Retiring Soon ….Post #4–Pretty Poinsettias, Oh Deer & Shimmer Ribbon

In case you haven’t heard….my last couple of BLOG posts, I’ve been sharing items that are RETIRING on Dec 31, 2016 OR While Supplies Last!!

These items are some of "My Favorite Things" and I wanted to make sure you don’t miss out on these products, especially if they are a part of your wish list.  

As you may have heard, Close To My Heart's Holiday Expression "mini" book, will be ending on December 31, 2016. 

At CTMH, we have a NEW mini book that arrives every 4 months....so that means our NEW Seasonal Expression 1 "mini" book will be arriving on Jan 1, 2017.

So make sure to check your wish list, and make sure you have what you need from the Holiday Expression mini book prior to its retirement. 

If you’ve missed the previous posts, you can find them at these links below…

POST #1 – Jolly Holiday stamp & City Sidewalks paper

POST #2 – Woodland Wishes thin cut bundle & snowflake embossing folder

POST #3 – Oh Deer, Perfectly Pine stamp & Jingle

Come join me as we look at another one of CTMH’s FABULOUS products that will be leaving us soon! 

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Let’s take a look at festive Christmas card!  This card was created by Kate Fisher for our Christmas Cardmaking Day we held back at the end of September…so pretty!

How pretty, and “Christmasy” this card turned out to be!

The focal point of this card, is the poinsettias.  And…the stamp set name is “Pretty Pointsettias”.  It’s a B-size stamp set (B1540) & that means it is only $9.95! 

She also used the soon-to-be-gone – black shimmer ribbon,

the Oh Deer paper pack & the word JOY came from the stamp set “Very Merry”….another GREAT Christmas stamp set – check it out!!

Here is a close up of the pretty flower….

This flower stamp set is one that caught my eye, immediately upon its release in September.  Even though this stamp set had a Christmas name….or made me think of Christmas, I was determined to create a non-Christmasy layout. So…I went to the drawing board and this is what I came up with…what do you think?

This was the layout that was part of my all day crop in Sept 2016.   The ladies loved it and I will be creating a 2nd page to this layout as soon as I get a chance. 

We’ll finish this post, with one more card from the CTMH Art department using the “Pretty Poinsettia” stamp set… 

Don’t forget these products WILL end on Dec 31, 2016 OR While Supplies Last!! 

I hope you enjoyed this card, and stay tuned as I feature MORE products that will be retiring in the next few days!!   

Blessings to EACH of you!!

Krista Hershberger

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Christmas Card Making Day 2012

What happens when you have 48 ladies PLUS 10 consultants in one room for a 7 hour period? J

Our 5th

Christmas Card Making Day

in Lancaster County!!! Yayyy!!!

Our day was FILLED with laughter and fun, there was scrumptious food to be eaten AND of COURSE – BEAUTIFUL Christmas Cards were created!!!!

This day is always a special day and well worth the time and energy put into creating this day for our customers!!!  This year we SOLD OUT of tickets 2 weeks prior to the event and were packed full with 48 people!  Everyone created 12 items to take home with us, won some door prizes and took home MANY ideas they plan to create on their own!!

Continue reading, to see what a FUN day we had – and maybe YOU will be able to join us for next year’s event! J

***Recipes for the Cranberry Jell-O & Taco Soup will be at the end of this post. J

48 Goodie Bags – READY TO GO!!!  Everyone received a bag to put their created masterpieces inside.  They also received in their bags – sparkles and pre-cut Cricut pieces that were cut with our NEW Artiste cartridge!

As everyone came to pick up their goodie bag, they also had opportunity to use the  October Stamp of the Month to create a tag for their bag! 

My teammate, Nickie Hoffer, created this ADORABLE display board, showing how they could create the different tags!  The customers also had pieces in their bags to create the 3x3 card shown in this picture.  The standard card, was an example of how they could create a 2nd card with the extra pieces in their bags! J

These were all the Cricut pre-cut items in everyone's bag.  In their spare moments throughout the day, each person took time to come back up to this table to stamp their tag, card, banner, etc. and then could take those items with them.

Nickie even created a cupcake to show how the stamped cupcake wrapper would look used!!!

Here is the layout of the room…yes, it is an older fire hall, complete with interesting, decorative, 50’s wallpaper! J

We had 6 tables around the room.  Each table had a group of 8 ladies. This group of 8 ladies stayed together the entire day as they rotated clockwise to each of the 6 tables, creating a new item at each table. Six items were created in the morning, and six items in the afternoon for a TOTAL of 12 items created during the day!!! 

The beloved – DOOR PRIZE table!  Each person at Card Making Day went home with a door prize!  It may have been a handcrafted item, or a product from CTMH…there were MANY items to chose from!!!

The GRAND PRIZE of the day was the Pear & Partridge Card Making kit!!!  Everyone’s name was put back into the pot – to have a chance at WINNING this kit!!!

If there was any extra time…everyone had the opportunity to come to the “middle table” to use the many different sentiments to stamp inside their cards, their envelopes, etc. 

One of my FAVORITE display items, created by my team member – Brenda Rutt- is her traditional, yearly Christmas Trees!

I love how she chose to decorate them….using Christmas CARDs, rather than ornaments!!!  LOVE this idea and our customers love it too!!!

Here are a few pictures, sharing with you artwork from our display tables.  Take a look at the room layout picture above…the entire left side of the room was lined with tables, displaying MANY pieces of artwork!!!

The wreath below is beautiful!  Designer is Elizabeth Mindemann

Flirty & Avonlea creations

Items shown are mostly using the La Belle Vie paper pack.

I hope you enjoyed the quick view of what our day was like…

I ENCOURAGE you to check back here at my blog in the next day or so J …I will be sharing all TWELVE items we created during at our Christmas Card Making day!!!!

Now for the RECIPES – that many of you have been asking about…


ENJOY and Blessings to you!!!
 Krista Hershberger J

Layered Cranberry Jello
16 oz. can crushed pineapple
water
2- 3 oz. pkgs. cherry or cranberry gelatin
16 oz. can whole cranberry sauce
1 cup sour cream
1. Thoroughly drain and reserve juice from crushed pineapple.
2. To pineapple juice add enough water to measure 2 cups.
3. In a medium saucepan bring juice and water to a boil.  Stir in gelatin until dissolved.
4. Remove from heat.  Stir in pineapple & cranberry sauce.  Pour 1/2 of mixture into a glass serving bowl and chill until set.  Keep remaining gelatin mixture at room temperature.
5. Spread sour cream over firm gelatin and pour reserved gelatin mixture over sour cream.  Refrigerate until firm. 
Makes 10-12 servings

***for Card Day – I did a double batch of this and put it in a 9x 13 pan.

Taco Soup

1 lb. ground beef, browned and drained
28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
15 1/4 oz. can corn, undrained
15 oz, can black beans, undrained
15 1/2 oz can red kidney beans, undrained
1 envelope dry Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix
1 envelope dry taco seasoning
1 small onion, chopped
Tortilla or Corn chips
Shredded cheese
Sour cream
1. Combine all ingredients except the last three, in the slow cooker.
2. Cover. Cook on low for 4-6 hours.
3. Garnish individual servings with chips, cheese and sour cream!

October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

This month we will be featuring Close To My Heart’s October SOTM, which is called “ Very Merry Christmas” a set of 11 stamps, that will help remind you that CHRISTMAS is on the way! J

If you have come here from Tamra Pope’s blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around. If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants HERE.

This month we have OVER 65 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM!! Wahoo!!! I LOVE to see how others have used this BEAUTIFUL stamp set!!!

This Blog Hop is simple to do…just CLICK on the link at the end of the post on each blog and move along to the next one!!!

Have FUN and happy hopping!!!

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Instead of the “traditional” colors that I normally use to create Christmas items, I decided to try using our La Belle Vie paper pack to go with this Christmas stamp set!

As I created my cards, I was excited with the end results!!!

Using the colors of our new Champagne ink color and our traditional color of Smokey Plum ink. It turned out to be a very elegant card!

A few close up pictures…

I used the script words in this stamp set to create a BACKGROUND for my mittens.

I also enjoyed adding the almond glitz glitter gel (NEW!) to add a bit of glitz and sparkle to my striped background paper AND my mittens!

On the 2nd card, I again used the script wording for a background, and used the famous almond glitz J – but I also pulled in one more stamp set…Snowflakes…to add the border at the bottom of the card.

I hope you enjoyed my creation using this stamp set…BUT this hop is not over!!! J

Next stop is Katy Taylor’s BLOG!!! Hop on over to check out what she has created with this beautiful stamp set!! J

Be sure to visit ALL the Consultants at their Blogs…and feel free to leave comments as you go through the Hop! It’s so much fun reading comments about each piece of artwork!

This stamp set “Very Merry Christmas”,

is ONLY available from October 1st- 31st …so contact your CTMH Consultant (or feel free to shop with me at my website J) to see how YOU can get this EXCLUSIVE stamp set for an AMAZING discount!!

Happy Creating,

Krista J