Stampin’ Up! Day 1 (Thursday) Convention doors opened with the entire Stampin’ Up! Company forming a greeting line as we entered the convention. Wow! What company do you know that stops their company’s day-to-day business to visit with its sales force and customers – that’s what we demonstrators are – as well as their best customers.
Demonstrators arrive up to an hour early to be there when the doors open. Then the fun begins. Dancing in the aisles, swapping, finding old friends from conventions past and catching up,-- until they dim the lights and we’re ready to start. This year, the kick off was a drummer/ dance/acrobatic group with a new Stampin’ Up! theme song around “Grow” followed by Shelli Gardner, Founder and CEO of Stampin’ Up.
The stage held the coolest backgrounds this year. When we walked in the sets were one colors. Throughout the presentations, the flower designs on the set moved and before the formal presentations began, the colors changes. The position of the flower images and the colors continued to change throughout the event! (Can you tell? I’m an old events manager and little things like that impress me.)
We saw the new Holiday mini catalog just before lunch. I can’t show you the catalog until September 1, but I can show you some of the fun samples from the catalog in August. Hint: One of the new products in the Holiday mini will help you make these wonderful flowers in the photo above.
I started writing my Holiday Mini Wish list since Demonstrators can preorder merchandise from the Holiday Mini August 1. But I gave up after 10 catalog pages and decided it would be easier to write a list of what I didn’t want; it will be very short.
If you’re a stamper or a scrap booker who plans to make fall and winter holiday cards and scrapbook pages, you’ll want to consider signing up as a demonstrator this month to take advantage of the 20% discount on all your orders, with 30% off your first order. The timing is perfect. August 1 you can you place a 30% off order for both new catalog merchandise on your Wish List as well as the Holiday Mini merchandise that only demonstrators can order early. Everyone else waits until September. Read about the US $99 demonstrator sign up promotion going on until the end of July. Get US$185 worth of products and supplies and a free $40 Christmas Keepsake kit to make. Only a couple more weeks to take advantage of this promotion!
We’re seeing tons of new samples. Stampin’ Up! is showing us how to use the has kits in the catalog that are easy and fast for beginners without a lot of supplies, all the way to Wow, Wow, Wow showpiece projects for the experienced stamper with plenty of supplies who wants to show her creativity, to the “I-don’t-have-time”, the “I-can’t-afford-it” to the “ I-don’t-have-space” stampers who wants a few embellishments, one stamp pad and one stamp set to make a lot of cards fast.
We’ll I’m off to Day 2 of Convention. Today I’m doing the make-and-takes – always the highlight of the convention. Check for make-and-take photos tomorrow.
Donna Ross
Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator
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