Here’s an essay on the importance of scrapbooking. Well, not exactly, but it’s definitely related. ….Our digital age makes snapping, saving, organizing, and sharing images so simple and immediate that we seem to be becoming indifferent to them. And while it is wonderfully easy to store and preserve photos electronically, consider the difference between opening […]
Tag Archives: scrapbook layouts
Where to Find Free Scrapbooking Patterns (and More!)
The following is a recent blog post from the Close To My Heart home office that focuses on how to make the best use of the website and the current physical Idea Book (catalog) for scrapbooking. It’s not necessary to make a purchase to take advantage of the know-how of the corporate artists. If you […]
Time flies
May is flying by. Here are some things from Close To My Heart to take a look at while they’re still available: The World Is Yours this Scrapbooking Month! This month’s exclusive paper collection features specialty papers like vellum and kraft that will take your creations to fresh, new creative places—but the paper packet is […]
Birthday!
Made a card for a daughter having a birthday… The patterned paper is a Close To My Heart paper from a few years ago and the letters I cut with my Cricut machine (and, oh yeah, the cute guy in the photo is my late Tyrolean grandfather-in-law, Nono). And since she recently returned from a […]
Holiday Craft Fairs… can Christmas be far behind?
A fine time was had by all at the Fall Craft and Vendor Fair at Maranatha Bible Chapel in Horseheads. Wild Goose Crafts was there…could that inflatable have been any bigger? (answer: no–it wouldn’t have fit in the gym!) Now it’s on to getting ready for Thanksgiving guests. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Papercrafting for sewists
…or sew-ers—oh, you know, people who sew. How about stamps that make it look as though you ran your scrapbook layout (or card, or wall art) through your sewing machine (actually, you could do that, too, but you don’t have to)? Or how about dies for cutting shapes that give you “stitched” ovals, hearts, and circles? And then […]
Christmas Is Coming
And so it Halloween… and Thanksgiving… Oh, and here’s a great Advent calendar project for Christmastime: There’s a kit to help you with the Advent calendar available here. Visit my Close To My Heart shop for these lovely papers, stamps, and tools, and feel free to contact me with any questions.
You’ve Got Class
Kids are heading back to school, so this Close To My heart kit, which you can use to create a scrapbook-page-cum-folder-for-mementos for each year of school, is great for memory-keeping for kids or grandkids. Here’s my start at getting these assembled:
Psst! Are you a millennial?
Yes? Then you *need* greeting cards! To get them and to send them. It’s true. Really. It’s in How Millennials Can Save the Postal Service: It’s that desire for the physical that the post office needs to capitalize on, says Amanda Stafford, who co-wrote the OIG report. While Millennials like paying bills online, they prefer giving […]
Subscribe To Art
Layouts don’t always have to be in a binder…they can be displayed on a tabletop or on a wall like the art that they often are: If scrapbooking is what you love, Close To My Heart has a new subscription program to make it easy for you. Check out the details here.