Happy New Year !  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have had a good start to 2015.

I love the New Year, it’s the chance to start afresh, make changes and get started on new adventures.  My new adventures are getting a bit of a slow start, following on from my busy December and a family filled Christmas I got struck down by a Flu bug on Boxing day, and now a week later I’m still poorly with an awful cough too, worse still, Brian has come down with it !  I hope the kids manage to stay germ free!

I do have news and some pretty things to show you, so lets start with the pretty things. We have a new catalogue launching on Tuesday and it is AMAZING ! We have had pre-order as one of the perks of being a demonstrator and I have to confess I have almost everything………oops!

So a card and gift basket combination.  I have used Old Olive and Calypso Coral, with a little gold accent.  The stamp set is called Painted Petals and has lots of watercolour style flowers and leaves and sentiments.  The ribbon is one of the FREE Sale-a-bration choices in a set with 2 other colours and buttons ( more about that later!) the basket is a Bigz die called Berry Basket and the butterfly is part of a set of 3 Butterfly Thinlits which matches an amazing stamp set called Butterfly basics.

So below is the basket with a side view, it really looks like a strawberry punnet and I am going to use it for so many things!  Just to give you a sense of dimension, the base of the basket is 3″ square and the top 4″ square.  Super cute!

So now onto the news, we have a NEW catalogue launching on Tuesday, and starting at the same time is Sale-a-bration !  This is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year and this year it is running for 3 whole months!  I will explain fully about it on Tuesday, but you will get a FREE gift for every £45 you spend and the choices are wonderful, so start saving up!

I have also updated my classes list for Spring 2015, you can find all the information here  or you can download a pdf version here.

Something NEW for all my lovely long distance customers is a Stamp set of the month class.  Each month I shall be focussing on a stamp set, I will be teaching the class in person, but also will have an online video version too with exclusive access for those taking the class.  More details will be up next week so watch out for that.

Enjoy your weekend.