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Inspiring story of an amazingly gifted group leader; Jen from Scan’N’Cut Canvas and SCAL Help Facebook
I am Jen. I live in Ohio, in the
USA. I am 43 years old. I have 2
boys, 17 and 13, we live on a
farm in the country and have
every sort of animal you can
imagine. I am a college educated
O c c upational T herapy
Professional, and worked in that
profession for 21 years. Then I
suffered a massive stroke from a
ruptured aneurysm in my brain
and was severely disabled for
quite sometime; but, being
stubborn, I was determined to be
me again or as close to it as
possible.
I had to give up the job I loved,
but had no say in that matter.
So, I sat, looking at 4 walls for a
year, then thought, ‘Well, let's
get on with it!’ I took what little
money I had left and decided to
buy something that would allow
me to be creative. I had to pick,
between the ScanNCut or the
Silhouette Cameo; I studied
them for months because it was
the last of my money, as I
bought my boys everything they
needed already. I finally settled
on the SnC after watching that
Julie chick!
‘Oh my lord!’ I got it, tried to
use it and I hated it! I sat there
and cried! Thought “What did I
do?!! What an idiot I am, just
spent all of my money on a
piece of crap machine! “Canvas
is terrible, error this, error that,
nothing works, and everyone
wants to be paid to help me!
YouTube Videos ?? They just
went in circles, not telling me
what I needed, an hour long and
I still didn’t know anything!
That was it, I was putting it up
for sale or smashing it! I had to
sell it for what I could and buy a
Silhouette Cameo!
Then someone contacted me,
said “Jen, you own one of those
ScanNCuts don't you?” I said
“Unfortunately, why?”
They suggested, SCAL4 is
coming out, try it! So I
did….and now how I love my
Scan’N’Cut and I had to tell
everyone! I wanted to climb up
on a mountain and yell! So, I
joined Rachels group. That
helped, but I soon realised that I
needed my own group. I was
mad at how I was treated in the
beginning, and I did not want
anyone else to go through all of
that malarkey, the ‘pay me’,
‘gimme all your money’, for
basically nothing.
So I began a group that allowed
me to teach people how to use
the program and how to use
their ScanNCut, but, more
importantly, how to be nice to
each other and to themselves at
the same time. It is very hard to
get 12,400ish group members to
be nice, but it happens, and it is
wonderful! I now have my main
group, ScanNCut, Canvas and
SCAL Help and then 3 new user
groups. One for: Canvas, SCAL
and then Embroidery, where
new users can go for the classes
that I have started. These
classes are ground breaking,
because they are free and start
at the very beginning, and then
build on each subsequent
lesson. These are vital to a new
users ability to correctly lay
down memory paths on
functional uses of each
program. So, this is very
exciting as you can see yourself
learning. I also provided my
members a little store, where sell things at cost, because I
know how it is to not have the
means but to have the wants!
I have a YouTube Channel
‘ScanNCut JAM Sessions’,
where I do short education
videos on techniques and have
started doing weekly projects
with members. Also, I do
custom videos, based on
member requests; to help them
get through specific issues they
may come across with their
projects.
Being able to help people just
gives me so much joy, I simply
cannot put it into words; but I
guess when you truly have lost
everything, including nearly
your life and you have to start
all over, when you feel every
single thing has been taken
away; except your children &
life; and you begin to think you
have nothing to look forward to;
Well now, just take a deep
breathe, and as you hear that
door close, do not be afraid of
that darkness, for the light will
soon come and it shines
brighter, more wild than ever
before.
This I do know. Life truly is
Beautifully
Wonderfully
Amazing!
Now...
Let's get our SCASH on!!!
Jen from ScanNCut Canvas and
SCAL Help Facebook Group
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