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Zoe is back with fresh colors and STICKERS! Download your FREE workshop guide!

Bring Back My Pack — Zoe

Zoe is back in a new, slimmed down paper packet! This paper packet features 6 paper sheets and a full 12″ × 12″ sticker sheet, giving you paper and stickers in the same pack! 

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We’ve refreshed a few of the colors to create this updated pack and paired it with a coordinating cardstock pack and stamp set.Save 25% on a workshop kit that includes all of these items.

Use the materials in this kit and the online instructions found below to create four coordinating layouts and six cards. 

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Are you interested in getting this paper pack for FREE? There are two ways you can do this.

1) Host a Level 3 party — Everyone who hosts a party in April that reaches $350 in sales will get a free pack of the Zoe paper (including the beautiful sticker sheet). This can be a live or virtual party. Email me right away to get this set up. Learn more about being a hostess>>

2) Join my Close To My Heart team — Everyone who signs up to join the Treasure Keepers in April will receive a free pack of Zoe paper. My team is filled with people who love to create — some are creating a business and others are just enjoying the discount and other perks that go along with being a consultant. 

The kit was just updated to include new products from the Seasonal Expressions 2 Idea Book which comes out in May. Seeing these beautiful new products a month early is just one of the benefits of being a consultant. This kit is just $75 and includes everything you see in the picture below PLUS $50 product credit PLUS a pack of Zoe paper. Learn more about being a consultant>>

No matter how you get your pack of Zoe, you need to act now so you don’t miss it!

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Celebrate 2019 with these new products!

Happy New Year! I hope 2019 is off to a good start for you. Hang on to your hats because this is a long post — there are just so many great new products to tell you about!

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2019 marks 35 years since Close To My Heart Founder & CEO Jeanette Lynton first started selling stamps, and the cover of the Seasonal Expressions Idea Book kicks off our celebration!

Here’s my top 5 list of new products:

1) Story by Stacy Stories I Love Workshop

You probably have certain photos that capture your heart. This album gives you a place to gather the photos that mean the most to you and document the stories that go with them! the instructional workbook explains how to explore the memories behind these treasured pictures and write a detailed story to capture all the elements of that moment. Kit includes a 6″ x 8″ album plus supplies to create 9 layouts about your most cherished stories.



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2) Something Fierce Paper Collection






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I love the fun and ferocious the primary color scheme of the Something Fierce collection. The fearsome (yet whimsical) dinosaurs are perfect for projects celebrating the boys (young or old) in your life. But never fear (see what I did there?), if you are looking for something less dino you can use the reverse side of a couple themed papers and use these papers for all kinds of projects. In fact, the card workshop for this collection features very non-prehistoric ice cream cones and pineapples! 






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3) Stamps for Sporty Scrapbook Pages

See all the sports stamps>>

When I’m scrapbooking, I often am in production mode and don’t slow down to do stamping. But when I do, I always love that custom color coordinated look you can only get by “getting inky”. The new sports stamps are perfect to add a stamping touch without a lot of fuss. This collection includes Game Day (D1829) and seven mini sports stamps: Basketball (M1212), Football (M1213), Soccer (M1214), Volleyball (M1215), Baseball (M1216) Hockey (M1217) and Lacrosse (M1218).

These M-sized stamps are just $3.95 each and with a little ink you can add one to a page in just a couple minutes. Even better, use repetitive stamping to take the sport theme across the page. The layout above is a perfect example. It uses neutral patterned and solid paper and just a little stamping to create a custom themed page.

See all the sports stamps>>

4) 6-Layer Stamping

This new Idea Book includes a number of stamp sets that include stamps that can be stamped together to complete a colorful image. The most striking is Love in Bloom (D1819) which uses 6 stamps to create a single, beautiful image. Look complicated? Don’t worry, the stamp envelope includes a step by step guide.

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5) Stitched Frames & Quilt Shapes

Stitching is both classic and trendy! To help you be on point with your crafting, we have three new stitched thin cut sets: Stitched Square Frames, Stitched Rectangle Framesand Stitched Quilt Shapes! Each of the framed sets include 3 dies that each create two shapes: a stitched frame and a smaller stitched square (or rectangle). The Quite Shapes set has 10 dies. Four of them add stitch lines to your paper without cutting a shape! You can add stitching where you want on any paper that will fit through your die-cutting machine.

These images can also be used with thin cuts in our existing collection!

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That is just a small sample of the new products in the Seasonal Expressions Idea Book. If you’d like to see more highlights of new products, check out this post on the Close To My Heart Blog.

Would you rather see it ALL? Click on over to my Close To My Heart Website to flip through a virtual catalogor see all the products in my shop.

Happy New Year!

Rebecca

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You’re invited to a Crafty Girls Night Out: BUNCO!

You’re invited to a special crafty girl’s night out! The New Product Bunco party on January 10 will include games, projects, snacks and a whole lot of fun! All of the activities will feature new products in the Close To My Heart 2019 Seasonal Expressions Idea Book that goes live in January!

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This new catalog is a celebration of Close To My Heart founder, Jeanette Lynton as she celebrates her 35th anniversary in the scrapbooking business. It includes four brand new paper collections, tons of beautiful stamp sets and much, much more. I can’t wait to share it with you!

At this party, you will not only get to see the new stuff, but you’ll get to create with it and take what you make home!

I can’t show you the new projects yet, but I promise they will be as fabulous as the ones we made in September at the Holiday Expressions reveal party:

Date: Thursday, January 10
Time: 6:30 – 9 pm
Place: My house in Arnold MO

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Registration includes:

  • A copy of the new Seasonal Expressions Idea Book
  • Goody bag with new product samples
  • Yummy snacks
  • Bunco fun, with a few fun twists
  • Chance to win new product on each round
  • Three projects to make and take home!

This is a HANDS ON event! Through out the evening, you will be creating three great projects: a card, layout and a surprise! Think of this as a workshop with a few games thrown in for fun.

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NEW Holiday Expressions Idea Book is Filled with Sparkly New Products!

If you are like me, just a look at the front cover of our new Holiday Expressions Idea Book will make you start drooling!

There is so much to love about this  catalog! Here’s my top 10 — be sure to click the links to get all the details.

1) New Color of the Year: Sugarplum! You can add this beautiful new purple to your projects with cardstock, ink, glitter paper, glitter gems or shimmer brush.

2) 10 more new colors which mix beautifully with our other colors to create a brand new 40 color palette.

3) New How To Book: Love of Color which provides three color combinations for each of the colors in our palette. No more creative blocks!

4) Five New Paper Collections: Boutique, Hello Pumpkin, Grateful Heart, ‘Tis the Season and Oh What Fun. Each of these collections includes a patterned paper pack, coordinating cardstock pack, complements (mixed media set), embellishments, stamp sets, scrapbooking workshop and card-making workshop! Wow!!!

Boutique Artwork

5) New Shimmer Brushes colors: Add sparkle plus color to your projects with the new Red, Black, Mint and Sugarplum shimmer brushes. Here’s a video showing our complete shimmer brush line up.

6) New Christmas Cricut Collection: Seasons of Joy!

This collection includes several ready to cut cards and scrapbook titles shown above plus several fun 3-d images like this wreath.

7) Shaker Window Thin Cuts and Foam & Acetate: Use the dies to cut the window and confetti, then use the double sided foam adhesive and acetate to create a custom window card or layout like the “Beware” layout below.

8) Stencil sheets and Texture Paste: It’s so much fun to create my own stencils on my Cricut then transfer these to my projects using the texture paste. I love the dimension this adds.

9) Short Story Albums Kit from Story by Stacy: I made one at convention and am excited to use this fast method to remember other events in my life. 

10) Craft Organizers: I love the the footprint for these new storage containers is several inches larger than 12″, so I can use them to carry full sheets of paper and even albums and other large items.

There are so many other things, I could list, but I better stop there. Thanks for reading to here! 

If you’d like to see everything plus some beautiful artwork, you can flip through a virtual copy of the Idea Book on my website. You can also see all of the products in my online store. Please let me know if you’d like more information about any of these products.

Have a creative Saturday,

Rebecca

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Join the #scrap20 Page Challenge (August 2018)

Ready to get your scrap on? I’m excited to invite you to join me in August for the #scrap20 Challenge. Through this challenge you’ll get some pages done, share artwork and earn a chance to win a PRIZE! Read on to learn why I created this challenge and how you can participate. 

This fall, there are going to be a lot of changes around our house. My one and only daughter is headed off to college. Her presence here will truly be missed, but I have to admit that I am looking forward to a little more time (in theory?) to work on my projects. I’m looking forward to doing more of what I love: Scrapbooking!

Background

The primary reason I joined Close To My Heart in 2010 was to get a discount on beautiful scrapbooking supplies. However over the years, I’ve gradually filled more and more of my creative time with working on projects for my business, leaving less time to work on my personal scrapbooks. Although “catching up” is certainly a motivator, the primary reason I created this challenge is to get back to a hobby that I love!


Thus, I now declare to you “starting in August I’m committed to finding more time to work on my memory albums”. Now, I’ve been around long enough to know that making a general statement like that is not enough to get it done. To succeed, I need to set a specific target and that my odds of success improve greatly if I share my goal with someone else.

Setting a Target

As with any task, the best way for me to make progress in my scrapbooks is to break down what I need to do into manageable steps and set a numerical goal. Based on my other commitments, I figured most weeks, I should be able to find time to do 2 or 3 layouts. That averages out to around 20 pages per month. I’m targeting 20 completed pages in August.

A key word in my target is “completed”. I’d be embarrassed to count the number of incomplete pages I have — in fact many are 90% done (many just missing journaling). To be clear, I’m making a rule to only going to count COMPLETED pages. That means that the pictures are attached, journaling is done and the pages are in the appropriate album on the shelf. 

However, I will allow myself to count previously incomplete pages that I put the finishing touches on. Hopefully, this will motivate me to do that last 10% left to be done and drive up my complete pages count up.

Sharing my Goal (#scrap20 Challenge)

Life is always more fun with friends! So I’d like to invite you to join me in the #scrap20 Challenge if you are like me and needing some motivation to make time for scrapbooking. For me, it’s so easy to let work, Facebook, cooking, cleaning, Facebook, shopping, church, reading, Facebook, talking on the phone and Facebook fill up all the extra time in my life. So, let’s put down our smart phones and pick up a paper trimmer and get some pages done in August! 

Are you in? 

Need another incentive? How about BRAND STINKIN’ NEW SCRAPBOOKING PRODUCTS? One lucky participant in the challenge will receive a prize bundle from the yet-to-be-released Holiday Expressions Idea Book!!! This beautiful catalog has five beautiful new paper collections, tons of embellishments, new tools and so much more. You will love it! 

To participate in this challenge, simply click on the link below to register. 

Join the challenge!

To be eligible for the drawing, comment about your progress on the weekly Challenge Update Post that will go live each Friday afternoon. In these weekly posts, I’ll update my counts and show you some of the pages I’ve completed. You may want to bookmark this page so it’s easy to come back. Or join my mailing list and you’ll get a blog post summary in your inbox each Friday evening. You can earn one drawing entry EACH week and you have until the following Thursday at midnight to post your progress.

Important note: Regardless of how many pages you create during August, you are eligible to win the prize bundle if you participate and post update(s). The important thing is that you set a goal, create some pages and log your progress! 


If you are a Close To My Heart consultant, you are welcome to play along, but you will not be eligible for prizes. 

More Fun

Let’s motivate each other by sharing pictures of our completed pages! There are two ways you can share:

1) Add a link to your pictures in the blog comments when you post your progress.

2) Use the hashtag #scrap20 when you post pictures of your pages on Social Media.

Summary of Steps:

1) Register for the challenge

2) Create 20 (or more or less) scrapbook pages in August

3) Post pictures of your layouts using #scrap20 hashtag

4) Log your progress each week at showmescrapping.com

I’m excited about this challenge and hope you will join me! Now let’s go knock out some pages!

Rebecca

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Seasonal Expressions 2 is now LIVE!

I got my first look at this new catelog in April and our launch event. I fell in love with the new papers — it’s been so hard to wait until now to show it to you!

This new Idea Book contains 4 new paper collection plus embellishments, stamp sets, thin cuts, Cut Above scrapbook layouts and a fun watercolor pages for your planners! Whether you spend your summer outdoors, on the beach or dreaming of the 80’s we have something for you!

I’ll post more over the next few days, but for now, you can see it all on my Close To My Heart website. 

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We are also celebrating National Scrapbooking Month in May by releasing a complete new line of products called Live Beautifully. This set includes a lovely floral paper pack, stamp set and a 10 page Cut Above layout kit.

Check out the Live Beautiful line of products>>

In addition, the May Stamp of the Month is one of my favorites! This set features the words “Live”, “Love” and “Laugh” in large letters scaled for scrapbook or home decor projects. The floral designs have lots of fun detail for coloring. Remember this stamp set is $17.95 but can be yours for just $5 with a $50 order. 

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New Product Reveal: 2 Nights & 2 Locations

This week, our new Seasonal Expressions Idea Book was released. It is filled is fun new spring papers and coordinating products! While you can see pictures of these new products online, it is much more fun to see them in person.

That’s why later this month, I’m holding TWO LIVE EVENTS which will give you opportunities to touch, create with and maybe even win some of the new products! You’ll get to see the products themselves as well as lots of completed projects to inspire you.

Here’s the dates and locations of the two events:

  • Tuesday, January 24, at 6:30 pm in Florissant (near the James. S. McDonnell Blvd, Hazelwood), hosted by my friend Kelly
  • Thursday, January 26 at 6:30 pm at my house in Arnold just off of I-55

If you are in the St. Louis area, one of these is probably less than 30 minutes from your house! Just let me know which one you plan to attend and I’ll send you directions and other information.

The theme for both parties will be “Sugar Rush”. This is the name of a fun new paper collection that features sweet treats like donuts and ice cream. It’s been fun brainstorming how to incorporate that that theme into the project, games and of course the snacks. Throughout the night, you’ll have lots of opportunities to earn tickets to a MYSTERY HOSTESS DRAWING! That means that you could win all of the hostess rewards earned that night!

So check your calendar andshoot me an email to reserve your spot!

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Year End Bonus Time: The BEST DEAL is here!

As we wrap up the year, each week I’ve posted a special Year End Bonus deal that sends you free products when you order specific items from my Close To My Heart website. In this post, you will find the final deal and it is the biggest yet!

Here’s the deal: When you place an order on my website before the end of the year, I’ll give you a gift certificate to use in January 2017! The amount of your gift certificate is based on the size of your order.

We have a brand new Seasonal Expressions Idea Book going live on January 1 and you will be able to use the credit to order some of these new products right away! I can’t wait to show you all the pretty new things. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover:

This special just lasts 2 days and ends at midnight, December 31! To get your gift cards, be sure to join the “Year End Bonus” gatheringon my Close To My Heart website before you check out.

Just a reminder that your order can include any of the current specials shown below. Click on the links for details. In addition, everything in the current Holiday Expressions Idea Book will retire on December 31,  

December Stamp of the Month — $5 with qualifying order

Discounted Mini Album Bundles

Free stamp set with Oh Deer! Workshop Your Way

2017 Planners!

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New Ink Pads have arrived! Save when you order a rainbow this week!

The new ink pads are now available in ALL COLORS! If you are tired of hard-to-open ink pads, you will love the magnetic closure of our new exclusive ink pads.

This new design also offers a larger pad surface with the same ink quality you expect from Close To My Heart. 

 

EXCLUSIVE: Buy a Rainbow! (this week only)

Because I know once you try one of these ink pads, you are going to want them all, I’m offering savings when you order complete sets this week. Order the complete set of 10 colors in Basic, Whimsy, Adventure or Enchantment for the price of 9 ink pads. That’s a savings of $7.95!

Buy all 40 colors as discounted sets listed above and I’ll also send you the three remaining ink pads for free: Sea Glass, Colonial White and White Daisy! 

That’s a total savings of $58.75!





The Buy a Rainbow special ends at midnight Sunday, October 16 and is not available through club or gathering orders. My Close To My Heart website can not reflect the discount, so please email me to order discounted sets of ink pads.

TRADE UP (through end of October)

Do you have some gently used old-style Close To My Heart ink pads that are still usable? I’m coordinating an ink pad trade up program* to get our beloved older ink pads into the community where they will continue to be used. For each usable ink pad you return to me, I’ll give you a gift certificate worth $2 off a new ink pad of your choice.  You can bring your old ink pads to a workshop, drop them off or mail them to me.

You can Trade Up your ink pads through the end of October. There is a limit of one gift certificate per new ink pad. The gift certificate can be applied to stamp pads ordered through the Buy a Rainbow special or with any gathering or club order.
 

COMBINE & SAVE (this week only)

This week, you can combine these two programs to maximize savings! When you return 9 gently used ink pads, you can apply the $18 in gift certificates toward a set of discounted Basic, Whimsy, Adventure or Enchantment ink pads. You’ll get all 10 colors the set of your choice at a combined savings of over 32%!
 

THE BEST DEAL!

Trade in all of your ink pads and save up to $130.75 on a complete set of our current 43 colors in the new ink pad style! The retail price for all 43 colors is $344.95, but with trade ins, you can get all of them for just $214.20! 

Save up to $130.75 — This is the absolute best offer I can make and you will never be able to get the ink pads at this price again!

*Please help me find homes for the returned stamp pads!. Let me know of specific organizations or teachers that may benefit from a donation. 


Please email me with your order or any questions you have about the new ink pads or the specials in this post. 

Happy Stampin!

Rebecca

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2016 Paper Crafting Olympics is coming to Missouri!

I’m very excited to invite you to join me on Wednesday, August 24 for the 2016 Show Me Scrapping 2016 Olympics. This event will be a fun evening out for you and your friends. Better yet, it is FREE! All you need to do is RSVP before space runs out and you are IN!

You’re invited to a fun Girls Night Out!

I have lots of fun things planned and can’t wait to share it all with you. Here’s a list of some of the things you will get to do:

  • Participate Olympic-themed paper crafting events,
  • Enjoy Olympic-themed treats,
  • Get a FREE copy of the 2016 Annual Inspirations Idea Book,
  • See projects made with the new products,
  • Make projects using new products,
  • Receive a goody bag of product samples,
  • Learn about event-only special offers, and
  • Enter the Mystery Hostess drawing (probably multiple times)!

One lucky “competitor” will win ALL of the hostess rewards from the event orders! Earn tickets before the event by submitting your RSVP, being on time and bringing a friend (or more)!

Can’t make it, I have a special just for you!

Whether you live at a distance or have a conflict on the night of the Olympics, I have an alternative special just for you! Use this RSVP link below to send me your regrets and request information about this deal.

Fun starts at 7 pm on August 24 at my house. After you RSVP, I’ll send you my address.

RSVP Now>>