Don't Overlook The Clearance Section

Yes you can save money!

Going on right now, you can get items at more than 50% off the retail value.  YES YOU CAN!  Save money on your next purchases by following this link to the section Clearance Close To My Heart

Here are just a few items that are available today.  They may sell out soon so purchase now!

#Life™ Cards—Hello Gorgeous

Item Number: Z3275

Product Description

10 – 4" × 4" printed cards

30 – 2" × 2" printed cards

Place photos and our #Life™ pocket scrapbooking cards in our mini Memory Protectors™, which are perfectly sized for our Instalife™ albums, to create a cute, portable mini album.

#Life™ Overlays—Black

Item Number: Z3284

Product Description

10 – 4" × 4" overlays with black foil designs

6 – 2" × 2" overlays with black foil designs

Layer over your photos and our #Life™ cards in our mini Memory Protectors™, which are perfectly sized for our Instalife™ albums, to create a cute, portable mini album.

Instalife™ Album—Blush

Item Number: Z3270

Product Description

Pink chipboard album with gold foil dots; fits mini 4" × 4" and 2" × 2" Memory Protectors™; 1/2" D-ring.

Place photos and our #Life™ pocket scrapbooking cards in our mini Memory Protectors™, which are perfectly sized for our Instalife™ albums, to create a cute, portable mini album.

Instalife™ Album—Blue Jean

Item Number: Z3282

Product Description

Blue chipboard album; fits mini 4" × 4" and 2" × 2" Memory Protectors™; 1/2" D-ring.

Place photos and our #Life™ pocket scrapbooking cards in our mini Memory Protectors™, which are perfectly sized for our Instalife™ albums, to create a cute, portable mini album.

I just bought the Instalife Albums, the overlays and the cards to make mini albums of my triplet grand-babies.  They are the perfect size for gifting!

Please take some time to look at what is available.  Shop using the online gathering for February, 

Feb Shop 'N Win and earn FREE product!

Think pink this month during our Pretty in Pink special!

THINK PINK ALL MONTH LONG!

We’ve selected a handful of pink and gold items to offer at a discount during the month of February. This includes multiple products featuring our Color of the Year, Bashful. We’ve even assembled a bundle of Bashful items that you can buy at 30% off or receive FREE by signing up as a Consultant or hosting a qualifying party this month.

Save 30% on product bundles and 25% on individual items, all of which can be found on my website Mrs Anna Light

Color of the Year Bundle

Includes the following:
1 – Bashful Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Bashful Exclusive Inks™ mini pigment pad 
1 – Bashful cardstock (24 sheets)
1 – Bashful glitter paper (3 sheets)
1 – Bashful Pearls

 

Butterfly Mobile Bundle

Includes the following:
1 – Bashful Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Blossom Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Pixie Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Raspberry Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
5 – 12" × 12" Bashful cardstock sheets
2 – 12" × 12" Blossom cardstock sheets
2 – 12" × 12" Pixie cardstock sheets
2 – 12" × 12" Raspberry cardstock sheets
1 – 12" × 12" gold foil paper sheet
3 – white twine

Butterfly Mobile Bundle with Stamp Set

Includes the following:
1 – My Acrylix® Banner Love stamp set
1 – Bashful Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Blossom Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Pixie Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
1 – Raspberry Exclusive Inks™ stamp pad 
5 – 12" × 12" Bashful cardstock sheets
2 – 12" × 12" Blossom cardstock sheets
2 – 12" × 12" Pixie cardstock sheets
2 – 12" × 12" Raspberry cardstock sheets
1 – 12" × 12" gold foil paper sheet
3 – white twine

How to video for the Butterfly Mobile

Cut Above® Layout Kit—The Story Begins (Baby Girl)

Materials to make 10 coordinating 2-page scrapbook layouts, including die-cuts, stickers, photo placeholders, and instructions. Also includes 11 top load Memory Protectors™.

Slide the coordinating Picture My Life™ The Story Begins Baby Boy cards (Z3368) into 12" × 12" divided Memory Protectors and add them to your album for even more pages.

Save 30% on a My Legacy™ album of your choice with the purchase of this kit! (Add your discounted album by clicking the Album Add-on special on the shopping cart page after adding your layout kit.)

Video showcasing the Cut Above Layout Kit

Remember when you shop, start by clicking on my Feb Shop N' Win gathering to earn EXTRA items which will be mailed to you directly from me, JUST for placing an order online!!

Sunny Thoughts—February Stamp of the Month

Item Number: S1802

Get this D-size Stamp of the Month set for a deal with a minimum qualifying purchase! Add the stamp set to your cart on this page at full retail price or, with your qualifying order, add it at checkout for the promotional price.

Set of 13
Recommended My Acrylix® block:
1" × 1" (Y1000), 2" × 2" (Y1003), 1" × 6½" (Y1005), 3" × 3" (Y1006), 2" × 6½" (Y1010)

Stamp images outlined in blue coordinate with the Basic Circle Thin Cuts (Z3318), sold separately.

Remember to shop using my Feb Shop 'N Win Gathering to earn extra products mailed to you directly from me!!

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Brand New Two Toned Papers, New Neutrals, Amazing New Cricut Collection, and a Die Cut Alphabet But That Isn't All...

Close To My Heart 2017-18 

Annual Inspirations Idea Book Is Now Live!

As you may or may not know, we have a brand new Annual Inspirations Catalog that debuted on August 1. It is fabulous!  There are so many fun, new and creative products I can't list them all here so you will need to take a peek on my website. 

What's New With CTMH

 All of our cardstock are now two-toned. There is a darker shade on one side and a lighter shade of the same color on the back. This makes your cardstock twice as nice and twice as easy to use.  There are 40 colors to choose from or you can purchase them in 10 different color combo packs.

 Our brand new Color of the Year is called Bashful!  It's a gorgeous soft pink, perfect for any season or occasion, and is a must have.  It comes in cardstock (two-toned of course), as a stamp pad and as pigment pad  We also have some fun matching embellishments too.  This color will only be available until the last day of the Annual Idea Book.

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 This is the EXCLUSIVE You Are Here Cricut collection.  This amazing new set focuses on travel.  It comes with a 700 image cartridge (or digital download), 3 stamp sets that coordinate with the cuts on this cartridge (valued at $53.85) and a package of Enchantment Combo Pack of two-toned  cardstock (24 sheets).  What an amazing set!

This is the link that will take you to the PDF listing all the shapes available in the YOU ARE HERE cartridge.

Cricut Shapes for YOU ARE HERE

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The New Die Cut Alphabet Item #Z33386 

I love this new set.  Use these thin metal dies to quickly and easily cut paper letters and symbols.  Use withthe My Acrylix® In The Background stamp set (D1750) to create pattern letters. Thin Cuts are package on their own magnetic carrier sheet and work well with most die-cutting machines on the market.  I use my fabulous Cuddlebug to cut out mine. The letters dies are approximately 1 1/2" high, and the font is so versatile it can go with any style.  

Get yours here.

Four August Specials with Close To My Heart

1. Weekly Online Warehouse Sale

2. August Stamp of the Month 

3. Rewards Your Way Sign Up Special

4. Jump for Joy Hostess Special

1.  Weekly Online Warehouse Sale: 

Every Tuesday during the month of August we will unveil a fresh set of retired Close To My Heart products and product bundles at a 50% discount! For this sale only, we’ll also only charge shipping and handling on the price paid instead of on the retail value of the items, the way we normally do. These items will only be available during the week they are launched while supplies last, so you’ll need to act fast! To shop this week's deals, click here.

 2. August Stamp of the Month (School Year):  

It's a set every mom, dad and grandma of kids needs for scrapbooking the start and end (and even the middle) of every school year!  This is a set you'll use year after year, so snap it up while you can.

This set is yours for only $5 ($12.95 savings) in August with every $50 you order (before shipping and tax). Order $100, get 2...and so on. When ordering on my website, you'll be prompted to add your set(s) before checking out.

3. Rewards Your Way   

New Consultants who join my Team during August and submit qualifying sales of $300 by September 30 can earn their choice of a FREE Cricut^® collection, a Block Alphabet Thin Cuts bundle, or an additional $99 in Select Product Credit!

Let's do the math on this incredible special, because there is so much more savings than just this awesome deal... 

• To become a New Consultant, the kit costs $75. That kit is valued at over $210. That is already a savings of $135!
• When you reach your first $250 in sales in the first 30 days, with the Straight to the Top Program, you get 3 beautiful stamp sets for FREE (valued at a total of $53.85). So there's another $53.85 in value.
• If you sign up in August and reach $300 in sales by September 30, you get another $99 in free product with the August Rewards Your Way Special.
• Here it is for you, if you sign up in August, sell $250 in your first 30 days AND make sure to have $300 in sales by September 30 (just $50 more than your $250 Straight to the Top total), you will have gotten $362.85 in products and supplies for only a $75 investment. Heck yeah this is an amazing deal!  That's almost 5 times the $75 investment.  Who wouldn't want to sign up?

 To join my team, click here.

4.  Jump For Joy:

When you host a party (in home or catalog {catalog party is where I just send you a catalog and order forms and you collect orders from your friends without hosting an in person gathering}) and the order total reaches $350 (that's an average party), your Hostess Rewards will jump up to the next level of rewards! This means an instant reward boost of $20 and possibly an additional item at 50% off! 

Be a hostess!

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K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple Scrapbooking

This year, with the new Annual Inspirations, I was inspired to reflect on my own Who Tells Your Story theme that was presented at this years convention.  I realized that I find myself trying to make things way to complicated and needed to simplify my way in which I tell my own story.  This is what got me to want to keep it simple.  KISS.  We have all heard about it, either at work, in class or just with our families.  When you keep things simple, it gets done.  So this is how I want to tell my story.

  This month I am working on a very simple yet lovely  way to preserve memories using our brand new outstanding cardstocks, neutral colors, and taking advantage of this neat company
 Persnickety Prints .
Persnickety Prints gives you high quality prints of your photos at an affordable cost.  They are running a special FREE U.S. shipping on orders $39+ using the code: deliver.

I will post my creations on my blog and set up a link for you to order your own scrapbooking sets to do at home.

For now, think about WHO TELLS YOUR STORY?

November is Fundamental

This month ONLY!

Purchase a Fundamentals Album Bundle and

get a FREE package of 25 page protectors

a $19.95 value.

Just pick the album of your choice.

The bundle also includes,

Fundamentals Cardstock Pack (Enchantment)

Enchantment Sticker Pack

Fundamental Assortment in Peacock

3 sheets of White Daisy Cardstock

Experience the beautiful Simply Fundamental Scrapbooking workshop—available only during the month of November! This workshop has been created using all the items featured in an exclusive My Legacy™ album bundle, available only during November for $71.80 USD/$85.25 CAD each! When you purchase the album bundle, you will also qualify to receive a value pack of side load or top load Memory Protectors™ FREE—a savings of $19.95 USD/$23.75 CAD! Along with the album style and design of your choice, each bundle includes one Paper Fundamentals Enchantment pack, one Fundamental stickers Enchantment pack, one Peacock Fundamental assortment, and three sheets of White Daisy cardstock. You will then be set to turn these beautiful products into fabulous layouts using the new Simply Fundamental Scrapbooking workshop featuring five layouts you can make using all the supplies in your bundle.  

Click on the link to check out the layouts!

Simply Fundamental Layouts

Stamp of the Month, Cheers 2016!

November 2016: Cheers, 2016! (S1511)

Spend $50 and get this Stamp of the Month set for just $5.

Recommended Blocks:
1" × 1" (Y1000)
1" × 3 1/2" (Y1002)
2" × 2" (Y1003)
2" × 3 1/2" (Y1009)

Sneak Peek!

Coming up in December, the NEW Everyday Life Planner System!!

Everyday Life™ Planner System 
We are thrilled with the buzz surrounding the upcoming Everyday Life™ planner system that we announced at our Australasia Convention earlier this month. The Everyday Life line introduces multiple products that work together seamlessly to create a planner, a My Crush book, or a product of your own creation!

It all starts with the Everyday Life album ($10.95 USD/$13.25 CAD), a beautiful, black three-ring album with gold foil design that measures 9 3/8” x 8 ¼”. This album size makes the album multi-purpose, allowing you to decide what you put in it. To fill up your album, the Everyday Life line will also include:

• The Everyday Life 2016 planner pages ($15.95 USD/$18.95 CAD): 154 planner pages, 12 monthly dividers with tabs, a pocket folder page, a designed page finder, and four sheets of stickers. With monthly and weekly spreads and printed dates, these pages have all the features you need to stay organized—and look good doing it!
• Everyday Life Perfect Plan roller stamp ($8.95 USD/$10.50 CAD): This fun and functional roller stamp coordinates perfectly with the label stickers, enabling you to customize your planner even further.
• My Crush® Everyday Life pages ($7.95 USD/$9.50 CAD): A set of 60 double-sided, gorgeous My Crush pages. These pages can be used on their own to create a beautiful My Crush book, or they can be combined with the planner pages to give you more room in your planner for preserving your memories while giving your planner even more flair.
• Everyday Life Washi Tape ($3.95 USD/$4.50 CAD): because every My Crush book needs a good washi for attaching photos and other memorabilia to your pages.
• Memory Protectors ($6.95 USD/$7.95 CAD): we’re introducing two new styles of pocket memory protectors sized to fit into the Everyday Life album. One will have two 4” x 6” pockets, the other four 4” x 3” pockets. Use these to add your favorite Picture My Life™ cards and photos into the mix!

Altogether, the Everyday Life line gives you ultimate flexibility in creating a planner/My Crush book/pocket album uniquely customized to you. Best of all, since we know that the time to buy planners is now, we will not be waiting until the release of Seasonal Expressions 1 to make these products available to you and your customers; instead, we’ll be making them available as soon as we have them. We anticipate most of these items to be available late November, with the exception of the washi tape, which will be available mid-December.

To add even more excitement, we’ll also be offering a discounted bundle for purchasing the album, planner pages, and roller stamp together. This bundle will have its own item number and will give you and your customers these innovative and exciting products for just $29.95 USD/$35.95 CAD—a 15% discount off the retail value!

End of August! Big things coming for September

I've been out of the blogging office for the summer due to my son breaking his leg.  I have worked on some cards and decorative items when I had some free time.

August with Close To My Heart has been fun!  There is new paper, embellishments, stamps and the big lead up to the new catalog/idea book next month :-)

The stamp of the month for August is Framed S1508.  

Recommended Blocks:

1" × 3 1/2" (Y1002)

2" × 3 1/2" (Y1009)

For the card below, I used the Framed stamp set plus Picture My Life cards, color ready ribbon and green enamel & glitter duos.

For this card I used the new CTMH Artistry Cricut cartridge, the Framed stamp set, glitter paper and our NEW Zoe paper pack along with more green glitter triangles.

August Promotion:

During the month of August, get your hands on the latest and greatest in organization products from Close To My Heart—with a few perks thrown in! Simply place an order for the new marker roll-up at full retail price and receive the new D-size stamp set My Acrylix® Balloon Wishes FREE! Or place an order for the new accessory roll-up at full retail price and receive two new Base & Bling style sheets, Affirmations and Lovely Blooms, FREE! All of the items offered as part of this campaign are featured in the Annual Inspirations 2015–2016 idea book, but are available for early purchase during August only as part of this campaign. The marker roll-up will be your new best friend, providing storage space for up to 25 ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ markers. The My Acrylix® Balloon Wishes stamp set is perfect for coloring, making them a practical pairing. The accessory roll-up is ideal for sorting and storing accessories, Base & Bling items, and embellishments, while the new Base & Bling style sheets are full of gorgeous floral designs and hip icons and sentiments perfectly suited for creating stunning jewelry pieces. Place your order for one—or both—deals and get an exciting sneak peek at just a few of the many new products found within Annual Inspirations’ pages!

This month CTMH released the much anticipated ARTISTRY cartridge from Cricut.

You can choose to order the physical cartridge set that comes with the three stamp sets, paper and cartridge OR the digital download of the cartridge.  You get OVER 700 images with the cartridge, WOW!!

Below is a card I created with the Artistry cartridge and a Picture My Life card.  It was quick, cute and easy!

Here are the NEW Zoe products available to order NOW no waiting until September.

Here is the cover of the NEW Annual Inspirations Idea Book!!  To be released September 1!

April Spring and Crafting

April is here so get on over and get your Mother's Day cards done.
I've been hard at work card making.  Any of these great cards could work as a Mother's Day card.  I'll update with instructions soon.
Enjoy!