Did you know that Close To My Heart has a Facebook presence? At the time of my writing this blog entry, they have 23,392 fans! I, of course, am one of those 23 thousand plus fans. :-) They also run fun contests periodically, where you can enter a comment, a picture of art, etc. and win FREE CTMH products! How neat is that? So, if you aren't a fan yet, I'd say definitely head on over to Facebook and become a fan of Close To My Heart. This contest is, "Write a blog post on your personal or business blog about your favorite Close To My Heart product." You simply need to post a link on their page by midnight tonight, and you could be randomly chosen to win $50 in Close To My Heart product. Not too shabby!
I decided that my post needed to be about something that I use ALL the time: our acrylic blocks. I know it sounds lame, but I was trying to decide what I use more than anything else! I love the fact that I can see exactly where I want to stamp. I've kept a few of my golden oldie woodie stamps because I liked the image or sentiment, and I RARELY find myself getting them out. I was making a lot of cute "bee" cards (since my son's elementary school mascot is a bee), and I pulled out some old wooden stamps with adorable bee images or sentiments. I just have to say that stamping with wood again is sooooooo tedious! I am so happy that I can use Close To My Heart's phenomenal acrylic stamps and blocks the majority of the time.
I also like to use the acrylic blocks to flatten my brads down completely, so they lay down nicely in my scrapbooks or cards. Another great way to use them is having one of the larger blocks out to temporarily store the stamps I'm not using (but will likely use again) so I don't lose them -- especially the smaller stamps. And something that you simply can NOT do with wood stamps too, is load up a variety of stamps on a larger block to make your own image and easily and quickly stamp multiple stamps at once. This can be a great time-saver! I've used non-Close To My Heart blocks before, and I can definitely say that the comfort grips on our Close To My Heart blocks make stamping so much more comfortable -- especially after a lot of stamping! I also have multiple quantities of many of our block sizes, not only to make it easier at CTMH events, but also to make it easier for my personal stamping. It's so much nicer not having to switch out an image every single time I need a 2" block, since I have several available. I just can't say enough about our acrylic blocks!
Dani
I decided that my post needed to be about something that I use ALL the time: our acrylic blocks. I know it sounds lame, but I was trying to decide what I use more than anything else! I love the fact that I can see exactly where I want to stamp. I've kept a few of my golden oldie woodie stamps because I liked the image or sentiment, and I RARELY find myself getting them out. I was making a lot of cute "bee" cards (since my son's elementary school mascot is a bee), and I pulled out some old wooden stamps with adorable bee images or sentiments. I just have to say that stamping with wood again is sooooooo tedious! I am so happy that I can use Close To My Heart's phenomenal acrylic stamps and blocks the majority of the time.
I also like to use the acrylic blocks to flatten my brads down completely, so they lay down nicely in my scrapbooks or cards. Another great way to use them is having one of the larger blocks out to temporarily store the stamps I'm not using (but will likely use again) so I don't lose them -- especially the smaller stamps. And something that you simply can NOT do with wood stamps too, is load up a variety of stamps on a larger block to make your own image and easily and quickly stamp multiple stamps at once. This can be a great time-saver! I've used non-Close To My Heart blocks before, and I can definitely say that the comfort grips on our Close To My Heart blocks make stamping so much more comfortable -- especially after a lot of stamping! I also have multiple quantities of many of our block sizes, not only to make it easier at CTMH events, but also to make it easier for my personal stamping. It's so much nicer not having to switch out an image every single time I need a 2" block, since I have several available. I just can't say enough about our acrylic blocks!
Dani
