Close To My Heart just had their convention a few weeks ago, and I am so happy to announce that Close To My Heart is gearing us up for some wonderful new products, art and ideas! While I was unfortunately unable to attend this year, I’ve been living vicariously through the bulletin board, Facebook and Twitters keeping on top of all the exciting announcements. The new Autumn/Winter 2010 Idea Book will be here on September 1, 2010, and I can’t WAIT to show it to you. However until it arrives, we still have a lot of fun things to announce to help us get ready for that fabulous new product line! I have a link to the Retired List in this post, it is a pdf which can be read with the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you have any problems accessing the file -- simply let me know, and I’ll do my best to help you get it in a format you can read.
One of the big changes is we’re switching our Idea Books from the current Tri-Annual format (three books a year: Spring, Summer & Autumn/Winter) to a Semi-Annual format (two books a year: Spring/Summer & Autumn/Winter). In order to help make this change easier, Close To My Heart released its Retired List a little earlier this year to allow everyone the opportunity to purchase those “oldies but goodies” products while you still can! If there is a paper packet or certain embellishment you need to finish up a project, that you’ve always loved but never gotten around to ordering yet, that is the perfect match to a project you want to do… whatever projects are on your list -- now is the time to order them! Items are available on a “while supplies last” status -- they will not be restocking items that they will no longer be carrying! This is your last chance to get some of these products you’ve been eyeing, before they are gone for good! The best chance to ensure that you can get what you want is to order right away, because many of the products on the Retired List tend to go quickly once it is released.
So with all those wonderful products to look forward to, we need to bid farewell to some older products to make room! To help isolate some of the important product changes, I’m highlighting the major products for you to check out:
- New Summer Colors! Our Summer line of colors was updated with 8 new colors! In order to bring you these fabulous new colors (Gypsy, Pacifica, Sunset, Cotton Candy, Lagoon, Pear, Sky & Smoothie -- don’t they just sound luscious?), we have 8 colors on the retired list: Clover Meadow, Hydrangea, Orange, Star Spangled Blue, Bubblegum, Citrus Leaf, Ocean and Watermelon. If you need more cardstock, inks, markers or reinkers in these colors -- now is the time to stock up before they are all gone.
- New Faux Leather Albums! Close To My Heart is updating our albums to a gorgeous, faux leather -- so exquisite! Which means we need to say bye bye to all our linen, simulated and real leather albums -- definitely need to plan ahead and ensure you order what you need while they are still available. Based on prior experiences with retired products of this nature, they tend to run out of these VERY QUICKLY. Also the 9x9 and 6x6 album sizes are currently not available in the new Faux Leather albums -- waaaah! -- hopefully that will change in upcoming books, but you also need to stock up on accessories for those sizes. If you need additional albums, 6x6 or 9x9 Memory Protectors or spine expanders -- stock up now while you can.
- New Embellishments Galore! We are getting in some of the trendiest, simply stupendous embellishments you’ve ever seen, but to make room -- once again, some of the other products need to go. Make sure to see which brads, buttons, dimensional elements, rub-ons, ribbons and more are on the Retired List. Make sure to order any embellishments that you need while they are still available!
- New and more Paper Packets! There are some fabulous new printed paper collections complete with awe-inspiring artwork, coordinating stamps and inspiring techniques coming our way! They’re going to be introducing more new products, artwork and techniques with each Semi-Annual Idea Book, which sounds stupendous! But in order to facilitate this, we have A LOT of paper packets going bye bye. Whew! It is the most paper packets we’ve had retiring at once EVER before. This is another product that seems to run out quickly, so take the time to check out everything on the list and ensure you order the paper you want while it is still available!
- And much more! This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of everything that is on the retired list. There are many other items on the list such as card kits, stamps, stickers and more -- so make sure to check everything out. I just didn’t want anyone to be taken by surprise with some of the more unique changes coming up this time around. Make sure you have everything you need to finish up any current and upcoming projects just the way you want to, so you can soon say HELLO to even more fabulous and beautiful products! :-)
Close To My Heart’s upcoming special: $2, $4, $6, for 8… It’s You We Appreciate is perfect to help us get some amazing deals at more than 50% off on select My Stickease Assortments, Level 1 Kits and Level 2 Paper Packets. Click here for a listing of what products will be available for the sale, while supplies last. So for 8 days, August 4 through August 11, you can take advantage of phenomenal deals while stocking up at the same time. These deals are only available through my online website, which allows them to update their inventory in real-time -- ensuring what you see, is what you will get! So starting Wednesday, August 4th, make sure to head on over to my website and take advantage of these amazing deals.
If you are interested in my very own Retired Items sale, please contact me, and I'll send the information out to you right away.
Here's to a fond farewell to retiring products, knowing that we'll soon say a happy hello to even more fabulous, beautiful choices!
Dani
