National Scrapbooking Month is almost here! If you’ve been with us for a while, you know that we do a lot to celebrate our love for preserving memories, and this coming May is no exception! In fact, May is so full of creative opportunities that we are spilling over into June with our fabulous virtual May Album Retreat!
Album Retreats are events unique to Close To My Heart, where we get together to make the pages of a 12″ x 12″ album. We offer a bundle of materials you will need to create 11 beautiful 12″ x 12″ two-page layouts over the course of three days of instruction. At May’s Album Retreat, we will be creating a “Core Memories” themed album, where each layout is intended to frame and preserve major moments from our lives that help shape who we are.
Get an up-close look at the pages of the album with our Creative Arts Manager, Karen Pederson:
We love Album Retreat for many reasons. For starters, the albums we make are full of techniques and free instruction! From shading with alcohol markers to distressing embossed paper details, every page in May’s album features a technique that we will teach live, during the event. We pride ourselves in being the “Let Me Show You How” company, and this is a wonderful opportunity to do just that.
Album Retreat also provides an opportunity to share new and exclusive products. In the product bundle for this May’s retreat you will find two exclusive stamp sets, including a reusable versatile alphabet stamp set, exclusive acrylic shapes and die-cuts, a coordinating embossing folder, Thin Cuts die, and stencil set, and a sneak of patterned papers that will not be available for months!
The main reason we enjoy our Album Retreats so much, however, is because we get to spend time creating with all of you! We host the retreat live on Facebook and read every one of your comments and questions. Oftentimes, we’ll read and answer questions on camera for the benefit of everyone participating.
To join us this May, simply purchase the May 2023 Album Retreat Bundle. There is no separate registration fee! As we get closer to the event date, we will invite everyone who has purchased the bundle to join a private Facebook group where the retreat will be hosted virtually.
The retreat will be held May 31–June 2, from 2:00 pm to approximately 8:30 pm (MT) each day. (That’s 1–3 June, 6:00 am–12:30 pm (AEST) for our friends in Australia and New Zealand.) The last day to order your bundle is May 9, and that’s only if we don’t run out of them before then, so mark your calendars if you haven’t ordered yours already!
Hosting a retreat like this virtually has its perks. Not only do we get to have as many of you attend as would like to, because there is no limited seating, but once the feed is no longer live, Facebook saves the videos so you can return to watch them repeatedly at your own convenience!
And, just like last time, we want everyone to have a chance to join us, so we are giving away a FREE Album Retreat product bundle, here on the blog! That means that one lucky reader will not only get a bundle of select and exclusive products, but they will also have access to the private virtual retreat we are hosting on Facebook in May!!
For an entry into this contest, there are two requirements: First, you must be subscribed to this blog. (It’s an easy step that often gets overlooked, so make sure that you are actually subscribed because we do check!) Second, share this blog post on Facebook with the hashtag #ctmhcorememories. That’s it! You have from now until 3 pm (MT) on April 24 (7 am (AEST) on 25 April). The winner will be notified via email later next week! [This contest is now closed.]
Get a quick glimpse at some of the interactive elements from May’s gorgeous album, below!
See you in May!
Love Ctmh!
Love you back!
What a great opportunity for my 2 sisters and I get to spend time together!
So much yes! ❤️
I would love to win this, it would be perfect for my Hawaii trip in September.
This would be so awesome to win, since I cannot afford it after moving 3000 mile south.
Make sure you’ve entered the giveaway!
thank you for this awesome chance for this Album Retreat Bundle! Good Luch & Happy Scrappin’ to ALL
What a fantastic time the Album Retreat is! I would LOVE to win the bundle!
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Love the interactive album! Thank you for the chance to win and learn
This would be awesome to win!
Such a wonderful opportunity.
This is so awesome
Always excited & happy celebrating life & all the best moments with close to my heart ♥️ 🙌
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Love the layouts and I would love to win thisalbum retreat…
We would love for you to join us! For a chance to win it, FREE, make sure you’ve entered the giveaway by being subscribed to this blog and sharing this post on Facebook with the hashtag #ctmhcorememories
Would love to do this one. It is so pretty. Saving for a trip to Disney with my grands for the first time. Wish this was in July!
Awesome!! ❤️
Thank you CTMH. I have shared this great blog info on my VIP Facebook page. ❤️
Fantastic prize!
Love the sample pages shown. This would make a great birthday gift to myself! 🙂
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I so love CTMH products. And my maker Miranda Webber is one of a kind.
Would love to join this Album Retreat! Love CTMH! ❤️
Can’t wait!
Awesome album pages!! Would love to win it!!
I have loved every album retreat I have attended! I would love to win one!
CTMH is wonderful…love the products and the colors
CTMH incredible colors and papers
LOVE to win album retreat, I have watched the album retreats.
They are so fun to watch and so BEAUTIFUL ❤️ LAYOUTS.
I absolutely love this album retreat
What an awesome opportunity! These layouts are beautiful! Love CTMH
So pretty. I would love to win. I can’t afford it because I am retired and going to school.
another winning creation for sure.
Make Memories in May 😊
M – emorable
A- Amazing
Y – Yay 🤩
Would love a chance to try one a retreat.
Love this… the album retreat would be so much fun to do!
Thank you for the opportunity. I’ve never been to a retreat. This would be fun. I shared 🙂
Love CTMH retreats! I always learn so much!
This would be so awesome to win, since I cannot afford it.
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It looks amazing!
All these pages look awesome! It would be soo exciting to win the retreat!!
What a fun album retreat! Thank you for a chance to win!
I am on holidays in the UK for my nieces wedding I would love to do the album retreat so I can preserve these precious memories. Thank you CTMH
I always love your products! It would be so fun to win this!
Omg I would love to win this amazing prize.
Done! This would be an incredible prize! Thank you for the opportunity x
Wonderful layouts and colours. Beautiful
Wonderful prize to win. This would be amazing!
What a beautiful album to share precious moments in our lives with others. Thank you for creating yet another quality artistic product!!
Absolutely stunning gorgeous!!!
Would love to win, shared and following!
Beautiful!
Love this album. Would like to win.
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What an awesome prize. Love the colours
I cannot wait! I love this album!!!