Scrapbook Layouts for the March 18th Triple Treat Creative Day Retreat!!

I'm excited to finally be ready to reveal... 
the FOUR 12x12 scrapbook page layouts
that guests at our 3/18 workshop will be creating...
featuring the Uptown Fundamentals papers (Z3263)
and Snapshot Complements (Z3309):

 LAYOUT #1 
(inspired by Cindy Baker of facebook.com/Hometown-Vintage-Retreats-205304899820342/)

 LAYOUT #2

 LAYOUT #3
(also inspired by Cindy Baker of facebook.com/Hometown-Vintage-Retreats-205304899820342/)

LAYOUT #4

“TRIPLE TREAT” CREATIVE DAY RETREAT

A Close to my Heart Scrapbooking and Card-making Workshop!

(a new multi-consultant event now held three times a year!!!)

Saturday, March 18th, 2017

10:00 am – 4:00 pm

at Rosita’s Restaurant (Barstow, CA)

Workshop prices include buffet-style food/appetizers and unlimited ice water/tea in a large banquet room! A “no host” bar will also be available for those who might want to order their own drinks! PLUS we’ll do a random prize-drawing and give-away every hour! The projects are all “beginner friendly” so invite & bring friends new to ctmh!! (for more chances to win prizes!)

*the early-bird price saves you $5.00!

*$50 pre-paid by February 20^th  (or $55 pre-paid by March 1^st)

gets you the EVERYTHING kit that includes:

pre-cut materials to create 4 – 12x12 layouts (8 pages!)

and 10 standard-size cards w/ envelopes (2 each of 5 designs)

*$30 pre-paid by February 20^th  (or $35 pre-paid by March 1^st)

gets you the CARD-MAKING ONLY kit that includes:
pre-cut materials to create 15 cards w/ envelopes (3 each of 5 designs)

**The “EVERYTHING kit” includes full product collections with a retail value of more than $40.00! including Z3263 Uptown Fundamentals paper pack ($14.95), Z3309 Snapshot Complements ($6.95, shown above), Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim ($4.95), Z3312 Gold Glitter Gems ($3.95), 10 sheets cardstock ($6.50), and 10 card bases w/ envelopes ($3).

Contact your consultant now to RSVP!!

       Addie Ebersohl 760-953-3841

       Jennifer Rubio 760-220-0683

       Loreina Contreras 760-559-1881

       Marti Foster 760-981-2134

       Sandy Robb 760-953-9864

Simply Fundamental Blog Hop!

THANK YOU for stopping by to enjoy our

Simply Fundamental Blog Hop!

Today, 27 consultant artists are sharing artwork
they've created using "Fundamental" products
from Close to my Heart!
 
(These products include the Paper Fundamentals,
Fundamental Stickers packs, and Fundamental
Assortments that are featured on pages 108-111
in the Annual Inspirations Idea Book).

If you've just arrived here from KATHY's BLOG
then you are on the correct path.

This is the standard size card I made using three different colors/patterns of paper from the Paper Fundamentals Enchantment pack Z3126 (Fern, Ruby, and Saffron). The
stamp set I used is Holly, Jolly Christmas D1657 and the card design is inspired by Make It From Your Heart - Volume 2, pattern 20 (p. 42). Embellished with Black Shimmer Trim Z1809, Red Enamel Gems Z3090, and the Black Fundamental Assortment Z3104 (bow).

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my card!
Now you can continue on the hop
and be inspired by more creative ideas
by visiting WENDY's BLOG next.

Enjoy the hop!! 

  

What is FUNdamental Scrapbooking?? (my Convention Presentation!! - Part 1)

So, back in May 2015,

the Close to my Heart home office

called and invited me to be a

"special presenter" at the annual 

Close to my Heart Convention

(at the Disneyland Hotel, in Anaheim, CA)!

Of course I said "Yes!", so... I DID IT!!!

(as scary as it was to be up there, lol).

...and now that the NEW Annual Inspirations

and Holiday Expressions Catalogs have been released

online on September 1st (view catalogs here!!),

I can finally share ALL of the details about

what exactly it is that I shared on stage!!

First, here are a few photos of me as a presenter that day...

Next, here is what I presented on stage

(along with the first two of eight total 

scrapbook layouts that I shared that day):

What is a "Fundamental" Scrapbooker?

 Fundamental scrapbookers like to create clean, uncluttered, and balanced pages that can be completed quickly and without a lot of fuss. We may not care to add any dimensional embellishments that make our pages lumpy/bumpy. We like our photos and journaling to be the main focal points on each page, without too many distracting decorative elements.

A Fundamental scrapbooker may be a beginner 
that we are teaching to scrapbook for the very first time, OR...

It may be someone who is a very experienced 

scrapbooker, like me, that wants to complete their pages 

faster, simpler, and easier!

Even though I do like to take my time being extra creative sometimes, most of the time my busy life as a wife and working mother of five, just doesn't allow as much creative time as I want to have. If you, like me, have ever felt that you lack the time, lack the creativity, or lack the money to afford a lot of product, then Close to my Heart offers us a
simple solution...

FUNdamental Scrapbooking!!

using our new line of Paper Fundamentals and coordinating stickers/embellishments, as well as, our My Reflections paper packs and Complements!

Let me show you what my
"Fundamental" scrapbook pages look like...

(the new products I used are listed beneath each photo below)!!

NEW Paper Fundamentals - Basics (black) Z3128 (p.109)

NEW Fundamental Stickers Pack - Basics (with gold foil) Z3166 (p. 110)

"Piano Man" title is cut from NEW Gold Glitter Paper Z3076 (p. 145)
with the Cricut Artbooking cartridge Z3169 (p. 120)
"Jose Rubio Jr." is stamped with Alphabet stamp set, Jennifer's Hand B1484 (p. 107).

(close-up of the Left page)

(Close-up of the Right page)

NEW Paper Fundamentals - Whimsy (crystal blue & sweet leaf) Z3127 (p.109)

NEW Fundamental Stickers Pack - Basics (with gold foil) Z3166 (p. 110)

ALL of my titles and black/white/grey elements are stickers from this pack!

 (close-up of the Left page)

 (Close-up of the Right page)

Here's a tip on how to easily line up your sticker titles perfectly straight:
First, cut out just the word you want from your 6x12 sticker sheet.
Then, peel back and crease either the top half/bottom half of the sticker backing.
(it helps you to crease the backing more easily if you remove
the "negative" outside part of the stickers from the wax-paper backing also).

Then, lightly press to adhere just the sticky part of your sticker letters to your page wherever you want them. Last, pull away the wax-paper backing from underneath the rest of the stickers and press them in place. If you press them gently at first, then they are easy to remove (and re-adhere) wherever you prefer IF they do happen to move/slide around on you a bit. Now, they are instantly lined-up and spaced evenly and exactly how they came on the sticker sheet!

That's all for now!!
I'll be back to post Part 2 (two more layouts
that I presented on stage) very soon!! :)

 

Scrapbooking with Bliss!

I haven't mentioned my Scrapbooking Challenge for 2011 very much on my blog recently, so I just wanted to remind you all that the challenge is still on and many of us are still reaching for this goal and still going strong! If you haven't been able get "one done every seven in 2011" (one two-page layout done every week), then maybe this post will inspire you to start over again or get going now (it's never too late to join us!!). In case you missed it or need to refresh your memory, here is a link to the first post I shared about this challenge that will serve as a reminder about what exactly it is we're doing. If you are one of the many who tried to take on this challenge in January but your enthusiasm has slowed or you just couldn't find the time, please don't waste any more precious time feeling bad about what you haven't been able to accomplish yet this year, but rather let's put that energy into getting some scrapbooking done now! In January, one of the things I taught and encouraged at our "new year" scrapbooking class, was the importance of learning how to scrapbook simply and quickly! Not every page you make has to be a "masterpiece" work of art that requires hours of your time. A simple yet beautiful page layout can be made in just 15-20 minutes or less! Yes, it is so much fun to take our time and get especially creative with our stamping and embellishing sometimes, but sometimes we also just want to get it done

more quickly and simply and that is okay too!

***

I am so excited to finally show off the progress I've made for our challenge recently by completing 20 pages (10 layouts) - and yes, I think it did take me about 10 weeks to get them all done even though the pages were so fast and simple to make, lol. All of the page layouts I'm sharing with you today were made with just 3 products

from Close to my Heart:

1). Bliss level 1 kit X7132A ($9.95)

2). Bliss level 2 paper packet X7132B ($12.95)

3). Bliss level 2 My Stickease X7132C ($4.95)

As you can see from the pricing above, simple scrapbooking can be very affordable also! For just $27.85 (plus the cost of adhesive) I was able to complete 20 pages and I still have lots of paper and a few stickers left-over to create even more with! As you can see, I did scrapbook a few wedding photos that work well with this particular kit, but I also LOVE the versatility of the Bliss kit!! The Bliss papers and My Stickease work well with a variety of different kinds of photos that were taken over a long span of time. I chose Bliss because I felt that the neutral colors would compliment the older and more special "heirloom" family photos without over-whelming them, as well as co-ordinate with the newer more recent photos. I wanted the album to have an elegant and timeless feel to it and I think that "Bliss" really helped to accomplish that. Because all the supplies I used co-ordinate so well with each other, it helped unify the whole album

while still allowing each page to be different.

***

Finally, if you're wondering about the adorable girl you're seeing in these photos, it is not me or anyone related to me. These layouts are pages that I completed for a new friend! I took on my first ever "scrapbooking for hire" job recently. I normally wouldn't take on such a project due to my limited creative time and the tons and tons of photos I already have of my own to work with, but this project was very special because it is a gift from a God-mother to her God-daughter and because the customer who hired me wanted clean, simple pages, with no lumpy embellishing, I felt like it was do-able for me to take on the job. The God-mother had been saving photos and correspondence she had received from her God-daughter and her family over the past 36 years and wanted to have everything together in one album

to give to her - what a special gift!

***

Pages 2-3 (below)

Pages 4-5 (below) Pages 6-7 (below)
Pages 8-9 (below)
Pages 10-11 (below)
Pages 12-13 (below)

Pages 14-15 (below)

The page on the right includes a paper pocket I added to the page. Three tall Christmas Card photos are slipped behind the pocket (so that's why you only see half of the photos on the top half of the page).

Pages 16-17 (below)

The page on the right is one of our photo storage pages that includes

six horizontal pockets to hold 4x6" photos (item# 4113).

Pages 18-19 (below)

The page on the right is another page with lots of pockets so I could include more Christmas cards and Christmas card photos. Instead of mounting these items directly on a page, pockets provide a great option to allow "easy access" so they can

still be pulled out and opened to be read.

Page 20 (below)

(includes a blank journaling square for the God-mother to use to

write a short but sweet message of love to her God-daugher!)

Finally, I want to wish Margie and Kellie much joy as they and enjoy their album together! Thank you for allowing me to share these pages here and for the opportunity to have a glimpse into your special relationship and many years of happy memories.

I feel so lucky to get to know you in this way!