National Stamping Month Starts Early

Let me paraphrase... In a word: YOWZA!

To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, we are offering our first-ever double stamp set! You can get the exclusive My Acrylix® Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set FREE when you place an order of $75 from August 15 through September 30, 2011. You'll love this double set—two D-size sets in one envelope—which includes lots of clever phrases and coordinating images you'll use in your handmade cards all year long. The double set has a retail value of $35.90, which drastically increases the value of your qualifying purchase! Have double the fun stamping during National Stamping Month with our new Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set!

Shipping and Handling charges apply to retail value.

Thinking Outside of the Box

I'm an avid Pinterest fan and can spend literally hours combing over interesting sites. I stumbled across this one today and thought it was brilliant!

Source: fitzsu.com via Pinterest on Pinterest

I followed the link (www.fitzsu.com) to see what other ideas they had. Come to find out, it's a business selling "luxury gifts for the modern home, office and person". Luxury or scam? I mean really... they want 60-smackers for said broom! I think I'll go to Home Depot for my "office brush pen holder".

Triple-Header!

Mark your calendars for a triple-header like no other! Close To My Heart, Thirty-One Gifts, and PartyLite candles all in one location and all with new catalogs!!

When: Monday, August 29 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Round Table Pizza 4141 NE 122nd Street Portland, Oregon

I'll be in the house debuting the new Idea Book from Close To My Heart and offering a mini make-n-take. I'll also be bringing a lot of the new product so you can see it in person! It's a stunning array of paper, embellishments, and stamps!

Erica will be showing her new catalog release of Thirty-One carrying totes and bags and offering 15% off their entire collection. That's right folks, 15% off!

Nancy will be showing the new PartyLite release and offering a gift to everyone that attends. A gift! A PartyLite gift!!

This is an open house so plan on a very casual get together. We hope to see you there!

August EXTRA EXTRA! Bonus Stamp Set

Close To My Heart has updated the Stamp of the Month program, so to celebrate, they're throwing in a little something extra: a FREE bonus stamp set! In August, when you place an order of $50 or more in products and purchase the August Stamp of the Month set, Wicked, for just $5.00, you’ll receive the My Acrylix® A Typeface bonus A-size set FREE (retail value $6.95)! Think of it as two promotions in one—qualify for and purchase the discounted August Stamp of the Month set, and we’ll throw in a second stamp set FREE! It’s Extra! Extra!  This offer valid August 1–31, 2011. Tax and shipping/handling apply.

And what's the Stamp of the Month, you ask? This month, the Stamp set is Wicked! Just right for Halloween treats, cards, and page layouts.

New Website!

Welcome to craftyannie.com!

This website is geared toward one of my favorite things: crafting! I'm a Close To My Heart independent consultant and, therefore, you can order right from here. Become a Follower and you'll receive instant updates to Google Reader when a post is added to this blog. If you don't have Google Reader, send me your e-mail and you'll get the same benefits except by e-mail.  Let's get started!

Let me explain the tabs across the top:

• The Calendar tab is for, you guessed it, a calendar! Events scheduled for craft nights, scrap crops, Close To My Heart gatherings, and classes. 
• The Close To My Heart tab takes you to the current Close To My Heart website. CTMH is in the process of changing the whole consultant website feature, so until the new ordering feature is up and running (October), you select this tab to access my soon-to-be old CTMH site, where you can place your order. If you don't want to go through all that, just e-mail me and I'll be happy to place your order for you.
• The Gallery tab is a photo collection of projects I have worked on. Right now it's my trip to Disneyland, but I'll be fixing that up shortly. Pardon my dust!
• The Silhouette tab will give tips and tricks for using the Silhouette SD machine. I teach a class on using the Silhouette and Studio software. If you're interested in a class and live in the Portland area, let me know and I can set one up.
• The Videos tab is a place where I'll either plunk a video tutorial or link to a tutorial I've found on the web. Right now you can see a video of my craft room (although, my craft room has gotten smaller by virtue of too much junk).
• And finally, the About Me tab is about me! I do a lot of stuff besides crafting - like building! I also have 2 adorable Corgis named Bella and Baxter (BnB) who offer much fodder for a website. I'm hoping to include tidbits about my life on this tab.

So, as you can tell, the site is still in the making; nonetheless, I wanted to release what I have to the masses!

Welcome!