Celebrate National Stamping Month Triple Play Style

Create 3 mini albums with our National Stamping Month kit, Triple Play. With 4 Exclusive Inks® mini stamp pads, a versatile C-size stamp set, 3 mini albums, ribbon, an instructional brochure, and pre-cut accents for stamping, you'll complete all 3 albums in a snap! This limited edition kit is only available August 15-September 30 (or while supplies last).

1) Buy the Triple Play kit for $29.95.

2) Purchase $25 in stamps (excluding Stamp of the Month sets, Workshops on the Go™ stamp sets, and K-size custom stamps) and get the Triple Play kit for just $15.

3) Spend $40 in stamps (excluding Stamp of the Month sets, Workshops on the Go™ stamp sets, and K-size custom stamps) and get the Triple Play kit for only $5.

4) Host a gathering with sales of $300 or more and get the Triple Play kit for FREE!

5) Join Close To My Heart as a Consultant and get the kit FREE!

To order yours, shop here 24/7. Or, contact me at gina.godbey@gmail.com if you have any questions or to order.

There’s Still Time To Take Advantage of Some Amazing Deals!

There's Still Time To Take Advantage of Some Amazing Deals!

2 more days left!!! Prices good till Wednesday, August 11^th!

$2, $4, $6 for 8, who does CTMH appreciate? It's YOU, of course! To show our appreciation, for 8 days ONLY, August 4 through August 11 Close To My Heart is offering (WHILE SUPPLIES LAST) select My Stickease® Assortments for only $2 US/CAN, My Reflections® Level 1 kits for only $4, and My Reflections® Level 2 paper packets for only $6 online.

Click here to visit my website to order. Or email me at gina.godbey@gmail.com to send me your order. Click here to view a list of items available for this AWESOME sale. You'll want to shout for joy, too! I know I am!!!

My Top 5 Favorite Scrapbooking /Stamping Techniques of All Time

 

1. DISTRESSING: There are several techniques that you can do to your paper and even your photos.
   

   a) Paper Tearing: Tearing your paper leaves a rugged border to your layout. CTMH has a white core cardstock. So, when you are tearing CTMH cardstock you are left with a white torn border.
   

   b) Sanding: Sanding your paper leaves a very nice distressed look. Especially when using CTMH paper b/c of the white core cardstock showing through.
   

   c) Inking Edges: Ink the edges of your cardstock in a chocolate or cocoa to leave a distressed/antique look.
   

   d) Crinkling: Lightly mist your cardstock with water and crinkle it up into a ball. Let it dry. Then unfold and you are left with a weathered looking piece of cardstock. After this, you can sand your crinkled piece of cardstock to distress it even further.
   

   e) Roughing Edges: Using an edge distresser or you can just use a pair of scissors. Open your scissors and using one side of the blade, distress your cardstock.
   

2. MASKING: This allows you to stamp several images without marrying them. This allows images to look like are behind other images. Stamp your image on your paper. Then, stamp the same image on a post-it note or scrap paper. Cut out the image from the post-it note or scrap paper. Cut as close to the edge of the stamped image as you can. This is your mask. Place your mask over the original image on your paper. Now, stamp the next image to where it overlaps and covers part of the mask. Remove the mask and you'll see that it looks like the second image is behind the first one.
   
3. SECOND GENERATION STAMPING: This technique will add some depth to your project by creating a darker and lighter shade of the same ink color. Take your stamp and ink it up and then stamp off on a scratch piece of paper. Now, stamp a second time on your project without cleaning the stamp. The result is a lighter image. You could continue stamping if you're looking for an even lighter image which would be considered 3^rd and 4^th generation stamping.
   
4. STAMP KISSING: Ink up a solid stamp (Example: alphabet stamp), then get a background stamp (Example: dots, lines, flowers, etc.). Place the stamp/block face up. Then, take the solid stamp and kiss it directly onto the background stamp. Then, stamp on your project for a textured version of your solid stamp. You could also use a 2^nd color when doing this by inking up your background stamp in a darker color and your solid stamp in a lighter color. When you stamp kiss the light to the dark background color the pattern will appear on the solid stamp in that color.
   
5. RANDOM STAMPING: This technique allows you to create your own custom background paper. I would find 3 different size stamps and then start with your largest of the 3 stamps. Stamp randomly over your cardstock. Take your middle size stamp and stamp randomly over your cardstock. Then, take the smallest stamp and fill in spaces. I like stamping off my cardstock leaving half the image on the cardstock. This gives dimension to your project. Be sure to also turn your image different directions while stamping for even more dimension.

Amazing Deals at More Than 50% Off To Show Thanks To You!

$2, $4, $6 for 8, who does CTMH appreciate? It's YOU, of course! To show our appreciation, for 8 days ONLY, August 4 through August 11 Close To My Heart is offering (WHILE SUPPLIES LAST) select My Stickease® Assortments for only $2 US/CAN, My Reflections® Level 1 kits for only $4, and My Reflections® Level 2 paper packets for only $6 online.

Click here to visit my website to order. Or email me at gina.godbey@gmail.com to send me your order. Click here to view a list of items available for this AWESOME sale. You'll want to shout for joy, too! I know I am!!!

Olivia Paper Pack

This paper pack is beautiful. I love everything about fall. I love the cooler weather and I love the colors of the season. This paper pack will be available to purchase Sept. 1st. Again, I used Jeanette Lynton's new idea book, Magic, to create the interactive right page. Enjoy!

August Club Pages

I was inspired to do these pages by Jeanette Lynton's new scrapbook idea book 'Magic'. It is full of new ideas and interactive pages. I just love it! I hope my girls enjoy these pages as much as I do. I take a ton of pictures and I either have to weed some out or make multiple 2 page layouts to accomodate all my pictures for an event. Now, I don't have to do that. I could easily get 14-15 pictures on one 2 page layout now. AWESOME!

Jeanette Lynton's book will be available to purchase from me, your Close To My Heart consultant, beginning Sept. 1st. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this book or seeing all the other fabulous new products CTMH is introducing in the new Fall/Winter catalog. Some exciting things are coming up! You don't want to miss it!

January club pages.

Here are a couple of Valentine's Day cards I made one evening.