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What type of scrapbook tape should I use?
What type of scrapbook tape should I use? Brand new to scrapbooking. I want to make one for my SO. I don’t need it repositionable but I do need it to stick for 10+ years. Clear/cello tape fails eventually. I Thanks! Hi Chuck, Please don’t use cello tape on your scrapbooks, it has acid in… Read more
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Help Your Kids Keep a Journal
I wanted to share with you some thoughts after receiving an e-mail from a friend about their weekend. Here is an excerpt – On Saturday, my family attended the annual Gleason Gras. Gleason Gras is a charity event supporting former New Orleans Saints Safety, Steve Gleason, who was diagnosed with ALS six years ago. (That’s… Read more
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9/11 Fifteen Years Later
I don’t want to post old images of the twin towers or re-live that day through pictures, I am sure that the news will do plenty of that today – like we could EVER forget it. I want to share one current bit of trivia – however not trivial at all. The 9/11 Survivor Tree… Read more
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A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way
October is National Stamping Month and Close to my Heart have a wonderful promotion for you. Here is a little video: I know what you are thinking… but this kit comes with pre-printed bases and all the pieces are already cut for you so even if you think you can’t…think again! I will even do… Read more
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Blessed Beyond Measure
Blessed Beyond Measure is a beautiful stamp set as you can see by this artwork. You can see the outline of the leaves that can be cut with the Cricut® Artbooking collection (Z3196). I love the sayings in this stamp set and having them being individual stamps makes them interchangeable. Why not add some… Read more
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I Survived Another Year at the Utah County Fair!
The Utah County Fair happens every year, the third week-end in August. I have 4 days of pure craziness trying to make everyone happy, and today I don’t have the think in “fair mode”. I am the Vendor Coordinator for the Utah County Fair and I try very hard to make this event a success… Read more
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Scrapbooking from a Husband’s View
Here is a great story for the men in your life that do not understand your scrapbooking/cardmaking obsession. I think it was published many years ago in a scrapbook magazine… Crack! “What was that?” screamed my wife, Kathy. I looked down to see the scrapbooking mess scattered all over the floor. Then I shook my… Read more
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Ways to Make a Wedding Scrapbook
Today’s question comes from Shughaarshini Vasu and she asks: How do I make a wedding scrapbook? To quote Shakespeare “Let me count the ways”… you have a great many options these days. Think first about the time you want to spend on making the scrapbook as this will help determine whether you want to preserve your memories… Read more
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An Interchangeable Shape Punch?
Today I received this question from Ute Seabauer and wanted to share it with all of you, Is there a shape punch for paper with interchangeable shapes, so you can buy numerous dies and place them into the punch for different shapes? Hi Ute, There isn’t a “punch” that you can interchange shapes with, but… Read more
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Where Do You Find Card Inspiration?
These days very few people take the time to send a card in the mail, thinking it is perfectly ok to just say what they want in an e-mail or online card… but you don’t get that excitement that going to the mailbox and finding something other than junk mail and bills. I have… Read more
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Flash Sales for June!
News Flash! During the month of June, we’re offering great deals on bundles of discounted Close To My Heart products every weekend! Click here to see bundles still available. There is lots to choose from, but you’ll need to snatch them up quick, because they’re only available through the end of the month, while supplies last! Bundles… Read more
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Remember the Happy Times
To celebrate National Scrapbooking Month, Close to my Heart designed a special paper and stamp set called Happy Times. These items are only available for the month of May, so hurry and snatch them while you can! Remember, with a qualifying purchase, you can get the paper packet for free! For more Happy Times artwork inspiration,… Read more
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It’s National Teacher Appreciation Day
Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day. Frankly I think as far as K-12, every day should be Teacher Appreciation Day. I have many teachers in my family tree and some of the stories about the way kids talk to teachers, strike out, bully and so much more, I have come to the conclusion that you… Read more
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Last Day for Studio J
We have known this day was coming, the day when Close to my Heart’s digital scrapbook program “Studio J” is leaving us. I have never been a “digital scrapbooker” or had the desire to do digital scrapbooking, I am a paper and ink kind of scrapper. There is nothing like the smell of a new… Read more
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Isn’t It Time to Be Your Own Boss?