Close To My Heart has an amazing offer this month just for you!
(Plus, you get a sneak peek of what is to come in the way of NEW product).

Do you crave creativity, enjoy relationships with others who love our product, or savour industry? We embrace all types, whether you’re creative, community, or business-minded. By becoming a Close To My Heart Consultant, you join a fun group of girls that supports and honours what makes you exceptional.
Here is our Early Bird Sign-Up Special…

 

First up when you become a Consultant this month you will receive of one of these fabulous NEW Collections for FREE. You choose from either the
Whimsy Fundamentals, Adventure Fundamentals or the Enchantment Fundamentals.

The NEW CONSULANT KIT is here!

 Our Consultant Kit is full of fabulous product and when you sign up, you will also receive
a $50 Credit to spend on more new products, including the newest stamps, paper packs, and cardstock.

Contents of the New Consultant Kit Include:

• Medium Organizer (Z4139, qty 1)
• My Acrylic^® Block 2″ × 6½” (Y1010, qty 1)
• My Acrylic^® Block 1″ × 3½” (Y1002, qty 1)
• My Acrylic^® Block 2″ × 2″ (Y1003, qty 1)
• Non-Stick Micro tip Scissors (Z1836, qty 1)
• My Acrylic^® Stamp Scrubber (Z1782, qty 1)
• My Acrylic^® Spritz Cleaner (1778, qty 1)
• Bonding Memories™ Glue (1512, qty 1)
• 3-D Foam Tape (Z1151, qty 1)
• Sponge (Z697, qty 1)
• Customer Order Forms (W101, qty 1 pack of 25)
• Annual Inspirations Idea Book (WC1171AZ, qty 5)
• Seasonal Expressions 2 (WCS1163AZ, qty 5)
• Cardstock Sampler (W1167, qty1)
• Fundamentals Sampler (W1170, qty 1)
• Seasonal Expressions 2 B&T Duos™ Sampler (W1144, qty 1)
• A Little Love – Petite Perks Incentive Stamp Set (W2035, qty 3)
• Gathering Invitations (W1129, qty 1 pack of 25)
• Desk Pad (W1140, qty 1 pack of 50)

  If you would like to find out more contact me or check out my website http://www.jacquiepaech.ctmh.com.au
  click on the ribbon ‘what we do’ and ‘be a consultant’.

Stay warm and have a happy day

Jacquie x

 

 

 

Winter is in full swirl right now.
With this wild, cold weather it’s time to warm up your July with some fun scrapbooking and cardmaking! Take a look at this months Stamp Of The Month
‘From The Notebook’ (S1607) with easy to use journaling places, tabs and mini icons your pages and cards will look SUPER with a touch of these useful stamps.

I was thinking of a dear friend and made this card to send her. I hope it brightens up her day. I used ‘From The Notebook’ stamp set teamed up with the Magical Paper Collection
(I love the mini hearts in this paper pack), Sapphire Cardstock and Gold Glitter Paper.

Add a cluster of stamped images to your page layout for a fun and easy finished page!

From The Notebook (S1607)

Beautiful Stamps, Amazing Discounts

Each month you can purchase the Stamp Of The Month for $27 OR when you place an order of $75 or more in Close To My Heart products, you qualify for this stamp set for just $7.50 – each month is a new stamp set and they are only available for that month only!
A great way to build your stamp collection throughout the year.

Happy papercrafting!

Jacquie x

I have just returned home after an AMAZING time at the
Close To My Heart -North American Convention held in Florida, Orlando.
Hundreds of Consultants gathered at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Convention Centre for this fabulous event.

 The excitement built over the days as the NEW Annual Inspirations Ideas Book 2016/2017 was released with SO many gorgeous NEW products along with the Holidays Expression Ideas Book (I didn’t see that coming!) OH MY! So much crafty goodness. It all began here…

Disney’s Coronado Springs. This was a fun resort to stay where the Close To My Heart Convention was to be held. Reminiscent of Spanish colonial Mexico, it’s themed southwest style with brightly coloured Casitas (little houses),

Ranchos and Cabanas surrounding a 22 acre lagoon. The temperature ranged from 29 – 34 degrees while I was there, such a nice change from the cold winter back home.

Day one of our CTMH Convention :: Leaders Day.
This day for the Leaders was filled with fun, motivational training to share with our teams along with running our own successful CTMH business. It all began with our Chief Communications Officer Monica Wihongi.
Boy, was I was honoured to be in the same room as these amazing girls!

Day two :: Convention begins!

A fun day filled with catching up with old friends and meeting new friends.
The NEW Annual Inspirations Ideas Book 2016/2017 was released with SO many AMAZING NEW products …we all received a copy to ohh and ahh over along with this gorgeous, exclusive rolling tote bag (the perks of being a Consultant at Convention)…if you want one of these you have the chance to get your own at our Adelaide Convention this October!
I also found a Sticky Boy a CTMH!

I met this amazing woman Karen Morris. She is Close To My Hearts number 1 Consultant! Karen has been with the company since day one, 25 years ago and is a warm, giving gorgeous girl. We walked and talked into convention as if we’d know each other for years!

Day three :: More convention fun…and I present a creative session!
An AMAZING day today as I get to share a whole lot of fun new product to the girls and guys, right here at this epic event – It was an exciting time!

 

The creative ideas I showcased at convention I’ll share right here on my blog, you’ll have to pop back to see it all.

That evening I shared some MAGICAL creative ideas at our Friday night Creative Showcase along with a room full of talented girls. This is a fun event where every consultant can participate and showcase their creative work..and here is a sneak peek of our new Annual Inspirations.

Day four :: still SO much excitement!

It was a wonderful morning at convention seeing and hearing from our Close To My Heart founder Jeanette Lynton. With a fun Q & A session she made us laugh and made us cry.
It was fabulous to see her up on stage, such a beautiful, inspiring woman!

Brian hosted a lunch with all the Aussie girls today. I made some awesome new friends and
it was nice to be together to share our excitement for this US convention.

We finished the night and the convention off at the Awards Dinner with amazing awards handed out to the US girls and a surprise recognition up on stage for the Creative Presenters. The night rounded off with a photo with the one and only Mickey Mouse!

Thanks for stopping by ~ stay tuned right here at Sweet Paper Passion.com for more amazing Close To My Heart happenings to come…

Jacquie x

 

 

 

 

 

 

June is here and so is the wonderful Stamp of the Month “The Long Way Home” (S1606).
Such a fun stamp set to have in your collection and awesome for all those ‘guy’ cards.

With these great travelling stamps your next road trip will be a cinch to record memories!

See you soon to share more sweet paper passion

Jacquie xx

I’ve been a bit quite on the blog and now you’ll know why.
It’s time for my “2016 Creative Escape” weekend retreat (yes, it’s today…yeh!!)
It’s scrapbookers paradise…escape from life as we know it…no cooking, no cleaning, no husbands or children to tend to over this weekend…leave your pages, papers, trimmer and adhesive on the table ALL weekend without having to clean it up! Makes me happy just thinking about this 🙂

Since May is National Scrapbooking Month we’ll be indulging with
the ‘Happy Times’ Paper Pack and Stamp Set released just for this occasion.

Of course I can’t share everything just yet as it won’t be a surprise to the girls coming along…here are just 2 ideas I’ll be sharing over the weekend.

The ‘Happy Times’ Paper Pack and Stamp Set is available for the month of May only. There are so many fabulous projects you can make, you’ll need more than one pack of paper!

Those who know me know I LOVE all things mini…this cute set of cards and envelopes have been handmade with love and the ‘Happy Times’ Papers.

Order your ‘Happy Times’ Paper Pack (CC1063) and “Happy Times’ Stamp Set (CC1064) now at http://www.jacquiepaech.ctmh.com.au

Pop back soon to see more creative ideas and fun times from our 2016 Creative Escape.
I hope you have ‘happy times’ this weekend.

Jacquie xx

I had an amazing time at our Australasian 2016 Team Builders – Leaders Conference in Melbourne this year. I had a secret to share with ALL the other leaders which I’ll tell you about later. I want to share just a snippet of what we did…

I shared this photo and my caption is “these four little words are close to MY heart” and truly they are. Nearly 3 years in and the Close To My Heart company has embraced our Australia and New Zealand culture and as a consultant I have so much respect for all the guys and girls from the US who do so much for us.

Our conference was held at The Langham, Melbourne, Australia  – a 5 star hotel with such opulence. The moment we walked through the main doors I knew this was going to be absolutely special couple of days!

 

It was very exciting being in a room with Leaders from all over Australia and New Zealand. We were totally spoilt from the beginning with a gorgeous Mimco bag and you all know how I love Mimco, this was very special.

Our beautiful handmade name badges.

It was great hanging out with Chris Lothian and Alayne.
Alayne is a consultant from the US and is here for 6 months while her husband teaches at a University in Qld. She is able to continue to run her Close To My Heart business here and keeps in regular contact with her team back home.

We had amazing speakers and awesome creative sessions over the weekend. Here is just one card I made shared by Denise Tarlinton, she is such a talented girl AND I had the pleasure to hang out with her!

It’s always a good time socializing with the gorgeous CTMH girls.
It was so much fun catching up with Shirley and Helen, Qld Consultants and of course this is all part of my job 🙂 One awesome part of my time in Melbourne was having Paul come over. I celebrated my birthday there which made it so, so special.
I hope you enjoyed my little peek of our
Australasian 2016 Team Builders – Leaders Conference.

Check back soon…in my next post I’ll share my little secret I shared with the girls at this amazing weekend.

Jacquie xx

Mothers Day is such a special day, a day dedicated to our beautiful mums.
Such a special day deserves a sweet hand made card.

My first card came together with fun embellishments matched with a touch of one of our new papers from the Calypos Collection ~ to be released 1st May.
Using our Scallop Border Punch gives it a sweet soft edge. Incorporating sweet cuts from our amazing Cricut Cartridges ‘Art Philosophy’ and ‘Artistry’ gives this card its own personal design.

…and then this happened!

My second card was made with the help of Miss Lily as she wandered in and out, on her own mission to create her own special Mothers Day card. With all this beautiful product layed out in front of me how could I not continue to create!  You’ll  be happy to know she did give the tick of approval for this sweet card!

I hope you had a lovely Mothers Day with your family this year.

Jacquie xx

May today brings with it an exciting brand NEW Seasonal Expressions 2/Ideas Book from Close To My Heart. A beautifully presented colourful booklet with 3 NEW collections which you’ll fall in love with. Awesome NEW stamp sets and ‘sweet as’ accessories ~ EVERYDAY will be a fun day with Close To My Heart.

Attend one of my events to receive your
brand NEW Seasonal Expressions 2/ Ideas Book FREE!

Included in this wonderful SE2 is our Stamp Of The Month for May.
CELEBRATE WITH CAKE (s1605)

…we all love cake and we all love a handmade card! These happy birthday cards are sweet and simple to make with just a few products you can make these in a colour to personally suit your birthday peep!
Contact me today to get your hands on this ‘Celebrate With Cake’ stamp set.

May is also National Scrapbooking Month and it brings with it this beautiful paper pack and stamp set to create beautiful pages.

Happy times can be yours during the month of May because it’s National Scrapbooking Month, and we’re offering an exciting promotion to celebrate! With a qualifying purchase of $85 you can get the exclusive Happy Times paper packet for FREE!
This fun paper packet, which is available for one month only, features floral designs, gold foil details, and more! You can also purchase this exclusive paper packet at full retail for $23 with no purchase requirement. Close To My Heart has designed a coordinating stamp set Happy Times, to go with the paper packet, which you can purchase for $27. There’s never been a better time to treat yourself to some beautiful new paper!

And to keep our focus on scrapbooking during May, we’re also offering a 25% discount on all of our albums. This is a sensational deal and a great opportunity to get your pages, you know the ones I’m talking about, laying around the house into albums.
This sale is on till the end of May…let me know which one you want today!!

So as you see EVERYDAY will be a fun day with Close To My Heart.
Contact me today at jplorikeet@bigpond.com OR you can shop at
http://www.jacquiepaech.ctmh.com.au

See you soon with more magnificent May excitement!

Jacquie xx

Only a few more days to get your hands on our Regatta Collection.

The Workshop You Way pages are a simple way to create beautiful layouts with just a handful of product.

  And you can make all these awesome cards using the Regatta Collection
and a few simple supplies.

My Anchor Stamp Set (C1642)

 

Regatta Paper Packet (X7206B)

 

Be sure to stock up on all your favourite Regatta products now because after April 30th these products will be gone. Shop now at http://www.jacquiepaech.ctmh.com.au

Jacquie xx