March 31, 2023
March 2023
Hello Everyone,

Somehow the month of March got away from me without writing this newsletter! Although I already recognized the February Top Sales gals at our online team meeting and sent the prizes, I wanted to get it in writing too! I also wanted to send a few reminders about the new Annual Catalog and preorder.

First--Our next team meeting will be in-person at Wegmans in Gainesville on March 21st at 7 p.m. I will do a Facebook Live ahead of time to do the prize drawings for our sales achievers since it's hard to do a Facebook Live at the in-person meeting. I will also share any news. At the meeting, we will mostly be stamping. I'm still planning the make & takes, but long-distance gals will have a chance to get them via mail. I'll post a registration on our team Facebook page soon. :)
Stampin' Up News
Retiring Products--Last Chance Lists
The current Annual Catalog and Mini Catalog will retire on May 3rd. You can download the "Last Chance" lists for both catalogs from the Demo website, but I found some lists that another demonstrator modified that are easier to read. I hope they are accurate! You can download the list for the Annual Catalog HERE and the Mini Catalog HERE. I also did a Facebook Live video walk-through on retiring items for ANNUAL CATALOG and MINI CATALOG. The sale prices don't start until April 4th. I also discovered that for some stamp sets, such as Silly Goose, they are only retiring the Cling version, not the photopolymer version, so check carefully for that. Items are only available while supplies last and may sell out quickly.
COLOR REFRESH!
Hopefully you've heard about the Color Refresh by now. Stampin' Up does this about every five years where they retire some of the core colors, add new ones, and put some of the In Colors into the Core Color Collections. You can see a quick video that shows you what is changing HERE, or you can watch the replay of the longer Facebook Live Color Reveal with Sara Douglas on the Demonstrator Planning Group. (I watched it live and it was great). The following colors are retiring (I'm very sad about some of them), so if you see some of your favorites, stock up before they are gone!
Preorder for the New Annual Catalog
The new catalog goes live to Customers on May 2nd, but demos can already see the PDF of the catalog on the demo website. We can start ordering limited quantities of certain items (not everything in the catalog) beginning April 4th (5 a.m. ET). To see the list of items available to preorder, click HERE. These are the steps to follow to get to the Catalog page where you can look at the PDF and read all the details.

  1. Click on “Happening Now” tab along the top of Demo page
  2. Select “Current Promotions” from the drop down menu
  3. Click on picture that says “2023-2024 Annual Catalog Preorder”
  4. From this page, you can choose to download the catalog PDF and/or the Preorder flyer by clicking “EN-US” under the picture of the PDF you want. Scroll down to read all the related details, dates, order times, etc.
Let's get on with some celebrating and recognition!
I want to welcome Shelley Freeze and Diane Carty to the Glitterbelles team. They both joined under Nina Tarner in February. Welcome, welcome! Since they live in Maryland, we probably won't see them at in-person meetings, but we hope to see you at our online team meetings. Diane has been to my retreats in the past and Shelley was a demo with Nina before, so some of you may remember her from Zoom team meetings.
Happy Birthday!

Janee Shepherd, March 10
Joy Melampy, March 29
Roma Christiansen, April 2
Kelly Owens, April 6
Charity Johnson, April 13
Happy Stampiversary!

Marsha LaFroth (8 years)
Cindy Lake (3 years)
February Top 3 in Sales

  • Nina Tarner, $702.40
  • Charity Johnson, $469.70
  • Amy O'Leary, $349

The top 3 in sales get entered into the first prize drawing at the monthly team meeting.
February $300 Club
  • Nina Tarner
  • Charity Johnson
  • Amy O'Leary

Any month you have sales of $300 or more, you will receive a $5 voucher from me and get entered into the second prize drawing at our monthly team meeting.
February $100 Club
  • Ida Acevedo
  • Kellie Matthews
  • Dorinda Hailstock
  • Sharon Hayden
  • Cindy Lake
  • Kelly Owens
  • Janee Shepherd
  • Kim Whitham
  • Cathy Rampy
  • Tammy Cox
  • Wendy Loundermon

Any month you have sales of $100 to $299, you will get entered into the third prize drawing at our monthly team meeting. If you consistently order or sale $100 a month, you will always meet your quarterly minimums!
That's all for now. Time for me to go snuggle up with the Pre-order list and see what I want to get! Ha, ha!

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and I hope to see you soon!

Love,
Marsha