Share the Love & Smile

Share the love this February by purchasing the exclusive My Acrylix^® Share the Love D-size stamp set. Filled with adorable icons and loveable sentiments, this stamp set will be a beautiful addition to your collection. Not only will you be getting a high-quality, swoon-worthy stamp set by taking part in this promotion, but Close To My Heart will also donate $7 USD of the proceeds from this stamp set to Operation Smile™, an amazing organization that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children all over the world! Check out CTMH social media channels all month long to see this stamp set in action, search hashtag #ctmhsharethelove to help bring attention to a wonderful and worthy cause.

I'm still incorporating last month's promotion, Live Your Day PML cards into a calendar project. I combined both the promotions for my January page.

You can purchase this stamp set only in the month of February. However, you can contribute to Operation Smile by purchasing the Animal Greeting stamp set featured on the back cover of the Idea Book also. Visit my website for more details.

Calendar Club {Class one}

My Calendar Club will begin later this month and this will be the first class. Club members will receive their kits which includes the CTMH 12x12 calendar, the brand new spray pen and materials to complete the front cover and page for the month of January. Every other month they will complete another two pages so that by the end of the year they will have a complete calendar to keep for themselves or give as a gift for the 2012 year!

For both of their starter pages I have incorporated the new Wings B&T papers. I have also used the new Bohemian Alphabet, so pretty! It's hard to tell in the pictures here, but I spritzed both pages with the new spray pen in a sparkly crystal blue mist. It just makes the pages glisten a little and really adds an icy effect to the snowflakes.

Back to Basics

I decided to begin a new monthly class this year called Back to Basics Class or B2BC. I have some new customers this year that have done little or no scrapbooking before. I really had to take myself back a couple of years to remember where I got my start. The idea is to make simple pages that still have a pop of personality. They require little time, minimum supplies and low cost. Perfect for beginners or those who need to catch up on some scrapbooking in their busy lives.

Here is my January page. The photo does not give it justice. The colors are truly more rich in person. I will share my next pages as the year goes on.