Damask Divas Team Everyday Life Planner Blog Hop

Welcome to the Damask Divas' Everyday Life Planner Blog Hop!

The Damask Divas' team is excited to inspire you with fabulous projects from this beautiful collection!  If you came from visiting {Mandy Leahy}, then you are in the right place.  You can see the full hop line-up over on the {Damask Divas' blog}.

The new Everyday Life collection from CTMH includes a beautiful black and gold 8"x9" album that can be used as a planner with the coordinating 2016 planner pages set, as a My Crush album with the gorgeous coordinating My Crush pages pack, as a Picture My Life album with the new 4"x6" and 4"x3" Memory Protectors, or as a combination of all 3.

Personally, I have decided to use the collection as a memory planner.  A memory planner is a fun, new way to capture moments in your life in a smaller, simpler format than a traditional scrapbook.  Now before anyone panics, I will still be scrapbooking -- but my memory planner will be used to document the daily/weekly activities in my family's life throughout the year.  It's the perfect place to capture the funny things that get said, milestones in my son's life, and other little daily moments as well as the typical stuff we like to scrapbook from birthdays to holidays and everything else in between.

Month At-a-Glance (so far)

Week 1 -- Memory Planning / Keeping

Supplies used:

*Everyday Life™ Album - Black
*Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages
*Everyday Life™ Perfect Plan Roller Stamp
*Everyday Life™ Washi Tape
*Jennifer's Hand stamp set
*Sweeter with You stamp set
*Patch of Sky stamp set
*Cheers, 2016 stamp set (retired Nov 2015 SOTM)

*Black Memento ink pad

*Smoothie Exclusive Inks stamp pad

*Juniper Exclusive Inks stamp pad

*Thistle Exclusive Inks stamp pad

*Slate Exclusive Inks stamp pad

*Gold Foil Tape
*Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape (retired, but still available as of 1.14.2016)
*Carnival Washi Tape Pack (retired, but still available as of 1.14.2016)

To order these or any of our other fabulous Close to My Heart products, please visit http://jddesigns.ctmh.com.

Before I say goodbye until next time, I want to share with you another fun addition available for the Everyday Life Collection -- the Picture My Life Live Your Day scrapbooking program!  This beautiful collection of PML cards coordinates perfectly with the Everyday Life collection and is available through January 31st for only $8.95 USD!  The Live Your Day set is great for embellishing your planner or adding pocket scrapbooking fun to your Everyday Life album.  The 4x6 and 4x3 cards are even wonderful for creating quick and pretty cards to send your family and friends. Hurry over to my online store to get yours today -- because after January 31, this PML set disappears FOREVER!

Thank you for visiting me at jd designs and for hopping with us on the Everyday Life Planner Blog Hop!  Next up on the hop is {Cheri Parish}. I hope you'll hop on over to her blog for more inspiration.

Until next time, design with {heart}!

National Papercrafting Month PML Live Your Day Blog Hop

Welcome to the National Papercrafting Month - Live Your Day Blog Hop!

If you came from visiting Haley Dyer, then you are in the right place.  If you just happened upon my little corner of the blog world, simply start here and continue hopping until you return here -- our fun hop is one big loop for your viewing pleasure. 

This hop features the Live Your Day -- Picture My Life scrapbooking program which is available in January only to celebrate National Papercrafting Month.  This beautiful pocket scrapbooking program a total of 56 cards and was designed to coordinate perfectly with the new Everyday Life collection.  You can use these fabulous cards as decorations and embellishments for your planner or traditional scrapbooking pages or as the focal point on a card front or as part of quick and easy pocket scrapbooking pages.  You can also embellish the cards as you would traditional cardstock or you can simply leave them as they are -- either way the Live Your Day PML program is the perfect addition to your papercrafting supplies.

For today's project, I wanted to show you how quick and easy these cards can be to use.  I simply took the 12 month title cards and the 12 birthday journal cards and inserted them into the pockets the 3" x 4" memory protectors to create a birthday calendar.  Then, I added the completed pages to the end of my Everyday Life planner.  I will go back and add the birthdays of my family and friends to the cards to allow me to see at a glance whose birthday is in the coming month as I plan the birthday cards I need to make and send.

Supplies used:

*Everyday Life album - Black
*Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages
*Memory Protectors - 4" x 3"
*Picture My Life™ Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program

To order these or any of our other fabulous Close to My Heart products, please visit http://jddesigns.ctmh.com.

Thank you for visiting me at jd Designs and for hopping with us on the National Papercrafting Month - Live Your Day Blog Hop!  Next up on the hop is Michelle Loncar. I hope you'll hop on over to her blog for more inspiration.

Until next time, remember to design with {heart}!

January Close to My Heart Specials

January Constant Campaign

Celebrate National Papercrafting Month with the exclusive Picture My Life™ Live Your Day scrapbooking program—available for one month only! This collection was designed to coordinate perfectly with the sensational Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages and My Crush® Everyday Life Pages, so you can seamlessly integrate pocket scrapbooking into your 2016 planner. Whether in the planner or on their own, these cards make it easy to preserve your everyday moments all year long. Get yours today for only $8.95 USD / $10.50 CAD before this offer is gone!

Dates: Offer valid January 1, 2016 (9:00 am MDT)–January 31, 2016 (11:59 pm MDT).

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January Stamp of the Month

Only $5 with a $50 purchase

To order these or any of the other fabulous CTMH products, please visit my online store at jddesigns.ctmh.com.

Until next time, design with {heart}!

Plan with Me 2016 -- CTMH Everyday Life Collection

On December 1st, Close to My Heart launched its new Everyday Life collection.  This beautiful collection focuses on the planner trend that is all the rage in the papercrafting world, but in true CTMH form, Close to My Heart expanded the collection to make it multipurposed and fun for crafters all of types.  From weekly/memory planning to My Crush to Picture My Life, the Everyday Life collection offers it all!

I am so in love with this new collection.  It is gorgeous and full of fabulous features for all.  Due to the Christmas holiday and wrapping up year-end projects at work, I'm a little behind on my crafting.  But never fear, I managed to snag some time to walk you through the collection in the latest video on my YouTube page.  I hope you'll grab a warm beverage and join me as I introduce you to the CTMH Everyday Life collection.  As an added bonus, I've included a peek at the January special for National Papercrafting Month.

Reminder -- through December 31st, you can get the exclusive Planners Gonna Plan bundle for only $29.95.  The bundle includes the black with gold foil album, the accompanying 2016 planner pages, and the coordinating Perfect Plan roller stamp.  But again, this fabulous special is only available through December 31st or while supplies last.

To order the Everyday Life collection or any of our other fabulous Close to My Heart products, please visit http://jddesigns.ctmh.com.

Until next time, remember to design it with {heart}!