters. They were shipped directly to her house...page protectors included!

If you haven't tried Studio J...give it a whirl...you won't be disappointed. Go with the 3 month subscription...its a shorter committment in case you don't LOVE it. But, once you get started...you'll be wishing that you signed up for the whole year!

Take advantage of the 'Rock The Block' promotion - during the month of January only!

Spend $25 during the month of January and you can add the 'Rock The Block' set for just $15 more. I received the My Creations Collage Cubes last month and they are cute, cute, CUTE!!! Plus the E-size stamp set is AWESOME! Lots of great images that I can see myself using again and again.
Note: For those of you that aren't familiar with the E-size stamp...it is on an 8 1/2 x 11 carrier sheet...in comparison to the SOTM stamps that are on a 6x6 carrier sheet.

January Stamp Of The Month (SOTM) - 'Little Reminder'

'Little Reminder' is yours for just $5 when you spend a minimum of $50 during the month of January.

Spring Summer Idea Books are IN! I feel like I say this every time a new Idea Book is launched....but, WOWZA! I am lovin' all the new products...check out the new paperlines:

'Stella' - this picture does NOT do the paperline justice! It's gorgeous w/ a mix of Cocoa, Olive, Lagoon and Sunset.

'Pemberley' - probably my favorite of the new lines...

'Lucy' -

'Victory'

This new Varsity Alphabet (E1023) stamp, is used in both examples.

'Footloose' - perfect for those summer beach pictures! Wait until you see the 'Seaside Wooden Shapes' (Z1693)

'Superhero' - I am so excited to use this paperline. Parker got a red & blue cape from his Grandmother for Christmas and it's been around his neck non-stop since he opened it. This paper is perfect for my little superhero...add the comlpement rub-ons...and Ooh! I can hardly wait!