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Stamp Affair: Rubber Stamping Tips & Tricks

$5.68

Rubber stamping is fun, easy and exciting. In this video, Stamp Affair clearly demonstrates many simple techniques that can be used in creating your own beautiful, one-of-a-kind greeting cards, wrapping paper, staionery, and much more. Featuring: Basic stamping, Markers, Sponges, Embossing, Masking, 3-D Stamping, Borders, Stamp Cleaning….

Western Stampin’ Barbie with Western Star Horse

$39.99

Use horse’s hooves to stamp trails of stars and horse shoe designs. Barbies boots also stamp a rope pattern w/ letter B. Includes earrings for you to wear.Barbie is in a blue and silver western outfit w/ fringe and matching hat….

Stampin’ – The Lively Game of Stamp Acquisition

$11.98

The ultimate game for stamp colelctors and stamp lovers everywhere. Brought to you by The United States Postal Service and Rainy Day Designs…

Stampin’ Up! A Holly, Jolly Christmas (Set of 8 Stamps)

$34.99

This stamp set is a retired Stampin’ Up! set called A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS. It is in excellent condition, brand new and still in the original plastic case it came in. This stamp set is unmounted. The stamp set consists of 8 stamps….

Stamped Out (A Stamping Sisters Mystery)

$1.86

First in the Stamping Sisters mystery series. Featuring small-town stampers who are sure to leave their mark.A professional rubber stamper who creates intricate patterns on walls, April Buchert is back home in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, helping her father restore the famous Winchester mansion. But when a human skull tumbles out of the rubble, all eyes are on Aprils father, who oversaw the constru…

Stampin Up Idea Book & Catalog 2010-2011 (Stampin Up Idea Book Catalog 2010-2011, 2010)

$1.99

For over 20 years Stampin’ Up has built relationships through sharing the joy of creativity. If you enjoy card making, paper crafting, or need scrapbooking supplies, you’ll find amazing products for sale in the Stampin’ Up! online store. You can also locate a demonstrator in your area to help you place orders from the Idea Book & Catalog, earn free products, and give you fun craft ideas!…

Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog Spring-Summer 2009 (Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalog, Spring-Summer 2009)

$3.80

For over 20 years Stampin’ Up has built relationships through sharing the joy of creativity. If you enjoy card making, paper crafting, or need scrapbooking supplies, you’ll find amazing products for sale in the Stampin’ Up! online store. You can also locate a demonstrator in your area to help you place orders from the Idea Book & Catalog, earn free products, and give you fun craft ideas!…

Stamp Stampin

Four Easy Ideas To Kick Off Your Own Rubber Stamping Business

If you are like me and you love to use rubber stamps, ink and paper to create gorgeous cards, gifts and scrapbook pages, then you have probably at one time or another considered using your love for the craft to start a home business. And why not? Not only can you enjoy creating and getting your hands “dirty” in all that ink but you can support your craft with some added income too.

Here are four quick and easy ways to turn your rubber stamping hobby into a fun home business. There are many more but this is just a little kick start for you.

Make Cards and scrapbook pages for others – this is, by far, that fastest and easiest way to generate a little extra cash from your love of stamping. Start by creating a nice portfolio of your work. Get a binder with high quality page protectors and create some sample cards and gorgeous scrapbook page samples for various occasions with different designs so your potential clients can see your creativity. Or get specific and target brides or new moms to be and create your portfolio of cards geared toward those niches. Carry your portfolio everywhere and market yourself locally. You’ll be surprised how many people are looking for unique cards but don’t make them themselves because of the time involved.

Join a rubber stamping company – there are several fantastic rubber stamping direct sales companies out there where you can purchase a starter kit and earn money by selling their products through home shows. The nice thing about this option is that you have built in training and often will get marketing and advertising advice from the company you join. Some of

Start a rubber stamping birthday party and event business – This is an easy business to kick off too, although it might take some time to build at first because you have to get the word out and then wait for birthday or events to come up. Create a “stamp camp” of several different projects that pre-teen and teen girls would enjoy (scrapbooking is extremely popular with teen girls) and then take it on the road. Offer to entertain the kids at birthday parties (and other events) with your crafting camps and charge per person for your services.

Sell your projects on the Internet – Craft your cards and scrap pages and sell them directly on ebay or create your own website for selling. Make sure you check with the rubber stamp manufacturers to insure that you are not violating any copyrights when you use their images to sell your cards. Take some high quality photos to show off your work or work directly with your customers via your own website to do customized and special project work. The possibilities really are endless.

That is just a brief list of ways to make money with your rubber stamping addiction. If you love to scrapbook too the possibilities of adding scrapbooking services to your portfolio of work can really increase your reach as well. Be bold and get your work into the hands of your potential clients. Before you know it, you’ll be in business!

About the Author

Annette Yen
is a ruber stamping addict who loves helping moms make money from home. As a Stampin’ Up demonstrator she recommends
Demo to Demo
for great prepackaged stamp camps and classes for your customers.

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How Can Stampin Up Benefit You?

Stampin Up Overview:

According to the Stampin Up website, it was founded in 1988 by Shelli Gardner and her sister. The company is headquartered in Utah and has 500 staff members. They have expanded their company to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Stampin Up brings in more than 100 new stamp sets and accessories yearly in its full-color Idea Book & Catalog.

Stampin Up is a direct sales company that has been around for 16 years. It is a 200 million dollar company.

Products Of Stampin Up:

Basically, Stampin Up offers various products of stamps as well as accessories for home-based decor, handmade greeting cards, scrapbook pages, and more. Their product line includes:

- Rubber stamps
- Card stock paper
- Embellishments (ribbon, brads, buttons, Eyelets, and Rub-Ons)
- Ink-Cetera (pads, ink, markers, watercolors, pastel, cartridges)
- Stampin Memories (scrapbook memory products)
- Definitely Decorative (custom home decor)
- Tools (adhesives, applicators, cleaners, cutters, punches, and more)
- Storage (Organize space using Stampin Up storage options)

Stampin Up Opportunities:

Stampin Up promotes its products by means of home demonstrators. As a demonstrator you host parties and invite family, friends, etc. You invite people over to show them the an assortment of techniques and products by Stampin Up.

If you believe that you don’t have the skills for crafts, Stampin Up’s demonstrators come in all levels of expertise and with scores of available resources that is provided by Stampin Up, if you have a passion for crafting, you can succeed as a demonstrator.

The Benefits Of Being A Demonstrator:

- Get Product discounts. As much as a 20% discount on all Stampin Up products, including the stamp sets, paper, and accessories.
- bonus Income. You earn cash from the sales and recruiting.
- Variable Hours; after all, this is your business.
- Support from Stampin Up.

To become a demonstrator, you need to buy the Starter Kit. Inside the Starter Kit are:
- Five complete stamp sets
- A Stampin Around Wheel, handle, and ink cartridge
- Stampin Pastels
- Card Stock
- Eastern Blooms Decor Elements and applicator tool
- Five Classic Stampin Pads
- VersaMark Pad
- Stampin Scrub and Mist
- Blender pens
- Business forms and tools

To signup as a Stampin Up demonstrator, you get in touch with a domonstrator that presented to you the opportunity or use the Demonstrator Locator to find you a demonstrator near you.

Compensation Plan

Stampin Up compensation plan is very comprehensive. To learn about it will require you to do your own due diligence. The company does offer an explaination along with a table of the compensation plan. To gain knowledge of the pay plan will entail you to visit their web site.

Some Alarming News:

I did come across some information that acknowledged that Stampin Up is having some financial problems because of the recent economic climate. The article stated Stampin Up employees were being laid off. Stampin Up had a 10% decrease in sales over the past two years, which has forced them to make this difficult choice. How correct is the information is up in the air. This specific article was written in March 2009, so things could possibly be improved now, but again, this is why it is essential to do your own home work before moving ahead with any resolve about an opportunity, even one with as much history as Stampin Up.

Conclusion:

Generally speaking, Stampin Up seems to be a viable company, for those interested, to create either part time or full time income. Remembering the issue of layoffs, the company has managed to come through a lot, this acknowlegement stems from the fact that it started in 1988. For a direct sales or network marketing company, this is a long time. Most network marketing companies fall short within the first 2-3 years.

One thing absent is training provided by Stampin Up. They do provide trainings on learning various strategies for creating arts and crafts projects, but not much on generating customers. Unless you have a large list of family and friends, you are going to experience difficulties in finding people to invitate to your demonstrations. You will more than likely need to acquire communication skills that that will enable you to talk to people. I know most people will always feel uncomfortable chatting with strangers, either face to face or over the phone. If you are one of these individuals who dislikes engaging in “belly to belly” marketing approach, there is another way to creating success in your Stampin Up business.

If you enjoy using the computer and learning new, more technical skills, you can learn online marketing skills that can allow you to generate leads and customers for your Stampin Up business. You could also be earning an income while learning these skills.

Most online marketing systems do offer trainings and online webinars so that you can gain knowledge of how to market with the internet. The better marketing systems also provide, what is referred to as a, “Sales Funnel”, to help you create an income while you are learning how to create a business on the internet. Marketing systems are the new wave of the direct sales and network marketing industry. This is because of the boost in popularity of the internet and its ability to give online entrepreneurs a way to connect with millions of people per day, online. If you find that doing primarily offline marketing strategies is a struggle for you, using an online marketing system, just might be the one thing missing in your business success.

About the Author

After reading Lawren Smith’s article written on Stampin Up, many online entrepreneurs, with hopes of achieving success in their home business, have visited her site, Guide2MLMLeadsGeneration. When you visite the site, you’ll have an opportunity to get access to $494 in training bonuses, without spending a dime.

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