Cyber Week Specials

Cyber Week is here!

Close To My Heart is offering almost 40 items 

that you can purchase at 25% off!  

Get supplies you'll need to make hand-crafted gifts and cards for Christmas, including our Cricut Artfully Sent collection, at an amazing discount!

This fabulous sale is available on my website  

Monday, November 30th from 10:00 am (CDT)

to 

Friday, December 4th at 5:00 pm (CDT)

 Here are the Items Available -- Get Your Wish Lists Ready!

Z3168 Cricut® Artfully Sent Collection

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 Bags

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

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

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  Here is a fun card I made; it came together quickly with the use of the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge, cut the card pieces at 7", use a marker to color in the bats on the moon, back with a piece of honey paper, stamp with a sentiment and you are all set!

Stamp set:  Holiday Tags

Paper: Black, Honey, Whisper

Ink: Gypsy
Black marker 

Enjoy the Journey with Artfully Sent

Our son just got a new job and our daughter transferred to a new college this fall and I wanted to send them each a card.  I was going through the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge looking for ideas and came across this option on page 21 of the booklet.  This jumped right out at me as an option that would work for both of them.  While they aren't necessarily traveling; it is a new journey for them.

I cut one card at 7" and the other at 5", for the larger card, I backed the sentiment and used glitter glue I had on hand for the stars.  On the smaller card, I backed the stars with silver glitter paper and added a couple of white enamel hearts for additional accents.  Inside each of the cards, I mounted the star cut-outs, no need wasting perfectly good stars!

Great job confetti wishes card

We had a summer intern working in our department this summer and we sent him back to school with a fun card I made from this fun stamp and the confetti wishes paper.  I cut the overlay out from the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge and backed the open star cut-outs with some gold glitter paper for an extra special "pop."

Rose Birthday and Anniversary Cards

My mother-in-law's birthday is coming up so I pulled out the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge for ideas and loved this rose card found on page 37.  I used Hollyhock paper for the 7" base then added some depth to the rose color by sponging with Hollyhock, Cranberry and Blush inks.  Then, added a little bit of shine with embossing powder.  Next up was to stamp the title in Lagoon and include a sentiment inside.

When I was cleaning up, I noticed that the paper I had put under the rose cut out was pretty colorful after all that sponging so I cut it down a bit and made an anniversary card; how cool is that?!?  One sheet of Hollyhock paper for two whole cards, very nice indeed.

Artfully Sent Happy Birthday Card

It's our son's birthday today so I thought I'd post a picture of the card I made with the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge.  The nice thing with these cartridges is that you can use a wide variety of papers to come up with different looks and you can mix/match different items as well.  The sentiment inside was cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge.  The mix of blue and orange worked well together for this fun card.

Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

Artfully Sent Easter Card

I had a few colored eggs left from my mini Easter card project a couple of weeks ago so put them to use on this card.  The pocket card option from the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge makes it very easy to put together a quick and simple greeting.

From the Artfully Sent cartridge, cut the Easter Wishes pocket card at 4" (page 41). I had some Lollydoodle paper on hand and backed it with some Gypsy paper from the Adventure pack then used Cotton Candy ink on the white shimmer trim to get the nice matching glitz.  Instructions for the egg are from my mini-Easter card post.  Inside, I used the sentiment and frame included with this Cricut cartridge set to complete the greeting.  

Supplies:

Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

Adventure Cardstock Combo

White Shimmer Trim

Gypsy Ink

Cotton Candy Ink

I have my supplies lined up for tonight's card making group. The Scrappers of Deforest get together once a month to make 3x3 cards to go out with Meals on Wheels deliveries in the area.  We have a theme each month and a rule that we can only use supplies we already have on hand. The theme this month is St Patrick's Day and I had hard time tracking down a shamrock stamp but then the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge came to the rescue for me.  I cut out a whole page of these cuties at 2.75" and used some left over papers I had on hand to make this card along with a bling gem (just had to have some gold with my shamrock!)

Artfully Sent - Sleeve Card Tips

My love affair with the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge continues.  I'll be making some sleeve cards for sure after watching how simple they are in this short video.

Artfully Sent - Birthday Banner cards

This week I tried a 15 minute challenge and wanted to share the results.  These birthday cards are made from the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge and Confetti Wishes paper, the bold colors pair nicely with the solid color banner.  I also used the white enamel stars in the cut-out section of the cards.

Supplies used:

Confetti Wishes Paper Pack

White Enamel Stars

Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

Artfully Sent - Celebrate Birthday

I mentioned how much fun I am having with the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge already, right? I saw a post recently from a fellow consultant who used the negatives (on the left) from the original cut (on the right) and decided to borrow this idea for a couple of birthday cards using the confetti wishes paper pack. For the card on the left, I used the stripe embossing folder to give a little added dimension.

Artfully Sent - 75th birthday card

I've been playing with the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge lately for a whole series of birthday cards.  For this one, I used Heartstrings paper to make this swing card. I used a full size liner inside so I could layer in the birthday candles.  It's hard to see on the picture but I embossed the white paper for the candles to give them a bit more dimension and used little bits of silver shimmer tape for the flames to add a bit of sparkle.