CTMH Technique Blog Hop - Let’s Interact

If you are coming from Wendy Kessler's Blog you are in the right place.

What a fun challenge this Blog Hop is this month. I have made explosion cards before but I needed a special card for a special kiddo from school so I made this slider type of card.  Let me explain.  We have a great kid that is at the school I work at and I always have a big cup from Lambert's Cafe with me.  He asked me one day what the guy on it was throwing.  I told him it was rolls, that there is this restaurant in Missouri that is the Home of Throwed Rolls.  They will actually throw rolls from across the restaurant to you.  He became fascinated with this.  So, one day, my cousin had posted some videos of her kids catching rolls there.  I showed my friend Q and he thought they needed to change the 4th grade field trip from the Texas Capital to Lambert's Cafe.  So, since he will be leaving Erma Nash this year, I wanted to get him his own cup to hopefully remember me by because I will most definitely remember my little Gamer Buddy!  He's going to be missed by all of us!  I used some scraps from the Urban Paper Pack and the new stamp set "Smarty Pants Occasions" along with my watercolor pencils and the new Waterbrush Medium Point for blending.

I am so lucky to work in an elementary school and get to have millions of smiles from great kids like Q.  I hope you all are as blessed to be touched by the innocence of children because there is nothing as wonderful!

Now hop on over to Kirsten Jade's Blog to continue the hop!

April Stamp of the Month - Life In Pictures

OK my little Photobugs!  Here is a great new stamp set that is available for just $5 this month with a qualifying order.  It is a must have and makes for these great cards!  I also used my Cricut Artistry Cartridge to make the cute film strip in the card below.


  

If you are interested in this cool stamp set, go HERE to see the details.

FREE Cricut Collection????

Oops, looks like I was on the right track just a little early yesterday when I posted how great it is being a part of the Heartfelt Sentiments Team.  Today, our Corporate office annouced a new recruiting special for April.  Check it out, you can even earn a free Cricut Collection!  I'm pretty sure that this will be the best offer for signing on as a consultant this year!  Here it is:

Signing up as a new Consultant with Close To My Heart during April is more rewarding than ever. When you sign up as a New Consultant you already get:

• New Consultant Kit with essential supplies for only $75
• $50 in Select Product Credit to spend on additional supplies
• The chance to earn fantastic Straight To The Top start-up rewards

And only during April, you can also earn your choice of a FREE Cricut® collection or an additional $100 in Select Product Credit when you submit $350 in personal sales within your first 30 days!

If you love to scrapbook, make cards, or do any kind of papercrafting, being a consultant with Close To My Heart is a great way to earn your products for free and even make a bit of extra cash.

I signed on a year ago and I have loved every minute of it.  The relations I have built with my customers and the other Consultants will last my lifetime and then some because I am preserving these memories with our great products!

Come join me today.  YOU are worth it!

ROADTRIP!!!!!!!

Today is a perfect day for a roadtrip with the girls!  We are headed to Houston for the new Product Release that is coming your way May 1st.  Remember, you only have thru April 30th to order products out of the Seasonal Expressions I catalog, or while supplies last.  Don't miss anything from your wish list, go HERE.

Enjoy your Friday!

Happy Birthday Sketch Challenge

Well, today is my baby boy's 18th birthday.  Happy Birthday Anthony, you have given me so much joy and happiness.

So, in honor of those special boys in our lives, I am posting a card sketch challenge.  In doing this challenge myself, I realized how much I love using our How-To books because they are so easy to follow and enable me to create quickly.  Here is the sketch I used from our Make It from Your Heart Volume 2 idea book.  

Here is the card I created for Anthony:

I used the Urban Paper Pack and Accessories.  The stamp sets I used were Cricut Artiste Collection Birthday for the cupcake & Jennifer's Hand for the letters.

Go ahead and try this sketch challenge and post your finished projects here. If you haven't used the How-To sketches before I'm sure you will love it.

Buy Two Stamp Sets, Get One Free!

Let the Stampaganza begin! 

The wait is over! Who is ready for Stampaganza 2016? Let me show you how.  Simply buy any two My Acrylix® stamp sets (M-, A-, B-, C-, D-, or E-size) at full retail price and get a third stamp set of equal or lesser value FREE! That is a savings of up to $29.95 USD! This offer is only available during March, so start submitting your stamp orders as soon as possible, and let the Stampaganza begin! Now is the time to stock up on our alphabet stamp sets.  Go HERE to shop.

*Offer valid March 1, 2016 (9:00 am MST)–March 31, 2016 (11:59 pm MDT) while supplies last. No tax will be charged on the free item(s). Shipping/handling is calculated based on the full retail price of all items, including the free item(s).

March Card Buffet Featuring the Stamp of the Month

 

Just want to share the cute cards I made over the weekend using our March SOTM, Sunshine Birdies.  What I love about this set is not only the cutest birds ever,  but the sentiment "You Are My Sunshine".  When my kids were babies, I would sing this to them as I rocked them.  I was really suprised about a month or two ago when my daughter, who is 15 now and into alternative music, asked if she could download Johnny Cash's song, "You Are My Sunsine".  Do you think that stuck with her and the familiarity of it pulled at her heartstrings?  I'd like to think so.

If you'd like to come to the card buffet on March 22nd to play with this stamp set, go HERE to sign up for the event.  Since I just got this website up and running, I will extend the payment due date to March 20th.