I am very excited about how many of you have already signed up for Croptoberfest! (Including some of you I haven’t seen in a while and even a couple of new-to-me people!) This is one of our biggest events of the year, and I fully expect it will sell out.

Both sessions follow the same schedule, so choose which date works best for you:
October 10 - 12
or
October 24 - 26 (only 6 spots left!)

Thursday, 5:00 - 9:00 pm, Friday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm.

Details and registration link here: Croptoberfest 2024

Starting Monday at noon, and running through (wow!) a week from Friday, September 6th, also at noon, is my favorite promo that CM offers - because you can’t run out of free shipping!

Place an order of $80 or more on my website and receive free ground shipping! Please be aware that whenever CM runs this free shipping promo it does get them backed up a bit in the warehouse, so allow a few extra days for your goodies to be delivered.

Oh how I wish I had more opportunities to take fall photos here in Alabama! The Autumn Cottage collection is so lovely and a great way to document all your seasonal memories! Eating some kind of Pumpkin Spice treat would count as a fall activity, right? Doesn’t Krispy Kreme do a special donut? Hmmm….

This is a full collection with a 12x12 album cover, two paper packs (designer and vellum), mats, stickers and layered borders. (No regular embellishments though, oddly). There is also a stand-alone punch (not a border) called Gourd Time which punches four mini gourds/pumpkins. All these items except the album cover are included n the Buy-it-All Bundle, which saves you 10% if you order before noon on September 6th. (Which you totally want to do anyway because that’s when free shipping ends!)

New this time is a BONUS Autumn Cottage Project Booklet, available EXCLUSIVELY in this bundle! It has instructions to create 5 layouts, 2 borders and 1 card. The layouts were created by Brenda Rose, who was a longtime top leader at Close to my Heart. When CTMH shut down earlier this year, Brenda chose to move over to Creative Memories, and it’s been really fun to see her using our products in different ways that we’re used to seeing from longtime CM’ers.

(The projects in the booklet also require a few products not included in the bundle: Bright White (5 sheets), Tangerine (1 sheet) and Dark Sea Green (1 sheet) Cardstock, along with the CCS System Circle and Jumbo Circle Patterns and Blades, plus Tape Runners in regular, repositionable and vellum.

Along with this new collection we also have the return of a favorite bringback Border Maker Cartridge, the Rustic Fence!

I guess I did okay with the Coastal Shore Project Recipe back in June, because CM is keeping me on! I had a good time creating the Autumn Cottage Project Recipe and I’m looking forward to putting it together with some of you later this month.

I think I have figured out how to share it with the rest of you, too, via a new page on my website. Please check it out and let me know if the links work! (I’m not very tech savvy!) I have included the Coastal Shore Project Recipe as well, and will continue to add them as long as CM lets me keep creating them!

Nicole’s Project Recipes

You will be able to see the finished layout, and if you click on the photo it should take you to a page where you can download the PDF with the cutting guide. I can’t post the YouTube video until other Advisors have had a chance to order (and receive!) the Autumn Cottage products, but I hope to have that go live on Wednesday evening and then I can update the page with the link to that too. (Coastal Shore has the YouTube link now!)

Please let me know if this will work for you - I think there were people who asked me last time to send them the Coastal Shore PR that I dropped the ball on. Sorry!! It’s been that kind of year!

(Image below is snipped from the Advisor email introducing this collection).

In the “Before Times” (before Covid changed the world) the only way to get your hands on the exclusive Croptoberfest or National Scrapbook Day products was to attend an in-person event with a CM Advisor. Well, the world changed, and one of the lasting benefits to that is that now anyone can purchase these items, even if you aren’t able to join us for the event!

PLEASE be aware that if you are signed up for one of my Croptoberfest events, you will be getting some of these items included in your registration and if you selected one of the upgrade bundles (which does save you a little bit over buying the items yourself) you’ll be getting even more of them. Please remember what you have preordered for our event so you don’t end up with duplicates!

If you’re not able to come to Croptoberfest, read on for the items you’ll be able to purchase starting Monday at noon:

Croptoberfest 2024 Customer Bundle: if you want the “full” experience, this is what you need! This bundle comes with the Project Recipe kit, Cardstock sampler pack, Layered Embellishments, Project Booklet and three items ONLY available in the bundle: Embellishments, Accessory Paper Pack and Journal Mat Pack.

The following items can be purchased separately:
Croptoberfest Project Recipe Kit
Cardstock Sampler Pack
Croptoberfest Album Cover
8x8 Paper Album
Rustic Truck Border Punch (I think this one is going to be very popular!)