New Cricut Cartridge

Close to My Heart has released a new cartridge for Cricut machines, Complete Creativity. This is a digital only cartridge and is for machines that use the Design Space app on a computer, laptop, iPad or mobile phone. For the first year, till September 2020, this is only available from Close to my Heart consultants.

Selection of images from Complete Creativity Cricut Collection

 

 

The cartridge is a mix of cards and scrapbooking pages, but all images can be used on their own as well so it provides a lot of choices.

Here are a couple of the Christmas cards from the collection.

More to come!

Fun with new Colours!

Loving the new colours from Close to My Heart which have just been released. Favourites at the moment are Wisteria and Julep.

Wisteria

Julep

 Both colours also come with matching ink pads and re-inkers!







I had a play with these colours which coordinate with the new Every Little Thing paper pack.

















The stamps I used were from the September Stamp of the Month - Random Acts of Cardness. I love this set and you can get it from me only in September 2019!









Here are the cards I made. Note they are all using the same basic design, just changed up a little with direction and sentiment.

                                                       

Please let me know if you want to know more about the new catalogues and paper sets. The patterned paper sets are only available for two months - September and October, so don't hesitate! You can check out all the new items by going to my webshop.

National Stamping Month at Close to My Heart

Greetings from a beautiful Spring morning in Christchurch, New Zealand. The first day of Spring and the sun is shining gloriously in the sky. We are making the most of it as the weather for this month is supposed to be rubbish! A great month for spending lots of time indoors and stamping like crazy.

To celebrate National Stamping Month, Close to My Heart has put out a lovely stamp and die set with a focus on Christmas and Thanksgiving. Here in New Zealand we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but the images on the stamp set are so appropriate for a lot of uses, including thanks cards and cards for children. This set is only available in September this year.

The full set comes with both stamp sets as well as two thin cuts dies to cut the window pattern shown in the left picture and the tag to go on the front of the card.

If you want to know more about this set, contact me by leaving a message on this blog or through my Facebook page here.






Here are a couple of Christmas cards I put together using the set. I used a stamp positioning tool to stamp all the images on the background layer before attaching the window card to the front. All the images were heat embossed.

I used gold embossing powder on this card and Candy Apple CTMH card for the window frame.

For this card I used silver embossing powder and CTMH  Willow for the frame. Unfortunately Willow is not now available in the CTMH selection but there are other beautiful green colours that can be used instead.

Love Blossoms

Love, love, love the Love Blossoms card workshop available this month from Close to my Heart.

The kit makes 12 cards and envelopes with enough materials left over to make the layers for at least another 6-8 cards. You can buy additional cards and envelopes to complete them.

The stamp set that comes with the workshop is stunning too. It includes the beautiful floral stamps as well as the shading for the flowers and a wide range of greetings.

The workshop is available until the end of March so if you are interested, please let me know. 

A New Year - 2019

Another new year - already into February and I have not posted anything yet!

Well I have actually been making cards this year and here is one that I did recently for one of my lovely neighbours.

I was very happy with the colours I used for this card.  I made the card base from Slate cardstock and layered with Sorbet (both Close to my Heart base colours) and one of the patterned papers from Charlotte, a Close to my Heart set from a couple of years ago.

Finished the card off with the die cut from AliExpress and the stamped sentiment, also from CTMH. Pearls added the finishing touch.

The inspiration for this design was from Pinterest. 

Stay posted for some more cards I have done recently!