Sorry for my absence...

Hello every one and a Happy New Year to you all,

I must apologise for my absence over the past few weeks.

  I had been so busy with the build up for Christmas, and just as we thought we were sorted and done all the visiting to family, my father-in-law was taken ill. We had driven to Swindon on the Sunday before Christmas to see them, little did we know we would have to travel several times again in that week. He was so lucky to be found in Asda by an off duty Army Paramedic who began CPR immediately and for 25mins before my Father-in-law was brought back to life and taken to hospital.He finally came home on New Years Day! It was such a worry knowing that he had gone for all that time but he came out of it fine.

Now onto some better news, The new spring mini catalogue has been launched today, this will run from today (4th Jan) until 30th April. We have not had a spring mini before so I am more excited than usual.

I have been working on one or two projects recently so that I could give you some inspiration for some of the new products, The first one is a shopping list folder, the outside of it is covered in the lovely Spice Cake fabric, with some of the lovely velvet designer ribbon, and a stamped Triple Treat Flower from the main catalogue finished off with a vintage brad and a Trinket Key...

 The inside is covered with the Spice Cake designer series papers as well as the jumbo buttons. Very pretty.

The left side has a consertina pouch so it can hold your receipts, and the right side has a note pad and Stampin' Up! pen

This card has been imbossed with the Elegant Bouquet emboss folder and carefully touched with some of the champaign ink, the flower is cut using the Fun Flower Bigz die with a jumbo button threaded with some  Chantilly Vintage Lace.

 

This was going to be a Christmas Wreath but I did not get the chane to start it before Christmas so I decided to make it as a bedroom wreath instead. I have used the Candy Cane Christmas fabric for this and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.

If you would like a copy of the New Spring Mini catalogue drop me an email and I will get one to you as soon as possible.