Card Making With Kids Using Water Colors

I found a great video on using kids art to make cards.  It reminded me of something similar that I did years ago when my son was a toddler.  I let him finger paint, then I had him make his hand prints so I would have them to keep and frame.  I used his finger paintings as mattes for his photo that I put into clear plastic ornaments that opened up like plastic Easter eggs. His grandmas all got one and we kept one.  Still one of my favorite ornaments.

This video is from Jennifer McGuire Ink check her site out.

CTMH Simply Fundamentals Bundle Last Day of Sale

Simply Fundamentals

Purchase the album bundle and you get:

• Album of your choice (D-ring or Post-bound)
• Paper Fundamentals Enchantment (1 pack)
• Fundamental Stickers Enchantment Pack (1 pack)
• Fundamental Assortment Peacock (1 pack)
• White Daisy Cardstock (3 sheets)
• Memory Protectors™ Value Pack (1 pack Side Load or 1 pack Top Load)

Experience the beautiful Simply Fundamental Scrapbooking workshop—available only during November! This workshop has been created using all the items featured in our campaign exclusive My Legacy™ album bundles, available during November for $71.80 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! 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.

The above is directly from the Close To My Heart Website.  Tomorrow (Nov. 30, 2015) is the last day for the bundle sale.  You can of course continue to buy the items individually after tomorrow.  I've already purchase mine.  It's a really nice bundle and would make a great gift if you have any scrapbooking friends.  The workshop directions are downloadable. 

Happy scrapbooking! Karen

Close To My Heart's Cyber Monday All Week Long Sale

I haven't found any rules that say I have to keep this a secret so here is what the consultants have been told will be on sale starting tomorrow (Monday 11/30/2015).  If you order Monday you can also still purchase the Simply Fundamentals Special package deal and the November Stamp of the Month.  I'll put up a short post on that right after this one.  If you order Tuesday through Friday you can also purchase the new Planner. (I've already posted about it.)  The new December Stamp of the Month will be available then, too.  Of course you can purchase multiple days but you must make the purchase before the Friday cut off time.  You also must choose the sale items in the special Sale section.  If you choose these items from within the regular categories they will not show the sale price is what we are being told.

I am most excited about the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge being on sale because it comes with a pack of cardstock ($14.50) and 3 size D stamps ($17.95 each/$53.85 total).  The extras alone are worth $68.35 and the sale price should be about $75 so you get the cartridge for less than $7!!!  I've already done a post on this sale and pinned some ideas on pinterest for you so check it out if you don't have this cartridge.

A lot of the other items would make great Christmas gifts.  Just click on my Shop tab above and it will take you to my shopping page.  Join either of the gatherings and choose your items.  Make sure you complete your purchase, it does not hold items in the shopping cart if you leave and you can't get the sale price if you wait too long.

Have fun shopping! Karen

Z3111 Base & Bling Snowflake Charm—Faux Gold

Z3112 Base & Bling Jingle Bell—Faux Gold

Z3135 Base & Bling Snowflake Charm—Faux Silver

Z3136 Base & Bling Jingle Bell—Faux Silver

Z3138 Base & Bling Red Bead Charm—Faux Gold

Z3139 Base & Bling Red Bead Charm—Faux Silver

Z3180 Picture My Life™ Going Places Scrapbooking Program

Z3147 Cut Above™ Dapper Giraffe Card Kit

Z2028 Designer Creations Short Stack Album

Z2036 Designer Creations Slate Paper Bags

Z2037 Designer Creations Lagoon Paper Bag

Z2038 Designer Creations Ruby Paper Bags

Z2039 Designer Creations Honey Paper Bags

Z2049 Designer Creations Cupcake Box

Z2050 Designer Creations Takeout Box

Z2053 Designer Creations Buttoned Bag

Z1838 5" x 7" Hinged Display Tray

Z1750 Designed Décor Display Tray

Z2006 Designed Décor Red Magnetic Chalkboard

Z2015 Designed Décor Black Shadow Box

Z2016 Designed Décor Colonial White Shadow Box

Z1833 My Creations™ Kraft Container

Z1871 My Creations™ Kraft 3-Ring Album

Z1953 My Creations™ Journaling Cards Box

Z1956 My Creations™ Hip Pics Album

Z3043 My Creations™ Black Mini Book

Z3044 My Creations™ Kraft Mini Book

Z3069 My Creations™ Mini Mix Album

Z3137 My Creations™ Pint-Sized Container

Z3168 Cricut® Artfully Sent Collection

Z1476 4 ¼" x 5 ½" White Daisy Envelopes

 Z1477 5" x 7" White Daisy Envelopes

Z1478 6" x 6" White Daisy Envelopes

Z1756 3" x 3" Colonial White Envelopes

Z1757 4 ¼" x 5 ½" Colonial White Envelopes

Z1758 5" x 7" Colonial White Envelopes

Z1759 6" x 6" Colonial White Envelopes

Z1851 Scallop Border Punch

Z1997 Triangle Border Punch

Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge by CTMH is going on Sale!

One of the items that will be in CTMH's cyber sale is the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge.  Here is a copy of CTMH's flyer about this cartridge.  This cartridge comes with 3 full stamp sets that coordinate with the cartridge and some cardstock.  Go to my shopping page, join as a customer, sign up for the newsletter so you'll get news about the sale, and check out the details for this and any other product you're interested in.  You'll probably find some great ideas for gifts to make.

There will be about 40 items at 25% off.  That's a great deal.

I also started boards on pinterest for both Cricut and the Artfully Sent cartridge.

Happy Shopping! Karen

CTMH Is Having A Cyber Sale!

Close To My Heart is having a one week cyber sale with prices 25% off retail.  It even includes one of the cartridges!  If you have any papercrafters on your Christmas list you can buy their gift on sale and use the savings to treat yourself to something.  On Monday look for the sale items on my page karenhostetter.ctmh.com. Click on Shop in the menu and then look for a special section for the sale items.  When you shop make sure to join the Dec15 gathering.  

More information about the sale will be sent by CTMH via their December newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter by logging in to karenhostetter.ctmh.com.  Join as a customer then click the “My Account” link in the top right corner of the page, check the box indicating you would like to receive email, and then confirm your subscription via the confirmation email you receive.

Card Making For Kids

My 8 year old daughter has never given a purchased card in her life.  Not even for Valentine's day when she needs 32 cards.  From the time she was old enough to stick a sticker on a piece of paper she has made her own cards.  I would buy foam stickers, stick a blank card in front of her, peel the paper back and she would stick them on.  There were a few years she made our family Christmas cards.  One year with the foam stickers, a couple years with kits that I purchased from CTMH.  She has progressed over the years and now draws them, uses regular stickers, or with my help she uses the Cricut.  She can work that machine better than I can.  Her eyes are better for seeing the screen but also she just remembers which menu is where.  She really only needs my help with the mat and the machine is expensive so I'm overly careful.

Most kids love arts-n-crafts.  What a perfect way to spend time with your children.  Do you paper craft with your kids?  Share some ideas here.  I'd love some more ideas that I can do with my daughter and now I just started a Brownie troop so I'll need some for them too.  Thank you for sharing.

My 8 Year Old Made A Scrapbook In A Day

I had my Halloween layout workshop yesterday and my daughter joined  us. While we scrapped our 3 double page layouts, my 8 year old joined us to make her mini-album.  This is one of the CTMHInstalife mini-albums.  I received this one at our convention and gave it to her.  It has pages for 4x4 pictures and pages that are divided into 4 pockets.  It also has little cards that go in the various pockets along with the pockets.  Think Picture My Life in miniature.  I had already gone to Studio J where there is a layout for this album.  You just drop your photos in and you get the sizes you need.  (Choose Express layouts, photo mixes.) 

My cutie just had to put photos and her inserts in the pockets and she has an instant album.  I had printed photos of herself from her very first baby photo to current so she had a great time looking at them and is very excited to add the journaling.  She needed a few more inserts so we cut some cardstock and she used my stamps.  

All of us "ladies" had a fun day!

To get this album and it's accessories go to my
Close To My Heart page.