Good Saturday morning stamping friends and welcome to the weekend. I hope you have some plans in the works. It’s supposed to cool down a little today here in NJ and only be in the lower 90’s with thunderstorms. It was a hot and humid one here yesterday.

Before I get started, I want to share something with everyone. 5 years ago, today I took that leap and finally signed up to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator. I was back and forth for months with should I or shouldn’t I. I sat down and wrote the pros and cons and then called an old demonstrator of mine who had stopped selling because of time. She told me she only had pros with the company and loved it. So, I decided to take that jump and join. I signed up under my downline who happened to be on vacation at the time, I believe in Peru. I had only met her once since she lived 2 hours away. As most of us, I signed up for the discount and maybe make it a business. I think I was more excited about being able to go to OnStage since I had heard so much about it and how much fun everyone always had. Joining Stampin’ Up! 5 years ago, was the best decision I ever made. I love doing what I do; I get to purchase products early to play with before anyone else. I get to go to all the events. AND I get the discount on everything I purchase. I’ve had people say to me, it sounds too good to be true about joining. It is true, I have never been told I have to sell, do a blog, post on Facebook or do live videos. That has all been my choice. I knew getting into this I was going to be all online. I don’t really have friends or family to help me out. I don’t have anyone to have workshops to help me get customers nor do I have friends or family that buy from me. I started doing what I do because I love card making and paper crafting and the customers, I have gotten over the past 5 years are awesome. I have made so many friends through Stampin’ Up!, many that are virtual friends that I get to see once or twice a month on zoom. Getting to see them in person is an extra bonus. I’m celebrating me and my accomplishment today because I did it on my own and did more than I ever expected to do. If you’ve ever thought about joining, just take the leap. You have nothing to lose but a lot to gain and friends to make. If you’d like to join under me, I’ll help you along the way. If you join now or anytime in August, you get to add the new items coming in the September-December 2023 Mini Catalog as part of your starter kit. Contact me if you’d like to talk about it. I’d be happy to tell you whatever you’d like to know about joining.

Thank you to all that follow me and support me with what I love to do.

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Do you want all of the gorgeous new designer papers in the Stampin’ Up! September-December 2023 Mini Catalog but can’t afford everything?  I’m doing a Designer Series Paper Share! What is a Paper Share you ask? It’s a sample of each of the new Designer Series Papers from the Stampin’ Up! September-December 2023 Minil Catalog.  If you were to purchase all of the DSP in the new Annual Catalog, it would cost you over $170.00 plus shipping.

New Designer Series Paper Share – $30.00 plus $8.50 for Priority Mail Shipping

I’m offering a Designer Series Paper share from the Stampin’ Up! September-December 2023 Mini Catalog and I’d love to have you join!!  I’m placing my share order early on September 6th and I’m going to use the expedited shipping option so I should be able to have the shares cut, bundled and back out to you during the week of September 11th.

How my shares work:  I order full packs of all of the Designer Series Papers listed below, I cut them into 6″ x 6″ pieces (or 6″ x 12″ pieces for double shares) and give you one panel of each design from each pack on the list.  I pack up the paper in a cellophane bag with labels listing the Name, Item # and Colors in the pack and mail it back out to you just as quickly as I can!  Shares give you a good working sample of all of the papers so that you can decide which ones to order in full packs!

Here are the Designer Series Paper Shares that I am offering from the new Mini Catalog!

New Designer Series Paper Share – $30.00 plus $8.50 for Priority Mail shipping

You will receive one 6×6 sheet of each design from the following DSP packs (the number after the name indicates how many 6×6 sheets of that paper pack you will receive):

• A Walk In The Forest – 6
• All About Autumn 6″ X 6″ – 12
• Beary Christmas – 6
• Melon Mambo & Granny Apple Green Foil Sheets – 2
• Garden Walk 6″ X 6″ – 8
• Glow-In-The Dark 6″ X 6″ Specialty Paper – 1
• Joy Of Christmas – 6
• Joyful Specialty Paper – 4
• Merry Bold & Bright – 6
• O Holy Night – 6
• Oxidized Copper Specialty Paper – 2
• Shining Brightly Specialty Paper – 6
• Snowflake Magic Specialty Paper – 3
• Them Bones – 6
• Winter Meadow – 6

In all, you’ll receive 80 – 6” x 6” sheets of designer or specialty paper!

Double DSP Share – $60 + $8.50 Shipping by Priority Mail – if you’d like double shares of the designer paper, I’m offering those too!  I’ll cut the 12″ x 12″ designer paper sheets into 6″ × 12″ so that you’ll be able to get 3 full A2 size card fronts from each sheet and you’ll get double sheets of the 6″ x 6″ since they’re already precut.

Anyone is welcome to join in my share (please note, I can only ship to addresses within the US).  If you’d like to join, email the following information to creativestampingdesigns@gmail.com

• Your first and last name
• The email address that is connected to your PayPal account. I only accept PayPal for payment.  ***You do not need to have a PayPal account to pay the invoice, you can choose to pay by credit card without having a PayPal account.

Deadline to sign up for my share is Monday, September 4th at 5:00 PM ET.

Let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

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September-December 2023 Mini Catalog Coming Soon!!

The new mini catalog is awesome!! My list of all the new products is so long because I want it all. I think this is one of the best catalogs. If you are a current customer of mine and have placed an order in the past year, you should be receiving a new mini catalog the beginning of August. If you haven’t placed an order in the past year, I will not be automatically sending you one. If you have not ordered and would like to be a customer of mine and would like a copy of the September-December Mini Catalog, please send me an email at creativestampingdesigns@gmail.com requesting a catalog with your name and shipping address.