Planner Goodies

Bargain bunnies, take note!

There's heaps of planner decorating pieces available (many on clearance!) in my shop! Click through for heaps of great goodies to add just the right touch to your planner pages.


First things first, washi tape.

I know heaps of you absolutely ADORE your washi tapes. Here's two more to add to your collection! These two are so cute and versatile. 2 skinny tapes and one ticket tape in each pack? Score! If you don't like see through, you can even mount the ticket tape to white cardstock, trim with scissors, and then adhere or staple to your pages.

Carnival Washi

Boardwalk Washi

There's heaps more washi in my shop too. Click here to see them all.

Next, sticky notes.
You can never have enough sticky notes on your dashboard. Check out these value packs!

Wildwood - In The Pink

With 120 sticky tabs in each pack, it'd be silly not to pop em in your order! They're great for adding a bit of flair to your planner pages and for young children who are beginner planners.

I don't know anyone who doesn't like a bit of sparkle. These trims add that perfect touch of bling!

Silver Foil Tape

Gold Foil Tape

Available in: Blue, Aqua, White, Silver, Red, Bronze, Teal, Purple, Gold, Pink, Green, and Coral.

Everyone needs a pen to jot down all those important daily details. My favorite is this one.

With black archival pigment ink, and a.5mm metal tip, it's perfect to slip in your planner stash!

If you haven't gotten your planner yet, get your perfect planner with Everyday Life!

I personally use and love the album, planner pages, and roller stamp.

There's oooooooodles of decorative goodies in my shop. Explore and create your own planner peace today!

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Planner Day

Today's planner task: stamp waterglasses on my pages.

When I drink down my water bottle? I color in one glass with my blue pen. When I drink down a smoothie? My purple pen. Coffee? My orange pen (I don't have a brown one).

The 8 boxes combined with my pens makes easy tracking of my fluid intake. While it's blessedly cooler today in SEQld, I need to drink my water. How do you track your fluid intake?

All items I used are available in my shop! Click through the links to see each item and to purchase. :)

Planner -  2016 Everyday Life Planner Pages and Album Cover.
Stamp - Everyday Life Perfect Plan Roller Stamp.
Ink - Slate Exclusive Ink.

While you're in my shop, check out the heaps of other planner goodies available!

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January News

Welcome to 2016! Good bye Holiday Expressions, hello Seasonal Expressions 1!

Lots of new goodies to love!

Change is in the air
It's called Workshops Your Way! This new workshop format is what I like to call a "one packet wonder". Using the materials in each WYW kit (plus a few extra supplies you may already have in your stash), you can make 6 traditional pages, 2 PictureMyLife pages, and 6-9 cards! Its an incredible value! The big difference to note is the WYW kits DO NOT include an exclusive stampset like the WOTG kits. There are coordinating stampsets for each new WYW kit that you can purchase if you wish.

My theme for January is Charlotte, the first of the 3 new paper collections in SE1. All my events this month will revolve around using the Charlotte range. I explain more about the WYW kits here.

Check out all the goodies in this kit! Papers, cardstock, ribbon, chipboard accents, stickers, puffies!

New to my shop, we have die cuts! While we all know that several stampsets have a matching Cricut cartridge to cut out shapes for stamping, there's a new range of Thin Cuts and coordinating stampsets! For those with a Cuttlebug or Bigshot, now you too can have diecut shapes ready for stamping! Check out these 2 that coordinate perfectly with the Regatta collection!

My Anchor Thin Cuts

My Anchor

Beautiful Stamps, Amazing Discounts
A beautiful new stamp of the month is in town, Beloved Bouquet. 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. This stamp is definitely one to get!

There's so many beautiful projects you can make with this sotm.

National Papercrafting Month
During January, purchase the limited edition Picture My Life™ Live Your Day scrapbooking program for only $13.50 in honor of National Papercrafting Month!

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 $13.50 before this offer is gone!  Watch the Live Your Day video and contact me for more details

There's so much to discover this month in my studio.

All workshop spaces are limited. First in best dressed. Workshop fees are prepay via direct deposit only and MUST be received in advance. Email me for payment details. Please note: Be sure to book your workshop spots early. 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!

My calendar is booking up very fast, and 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 $130 you get not only a kit jam packed with new products (valued at $435+), 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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If you missed the news, we now have planners!

Check out the Everyday Life range and mix&match to create your pefect planner, MyCrush album, PictureMyLife album, or a lil of everything!

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2016 Planners Are Coming SOON!

Attention all planner addicts:
They're almost here!
During December, you can get your hands on the new, gorgeous Everyday Life™ album from Close To My Heart, the accompanying 2016 planner pages, and the coordinating Perfect Plan roller stamp in an exclusive product bundle for only $45.95. That’s over 15% off! With the new Everyday Life system, you’ll experience “memory keeping on the go” as you track your menus and shopping lists, stamp reminders, keep appointments, and tuck away precious memories—plus much more—all at once! This offer is only available while supplies last, so plan to place your order early and start 2016 off right.

The bundle includes: Everyday Life™ Album-Black (Z3208), Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages (Z3209), and one Everyday Life™ Perfect Plan Roller Stamp (Z3212)! The rest of the Everyday Life range will be available in Seasonal Expressions 1 (coming Jan '16).

Want to see this planner range in action? Watch Monica explain and demonstrate ALL of it here!

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Planners Gotta Plan

Haven't bought your 2016 calendar/diary/planner yet? Step away from the stationery shops! The most beautiful new 2016 planner range is coming! For all the latest details on this beautiful versatile new range, keep reading! When this planner is available for purchase, keep checking my facebook page. I'll post updates and shopping links the instant I know!

Everyday Life™ Planner System
We are thrilled with the buzz surrounding the upcoming Everyday Life™ planner system that we announced at our Australasia Convention earlier this month. The Everyday Life line introduces multiple products that work together seamlessly to create a planner, a My Crush book, or a product of your own creation!

It all starts with the Everyday Life album ($17), a beautiful, black three-ring album with gold foil design that measures 9 3/8” x 8 ¼”. This album size makes the album multi-purpose, allowing you to decide what you put in it. To fill up your album, the Everyday Life line will also include:

• The Everyday Life 2016 planner pages ($24): 154 planner pages, 12 monthly dividers with tabs, a pocket folder page, a designed page finder, and four sheets of stickers. With monthly and weekly spreads and printed dates, these pages have all the features you need to stay organised—and look good doing it!
• Everyday Life Perfect Plan roller stamp ($13.50): This fun and functional roller stamp coordinates perfectly with the label stickers, enabling you to customise your planner even further.
• My Crush® Everyday Life pages ($12): A set of 60 double-sided, gorgeous My Crush pages. These pages can be used on their own to create a beautiful My Crush book, or they can be combined with the planner pages to give you more room in your planner for preserving your memories while giving your planner even more flair.
• Everyday Life Washi Tape ($6.50): because every My Crush book needs a good washi for attaching photos and other memorabilia to your pages!
• Memory Protectors ($11.50): we’re introducing two new styles of pocket memory protectors sized to fit into the Everyday Life album. One has two 4” x 6” pockets, the other four 4” x 3” pockets. Use these to add your favourite Picture My Life™ cards and photos into the mix!

Altogether, the Everyday Life line gives you ultimate flexibility in creating a planner/My Crush book/pocket album uniquely customised to you. Best of all, since we know that the time to buy planners is now, we will not be waiting until the release of Seasonal Expressions 1 to make these products available to you and your customers; instead, we’ll be making them available as soon as we have them. We anticipate most of these items to be available late November, with the exception of the washi tape, which will be available mid-December.

To add even more excitement, we’ll also be offering a discounted bundle for purchasing the album, planner pages, and roller stamp together. This bundle will have its own item number and will give you and your customers these innovative and exciting products for just $45.95 AUD/$52.95 NZD—a 15% discount off the retail value!

We love this new product line and we know you are going to love it, too. We’ll be sharing more information and images about the Everyday Life line and the discounted planner bundle in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

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November News

November is here and we are well on the way to Christmas. NOW is the time to get your Christmas Craft plans nailed down and join me in one of my many upcoming workshops!

12 deals of Christmas are coming November 3rd.

Experience the beautiful Simply Fundamental Scrapbooking workshop—available only during November!

This workshop has been created using all the items featured in our campaign exclusive My Legacy™ album bundles, available during November for $100.00 each! When you purchase the album bundle, you will also qualify to receive a value pack of side load or top load Memory Protectors™ FREE—a savings of $29.50! Along with the album style and design of your choice, each bundle includes one Paper Fundamentals Enchantment pack, one Fundamental stickers Enchantment pack, one Peacock Fundamental assortment, and three sheets of White Daisy cardstock. You will then be set to turn these beautiful products into fabulous layouts using the new Simply Fundamental Scrapbooking workshop featuring five layouts you can make using all the supplies in your bundle.

This is a FANTASTIC offer and it's only available while stocks last! If you've been paying attention to my workshop schedule, you'll know that my December theme is Fundamentals! This bundle is GREAT value and can be used at my December workshops. Contact me for more details to order this as your workshop kit.

*BREAKING NEWS* If you haven't been following ctmhofficial, you may have missed this announcement released during Australasia Convention 2015.

YES! There is a brand spankin new planner range coming soon! Check your email and my facebook page for updates regarding a special $45.95 bundle offer.

The new stamp of the month is Cheers, 2016!

This set of 16 is sure to add a bit of charm to all your New Years crafts and projects.

You can get your own for $27 or for $7.50 with every purchase of $75 or more.

Have you tried the circle and square diffusers yet? Curious on just what they do? Watch this!



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My November theme is White Pines and I've a few spaces left for stragglers. Please contact me asap!

From scrapbooking to cardmaking to bespoke Christmas jewelry, there's so much to discover this month in my studio.

All workshop spaces are limited. First in best dressed. Workshop fees are prepay via direct deposit only and MUST be received in advance. Email me for payment details. Please note: Be sure to book your workshop spots early. 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!

My calendar is booking up very fast, and 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 $130 you get not only a kit jam packed with new products (valued at $435+), 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!

To stock up on your favorite and new items, shop with me today!

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Planner Love Bug

Decorated planners, filofaxes, something called a dori? All these have been popping up all over my instagram and twitter feeds lately... and I got to thinking.

What do I have in my Close to my Heart stash? 
How could I use it in unexpected ways to pretty up a calendar/planner/diary?

I already use a bit of washi tape to mark big events (like birthdays and anniversaries). Usually I rip my washi tape as it's so easy to get the lengths I need. Some days though, I want nice clean edges and that's when my nonstick scissors come in handy. I'm also forever running out of pockets and places to put ticket stubs, receipts, vouchers and the like. I can add some clever pockets with these envelopes and keep them in place with my mini stapler or adhesives.

Keeping myself inspired is easy with my favorite PictureMyLife cards. There's oodles of different themes and designs to choose from, including my favorite kit: For Always.

They make fabulous spots to write down those important bits of my day I just don't want to forget. A couple quick hole punches later and the 2 sizes of cards easily slip in and out of any ringed planner or binder. A great idea for marking off sections of calendars or as a general bookmark.

I'm a sucker for sticky notes and envelopes. Lucky for me there's a cute range of My Crush™ accessories that includes both!

I've even got the option of some cute Christmas planning or memory keeping in a dedicated Christmas book, complete with embellishments that match(!). If you like the idea of those "December Daily" type projects, this is abolutely perfect.

Did you know about the great MyCrush special running this month?

I don't know about you but I can never have enough sparkle in my day. I'm going to have to start livening up my calendar pages with some shimmer trim and glitter gems. I can color the white shimmer trim with any ShinHan markers to get the exact color I want.

I can get lost in stamping my favorite images or making my own calendar headers in black ink then coloring with water color pencils or ShinHan markers to add a dreamy touch to pages with lots of white space.

What do I keep all my calendar decorative goodies in? A My Acrylix® Organizer! It's the perfect size to hold all my bits and bobs securely. All my little bits fit perfectly in craft boxes. Or for the fashionistas out there, a chevron shoulder tote holds everything and makes a great day bag.

There's so many different options for customizing and decorating all sorts of calendars with Close to my Heart. The sky is the limit!

Have you been bitten by the #plannerlove decorating bug?

Stock up on all your favorite planner decorating essentials with me today!