How to make your cricut mats last longer

Here is a quick video on how to make your cricut mats last longer. I hope you pick up some ideas!

Hearts of the West December Blog Hop: Snowhaven

Welcome to the Hearts of the West team blog hop!

If this is your first time joining us you will love it. It features Close to my hearts Consultants from all over Canada showing you their projects. The hearts of the west team was founded by Nancy Klein.

This months challenge is the Snowhaven paper pack, brought to you by the new Annual Inspirations, hand picked from Nancy Klein.

If you came from Kerry Hammel's Blog then you're in the right place, this is a go around blog hop so you can start anywhere! Just in case, the full list will be at the bottom. So, as always, grab your coffee, tea, water, relax, and hop around the team with us.

For my project I chose to share two boxes I decorated using the Snowhaven product line. I purchase the boxes at Michael's and then re-cover and embellish them with Close To My Heart product. The end result is outstanding! I gave one of these boxes to one of my amazing customers and kept one to store Christmas cards in each year but you can also put your Christmas gifts in them and give them away as they make amazing gifts.

For the first box I also used the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge which is 20% off for cyber Monday - December 1, 2014. All of Close To My Heart's Cricut bundles are 20% off so this is a great opportunity to get yours in this sale! You can shop online for the cricut bundles as well as the Snowhaven product online here.

You  can watch my video here of the two boxes I made if you would like to see them in more detail.

Thanks for watching!

Your next stop is Donna Thomson-Digby's Blog.

See Full line-up here:

1. Nancy Klein's - http://nancyklein.blogspot.ca/…/hearts-of-west-december-blo…
2. Chantal Pearson's - http://www.itsahoot.ca/2014/11/decembers-hwbh.html
3. Freya Hall Dunbar's - http://freyassimplecreations.blogspot.ca/…/december-hearts-…
4. Holly Young-Bowers's - http://heartfeltmemories2.blogspot.ca/…/snowhaven-hearts-of…
5. Kerry Hammel - http://scrapbookfunbykerry.blogspot.ca/…/december-hearts-of…
6. Kathy Skipper - http://kathy-itsagirlthing.blogspot.ca/…/hearts-of-west-dec…
7. Donna Thomson-Digby - http://datsmystyledj.blogspot.ca/…/hearts-of-west-8th-blog-…
8. Sonia Parent St Jean - http://www.scrappingsonia.blogspot.ca/…/hearts-of-west-dece…
9. Terry Ann Diack - http://terryanndiack.blogspot.ca/2014/11/snowhaven-hwbh.html
10. Corinna Murphy - http://corinnacraftfun.blogspot.ca/…/hearts-of-west-decembe…
11. Linda Pekrul - http://blueskyscrapping.blogspot.ca/…/december-hearts-of-we…
12. Heather Myers - http://hlmyers.blogspot.ca/…/hearts-of-west-debember-blog-h…

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Thanks for joining us this month and come back next month to see what creative projects we can bring to you! Thank you for stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment.

Close To My Heart Christmas card workshop

I hosted a couple of Christmas Card workshops this year and here are some of the cards I designed for them. I used all Close To My Heart products.

You can shop online here.

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For always engagement Layout in shadow box

Welcome to our November Blog Hop featuring Designer Creations and Decor.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Michelle's Blog. If you came from Janet's Blog  then you are in the right place! 

I made this layout for a friend who got married this past October using one of her engagement photos.  Paperpack used was Close To My Heart For Always and various embellishments in my stash. This makes such an awesome present when you pop it into one of Close To My Hearts shadow boxes! 

You can shop online here.

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Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Nancy 's Blog.

 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list. 

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring Décor for Christmas.  So mark December 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Wanderful Travel Mini Album made with Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

I made this travel mini album using the Artfully Sent Cricut cart to make the pages for the album out of the card bases cut on this cartridge.  Even though this cartridge is designed mostly for making cards, it is also awesome for making mini albums! 

You can check it out below!

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I am so excited to let you know that you can finally order the Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge bundle. You can see and watch what is included in the bundle. I will be posting all my videos on September 30th from what I made and taught for Extravaganza with this cartridge for Convention this year.

You can order off my website here (Canada only): http://kathyskipper.ctmh.com

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Close To My Heart Consultant Kit 2014 - Scrapbooking or Cardmaking

Hello my fellow paper crafters!

I just wanted to share two videos I made that showcase the current Consultant Kits for anyone who may be interested. There are two kits to choose from depending on your paper crafting interests. You can choose from either the kit for Scrapbookers or cardmakers. 

The cost for either kit is $109 Cdn for $400 worth of combined products and business supplies for the new consultant. If you have any other questions about signing up as a consultant on my team (Canada  only), you can e-mail me at kmskipper@shaw.ca.

You can sign up as a consultant on my website here! You sign my in the section "what we do".

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Scrapbooking Consultant Kit:

Cardmaking Consultant Kit: