Artbooking Made Easy: Halloween Mini Albums

Today is this weeks Artbooking video. This time just in time for Halloween it shows what can be done with the keys that reference Halloween. There are some interesting tricks and tips that you can use in no matter what layouts or projects you are making.

Artbooking Made Easy: Spooky Halloween Layouts

It’s easy to make your spider webs stand out, full moons float, and black cats bounce off the page with the Cricut^® Artbooking collection. Learn a few sweet techniques for using the Halloween-themed keys in this video.

Base and Bling Necklace

Express yourself with your very own wearable crafting projects! With the Base & Bling line and Sarita textiles, you have just the right ingredients for showing off your creativity. Watch and learn for yourself how to craft and adhere flowers from the Base & Bling fabric necklace kit to complete your own beautifully embellished necklace.

This is such a fun new line of products and easy to make up the different jewelry items. But if you aren't interested in jewelry the base and bling assortments work easily on cards and layouts too. SO many possibilities.

Harmonious Hues

Make a little music with color-coordinated pages created with CTMH exclusive palette. With four fabulous families to choose from, finding just the right color of paper, ink, markers, and more is simple! See a sampling of products in this video then get them in a rainbow of exclusive colors to paint your own crafting world.

Enjoy the video.

Artbooking Made Easy : Summer Mini Album

Here is the second Artbooking cartridge video in the series. It is featuring a Summer Mini Album.

Mini albums can be made for so many different theme and events and is a quick fun way of showcasing such events. It is a little different than our 12 x 12 pages.

You can see more detail and pictures of the individual pages by going to Jeanette Lynton's site.
http://www.jeanettelynton.com/2013/09/artbooking-made-easy-summer-mini-albums.html

Enjoy the video!!!

Project Inspiration: Mixed Papers

Here is another Project Inspiration video by CTMH.  You can find the stamp set on page 101 of the Autumn/Winter Idea Book 2013.

This is to get you thinking outside the kit. Even though the paper packs are created with a theme in mind, various papers from various kits work well when mixed together. Choose your favorites form different packs and create anew design. Watch this video to see how it is done.

Video on CTMH three cricut cartridges

Each one of the CTMH cartridges comes with 700 different images!! There is a Font and images. That alone makes them amazing. When deciding which one to get first that depends on what type of papercrafting you are doing at the moment. Each cartridge comes as a bundle with 3 stamp sets and 3 sheets of chipboard elements. So they are all of equal value.

  Because as a suite of cartridges they pretty much cover all your papercrafting needs as the three contain 2,100 images all together that can be combined and resized to make just about anything your imagination can create!
Here is a brief description of each cartridge.

Art Philosophy - your one stop shop for all you foundational basic and iconic shapes, tags and card bases.  From acorns to snowflakes this one is chock full of 700 images that cover a range of papercrafting needs.

Artiste - if you are planning a party or like to give gifts in specialty wrapping this is the one for you.  I love the party hats, the gift boxes, cupcake wrappers and themed parties on this one and use it extensively now to decorate for any occasion.

Artbooking - The focus is on scrapbooking - both traditional 12x12 pages as well as themed mini-books.  The 700 images include photo mats, overlays, borders, icons, font and more.  Everything is size linked together to make scrapping a breeze but all can be used individually and sized for any type of project.

Now take a peek at the video for some more info.

"Artbooking Made Easy" CTMH video

Because our new Artbooking Cartridge is so different from most cartridges on the market, Close to my Heart is putting together a weekly video series from now through April 2014 to give us all some guidance and inspiration on how to best utilize this amazing new tool.  This is the first quick episode in the series and definitely worth watching for the adorable mini book they show!

Project Inspiration Pocket Album

You will find a beautiful Christmas stamp set on page 81 of the current Autumn/Winter 2103 CTMH Idea Book. In this Project Inspiration CTMH video they are not only featuring this stamp set but also the My Creations Kraft Pocket Album found on page 126. Although you can make this pocket album into many different types of albums in this video you will see how to make it an album to hold all the beautiful Christmas Cards you will get. Check out this video to see how.

Project Inspiration Cricut Tags

Today I have another Project Inspiration video from CTMH . You can find the stamp set they are featuring on page 105 in the current Autumn/Winter Idea Book 2013. It is a very versatile stamp set for making tags for all occasions. Take a look at this quick video giving you a bit of inspiration for all those tags we all need to make at one time or aother.

Find It. Crush It. Love It.

You've most likely have seen Smash books in the craft stores. Well CTMH has come out with there version which are called Crush Books. They re a quick fun way of documents memories on the go. A place to put those ticket stubs, maps, postcards etc.

Here is a quick video describing the Crush Book by CTMH.

Designed Decor Delights

CTMH  has many new items in the current Idea Book. Amongst them are some Home Décor items. Check out this short video which shows some of the cute items.

Base and Bling

In the Autumn/Winter CTMH Idea BooK one of the new items is in the Base & Bling line. It is a line of products that can make jewelry and/or use the items in your layouts and cards. The jewel packs come in a variety of colors. Check out this video giving you an idea of what these new items are all about.

Along with September being National Stamping month there is also a new SOTM. Check out thi quick video showing some ways of using this unique style stamp.

You are My Happy

 CTMH  is celebrating National Stamping month. They have quite the special this year. Watch this video to see a quick peek.



Isn't it adorable??

You will want to see this.....

This is a video made by another CTMH Consultant. She did a fantastic job and I thought you might enjoy seeing her beautiful projects. I plan on getting some of my own projects up soon ,I hope anyway but for now sit back and enjoy this video. It is a bit long but well worth it.