Thoughts and Prayers

With the new Idea Book & Catalogue we gained lots of lovely new stamp sets and one that grabbed me as soon as I saw it was Thoughts and Prayers. I’ve been hounding Stampin’ Up! in Australia to get more of the inspirational sets into our catalogue that the girls in USA & Canada have had for years and finally its happened – we now have a few inspirational and christian stamp sets and I think thats great!urbanprayers

Recently I’ve had a few friends who have lost a parent to illness or from a tragic accident and I’ve had a few others going through a hard time with their health so I wanted to send them a card to let them know that I was thinking of them and praying for them

This is a card I created the other day for this very reason. Its a simple and elegant card (well I think it is) which also happens to be a very quick card too which is sometimes what you need for friends or family during trials of any kind.

Recipe:

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers
Paper: Night of Navy, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Urban Garden Designer Series Paper.
Inks: Not Quite Navy, Old Olive

So as you can see – not only is it a simple card and easy to do but you dont need much to make it either! Gotta love the Stampin Up DSP as they’ve chosen the colours for you already and it all matches and coordinates with our cardstock and inks!

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I do hope youre all having a wonderful saturday – dont forget to take some ‘you’ time and maybe do some stamping.

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Inspired by ….

Today I popped over to visit my good friend and Stampin’ Up! Sister (we both have the same upline) Lisa today and after convincing the boys to finish their lunch we ventured to her craft room.

I didnt have alot of time to spare as I told hubby I’d be home by 2.30pm and Lisa had shown me what she’d done with Inspired by Nature flower stamp so I got to thinking on making a card with this very stamp – now this stamp is HUGE! so it doesnt take much to make a card with it as it will fill the front of a regular card.

tangerinekiwipoppinnature I had originally intended to do direct to stamp with the markers but it seemed the only markers Lisa didnt have were the ones I wanted! Always the way!

So I spotted the Stampin’ Pastels™ and the little “Poppin’ Pastels” light went on in my head so I grabbed the Pastels and the handy dandy Versamark pad and here is the card I came up with.

I just used the daubers and sponges to apply the pastels to where the image had been stamped in Versamark and the ink of the Versamark just grabs the pastels and soaks in the colour.  I also used darker colours to highlight the edges of the petals, leaves and middle of the flower.

The sentiment is from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set. However it wouldnt quite fit into the Word Window punch so I cut the ‘Get Well Soon’ so it was thin enough to slide one end through the word window punch one at a time to do the edges. Then you do this to each end and you can then make your word window as long as you like. I then attached that to a 1cm strip of Tangerine Tango and just used the scissors to trim around the curves.

A few of my customers and Stamp A Stack ladies have asked for a get well card so I do hope they like this one.

Now as I was reading my emails tonight I found one from Dayspring. Dayspring is a company that makes cards and gifts with a Christian themes. They really have some gorgeous stuff and when I saw this picture of a canvas in their latest newsletter I wondered if they’d seen my Sip by Sip cards from Saturday and how did they know that this is one of my most favourite Psalms?

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What do you think?

singlelattesig

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