Happy National Stamping Month!

OK, so it's tomorrow. Made anything lately? I only JUST received my copy of the September Constant Campaign, so my projects will have to wait. But, I also received the newest CTMH Cricut cartridge, Artiste, which comes with some adorable birthday stamps (among others). I can't wait to sit down and make a few more cards to keep on hand.



Make some time this month to have a few cards ready to go. We have a new Avonlea kit that makes it easy, but you can also take some blank card bases, pretty scraps in various sizes, and use your creativity to put some together. It beats rushing around at the last minute before work to find a colleague that perfect card, or before a child's birthday party to create something unique. Do it ahead of time, and have a box of cards all ready to sign!

We have so much going on in August!

If you're landing here from my newsletter, welcome! Here you can find photos of the lovely products you can get this month:

Tues August 14th: stop by my place for an Open House, anywhere from 6-10 pm. Come over after work, after dinner, or after the kids are in bed for an in-person preview of the new papers, some new stamps, new colors, and embellishments! And you can pick up your copy of the new Idea Book, if you haven't done so already. We'll have treats, drinks, a make and take, and a raffle, just for stopping by. You can earn extra raffle tickets by bringing someone who is not on my (or my co-host, Connie's) e-mail list, or by bringing an old papercrafting item you have never gotten around to using. I hope to see you!

Wed August 15th: our celebration of National Stamping Month in September begins a little early with the "It's Your Day" DOUBLE D-size stamp set! You can get this set for just $5 with a $35 purchase, and includes all these images:

This runs through the end of September, and is good on any purchases placed online, at my Open House, a hostess club/workshop get-together, in-person Gatherings and catalog parties. If you'd like to host a Gathering or catalog party, just let me know! It's an easy way to earn free products, and if your sales reach $250 you can even earn our brand-new Cricut Artiste Collection for 50% off (or any of the hostess bundles, or any single item in the catalog, of course!)

Thursday August 16th: if you can't make Open House tomorrow, stop by my open Hostess Club/Workshop night. Take home a 2-page layout, learn a new technique, all for just placing a $25 order from the new catalog. For this event, just e-mail or call me by Thursday morning to let me know you're coming.

Through the end of August: you can still earn the beautiful damask tote by signing up as a Consultant this month. 

***And a quick note: if you were previously on the Crop N Time website or newsletter, please note they have recently changed their website to www.cropntime.NET, and they're asking you to please re-enroll in the monthly newsletter so you can keep up to date on all their upcoming events! The next one: September 22nd. I'll be there, will you?

That's all until September 1st; I hope to see you or hear from you in the meantime! Please don't hesitate to call, text, e-mail, or stop by my blog for more information about anything I've mentioned here.

Happy Scrapping!

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Kerrie Conwell-Strong

Close To My Heart

Treasure boxes

These were the teacher gifts for the end of the year. Roxie paper, archival black ink, fun stamps, and our magnetic closure card boxes. I made 8 of these; once I had the papers cut, it only took me about 20 min to complete each. Let me know if you would like to make these yourself!

Super Day

It's another Crop N Time event! Let's see how many layouts I can get done today. This first one is the Superhero workshop on the go kit; if you like it, let me know and we can do it! Besides the great paper and stamp set, the kit also includes the Comic badge buttons and star dimensional elements to add texture to your pages. The nerd in me loves the periodic table of the elements papers. And the primary colors are fantastic for summer playtime photos.

Baby Shower

Forgive the glare on the photos, this layout is with the Dotty For You paper pack, some color ready garden shapes, Foundry pin clips, brads, and Just Blooms paper shapes flowers. Layout from Pagemaps, of course! You can get this paper pack all month; check out my website for details!

Happy Easter!

This cute little bag was made with the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, Lucy paper, Hooray Bouquet stamp set and Bling buttons. Like it?

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Pinterest, Copyright, and My Blog

It's the dreaded "I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long" blog post. Somewhere online I remember seeing someone's montage of this line (Google it, you'll see how cliched it is) so I try not to use it. But, here's the reason for the gap in posting:

A couple of months ago there was a fracas involving a blogger who posted photos of a project she did, said photos made it to Pinterest, and a well-known craft store removed her watermark and used her photo on their Facebook page.

Now, I'm not so arrogant as to worry this would happen to me. I love my own projects, and I know you view my pages for inspiration and may like to see what's going on, but I don't really think any of my images will be going 'viral' on Pinterest anytime soon.

But.... it did get me thinking that it might not be a bad idea to protect myself, and my family (who appear in the majority of my layouts). So for now I'm disabling Pinning on the blog, and I apologize for the inconvenience. Some of you (most of you?) may never have noticed. Others may be annoyed. I do request that if you really would like me to re-enable it, please let me know! If there's a need for it, I will go the other route and watermark my images and let you pin them. But I won't know there's a need for it unless you tell me, so please leave comments or e-mail me at kerriestrong@gmail.com. Once I figure out an easy way to watermark (or get a really good camera) I will re-enable.

And with that, I can get back to posting from my phone, which is apparently the only way I can do it regularly. :) Meanwhile, I will be updating with some new CTMH stuff, and doing some catching up with the layouts I've already done.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and Happy Scrapping!
Kerrie