Free to Be Me May National Scrapbooking Month Special

Get the exclusive Free to Be Me paper collection for $5 (retail value $11.95) with every qualifying purchase of $50 (excluding tax and shipping) during May in celebration of National Scrapbooking Month. 
Place your qualifying order at www.ctmh.com/janeo

 The Free to Be Me paper collection features exclusive printed cardstocks, vellums, and B&T Duos™. The retail value of the workshop is $11.95. The paper collection includes:

• 6 – Free to Be Me B&T Duos™ Paper
• 2 – UV-Coated, Designed Teal Cardstock Sheets
• 2 – UV-Coated, Designed Red Cardstock Sheets
• 2 – UV-Coated, Designed Gold Cardstock Sheets
• 1 – White Feather Print Vellum Sheet
• 1 – Gold Foil Polka-dotted Vellum Sheet
• 1 – Access to Online Workshop Guide

Featured colors: Gold, Mint, Peach, Red, Teal, Tan, White Daisy

For every $50 spent in an order, you can purchase 1 paper collection for $5.
Purchases made in Studio J™ do not count toward a qualifying purchase; this includes layouts and JPG files. Also, discounted items purchased online under “While Supplies Last” do not count toward a qualifying purchase.  You'll be happy to know that Stamp of the Month purchases (both full retail and promotional discount price) do count toward a qualifying purchase! This means if you spend $50, you qualify for both the May Stamp of the Month for $5 and the Free to Be Me paper collection for $5! 

Qualifying customers will be prompted at checkout to add their paper collection

Studio Savings

Studio Savings

March 2014 Constant Campaign

During the month of March, order your Studio J™ layouts—including ones using our new Photo Express Collection—for only $5 each! Quickly create gorgeous, personalized studio layouts using our wide selection of papers, collections, patterns, and embellishments. And don’t forget to check out the templates in our new Photo Express Collection, which allow you to design layouts entirely comprised of photos in minutes. You’ve taken the photos. Now keep the memories™.

www.ctmh.com/janeo to start your Studio J Layouts.

*Offer valid March 1–31, 2014. Studio J layouts ship in a protected box that can hold from 4 to 50 two-page layouts. For additional information about shipping and handling, please visit StudioJ.com > Products and Pricing > Shipping Options.

Dates: Offer valid March 1–31, 2014.

6x6 card in a box

Really like the larger 6x6 size that I tried with this butterfly card. It was amazing to see what a big difference in size there is. Saw this set of stickers and knew I wanted to try the card in a box with these beautiful butterflies popping out of the box. I cut my cardstock 6x12 and scored it at 6 inches horizontally then flipped it and scored at 3, 6, 9 inches.Then I cut on the vertical score lines down to the horizontal score line and folded on the lower score lines to form the box. I needed to cut a 1"x6" piece of matching cardstock to make a tab to close the box ends. I scored the 1" in half vertically and attached one side of this folded piece to one end of the box using a strong adhesive like the red stuff. then did the same thing to the other side of the folded piece, connecting it to the other end of the box. The inside dividers where made by cutting a 4x4 square in half and scoring 1/2" on each end. Folding those scores like a Z and attaching to inside of box as in the instructions for the previous card in a box instructions.
Just a note on the paper used in this card. The glitter paper and the holograph paper were both purchased at Walmart along with the sheet of butterfly and heart stickers. I backed each butterfly with black CTMH cardstock and simply trimmed around so that the backs of the stickers would have a finished look and in that sandwich I attached a clear piece of acetate to make the support for the butterflies invisible. I heat embossed the butterfly image on the holograph paper with CTMH Black embossing powder and also heat embossed all the other sentiments and images to be cohesive. The pictures don't do this card justice, it is really shiny and sparkling with the glitter paper. Would love to know what you think of this.
Please leave a comment below if you like this.

Card in a Box

 

card in a box opened

outside folded flat

Wow I checked out Stamp & Scrap with Frenchie and knew that my Hostess Club would be making one of our own tonight. Check out her video and see how easy this really is.
The cardstock cuts I did:
Colonial White Cardstock- 9x5 1/2, Score the long side @ 2 1/8, 4 1/4, 6 3/8, 8 1/2. Then turn and score the short side @ 2 3/4 thereby dividing it in half. Cut to the halfway fold on the score lines on the top half of the paper. The end score, at 8 1/2 inches is then cut across at the halfway fold leaving a small tab on the bottom half. Fold at score lines, apply a strong adhesive to tab and form into a box.
Laughing Lola paper cut 5 1/2 x 2 1/8, and stamped white cardstock 5 x 1 3/4 inches. This is used on the outside back panel of box, not seen when box is opened.
Flap pieces cut from Laughing Lola @ 2x 2 3/4 inches.
Center Divider is Colonial White cardstock cut 3 1/8x 3 1/8, scored @ 1/2, and 2 5/8. Then turn sideways and cut in half. Fold at the score lines, one forward, one back like a Z. Apply adhesive to the Z flaps with so that the adhesive on the front on one side, the back of the other.( Or lay flat and apply adhesive to one flap while up, then turn over and apply to other flap while up.) To apply to inside of box, align Z tab with back of box in corner and top of tab even with top of box, or one side. Make sure the other tab is open and close the box flat. Press and when you open you will see that the other tab is exactly where it needs to be. Repeat for other divider.  This is really easy if you watch Frenchie's video.
Now you are ready to decorate. I used lots of stamp sets that I cut with my Cricut Cartrides. I'll try and list them for you.
Cardstock Pansy Purple cardstock and ink
                 Blush cardstock and tulip ink
                 Creme Brulee cardstock and Ink
                 Citrus Leaf cardstock and Pear ink
                  Dutch Blue cardstock and Star Spangled Blue ink
                  Lilac Mist cardstock
Cricut Cuts: Artiste: Flower on pg 32 cut @ 2" and 1 3/4" save centers. Leaf pg 32 cut @ 1 3/4" save center. Flower pg 73 @ 1 3/4 and 1 1/2", Flower p 44 @ 1 1/2"
Art Philosphy Flower 7 pg 39(shift) @ 2" and 1 3/4" and Flower 8 pg 50 (shift) 1 3/4 and 1 1/4

Stamp Sets used:   B1447 A Mother's Love
                               C1540 Hello Blooms
                               S1306 A Flowering Bunch
                               D1306 Treasure Life
                               C1340 Aspiration
                               B1362 Tag the Occasion
                               Art Philosophy Coordinating Stamps


Balloon Card in Box

outside folded flat

Same directions as above. Used Pear cardstock, Strip paper from retired Dotty for You paper pack, Lagoon, Sunset, Honey, Lagoon and Pear cardstock and a piece of paper from Later Sk8R paper pack.
Balloons were cuts @ 1 1/2" with Artiste Cricut cartridge, pg 70. Banner D1529 from the Artiste Collection coordinating stamps and cut out of Sunset and trimmed. D1423 Happy Forever for the cute little hedgehog. I followed Frenchie's video, link above, to make the balloons float. Hope you try these and have fun.

WOW Amazing New Catalog, Amazing New Products

This is one of the best catalogs Close To My Heart has ever produced. Love it, but don't take my word on it, check it out yourself, Here

While it is fun to look at it online, there is something about having a catalog in hand to page through whenever you want, so CTMH is making them available to add to your order for just $3.95. You can purchase yours by searching Idea Book in the shop feature or following this link. Embossing folders are one of my favorite tools to add to my cards and scrapbook pages to give them that little extra something. I am excited to offer our new embossing folders, a generous 5x7 size, that fit most machines you might have. This month extra Special campaign is buy 2 qualifying cardstocks and receive a FREE embossing folder. How cool is that? I know you will have as much fun playing with them as I do. Check out the details of the special on my webpage www.ctmh.com/janeo

I have always loved our Stamp of the Month program and this month the stamp set is just the cutest.

Order S1402 for $17.95 or better yet add it to your qualifying $50 order and get it for just $5.00. You will be prompted at the end of your order to add this. I can see some really cute scrapbook pages. Do you see the red line around the heart and the Wild Thing stamp? Did you know that these images have matching cuts on our Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge and it tells you this on the carrier sheet for the stamps, see it in the top right corner? And that's not all it even tells you what page and what size to cut the image, see it to the left of the Wild Thing? How cool is that. CTMH has hundreds of stamps that have corresponding cricut images, just like these.
There are so many great new products available right now, the new papers are amazing. Check some of these out.

 Skylark

Ariana

 Balloon ride

Timberline

Ivy Lane

Most exciting to me is the new Memory Protectors that have been added.

Strap Hinge side-loading fit CM type albums

side loading for post albums

design 3

design 4

design5

Want to earn all of these great products for free, contact me to start your own online gathering, EZ, and perfect for all your scrapbooking friends. They can shop from the comfort of their homes, have their order sent directly to them and you can choose great hostess rewards. Give me a call today and I can start your own online gathering.

February 1st ...Picture This Scrapbooking Program

 An entire Album in a flash. That's the description of the New Picture My Life Scrapbooking program.

You'll love our quick and colorful solution for your favorite photos. Choose from eight Picture My Life programs, based on a versatile theme, from childhood to friendship to travel. Each program contains 122 double-sided cards in 3x4 and 4x6 horizontal and vertical designs and a 12x12 preprinted cover page to bring it all together. Each cardstock-weight card features journaling on one side and versatile sentiments or images on the reverse. A single Picture My Life program is designed to pair with approximately 100 photos to fill the 10 included Memory Protectors. But let your creatively go wild with more or fewer cards and protectors to make your album perfect for you.
Your own photos are all you need to add to make amazing artwork—in no time at all.
Most people will have lots of cards left over to use on so many other projects. Use them in your regular scrapbook pages, in mini albums, My Crush Books, as journaling cards or on cards and tags.
Each program includes a 12x12 cover page, 122 double-sided cards, and 10 Memory Protectors with various-sized pockets to hold your cards, photos and cover page. You can include the two different card sizes in both horizontal and vertical formats on the same page. Need more? Protector options are also available separately.At $24.95 this is a terrific way to scrapbook all your photos.

3 more Skylark cards

Here are 3 more Skylark cards from the scraps I had left over from the first cuts on my 12x12 piece of paper.  I added some Timberlake, flipped the Skylark over, added some embossing from my cuttlebug stash of folders and use another strip of the Chervons. So I was able to easily create 7 standard size cards from one sheet of this super cute paper. I've left the sentiments off till a later date on a couple of these, since they lend themselves to so many occasions. Oh and don't tell my hubby, but that's his Valentine Card.