That is right I will have had 20 years of creativity as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator on August 30 of this year. I recieved my 20 year pin in yesterdays mail! I have recruited over 100 direct demonstrators in my time and earned a lot of awards and provided a great income for my family. BUT the best part is the creativity that I get to share in. For our recent booth at the Santa Clara Scrapbook Expo we decided to make sure that everything that we made was copied from some source available to Stampin' Up! Demonstrators.
I volunteered to recreate the hoops shown on page 78 of the catalog. I was so excited when at convention there were even more shown! I loved them and couldn't stop making them. Some of the samples I CASEd (copy and share everything!) some other ones that Stampin' Up! Demonstrators had shared on the forum Stampin' Connection which is only for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators. I even found some cards made in this product grouping - Timeless Portrait and turned them into the hoops.
So you wonder why I mentioned my 20 years as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator at the start of this post? Well, if I had had to come up with only my original ideas for the last 20 years I am not sure I would have lasted but by sharing through swaps, blogs, forums and such Stampin' Up! Demonstrators can come up with great ideas and keep sharing these ideas with people.
If the thought of "I could never come up some many ideas!" has kept you from being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - think again. There are so many resources it is harder to pull yourself away to stamp - and I am always amazed at what the final results are when I remembered where I started. Check it out -it is always a good time to become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. $310 worth of product (you choose) for $175 and a 20% discount on your crafting needs! as my daughter says SWEET!
In fact, a good friend and fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator , Cherie M. and I once did a skit where we pretended to talk on the phone and try to copy a card to each other over the phone. (YES, this was before the internet, YES, I have been a demonstrator that long!) What was so funny is we described this card exactly (which was inspired by her pajamas which she wore in the skit!) and yet our two cards couldn't have looked more different!
Ok, enough of this - though I am thinking of sharing some great history stories of the old days of Stampin' Up! in the next few weeks as I celebrate my 20 years! Just beware - I will show cute stamped stuff though (not the stuff I used to make!)
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