Fun Christmas notebook

So I bought this cute notebook at the dollar store and thought it would make a good Santa Shopping list/whats bought book.  Our CTMH Believe papers matched the bright Christmas colors, so I quickly punched out the tabs and glued them on (each family member now has there own section). Then added so fun, bright ribbons to the ring binders.  AND POOF, DONE!

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Attached is a brief step-by-step tour of Studio J brought to you by the Corporate staff at Close To My Heart.  TO LOG ONTO STUDIO J --go to ctmh.com/heatherplotzke and click the Studio J tab on the left of the site.

Free CROP Tonight

Just a reminder to all my local friends, I am hosting a FREE crop tonight for you from 6p-9pm at Oceanside Community Church. 

I will be taking donations to benefit Operation Smile, our group is really close to sponsoring a full surgery this year and would love to help make someone's Christmas dream come true!

Bring your Christmas cards, layouts, papercrafting gift projects, or just come hang out with us to enjoy good company.  There won't be any planned projects from me, but I will be bringing my how to books along for you to browse through for ideas!

Hope to see you there!

BLACK FRIDAY SUPER SALE 11/25-11/27

I know we all will be out crazy shopping today!!!!! ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I love Black Friday shopping, so I wanted to share my joy by offering you all this special:

• Place a $25-$49.99 order now through Sunday 11/27/11 and you'll receive  $5.oo off your next order redeemable through me!
• Place a $50-$74.99 order now through Sunday 11/27/11 and you'll receive  $10.oo off your next order redeemable through me!
• Place a $75-99.99 order now through Sunday 11/27/11 and you'll receive  $15.oo off your next order redeemable through me!
• Place a $100.00-149.99 order now through Sunday 11/27/11 and you'll receive  $20.oo off your next order redeemable through me!
• Place a $150 or more order now through Sunday 11/27/11 and you'll receive a $25.oo off your next order redeemable through me!  You will ALSO receive $25 in hostess rewards!  (To receive hostess rewards this has to be placed DIRECT with me via email hrkinney@hotmail.com OR call me 760-712-7033)

Thanksgiving - Birthday Special

Happy Thanksgiving to All!  And Happy Birthday to Me!!!  To celebrate, besides putting candles on our turkey, I am giving away a free dye colored ink pad of your choice with any order of 3 stamp sets or more!
CLICK HERE TO GET SHOPPING ONLINE or order directly through me at hrkinney@hotmail.com.  Remember during November you will also be eligible for our amazing holiday stamp set for only $5 with a stamp purchase of $25 or more.

Orders placed online via ctmh.com/heatherplotzke, add your ink pad choice to qualifying order, and I will send you reimbursement....orders placed directly with me, make sure you email me your color choice.

Pre-Thanksgiving Day Sale

Beat the Turkey Day shopping rush...


....place an order $30 or more from me TODAY (11/23/11) to receive a CTMH marker (your choice of color) as a FREE treat from me!  CLICK HERE TO GET SHOPPING ONLINE or order directly through me at hrkinney@hotmail.com

Orders placed online via ctmh.com/heatherplotzke add your marker choice to qualifying order, and I will send you reimbursement....orders placed directly with me, make sure you email me your color choice.

More holiday photos and scrapping tips

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble.....remember to take pictures of all the yummy food (and their empty dishes after) from your feast Thursday!  Written recipes of your yummy treats are GREAT things to journal into your scrapbook, I promise your family will appreciate it!

Thanksgiving scrapbooking ideas

Okay people, its coming....the holidays are coming.....Do you know that Thanksgiving is ONE MONTH before Christmas Eve!?!?!  CRAZINESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A great thing to scrapbook about Thanksgiving would be a list of what each person at your dinner party is Thankful for!  You can have everyone write them down on small pieces of cardstock or on leaf shaped cardstock then just past them into your book.  You can also just have people speak their ideas out loud and then have someone jotting down what they say...These ideas will look great with your gathering photos surrounding your loved ones thoughts and prayers.

What will YOU be doing?  Comment below!

WHATCHA working on! Comment here

Sorry Everyone, I've been offline doing some pre-holiday craziness this week.  Me and my little ones have this week off for the Thanksgiving holiday.  I plan on getting a head start on some of my Christmas present making (a real head start would have been if I would have started in February when I should have of lol).  I am trying to have a guilt free holiday though this year, so enough of that. If you are on my Gift giving list STOP reading now:

• I am working on assembling my Studio J calendars that I'm giving (only 6 layouts to needed, and a blank CTMH 12x12 calendar and BAM done....did this 5 times!) and a wreath for a friend first.
• WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please leave comments here and all share holiday gift ideas here (specially since I have 17 more gifts to make lol)

November 2011 Love Your Layout Studio J Video

Let this video quickly get you a fab layout done in a matter of minutes with Studio J

Family stamp addicts

I had to share these pictures of my daughters who are as stamp addicted as their Momma.    I love how unlike most kids about to stamp Sara Beth holds her stamp and says "tap, tap, tap" as she taps the image to the ink pad lol.  No rocking images for her!

Sara Beth loves Papercrafting

Kennedy says  "I love Cwafting"

"right here"
 

This is the secret reveal part lol

Happy Veteran's Day

I wanted to thank all those who SERVE our Country!  Make sure you THANK a Veteran today!

One of my favorite stamp sets that CTMH makes is D1474 Hero pictured here.

Happy Veteran's Day today!

From our family to yours, Happy Veteran's Day!  Thanks a Veteran AND their family today!

Happy Birthday to the USMC!

I wanted to wish a Happy Birthday to the USMC! and to my favorite Marine and Amtracker, GySgt Gordon Plotzke III!

In this Studio J layout I made showing 2010's USMC Birthday Celebration take notice of the papers I used.  This is the BOO paper pack and I easily changed the colors of the papers to coordinate with Gordon's uniform.  If you take a closer look you'll see custom "paper" filled with my own personal words.  To do this technique is easy.  I placed multiple journalling boxes onto the square each with a different word in each.  To recreate the words in the other boxes, I just held the shift key while selecting all the words and then copied/pasted twice, lining them up over their new home:)

November's Stamp of the Month Set!

Available November 1–30, 2011 only.
With a minimum qualifying purchase, get your D-size Stamp of the Month set for just $5.00 US / $5.50 CAN! Add the stamp set to your cart on this page at full retail price or, with your qualifying order, add it at checkout for the promotional price.

Spend:	$50.00 US / $55.00 CAN	No purchase req.
You pay only:	$5.00 US / $5.50 CAN (72% Off!)	$17.95 US / $19.95 CAN (full retail)

Set of 44
Recommended My Acrylix® Blocks:
1" × 1" (Y1000), 2" × 2" (Y1003), 2" × 3 1/2" (Y1009)

Happy Holiday Card Set Video tuturial

Dreamin' Wreath Workshop final days to register

 As a reminder LAST DAY to register for the workshop 11/14 is this coming FRIDAY 11/04!  The workshop cost is $20.  We will be making a vine wreath with paper flowers and photos weaved into the wreath.  The papers we will be incorporating will be Dreamin'.  Be ready to have a wall hanging that you'll love hanging for years to come.