Welcome back for another day of Partner Celebration fun, friends! Despite the heat, we are excited to get into fall collections, and the latest from Close to My Heart are certainly making us want to curl up with a book and get cozy! Let’s take a look at what they are sharing today, and don’t miss the YouTube Premiere this evening where you can see more!
Hi there! We’re delighted to be back with a fabulous new autumn paper collection called Cozy Up.
As with all of our paper collections, the Cozy Up collection centers around a beautiful 12″ x 12″ paper collection with a sticker sheet featuring a variety of icons, titles, sentiments borders, and more. To go along with the paper packet, we’re also prepared a set of enamel dots, a pack of cardstock sheets in coordinating colors, a digital art collection, two stamp + Thin Cuts sets, and two workshop kits!
All of these coordinating products work together seamlessly to give you the ultimate creative flexibility. Whether you want to follow along with one of our workshop projects or take your own approach, you’ll find everything you need for crafting autumn scrapbook pages, cards, and more with this truly cozy collection.
While we absolutely love every element of this collection, we want to take a minute to look a bit closer at the Cozy Up—Scrapbooking Stamp + Thin Cuts set. This set includes 10 of our top quality clear stamps paired with metal Thin Cuts dies that are designed to cut perfectly coordinating paper shapes for some of the stamp designs.
As you can see, this set highlights one of our favorite autumn activities: reading! Of course, we love reading year round, but there is something extra delicious about snuggling up with a good book during the autumn season, which is where the inspiration for this set comes in! In the image above, the highlighted images are the ones that have a coordinating die to make it easier to cut the stamp image and use it as an accent on your artwork. Here’s a sample page we created using this set:
The Cozy Up papers make an excellent backdrop for a few pictures that highlight our love of reading. We especially love the book border sticker in the center of the page. As you take in the elements of you page, you can see how nicely the other various stickers—including the title and other sentiments around the page—coordinate with our stamped images.
We’ve stamped several of the sentiment sets as well as the book stack, teacup, and open book images. These three designs have been cut out using the coordinating dies and then brought to life with some soft colored pencil shading.
But one of the best things about stamp sets is that, while they are often designed to work with a certain collection, they are versatile enough to work apart from them, too! Karen Pedersen demonstrates this wonderfully in this video, where she takes the Cozy Up—Scrapbooking stamp set in a different direction to show that it is not strictly tied to creating autumn artwork! Scroll down for the video link!
For all you book (and stamp!) lovers out there, it is our pleasure to give away 3 sets of our Cozy Up—Scrapbooking Stamp + Thin Cuts together with the Cozy Up Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet! Simply leave a comment sharing a favorite book that you have read this year—and be sure to follow us for more artwork inspiration featuring Cozy Up as well as our other stamps and paper collections!
To enter to win this fabulous giveaway, leave a comment by Sunday, August 13th at 10 pm Eastern time, telling us what you look forward to most in the fall! A winner will be selected at random and announced here on Monday, August 14th. Good luck!
Be sure to find the latest papercrafting must-haves from Close to My Heart at the links below!
Close to My Heart: Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
Join Karen Pedersen from Close to My Heart in a special YouTube Premiere tonight at 8 pm Eastern, as she shows off their beautiful fall products!
Click HERE to be notified and join us this evening!
Be sure to get tomorrow’s YouTube Live with Concord & 9th in your planner, too:
I love Debbie Macomber books!!!!! I have read so many I don’t really know my favorite!!!!! I did like the cove series !!!!!!
Favorite book for this year. I always have a book started. My goal this year is 100 book completed. I was doing good until this month and I have been so busy lately that I haven’t had the time to read as much as usually. Oh well, it happens. I really don’t have a favorite book but my favorite series is the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods. I started them years ago and never finished them. But maybe this is the year to finish all 64 of them…
Oh my gosh! I love love love that stamp and die set! Reading and tea are some of my favourite things!!! I’ve read lots of good books this year so it is hard to narrow it down to just one.. But I’m going to say Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose is my current fav! It was a delightful historical mystery novel!
I don’t really have a specific favorite book, but definitely enjoy reading anything by David Baldacci or Michael Crichton.
Love CtmH and this package with the fall colours!
Such an awesome giveaway! My favorite book so far this year is Sleeper (The Waking Sleep) by Lucy Adler. You’ll love it if you like dystopian and paranormal fantasy books.
WOW love these papers and stamps! My favorite book this year is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Completely out of my comfort zone genre wise but a fabulous book! Would love to use these stamps and papers to scrapbook about it!
My favorite book so far this year is Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett!
I have read quite a few books but my favorite would be any that make me laugh out loud or allow me to spend time with my grandson. No specific favorite.
This suite is so cute! My favorite book read was Les Miserables( unabridged version)
Looking forward to the Fall colours, smells and sweather weather. Gorgeous products from CTMH.
I love seeing the beautiful colours. The weather for the most part pleasant. It’s my favourite time of the year
My favourite book that I’ve read this year is Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Reading book 2 now. I love to read and the Cozy Up stamp and thin cuts is super cute and something I would definitely use!
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Love the book stamps.
I’m looking forward to cooler temperatures this fall!
I love the bookish stamps and dies! I look forward to cooler weather!
Wonderful designs from CTMH! Thanks for the chance at a great prize package!
I really enjoyed reading Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica.
A thousand boy kisses by Tillie Cole, I cried throughout the entire book!
The Cozy Up collection is lovely! I loved Matt Fraser’s book We Never Die.
Drinking hot apple cider after visiting a pumpkin patch is the best fall activity!
I love the fall and book theme together!! Can’t wait to create with that.
Being an avid reader, and a retired Teacher-Librarian, CTMH’s Cozy Up set really speaks to me! There is nothing better than curling up with a good book and a cup of tea!
Ahhh unfortunately I haven’t read anything this year!
Connecting fall vibes with a love of reading – brilliant! My favorite book so far this year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
I love this collection, perfect for fall! I enjoyed reading A Man called Ove.
Reading is one of my FAVORITE activities any time of year, but if the weather is cold, rainy, snowy, that is as good an excuse as you can find! I have a whole notebook of authors so I can follow their series and remind myself if I’ve forgotten to read one of them for awhile!
The Cozy Up collection is so beautiful! Unfortunately, I haven’t read any books lately.
I love this beautiful fall paper!! Wow!!! I love the cooler temperatures of fall and the beautiful colors of the changing leaves in the mountains!!
Love this collection! My favourite book is a magazine, love the SCT magazine????
I always look forward to being able to open the
windows and get fresh air. Burning leaves smell
so good – but that’s been banned so many places.
Love the layout with the stripes – reminds me of
a turkey’s tail. thanks
Two in the far north by Margaret E Murie
my favourite thing about fall is Thanksgiving
Fall colours are so versatile
“When You Were Mine”
This collection is beautiful! I love to read anything by John Grisham and get his newest book the day it is released
Such a sweet stamp set and paper collection! I’m a librarian who loves to cozy up with a book and look out at the leaves in the fall!
I love reading books by Melanie Harlow as they are set in Northern Michigan which I love! I read a couple of them while up in Charlevoix for my summer vacation this year!! As much as I Iove summer – I love the fall too — it symbolizes family and traditions and new starts for me!
I have read so many books I really can’t think which stood out the most. But I really would still love the chance to win the great prize offered by Close to my Heart.
I love hiking in the fall and seeing all the beautiful autumn colours in nature! I also enjoy getting together for paper crafting crops in the fall! Awesome collection from CTMH!
Fall seems like the best time to get back into routines. I love getting out and enjoying the Fall colours of nature. My favourite!
I absolutely loved “The book woman of troublesome creek” and my favorite fall activity is pie baking!!
I always look forward to fall flavors and weather. The temperature is perfect not to hot or cold. It’s just the right time to start cozying up with soups and teas
I love books! My latest read is “Where I belong” but I am also partial to books by David Baldacci.
crown and sceptre–great history of the british monarch
Adorable Layout! I LOVE the Close to My Heart Fall Collection! Just stunning! I look forward to Pumpkin Spice Everything!
Currently re reading Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series in my new KOBO . Live books ! What a neat collection from CTMH !
Beautiful collection! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano is my favourite book of this year- so far at least. The book-themed collection shown today is right up my alley.
I read a lot of books. I am not sure I have a favorite. I have favorite authors and one is Laurraine Snelling. I like the reading about the Dakotas when it was not even states.
What an adorable set of stamps, dies and stickers! I truly enjoy the cooling temperatures and the changing sky as the leaves turn color!! My favorite read so far this year has been The Viscount Who Loved Me!!