Fall in love with all the new accessories, My Acrylix stamps and papers from Close To My Heart. The brand-new Spring/Summer Idea Book is packed with fresh, trendy products and inspiration.
Here's a sneak peek of the 8 gorgeous paper packs featured throughout the Idea Book that goes live tomorrow, February 1st.
"Close To My Heart shows you how to celebrate relationships through discovering your creativity, to preserve
and share the moments that matter most."
I'm just about finished a pair of fingerless mittens for my oldest daughter and will have enough yarn leftover for another project. I found this beautiful Plaited Headwrap over on French Press Knits and think it will be perfect for Haley. Plus, Melynda has shared it as a free pattern and includes step-by-step directions for the assembly. Love it when great designers share their patterns!
Rainbows are all the rage and can be seen everywhere in the crafty-world right now. Jeanette Lynton and CTMH are always spot-on with current trends in the paper crafting industry. I love the card shown above! Simply, yet sophisticated, and over-flowing with color, while textured and layered with a white border. And how easy to use up leftover scraps of favorite papers!
"Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure Big Miracle tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and an animal-loving volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Local newsman Adam Carlson can’t wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market. But just when the story of his career breaks, the world comes chasing it, too. With an oil tycoon, heads of state and hungry journalists descending upon the frigid outpost, the one who worries Adam the most is Rachel Kramer. Not only is she an outspoken environmentalist, she’s also his ex-girlfriend.
With time running out, Rachel and Adam must rally an unlikely coalition of Inuit natives, oil companies and Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales. As the world’s attention turns to the top of the globe, saving these endangered animals becomes a shared cause for nations entrenched against one another and leads to a momentary thaw in the Cold War."
Everyone is invited to join in the Make a Miracle Challenge by helping raise funds to provide reconstructive surgeries for children around the world through Operation Smile®. It takes as little as $240 to help provide a surgery and change a young life for the better. Between January 1 and March 31, the Close To My Heart Consultant who raises the most in donations will have the opportunity to go on an Operation Smile international mission. Learn more at www.closetomyheart.com.
3. All other things you need including food, car insurance and lunch money are incidental in comparison to what you need for scrapbooking (paper crafting).
4. You can't take it with you applies only to money. Begin getting your loved ones accustomed to the fact that you intend to be buried with your albums (paper craft projects).
5. If you think there is a ghost of a chance that you might use it in a future project, buy it now, because if you need it later, there won't be a substitute.
6. A scrapbooker (paper crafter) must purchase appropriate storage containers, shelves, bins, units etc all for scrapbook (paper crafting) related purchases.
7. A scrapbooker (paper crafter) has the right and responsibility to discard all previously purchased storage systems in order to purchase a new more appropriate system at any time.
8. Scrapbooking (paper crafting) is an inexpensive hobby. This can be proved by applying "Blondes logic" to your purchases. For example, no hobby where the supplies usually cost under $100.00 can possibly be as expensive as big ticket male hobbies such as restoring vintage cars, radio controlled planes etc. This just makes sense.
9. Scrapbooking (paper crafting) actually saves money. Scrapbooking (paper crafting) promotes do it yourself philosophy. By applying "Blondes logic" you can conclude you can't afford not to scrapbook.
