Happiness Blooms Here Kit

I'm excited to share with you my latest card kit.  

I love tulips and cannot wait to share When Happiness Blooms cards with you.  

This stamp set is also available with our Thin Cut dies so no fussy cutting is required.  

I've paired it with the True Love paper pack to create 5 unique cards that look beautiful as a gift-able set or amazing on their own.

Each card comes pre-cut, and ready to assemble.  You'll just need to stamp & die cut the images with the white daisy cardstock that's provided. 

The full kit is $40 and includes:

• Where Happiness Blooms Stamp & Thin Cuts Z4086
• Pre-cut pieces for each card from True Love paper suite
• Embellishments
• 5 cards and envelopes
• Step-by-step instructions and cutting guide (download)

Value Kit is $30:

• Where Happiness Blooms Stamp D1864 ONLY (dies not included)
• Pre-cut pieces for each card from True Love paper suite
• Embellishments
• 5 cards and envelopes
• Step-by-step instructions and cutting guide (download)

Card Workshop $20 (Cards only):

• Don't want the stamps, but want the cards?  
• Wednesday, August 7th 6:30 PM
• Pre-payment is required by August 4th.  
• You can also purchase the above 2 kits and make them at my home that night as well.  

**Add $5 for shipping.  Kits ordered by July 31 will be shipped by Aug 10.

Additional Supplies you may need

Inks

• Sapphire
• Sage
• Sugarplum (2019 color of the year and retiring soon! Do you need a reinker?)
• Ballerina
• Pansy (Retiring soon.  Do you have it and a reinker?)

Adhesives

• Thin 3D Foam Tape
• Tape Runner

Fun stuff

• Shimmer Brush (Clear or Sugar Plum)
• True Love Paper to continue creating more cards.  You will receive a cutting guide to make more cards!
• Gold Embellishing Thread
• Gold Glitter Gems
• White & Gold Skinny Ribbon
• Clear Sparkles They were colored with Purple Peony ShinHan Marker
• Stitched Heart Thin Cuts
• Doily Thin Cut Z4063
• Subway Tile Embossing Folder
• Flower Market Cricut Cartridge (Rain Boots)

To order your kit, please contact me here or via FB messenger.  

If you are a consultant, you can purchase the cutting guide from me for $8. Please contact me here.

Explosion Box Album

Hello crafty friends!

Today's post is giving you a little bit more info about a workshop I'm holding a couple times this spring.  I call it the "Important Things Box."  Last month Close to My Heart had a scrapbooking bundle called the Important Things.  It featured journaling prompts to go with specific photos.  It was a 6x8 album that was designed to help you record important aspects of your life.

I took this idea, the April Stamp of the Month and a challenge to create an explosion box and melded them all together.

An explosion box is a cube that falls open when the lid is lifted off.  Some boxes had more flaps inside, others had Easter treat baskets.  Mine's a mini album.

This album was super easy to make.  The sticky tabs on the flip flaps are used to make the album so very little additional adhesive is needed.

Supplies Used
Gimme Some Sugar Paper Pack
Bashful, Juniper and White Daisy Cardstock
3x4 and 4x4 Flip Flaps
S1804 Color Your Life
D1772 Documented Scrapbooking
D1786 Quotable Words (Available May 1)
Z4144 Peacock Stitched Ribbon
E1033 Inked Alphabet
Z2849 Peacock Ink
Z3285 Flower Market Cricut Bundle

Workshops will be held Monday, May 7th and again in early June.  Stay tuned for more fun versions.

Dahlia Card from Flower Market

Here's a quick card using the dahlia bloom from the Flower Market Cricut Collection.
This flower is on page 33 of the handbook and is two layers.
I used our new Adventure Fundamentals paper collection.  The Pacifica bold stripe pairs beautifully with the Raspberry heart design.  The flower is cut from Raspberry and Pixie.  I also added some sparkle from our Shimmer Brush to the outline of the flower.  It's subtle this pic but leaves a lot of wow!

See the whole flower market collection here in its handbook.
Order the Flower Market here.

Sparkle with JOY Banner

This weekend I noticed a LOT of my CTMH friends were using glitter paper.  I think we all needed a little extra sparkle.  I created this banner with a LOT of sparkle!

I love our new 3 packs of Glitter Paper that have all 1 color.  I'm using the super shimmery red and the icy white for this project.  And a little leftover Snowhaven that's been retired for a couple years.  I had been wondering how I could use up this paper with the bold Nordic striped pattern on the other side.  Now I know!

Every bit of this banner was created with the newest CTMH Cricut Cartridge Flower Market.  This is the SURPRISE banner on page 5.  In Design Space I used the contour button and hid the design at the bottom red banner pieces.

I have lots of layers here.  The only thing that I adhered with Bonding Memories are the holly berries to the Willow colored holly border.  Everything else is attached with the original 3D Foam tape for maximum lift.

Right now I have it attached to a closet door.  Here's a pic to give you an estimate of size.  Each piece is 5.5" tall and 4.15" wide.  I used just over a yard of ribbon.  I also have a LARGE version where each piece is 11.5" tall and about 8.5" wide.  Did I mention how I love that each pack of glitter paper now has 3 sheets of the same color?  It makes projects like this one so easy.

Materials List

• Flower Market Cricut Collection
• Red Glitter Paper  (Create 4 banners from 1 pack of paper)
• White Glitter Paper
• Willow Cardstock
• Black cardstock of your choice (I think the black + design in the new Uptown Fundamentals would be beautiful) Or Black Glitter Paper (why not more bling?)
• 3D Foam Tape
• Bonding Memories Glue
• Favorite Ribbon

How to get this banner
1.  Order a pre-cut version below for $7.  Need it shipped for $2?  No problem.
2.  Order the supplies from my website ($15 minimum) and I'll send you the Design Space File
3.  Join my team and receive all of my files to use for free!

**Purchase link has been disabled**

Orders placed by November 20th will ship by December 2nd.  It may take about 2 weeks to order and create kits. Kindly email me if you have questions about how long your order will take before you order it. Unless I have supplies on hand, I will not be able fill orders placed after December 10th.

Sunday Funny

Sometimes we just gotta clean.  

While I was mopping on Friday morning, this came to mind.  

"My home is so clean you could eat off of a paper plate."

I dislike mopping because I just know that a sticky messy catastrophe will come before the end of the day.  On Friday, it wasn't a full glass of lemonade spilled, but enough...!

While I only have 1 boy, he really does live up to the definition of boy that I saw when he was a baby. 

Anyway, back to crafting!

This is a 3D daisy from the new Flower Market Cricut Cartridge.

I stamped the center with one of the background stamps that comes in the bundle. It's super easy to put together, just a dab of glue between each layer!  

Flower Market Forget Me Nots

Hello friends,

Today I want to show you a beautiful card I created with the Flower Market Cartridge.

There's around 50 different types of flower and succulents on this cartridge along with many many other shapes.  We're not talking about 7 petaled flowers vs 3 petaled abstract flowers, but ones that you can actually identify.

Today, I'm using the Forget-Me-Nots.  I've also cut the banner and envelope from the Flower Market Cartridge. 

The light blue flowers and the Envelope liner were cut from our Whimsy Fundamentals.  I also used Pixie, Sweet Leaf and Crystal Blue cardstock (all part of the Whimsy color family) to complete this card.  I love sticking within a color family because I know that the colors are going to work together.  

I added a LOT of shimmer to a couple of the flowers using our new shimmer pen.  You can put on as little or lot as you want.  It's like eye shadow--a little goes a long way and an inexperienced user (that's me) put it on a little heavy.  

I love the dimension of this card even without embellishments.  

The sentiment is one of the stamps included in the Flower Market Bundle.  

This bundle has 2 sets of background stamps which are designed to add texture and a whole sheet of sentiments.  I LOVE sentiments, especially when my Cricut is doing all the hard work of creating beautiful die-cuts to put on my cards.  These stamps are perfect!  I'll be using them a lot. 

Want to make this card?  Here's the link for the Cricut Explore Design Space.

Items used
Flower Market Cricut Bundle Z3285

Whimsy Fundamentals Paper Z3255

Whimsy Cardstock  X5940

Rustic Home Fundamentals Z3262

Shimmer Brush Z3293 (temporarily sold out, but will be in stock next week)

Crystal Blue Exclusive Inks (for inking flowers)

Black Exclusive Inks 

You can receive the Rustic Home paper pack for FREE this month when you purchase the Whimsy, Adventure & Enchantment Fundamentals!  (This plus the Flower Market Cricut Collection enables you to earn $25 in Hostess Rewards because it's a $150+ order/party!)  I have to set up the party before you place your order so contact me before ordering!  

Hello Sea Glass

Meet Sea Glass, the 2016 Color of the Year for Close to My Heart!

I'm thinking you may have been already introduced. It's a very popular color.  I've seen it at Hobby Lobby, Wal-Mart, Target, Kohls and even on a Grey's Anatomy preview for this fall.  

It's a pretty amazing color, it goes with EVERYTHING!  You'll see what I mean as I post more cards using Sea Glass!

Sea Glass is available in Cardstock, Glitter Paper, mini-pigment ink, ink pad & reinker.  The latter 2 will be available later this month.  

This new stamp set Hi Friend A1198 is an A sized stamp set at just $6.95 and is also available in French & Spanish!  It's one of 7 sets that have been translated to Spanish or French.  And the flowers (which are Cosmos) are compatible with the new Cricut Cartridge Flower Market!  

This card was made using the new Flower Market Cricut cartridge!  

It's filled with flowers and so much more!

Products used for this card

Wreath A1193

Hi Friend A1198

Sea glass CS X5789

White Daisy Cardstock 1385

Peacock Cardstock X5776

Watercolor paints Z3132

Happy Thoughts Embossing Folder Z3249

Shimmer Pen Z3293  this product is so amazing, it's already sold out.  Available 8/15.

Peacock Ink Z2649

Canary Ink Z2643 

Flower Market Cricut Z3285

Check back for more cards!  I was busy creating the whole month of July and just cannot wait to show you everything!