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!

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.

Well thats true for the type of day I’ve had today and an apt description for the card I made today.

I got up to no internet this morning … well we did have internet but I didnt

After lots of testing, pulling of hair and steam coming out of ears and a rather long stressful phone call with the dear husband & Puta Guru we worked out our network server was deaded    Hubby managed to talk me through changing settings so I could at least have access to the internet today. This is a good thing as I had a few online jobs to do today with orders to put through and a blog post I do each wednesday at the Utah Diva’s International Blog

One thing I did learn during the ‘black out’ was that I can type a post into Word 2007 and then publish it from there right into your blog – in this case it was the Utah Diva’s Blog post I did that I tried it on and was rather surprised it worked.

Now after all that with the internet and servers and networks one would think a cup of coffee would hit the spot – well guess what else was broken – yup my espresso machine   Maybe I should take donations for me to get a nice new one so throw your spare change my way!! lol

Ok enough of that …. where’s the card??

Here it is … and yes its using Baroque Motifs again – I do try not to use it but just cant help myself! Here’s the recipe …

Card Recipe:

These colours are a little out of my comfort zone and I wasnt sure about it but my good friend Maggie said it was lovely and she has good taste!

Lets just hope the ladies at next week’s Stamp A Stack like it too! What do you think? do you give it a yes or a no?