Studio J tricks to add FLAIR to your layouts!

I LOVE the resources that Close To My Heart shares with us as consultants AND customers!!!

Check out their latest tips using Studio J!  This tips will add excitement and flavor to YOUR Studio J layouts!!!

Make sure you check out my NEWEST Studio J layouts that I created at the bottom of this post! :)

Even though Studio J^® is fast and easy to use, it is helpful to know some great tricks that can make customizing your layouts even more exciting. Here are some Studio J tricks straight from our professional Close To My Heart artists:

1. Customize your background and texture paper. You can change the color and intensity of the background and texture paper included in whichever kit you choose. Simply select the piece of background and texture paper, change the color in the color selection tool, and increase or decrease the intensity of the color in that same popup box.

2. Crop My Stickease^® quotes, titles, and tags. The cropping feature on the My Stickease images allows you to select a section of a quote, title, or tag to use as a border or other embellishment.

3. Create a customized My Stickease image. If you have a specific image in mind to use as an embellishment on your page, you can create a customized My Stickease to fit your theme perfectly. Simply add a text box, photo hanger, ribbon, ribbon slides, and Stickease to create the little suitcase! So easy! Be sure to crop or send elements behind other elements when necessary, and add several elements together for a unique look!

4. Select more than one element at a time. If you want to move several elements of your layout at once, simply click and drag your mouse around the elements you would like to select. Let’s take buttons, for example. After the buttons have been selected, you can click the icons in the popup box to choose to align the buttons vertically or horizontally if you desire.

5. Make faux washi tape with vellum text boxes. To create the look of a piece of clear washi tape, make a small rectangular text box, filled with vellum background (this is the default color for text boxes). You can make the tape strips as large or small as you want, or even layer them for more emphasis.

6. Stretch one photo across multiple photo wells. If you have fewer photos than photo wells, instead of deleting the excess wells, try scaling the picture to a larger size and then copying the picture to other photo wells and matching the photos up until they align with an almost seamless image. This trick works best with photo wells that are adjacent to each other.

7. Create ruffled ribbon. Select “Ribbons” in the drop-down menu under the Embellishments toolset. Choose ribbon tab and rotate the tab so that it is vertical on the page. Then layer several tabs on top of one another, sending every other one to the back to create a ruffled look.


8. Create a jagged border with text boxes. You can create a jagged border simply by rotating multiple text boxes about 45 degrees and making them the same color as the background. Put these boxes on top of a long, rectangular box of another color, and you’ve got a jagged border!

9. Change the background of your layout. Sometimes you may like the photo and journal arrangement in a layout, and yet want to change the background colors. Because photos sit on top of everything else, this is easy to do. Simply pull a journaling box over the space you want for a different background and fill it with a color from the color selection tool or a patterned paper from the Papers toolset. Then, send it backwards until the photo wells are on top of your new background.

Bonus Trick! Use keyboard keys to make embellishments. Did you know that some of the best tools for creating custom embellishments are the basic keys on your keyboard? It’s as simple as typing into a journaling box with no background color. Use periods to make a polka dot pattern, angle brackets to create a trendy Chevron look, overlapping pound signs to make burlap, question marks to make rope, and so much more!

October is the perfect month to give STUDIO J a try because for every 9 layouts you create, you’ll get a 10th layout for FREE!!!

I’m also having a MYSTERY HOSTESS contest you won’t want to miss, during the month of October!!!  All qualifying Studio J layouts purchased on the Mystery Hostess link of my website -  WILL earn tickets for YOUR chance to be one of THREE Mystery Hostess’s!!! 

CLICK HERE for all the details of how to become a Mystery Hostess!

 

Here are a few layouts I recently Created using Studio J EXPRESS COLLECTIONS!!! I LOVE these collections!!!  Everything is colored, embellishments are set – all I NEED to do is drop in my pictures!  I can, however, change the wording of my title and add journaling anywhere I’d like on the layout…it’s THAT EASY!!!

 

I created these layouts from this past Close To My Heart Convention in Dallas, TX!!!  This is only about 1/2 of the layouts I created…they are so FUN and easy to create!  Click on the picture to see it larger...

Please contact me with any questions you may have OR

CLICK HERE for more info about the BEAUTIFUL layouts created with Studio J

Blessings to you!

Krista Hershberger J

I’m back to reality! :)

How are ya’ll doing? J  Texas was GREAT – and it may have some lasting effects too!! LOL!!!…I’m sure the accent will leave, but the memories created there will last forever!!! 


Close To My Heart kept us quite busy while at Convention, which was a good thing – but it did limit my time online.  I was hoping to post on my blog more often – but instead, I will do a quick re-cap now! J There is sooo much to share about sooo many things that happened at Convention!!! 


To find out EVERYTHING about the new upcoming products - you will want to make sure to attend my Fall Open House on Thursday, August 9 from 5-9pm and Friday, August 10th from 12-6pm!! 


At the Open House there will be TONS of new products to share, lots of ways to earn tickets to win prizes, free new product for you with qualifying orders, a new idea book for you…and SOOO much more!!!


Ok…here are some re-caps from Convention – ENJOY!!! J



My team members in attendance…
Stephenie, Nickie, Sheri, Meredith and Elizabeth!!!  We had a great time getting to know each other better and it’s so much fun learning about new things when you can share it with one of your CTMH sisters! J





This is what the foyer looked like as we were waiting for General Session doors to open!!  Can’t you just “feel” the excitement coming out of this picture???









Close To My Heart always finds very interesting and usually funny ways to introduce the new products! J  This is one of my favorite parts about Convention!!  You never know WHAT they will come up with – but they ALWAYS do a wonderful job!!!

This was the “Beverly Hillbillies” debuting some new accessories for us. 
Corporate also created some FABULOUS videos for us to watch showing us MORE new products!!!








We had lots of creating time…


Or course, Convention is a GREAT time to connect with old friends!!!  These ladies and I (plus Lori, Shannon and Audrey – not in picture) met each other at the 1st Scrapbook Spa Getaway in fall of 2010.  A time we will never forget as many friendships were formed!!!  Love you gals!


AND we had a GREAT Saturday morning of learning about the 8 new paper packs, embellishments and the NEW Cricut cartridge called “Artiste”.   I was privileged to teach at this years Convention and my paper pack to teach was “La Belle Vie” – BEAUTIFUL paper pack! 

Other new items we learned about at this years Convention…

• 53 New Embellishments
• Home Décor Kit Projects
• 2 New Card Workshop Kits
• Alcohol Markers
• 6 New Colors
• 1” cubes of Pigment Inks
• All Cardstock Colors in BULK 24 packs!!!!
• Express Layouts in Studio J
• NO Memberships needed with Studio J – and still a GREAT price!!!
• Artiste Cartridge

and sOOO much more!!!

*****Look for my RETIRING list of items that I plan to post later on today....******

JULY is your LAST chance

to get retiring items!!!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity!!!

Also, don’t forget the July Special!!!

“Perfect Pair” – CLICK HERE for details!!!

Blessings to each of you,

Krista Hershberger J

Convention in Dallas, TX–Day One! :)

Howdy Everyone! J 


I am  in DALLAS, TEXAS and we have completed our 1st day!!! 
We are having SOO much fun and I thought I’d share a few pictures so you can be here with me! J

We are staying at the Hilton Analote – a HUGE motel!!  It takes us a bit to walk to our classes, but there are many things to see along the way.

The grounds are beautiful and the atrium is a relaxing place to be.  Do you see the small wall on the right…that has water flowing over it and the couches are a great place to connect your Wi-Fi.  

Isn’t this amazing????

We had business classes all day today – a day for the Leaders of CTMH.  The VP’s of the company had a Q & A time for us and we learned a lot …more details coming soon! 

Enjoy your week and don’t forget the NEW set of Perfect Pair special that started TODAY!!!  The FANFARE collection – check it out!

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

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

***Don’t forget about the retiring items!!! Click HERE to see the list and to find out how YOU can get the Fanfare paper pack and embellishments for FREE with a qualifying order!!****

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 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

CLICK on the “Shop with me” picture to start shopping right away!!

Studio J-Convention layouts!

I’ve been keeping rather busy as I continue to create and prepare for teaching a class at our ANNUAL Convention to be held in Dallas, TX this year!!!  So, I’m sorry, I don’t have a lot of artwork to share with you that I have created recently…


BUT – I can promise you, that when the New Idea Book rolls around on August 1st – I will have PLENTY of creations to share!!! J




As part of our Convention package this year, CTMH gave each of the attendees a chance to create (5) 2 page layouts using Studio J!!!


With each layout, CTMH gave us instructions on how to create the layout, so that we could learn some FABULOUS new techniques!!!  What a WONDERFUL way to learn new things!


Here is a layout I created (for FREE!  LOVE the perks of being a consultant! J ) ….


Here are the starting details for this layout (in case you’d like to create a similar page yourself!)


Kit:Lucky
Pattern:Portrait Collection™
Photos:3 vertical, 1 horizontal, 1 square
Colors: Grey Flannel, Outdoor Denim, Sunset, White Daisy, Sky


Techniques we learned:
• Adding a photo mat behind your photo using a journaling box
• Using letters as embellishments
• Adding "tabs" of cardstock with journaling boxes
• Creating a title using several journaling boxes
• Using a My Stickease® image to make a border

Click on the picture image to see MORE details…
If you have more questions concerning Studio J, CLICK HERE!! 
OR if you’d like a personal 1/2 hour class with me, I would be happy to set up a time that we can get together in person or the phone and answer ANY questions you may have!!

Studio J is a WONDERFUL place to go to get caught up on your scrapbooking…it also is a GREAT gift idea too!
It’s FREE to try it….click below to try it out today!!!
 

Enjoy this beautiful day!!! Blessings to you!

Krista J

Do your Employers create entertaining videos like this? :)

I am amazed at the FUN and ENERGY the Close To My Heart VP's bring to their "family" of consultants! :)  

This is a GREAT video about what is in store for us at Convention in Dallas, TX this summer! I can't WAIT!!!

After watching the video, you may decide you'd like to get in on the action...give me a call! :) 

There is still room at Convention AND the FABULOUS March Special is still taking place for another 5 days!!!

Pay ONLY $99 and receive the Consultant Kit PLUS $100 in product credit OR the Cricut Bundle for FREE!!!

Enjoy the video...and keep scrolling down for MORE details on how you can be a part of the Close To My Heart Family! :)
  

I was chatting with someone today and they said, isn't there a catch to this March special? :)  Good question!!

But I can TRULY say that ...No - there isn't a catch to this AMAZING deal!!!  

You will receive the basic consultant kit 
PLUS 
another $100 in product 
(your choice the Cricut bundle OR product credit for you to use in the next year) 
and you will only pay a TOTAL of $119.78!!! 
That includes the 6% tax and the shipping cost for over $400 in products!!!

CLICK HERE to sign up and get this WONDERFUL deal today!!!  

If you chose to make Close To My Heart a part of your life, that's great! If you don't want to pass up this AMAZING deal and want to give Close To My Heart a try to see if it fits with your life...that's great too!
There are no obligations AND it's too GOOD of a DEAL to pass up!!!


I'd LOVE to have you join our "Create 4 Him" team AND this is the BEST week to do that!  Please contact me with any other questions you may have.


Blessings to each of you!!! 

Krista :)

Get over $450 in products for only $99!!!

******From March 1st – March 31st, ANYONE who JOINS my Close To My Heart TEAM will automatically receive the Close To My Heart Cricut BUNDLE for FREE!! ******** 

AND…if you already own the Cricut Bundle – YOU will get to 

chose $100 in Select Product Credit in place of the Cricut Bundle for FREE!!!

Way to go CTMH!!! They thought of EVERYTHING!!! J

That means you pay ONLY $99 for over $450 worth of QUALITY, BEAUTIFUL Close To My Heart Products!!!

 

If you’d like to learn more about what it means to join my team

 click here.

Close To My Heart is for EVERYONE 

– whether you are a hobbyist (wanting the discount) or

whether you’d like this to become your Business!!!

CHECK out this VIDEO for all the details concerning this AMAZING March Special!!!

Krista Hershberger J

Close To My Heart Independent Consultant

359 Warwick Road, Elverson, PA 19520

610-587-9116

fun2stampnscrap@dejazzd.com        www.kristah.ctmh.com