Catalog Kick-Off Behind the scenes

June 21, 2017

There is a lot that goes into the Catalog Kick-Off for me. I want everyone to have a great time and see the new product Stampin’ Up has to offer for the 2017-18 year. It starts at Sale-A-Bration time. I begin looking at what sets my customers are selecting for their free product. What are the most popular things. When I place my demonstrator orders for product for my classes I intentionally select the free product that I want to be giving away later in the year. I watch for things on the clearance rack and carefully examine my purchases. Sometimes I will purchase a product that I don’t think I will use and know that I can use it for Catalog Kick-Off.

I believe that a gift should be beautifully wrapped. Sometimes it is not so much the gift as it is all about the wrapping. I know at Christmas we have a party and the theme is “All About the Wrapping” the gift is a $5 item. It is all about who can wrap it the most beautifully. This year I needed to come up with a new design so I created a bag from a single sheet of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper to put the stamp sets in. I showed that in my previous post.

These were the Survival kits for the new catalogs. They each contained a 2 x 2 Post It note (decorated of course) A Hershey’s candy bar and a pen with a daisy tied to the lid.

Bouquets for the tables.

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We now have 3 catalogs each year, January - April, May - August, September - December.  We no longer have an annual catalog.  You will find all of the products in the catalogs online as well as Last Chance and Online Exclusive Products. If you want to check out the May - August Catalog click on that catalog below. If you want a paper copy, please contact me to get yours!

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