Exciting Changes coming to your Craft with Heart Subscription

 

I am so excited to tell you about some of the amazing changes CTMH is making to their Scrapbooking and Cardmaking Subscription programs called Craft with Heart. If you have never heard of their Craft with Heart program, let me tell you a little about it. 

A few years ago, Close to My Heart came out with a subscription program with beautiful layouts and/or card kits that had everything included for you to create, including full-color instructions, die cuts, base pages, etc. All you need is adhesive and a journaling pen. Each kit is beautiful and looks intricate while actually being super simple to put together (layouts take an average of 30 minutes to complete and cards 5 minutes each to complete).  You had the option of receiving a box monthly or every 4 months and they gave you the option of signing up for a month, every 4 months or annual payments.  With each tier there were incentives to help save money - the 4-month kit and annual payment plan were discounted, as well as, the annual subscribers received FREE shipping and 30 FREE prints at Persnickety Prints per shipment. 

 Here is a sampling of the current Craft with Heart kits.

Scrapbooking: receive 2 layouts for each month, or 8 layouts per each 4-month shipment

 

Cardmaking:Receive 24 cards (2 of each design) in each 4-month shipment.

CTMH has seen such an amazing response to customers purchasing the 4-month and annual subscriptions that they have decided to discontinue the monthly subscription, because, really, who wants to pay full price when you can get the kits at a discount and are now offering even more perks to those participating in the annual subscription.

Beginning September 1st when you sign up for a annual subscription or renew your subscription for either the Scrapbooking or Cardmaking Craft with Heart program you will now receive a FREE stamp with your subscription box.  

The scrapbooking stamp set is perfect for sayings to highlight your pictures and help tell your story of the events in the pictures. 

The Cardmaking stamp  set is a perfect addition to stamp your envelopes or the back of your cards. 

PLUS: 

• Now when you sign up or renew your subscription you EARN V.I.P. Credit on your subscription. Credits can not be used towards your subscription but they do earn you credits - that is 15% of the cost of your subscription to be used on future Close to My Heart orders!!!
• The amount paid for a Craft with Heart™ subscription on each order counts toward earning the Stamp of the Month at a discount or free for VIP's

If you haven't tried the Craft with Heart subscription programs, I highly encourage you to.  They super cute and a fun way to receive quality scrapbooking or cardmaking supplies at your door  3 times a year that will help you preserve your memories, faster, simpler and easier then ever before.  Head on over to my website to see the next layouts being shipped in the September subscription box.  And as always -

Happy Scrappin',

Heather

World Changers

It's been almost a year now and I am still in love with the Craft with Heart subscription box. I love the simplicity of the layouts but also the ability to change them up super easily and make them mine. Also, at this time of my life sometimes it is hard to have much time to scrap so having a base to begin is SO helpful.

Today I was able to play with one of the Craft with Heart layouts from Into the Wild. Here is the layout as they created it to be made:

Here is my final layout:

As you can see, I stayed to the basic layout design but made it work for my pictures.  If you look closely to the top white area of the original layout there is a word pattern that fits well for a baby.  I don't have any little babies anymore and I know many of you don't either.  To change that, I simply added a white daisy cardstock, cut to still allow the Pewter photo mat to pop out. It took a little measuring and cutting but it honestly only took about 5 minutes.  A super quick fix to make the layout more versatile.   I changed the title by cutting out on my cricut the title "World Changer". The director at our homeschool tutorial constantly refers to students as world changers encouraging them to do just that - impact and change our world.

I wanted to incorporate the graduation invitation so I added a 5x7 flip-flap that will attach to the outside of the page protector. 

For embellishing the layout, I found the cute title "reach for the stars" on circut and cut it out on one of our tags from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.   The journaling strips were left over from previous Craft with Heart layouts and then I added lots of little embellishments from several of my retired stamps. I love being able to use my stamps over and over - the beauty of stamps and not stickers.  The stamp sets I used are:

Smarty Pants C1649

Memories in the Making CC9182

Just a Little Something C1730

Graduation Tassel C1755

If you haven't tried the Craft with Heart subscription yet, give it a try!  It is such a great value with gorgeous layouts to keep you scrappin' faster simpler and easier!  Click here to get all the details!

Happy Scrappin'!

A Craft with Heart review

Craft with Heart, Close to My Hearts monthly scrapbook layout subscription program was released last August and though I have talked about it on my Facebook page I haven’t said much here on my blog.  

As a quick review, the subscription can be purchased monthly, quarterly or annually. With both the quarterly and annual subscription you receive 4 months of layouts at a time but with the annual subscription you receive free shipping and 30 free photo prints from Persnickety Prints with each shipment.  The base page of each layout is already designed and laid out but accent pieces are included for you to add dimension with 3D Foam tape   This gives you a beautiful design with minimal effort helping you scrapbook faster, simpler and easier. 

Here are the layouts that were sent and I created with the latest shipment.

Something Fierce:

I used the Brushed Alphabet (one of my favorite alphabet stamp sets) and a couple cricut cuts for my title but stayed pretty true to the layout as created and shown. 

I Heart Us:

For this layout I used the Paw Prints on my Heart stamp set to help embellish my layout and tell its story.  The horizontal picture on the bottom of the left page wasn’t originally shown in the sketch but I felt like it needed to be part of the layout so I added it in - making it mine.  

So Much Happy:

Feels like Home:

Here I changed the direction of the photos on the left page because it’s what I had to work with. :-)

The flowers in the Feels Like Home kit are black and white - the perfect canvas to make it your own.  However I added color to the flowers using the Sugarplum Shimmer Brush on the outside edges of the flowers and colored in the flowers with last years color of the year - Bashful. This added just a pop of color in the grey areas to really accentuate the pictures and draw them out. Finally I added some Silver Embellishing Thread behind the flowers and finished off the layouts with some Sugarplum glitter gems. 

So, after creating all of these layouts, what are my final thoughts?  I love that each of these layouts took me between 15-30 minutes to create, more when adding my own touch to it.  The layouts looked great on their own but I love that I can add a little something extra here and there to make it my own. I hope you like them as much as I do.  Click here to try out the Craft with Heart for yourself.  Also, when you sign-up for a subscription through my website you will be added to my special, exclusive Facebook group where I talk over each layout and also shows off other options that other professional bloggers and scrapbookers have created with their Craft with Heart layouts. 

Happy Scrappin’!