Scrapbooking Consultant - Creative Memories or Others??

I was recently at North Aurora Days and there was a consultant there from Close To My Heart, which is a scrapbook company like Creative Memories. She gave me one of her catalogs and I have to say I like their stuff a lot better than CM, but the prices are about the same. I don't know what the start up costs are or anything like that, but I do know that she hosts scrapbook weekends once a month at a Lutheran church in North Aurora on Oak Street (next to the library) if you wanted to go and talk to her or just check out what they have. I'm sure they have a website, too.

I also love to scrapbook and that is exactly how I became a consultant, I love the creative memories albums I believe they are the best you can find as well as the tools and as you know they can be pricy. I choose to go into the business to help support the cost of my hobby, I'm a single mom, work a full time job and have two teenage children so my time is limited. However I do believe if you have the time to devote to the business you can go far with a strong base of customers "repeat customers is a must as well as new customers" and marketing your business constantly "like any other".

As for other scrapbooking companies, I have only looked into close to my heart, I don't like the albums or the scrapbooking tools, I do believe they have some great idea books and I love.. Love.. the stamps. I would go to check out the gathering at the church in Aurora as the other women suggested to see what they also have to offer than you can make a more informative decision. I do have to say the product creative memories has to offer in the start up kits is well worth the cost.

I do Creative Memories, however I don't "Work" the business.

I would say if you love to scrap definitely do it to get the discount. I do mainly digital books and the products are very high quality compared to others.

I will pm you my uplines info for you to contact her website is

www.mycmsite.com/mkuligowski

She can give you more info on it as business if you like.

I do know the start up costs gives you so much product its worth the investment so you really have nothing to lose if you are going to use the products! Several of us keep tryign to get little scraps together however our time frames never seem to work. Another reason why I do digital... one of these days I will do some traditional stuff... in the meantime I consider myself a "collector" with the intention of putting things in books... SOMEDAY!!

I recently signed up with Heritage Makers to become a consultant. My website is www.MyPhotobookStory.com. There are two different start up kits, and I went with the business kit, which is under $300 - I made that money back within my first month. The great thing about Heritage Makers is that the software is all online - there is no downloading to your computer. This solves the problem of your computer crashing and you lose everything. Another reason why the online feature is great is that you can work from any computer and you can share your projects and pictures with your friends. Please contact me at ____@____.com for additional information.