It’s an exciting time of year, folks! As promised, our Holiday Expressions idea book catalog was released just a few days ago and it is filled to the brim with new, cutting edge tools and products to add to your holiday and non-holiday crafting arsenal. We’ve gathered a few of our favorites for you below, but there just isn’t enough room to share “all the things,” so make sure to flip through the whole catalog so you don’t miss anything! 🙂
Love of Color
Never second-guess your color choices again with this new, inspirational color guide! Love of Color brings the exclusive Close To My Heart color palette to life with breathtaking artwork that illustrates how to create perfectly balanced color combinations. Organized by color, each spread focuses on an exclusive color shown in three different color schemes.
Pigment Pads
We now have pigment ink options available in our patented Exclusive Inks™ stamp pads! This acid-free, fade-resistant pigment ink dries quickly and permanently on most papers and porous surfaces after heat-setting. Available in our full-size ink pads, the new pigment pads feature raised pads that are approximately 3¾” x 2½”—larger than average and easier to use. Available in Candy Apple, Pixie, Sapphire, Clover, Espresso, Black, and White Daisy.
Texture Pastes
Build dimensional textures right on your artwork with texture pastes! Available in opaque matte, transparent matte, and transparent gloss, these pastes can be used alone with a palette knife or paired with stencil sheets to create more intricate patterns.
Shimmer Brushes
We loooove the effects created by our clear and gold shimmer brushes so much that we now have them in several additional colors—Sugarplum, red, black, and Mint. Take a look at the video below to see them in action!
Shaker Window Kits
Assembling a shaker window has never been easier! With these trusty tools, you are sure to get hooked on this throw-back trend!
Thin Cuts—Shaker Window & Confetti
Cuts a window and confetti shapes to use for a 2½” shaker window.
Add some sparkle and shine to those shaker windows.
New Thin Cuts
From decorative borders, to fancy tags, snowflakes, and merry sentiments, we are sure you will want these new sets in your crafting toolbox!
Season of Joy Cricut® Collection
Prepare to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with the dynamic shape designs in the new Season of Joy collection!
This collection features over 45 images and projects, including several seasonal icons, titles, and sentiments, as well as a collection of 3-D projects that you can create after a few simple cuts on your Cricut® machine.
Holiday Kitchen
Because food plays such an important role in so many of our favorite holiday traditions, we couldn’t help but make another Cut Above® recipe kit—this time with some holiday flair! The Holiday Kitchen Cut Above® recipe kit includes everything you need to get all those recipes in one place together with the stories and memories that make them so special!
All Things Sugarplum
There’s a new kid in town and it goes by the name Sugarplum—our 2018 Color of the Year! This exclusive shade will only be available for a limited time, so make sure you get it in all of its available forms: stamp pad, pigment pad, re-inker, cardstock, glitter paper, shimmer brush, and more!
Beautiful Soul
We are on a mission to change the lives of as many children as possible by restoring something that no child should be without—their smile.
In recent years, Close To My Heart has annually dedicated the proceeds of one stamp set to the efforts of Operation Smile™, a non-profit organization that provides safe surgeries to repair cleft left lips and palates in children around the world. Starting with our new Holiday Expressions catalog, we are now dedicating one stamp set per catalog—that means three stamp sets a year—to this very worthy cause.
Purchase this catalog’s Operation Smile™ stamp set, My Acrylix® Beautiful Soul, encourage others to do so, or simply get on our site and make a straight donation to Operation Smile™.
So what do you think of our 2018 Holiday Expressions line up? Which products are you just dying to get your hands on? Let us know in the comments below!
I love everything I’m so excited ! I put a comment on
Facebook to check out Close to my Heart. I’m going to have a book party with my consultant.
Sounds great! Have a great time! 🙂
I love the new catalog, the new products and colors, and having everything in one book!
Outstanding, again!
Glad to hear! We love it, too 😉 <3
I like the lagoon small binder. I like Stacy Julian’s scrapbooking ideas. I always enjoyed her on the scrapbooking show that used to come on the BYU channel.
I love the black and white Gingham! But they are both beautiful!