Don't forget….if you are interested in being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator in the Hispanic market, Stampin' Up! holds special calls on any Wednesday to discuss Stampin' Up! and the business opportunity with an opportunity for questions at the end.

The calls are held every Wednesday in both English and Spanish:

• 11:00 AM (MT) for English
• 4:00 PM (MT) for Spanish

To participate, simply call 877-787-7226 (toll free) at the appropriate time.

Be sure to check out the Big Shot opportunity for new Stampin' Up! demonstrators during October!!

You can sign up to be a demonstrator when you are ready on my website HERE. Just click the "Join Now" button on the left side of that page!

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Choose the Starter Kit that best matches your stamping and paper-crafting interests, and get over $340 of Stampin' Up!'s high-quality products for just $175.

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With all the talk about the fantastic offer of a free Big Shot when you sign up to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator during this month of October, I thought you might like more detail on what that entails.

After gathering all the information you need to make your decision to join Stampin' Up! (you can start HERE and ask ME!), you will purchase the Starter Kit for $175.  The quickest and easiest way to do this is online at my website HERE.  Just click the "Join Now" button on the left. Stampin' Up! will email you your "demo number" and you are set to start your own stamping business!  You just have to wait for your kit to arrive shortly!

You choose between two kits….the Standard Starter Kit (with lots of traditional stamping supplies) or the Digital+ Starter Kit (which comes with My Digital Studio software and a few traditional stamping supplies). Each kit is customizable on almost all items so, for example, if you would rather have different colors of ink pads than the suggested ones, you can change that in your kit.

    Here is a link to the Standard Starter Kit form. Click HERE.

    Here is a link to the Digital+ Starter Kit form.  Click HERE.

Then if you like, you can order optional add-on kits for scrapbooking (Stampin' Memories) and for the Definitely Decorative Line.

You will also receive catalogs and business supplies in your kit.

So there you have it!!  It's so easy to join Stampin' Up! and what a great way to start your own business for extra cash, a new career, or just your own stamping pleasure!  Let me know what questions you have!

It will soon be nine years since I signed up to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and I've enjoyed every minute of it!  My friend had recently signed up when I had visited her one summer.  I had never heard of Stampin' Up! but when I saw the projects she had made at a stamp camp I was intrigued. There was more to rubber stamping that I had imagined!

I'd love to share this fun with you, and this month is the best time ever! Listen to Shelli Gardner, Cofounder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, tell you all about it!

Now if you would like to purchase a Big Shot and some accessories from me, I'd be happy to sell you one because you will LOVE using it on all your projects!  Just go to my store HERE.

But if you would like to have your own Stampin' Up! business and full Stampin' Up! experience and on top of that want to get a FREE Big Shot, well….just go to my website HERE and click on the JOIN NOW button in the left sidebar!

You probably have questions and I'd be happy to answer them.  Just email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and we can get in touch.

The Big Shot offer is good until October 31.

Hispanic Heritage Month, September 16 to October 15, 2011, is observed by Americans to honor Hispanic culture and history. It celebrates the independence of five Central American countries as well as Mexico and Chile declaring their independence during the month of September.

Stampin' Up! has developed a wonderful Hispanic product line of Spanish language stamp sets and accessories for your rubber stamping, scrapbooking, and papercrafting pleasure!

In addition, Stampin' Up! is looking for people who would be interested in the business opportunity. As an independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator, you would be selling the high quality rubber stamps, paper, inks and accessories that Stampin' Up! is known for by holding workshops with your friends and other new customers who often also become your friends. It's easy to teach anyone to stamp and a whole new world opens up to them!

Stampin' Up! is offering US Hispanic opportunity calls.  You just call in at the proper time and listen to a 15-minute message about the company's history, learn about the products and the benefits of becoming a demonstrator, and hear more about the Hispanic market opportunities. You'll be able to ask questions and there is always an invitation to join the Stampin' Up! family!

The calls are held every Wednesday in both English and Spanish:

• 11:00 AM (MT) for English
• 4:00 PM (MT) for Spanish

To participate, simply call 877-787-7226 (toll free) at the appropriate time.

There will probably also be a special incentive to those who call in and become demonstrators within two weeks of the call!

To read more, please click this link HERE.

Today, Sunday July 31st, is your last chance to begin your stamping and scrapbooking business for only $99. And for an extra bonus, receive this Christmas Keepsake Box FREE with your first demonstrator order beginning August 1st.  This box is part of the Shelli Signature Collection which means Shelli Gardner, founder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, had a large part in the design of the product.  I told you that this box was much more beautiful in person than you can tell in the flyer about the promotion, so I hope you can get a better view of it here in this photo I found in my Convention photos.  It was on display in a glass case! Really a gorgeous project!

But the box is only a small part of the opportunity, excitement, and fun of being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. With your Starter Kit, you can begin your Stampin' Up! business and take it to whatever level you like…maybe even earning the Incentive Trip to Fiji….or Hilton Head Island!  Or if it suits you better, just have occasional get-togethers with friends or family to enjoy the art of rubber stamping, or scrapbooking, or digital papercrafting.  You are also welcome to order the standard Starter Kit if you prefer to receive more stamping supplies than this smaller kit provides.  If you have been a stamper or scrapbooker or previous demo and already have lots of product, this $99 Starter Kit is for you!

Go to my website NOW and click the JOIN NOW button on the left. You can sign up online and be a demo in minutes!  If you have any technical difficulties, please contact me and I can try to help you solve your problem. 

Click the photo above to go to the promotions page!

Don't worry about not being creative or not knowing what to do once you are a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator because there are PLENTY of Stampin' Up! resources to help you, plus my own knowledge, expertise, and experience.  It will be a great journey for you….you will be surprised!

Today won't be your last chance to sign up, but it is the last chance to sign up for only $99 and to receive the bonus Christmas Keepsake Box with your first demo order.

Here are more details about the $99 Starter Kit:

$99 Starter Kit 
Contains over $185 in products and business supplies–including new products from the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog! All items below are recommended, but a new demonstrator can substitute a similar item of equal or lesser value.

*New to the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog!

Business Supplies 
The business supplies in the promotional mini kit will be the same business supplies that are in existing starter kits; no alternative selections can be made for business items.

• Getting Started DVD
• Getting Started Guide
• Guest Invitation Postcards (100)
• 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog (8)
• 2011 Summer Mini Catalog (8)
• Stampin' Up! logo vinyl
• To My Hostess Envelopes (10)
• Recruit Folders (5)
• Recruit Brochures (20)
• Customer Order Forms (50)

Contact me today with any further questions at Karen@Karenstamps.com.

If this Stampin' Up! Statement of the Heart speaks to you, maybe you would want to become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

You can choose from those two Starter Kits OR until Sunday, July 31st you can choose a smaller Starter Kit for only $99!

And best of all, as a bonus, receive a beautiful Christmas Keepsake Project Kit, a $40 value!!!

I saw this made up at Convention and believe me, this photo does NOT do it justice.  It is just gorgeous!  What a way to begin your Stampin' Up! career!  Imagine receiving this with your first demonstrator order you place after Aug. 1st and sitting down to make it!

Contact me  for more information and details!

One of the great things about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator are the many perks, one being earning free stamp sets for Sale-A-Bration sales and for recruiting.  Stampin' Up! even allows us now to wait to choose until the new Idea Book & Catalog comes out so we can choose one of the new stamp sets if we want…and especially not to choose one that will retire soon.  So I thought today I would finally make that tough decision of which stamp set to order for my SAB sales….and I chose Spooky Bingo Bits on page 25 of the new catalog.  I love Halloween and thought this would give me lots of cute Halloween images and words to use, not just for bingo cards!

How exciting is that to get to pick a FREE new stamp set from Stampin' Up!???  The only thing MORE exciting would be to click the ordering page and find out that I was entitled to TWO MORE FREE STAMP SETS for recruiting!  Holy cow!!  So for those two sets I finally chose Creative Elements and the new alphabet set Letter It.

If you love stamping and would like to earn free stamp sets and have all kinds of fun, why not consider the $99 Starter Kit Promotion going on right now?!  You'll be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in minutes if you sign up on my site HERE.

Yes, it is here!!  The new Stampin' Up! 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog is live now!  I see it online!  Click HERE to see the new catalog if you haven't peeked already!

ALSO…..there is a special on the Stampin' Up! Starter Kit!  You can become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator for only $99!   This is particularly good for someone who already has a lot of stamping supplies.

Read all about it HERE!  You can easily sign up online on my website in minutes!  What a way to begin the new Stampin' Up! year!

Enjoy the new catalog!  Let me know if you have any questions and post a comment below letting us know how you like the new catalog!