We have a new Special Edition Class Planner for National Scrapbooking Month!

Wow, here we are part way into National Scrapbook Month and just weeks away from the new Annual Catalog! Yowza, lots to do! To continue our tradition of saving you time and sanity we are delighted to announce a special release of a new Scrapbook Club! The lovely and talented Amanda Coughlin has joined us again as guest designer and mastermind behind a great tool to help you convert cardmakers into scrapbookers. We’ve mixed together her secret recipe along with a generous helping of all the great photos, instructions, cost analysis information, and tools you know and love from Class in a Flash to create a simply delicious bite-sized opportunity for your business. Click below to find out more about this special edition of the Scrapbook Club so you can feature these projects or kick-off your new Scrapbooking Club or Class during National Scrapbooking Month!

Scrapbook Club – Special Edition features 1 card and scrapbook design theme featuring the Aviary and Pennant Parade stamp sets.

Available for Immediate Download!

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Are you ready to get your slice of the $1.6 Billion dollar scrapbooking pie? Add scrapbooking to your business model and you’ll have another way to help grow a well-rounded successful business! Learn more about Scrapbook Clubs and then Click here to purchase your Scrapbook Club today!

My customers are thrilled with how quickly they can make 10 beautiful cards using our unique One Sheet Wonder template.If you have our Medallion One Sheet Wonder Class Planner, dust it off and get a class scheduled.  If you don’t have it yet, check out our planner today as it’s on sale. You can always use a One Sheet Wonder template to have on hand.  http://bit.ly/IJQWtZ

Class in a Flash can help you sell retired products! How? Besides the great class planning materials and serious time savings, one of the advantages we offer you is a large collection of project photos.

Photos add an extra zing of interest and appeal to your marketing. They help your reader identify with the possibilities that are available with the retiring products. Class in a Flash provides you with step-by-step pictures in the customer instruction document but also individual pictures so you can effortlessly show-off projects to your customers with confidence and ease. We provide professional looking photos, but we also include the required Stampin’ Up!® copyright notices for you, so they are all ready to be uploaded to your blog, Facebook, or DBWS.

Not only can you upload project pictures of retiring stamp sets, but you can further entice the sale by offering to send the Customer Instructions document as a bonus to customers who purchase the retiring products and it’s as easy as 1-2-3.

1. Use your website, blog or newsletter to advertise the projects and tutorials available using the marketing materials (Photos, Blog Text, Marketing Flyer, etc) provided with CIAF.

2. Have the customer purchase the product from your online store.

3. Open the Customer Instructions PDF file (Detail or Summary) add your contact info and then email or set up a download of the PDF files for your customers using Google Docs.

So take a look at any Class in a Flash planners you have purchased from us and make sure you marketing them for the retired products. Don’t have any?  Consider purchasing one or two so you have retiring product samples to share with your customers before it’s too late!

Awash with Flowers
Baroque Motif
Charming
Circle Scissor Plus
Crop-a-Dile
Dasher
Falling Leaves
Fifth Avenue Floral
Flower Fancy
From the Kitchen of
I {Heart} Hearts
Inspired by Nature
Four the Holidays
Medallion Stamp
Pocket Silhouettes
Sincere Salutations
Thank You Kindly
Vintage Vogue

In May share these projects that highlight the retiring Awash with Flowers two-step stamp set and the Thank You Kindly stamp set along with six watercoloring techniques. Purchase it today, download it and send instructions to customers who purchase this set as a incentive. Also post pictures on your blogs.   To Purchase Class Planner: http://bit.ly/JPdyZU

Below is our projects in this month’s Class in a Flash – Country Club Staggered Mini Album.

We think the Staggered Mini Album, featuring the Country Club Simply Scrappin’ Kit and Clear-Mount Stamp Case, is the perfect way to make your spring classes and sales blossom! We are excited to hear what you think of this unique project featuring the time-saving Simply Scrappin’ Kit. Share your thoughts with us on our blog.

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We include an alternative samples in the customer instruction documents every month to show you how easy it is to recycle a class tutorial. Class in a Flash offers suggestions and photos for using alternate stamp sets and color combinations to allow you to re-create the project to your style or for other occasions! Templates, card layouts and project designs never go out of style, they just need to be re-fashioned or recycled in current trends and products that we are highlighting.

Here’s a sample of how we took a Christmas Project and simply recycled it for Valentine’s Day. Visit Chicks & Chocolate Workshop Tip.  ==> http://bit.ly/wNRRk5

You are sitting at your craft table staring at a pile of cardstock and stamps. You need a card for a class, special occasion, thank you to your customer, or encouragement for your downline and you are flat out of inspiration. I’ve been there, you’ve been there, we’ve all been there done that! Why start from scratch searching online when you have oodles of project ideas at your fingertips with Class in a Flash? We have a chart on replacing retired colors with our new colors.  Visit Color Renovate Your Planners Tip == >http://bit.ly/wqEDOU

Fifty is Fabulous! We just published our 50th monthly edition of Class in a Flash! We couldn’t have reached this milestone without all the support and feedback you have given us.  Thank you! To show our appreciation, we are having a Fabulous Fifty sale this week only, starting Monday. Yes, that means 50% off a selection of our fabulous class planners!

Clearance Bin Blowout:
All Class in a Flash and Club in a Flash planners in our Clearance Bin are on sale for 50% off until Friday the 24th! After 50 editions, it’s time for some spring cleaning. This is a great opportunity for you to get your hands on these planners before we say goodbye to some of them for good. Planners in the Clearance Bin feature retired paper, embellishments, and/or stamps. Of course, you can easily re-create many of these designs with different paper and stamps, so we think you’ll like the extra bargain!

Daily Deals: Each day a featured class planner will be 50% off! You’ll find these one-day-only deals Monday the 20th through Friday the 24th. We specially selected favorite classes and classes that will help you feature the Simply Adorned and Décor Elements product lines before they retire. For the first time ever we are even including the Technique Club Volume 1 Club in a Flash planner as one of our sale items!

Plan to visit our store each day so you don’t miss any of these Fabulous Fifty deals! Sign up now for a daily reminder.

Thank you again for helping us reach this fabulous milestone!


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Mixed Bunch Card & Basket Set Class Planner for only $9.97

February Class in a Flash Winner is:

MADELINE SOLER

Madeline, contact us to claim your prize before end of February 2012. Congrats!

Class in a Flash is a Class Planning Service for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. Every month we draw from our list of newsletter subscribers to give away a FREE CLASS! Become a subscriber and receive a free trial offer of our Elegant Monogram Card Set Class Planner.

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At Class in a Flash we are celebrating our 50th edition of Class in a Flash! 50 months of creating time and sanity-saving tutorials. Our members received their advanced copy this morning of our latest class planner: Mixed Bunch Card and Basket Set.   Thank you Members…we appreciate your support!

Have questions about Class in a Flash?  Visit our website at http://classinaflash.com.

We received great feedback and suggestions from many of you by email and at Leadership. We’ve updated the Demonstrator Planner, Customer Detail and Customer Summary documents to reflect these improvements. We are especially excited about the new Customer Summary document, which now includes photos that highlight techniques or details of the projects, and shows an alternate sample, all on one page per project!

We hope you love the changes, please let us know what you think!

Looking for a tutorial or class planner to share card making with scrapbookers?  Our Create & Keep class planner is the perfect solution. http://bit.ly/yAakQS

Plan to visit our store each day so you don’t miss any of these Fabulous Fifty deals! Thank you again for helping us reach this fabulous milestone!

These projects feature the plentiful images from the I {Heart} Hearts stamp setand I {Love} Love Jumbo Stampin’ Around Wheel. Four fantastic pop-up techniquescombine with classic bold colors and shimmery heat embossing to create projectsthat burst with love and personality! Customers will have fun creating thesetoday and enjoy delighting their friends and family when they receive thesepop-up creations!

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Happy Holidays from Class in a Flash!

At Class in a Flash we love sharing how you can show your customers the versatility of our products.  The Pennant Parade stamp set and Petite Pennant Punch are perfect for that.  This card make a great workshop project for the holidays and then make and follow-up with the other fantastic cards in Pennant Fun Card Set class planner to use these products year-round.   http://bit.ly/ojt47J

October Class in a Flash Winner is:

Elaine Barr

Elaine Barr, contact us to claim your prize before end of October 2011. Congrats!

Class in a Flash is a Class Planning Service for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. Every month we draw from our list of newsletter subscribers to give away a FREE CLASS! Become a subscriber and receive a free trial offer of our Elegant Monogram Card Set Class Planner.

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Do you share your creative gift? It is easy to overlook the fact that gift giving is a great opportunity to share what you love. Handmade gifts are the perfect way to give your friends and family unique and thoughtful gifts, shop from your own store, and showcase more ways people can use and love Stampin’ Up! products in everyday life.

Each year Amy makes 12 calendars for grandparents, aunts and uncles. It has become a tradition. Previously the calendars were individually hand stamped, but the last couple years using MDS it has been so much faster to make the 12 copies of the custom calendar! This year Debbie is giving aprons made from the beautiful Designer Fabrics. She is using several different sets of Designer Fabric so the aprons fit each person’s style. We are both giving our favorite bakers and families with kids the Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps! They make a fun, useful and affordable gift that our friends and family will enjoy throughout the seasons and years.

This month’s Tip of the Month is Holiday Gifts. We hope you find this tip helpful in making the best use of the Class in a Flash product.

Leave a comment about what you will be making for gifts this year and we will choose one random winner on October 15th to receive our Handmade Holiday Gifts Class Planner.

Can’t get enough of the new stocking die in the Holiday Mini.  It makes a fabulous gift card holder.  This project is just one of the many in our Holiday Stocking Club Class Planner.  http://debbiemcneill.com/store/?p=1421

Just Released! Our Mega Stocking Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator Club Planner.  There are certain images that are just iconic. You see them and they evoke a certain feeling or memory. Stockings are one of those iconic images. You see a stocking and it brings happy memories, fun, anticipation, and a bit of mystery. This year you can share that classic stocking image and the feelings it evokes with your customers by teaching them to create their own home décor and holiday gifts. Customers will love how easy die cutting the stocking shapes is with the Big Shot.   MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR SALES PAGE=>> http://debbiemcneill.com/store/?p=1421

These Christmas cards are the ideal special delivery designed to express the importance your customers place on those closest to them.  Who doesn’t like to receive a family photo at Christmas time?  Here at Class in a Flash we made sure that two of the cards in this month’s Stampin’ Up! Class Planner (Over the Top Christmas Cards) coverted to add photos of family.  Giving your customers choices is a wonderful way to add a special touch of customer service.

Purchase the “everything you need” Class Planner at our Store.

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September Class in a Flash Winner is:

Lareina Dibben

Lareina Dibben, contact us to claim your prize before end of September 2011. Congrats!

Class in a Flash is a Class Planning Service for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators. Every month we draw from our list of newsletter subscribers to give away a FREE CLASS! Become a subscriber and receive a free trial offer of our Elegant Monogram Card Set Class Planner.

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Sneak Peek of tomorrow’s Class in a Flash release!  It’s so over-the-top!

One of the things I like about our new Letters to Santa Demonstrator Class Planner is that it shows off our new Simply Scored product when your customers make the Card Folder.  It’s a great introduction to the power of the Simply Scored product line. Can’t wait to get it in my customers hands – they are going to LUV it!  K-CHING!

On Sale Now for Only $6  Purchase Class Planner => http://bit.ly/eI9tvx

We will miss this particular Simply Scrappin’ Kit but the good news is there are a whole bunch of new ones to apply to this project. This super-easy and fast class is perfect introduction to scrapbooking for beginners or a great speedy gift for advanced scrapbookers. We are very happy with this class planner as it includes great templates, detailed instructions for nine 6” x 6” pages and a total of 20 scrap maps! Everything you need to get your customers off on the right foot and making you the scrapbooking expert.

I’m still on a high from convention this year. We received so many ‘goodies’ I almost wasn’t able to bring them back in my suitcase – and I went to Salt Lake City 1/3 full. I had two workshops on Saturday. I passed around sample projects I made at convention. The Make & Take Card used the Pennant Parade stamp set in In Colors from our most recent Class in a Flash class planner. The guests found the project really fun and so versatile. Another bit hit was the It’s a Wrap stamp set with the Matchbox XL die. I put four wrapped chocolates in the box using the new Pool Party and Island Indigo. Each guest made one chocolate and I gave the box to the hostess.

What are you doing for your July workshops?  

We will miss the Chunky Glitter and Celebrations Designer Series Paper but here at Class in a Flash we are preparing for the new catalog by discounting classes that feature retiring stamps sets and colors. You will find these classes easily convert to new stamp sets and colors, and the templates and layouts provided will be useful for many future projects!

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Help your customers make an escape from the ordinary with these travel themed cards and journal. This card, with their timeless travel theme, is a great masculine card that many women would enjoy receiving as well. Your customers will enjoy sending a note of thanks to someone they visit on a trip, or just to say hi to a faraway friend or even one just across town!  What I especially like about this planner is the Bonus Stamp-a-ma-jig 101 Tutorial.  Being able to share this tutorial with your customers is worth the cost of the planner.  Available for immediate download! http://bit.ly/k8G5bm

Can you believe the Stampin’ Up! year is almost at and end and convention is just around the corner? As much as we always look forward to seeing the new catalog and going to convention the time always seems to sneak up on us. We’ve come up with some fun business tool gifts to give to you at Convention this year, so make sure you look for us! We will be posting our class schedule on our blog soon.

You know those days when all kinds of extra stuff lands on your schedule and you have to figure out how to squeeze it in while trying to maintain some of your sanity? I know you’ve had them! My friend and Co-Founder of Class in a Flash, Amy Barnes, had one the other day. Between working on a cool new project we’ll be offering soon, taking the kids to swim lessons, and trying to entertaining and feed them while they are out of school for the summer— she had to squeeze in getting the car from the repair shop and picking my husband up from the airport, plus a quick side trip to the grocery store to get the milk and bread they were out of. Because of the craziness she drove through that famous coffee place for a $3 jolt of energy and later served her darling family a $20 paper-wrapped dinner from the drive-thru fast food shop on the way home. She says she won’t win mom or wife of the year for that meal, but she learned a secret. There are times when spending a bit to save my sanity is worth it!

Class in a Flash customers have discovered that same secret — Saving your sanity while growing your business is worth a small investment. For a whole lot less money (and calories) than my coffee and fast food convenience, Class in a Flash customers get a ton of resources to help save them valuable time and reduce stress.

Every month Class in a Flash provides many resources to help you save time and sanity, including:

• 20 or more pictures you can use on your blog, DBWS, newsletters, etc.

• 3 product reviews to keep your blog running smoothly and customers tuned in to your valuable informative content

• 1 Card Template you can use to engage customers in your card sketch challenges

That’s almost enough content for a blog post every day of the month! How many hours do you spend creating informative content for your blog or newsletter like project samples and product reviews? If you aren’t doing those things, how much could you improve your business if you offered that content, knowledge, service, and relationship building to your customers? Where else can you find that kind of value for only $6.97 a month? That’s less than $0.24 a day, way less than Amy’s $3 caffeine fix and $20 dinner solution!

Be sure to make the most of your Class in a Flash subscription with these valuable resources and more! Not a member of Class in a Flash yet, now is a great time to join and start the new Stampin’ Up! year prepared with great projects, content, and time-saving solutions! Click here learn more.