Christmas Mini-Album

My Grandma and I toured the Lauritzen Garden Poinsettia Show and Conservatory Thanksgiving weekend. I took several photos that day and decided to make her a mini-album for Christmas.

I used Close To My Heart's Artbooking Cricut Cartridge, Yuletide Carol papers, Pear and a Partridge Picture My Life cards, current and retired embellishments, found items, and a smidgen of contraband to put together the book. I'm trying to use up my stash so I can order new goodies from Close To My Heart! The base cardstock colors are black, champagne, colonial white, new england ivy, and ruby.

The base of the mini-album is a re-purposed 3-ring binder. I used primarily the 11x8.5 Elegance Mini-Album from the Artbooking cartridge to cut the base and overlay pages. This was a lot of fun to make and it's filled with love for my Grandma! The best gift to give is time spent together, and the next best is a scrapbook to cherish those special memories.

Don't forget, the reason for the season is Jesus, the greatest Gift of all!
Have a very Merry Christmas!

Jen Lee
Independent Consultant
Close To My Heart

Announcing my new Girl's Night Out and Scrappy Chic Rewards Club!

One Friday a month I'll open the Scrappy Chic Workshop for an evening of scrappy fellowship and creative fun! Bring your projects to work on, and I'll have a special project for you to create as well!

August 22, 2014, from 6:00 pm to Midnight will be the next GNO Club and this will be our project:

Skylark Today Was a Wonderful Day Layout

To create this project at the Club, simply order:

X7177C Skylark Complements

by August 3, 2014

Then Contact me to let me know you'll be here. And I'll supply and prepare the rest for you! If you can't make it on August 22, we can create this project at a time and place that works for you or for $5 I'll mail the project to you!

Upcoming 2014 Girl's Night Out Dates:

September 19 - Chalk It Up

October 24 - Scaredy Cat

November 14 - Pathfinding

December 19 - Yuletide Carol

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Introducing the MY SCRAPPY CHIC REWARDS CLUB!

You can join any time, there is no commitment or obligation. It is a frequent shopper rewards program! I know that you have many choices in where you spend your crafting dollars, so I want to reward you for shopping with me. You can budget your purchases over a period of time and be rewarded with free products!

Here's how it works:
* Start your Club membership at any time by placing a $25+ order by contacting me or by using the My Scrappy Chic Gathering on my website when you place your order online.

* Your Club term will run 6 months from your starting month of choice. 

* Qualifying orders include all orders $25+. Including Studio J purchases, but excluding clearance items and cash & carry purchases.
* Club orders are due by the Selected Club Date except for Studio J purchases which can be placed at any time during the month.
* At the end of six months, I will add up your purchases (and those of any outside orders that you collect from friends/family not in the club), and you will receive CTMH Hostess Rewards in accordance with your retail spending total (excluding tax/shipping).
* Club membership is flexible, you can skip a month at any time.
* To keep your Club membership active, you must make purchases in at least 3 of the 6 months of your membership term.
* Your rewards are based on your cumulative 6 month spending total; the more you spend, the more you earn for FREE!

All one-time purchases of $150+ qualify for INSTANT Hostess Rewards, even without membership in the club!

Scrappy Chic Rewards Club membership is open to both long distance and local customers!
What are the benefits of Club membership?
* Earn $25 or more in FREE Close to My Heart products (depending on total spent during your 6-month Club term) (Click here for the detailed list of Hostess Rewards)
* Petite Perks stamp set ($2.95 retail value, to be your gift at the end of your 6-month term)
* Complimentary Idea Book
* Exclusive offers and sales for Club Members

Want to join? Send me an email and let me know! Orders are due by selected club Friday of each month. Shop with me and be rewarded!!!

Happy Scrapping!

Jen Lee
Independent Consultant
Close To My Heart
http://jenlee.ctmh.com

Fun with Skylark

To get ready for my Open House last night, I played with the remaining supplies from my Close To My Heart Consultant Kit. The theme was Skylark papers and embellishments.

This card was created using the zip strips. I trimmed them off of the 12x12 paper, then adhered them to a piece of cardstock taking care to match the pattern. Doing so created a chevron pattern.

Tools & Supplies:
X7177B Skylark Paper Packet
Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim (NEW)
Z2195 Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Z2111 Chocolate Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Z2153 Sweet Leaf Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Z1790 Cricut® Artiste Collection Exclusive My Acrylix® Stamp Set
Z1906 Cricut® Artbooking Collection Exclusive My Acrylix® Stamp Set

This little gift box was created with the Cricut® Artiste Collection (p. 37, 3D Object, 4" RDS, 7). Then I simply added an item from the Skylark Complements and a bit of Teal Shimmer Trim.

Tools & Supplies:
Z1790 Cricut® Artiste Collection
X7177C Skylark Complements
Z1918 Teal Shimmer Trim
Timberline Bulk Papers (N/A)


For make and takes at the Open House we created two cards:

Standard Card
Tools & Supplies:
X7177B Skylark Paper Packet
Z1928 Durables Triangle Studs
Z1921 Baker's Twine Neutral Metallic Assortment
C1595 Hello Summer My Acrylix® Stamp Set (NEW)
Z2111 Chocolate Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Z2642 Flaxen Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (NEW)

3" x 3" Square Card
Tools & Supplies:
S1408 What A Hoot – August 2014 Stamp of the Month (available only August 1-31, 2014)
Z2004 Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape (NEW)
1385 White Daisy Cardstock
Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim (NEW)
Z2195 Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Z2165 Juniper Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Z2118 Desert Sand Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Z2153 Sweet Leaf Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Items noted with a (NEW) will be available starting August 1, 2014.

Happy Scrapping!
Jen Lee
Independent Consultant
Close To My Heart
http://jenlee.ctmh.com

Hopping You'll Be My Valentine!

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My son Sam decided that he wanted froggy valentine's this year. So I made these hoppy little boxes for him to bring to class. They hold 4 kisses each.

Materials:

Z1686 Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection

X5906 Dark Green Cardstock Shade Pack (Garden Green)

Z2320 Garden Green Exclusive Inks® Marker

Z1701 Baker's Twine Neutral Assortment

1772 Memory Book Glue Dots®

1514 Tombow® Adhesive

Creatology Wiggle Eyes 24 mm from Michael's

I used the Cricut Craft Room online software to lay out the cuts to maximize paper usage and weld images together. When you see < > in the instructions below, that indicates the key used from the Cricut AP Cartridge.

I welded two <Oval2> images together for the back of the head, and welded a <Circle1>, to the two welded ovals, for the front of the head. I scored the back and front at 1 1/4" from the top, then I used Glue Dots to attach the wiggle eyes and regular Tombow to attach the back of the head to the front of the head. I did not put any adhesive on the bottom portion so that they could act as a flap to be attached to the box. I opened the flaps on the bottom of the head, attached 2 glue dots, then attached the head to the front of the box, using the split in the bottom of the back for placement around the ribbon hole cut in the box.

The box used is Font Layer <Oval1> cut at 5 1/2". This creates about a 2x2 sized final box.

The feet were created using <Shape12>, 4 of them 3/4" in size. I welded them to a 2" <Square7>. Then I attached this piece to the bottom of the box using a glue dot. Before they were attached, I had Sam write the To/From's on the bottom, so he'll know who to deliver them to come Valentine's day.

Finally I tied the box closed with a 6" strand of baker's twine.

I hope you enjoy this hoppy project. Sam and I sure enjoyed putting them together!

Happy Scrapping!

Jen Lee

Won't You Be My Valentine?

For my open house a week ago, I offered a cute make and take using the NEW Lucy papers. It's the recommended project from Close To My Heart. My daughter Lucy thought that they should be her valentine's for school this year. So I knocked out a couple dozen, and she wants to fill them with kisses for her friends.  Isn't it cute?

Materials List:

1388 Colonial White Cardstock

X7149B Lucy Paper Packet

Glitter Buttons (Consultant Exclusive)

A1121 My Acrylix A Blossom

Z2125 Grey Wool Exclusive Inks Pad

Z2106 Blush Exclusive Inks Pad

Z2167 Creme Brulee Exclusive Inks Pad

Z1686 Cricut Art Philosophy Collection

Contact me for more details to create this project yourself. You could even invite a few friends to your place or mine and we'll make them together!

Stay tuned tomorrow for Sam's valentines, they are hopping adorable!

Happy Scrapping!

Jen Lee

Party Favor Cake

Our little Lucy turned 4 years old last weekend and we partied it up! We spent Friday night and Saturday at a waterpark hotel with family and had a girlfriend gymnastics party on Sunday afternoon. What a weekend! I am way to old to party like a 4-year old! Luckily, she has energy enough for all of us!

My good friend came over Saturday and we put together this little party favor cake for Lucy's girlfriend gymnastics party.  We used an old pack of papers, the Cricut Expression, and the Tags Bags Boxes and More cartridge.  It was easy, once we picked the papers! 

We cut the pieces of cake each out of a whole 12x12 sheet of paper.  There are 20 pieces in all.  They contain the party favors!  The kids demolished the cake in no time flat, once I told them what was in the pieces.  It was like a swarm descended and all that was left was the bow; and a bunch of cute kids wearing party favor sunglasses, eating fruities, and blowing bubbles.

The bow was made by cutting 3/4" strips, with a pinking blade, of the remaining edge of the papers.  Then I sewed through both ends and used a button to tie off the top.  It was a piece of cake!