One of my MOST favourite things about Close To My Heart is the how-to programs. There are now FIVE books - three scrapbooking (Reflections, Imagine, and Cherish) and TWO fantastic card-making books (Originals, and WISHES). I love it because I, personally, DON'T want to take forever and a day deciding on a layout or pattern for my pages or cards - I just want to get it done! I enjoy doing it, but I don't have all day!! With the how-to you literally take the step-by-step directions coupled with your own creativity and paper/embellishment choices, and VOILA!! It's SO SO SO SO easy that people actually think I'M good at this stuff. HA! ;)
WISHES is the latest - it JUST came out, and I JUST got it, and I used it for the first time at Stamp Camp. Wishes is unique from Originals in that it includes a few "workshops" - I thought this was a cool idea when I heard of it, but I had NO idea!!
So at Stamp Camp I was feeling a little over-ambitious - my mom was there, I had a new downline to train, business classes, etc. etc., and I busted out my brand-new Wishes book and decided, HEY! I want the most bang for my buck, I'll do this 20-card workshop. (That's right - TWENTY cards. Sit down once, make TWENTY cards. You don't have to be as silly the first time you try it - there's smaller workshops in the book, like six cards, for example. I'm just an idiot! hahaha)
You pick your papers, follow the cutting instructions, label your pieces, and then follow the put-it-all-together instructions in the following pages.
So you pick your papers (coordinating with each other) and then cut it, and then put it together. You don't pick your paper and say, oh, I think I'd like this part to be black on this card and this part to be red and this to be blue....you pick your papers, cut it, and then just HOPE that what you cut will look good on your cards because....you spent A LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME (with interruptions etc.) doing all the cutting. A LONG time.
Then you piece together your first card and you HATE it. But then you look at it for a second. And the wheels get turning. And you think, gosh, how can I salvage this?? And you do some distressing, some embellishing, and in five minutes you LOVE it!!
Then you piece together your second card - it's not so bad to work with as the first one. You play with that for a bit, and then think OHMIGOSH THIS IS FLIPPIN' AMAZING.
I was so busy with other things during stamp camp that I didn't get all 20 cards done, which was a bit of a bummer, but I DID get 12 done, which is WAY more than I would have if I'd approached the project one card at a time, so I'm THRILLED! And I have all my other pre-cut bits put aside in a baggie for the next time I have a few minutes and can bust out my new most favourite book ever.
(The cards are all done using "Game On" paper - one of my favourites!)
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