Christmas Gift Card Holder

This gift card holder was inspired by Barb Carico. I used the Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut the card base and the Pear and Partridge paper and the October SOTM to embellish.

 



 



Christmas Ornament

It has been a while. Time just seems to slip by. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
My sister and I went out Black Friday shopping. We didnt think we would make it this year. She has not been feeling well lately. We didnt go out early but it was early enough. We had loads of fun.

Here's something to put everyone in the Christmas mood. I had seen all the Christmas ornaments everyone was making and I wanted to try one for myself. I think it turned out great. You can let me know what you think. I cut the shapes with the Cricut Artiste Cartridge.

CTMH Cricut Artiste How To Know Which Size Cuts To Make

Great video for Cricut sizing.  Very helpful!

Win A FREE Cricut Artiste Collection

How would you like to win your very own Artiste Cricut Collection for FREE? To celebrate the launch of Close To My Heart's new Fall/Winter Idea Book and new Artiste Cricut Cartridge I have a bundle to give away to one lucky person.

To enter, place a $50 product order with me from August 1-31, 2012 and your name will be entered into a drawing for the Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  You will receive an entry for every $50 product order. For example, if you place a $100 product order, you will receive 2 entries, $150-3 entries and so on. Product order excludes taxes and shipping costs.

If you are wondering, “What in the world is an Artiste Cricut Collection?” I must say that it contains the most amazing Cricut cartridge I have seen yet. Just like the incredible Art Philosophy Collection, this one will take your creativity over the top! With 698 exclusive images (and a square and a circle), the cartridge features themed projects, interactive cards, awards, and more! From robots and spooks to wedding and Valentines, your cupcake liners, invitations, and party favors will coordinate and quickly come together for any celebration! Cutting and assembling the MANY 3-D items is a snap using the projects reference chart and separate, step-by-step assembly book.

The Artiste Collection includes:

• 1 – Cartridge (with 700 exclusive images including themed projects, cards, font, shapes, cupcake liners, accordion and rolled flowers, and TONS of 3-D boxes, purses, and other items)
• 3 – new D-Sized coordinating stamp sets
• 3 – sheets of coordinating chipboard shapes (with speech bubbles, a mini album, and lots of banner shapes)
• 1 – project reference guide
• 1 – step-by-step assemble book

Check out all of these great shapes including 50+ boxes, bags, tags, sentiments, banners, borders, a font, 50+ different cards and coordinating envelopes, 18 cupcake liners, 3-D flowers and rosettes, 3-D bows, and 100s more incredible images that coordinate with CTMH stamp sets!

Click here to download the full color Artiste handbook.

Click here to download the full color assembly instruction book.

Plus, don’t forget that when you purchase the Cricut Artiste Collection, you’ll also receive three exclusive D-size stamp sets and three sets of Dimensional Elements (chipboard) designed to perfectly coordinate with images on the cartridge. That’s a retail value of nearly $125 for just for $99!

 And,  if you can’t wait until September 1st to see if you won, order the Collection now and if you win, I will reimburse you $99 for the full cost of the bundle!

I will post the winner here on my blog on Saturday, September 1st. I will also email the winner. He/She will have (1) week to contact me or I will choose a new winner.

Thanks for visiting and good luck!

This giveaway will close at midnight (Eastern Time) on August 31st. The winner will be announced on September 1st.

Please note that this giveaway is sponsored by Susan Acheson and not by the Close to my Heart Corporate office or any other Consultant.

New Cricut Artiste

I am so happy to announce Close To My Heart will have a new Cricut Cartridge, Artiste, available for purchase August 1, 2012.

Click here for images.

The new Cricut® Artiste collection takes your creativity over the top! With 700 images, the

cartridge features themed projects, interactive cards, awards, and more. From robots and spooks

to weddings and Valentines, your cupcake liners,invitations, and party favors will coordinate and quickly come together for any celebration!Cutting and assembling the numerous 3-D items is a snap

using the project reference chart and separate, step-by-step assembly booklet.When you purchase the Cricut® Artiste collection, you’ll get three coordinating exclusive stamp sets and three Dimensional Elements 12" x 9" sheets that will help your artwork come to life, transforming the ordinary into amazing!

Contact me today to get the entire collection—with a retail value of nearly $125—for just $99!