Tag: card-making

Explore Changes at Stampin’ Up!

Yes, I know. It’s been a long while since I have been here. I find that I’m newly motivated to spread the love of this hobby and small business with the changes SU! has made.

What Does Stampin Up Offer?

First, I still love this company. It is for the paper crafting group. Most make greeting cards, but there is more!

  • Very high quality card stock
  • Matching ink stamp pads
  • Designer Series Paper coordinated with stamps and dies
  • Embellishments and Ribbon
  • Coordinating blending alcohol markers
  • Tools for paper crafting
  • Storage
  • Stamp Pads now in slim plastic envelopes
  • Dies also now in slim plastic envelopes (most coordinate)
  • Card and other paper crafting kits
  • Monthly Paper Pumpkin subscription available
  • Memory Keeping
  • Punches

Catalogs and Digital Access

  • No more annual catalog
  • Three smaller catalogs throughout the year, next one September 1st
  • Digital access to Online Exclusives three to four times annually (new items not always in catalogs)
  • My Online Store for ordering HERE

The Last Chance List Before Products Retire

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  • Last Chance List updates every other month as products get ready to retire
  • Some discounts
  • Current LCL HERE
  • Email notifications available when an item is restocked for purchasing

New Tools

  • The Positioner – excellent for stamping multiples quickly or reinking images, holds paper in place as you stamp
  • Impressions Plate – fine tune delicate die cuts using this with your Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine.
  • Stampin’ Hot Foil System -newest tool that elevates the look of your projects, uses heat, pressure, special dies, and foil rolls to transfer metallic designs right into your cardstock or other material, adding elegance and brilliant shine.

How to be Part of the Creativity

  • Watch for blog posts after revamping and updating
  • See events HERE on Online Store
  • Watch for new videos of tips or techniques on You Tube and Facebook
  • Sign up to receive my newsletter with promotions, new products, events, news – email your name and email address to Niecylovestostamp@yahoo.com
  • Join my Facebook card swap group HERE
  • If local, come to classes, stamp camp, and Local Card Swap Group Club, send an email for more information

My Customers

I love my active customers and want them to know it. I often offer specials, classes, local clubs, and other events just for them. I love to teach. I love others to learn and gain confidence while making new friends and having fun!

If you are new, try it! Buy a kit and start there. If you are experienced, there are many ideas and products available for you!

Be happy! Be well! Be creative!

Denise AKA Niecy

Hobby Demonstrator

I’m sure I have addressed this topic before. There is a part of me that would love to be a popular talented Demonstrator. I have ventured several times into this with classes, YouTube videos, team members, and more. As much as I love to be creative, which includes making cards with Stampin’ Up!, it is a hobby, not a business. I can still enjoy meeting with friends, making cards on my own, ordering new products, learning and teaching new techniques to others, and just having a creative outlet in my retirement. I have enough customers who order products, plus my own personal orders, to keep my demonstrator title with Stampin’ Up! That means I always welcome new and old customers to order products through my site HERE when they order. I’m also available to answer questions or teach customers while not making this a full business venture. I have already asked my good friend to remind me of my past efforts should I mention getting busier and doing more!

I must say that my Team Leader is a fulltime Million Dollar Sale Demonstrator and is extremely talented. She is a wonderful resource that is available to you as well. She offers classes in the mail, YouTube videos, and so much more. Did I mention she’s extremely talented? Just ask me and I will make sure you are added to her newsletter. Speaking of, I am starting my small newsletter again. If you were not on my subscriber list before and would like to be, or would like to be added to my leader’s FB group, please send me an email HERE.

If you are local, please check out my Local Card Swap Group HERE. We meet once monthly to enjoy making cards or other paper crafts. We will begin again in January, 2026, and would love to welcome new members.

If you are on Facebook, I did start a card swap group. I have two other co-administrators now. The three of us keep this group going. Find that HERE and join or send me an email requesting to be invited HERE. You can check out the group for awhile without committing to swapping. It’s always voluntary. We normally have four to five swaps (different themes, techniques, etc.) monthly. If you do choose to swap, you will love receiving cards in the mail from other members. Everyone is talented. Beginners are welcome and they learn quickly. It’s fun so check it out!

This blog is called Niecy Crafts and I do. Although stamping and making cards is my main hobby, I also do diamond paintings, jewelry art, wreaths, and other crafts. There’s never enough time to accomplish all I really want, but I do enjoy my free time and love giving my designs as gifts. I’ve been doing this for over six years now. I started crafting when I retired from teaching and I enjoy all of it! I will share different projects in this blog.

Finally, I do resell some Stampin’ Up! products – stamp sets, dies, embossing folders, ribbon, embellishments, etc. I do this to keep my supply down and also to allow me to afford continuing my crafting hobby. I will post those sales and do ship outside of my area or deliver to locals.

Now you have my update. Let me know if I can help you with anything.