Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Best Friends Furever

Best Friends Furever is a wonderful way to document favorite memories with our dogs or cats or both.

Best Friends Furever
There are a few options for purchasing the Best Friends Furever promotion; as a Cut Above® Kit or a Workshop with or without stamp sets or papers, cardstock and stamps:

Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Kit (CC11194)
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Best Friends Furever Workshop Kit
with Stamp Sets (CC11197)
Best Friends Furever Workshop Kit
(CC11198)
Best Friends Furever Paper Packet
+ Sticker Sheet (CC11191)
Best Friends Furever Paper Packet
(CC11192)
paper in Best Friends Furever Paper Packet and Best Friends Furever Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet
paper in Best Friends Furever Paper Packet and Best Friends Furever Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet
paper in Best Friends Furever Paper Packet and Best Friends Furever Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet
sticker sheet only included in
Best Friends Furever Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet
Best Friends Furever Coordinating Cardstock
(CC11193)
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Eat Play Love
(CC11195)
Kitty Cuddles
(CC11196)

The Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Kit creates the following pages (canine option on top or feline option on the bottom):

Cut Above® image 1
Cut Above® image 2
Cut Above® image 3
Cut Above® image 4
Cut Above® image 5
Cut Above® image 6
Cut Above® image 7
Cut Above® image 8
Cut Above® image 9
Cut Above® image 10

This flyer summaries the Best Friends Furever Cut Above® special:

Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Flyer - front
Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Flyer - back

If you would like to download a copy of the Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Flyer to review later, you will find a PDF here.

If you select the Best Friends Furever Workshop Kit (with stamp sets or without stamp sets) and follow the Workshop Guide, you will create the following pages and cards:

Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
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Project 4
Project 5
Project 6
Project 7
Project 8
Project 9

This flyer summaries the Best Friends Furever Workshop special:

Best Friends Furever Workshop Flyer - front
Best Friends Furever Workshop Flyer - back

You can download a PDF copy of the Best Friends Furever Workshop flyer here.

If you do not already have them in your crafty stash, there are a few additional items needed to complete the projects as shown; all of the additional items needed are pictured near the bottom of the Best Friends Furever promotion page.
Best Friends Furever is available until December 31 while supplies last.

If you have any questions, please reach me via the contact form to the right. I will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for visiting today.

Friday, November 1, 2019

CTMH Family Time SOTM Blog Hop - November 2019

Welcome to the November 2019 SOTM Blog Hop featuring the stamp set Family Time. This month there are about 20 Consultants sharing projects created with the CTMH Stamp Of The Month Family Time. Our blog hop is a circle; visiting the next blog (typically via a link near the bottom of their post) will take you back to where you started.

Family Time Blog Hop Badge
You should have arrived here from ***Melinda Everitt's If You Bling It***. If you get lost along the way, Melinda Everitt also keeps a list of all participants on her blog at If You Bling It.

Family Time SOTM Stamp Set
I enjoy creating cards and I hope when they are received they brighten that person's day. To that end, here is a recent card I created.

Card created for the Family Time (November 2019 SOTM) Blog Hop
I wanted to highlight the beautiful fall colors so I selected some new colors that remind me of autumn. I cut the cardstock strips from the Art Philosophy collection. So the white of card did not show through the bottom scallop strip I trimmed ⅛" off the bottom of the card front. To aid with layering and spacing the cardstock strips I lightly drew a horizontal line at the center (from top to bottom) of the card and then horizontal lines at the top and bottom center of those halves (creating four sections). I placed adhesive at the top of each lighter strip and lined them up at the top fold and each line (as I write this I wish I'd taken photos). Then add adhesive at the top of each darker strip and shimmy the top under the lighter strip and press down once you are happy with the appearance.

Before stamping I tried to make sure covered the entire front with the Anti-static pouch. I used a stamp platform to stamp because I knew I would need to have a nice juicy image to compensate for an uneven background. When removing the excess embossing powder, I was extra careful to pick up the card from the top so the embossing powder did not sneak into the scallops.

Here is where I have to admit I did not test my adhesive to make sure it would hold up under heat. While I heated the embossing powder the adhesive failed and I had to piece my card front back together. I think it turned out OK in the end; I hope you do too.

Before you head to ***Brandi Robinson's crzy4scrapbooking***, the supplies I used to create my project are listed below.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart except where noted:
If you are not already working with a CTMH Independent Consultant, you can purchase many of the supplies I used on my Consultant Website. The Art Philosophy collection is available on Cricut®'s website – my Cricut® Affiliate Link will take you there.

If you have a little time, please leave a comment letting me know what you think of my card. Thank you for hopping with us!

So you do not have to scroll back up, the next stop on the hop is ***Brandi Robinson's crzy4scrapbooking***.

November 2019 CTMH News

November 2019 brings us a beautiful Stamp Of The Month: Family Time.

Family Time (S1911) - CTMH SOTM November 2019
Family Time (S1911) is an exclusive D-size set of 18 stamps that is only available for purchase during the month of November 2019. The stamp set can be yours for $5 when you place an order of $50 or more in qualifying Close To My Heart products (and you qualify for additional sets at $5 for each $50 you spend). Alternatively it is available at $18.95. Recommended CTMH My Acrylix® Blocks for this stamp set are: 1" × 1" (Y1000), 1" × 3½" (Y1002), 2" × 2" (Y1003), 2" × 6½" (Y1010) and 5" × 6" (Y1015).

CTMH Corporate Artists created this beautiful two-page layout using the Family Time stamp set.

layout created with Family Time
If you would like a list of the products used to create the above layout, you will find the information in the Recipes, a PDF file that lists the products used to make the samples in the November/December 2019 Idea Book. I am participating in a Family Time blog hop this month; you will find my post here tomorrow. Please visit my November SOTM (S1911) Family Time Pinterest Board for other examples of how the Family Time stamp set was used.

Best Friends Furever

Best Friends Furever
The special being introduced in November is Best Friends Furever. The one-of-a-kind Best Friends Furever Cut Above® kit is perfect to document life with your furbaby or furbabies. This 6″ × 8″ layout kit features reversible die-cuts allowing us to choose dog or cat-focused titles and accents for a quick and easy project! Create even more fun, pet-themed projects using the other Best Friends Furever items, too! Learn more about this special from pages 42 and 43 of the November/December 2019 Supplemental Book:

Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Kit
Nov/Dec 2019 Book page 42
Best Friends Furever Cut Above® Kit
Nov/Dec 2019 Book page 43

There is also a flyer that you can download here (PDF format).

Holiday Cheer

Holiday Cheer
Holiday Cheer is available as an Ornament or Tag Kit or Tag & Ornament Kit. There are two exclusive stamp sets to coordinate with the kits. The kits were designed to coordinate with the Thin Cuts—Shaker Window & Confetti set (Z4309) which must be purchased separately. On October 3 I devoted a post to the special and all of the variations that are available.

This flyer also has all of the Holiday Cheer details:

Holiday Cheer Flyer - front
Holiday Cheer Flyer - back

You can download a PDF copy of the Holiday Cheer flyer here.

Holiday Cheer is available until November 30 while supplies last. To complete the kits you will also need the Thin Cuts—Shaker Window & Confetti set (Z4309) which will NOT be available in any of the bundles; it must be purchased separately.

Days of December

Days of December
Record your precious December memories in a 6" x 8" album with the Days of December special. Created pages for each day of December when you follow the Workshop Instructions. There are two kit options, one with stamps and Thin Cuts and one without. I blogged about this special earlier this month. This flyer also has all of the Days of December details:

Days of December Flyer - front
Days of December Flyer - back

You can download a PDF copy of the Days of December flyer here. Days of December is available until November 30 while supplies last.

November/December 2019 Idea Book & Catalog

Cover of November/December 2019 Idea Book
While items from the November/December 2019 Idea Book became available earlier this month, but today is the date listed on the cover. There are two new paper collections plus the Mix-in, many new stamps and embellishments, Thin Cuts and more.

Thank you for dropping by today. Have a fabulous November and a wonderful Thanksgiving.