Deal of the decade, only 2 days left!!

December 31, 2014 last day to get the Deal of the Decade!

Celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of My Acrylix® 

Clear Polymer Stamps

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Close To My Heart’s revolutionary My Acrylix® clear polymer stamps—and we can’t wait for you to celebrate with us! With a qualifying purchase of $50 during the month of December, you will be eligible to purchase ANY C- or D-size stamps from the Annual Inspirations 2014–2015 idea book for only $10. That’s up to $7.95 USD / $9.75 CAD of savings on a single stamp set! Plus, once you achieve the qualifying order total, there is no limit to the number of eligible stamp sets you can purchase at this discounted price. Remember, a purchase of $50 will also qualify you to receive the December Stamp of the Month for only $5, so if you purchase both the discounted Stamp of the Month and additional stamps at this special campaign pricing your savings will compound! It is truly the deal of the decade.

Here is the December Stamp of the Month

For the next few days  you can get any C-size ( reg. $13.95) or D-size (reg. $17.95) for only $10 with a qualifying order!  Once you reach a qualifying order of $50, you will see a pop up that shows you all the available stamp sets for $10.  Here are the sets that are available for the Deal of the Decade.

Order your stamps and scrapbooking supplies here at Crafting with Mrs Anna Light

The end of 2014 means a beginning is right around the corner!

Holy scraps, the end of 2014 is here!

Yes, 2014 has flown by and here comes 2015.  A new year for the start of many amazing new things!  I have some new clubs and activities planned.  Here is a list of what January has in store for all of you.  All dates and prices will be posted by January 1st.  After that, I will post the dates and costs the second week of the month for the following month's get together.  

Creative Colorado Card Club

Jump right in with getting 10 cards done a month, 2 cards of 5 different designs and one central theme, for example Valentines Day.   Each month I will feature one theme and then post the cards to show off what you will be making.  You will not have to live in my town to participate.  I can mail out your card club package to your home.  There will be options to purchase additional items to create a 2 page scrapbook layout.  The directions for the cards will be provided.

Picture My Life Scrapbooking Meet Up

Once a month we will meet, either at my house or a different location, depending on how many folks want to participate.  Picture My Life scrapbooking is scrapbooking in a snap!  It is a quick and easy program where you can choose from 15 amazing double-sided cards in 3" x 4" and 4" x 6" horizontal and vertical designs.  The cardstock-weight cards feature journaling spaces, sentiments, or a variety of icons.  I will have all of the sets available for you to purchase by the card.  You can buy as many as you would like!  I will also have 12" x 12" albums (both post and 3 ring) available to pre-purchase and I will have the My Creations Mini Book, both in kraft and black colors, available to purchase to the meet up.  This scrapbooking program is FUN and designed to help quickly organize your precious photos.

Creative Corner Classes

Meetings will be one evening a month.  Get together to create a craft that isn't anything like what you may be used to!  We will be cutting out vinyl with my Cricut to create one of a kind crafts.  You will create birthday boxes, treat bags, wall art and many other neat designs.

I can't wait to get the new year started!

Studio J, digital scrapbooking plus get entered to win with CTMH!!!

After not much time at all, I've completed my Studio J goal for the week.  Yes, I did 10 layouts!  This is the best time to try out Studio J or for those of you like me, lots of digital photos but not enough time to print and create pages off line, this deal is for YOU!  $5 a layout and you can be entered into a contest to win! Here are the details.

November marks the five-year anniversary of Studio J®, and that means it’s your lucky month, with five amazing ways to win through Studio J and Close To My Heart social media!

First, throughout the month of November, all layouts purchased in Studio J are $5! That is a savings of over 25% off of retail—an unprecedented deal!

Your second chance to win big must come by sheer luck: every fifth order placed in Studio J during November receives a FREE surprise Close To My Heart accessory in its shipping box! The accessory has a retail value of $5 or more.

If luck doesn’t smile on you in that way, you might stumble upon it by finding a little extra something in your Studio J box. Five “golden tickets” will be sent out during the month of November with randomly selected Studio J print orders! This “golden ticket” is redeemable for one of Close To My Heart’s new D-ring albums* loaded with 10 Top Load Memory Protectors™.

For a fourth way to win, simply create new, gorgeous layouts in Studio J, select your favorites, and then post pictures of them on Close To My Heart’s Facebook page using the hashtag #ctmhlucky5. After November 30, five lucky winners will be selected from the entries based on their artistry and creativity and each of these winners will receive their own D-ring album loaded with 10 Top Load Memory Protectors!

And there is one last way to win: take your new Studio J artwork and post a picture of it on Instagram using the hashtag #ctmhlucky5. Just as it is with Facebook, after November 30, five lucky winners will be selected from the entries to receive their own D-ring album loaded with 10 Top Load Memory Protectors!

Here are my layouts.

It took me a total of 5 hours to do 10 full two page layouts.  That includes all the edits to the photos and getting them from Google+ to my downloads file on my computer.  I urge you to get over to MrsAnnaLight CTMH and get some scrapbooking done!

The first 5 folks to purchase Studio J layouts from my online business account will get a special treat from me.  Don't waste time, start creating your pages today :-)

Halloween is tomorrow?!?

Wow, I just can't believe that Halloween is already here.  That means Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas are just around the corner.  I need to get into high gear with my crafting or else LOL!

Yesterday I worked on a few projects.  I have one to show for now.  It is a cute 4.25 x 5.5 card created on orange cardstock.  I used my Cricut CTMH Artbooking cartridge to cut out the owl, the frame and the spider out of black cardstock.  I positioned the frame on my card base and stamped the cut little witch with black exclusive inks stamp pad.

The spider was fun to do.  I stuck on 5 square sparkles then covered the whole front of the body with liquid glass and let it dry.  It makes the spider look shiny and allowed me to move the legs to different positions up and down to look creepier.   When it was dry I used adheisive to stick to the upper corner of the frame.

The owl was the first thing I have wet embossed in quite awhile.  It had been so long in fact I couldn't remember where I put my embossing gun!  After 30 minutes of searching I finally found one (I have two, both misplaced).  I took my VersaMark watermark stamp pad and stamped the owl.  Next came the embossing powder.  After I shook it off, on went the heat gun.  I put a small piece of yellow cardstock behind the owl's eyes then stuck the bitty sparkles in each eye.  I stamped out the broom underneath the frame and stuck the owl to the broom with a piece of 3-D foam tape.

Last but not least I punched holes along each side of the card and sewed sparkly gold thread through giving the card a little pop.  Inside the card I stamped "if the broom fits ride it."  It didn't take too long to actually make the card but it sure took me forever to find my supplies.  Getting organized is one of my big goals.  My scrapbooking pages I'm working on today will come together faster because I already have all my stuff out and ready to go!

Here are the supplies you would need to make the card:

VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad Item #Z891

Exclusive Inks Black Stamp Pad Item #Z2105

Liquid Glass Item #Z679

3-D Foam Tape Item #Z1151

Halloween Greetings Holiday Stamp Set Item #D1605

Craft Heater Item #Z555

Ranger Silver Super Fine Embossing Powders Item #Z2067

3L E-Z Dots Adhesive Item #Z3022

Bitty Sparkles Item #Z1263

Goldrush Cardstock Item #1243

Black Cardstock Item #1386

Cricut Artbooking Cartridge Item #Z1906

Roll Top Desk Contest

I'm getting over my allergies and sneezing like crazy still so I haven't created with my Cricut like I had planned on doing.  Instead I'm posting a sweet contest to win a beautiful roll top desk from Stamp N Storage.  It is perfectly set up for crafting!

http://www.stampnstorage.com/rolltopgiveaway_CM/

Enter to win!

Win A New Cricut Explore!

Hello!!  I'm back from my amazing vacation to Florida.  My husband and I had a much needed trip to the land of sun, sand and water.  I'm still getting back on my feet so for now I am going to post a great giveaway being done by theidearoom.net

Click here to enter the contest

She is giving away a brand new Cricut Explore along with a mystery box of goodies!  How about that for an awesome contest?!?!

The Cricut Explore has so many great new features and here are just a few

  

Cuts the widest variety of materials (50+)

Upload and cut your own designs FREE - including SVG files

No cartridges required (but cartridge compatible)

Free and easy software - no paid upgrades required

$100 Value of Images and Projects included

Brand new Cut and Print feature!

Easy to use

Cut and write at the same time

Go on over people and get entered to win :-)

I'll be posting artwork later this week to showcase the Explore and all the neat things you can do with the super sweet CTMH Cricut cartridges.

Have a super day and remember, keep on crafting!

Broncos lost but my creative brain won!

I create, therefore I am

Today was a bit of a challenge.  I had only a few hours of uninterrupted sleep.  So be it, I pushed myself to get into my craft room and get some stuff done!

I used the limited edition stamp set #30yearsofhappy CC1030 on all of my cards that I created today. 

• White Daisy (1385) cardstock base 
• #30yearsofhappy stamp set (CC1030)
• Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ (Z2195) used on base
• ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Marker in Lavender (Z2453) 
• Picture My Life™ Laughing Lola Scrapbooking Program (Z1944) 
• Silver Shimmer Trim (Z1799) 
• Teal Sparkles (discontinued)
• Black Exclusive Inks™ (Z2105)
• Flaxen Exclusive Inks™ (Z2642) used under "It's Your Day" stamp

• White Daisy (1385) cardstock base
• #30yearsofhappy stamp set (CC1030)
• Black Exclusvie Inks™ (Z2105)
• Clear Assorted Sparkles (Z1752)
• Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ (Z2164)
• Have a Happy Day stamp set (D1616)
• Picture My Life™ Chalk It Up Scrapbooking Program (Z2018) 

• Desert Sand (1273) cardstock base
• Honey Triangles Washi Tape (Z1931)
• #30yearsofhappy stamp set (CC1030)
• Triangle Studs (Z1928)
• 3-D Foam Tape (Z1151)
• Black Exclusvie Inks™ (Z2105)
• Cricut® Artiste Collection (Z1790)

• Canary (X5772) cardstock base
• Slate (X5930) cardstock
• #30yearsofhappy stamp set (CC1030)
• Picture My Life™ Chalk It Up Scrapbooking Program (Z2018)
• Teal Shimmer Trim (Z1918)
• Black Exclusvie Inks™ (Z2105)

• Canary (X5772) cardstock base
• Slate (X5930) cardstock
• Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ (Z2164)
• Honey Exclusive Inks™ (X5668)
• #30yearsofhappy stamp set (CC1030)
• Clear Assorted Sparkles (Z1752)
• Gold Shimmer Trim (Z1985)

Visit my website to shop for these great items from Close To My Heart

Enjoyed Montage!

My daughter had her final production of Montage this evening.  I enjoyed the show!  We are so blessed to have such amazing and talented teens, makes my ♡ happy!

With that being said, I didn't finish my projects today.  I do have some great ideas brewing so tomorrow,  while watching football,  I'll be crafting.

Go Broncos!!