My Story

A number of years ago, I went up to Massachusetts to visit my college friends. While I was there, my friend Amy was showing off the scrapbook she made for her kids, and talking about being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. Then my next visit, my other good friend Jess started showing me her creations and talked about how much she loved it, and she signed up under Amy to be a demonstrator too! Until then I hadn’t really known anyone who made cards or scrapbooked. I thought what they did was neat, but I was really intimidated by it. I thought to myself “I have no artistic ability – how on earth do they expect me to do THAT?!?”.

But my friends were patient. The next time I visited it happened to be right before my step-mom’s birthday, and I hadn’t gotten her a card. So my friend Jess whipped out her stamps, ink, and paper and said “we are making her a card”. I tried to get her to make the card for me, but she refused. Instead she gave me a one-on-one workshop, and halfway through I basically took over and went card crazy!

Less than a month later I placed my first order – enough to get me started. And then I bought more. And more. And then Jess said “you know, if you became a demonstrator, you’d be getting a sweet discount on all this stuff you are buying. Think about it.” I did, and I signed up during Sale-a-bration, about 6 months from when I’d stamped my first card!

Now I have a blog, am on twitter, and am entering creative challenges and contests. My full-time job is in marketing for a solar company, and I’ve found that stamping helps me add balance to my life. It helps me de-stress, but it also let’s me flex my creative muscle and develop design skills that I can bring back to my full-time work.

I am thankful that my friends were stubborn and stuck with me. Being a demonstrator has added so much to my life!