Winter “Perfect Pair”–2 more days!!!

Here is your CHANCE to get a WINTER paper pack and cool things down this summer J

Place a $75 ONLINE order (by CLICKING HERE) and you will receive one of these paper packs & coordinating embellishment

  in your ORDER for FREE!!!

July 30-31 ~ Believe Paper Pack and Holiday Pockets OR Wonderland Paper Pack and My Stickease

(one set of corporates choice will be placed into your order)

There are also TWO more days to purchase items that are RETIRING!!!!

 

These Retiring items will count TOWARDS your $75 purchase!!!

 

CLICK HERE to see the current UPDATED RETIRED LIST!

Don’t Forget to CLICK on the “July Orders with Krista” link at the bottom of my home page, when you place this “Perfect Pair” order.J

ANOTHER REMINDER from my LAST BLOG POST!!!J 

When you CALL ME

to pre-order this cartridge, before August 2nd –

I will include a FREE set of our NEW alcohol markers from the Whimsy or Enchantment color palettes!!  These new markers will be retailing at $5.95 per set!!!!

Have a MARVELOUS Monday!

Krista Hershberger J

****Join My Team****

starting AUGUST 1^st…

Pay $49 for the Consultant kit

(or the $99 kit too!) 

and get this Adorable BAG for FREE!!!!

(retail value $49.95!!!)

CLICK HERE to see the details!

August 1-31st ~While Supplies Last!!! J

July 6-10th FREE items & Retiring items!

Make sure you don’t miss out on the

“Perfect Pair” special that runs July 6-10th!!!

Place a qualifying $75 order on my website HERE and receive this set (retailed at $14.90) for FREE!!!

July 6-10 ~ Dreamin’ Paper Pack and Harvest Charms

A few samples of the talented design team at CTMH and the artwork they created with Dreamin’!

What are the details for this month’s “Perfect Pair”?

Place a qualifying $75 order on my website HERE during the month of July…and you will automatically receive a PAPER PACK and a coordinating ACCESSORY for FREE!!!!

This is a WONDERFUL Opportunity to purchase SOON to be RETIRED items!**

Current List of RETIRING ITEMS


***Cardstock Shade Paper Packs ~retiring July 31, 2012
Pg. 9…retail $7.95


***Exclusive inks MARKERS ~retiring July 31, 2012
Pg. 8 & 9…retail $2.95 each



***6 paper packs & their coordinating My Stickease OR Complements~retiring July 31, 2012
Lucy Paper Packet (pg. 28)
Footloose Paper Pack (pg. 40)
Superhero Paper Packet (pg. 46)
Crusin’ Paper Packet (pg. 58)
Typeset Paper Packet (pg. 62)
Roxie Paper Packet (pg. 62)
Elemental Paper Packet (pg. 63)
Sonoma Paper Packet (pg. 64)

Paper Packets that will TRANSFER to 2012 Fall/Winter Idea Book…

Stella (pg. 16), Pemberley (pg. 22), Victory (pg. 34) and Florentine (pg. 52)



***Workshop on the Go kits ~retiring August 31, 2012
Retail $29.95
While it is true that 4 paper packs will be carrying over (see above), ALL of the Workshop on the Go kits (including the 4 paper packs that are transferring to the next book )will be retiring at the end of August!
If you like to have a great value for the price you pay– THESE kits are it!!!  They have an exclusive stamp set, plus instructions to create a layout using this paper kit PLUS more layout ideas on my personal website under “Ideas & Inspiration”!




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Some suggestions when placing your “Perfect Pair” order…


1. Make SURE you place your order as quickly as possible!!!  Each of these specials are WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!!



2. Check out what DAY of the month you are ordering!!!  Every couple of days, there is a NEW paper pack and accessory that are being given away!!!  



Here is the chart showing you what FREE items you will receive according to what day in JULY you place your order online…

Feel free to click on the “July Orders with Krista” link as you place this “Perfect Pair” order.J

Check out the pictures below to see the UPCOMING FREE Collections!!!

All of these items are from the Fall/Winter 2011 Idea Book.

 CLICK HERE to go directly to the Idea Book.

Mark you calendars for the day(s)

you want to receive certain FREE items!!!

(I personally LOVE the Lucky collection! J)

July 11-15 ~ Fanfare Paper Pack and Fanfare level 2 Assortment

July 16-20 ~ Lucky Paper Pack and My Stickease

July 21-25 ~ Mayberry Paper Pack and My Stickease

July 26-29 ~ Sophia Paper Pack and My Stickease

July 30-31 ~ Believe Paper Pack and Holiday Pockets OR    Wonderland Paper Pack and My Stickease

(one set of corporates choice will be placed into your order)

Blessings to you!!!

Krista Hershberger J

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3 Simple Christmas Cards

Good Morning!J

It is near the end of October, and I am a little sad.  Not quite sure if I am ready for winter to arrive quite yet – HOWEVER…right now, here in Pennsylvania – it is SNOWING….yes, I DID say SNOWING!!!  What Crazy weather we are having and in OCTOBER!!!  And the AMAZING part is – they say we are getting 6-10 inches of this SNOW today!!!!  Oh my!J

With that in mind, I thought I’d post 3 cards that I created recently that have the “winter” theme. 

This past week, I went to a Ladies Day group at a local church where we did some card making.  I had 45min – 1 hour for them to create 3 cards, so I knew the cards had to be simple, but beautiful. 

I went to my wonderful CTMH Sisters for some inspiration, and came away creating these 3 cards!

The first card on the left has been a favorite card that many of you may already recognize.  This is a card that we have been creating at a lot of my gatherings this fall season. 

This is a FUN card that I created using our Wishes how to book.  The design did not stay the same as the original pattern shown on page 40 “Simple Expressions”, but I did start the card from there. J

I used the beautiful WONDERLAND level 2 paper pack.  I also used our FUN new “Snowflakes” stamp set!!!  This is a favorite of mine because it is a stamp set that coordinates with our Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge!!  I did not have to cut the snowflake out – the CRICUT does it for me!J  The Merry Christmas came from the stamp set called “A Holiday” – a GREAT Cricut compatible stamp set as well.

If you click on the picture to see more detail, you will notice we also used sandpaper to sand the chocolate cardstock.  The ladies loved each technique that was taught with each card. 

Our chocolate striped ribbon is so beautiful, for this card I cut the 1” ribbon in half, so we could have the frayed look.  We then used Glitz Glitter Gel for the finishing touch. (I know I been using the glitz a lot lately – LOL!!  I just LOVE adding the glitz to add that extra sparkle and shine! LOL!!! J)

The next card we used a NEW stamp set…believe it or not, this was the FIRST time I stamped with this set!!!  “Remarkable Wreath” is one of the most popular selling stamp sets this year!  I was inspired by my friend and fellow consultant Audrey Key for this card. 

This card was quite simple…but nice.  I used the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to create the beautiful bracket (3 1/4”, <square4>, pg. 53) from Sweet Leaf cardstock.  We then used the corner rounder to round our 2 3/4” white daisy square. 

Stamp sets used were “Remarkable Wreath” and “Holiday Commentary”.  We also used the Believe level 2 paper pack.  And of course…I had to use some of the beautiful RED Glitz Glitter Gel to add some berries to the branches. LOL!  (I promise, the next card does not have glitz!)  Ink colors that were used are CRANBERRY and DESERT SAND.

The final card we created was using one of my favorite stamp sets this Idea Book season.  The “Glory to God” stamp set. 

This card was inspired by  Jean Johnson’s artwork I saw on our consultant bulletin board – I LOVE our CTMH family!!  We truly ARE sisters at CTMH and share ideas, advice, artwork, etc. with each other. J

To create this card, we used two items…the Glory to God stamp set and the Sonoma Paper pack.  Can ANYONE tell me where the diamond strip at the bottom of the card came from?  Hmmm…I LOVE this extra that CTMH has tucked into each of our new LEVEL 2 paper packs!  Did you guess where it came from?  If you haven’t, take a look at this picture below…

Do you see it now?  YES – the diamond strip is called a “Zip Strip”!!!  There is a strip at the top of all of our designer papers!  Each zip strip has the paper kit name, item # and colors used in the kit printed on one side of this 1/2” strip.  The OTHER side of this “zip strip” is a BEAUTIFUL border design that you can use as part of your creations!!!  How COOL is that?!?!?!!!! J

I hope these cards get your “creative juices” flowing. J and that you are able to start creating for the upcoming holiday season! 

If you would like to get an early Christmas present , check out this October special that runs for another 3 days!!!


It DOES feel like Christmas when this consultant kit arrives!!J  What a GREAT way to get items at a discount for all of your holiday creating needs!!!

I’d love to talk with you about how becoming apart of my CTMH team can be what YOU want it to be!! 
It is wonderful to be your own boss, and YOU get to decide if this is will be a business for you OR if you'd like to be a Hobbyist - getting Close To My Heart's quality products at a discount price!

Contact me today so that YOU can receive this AMAZING consultant kit for $99 (+shipping & tax) You will receive items in this kit that retail over $280, PLUS when you sign up,(for 3 more days) you will get an ADD-ON kit (retail of up to $130) for FREE!!!!

Enjoy your day – whatever type of weather you are havingJ and take time to CREATE today!!!

Blessings to each of you!
 Krista Hershberger

610-587-9116

fun2stampnscrap@dejazzd.com

www.ctmh.com/kristah

~~~3 more days to receive this GREAT gift tag making stamp set~~~

Believe Artwork ~ Ideas for your Christmas creations!

Hi everyone!   Today I’d like to share with you some of the beautiful artwork I received in a recent swap I was in. 

Do you know what a “swap” is?   I’ve had people ask me this question, so let me explain. A swap is a Great  way to receive  Amazing Artwork!!

For this swap –I created a 12x12 layout and 4 different types of cards;  the cards were specified as to what kind they needed to be.  I created 8 SETS of these 5 items, kept one set for myself and sent off the other 7 to the WONDERFUL lady hosting this swap.  When she received them, she divided up my swaps and gave me 7 different swaps in return for the set that I did!!!  Yayy!!!! 

So in an earlier post I showed you my swap items that I created with the Wonderland paper pack…you can see that post again by clicking HERE. 

Today I will share with you the swap pages of Karen Morris – our fearless Leader & swap coordinator!    Karen used the Paper Pack – Believe – and designed some amazing artwork!!!  Here is a picture of all the pieces she created…

I must show you the details she had on her 12x12 page.  The top middle red plaid square is a small booklet!!!  What a GREAT idea to add this to a page!  Love it!!! 

Glitz Glitter gel is a “hot” item this year too! LOL!  I can’t stop using it and others enjoy it too!

Next, take a look at this BEAUTIFUL Christmas card…Karen used the Art Philosophy Circuit cartridge for the border shape and the Christmas tree.  She also used the Silver Glitz Glitter gel AND the NEW Rhinestone Designer brad.  So simple and elegant!

Here is the ADORABLE clear card that she created…

   

I think this card is so FESTIVE!!!  The stardust Glitz Glitter gel gives is that extra shine!


This card was created using our NEW die-cut cards designs! 

The edge of this card makes any creation a bit more special!   I had to do a double take as I looked at the paper used on this card…it didn’t seem like it was from the Believe paper pack – but it WAS!!  I love how VERSATILE our new Designer Paper Packs are! 


A FAVORITE stamp set of everyone’s…it HAS to be a top seller…is the Remarkable Wreath stamp set.  Karen created this card using that set.  Using our new BULK choc striped ribbon and some red glitz glitter gel makes this card shine!
  

Now I hope YOU can take these card ideas and CREATE some on  your own!   I LOVE to see your ideas, and artwork…so feel free to send pictures of what you created my way! mailto:fun2stampnscrap@dejazzd.com)

If you CONTINUE to be amazed at the products that Close To My Heart carries and creates, stay tuned tomorrow to learn about how YOU can get a FABULOUS deal on these products!

Blessings to you!
Krista