Creative Inspiration & Practical Business Training
for Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators

Saturday, 26th September & Sunday, 27th September
$57 | Replay Access for 6 Months
(all times and dates given are for US Eastern Time)

Join Catherine Carroll and Jody Brechbill for a weekend of creative inspiration and practical business training, featuring five ready-to-teach classes designed specifically for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators, all for one simple ticket price.

Whether you’re looking for creative inspiration, fresh class ideas with ways to save time preparing for your customers, or new ideas for growing your business, you’ll leave with projects, resources, ideas, and strategies you can put to work in your business.

There’s something special about experiencing Connect & Create together. Join us live to chat, comment, and share the experience with other demonstrators from around the world. And if life gets in the way, every presentation is recorded so you’ll have six months to catch up on anything you miss.

This event will run on a dedicated event platform and will be presented in English. Video subtitles will be available in English, and automatic translations into French, German, and Dutch provided.

Everything You’ll Experience at Connect & Create

This isn’t just a weekend full of inspiration. Your ticket gives you access to creative resources you can use in your business, practical business advice from expert presenters, and fun Q&A sessions.

5 Creative Presentations, showcasing ready-to-teach classes

Five presentations from Artisans & Elite Demonstrators, each built around a featured Stampin’ Up! suite or bundle.
Please note these presentations are NOT intended to be a step-by-step craft along experience

3 Business Training Sessions

Practical training on mindset, building community memberships, and how to handle the tech side of subscriptions to help you build a business that works for you.

Ready-to-Use Resources

Every creative class includes a step-by-step PDF, pricing calculator, and Canva marketing templates.

2 Q&A Panels

Hear candid insights and behind-the-scenes tips about creativity, classes, and running a Stampin’ Up! business.

6 Months of Replay Access

Watch everything when it suits you, and rewatch as you put what you’ve learned into practice.

BONUS Creative Inspiration

We’ll share our Make & Take projects from our September in-person retreat, with ideas for how you could use them in your own business.

Similar class PDFs can easily cost $15–$20 or more each, and that’s often just the tutorial. Five of them could represent $100+ in tutorial value alone.

Here, you’re getting five complete, business-ready classes plus the calculators, marketing resources, business training, Q&As, and bonus content, all for $57.

Get your Ticket HERE

Meet Our Guest Presenters

Saturday’s line up:

Sunflower Fields
Suite Collection
9:30AM

Timeless Christmas
Suite Collection
10:30AM

Create a Business That Works for You
11:30AM

Mosaic Garden
Suite Collection
1:30PM

All Wrapped Up
Suite Collection
3:30PM

Sunday’s line up:

From Community to Recurring Revenue
2:00PM

Subscriptions
Made Simple
3:15PM

Neutral Noel
Suite Collection
4:30PM

Creative Classes
you can actually use in your business

This is where Connect & Create is different. Not only can you join to watch a collection of inspiring, creative demonstrations with projects you’ll love to make yourself, but each of the five creative presentations also gives you a complete, ready-to-teach class concept, including:

  • Coordinated project sets you can offer as virtual or in-person classes
  • A fully designed step-by-step PDF
  • A pricing calculator
  • Canva marketing templates

The classes are structured around suggested product combinations that can also help your customers qualify for the Product of the Month.

Save Hours Of Preparation

You don’t have to start with a blank page.

Instead of spending hours designing projects, working out pricing, writing instructions, and creating promotional graphics, you can take the resources provided and start planning how you’ll offer them to your customers. These resources are designed with your Stampin’ Up! business in mind, ready to be put to work!

Business Training
to help you build a business that works for YOU

Creative inspiration is only part of Connect & Create. We’ve also included three business-focused sessions designed to help you think differently about how you run your business, how you serve your community, and how you create additional revenue opportunities.

Creating a Business that Works for You

Explore the mindset and decisions behind building a business that fits your goals, your strengths and your life, not simply adding more to your already-full to-do list.

From Community to Recurring Revenue

Discover how memberships can give your existing community another way to connect with you while creating a potential recurring revenue stream for your business.

Subscriptions Made Simple

Take the mystery out of the technology behind offering and managing subscriptions, with practical information to help you understand what is involved.

These are the kinds of business insights that could easily require separate courses, coaching, or hours of research to piece together.

More Than Just the Presentations

There’s plenty happening around the main sessions too.

Kickoff Party with BONUS Creative Inspiration

Join us Friday, 25th September at 5:30pm ET for a detailed orientation to help you get the most from the event. We’ll show you how the event works, where to find everything and how to make the most of your experience.

Missed our September in-person retreat? We’ll share our Make & Take projects and include tips for how you could use these projects in your own business.

Can’t attend live? The replay will be available for you to watch before the main event begins.

Recorded Q&A Panels

Hear candid insights and behind-the-scenes wisdom from our presenters.

We’ll dive deeper into:

  • Personal creative processes
  • Project design
  • Class structure
  • Customer experience

These “hot seat” sessions are a fun way to get to know our amazing guests a little better.

Prize Patrols

It wouldn’t be a demonstrator event without Prize Patrols! Everyone who registers will have opportunities to win prizes, and the more people who register, the more prizes we’ll have.

Meet Your Hosts

We’re excited to bring this Online Creative Retreat to you again. We host an in-person demonstrator gathering each year in Pennsylvania, and by taking the show online means we can connect with even more demonstrators and share the creative talents and business experience of friends from all over the world.

Hi, I’m Catherine and I’ve been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for over 16 years. I spend my time supporting other demonstrators with the tech side of their business and running my Tech Help for SU Demonstrators Facebook Group. I am obsessed with all things online, from websites to social media, videos to newsletters, and love nothing more than breaking things down to make them easy to understand. I certainly don’t think that lack of knowledge about how tech works should hold you back from running YOUR business online.

Hi, I’m Jody and I’m a Silver Elite demonstrator from Fayetteville, PA. I’ve been a demonstrator for over 24 years and still love stamping, creating and teaching my love of paper crafting to others. While I am a “simple stamper” by nature and prefer creating quick and easy projects to share with others, I find my passion in the connection. I’m a hybrid demonstrator nurturing both my in-person business with a virtual model since 2022. We all sell the same product, but when we share our authentic self with others and let our light shine, blessings come our way. I am so grateful to have built an amazing team of MOOvelous Stampers and met so many life long friends from all over the world because of a simple stamp.

A Closer Look at the Connect & Create Line-Up

Sunflower Fields Suite Collection

You’ll love working on different colouring techniques to create WOW cards with this gorgeous suite. With a couple of fun folds and a cute decorated box to fill with treats, you’ll love this project collection!

Timeless Christmas Suite Collection

Using the DSP & Sticker Sheet along with the Home for Christmas Bundle, Chris has created 5 double-page layouts that are perfect for recording your festive memories. She’s also got tips and tricks to help you make sure you take those special photos, and prompts to help with journalling.

Create a Business That Works for You

Have you ever looked at another demonstrator and wondered, “Should I be doing what they’re doing?” The truth is, there is no one-size-fits-all business. In this session, Jackie shares why comparison is one of the biggest obstacles to success and how to build a Stampin’ Up! business that fits your goals, your circumstances, and your current season of life. 

Whether you’re a hobby demonstrator, looking to earn a little extra income, or dreaming of a full-time business, you’ll learn how to identify the business model that’s right for you, what skills to focus on, and where to invest your time and energy. 

Through personal stories, practical examples, and over 31 years of experience, Jackie will help you create a business that is both realistic and rewarding, and one that truly works for you.

Mosaic Garden Suite Collection

While creating with her suite, Christine has lots to share about how class kits don’t have to be complicated for your customers to be able to create gorgeous cards. She’ll share how she helps customers see possible substitutions with the flexibility she builds in to her designs to encourage them to use what they have alongside the new products she focuses on.

All Wrapped Up Suite Collection

With a mix of simple and more challenging designs, including a fun fold, Linda will also use her class to share tips and tricks for using the Impressions Dies included in this suite. Use her class to introduce this product to your customer, while they get to make cards suitable for many occasions (not just for Christmas!).

From Community to Recurring Revenue

We know that building a community can be a powerful way to strengthen customer relationships and share ongoing value. It can also generate recurring revenue, even if it starts with just a small monthly amount. In this session, Emma shares what she has learned from building and nurturing her own crafting communities, and how you can use connection, consistency and creativity to create a community that people want to be part of.

Subscriptions Made Simple

Thinking about offering a membership or subscription but not sure where to start with the tech? This session takes a practical look at the tools and systems you’ll need to deliver content, collect payments and manage your members. We’ll explore different options for each part of the process and how they can work together, so you can make informed decisions about what will work best for your offering.

Neutral Noel Suite Collection

This stunning suite is sure to be popular, and Karen has created 4 beautiful projects that are full of her characteristic creative flair: texture, layers, and pops of colour. Your customers will be amazed with how easily they can create these detailed designs!

What Demonstrators are Saying About our Event

  • I can’t pick one favorite thing, but here are a few…
    High quality content from the Best of the Best in Stampin’ Up! Extremely well organized and run. I especially loved the notetaking outlines which gave the presenters’ main points and made notetaking super efficient and useful. Excellent tutorials with permission to use them to hold my own classes. This is a huge FAVORITE and valuable tool! Ability to watch replays for 6 months to keep learning and benefitting as I can digest and apply the content.
    Cathy S.
  • The content was fabulous and all the demonstrators were very willing to share their ideas. The platform is excellent and so easy to use. The pdfs of each presentation is more than generous and extremely helpful for me. I’m a full-time high school educator and these pdfs save a lot of time and I’m very appreciative of the ability to use these in my business. Keep up the outstanding work. I will look forward to the next Create and Connect event!!
    Michelle R.
  • I’ve viewed a few different online demo training events over the years and they pale in comparison to the value you offer in your retreats.
    Patti Davidson
  • First of all thank you so much for all your hard work and putting this together! I loved the pace and the way it felt so laid back and comfortable. I also liked that it was not a craft along. So there was no pressure to feel like I had to keep up. I just really enjoyed all the presentations and look forward to using what I have learned.
    Julie C.
  • The whole event was extremely well thought out – presenters with a variety of styles and experience, the communication and organisation surrounding the event (before, during and after the event) and the written notes are all top notch.
    Thank you for organising such an amazing event. Well done, and thank you, to all the presenters too.
    Karen H.

And that’s exactly what we’re aiming for: high-quality content you can enjoy on the weekend, and resources you can continue using in your business afterwards.

Is Connect & Create For You?

This event is for you if you want to:

✓ Offer beautifully designed, ready-to-teach classes
✓ Save hours of class preparation
✓ Have fresh creative ideas ready for your customers
✓ Learn from experienced Stampin’ Up! demonstrators
✓ Explore new ways to build and monetise your community
✓ Understand the technology behind memberships and subscriptions
✓ Build a business that works with your life, not against it
✓ Learn at your own pace with six months of replay access

Your $57 Ticket Includes

5 complete, business-ready creative classes, including step-by-step class PDFs, pricing calculators and Canva marketing templates
3 practical business training sessions
2 recorded Q&A panels
1 BONUS collection of Make & Take projects
6 months of replay access
PLUS a Kickoff Party, Prize Patrols, and all the resources hosted on our dedicated event platform.

Ready to Connect & Create?

Whether you watch everything over the weekend or spread the sessions out over the following months, you’ll come away with creative projects, ready-to-use business resources, new ideas and practical strategies to help you move your business forward.

Saturday, 26th September & Sunday, 27th September
$57 | Replay Access for 6 Months

Get your Ticket HERE

We can’t wait to connect & create with you!

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