Hi sweet friends, another card to share today with a little bit of a vintage shabby feel. It was one of those cards that when I thought I was done, I wasn’t done and my mom kept saying – ‘Needs something else’. Who would have thought she’d sit and craft along with me, but she has to fetch absolutely everything I need. I can hardly remember where things are so it’s a hoot with me describing its last known location. Since she’s a crafter but not a papercrafter, I suppose sending her to hunt is just like when my Dad would send me to his tool shed for a specific wrench. Didn’t he know, all wrenches are the same? Today I picked a lovely border to work with – Spellbinders Deco Duality. This is an easy card that’s easily replicated.
Walk Through on How to Make Card
Base
The card base is 5-1/2 x 7-1/2.
Focal Panel
I selected Spellbinders Deco Duality to frame the sides of my card and used the other side of the die template (peeking out from underneath my layer) as a fabulous border. The borders were all stenciled through the die template just to add some visual interest. I used a delicate sentiment from Quietfire Designs – Just for You Set and stamped it on Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles.
Embellishment
The flowers are made using Spellbinders Cinch and Go Flowers – you can see a tutorial for these quick and easy flowers HERE. The final touch is bow made with the 2.5″ tulle you can buy on rolls at the fabric store. I created a small cluster of flowers using the three smallest petals from the set for each flower.
About Day of Giving Friday
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: What are you grateful for today?
Rubber Stamps: Quietfire Designs – Just for You Set
Craft Paper: Bazzill
Ink: Ranger Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink
Accessories: Spellbinders Deco Duality , Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles, Spellbinders Cinch and Go Flowers, tulle, pearls
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Have a wonderfully creative weekend!
How fun to have your mom crafting with you! Beautiful card. I’m greatful for my health.
I am grateful for my friends. sometimes I wonder about life and just when i’m bummed the most someone will call or write or something. gorgeous card becca. thanks for the chance to win.
My religion, family and country.
Wow – what a gorgeous card, truly beautiful. How lovely to have your mother to help you as you recover from your surgery. Please don’t try to rush things – rest is the key! I’m grateful for the wonderful weather we are having at the moment which means my granddaughter and I can go out and about in my open top car.
Doreen R from Bournemouth UK
I am grateful that I get to get up every morning and enjoy another day. I’m also grateful for your blog and the many inspirations I am able to take away from it.
Hi Becca,
I have such a charming picture of you and your Mama crafting together!! You make me laugh and delight in the wonderful love between Moms and daughters.
You and your Mama created a beautiful card here. I love the romantic tone of it.
What am I grateful for today….I’m going to skip the obvious (my salvation, my family, my health, etc.,) and say today I am grateful for play time! I have the weekend off and no responsibilities, so I am going to indulge in play!
You have yet again produced another beautiful card! I adore the tulle bow and actually have some tulle put away somewhere. You have inspired me to find it and get creating! Today there are so many things to be thankful for and I’m not sure I can limit it to just one thing. Thankful and very grateful we have a new air conditioner, also the freedom to come and go, the health of my family, and sone new crafting supplies from a couple of different companies to enjoy! Hope you have lots to be grateful for too! Special thanks to your mom for taking care of you and running around your craft room to get supplies for you so you can share cards with us!
Hi, Becca,
Gorgeous card!!! It’s comical to imagine describing to another person where to find things in my craft room – on the other hand, sounds like a very good organizing strategy!
It looks like there are pearls strung on tulle – are they? If so, how do you do it?
My twin sister was here with her husband last week and left for home on Tuesday. It was a lovely week and I have been basking in sweet memories. I am sooooooo grateful for good health that enables us to travel and these precious times together, that become ever more precious with each passing year.
Love and friendship blessings,
Sandy
Hi Becca, You are on a roll–must be mother’s influence. Another lovely card and since I have the dies, oh, so much better. Thanks for sharing after doing all the work for me. It may be easy for you but takes hours for me to rework die combinations. Thanks and I love the pink and gray combination. Thanks. Barbara
This creation is so soft and beautiful. Love the tulle to create that effect. I am grateful today for the medical technology which can do so much more than ever before. Lost 2 members of my family this year to colon cancer. So I am thankful for the tests so I am not a victim.
You and your mom created a gorgeous card! Love the soft muted colors and all the texture. I’m grateful for my playtime and my family is healthy and my kids are gainfully employed.
Very pretty card Becca! The subtle colors are striking together. I am grateful for many things in my life. One of the many is that I am grateful to have found your site! Your cards are stunning and I have incorporated many of your designs into cards I have made. There is also a bit of a down side to that….before finding your site, I had 2 Spellbinders dies–and never used them….I now have a collection too large to count and not enough time to use them! Enjoy your time with your mother!
Hi Becca. Today I am grateful for being blessed to have lived long enough to have grandchildren. I love being a grandma.
Lovely card, will try to follow the instructions for inspiration then go off on my own.
Normally I am not so shallow BUT today it is 105 degrees and tomorrow it will be 112. I am grateful that I have a roof over my head, running water, clean clothes, happy fur babies & hubby and not least of all: Air Conditioning is working! Yippee….
somehow my name dropped off (probably the heat frying my brain) so, it is just me.
today I am grateful for the beautiful weather we are having even though it is very warm I was busy packing in my cool basement as we are moving in late Aug.. Another beautiful card as usual Becca Christine S.
How wonderful to have your mom craft with you. The two of you made a very lovely card. Thank you for sharing.
This card is just beautiful Becca ,
I am grateful today that my son Andrew seems to be turning the corner from his mammoth operation and set backs , three consecutive good days .
God bless
Elaine H X
Gorgeous card and would love to own this beauty. How nice to have your Mom helping you. I am grateful for such a wonderful family who are all coming for my annual BBQ on Sunday. So looking forward to seeing everyone. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Absolutely STUNNING! !! I adore everything about this card. The softness off the color combination, the beautiful borders, flowers and the tulle. Wow! I don’t have the Deco Dualities set but I do have the Cinch and Go flowers and Radiant Rectangles so whether I m blessed to win or not, I’m adding this new die to my collection and borrowing this fabulous card design.
I am thankful today for doctors and nurses! My husband is recovering from a specialized open heart surgery that we had to travel to Mayo in Minnesota for. The surgery went well but recovery has been a challenge my hubby. Rather than 5 days in the hospital, he spent 12 due to complications. He had collapsed lunngs, fluid around his lungs, a 7 hour episode of Atrial Fibrillation, allergic reaction to a medication and cloth tape and even a flesh eating bacteria causing a nasty rash. Now that we are finally back home in Arizona, he’s developed an inflammation around his heart called Pericarditis. In spite of all this, the doctors and nurses have been wonderful and so caring. I’m extremely thankful for each one who has been a part of his care. His Cardiologist here in Mayo in Arizona immediately got on top of figuring out the new heart pain caused by the Pericarditis. There are no guarantees when you have medical issues but we have so many people who have blessed us. I’m also extremely grateful for prayers. I’ve no doubt that prayers and great medical care have brought my husband through this surgery and before long, he will feel so much better. God is so good!
There are so many things to be grateful for – lunch today with 10 friends – but right now I am grateful for my window air conditioner. It is 5 p.m. in NH and the temp outside is 94 with the muggies. It;s been a hot summer for us and very little rain. When I look at the weather for the rest of the country, I have a lot to be thankful for. Am always learning a new way to use the dies and today’s card is no exception. It is a beautiful card.
Have a cool weekend.
Becca
You really outdid yourself today girlie! Beautiful!
I am grateful today that it is Friday. It’s the end of the week and we get to see your beautiful creation!
Hi to your Momma and hope your foot is doing better
Hugs
Mstgane
Ann R
WOW WOW!!! That card is soo gorgeous and the shabby shick style is 100% there. I love it! Well… Everyday I’m so thankful of My Lord to allow me breath, to enjoy all what His Kindness Hands has made for us, but also for appreciate the art of many persons like you Becca. Thank you for share your bless.
Oh Becca this card is so beautiful. I love the pink, I love the shabby, I love the tulle!
Today I am thankful for my grandchildren. They have been on my mind all day.
Linda Walton
I’m grateful for freedom of religion and family
Oh Becca…I think this is one of my all time favorites. Maybe it’s the Mother/Daughter collaboration! Your question is an easy one! I’m absolutely grateful for today!!! As a cancer survivor, every day is an awesome gift from God! Have a beautiful weekend…I know I will!
What a lovely card. I really like that Deco Duality die. Today I’m grateful the weekend is here. The week has been rather frustrating for me at work and I’m glad to have a couple of days to relax and maybe to a little bit of creating.
Gorgeous card Becca!!!! Today I am grateful to have another day with my husband…he is having a good day today and that makes it extra special!!!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
As always, a spectacular card. So grateful this country has public education available to ALL. So easy to take for granted until you hear that in some countries school fees must be paid or women are purposely not allowed.
Beautiful card. I’m glad your mom helps you sometimes. I like the pink tulle.
I am grateful today because my husband brought me flowers. Lovely pink and white flowers.
Good morning Becca, another stunner!!! Loving the colour and shabby chic ness if that’s a word!!!
I’m grateful for my family and good health!!!
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lyndaxxx
OH Becca, this is just absolutely beautiful!! I would treasure this beauty!!
I am grateful for my children that God has blessed me with! They are everything to me. They make life so fun too! :)
Hugs….
Another beauty! I got such a kick out of your ‘gopher’ story… You know.. the one where you send someone to go-for this and go-for that. Thanks for the smiles! Grateful to have a/c in this hottest of hot summers!
Oh Becca I had to laugh about the wrenches… know the feeling! Hugs to your mother from me for being so available!
Love your card today – it’s beautiful.
I am so grateful that both my offspring, and their spouses and families, have come back to this small town to work and live – it’s wonderful to have the grandchildren so close, and be able to be part of their lives.
Blessings
Maxine
Another beautiful card, I don’t know how you keep coming up with new ideas.I am thankful that I wake up each morning.Enjoy your time with your Mom.
Lovely, lovely card. I’m glad your mom is still fetching things for you as you recover!
A year ago I had just had ankle surgery and was just beginning a long and painful recovery! I am so, so grateful this year I am walking without pain, and with a complete recovery following two surgeries. What a difference time, rehab, and good, skilled doctors, and a loving, supportive family and community make! So thankful for my family, medical folks, and church and friends.
And kind of missing the month-long giving/gratitude exercise from last year. It was just what I needed last year as I began that whole injury, healing thing…so grateful for you.
Joni
So soft and delicate. Very pretty.
Having your Mum beside you is so special.
Give her a hug and let her know, she is treasured.
This card is exquisite and I am amazed each week to see the gorgeous way you combine several dies on the same card.
Thank you for sharing your gorgeous cards —I would be thrilled to win any of your beautiful cards!
Another lovely creation. You and your mom work so well together. Love it. The cards you’ve created together have been magical thus far. Rest and take care. Today I am thankful for life, health, and family.
Lovely card, Becca. Today I am grateful that a little improvement project in the backyard is finished and is very nice. Enjoy your mom.
Becca, this card is beautiful.
It is great to have your mom there telling you
it needs something else.
I bet that was nice to have someone find stuff
for you & even funnier to watch your mom look for it.
I am thankful for electricity.
We were without for 17+ hours on a hot day.
I am thankful 1st of all that I know that God loves me, then a terrific husband and children, extended family, health, etc. etc. how long should this go on. Thanks for beautiful cards.
Beautiful card, Becca! I am so thankful for my husband, bound to a wheelchair because of polio. This man has taught me the meaning of kindness, and love. We have been married 39 years, and before my life was full of volatility and abuse. Then he came along and taught me how wonderful life can be. I can’t imagine my life without him!!!
I am grateful for this day.
I am most grateful for my wonderful husband. I have trouble walking more than a short distance. We went to the Houston Dog Show today and he pushed me in a wheelchair from about 10:am to 4:00 with hardly a bread and not one complaint. He takes such very good care of me. I always know he will be there to catch me when I fall.
Hi Girls ! I Am thankful for many things that we are all thankful for
but I am soooo thankful for my paper crafting !!!
It has helped me through some very difficult life changing times in
my life and led me to some amazing friendships, plus some overwhelming
support . Love the card Pamxxxxxx
Becca, Love the vintage shabby chic feel to your card today. I am grateful for being able to spend time with my 92 and almost 94 old parents. Enjoy the time you have with your mom!! Loves, Ruthie
Stunning card Becca! I think I even have that die… must get it out and try something. Your inspiration is wonderful.
Even though I have a few health issues, I am thankful they are not worse. I played cards tonight with someone who has Parkinson’s and can hardly hold her cards. It made me thankful my health issues are not worse than they are.
Good Evening Becca,
The card for today is absolutely stunning. Whatever your Mom inspired you to add to the card must have been the crowning touch because the card is spectacular, but of course your cards usually are! You asked what I am most grateful for today: It is the life I’m living. In a world where some of my friends are out of work, other people I don’t know are going hungry and others I don’t know are living on the street. Some of my friends are battling health problems that are insurmountable. As the phrase goes, “everyone has something.” I’m grateful for my life, grateful I have great friends, grateful I can deal with my health problems, grateful I can take wonderful joy in the crafting that I share with wonderful friends–I guess I’m just grateful I’m alive. Thanks for posing the question so I could pause in the day to day busyness of life to realize just how truly grateful I am. It is good to take stock once and awhile!
Beautiful card!! Boy can I related to the “last known location” of something, since I am always rearranging things, I never seem to know where anything is!
Becca
This card is Amazing. Thank you for always sharing your beautiful creations. I am grateful for today because we never know if there will be a tomorrow.
Have a Beautiful Weekend.
Oh, I want this card! Gorgeous, beautiful, lovely–what else is there to say? Love this card. The dies you have chosen, the sentiment, and colors make this card perfect.
I am grateful for the freedom to worship my God and that I live in these United States. I’m grateful for my family, for my health (being a cancer survivor I truly appreciate the health I have. Yes, the cancer has left it’s mark on my body and it’s weaker. But hey, I’m still here and I can get out of bed and able to walk, see the wonderful world, hear the beautiful music, and have my mind.) I am loved and love my family and friends. I have a roof over my head and food to eat. What more could anyone ask for?
absolutely Beautiful!!!
Your card is so lovely and sweet. Colors are great together. I think your card today is the first card I have viewed on several blogs over the last year and a half that I actually have all the dies used in creating the card. Yeah for me! Becca, what is your angel policy? Your Mother sounds like a dear lady to me and a great Mother to “go fetch” for you. Please thank her for me for helping you sweet one. Today, or I should say tonight, I am grateful for the Lord getting me though a tough day of pressure washing three decks, washing outside windows and the screens on those decks and the furniture there; as well as cleaning out the gutters on the front of the house. My age is showing and doing these chores are more difficult for me now. I am sore and very tired this evening and I will need a day of rest tomorrow. I am grateful that I was able to get these chores done by myself, with the grace of God, at least one more time.
Thank you so much for sharing with us your beautiful cards and showing us how to make them. Today’s card is beautiful. I am grateful for today because I had lunch with my past fellow teachers. I love the question you last week and really made me think about the past. It seemed that most of us had the same idea how we wished what would return from the past.
Hi Becca and Becca’s mom! Fab card. I especially love the tulle bow and flowers. Today I am grateful for many things we all take for granted until we don’t have them that is. Unfortunately the news reminds us of these practically every time the TV is switched on recently. Hope you are being a good patient for your Mom and recovery is going well. How long is your recovery? Happy crafting.
Loving the shabby chic look today. Beautiful card. There are so many things to be grateful for, but probably my good health is th most important one since there are family members not so fortunate and so needing my help. Hugs Christine xx
Hi Becca
You have created yet another beautiful card, love your embellishments Today and everyday I am grateful for the unconditional support through tough times that I receive from my friends and family, Have a great weekend Becca and thank you for sharing X X X
Such a gorgeous card here again Becca. I just LOVE the girly feel, your work always have and also todays, it´s really gorgeous. And how wonderful to be spending time making cards with your mum, that must be a wonderful feeling.
I´m as always thanksful for my life and my wonderful family, who I know will lways be here for me, if I need them to be. I know many don´t have that, and seing soo many lonesome people around makes me really grateful for all my kids and grandkids, who always loves to come and stay here still, even they´re getting really big, but still wants to come ehre and play with me, that´s a true gift for sure, that I´m sooo grateful for.
Have a wonderful week-end ahead here now everyone.
Beautiful card. I love your embellishments, they look stunning.
Annie P
xxxx
Hello Becca,
Today’s card is beautiful, thank you.
Today I am grateful for a happy and healthy family and good friends.
Maureen xx
A Beautiful card Becca and glad you have your Mum with you.
I am grateful for good health and that my husband who has been ill is reasonably well now.
Grateful to for my family and their never ending support. X
I am thankful to be alive.
Kathleen
Hi Becca,
Stunning card and I so love that Art deco boarder wow! Beautiful. Love the design so pretty. Great to have your Mom with you helping, lovely memories. Today I am grateful for the health of my family.
Love & hUgs
Jacquie J xxx
I am grateful to have my family and friends healthy and safe. Beautiful card as slways.
Gorgeous card! How nice that you mother helps with your crafting while you are recuperating. I’m grateful that my husband is still able to get treatment.
I am grateful for another day to share with those I love.
Tonight was our card party night….an 8 hour session of making several card projects. We have been together for 15 years and the girls come from all over the island for this. It’s a night of fellowship, potluck dinner, lots of desserts and fun. For this, I am grateful for the friendship that I share with these ladies. Our common interests have developed into true solid friendship with all and we share our stories, experiences, advices and tales of woe. Cardmaking has been a blessing for us all.
I have so many blessings. Good Christian friends, a Godly church and the freedom to live my life the way I choose. But my friend’s granddaughter is at Duke Hospital going through the post-procedures for a bone marrow transplant. Her big sister is a perfect match so God is good there. I know your followers, so I’m asking if they pray, to say a prayer in the coming weeks for Emily, 7 years old. If I win this card, it will be dedicated to and given to Emily as she loves to make everything. Her Caring Bridge site is Emily Ayers. If you look her up, you will see a bow in her hair. They sort of resemble Becca’s bows! Thank you for your sweet posts every week. Myra
As Pluto would say, “Gorsh, Goofy, That card is ‘splendiferous’!”
Becca, don’t you just love having your Mom’s voice in your ear? Mine passed April 26th, and I think of her everyday and hearing her voice. I captured her voice on my phone recorder calling to wish me a Happy Birthday 2 years ago and just heard it again. Love that! Know you are on the road to a quick recovery having your special gal by your side. God bless, Sara
Love the card, but who wouldn’t !!! Glad your on the mend ….but ya got the best nurse…what I was thankful yesterday….that my sister is getting better, she had to have er surgery on Wednesday …hoping she gets to come home today….BE BLESSED…
I’m extremely grateful to God for healing me from a medical condition after 11 yrs. Just can’t thank HIM enough.
Love how you used tulle this time instead of ribbon! That would look perfect on a wedding card. Beautiful design and I like how you used just one die (making it easier for those of us with limited dies!)
Beautiful card!!! I am thankful that I have such a wonderful church and that my girls have created awesome lives for themselves.
It’s great fun to be creative with a “crafting partner”….my mojo goes in to hyper-drive. At 73, I’m thankful for every crafty day. As usual, another lovely card. I hope I win!
What a beautiful card. How lucky you are to have your mom. I lost my mom and I miss her so much. I do a lot of crafting with my grand daughters they love when we make cards. I would love to win one of your cards.
Your Sister in Christ
Hi Becca, A really wonderful card, especially the border dies and also the very pretty flowers and the tulle bow, really gorgeous. I love vintage shabby chic and this is stunning.
The thing that I am grateful for today is – ‘waking up this morning’, Thank you God.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
I’m grateful for my family and friends and that the sun is shining even though dealing with my husbands bad health. Happy thoughts to all xx
Beautiful Card! I love the shabby chic look of it. So grateful today that my daughter made it into the college she was hoping to get into
So neat that your mom is getting into working with you as you create, you will have her making cards before you know it. Lovely design, the tulle with your flowers is sweet!
How is your foot? Hope it is healing well and that you are resting it. Sounds as though Mum is having fun with you as well as ‘supervising’! :o)
Such a pretty card – but then, they all are.
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Whoops! As I pressed ‘send’, I realised I hadn’t added what I am grateful for today. I am grateful for our eldest’s improved energy levels. It is a miracle!
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
I just love it that your mom is there being your card making assistant!! How sweet and what precious memories! You and your assistant :) sure did make a beautiful card!! Today I’m grateful that I got the entire upstairs cleaned and had time to stamp some images and color them! LOL! I am not a fan of housecleaning!
This card is absolutely beautiful and the Sentiment is what I tell my hubby every night before bed and every time I see him throughout the day. I would absolutely love to be able to give this to my hubby for his birthday.
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I am so grateful for all the time I got to spend just enjoying nature, a quick picnic and us taking photographs together each with our own camera after a much painful doctor’s appointment yesterday.
Hi Becca! hope that your foot is doing better, love,love this card
I am grateful everyday espeically in the morning that God has allowed me to spend another day with those I care about and love
I really really LOVE THIS ONE!! Boy I wish I could win it so does everyone else!!
I am very grateful for my sister and family
I am grateful for my being a mother and a wife
Beautiful card, so pretty colors!
Today I am grateful for the lovely summer weather, and the chance to skype with our wonderful daughter in the States :))
Miss Becca,
There is nothing better than sharing my scrabook store with my Mom. She is 87 and goes to the shop everyday. So blessed. She has a great sense of design. This card is another beautiful creation. (Mom is so organized and it is rubbing off )
Hya Becca as always WOW!you never cease to amaze me with your talent i only wish i was half as good as you !what i am thankful for today is just being alive and able to go for a walk with my dog i have been having a lot of pain in my knees but have been steadily losing weight and it has helped me imensley so i will carry on and who knows what i may end up doing,,,,hope you are feeling much better after your surgery and soon be up and running regards Ang from GB xx
Another delightful card! I am grateful for the weekend we just had! My daughter and her husband flew from Arizona to Michigan for a long weekend. Her brother and his wife joined us as did my daughter’s godparents. We had a house filled with love and laughter!
Hi Becca,
I am grateful for many things. Every day is a blessing & so grateful for my family and friends! Have a lovely week x