And then in an instant, our plans changed and an adventure was in the making (but I digress). Good morning sweet friends, I’ve just finished a trip to CHA in Phoenix, Arizona, where all the new crafts are on display and artisans from the US and indeed, the world, come together. It’s always nerve racking for me but on the other side I get a huge creative boost because I get to talk to real people, face to face, who share where I fit into their crafting life! It’s definitely a two way street – I create the things I love and try to find a way to give them to you in a way that lifts you up. Why? Because day after day, you lift me up. January 2017 has been one of the hardest months of my life – a family event brings me to a place in my journey where life will change for me; it has to, for my heart to survive. But just as it has been a hard month, I can’t even begin to count all the blessings of new friends and a renewed spirit to embrace and celebrate each day. As I encourage you to do, I’ll craft and create through it and love that you understand my vulnerability and faith comes out in all I create.
On to my card – using one of my favorite sentiments from Quietfire Design (waving hi at my friend Suzanne Cannon who saved time, hugs and a cup of coffee during CHA). I reached for this stamp because I’m reminded that so many of our friendships are across the miles – it doesn’t diminish them but should remind us that others from far away hold us in their hearts. This card is made using the Spellbinders Graceful Damask in a conventional way along the side of the card, topped off by a pretty bow. I wanted texture and different details for this card so I embossed using a texture plate then rubbed over with Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink. I cannot find a name to link it up but once I’m home and can see the packaging, I’ll link it up. Last, I used the traditional photo corners from Spellbinders Graceful Frame Maker, just to add balance to the right side of my card. These are a favorite for me and their jumbo size makes them just right for card making.
And now a little bit more about that adventure :-) My sister went with me to CHA again this year and instead of going home, we changed our flight plans and decided to knock one thing off of our bucket list. Our persistence paid off because as night fell in the mountains of Arizona – we wondered if this wild hair might be our undoing. Us Florida girls perceived Arizona to be completely desert and hot all year round – what a surprise. Apparently our trip on a lark was on the cusp of a pretty bad snow storm. The roads had been plowed but as the temperatures dropped, it became less obvious where the road really was. And then out of thin air – a snow plow. We fell in behind him and he got us through the last 30 miles.
The parks oldest and probably most passionate ranger, Ranger Ron Brown, chatted with us about the park and what it meant to him and his wife (also a ranger) who lays at rest on this majestic site. He said that we had come on one of the most spectacular days of the year. Apparently after a snow storm, the snow clears the air for a crystal clear view of the Grand Canyon. People say it all the time, but pictures simply do not do it justice. This is God’s majesty and is a sight almost too glorious to take in. I was humbled and the smallness of my daily life was certainly put into perspective. Thank you for letting me share a day spent in breathless awe and wonder.
About Day of Giving Friday
For new readers, every Friday it’s my pleasure to give away a card. The card goes to a randomly picked reader (worldwide) who leaves a comment in our conversation. Want to know more about Day of Giving, here’s a link to my FAQ’s just check out #11. You can check to see if your name is on the list of winners HERE! For your comment: Have you had the opportunity to witness something awe inspiring that left you nearly speechless – what was it?
Stamps: Quietfire Design – In A Perfect World Stamp Set
Craft Paper: Neenah Classic Crest – Natural White – Cover – 80lb smooth, My Minds Eye, Gold Poster Board – Hobby Lobby
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black and Clear Embossing Powder
Accessories: Spellbinders Graceful Damask, Spellbinders Graceful Frame Maker, Recollection Pearls, May Arts Silk Ribbon
Life isn’t about what happens to you but how you handle it. Choices and options take the hard edges off of disappointment and mold what may be perceived as a down stairway into an up stairway – it’s all in how you look at it. I struggle just like anyone else, and this month I’ve found comfort in the simplest things – three kiddos that love me – and a creative outlet and a community that keeps my face pointed up towards the sun. I hope you will continue to visit – I consider you all friends and you are an integral part of my journey.
hope your feeling better soon. i’m hoping to win one of your cards. that would be wonderful to me.
I’m on my couch too, let’s both get up and get to crafting. Best medicine ever. This card is GORGEOUS.
If something wonderful is about to happen to me I hope it is a better paying job for me! I am tired of living paycheck to paycheck and hoping for a bright financially set future to retire on!! This is gorgeous, I love the white frame around the kraft one just gorgeous.
I’m on my couch too, let’s both get up and get to crafting. Best medicine ever. This card is GORGEOUS. Wonderful news is feeling better soon!
Gorgeous card and what a wonderful reminder! Hope your time at
CHA was fun as well as productive and that you feel better quickly!
Hi Becca, Hope you are taking it easy! Rest up & enjoy a bit of a break.
If something wonderful is going to happen soon I hope it’s more time to craft. I have been feeling a little down lately & crafting is my medicine.
Take care & hope you feel better soon! Have a lovely weekend xox
I am enjoying my Graceful Frame Maker and always looking for new ways to use it. This is great!
Two frames that work beautifully together to accentuate that wonderful sentiment! Feel Better!!!
I just LOVE your card. If something wonderful was going to happen, I would like to go to Ireland and Scotland to work on my genealogy. Since my brother would also like to go there, I would let him tag along.
If something wonderful is about to happen we’ll, let’s see. This would be the best that could happen. . .monday, I lost my companion, my Yorkie that had been my best friend for the last 14 years, my confidant, one I could trust my secrets too and wouldn’t tell, one who would listen to me and not judge, one that I could play with and take care of her myself, one whom I could just love unconditionally. It’s been hard this week, I’ve been lonely, what wonderful thing would be to be able to find another companion, a Yorkie like Lizzie but one with her own personality, she could be independent or she could be a needy puppy, whatever God would send my way. We’ve been looking, and looking, we will see if she comes to me. I’m a firm believer in bonding and for when I got my two kitties they showed themselves in wanting me by coming up to me and licking and wanted attention. They wanted me, they choose me, the other cats didn’t even come near. This is how I want my new doggie to do something wonderful by choosing me. So I firmly believe something wonderful is about to happen. Not an exact replacement, but a puppy who needs me and wants me for me.
My something wonderful happened last weekend. My son-in-law returned home from his second yearlong deployment. It was heartwarming to hear my almost four year old grandson yelling “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy” to the busses as the soldiers were being brought in.
That I don’t get sick like everyone around me.
Beautiful card.
Stunning card. Hope you feel much better soon. The most wonderful thing to happen would be for my daughter-in-law to get pregnant. They have been waiting and hoping for so long and here’s hoping it’s soon!
What a beautiful card! I might have said that before???
A friend of mine has a great granddaughter that is having a very tough time with Leukemia. I’m hoping a lifelong remission is about to happen.
Hello Becca,
Beautiful, gorgeous and inspirational use of dies. I love this card and sentiment. I hope you Get Well Soon, the dreaded bug is also over here in the U.K.
If something wonderful were to happen I hope it is the cure for Cancer. It has blighted the lives of so many people.
Maureen xxx
What a beautiful card and I just love the colors. I am so happy you are working with the frame set as I just purchased it and am so wanting to get in free and see what I can come up with. The something I am excited to see happen is that my grandson finds out that God loves him! That he gives his life to Christ with the past forgiven and memories healed. What a delight that would be. And he can begin again!
Something wonderful would be check in the mail to pay off all my debts!
Hi from Australia Becca,
love your card, if something wonderful was about to happen I would like it to be……the biggest cliche around, Peace on Earth.
Thank you
Rene from OZ x
Love your card Becca. Thank you as I needed the reminder – and the comment at the bottom of your previous post “Life isn’t so much about what happens as about how you handle it…” was meant especially for me! You are such a blessing. My something wonderful WILL be to learn to rise above the ‘negative nellies’ in my life and not to allow them to bring me down to their level!
Beautiful card Becca – and glad to hear you rested and gave your body time to recover from the cold.
If something wonderful were to happen today it would be ‘stuff’ arriving in the post that I am expecting :-) (p.s., it’s stash!!)
Blessings
Maxine
As always a beautiful card and saying. If something wonderful was about to happen I hope I could win a pot full of money to give to my children and remodel my kitchen. Hope you are feeling better and completely back on your feet.
Beautiful card!! Hope you are feeling better soon….I have been fighting a cold for about 1 week now and hope it goes away soon! That would be wonderful to feel better soon and stay that way! :)
Such a lovely card! So happy to hear that you are feeling so much better!
Such a very beautiful card again Becca, and a lovely verse.I hope you are now feeling better hun ?.
I had no need to think about this one , my wonderful thing i want to happen is my son’s chemo treatment has worked, he has just 3 more treatments to go . As you can imagine it has been a very stressing time . But God Willing it will all be fine in the end.
God Bless.
Elaine H X
Becca, You do beautiful work. My something wonderful to happen is if all my family would accept Jesus as their savior.
Something wonderful would be everyone who is eligible donates blood/platelets yearly and designates themselves as an organ donor. So many are waiting for a transplant–it is a wonderful gift of life to bequeath our fellow man.
Hi Becca your card is beautiful and the sentiment is wonderful. Ever day is wonderful when I see my grandchildren smile our when they they? run too me to give Me a cuddle.
Wendyx
This is a perfect card not only for you but for me too!!! Soooooo beautiful and encouraging!
Sold the home I designed on 5 1/2 acres and shared with my husband until he slipped away to Heaven in October. Moving to a one-bedroom apartment at Capital Manor a few miles away in Salem, OR (this coming Tuesday). It would be WONDERFUL if I have downsized enough of my crafting to fit what I have packed to take with me into the apartment! The house contents were no problem, but the crafting has been a real challenge! God has been so gracious in keeping me busy and strong to make this journey!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
This is beautiful, Beccal I love it!
We are leaving cold, snowy Iowa in a few days for warm, sunny Florida to spend some time with our daughter and her family. Looking forward to making a lot of great memories with them! We are making plans to go to the Florida Keys and really looking forward to it. What ever we do, what ever see – it will all be great because we will be together! ….and warm!
Hello Becca sorry about you not being well but at least it waited
till you were home, as you did get to see the Grand Canyon !
Your card today is special the dies will be hopefully here soon
for us to play with , your colour scheme is lovely and the sentiment
is so uplifting to everyone.
My wish is that all the tests my Hubby is having with specialists
will be something that we can handle ! Thank you for all you do Pam XXX
Love how you layer cards with your new frame dies beautiful card as always. If something wonderful is about to happen it would be my friend would become a grandmother. Christine S.
I truely have a blessed life and couldnt ask for a thing for myself so I hope that wonderful thing happens to my kids or for one of our many needy veterans in our country!
Love the card Becca and hope you are feeling better!
It would be beyond wonderful if my oldest son and his family would move back into the area. They are currently 10 hours away. Love this card!
An unexpected visit from a long lost friend!
Hi, Becca,
I love the soft pink and beige color combination – lovely! There are so many people sick with colds and flu in my neck of the woods, too, it really makes one feel incredibly fortunate to be well. I’m glad you’re getting the rest you need..
I haven’t been happy in the employment realm for a long time, it would be so wonderful to have rewarding work with people that appreciate me. Thanks for the reminder, CAN HAPPEN!!!
Love & blessings,
Sandy
Something wonderful IS about to happen! Our city has brought back their “I Do” vow renewal service to our very own Venice Beach in Sarasota county Fl. Just in time for our 50th wedding anniversary!
It will be on Valentines Day! I am over the moon to have such a beautiful service with all the other couples on this picturesque beach!
And Becca I too have been creating beautiful frames with your beautiful boarders die! I love it! Everyone of my crafty friends have asked about how I did that! They all love your die!
My hope for something wonderful is that my son will come home for a visit soon. He is busy at college, and I miss him!
An amazing card and a beautiful sentiment, love them both. The colours are lovely too.
Thank you for sharing your beautifully created and uplifting cards that make me smile every time I check them out! The colour combinations, ribbons, bling and words are perfect!
If I could ask for one wonderful thing to happen, it would be acceptance… of others beliefs, ideas and in turn…. world peace.
Linda …. from Canada
Just before Christmas a design team that I joined several years ago folded. Now we are about to launch a brand new card making blog where we have the freedom to creat anything as long as it fits a theme. I hope it goes well.
This is a beautiful card and I’ve found a supplier for the beautiful Lace die you’ve used. I’m falling in love with these beautiful sentiments of Quietfires too.
Glad you are feeling better. A beautiful card, and I love the sentiment!!
My something wonderful that I’m waiting to happen is new friends coming my way, growing in leadership to help others.
Your beautiful cards are always so inspiring. Something wonderful would be a spark of hope or a breakthrough in Autism research.
Becca, your cards are always amazing! This one is. i exception. I love your new dies that you have out. Can’t wait to try them out! Thx for sharing
your talent with us. I so appreciate you!
Pat Brown
Oh Becca, I really need my card business to pick up ,but now my pc is going to the shop and everything I was ready to jump I to is delayed. so glad you are feeling bEtter.Sometimes we just need a break.
So glad you are feeling peachy! Love the sentiment and of course your beautiful card! I am buying a new car tomorrow! I hope it’s our good luck driving charm!
beautiful card!! that my grandson in law would get back into church!!
Good morning Becca, fabulous card!!! fabulous sentiment!!!
My something would be for my daughter and granddaughter to get over this horrible bug!!! It’s awful : (
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lyndaxxx
Oh Becca. Mi love the muted colored in this card. It really creates a great focus on the sentiment.
Hmm? If something great is just about to happen, I would love it to be the sharing of a tidbit of information that would make it possible for me to become a member of CHA. I would love to attend the show in Phoenix so I could meet you!
Something wonderful would to be hearing that there has been a cure for cancer of all types. I am very fortunate that my great grandson is cancer free and hope that he stays that way.
This care is absolutely gorgeous what else would be expected of a card of yours
I have never seen such a beautiful card. Thank you. Please feel better soon. I hope and pray that the whole world would believe in Jesus as their Savior. That would be very wonderful. Thanks again and rest.
For my family every one to come to Jesus.
Beautiful card as always.
Awesome layers and color combination on this card. Great job on the miter. Thank you for sharing your ideas.
Beautiful Card. I love the sentiment and the lacy frame.
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For my something wonderful –For myself and my husband to get well so we can go through with our Vow Renewal we have been working on since 2013. Everything is pretty much handmade by myself. This year is 13 years we have been through some really rough times with each of our families.
If I could I would invite you Becca since you have been such a inspiration to me to keep going on the days I just wanted to quit and give up when my physical pain was so high I did not think I could stand another moment of it. So I want to say Thank You {{{{hugz}}}
I hope my son gets the promotion for which he interviewed this week. It would make a world of difference for he and his family.
My wish would be that all the people who are hurting would be able to find solace, comfort and peace.
Dear Becca.. it is such a gorgeous card.. as always loved it and hope that I get to receive this from you..
I wish I turn into a better human.. better daughter and sister.. :)
What a beautiful card Becca! I have that die, but never thought of putting it on top of another base die. Love the sentiment too!
Something wonderful would be that my DIL’s followup cancer test shows no cancer. She had a lung removed last May and is nervous that the cancer may have come back. I’m so proud of her… she stopped smoking the day she had the surgery and hasn’t smoked since!
What a lovely card, love those frames together.
Another beautiful work of art. My something wonderful is the granddaughter who will be arriving in march/April. We can’t wait.
Oh dear Becca
This is just such a fabulous card. You are using that wonderful frame maker and your cards are just absolutely gorgeous.
Glad you are feelin better. Other than finding a cancer cure I would have to be selvfish and answer your question by saying “winning this card.
HUGS
Ann Robbins
Beautiful! You are so creative! If we all just made a daily effort to do one small deed a day based in kindness, wow that wow be wonderful. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Dee
Love how elegant the card is without a ton of bling! Got my cold from my 6 month old grandson (as did my husband, daughter, and her husband.) If something good happens, I hope my little grandson stops getting so sick so often!
Beautiful card Becca. as usual.
If something wonderful is about to happen, I hope it’s that I can become healed and can make lots & lots of cards and of course that
everyone who has health problems will recover & feel great.
Health is about as “wonderful” as you can get:) All things are possible….
Becca, I hope you are feeling better soon. I work in the medical field and we are seeing a lot of this flu bug. Even those who had their flu shot is getting it. We have had several coworkers out with it, myself included but I am finally at the end of it. My wish would be to win the PCH sweepstakes so I could help family and friends and take my hubby on a nice vacation as he is not doing so well. Take care all you peeps out there and hopefully you all escape this flu bug. HUGS to you all.
Wow! Really gorgeous!
I would wish for my body to heal.
That would be MORE than wonderful!
Beautiful card! Love the sentiment–will have to order it. I just received my 6×6 frame maker today. Going to play with it tomorrow. May have to search for the video you made showing how to use it. It would be a miracle to win the lotto (have to purchase my first ticket ! lol) of PCH then I could help my family, and those less fortunate here in my town. Every day I try to be a better person than I was yesterday.
If something wonderful was about to happen I would love to spend 10 days with my boys and their families with no interruptions, truely family time!
Becca what a gorgeous card and sentiment.
Beautiful card. Cant wait to see all the creative ways to use your graceful frame makers tool. My wonderful thing to happen would be that my dear friend and your friend would get a report that her medicine is working and she will be feeling much better soon.
Hugs
Kay
Becca the card is beautiful. My wonderful thing to happen is my winning the PCH sweepstakes drawing $5000/week for life.
Beautiful card Becca! Im glad you are well and back on your feet. My wonderful thing to happen would be that my children would come to Oregon for a visit this summer.
Beautiful card, Becca. It would be wonderful if my estranged son would contact me.
Hi Becca. Such a lovely card as always. Glad to hear you have recovered from your cold. There’s lots of it about. Happy weekend.
Awesome card, sorry you’ve been under the weather…a lot if folks have it all over the USA …not sure what I want to happen…cure for cancer would be great!
What a pretty card, Becca. I’m thankful you are feeling better from your bug and were able to post something today – I always love to see your work.
I do have a “hope” in the works. I have applied for a new job, and I am hoping it works out! Of course I only want to be wherever God wants to place me to work, but I do hope this new position will be a good one.
Hi Becca, I love this card and the sentiment is so inspirational. If something wonderful could happen it would be that I could be with my dear husband and soulmate who I miss so very much. Hope you feel tip top again very soon Becca. Hugs x
What an awesome card here again Becca. I absolutely love that topdie and also this sentiment is amazing.
If I could wish for something good to happen, it would be, that the doctors finally found a cure for that freaded cancer, as I´ve just lost 2 dear people to it here in January, and the one was my very dear girlfriend since our youth, who couldn´t go on anymore, and then my SIL here last week, so it´s been a pretty rough month here already, just hope not, this is what this year will be like, cause then I don´t want to join it.
If something wonderful were to happen to me… It would be that my hubby and my daughter would have clean bill of health, both have different worrying concerns at this time.
Your card is stunning as all your creations are Becca, I don’t usually enter your give away cards as I am in England and I always feel its maybe more difficult for you…. if I won.
Praying for peace and Gods grace in your life at this time.
A beautiful card! I hope for a job closer to home.
I’m glad you are feeling better and you have my empathy as I have also been down with a bug. I’m also feeling better! This card is just lovely and I continue to be impressed and excited about this collection of dies. I am always inspired by your creativity. Blessings to you!
Your card is breathtaking. Your designs are always so different from each other and I admire your talent.
Your cards are “breathtakingly gorgeous” and “beautiful to the extreme” but that can also be said of the staging of you photos. Beautiful work. If something wonderful were to happen, I’d like to be a tenth as talented as you.
Your card is absolutely amazing, Becca! The frame is stunning, and the sentiment lovely :))
If something wonderful is about to happen, I hope for our daughter and her boyfriend soon coming home for a visit from the US <3
My word! You even produce drop dead gorgeous cards from your sick bed!!
I do hope you are feeling better now and am so glad that you managed to make it home before succumbing to the dreaded bug!
So many wonderful things I could wish for, but top of the list would be peace for all people.
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Hi Becca, So sorry you haven’t been well, we have had a similar ‘bug’ over here in the UK too, thankfully you are feeling much better.
Another stunning card, beautiful colours and gorgeous die-cuts and the sentiment is lovely.
If something wonderful were to happen, I would wish for everyone to live in peace with each other.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
I wish for PEACE on earth. AS ALWAYS I love your card.
That our son finds a wonderful girl and marries.
Carol b
Sorry to hear you’ve been unwell Becca but glad you’re on the mend.
Beautiful card you’ve given us the chance to win. Such pretty dies and your sentiment is beautiful.
Guess my something wonderful would be my daughter and son being friends again after falling out many years ago. Xx
What a gorgeous card! Love the beautiful dies you used!
Something wonderful would be kindness and respect for all!
You have done it again Becca sooooo beautiful !!!
my wonderful about to happen is our family are awaiting the birth of a baby next week the mum has to have a csection so we are praying all goes well
Thank you for your weekly inspiration
Hugs from Ang in GB xx
Hi Becca, this ic my first time ever leaving a comment here, i have been following your beautiful and amazing cards for ages now, they are all so inspiring! Love the sentiment you used on the card, something wonderful for me would be for peace on earth. Hugs Josette
Becca-what a beautiful creation! Something wonderful-traveling safety for several loved ones!
A beautiful use of your innovative frame maker dies. If something wonderful is about to happen I would love it to be a world wide declaration & promise to abolish hunger. In this day and age no one should be going hungry, especially babies and children.
Hope you are feeling much better now. Best wishes from Wales/UK. Linda x
If something wonderful was about to happen I would want it to be a cure for cancer for all the people suffering right now.
Becca, my something wonderful has already happened. I have just retired from 36 years in the same company. I now have all day to craft and I am having great fun with your new borders and corner dies. A rectangle is still causing me problems but I am sure I will get there. I also love using the measuring spoons to making flowers too. The icing on the cake would be to win one of your cards. I would proudly display it here in the Weas of Ireland #the wild Atlantic Way
Hi Becca.
That is a beautiful verse and I love your gorgeous card, you are an inspiration.
Really enjoyed this unique design and the word message!!!! Thank you!
Hi,
Oh how I wish you could design all you dies to fit
a A2 card size. It would be do neat to be able
to use your frame and pocket dies on smaller cards.
I so appreciate all the beautiful cards you create.
Hugs,
Melanie