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Sign up for $142 and get $142 back in CTMH Cash!

There are many perks that come with being a Close To My Heart Consultant, including getting an exclusive Consultant discount on our high quality crafting products! When you sign up to be a Consultant in November, you’ll get the price of your kit back in CTMH Cash, which you can use for buying additional creative supplies!

S1811 Seasonal Trees is our new stamp of the month.

This exclusive D-size stamp set—only available in November—can be yours for just $8.25 when you place an order of $82.50 or more! Seasonal Trees features 23 images. Here’s an example of this set in use.

I recommend using the Versamat and Stamping Starter Kit for best results. Purchase the kit and save $7.50! It's a great value kit and perfect to start your stash. Purchase additional blocks as needed to build up your collection and stamp happy. Check out the NEW 5"x6" block too!

'Tis The Season is our featured paper packet for the month.

Create layouts, cards, and so much more with 'Tis The Seasons! Bookings are essential with full payment due no later than the cutoff listed for each event. Click through the links for more details and to book.

31 days of memories!

Capture memories for every day of this magical season with the Days of December workshop bundle. This project provides you with a place for photos and storytelling for every day of December. Get a jump start on this busy time of year by completing your album ahead of time!

Christmas Blessings

You can never get enough Christmas! For a limited time, we are offering a discounted workshop bundle with an exclusive stamp set that gives you materials to create 12 cards that celebrate the heart of this special season.

Love making advent calendars and you don't have a cricut? No worries! I made this one using my Cuttlebug and our Favor Box Thin Cuts die! Message me for all the details on how to make this!

There's heaps of workshops happening in my studio this month. If you want to attend any of my events, full payment is required at time of booking. I cannot stress this enough: bookings are essential and payment MUST be paid before the deadline listed. Simply clicking "going" on my events does not book your spot. You must contact me. All workshop spaces are limited = first in best dressed.

Check out my full workshop schedule on my EVENTS tab. First in best dressed, there's something for everyone.

I cannot stress this enough: bookings are essential and MUST be paid before the deadline listed. Your spot is not guaranteed until payment is received. All workshop spaces are limited = first in best dressed.

I accept direct deposit, or major credit cards for payment of events. Direct deposit is preferred. I use Square for credit card payments. Credit cards incur a processing fee. Contact me to book your spot!

Hostesses wanted for a fun time with friends, hands on mini projects, and free products. Get all this and more when you host a party! Earn heaps of discounted or free products based on the total of all orders collected from of your party.

Host a party in November that reaches the third level of Hostess Rewards or higher, and your rewards will JUMP to the next level! That means you’ll get an extra $22 in rewards and possibly an extra 50%-off item, too!

And if that wasn't enough, we’ll pay the shipping and handling on all of your Hostess Rewards. To find out more about the rewards that you can earn, just ask me!


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Do you love crafting with new friends, shenanigans, chocolate, yummy baked goods, and getting your crafting supplies at a discounted rate? Then Heartwork Sisters is for you! For $142 you get not only a kit worth $300+, you also get to customize it with $82.50 CTMH Cash. You also get heaps of assistance, and new friends who share your crafting obsession!

Time to shop - You've seen all the new products, you've decided which of my brand new workshops to attend and which kits to make, and now it's time to shop.

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The Important Things

Highlight the unique things that are important to you with The Important Things Everyday Life™ workshop. This workshop shows you how to create eight 6″ × 8″ layouts plus a title page and a closing page for an Everyday Life™ album.

The base kit below provides the basic materials you’ll need, but you’ll need a few additional items to complete the project. If you don’t have these items already, make sure to also add them to your order:

• Everyday Life™ Album — Black (Z4219)
• Picture My Life™ Cards — Perfectly Imperfect (X7236E)
• Hello Pumpkin Washi Tape (Z4214)
• Silver Glitter Gems (Z4191)
• Marvy^® Uchida^® LePen™ Journaling Pen (Z1979)

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Album Specials

It’s the Little Things - Get a discount on mini album products that make memory-keeping a snap!

This month, save 30% on the supplies you need to make fun and easy mini albums that make perfect gifts!

This month, there are 5 special mini album bundles that are sure to tickle your fancy. Let's start with the smaller bundle options.

Blush Mini Album Bundle - This is perfect for any lady of any age or style.

This bundle includes an Instalife™ Blush album, 40 #Life™ Hello Gorgeous cards, 16 #Life™ gold overlays, 10  4" × 4" Memory Protectors™, and 10  2" × 2" Memory Protectors™. PLUS, get your photos perfectly sized and printed by visiting Persnickety Prints!

Blue Jean Bundle - Perfect for documenting the adventures of any gentleman in your life.

This bundle includes an Instalife™ Blue Jean album, 40 #Life™ Hello Enjoy cards, 16 #Life™ Black overlays, 10  4" × 4" Memory Protectors™, and 10  2" × 2" Memory Protectors™. PLUS, get your photos perfectly sized and printed by visiting Persnickety Prints!

Moving on, we have 3 versions of this larger mini album to choose from.

Adventure Album - Snap this up and easily document your travel adventures!

This bundle includes Everyday Life™ stripes mini album, 30 My Crush® Adventure Calls 3-ring hole-punched decorative pages, and a pack of 10 Memory Protectors™. Choose the 3x4 bundle, 4x6 bundle, or 6x8 bundle!

As a special bonus, you can now easily size and print your photos to perfectly fit all of these albums with Persnickety Prints! These albums make great gifts for everyone on your list. Need help putting your album together? I can show you how in a fun easy low key workshop here in my studio. Contact me to purchase or shop the links in this post. Please share and pin!

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December News - It's The Little Things

2016 is on it's last legs and Christmas is 24 days away. Have you gotten your crafting supplies purchased? I can help!

With Christmas, it's often the little things that matter the most. Memories like smells of mum's cake or nan's pudding. Decorating the tree. Attending Carols nights and midnight Christmas Eve services. Things like receiving a handmade noodle neclace gift from your child, or giving a handmade heartfelt gift to your nearest and dearest. Thought about making an album of the kids photos for Nan and Poppy's Christmas gift? Or a small album for a new baby? Or a travel album ready for all your new year's travels? Check this out!

It’s the Little Things - Get a discount on mini album products that make memory-keeping a snap!

This month, save 30% on the supplies you need to make fun and easy mini albums that make perfect gifts! Here are three easy gifting ideas for these albums:

• Complete an album for your bestie including some pictures of the fun times you’ve shared.
• Give the supplies themselves as a gift, letting the recipient determine what photos and memories they will preserve.
• Give yourself the gift of beautifully preserved photos by printing out your favourite photos from your phone and making an album for yourself!

Choose your album bundles here! After you’ve ordered your bundles, be sure to check out Persnickety Prints where you can order photos perfectly sized for these mini albums.

Easy Gift Idea - Can't decide what to give the crafters on your list? No worries, I have gift certificates!

Simply pick your amount ($10-100) and contact me to arrange. You can purchase products or pay for workshops! Gift certificates are redeemable through me only and all sales are final.

Beautiful Stamps, Amazing Discounts - Thoughtful Flowers - S1216

Each month you can purchase a new D-size stamp set, available for one month only, for just $7.50. When you place an order of $75 or more in Close To My Heart products, you qualify for this special Stamp of the Month pricing. Innovative, creative, and always versatile—here’s just one example of these stamps in use. The designs mirror those in our 2017 Planner pages, perfect for those matchy matchy folk!

While Stocks Last - December is the last month for Holiday Expressions. Jeepers Creepers, Swan Lake, City Sidewalks, and Oh Deer all retire on the 31st unless sold out earlier.

This is your last call for these quality beautiful crafting products! Purchase your favorites in my shop anytime. It's open 24/7!

Planners Gonna Plan - Now's the time to plan for 2017. I've nearly finished setting up my planner with all the important dates and events. Have you gotten yours yet?

Planners are strictly while stocks last and will sell out quickly the closer we get to Christmas. Get yours now before they're gone!

Workshops - There's heaps of workshops happening in my studio this month. Full payment in advance is required to book your spot for all of my events. No exceptions! Dates for 2017 are coming up within the week, stay tuned!

Bookings are essential and MUST be paid before the deadline listed in each event. No exceptions!

Bookings are open NOW for all remaining 2016 workshops and bookings are essential. All workshop spaces are limited. First in best dressed. Bookings are prepaid only. Please note: Your spot is not guaranteed until payment is received. Contact me asap to book your spot!

I love to party and spoil my hostesses. Start making your wish list now, then contact me today to set up your very own party and reap the rewards. I'll help you get everything on your wishlist for free or half-price. I'm available to party all month long! Parties do not need to be very long, they can be as simple (show and tell style), or as elaborate (with make and take projects) as you like. They can even be in your pajamas or online!

New exclusive hostess only items have landed. Want my rolling backpack that I got from Convention 2016? You'll have to host a party!

My calendar is booking up very fast, all party dates are first in best dressed.

Whether you love scrapbooking, cardmaking, or pocket scrapbooking with new companions, crafty shenanigans, chocolate, coffee, tea, yummy baked goods, plenty of laughter and sisterhood, or just getting your crafting supplies at a discounted rate... my team Heartwork Sisters is for you!

For $129 you get not only a kit jam packed with the basics worth $300+, you also get to customize it with your Select Product Credit PLUS you get heaps of training and assistance and new friends who share your crafting obsession! For more details, contact me.

To become a Heartwork Sister, simply visit my website!

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New Product Update

Wow, after a whirlwind weekend in Adelaide for Convention, I have new products to inform you all about!

First up, PLANNERS ARE BACK!

Discover your inner artist while staying on top of your schedule with our new 2017 planner system. Featuring seasonal designs you can colour by hand, this exclusive planner system combines the worlds of work and play to give you a planner you can truly make your own. Choose a bundle with either the Everyday Life™ Sea Glass or stripes album, or purchase just the planner pages if you already have an album—the choice is up to you!

This year, there are 3 bundle options to choose from! Each bundle contains monthly and weekly calendars, designs you can color, pages for notes, a clear pencil bag, and three gold paperclips.

Option one is the Everyday Life™ 2017 Planner Pages bundle for those that want to replace pages in their current cover.

Option 2 is the Everyday Life™ Stripes Album & Planner Pages Bundle.

Option 3 is my favorite the Everyday Life™ Sea Glass Album & Planner Pages Bundle.

These planners went available to the public on Monday October 17 and I ordered the Sea Glass bundle immediately. Mine has already shipped! I cannot wait!

New Thin Cuts! More of the stamp sets you love now have coordinating Thin Cuts!

Love our Thin Cuts? Then you’re going to love this special, limited-time offer!

We now have coordinating Thin Cuts for the following stamps sets found in our Annual Inspirations idea book: My Acrylix^® Swirly Seashells (C1664), My Acrylix^® Sweet Birthday (B1532), My Acrylix^® Wreath (A1193), and My Acrylix^® School Kids (D1706). These Thin Cuts are sure to go fast, so place your order today!

These are the most hotly awaited items to come to my shop this season and I CANNOT WAIT to get my hands on them. As for the new Workspace Wonder range, I have an update!

After continued work with our manufacturers who are producing our much-anticipated Workspace Wonder™ organisational products, we have now been able to receive the quality of product that we have expected. The process has been slower than anticipated due to various setbacks, including a typhoon that damaged the factory in Taiwan where these are being produced. We are continuing to get production up to speed, but anticipate being able to make these products available before the end of the month. It is likely that we will run out of stock of some components before we are able to restock sufficiently, but we will work hard to stay ahead of demand for these items. If any of the components do run out of stock, rather than being back-ordered, that component will immediately be made unavailable to order until we receive additional stock.

When these are available for purchase, I'll pop the link here in a new post. Or, you can continue checking my shop's Organization section!

Pop over to my shop and snap up your planner bundles and thin cuts before they sell out. They are seriously limited quantities and once sold out, we aren't getting more in. First in, best dressed!

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12 Deals of Christmas - Deal 3

Starting October 10, I'm posting a special deal over on facebook. There's a variety of deals coming over the 12 days and you're sure to find something that ticks all your Christmas shopping boxes.

Note: Bundles 2, 4, 5, and 8 are essential for participating in my Christmas Craft workshops.

Third Deal of Christmas - Mini Album!

Create a beautiful Christmas album with this bundle.

Claiming this offer starts at 12:01am October 12 QLD time. To purchase this bundle, you must comment with yes please and your email address. No email, no deal. Complete your bundle project with these helpful extras: 3L® E-Z Dots® Adhesive $12, Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ Journaling Pen $5.

You can claim this bundle starting at 12:01am October 12!


Terms & Conditions:
1) Event runs October 10-21, with one new deal offered each day.
2) Each deal is only available the day it is posted.
3) Bundles ordered will be combined at the end of the event.
4) Current studio s&h fees apply. Bundle total $0-$50 = $3 s&h, $50.01-$100 = $6 s&h, etc.
5) To purchase a deal, comment on the appropriate photo with "yes please" and your email address. No email, no deal.
6) Orders collated on October 21 and you'll receive an invoice for payment.
7) Payment is via direct deposit only and MUST be received by 7pm October 23. No exceptions!
8) All orders to be collected from my Woodridge studio on November 3. Outside SEQld? No worries. Bundles can be shipped direct to you with shipping from $9.50!
9) Bundles are offered by Creating with Kara Davies only, these are not a promotion sponsored by or offered by CTMH. Bundles for Australian customers only.


Any questions? Contact me! Come back tomorrow for the next deal!

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Pocket Scrapbooking

Pocket scrapbooking is all the rage these days. You'll see it in stores, on blogs, instagram, pinterest, and in my own albums.

You may be wondering "what is it?" Put simply, pocket scrapbooking is a simple style/method of scrapbooking. You have an album, a couple sets of pocket pages, a kit of pocket cards, and photos. You put the pages in the album, then your photos in the pages, and finish off with some pocket cards and journaling.

This is the 12x12 Lagoon Chevron D-Ring Album, Memory Protector Pages, and the Love Your Selfie Card Kit.

That's it! Scrapbooking. Simple. Quick. Streamlined. Easy. You can do it! Of course, if you want to embellish your cards, you can. Stickers, shimmer trim, twine, sequins, you name it.

There's multiple sizes of pocket pages and albums with Close to my Heart. The main size is 12x12 pages with a handful of page designs (featuring 3x4 and 4x6 pockets). This size is best for doing full albums for any theme, or mixing with traditional pages within an album (which is what I do).

These pages come from the Memory Protector Variety Pack.

There's also 4x4, 4x6 and 6x8 designs! These are better for smaller projects or gifts. Think birthday parties, thank you gifts for bridal party members or parents, brag books, making into recipe books, etc. They're also good for business people looking to store their samples of fabric, nail wraps (like Jamberry), or other goods. The list is endless!

One of my sister consultants out in WA uses the 4x4 Instalife album and pages to store alongside her essential oils. What a clever use for a small album, right?

I'm using the #instalife album for Close to my Heart to store my oily blends. The little album is a perfect companion and super cute! Do you live your Essential Oils? Why not create your own unique blend guide ☺ #CTMH #foressentialoils #ctmhnewyear #handmade #oilblends #closetomyheart #handwritten #perthmum #grateful

A photo posted by Creative with Heart (@laurascreativepages) on Jan 26, 2016 at 5:03pm PST

This 4x6 My Creations™ Mini Book was turned into a Christmas gift for my husband featuring pictures of a Lego exhibition he was presenting at. (You can see the entire project here.) I tucked a Lego gift card in the back before wrapping it up.

My Creations™ Black Mini Book

These little wirebound hardcover books are not expandable in the traditional sense (you can't add pages). What you CAN do is add a variety of Flip Flaps to expand the capacity!

The newest size is 6x8. The Everyday Life album cover and pocket pages feature everything you love about pocket scrapping in a nice portable size. I've added a few pocket pages to my planner to hold treasured photos. You can also turn it into a photo album on its own! Simply purchase an album cover, 4x6 and/or 3x4 pocket pages, a Picture My Life card kit and you're ready to go to town!

4x6 pocket pages

4x6 and 3x4 pocket pages. I store some planner stickers in my 4x6 pocket.

3x4 pocket pages.

Love the idea of pocket scrapbooking? Never tried it and want to see it in person? Want to meet new friends? Come along and enjoy a fun morning in my studio! I'll be showing all the different Picture My Life options and you get to take some home!

Bookings are essential, and close 7pm March 5th.

Contact me today to secure your place for this exclusive workshop!

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