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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.

It's always a good time to sign up to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, but right now, during Sale-A-Bration is an especially good time!  The Starter Kit, which is normally $175 is discounted 15% during Sale-A-Bration which means you can start your own business in minutes and become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator for only $148.75 until March 31, 2011.

If you would like to hear directly from Stampin' Up! about the company and about becoming a Demonstrator, you will have an opportunity to attend a special phone call on Tuesday, February 22.  A Stampin' Up! staff member will give a short presentation for about 10 minutes and then take questions.  Space is limited on the call, first-come first-served.

If you would like to take advantage of this unique opportunity just to hear about Stampin' Up!, contact me at KSFontinelle@gmail.com and I will give you further information.  Also, you can find out about Stampin' Up! HERE.

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Be sure to contact me before Tuesday, Feb. 22 so I can give you the details on making this call.  There is no obligation and you won't be asked to sign up on the call.  You can just listen in and contact me later to ask questions or find out how to sign up!

Join Stampin' Up! and become a demonstrator by purchasing one of the two Starter Kits valued at over $300!  One is the Standard Starter Kit with stamping supplies, a Decor Element piece, catalogs and business supplies.  The other is the Digital+ Starter Kit, which comes with My Digital Studio software, a Decor Element piece, stamping and business supplies.  

These kits are normally priced at $175, but during Sale-A-Bration, you can start your own business for 15% off the price of the kit!  You can even choose additional Add-Ons if you choose for a little more money if you are particularly interested in scrapbooking or the Decor Elements.

As an EXTRA bonus during Sale-A-Bration, you would also receive this special bundle!

Starter Kit Bonus Bundle

If you join soon, you will have nearly the whole Sale-A-Bration period to get your business rolling with your customers benefiting with free Sale-A-Bration rewards!  It only takes a few minutes to sign up online and make your choices in the Starter Kit. (If you prefer, you can fill out the application on paper and mail it in to Stampin' Up!)  At the end of the process, you will have your Demo ID number, your kit will be ordered (free shipping!), and you will be ready to start exploring the demo side of the Stampin' Up! website where you will find plenty of training and information!

You're welcome to look over the information online, but you probably will have more questions or concerns and I'd be happy to talk to you about those.  Just email me at KSFontinelle@gmail.com and we can get in touch.

No password needed to sign up!  Just go to my website HERE and when you are ready, click the "Join Now" button on the left to go to the application.  It's easy!  And I KNOW you will love being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator!  Contact me!

Any time is a good time to sign up to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, but if you can wait a few more days until Sale-A-Bration starts on January 25, 2011, you will find a great deal!  To become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and start your own stamping business, all you have to do is purchase either the standard Starter Kit or the Digital Starter Kit.  They are both priced at $175 (and valued at over $300), but during Sale-A-Bration, you can purchase a Starter Kit at a 15% discount!

Not only that, but during Sale-A-Bration you will also receive a special bonus bundle of over $50 in free products!  Contact me if you want to know all the details!

For information on the Stampin' Up! Starter Kits, click HERE.

*There are quality issues with the Stampin' Scrub included in the Starter Kit which Stampin' Up! is working hard to resolve so depending on when you sign up we'll have to see what the current situation is.

You’re invited!

If you are interested in the Stampin' Up! opportunity to start your own rubber stamping and scrapbooking business in the Hispanic market, Stampin' Up! is conducting phone calls every Wednesday to speak to you! During these 15-minute calls a representative from the home office will discuss Stampin’ Up!’s history and philosophy, our products, and the unique opportunities that exist for demonstrators in the Hispanic market. A question and answer session follows every call  so you can get your questions answered directly.

Weekly Hispanic Opportunity Calls – Occur every Wednesday

 11:00am (MT) for English

 4:00pm (MT) for Spanish

Please call 877-787-7226

What a day!  January 11, 2011……1-11-11!  Pretty fun! Maybe it is your lucky day with a date like that!

While we're still in that early part of January and a new year and considering New Year's resolutions and how to improve our lives, perhaps on this "lucky" #1 day, you might consider a new opportunity with Stampin' Up!  If you need a job, if you need some extra income to pay one bill, if you love crafts, if you love meeting new people, if you'd like to be associated with a fantastic company, if you'd like a new business opportunity in your life this new year….perhaps you would like to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator!  

Start your own business just by purchasing the great Starter Kit from Stampin' Up! for only $175, either the traditional kit or the digital kit containing My Digital Studio software for digital papercrafting.

You can contact me at KSFontinelle@gmail.com with any questions; or if you are ready to go, just sign up online in minutes on my website HERE. Then click on the "Join Now" button on the left when you are ready!

As I told you the other day, Shelli Gardner decided to deliver the Starter Kit herself to the 10,000th new Stampin' Up! Demonstrator after the big recruiting effort 10,000 in 2010.  I thought it was a wonderful, heartwarming story to read on the day before Thanksgiving and follow along on the little videos Shelli herself was making.  As those of us familiar with Stampin' Up! know, it was just the kind of thing this company would do, and you have to wonder how many other companies show this much heart!

Please read Shelli's own account of the whole story on her blog HERE.  I think it is really an amazing and fun story to read right at the beginning of the holiday season.

Don't forget…..both Starter Kits, the standard one and the one with My Digital Studio….are both on sale 50% off for just a few more days…until Nov. 30th.  You can sign up online these days.  Just go to my website at www.karenfontinelle.stampinup.net  or click HERE to go straight to the "Start Your Own Business" page.  

My password is: karenstamps

As always, let me know if you have any questions!  It's a marvelous opportunity for you!  It will be YOUR business!

Click HERE to see just a few videos Stampin' Up! provides to teach you what to do with your kit components.

UPDATE:  They've delivered it!!  Be sure to watch the videos and catch all the FUN!!!

As I recently posted, Stampin' Up! met their goal of recruiting 10,000 new demonstrators in 2010 just the other day!  Shelli has been making videos about it and the count is still growing!!  You HAVE to watch this video and see what she is doing now!!!

Don't you wish YOU were the 10,000th new Stampin' Up! Demonstrator?!

The Simply Amazing Starter Kit Special is still going on until Nov. 30th. Don't miss out!!  Wouldn't you like to be a part of this great company?!

Click on the picture below to go to the page with all the videos and the new recruit count!  Just click the little arrows on the sides to go forward or backward in sequence of videos.

Stampin' Up! set a goal of 10,000 new recruits in 2010……and they just reached it!  Shelli Gardner, Cofounder and CEO of Stampin' Up! started making little videos as the count got close!  Can you imagine working for a company that would make such an effort to track their efforts and be so excited when they reached their goal?  They put up sheets of vinyl at the home office like a blackboard and put tic marks to count each new demonstrator, finally ending with a jar of candy kisses to count the last 1500!  And finally to gather all the employees in the beautiful atrium of the Riverton office to congratulate everyone with applause and cheers!

Watch Shelli's videos here!

If you would like to be a part of the NEXT group of 10,000 and to finish off the counting in 2010, please consider the Half-Price Starter Kits on sale now for just one more week!  Never have I seen Stampin' Up! make such an offer, so it truly is amazing!  You will have options to customize your kit and can sign up easily online in minutes…..or mail in the forms, if you prefer….there is still time!

You can find out more information HERE on my website or watch a video and actually click the "Join Now" button HERE.  

My password is:  karenstamps

I'm happy to talk about the business opportunity and becoming a demo with you before you sign up if you'd like…..or just email me with any questions!  You don't have to know anything to start…..lots of demos have even signed up without  attending a workshop…or signed up thinking it would be just for their own discount and then built up a good business instead!

At my last stamp camp, as I looked around at the ladies attending, I realized with this particular group, I wouldn't know ANY of them had it not been for being a Stampin' Up! demo!  You'll find it's a pretty good way to meet new people and make special new friends!