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Everything ABC's Blog Hop

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Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop! I am very excited to participate in my first Everything ABC's Blog Hop! For this hop we will be featuring the letter B. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their B element will be featured in their post. If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Linda's blog ~ Scrappy Therapy  If you came from Cat's Scrapbooking then you're on the right track! I chose to use Babycakes for my letter and created this great layout using pattern 14 from Close to My Heart's Make it From Your Heart Vol. 1. I used the following products all available here .  Babycakes paper pack Babycakes Assortment Chocolate Ink Mocha Opaques Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge   I used Buttercup card stock for my based and heavily inked everything in Chocolate. I chose the Chocolate card stock to try to make it more "boyish"

Close to My Heart Proplayer Slider Card

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I decided to get adventurous the other night and try my first slider card. I absolutely love how easy it was and how great it turned out.     I used the following Close to My Heart products:   Outdoor Denim Cardstock Pacifica Cardstock Living Well Stamp Set (retired) Outdoor Denim Ink Proplayer Paper Cricut Artise Cartridge   Here are close-ups of the slider cards followed by easy directions:       Directions:   1. Cut Outdoor Denim Cardstock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and adhere to card base 2. Use Cricut Artise Cartridge to cut the Pacifica cardstock. I used the image on page 70, accent 2 at 2" 3. Stamp saying on the Pacifica die cut using Outdoor Denim Ink 3. Cut your patterned paper 4" x 5 1/4" and then cut a road in it where you want your item to travel 4. Cut the bike and adhere 3d adhesive to it and to the adhesive adhere a penny. 5. Slide penny into road and slide bike back and forth 6. Adhere patt

Close to My Heart Cloud 9 Card Kit

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The Close to My Heart January Special is out of this world, or into the clouds! The Cloud 9 Card Kit, which creates 10 beautiful cards, is available for only $15 with a qualifying purchase. Die Cuts for cards Complete Card Kit contents The Card Kit contains $46 worth of product. Stamp Set, Triangle durables, Teel Shimmer Trim, Gold Washi Tape, die cuts, card bases and envelopes, cardstock and patterned paper. The completed cards looks great:      This card kit is available for only $15 with any $35 purchase from the current Idea Book. This is an outstanding deal. You can shop here  or look through your Idea Book and contact me and I will place your order for you. Make sure to order quickly so the items you want and the card kit are still available.