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!

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If you even MIGHT be interested in becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and starting your own business, if you are like me you probably want more information and want to think about it before you make your decision. (Not that there is anything at risk by becoming a demonstrator if you want to just jump in and do it!)  This Tuesday, May 24th and next Tuesday, May 31 Stampin' Up! is offering FREE opportunity calls to talk about the history and philosophy of Stampin' Up! and tell you about the opportunity to be a demonstrator and run your own stamping business!  The call is usually about ten minutes of information and then ten minutes of questions.

The calls will take place every Tuesday, February 22-May 31, at 11:00 AM (MT) and 4:00 PM (MT).

To attend this call, dial 1-866-640-4044 and, when prompted, enter the access code 500284#. State your name, and you will be added to the call. 

Space on these calls is limited and availability is first-come-first-served. You might want to call in a few minutes ahead of time to be sure to get in.

After May 31, Stampin' Up! will decide whether or not to continue these calls, so be sure you call in today or next week for sure to take advantage of this easy way to get more information on the Stampin' Up! opportunity! Besides, you may want to take advantage of the National Scrapbooking Month Promotion of getting a discount on the Digital+ Starter Kit.

After you listen to the call, please contact me and let me help you with any additional questions you may have.

Interested in becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in the Hispanic market?  Join Sandra from the home office on any Wednesday for a 15-minute phone call to discuss Stampin' Up!'s history and philosophy, our products, and the unique opportunities that exist for demonstrators in the Hispanic market.  You'll be able to ask questions, and there might even be a special incentive offer made to call participants!

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.

Notice the times are Mountain Time (MT), which is Stampin' Up! time in Utah, so please make adjustments for your time zone!

It's always a great time to start your own Stampin' Up! business!! Check here for more information before or after the call!

Do you need a stamp space makeover?  Don't we all?!  Here's a good reason, actually two, to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator!  If you are a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and register to go to and attend Convention (the most fun event in the world!) in Salt Lake City in July, you may submit a video to enter a contest on why you deserve a makeover of your stamping space.  And the prize is:  Shelli Gardner herself, Co-founder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, will come to the winner's home and work her magic to redesign the winner's stamping space!  The winner will be announced at Convention!  How COOL would that be??!!  And how cool of a company is Stampin' Up! to offer something so fun! Wouldn't you like to be a part of a company like that?

While you can join Stampin' Up! any day, today is the last day of Sale-a-Bration and the last day to get 15% off the Starter Kits (you may choose between the standard kit and the digital kit) AND receive an extra bonus bundle worth $50 in free products!  Registration for Convention will begin soon so you will be just in time!  Then you can start thinking about the video you are going to make to try to win a stamping space makeover by Shelli!!

Just click HERE to learn more about joining Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator…..then click on the "Join Now" button on the left on that page and you'll be signed up in a matter of minutes!  I'd love to have you on my team!



March is here already!  There is a whole month to go of Stampin' Up!'s great promotion called Sale-a-Bration, but don't let it slip by you!  We know how fast time flies by and I wouldn't want you to miss out!  This is the time of year when you can get free Sale-a-Bration product for just spending $50 (before tax and shipping) with Stampin' Up!  And there's no limit to the free products you can get with each $50 purchase.  So, spend $100 and get 2 free Sale-a-Bration products…and so on!

As a hostess, if you have a $300 workshop (or even your own purchase) you will choose an EXTRA Sale-a-Bration product, beyond what you get for your own order, and beyond the usual Hostess benefits from Stampin' Up!

As if those two things are good enough, if you join as a Demonstrator during March, you can purchase the Starter Kit for 15% off!  You may choose either the Standard Starter Kit or the Digital+ Kit!  You even get an additional bonus!!

If you join soon, you still would have time to hold a workshop or collect orders and take advantage of Sale-a-Bration as a demonstrator!  You can even sign up online at my website HERE.  It only takes minutes and you will have your Demonstrator number in an email immediately following your sign-up.  I will be happy to be your upline and guide you as you begin your new business as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator!

Please click on the links above to find out more information and contact me if you have questions or would like more help!

Right now during Sale-a-Bration is a terrific time to join Stampin' Up! and start your own business!  If you would like to know more about the history of the company, I invite you to check out the story on the Stampin' Up! website HERE.