{A special message}

Isn't this beautiful? this is one of the many, many cards I received over the last few weeks (I'll dribble those out to you over time!). I have felt really loved and cherished!

This one is made by my friend and fellow demonstrator Diane who lives in Oamaru. She made this up with a new set (one that might be coming in December?) called Live Your Dream. And she made it with the message that "things are not always black and white".

Thanks, Diane, for taking the time to make me a card!! Lots of love and hugs to you!

{Easy mini Album}

This is a gorgeous little project shown to Stampin' Up! demonstrators by Carey Cudney at our annual training convention this year. What I love about this is not only is it quick and easy, but it also can be made with just one sheet of 12x12 and a few scraps!

I've presented it here as a small album, but it can easily be a very special card as well, with or without photos. Simply put in sentiments, poetry, stamped images, etc in place of the photos.

Here I have made a little momento to Jared and myself. These photos are some of the shots from when my Dad drove down to both meet Jared for the first time and to take photos for our wedding annoucement. The journaling on the various tags are about the day, the proposal, the significant dates of our engagement, and a few memories. We both looked at those pictures and remarked how young we were! Oh, well, twelve years later we are still together, and that deserves a little celebration, too.

I've used the Le Jardin papers for this project along with the coordinating stamp set - Carte Postale. There is just a few days left for the Free Wheelin' promotion - buy the Carte Postale set and get the Leaves a la Carte wheel FREE! Email me to order before September 30!

{What a beautiful spring gift}

I wanted to share these lovely freesia with all of my blog readers and customers because they were particularly significant to me. And aren't they beautiful? These were an unexpected gift given to me from a dear customer, and the timing was well-placed to receive such a self-less gift from a fellow sister. We just never know how we may touch others, and I thank Cynthia for reaching out and touching me yesterday.

{My Incentive Trip Swap}

This is project is one I did last month using a peppermint tea bag. This revision was inspired by my friend, Janine. It's not traditional, but I think with a different sentiment inside, this could be done up for Christmas. You may see this if you are coming to any of my/our Christmas events!

I've used the set called One of a Kind from the Spring Mini Catalogue. Not only is it a great set, but it coordinates with the Boho Blossoms punch, making for quick "cutting out" of those tiny flowers. (many of us used this set for our swaps on the trip, and I think that is why!!)

The colours are inspired by our DSP papers called Berry Bliss. Add a dash of glitter, and I think these can be very Christmas-like.

Now the story on these is: I made up another batch for our Regional Training here in Auckland, which was last Monday. Monday night is traditionally our family night, but because I had the training to do and my husband was leaving that morning for Singapore, we moved our family night to Sunday evening. And mummy realized she still had swaps to finish .. . . so family night became a little Pedersen factory. Hey, my girls are happy to help if I let them use either glitter or snail! So I had to apologize in advance if the ribbon was cut shaggy or pieces a little crooked, as they may have been assembled by Sofie, my six year old! My eight and ten year old daughters are quite exact. Jared also struggle d . . . but I'm not complaining. I am blessed to have a partner who will pitch in and sponge Close to Cocoa on the edges when I need him!

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{Always Class}

This is a simple design shown to be my the ever-amazing Pauline in Napier. All you need is a couple of square punches!

I love the colours used here - Soft Sky and Old Olive. However, last night I did up a Christmas version of this card which I will post later on. Quick, easy, what else could we want? (if you want to see the christmas verson now, email me.

This is not actually the project we did in class. Our class project was taken straight off of Splitcoast and shamelessly copied, so I thought I'd add something here that was at least somewhat original!

{Palm Cove swaps}

I loved these two swaps I received from the Palm Cove Incentive Trip. The first one is by Kelly Bowen, and I just love the clean look and the effective design. I also think the way she's mixed the ribbon colours is clever.

However, because the first project I did for the Always class was in these colours, I wanted to do something different.

The second swap here is by Cheryl Andrews, and her colour combination is just yummy!! So I combined the two . . . .

{My hybrid Always}

And this is what I came up with! Like it? I love it. I mean, embossed chocolate chip - what could be better than that??

To emboss with your dye ink pads:

Stamp you image in Versamark ink and then into your dye ink. Stamp your image onto Whisper White or Very Vanilla. Cover with embossing powder and heat as normal. I have found that it's best to use our Whisper White or Very Vanilla because they have a very smooth finish, which gives you not only a clear image, but also gives you just one or two more seconds to get that embossing powder on.

Colours here are Groovy Guava, Purely Pomegranate, and Chocolate Chip. The stamp set used is Always and it is $65 for a set of 11 stamps - that's just under $6 per stamp!! Available just until November 31st. You can email me to order your set HERE.