"You are Here" Team Bloghop

Our newest Cricut Cartridge - You are Here is one of my absolute favorites!  There are so many titles, place markers, family reunion and just plain fun buttons!  You are going to want this collection for your new go to for all your excursions - local and abroad.  If you have come form Rebecca Brown's blog you are in the right spot.  This blog hop is a big circle. You can start here and follow the path around or go here to the beginning.

Last month I showed off my favorite paper pack in the Seasonal Expressions book - No Worries. This month I am going to show you another layout using the No Worries paper and how perfectly it works with the "You are Here" Cricut Collection.

My title and journaling decal both came from the You are Here Cricut Collection. They are so fun and not vacation specific which makes them even better. I love how they start my 2017 vacation album off.  The pattern used is from our Brand New Make it From Your Heart 3 book. 

Here is a a picture of what you get when you purchase the You are Here Cricut Collection. The Collection comes with everything shown below for only $99 and the digital collection (no cartridge or booklet but a download code) is only $79.

The accompanying and coordinating stamp sets continue the theme of traveling fun.  Here is a close-up of how I used the Travelogue stamp set to complete my layout.

Products used to complete my layout:

No Worries Paper Packet X7220B

No Worries Complements X7220C

No Worries Sequins Z3322

White Burlap Ribbon Z3323

White Daisy Cardstock 1385

Make it From Your Heart Volume 3 9043

Cricut You Are Here Collection Z3389

Toffee Ink Z2828

Sapphire Cardstock X5957

Lagoon Cardstock X5968

To order the You are Here Cricut Collection, contact your Close to My Heart Consultant, if you don't have one, you can order from my website here. To continue this fun Blog Hop and see even more artwork using Close to My Heart's Cricut collections, hop over to  Andrea Sherman's Blog.  

Happy Scrappin'

It's a Stampaganza Blog Hop!

Hello friends!

I can't believe how long it has been since I wrote to you all last.  This year has been one of many ups and downs with lots of crazy turns along the way but I am so excited to be back and stamping and scrapbooking again.

July is Stampaganza at Close to My Heart which means now is the perfect time to order all those stamp sets you fell in love with when you were looking through the catalog!  Only during July, purchase any two stamp sets and get the third set of equal or lesser value free!  That is an incredible deal!  Also, remember when you spend $50 you get our Storybook Alphabet set, our July Stamp of the Month, for only $5!

So... What stamp set is your favorite from our current catalogs?  Right now, mine is the No Worries - Scrapbooking set. My family was extremely blessed to be able to take a cruise in May.  This was our first family vacation in several years so to say that I took several photos would be an understatement.  As I begin to go through the photos, I am also beginning to create my layouts for those photos.  Here is the first of many layouts I will create to help document our wonderful journey.

This is a simple layout so that my photos can take center stage as they should.  I did pop-up several of the stamped images to add depth to the layout.

Items used to create the layout were:

No Worries Paper Packet - X7220B

No Worries - Scrapbooking stamp set - D1718

Lagoon Ink - Z2895

Whisper Ink - Z2872

Gold Shimmer Trim - Z1985

Cricut Artbooking Collection - Z3169

Bitty Sparkles - Z1263

To see more stamp sets and their beautiful artwork, click here to go to Ellen Jarvis's blog. or to start at the beginning go to Tina's blog.