Hawaii Bound & THANK YOU gift for YOU!

We are SO EXCITED, and can hardly BELIEVE that in just 3 days we will be seeing my FAVORITE trees – Palm Trees!!

I just wanted to take a moment & again thank Close To My Heart, and a HUGE thank YOU to EACH of you for blessing me with this incredible opportunity!!  

Eric & I are really looking forward to our EXPENSE paid trip to one of the Hawaiian Islands – Oahu.  CTMH treats us like royalty when we are there…AND before we arrive too!! 

A few weeks ago, I received an entire BOXFUL of goodies from CTMH!!  Of course – I had to take a picture of these items…check it out!!

 Also, included in this kit is the yearly EXCLUSIVE stamp set, created just for the incentive trip earners of that year.  It has city names, places, and images that will be used throughout our entire album!!  Aren't the pineapples & flowers just perfect?!?!

 So, the “royal treatment” has started already, and I can’t WAIT to see what creativity CTMH has in store for our DAILY room gifts!!!  Yes – DAILY – this is another item I look forward to each trip!

This year, we will be staying at a Disney resort called Aulani. We are on the "Big Island"...and will be flying into Honolulu.  

This resort is only 3 or 4 years old, and while it has a Disney theme…it is very Hawaiian too!  I did a search to see what we will be encountering while there…and I wanted to share some of these AMAZING photos with you!! 

I can feel the sun’s warmth & see the palm trees already!

Enjoy the pictures…and if you’d like to stay up-to-date with what’s going on in Hawaii J…make sure to “like” my CTMH Facebook page!!  I plan on posting there a couple of times during my time away.  J

This is the Aulani resort…the front view.

There is a LAZY river at the resort!!  We plan to take advantage of this!!!

There is a waterslide for the tubes too – sounds like so much fun!!

This is the manmade lagoon on Aulani’s property (or so I’m told). 

Eric is planning on taking his fishing gear along…he said “Don’t you see all of the BIG fish out at those breakers?”

Oh my!  So – he will be relaxing by fishing! J

As part of my THANK YOU for helping me earn this trip,

I wanted to bless you with a goodie too!!

For EVERY $35 order placed on my website during the month of February 2015…

I will SEND you a FREE pack of our 4x6 FABULOUS flip flaps!!  

When your order is placed, please contact me to tell me you just placed the qualifying order & I’ll get those flip flaps mailed to you right away!  Wahoo!! J

Are Flip Flaps something NEW to you???  You don’t know WHAT you are missing!!  WE have a VARIETY of sizes & they are the PERFECT solution to create beautiful, uncrowded pages - but still get a LARGE amount of pictures on the page!!! 

Here are the many sizes we carry...

Want to learn more??? J 

Take a peek at my fellow consultant, Noreen Petty’s, FABULOUS video showing us how AMAZING these flip flaps are!!  I even knew how GREAT these flip-flaps were…but Noreen was SO CREATIVE in her MANY used of these fabulous embellishments!! 

Thanks so much for all of your well wishes & congrats and thank YOU once again for helping me to achieve this amazing goal!! 

Blessings to EACH of you and  Aloha!!! J

Krista J

 

Earn FREE CTMH product by joining the party!

Hawaii Mystery Hostess PARTY

All qualifying ONLINE orders

placed at  www.kristah.ctmh.com during the month of SEPTEMBER 2014 

will qualify to WIN!!J

 

****This PARTY is going on NOW, so head on over to www.kristah.ctmh.com J !****

*This offer is ONLY available through Krista Hershberger, CTMH Independent Consultant and will not be honored by any other CTMH consultant.  This special runs from Sept 1-30, 2014

***Place an order on my website  

& you will be ENTERED into a drawing to win FREE Close To My Heart items!!!  J

  
You will EARN TICKETS according to your subtotal total & the items you have on your order…and you will be ENTERED into the Mystery Hostess drawing!!  

****How do you enter??*****

Place an order ONLINE at my website (or call me to place your order) and CLICK the JOIN button next to "Hawaii Mystery Hostess Party" anytime from Sept 1-30^th. 

This will AUTOMATICALLY enter you into the drawing!!

*****How do you earn tickets? *****

· Every $25 in subtotal sales (total prior to shipping & tax) =1 ticket.

· Every Stamp of the Month set that is on your order= 3 more tickets

· Every #30 Years Of Happy stamp set in honor of Jeanette Lynton’s 30 years in the papercrafting business = 1 ticket for EACH stamp set you get for FREE!

I will EMAIL you with how many tickets you have earned, after you have joined the Mystery Hostess Party link AND completed your order.

***PLEASE NOTE****

Close To My Heart’s NEW Cricut cartridge ~ Artfully Sent ~ will be arriving in the next week or so…just in case you were waiting to order this wonderful NEW bundle, you can wait to place your order until then!!

****What could you WIN?****

$40 SPC  in Close To My Heart Products!!

The amount of entries, will determine how many $40 winners we have, YES…we could have more than one $40 winner!!!   According to my past Mystery Hostess parties, we have had 1-4....$40 winners!! 

 

This is ONE way I can say THANK YOU for helping me reach my goal of EARNING a trip to Hawaii with Close To My Heart!! 

I’m almost there J…and by the end of this month – I should be able to EARN this amazing trip!!

Blessings to each of you!!!

Krista J

Hawaii Swaps using Footloose!!!

I wanted to share 2 MORE scrapbook layouts using the Footloose paper pack that I received from my Hawaii swap!!!

 CLICK HERE if you’d like to see more items using Footloose paper.

This paper pack is AMAZING and is a perfect choice to use on any summer pictures – not just pictures from the beach! J

This adorable layout was created by fellow consultant Casey Spinks.  She created her OWN background paper using the ADORABLE stamp set that we received for earning this trip to Hawaii! 

I love the use of the Baker’s Twin and her fun shaped images for the title!!

Next we have a layout created by Helen Onulak. 

What a BEAUTIFUL creation!!!  (remember, you can click on the picture to see more detail!)

Helen used the seashell wooden shapes, which I have come to LOVE so much J…but she added a bit of color to them! 

Helen inked the starfish with a foam tool, and with Brown Bag ink.  Then she painted the Create-A-Shade pearl ink over top of the colored starfish!!!

BEAUTIFUL!!!

The stamp set she used is one that is currently available to all customers!!! 

It is called “Under the Sea” and is ONLY $13.95!!! 

With our June STAMPAGANZA special…you can purchase this stamp set, and one more stamp set BUT you will receive the 3rd one for FREE!!!! 

June is the perfect time to get the stamp sets that have been on your wish list!!! 

Buy TWO stamp sets, get ONE free

until June 30th!!!!

Enjoy this beautiful day!!!  Blessings to you!

Krista J

JUNE 2012 special…..

STAMPAGANZA!!!

If you are a “regular” CTMH friend, you know what this is all about and look forward to stocking up on your favorite stamps sets during this special!!

If you are NEW to CTMH, you will LOVE this special deal on our already AMAZINGLY priced stamp sets!!

CLICK HERE to check out the online Idea Book and browse for the stamp sets that have been on your wish list, or maybe you have a gift list that needs to be completed too!

****Keep in mind – STAMPAGANZA can be applied to this CURRENT Idea Book as well as the stamp sets shown in the 2012 Fall/Winter Idea Book!!! ****

CLICK HERE to go to my website and take advantage of this AMAZING Stampaganza Special -

ALL stamp sets (sizes A-E)~

Buy TWO get ONE FREE !!!!!

Footloose Hawaiian 2 page layouts :)

I would like to share a layout I created for our Hawaiian swap! 

After we arrived home from my CTMH Hawaii cruise in March, I created a two page layout using the Footloose Paper Pack…

an Exclusive Hawaiian Stamp set…

and any embellishments that coordinated with this paper kit.

WHAT FUN!!!!

I used the Magic how-to-book pattern “Enchantment” for my layout design and then filled in the layout with our coordinating papers!

After creating my 2 page layout – I created 8 more 2 page layouts of the exact same thing! J

I sent all the layouts to one particular consultant  (thanks Sara!J )and she grouped me with 8 other Hawaiian Cruisers and sorted out the 2 page layouts and mailed me back 9 DIFFERENT 2 page layouts !! 

What a GREAT way to get ideas, techniques and scrapbook pages completed for my Hawaii Cruise 2012 Album! J

Here is the layout I created…

The flowers were cut with the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  I used Smoothie cardstock and White Daisy.

The center of my flowers, are a paper flower from the Paradise Paper Flower collection.  I inked the edges of these paper flowers in Smoothie ink.  I am finding myself using these flowers for SOOO many  things!!!

Notice the leaves for my flowers…they are actually a stamp that is supposed to be a clam image!!!  I stamped those “leaves” in sweet leaf ink, tucked them behind the flowers and you never know they are clams!

I used a “zip strip”- the 1/2” strip at the top of all of our paper packs (LOVE that little extra J) and finished it off with Durables, Baker’s Twine and Wooden Shapes. 

Did you notice my base pages?  See the two toned color???  This is called the suede method and it’s very QUICK and EASY to do!!!

Take your open ink pad, turn upside down like you are going to “stamp” the ink pad on the 12x12 piece of cardstock.  Instead, start making your ink pad go in circles, and eventually touch down on your 12x12 paper – still swirling or making your ink pad go in circles!  This will create a swirl/suede design on your base pages!!!  I used Bamboo ink on Bamboo cardstock and it really shows a nice contrast. 

I added a frame to my title, by dry embossing around the outside.  I then took my Bamboo ink pad and “distressed” the raised lines with ink. 

Something else I hadn’t done in awhile – I created a shadow on my title.  I used Lagoon ink for the “Aloha” , stamped it and after stamping, just moved the stamp over 1/8th (without re-inking) and stamped again to give it the shadow effect!!

I hope you were inspired and are ready to create your OWN artwork! J

Don’t forget about JUNE’S special…..

STAMPAGANZA!!!

If you are a “regular” CTMH friend, you know what this is all about and look forward to stocking up on your favorite stamps sets during this special!! If you are NEW to CTMH, you will LOVE this special deal on our already AMAZINGLY priced stamp sets!!

CLICK HERE to check out the online Idea Book and browse for the stamp sets that have been on your wish list, or maybe you have a gift list that needs to be completed too!

CLICK HERE to go to my website and be one of the FIRST to get the Stampaganza Special - Buy TWO get ONE FREE stamp sets!!!

Blessings to you and may you have a wonderful week!!!

Krista J

THANK YOU, Close To My Heart...

...for making a DREAM vacation come TRUE!!!!

We did arrive back from our Hawaiian Cruise with CTMH and it was WONDERFUL!!! 


I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for this opportunity and reward that we were blessed with!  We were so pampered, and I am STILL amazed that we were in Hawaii – a dream that I thought would never come true!!!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures…if you’d like to see more pictures, you can find me on Facebook.  I’m not very techy J, but I believe if you type in Krista Derstine Hershberger in the search engine in FB…you should be able to view my Hawaiian photo album because I made it a public album! 


Enjoy the pictures…and I will be posting again soon!!!

Hanauma Bay in Honolulu, HI

Black Sand beach on the Road to Hana in Maui

Our ship, Pride of America

The steam rising out the ground at Volcanoes National Park in Hilo, HI

Rainbow Falls

69 Close To My Heart Consultants earned this trip…67 were able to join us for the week

Bird of Paradise

USS Arizona – Pearl Harbor

Hibiscus at The Punch Bowl Cemetery

Blessings,
 Krista

Hawaii and Cruisin’

I am in Palm Tree heaven J…for those that know me, know that my favorite tree is the Palm Tree…meaning I NEED to limit myself in taking pictures of JUST palm trees! LOL!!!

We have arrived in Hawaii and are EXCITED to meet some more of our fellow cruise members on board the boat later today!!!!

I thought I’d share artwork of Cruisin’ this morning…it’s 9:30am back in the states, but only 4:30am here in Hawaii. Oh time change – LOL!!

This BEAUTIFUL artwork was created by my talented downline, Sheri Reiff! 

I think she did a BEAUTIFUL job and I was VERY impressed with her results using the Cruisin’ paper pack!!!

Take a closer look at the picture…isn’t the baby card (with the elephant) ADORABLE???  I believe that’s my favorite…if I had to chose!

For the stamped images, Sheri used…
G1039 Cruisin’ WOTG stamp set
D1504 Fashionista
C1501 New Arrival
C1494 Card Word Puzzle

If you’d like to see ALL the designs in these amazing stamp sets – just click on the name of the stamp set and you can view the entire stamp set!

Mahola (thanks) and have a great day!

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Blessings to each of you!!!

Krista Hershberger J

Close To My Heart Independent Consultant

359 Warwick Road, Elverson, PA 19520

610-587-9116

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