Okay, a little bit of catch up. I’m a one woman show so when I need to focus I drop off of the radar for a bit. I’m popping back up on radar now! So many of you send a note just checking and I thank you – I’m so very touched. Months of work – I’ve just finished designing new dies and they are going to blow your mind! These are a bit off in the future but keep your fingers crossed for me that they get approved. I’ve put my heart and soul into it and of course, you all weighed in earlier this year when you participated in my survey. I’m listening and I think you’ll be pleased with what I’ve come up with!
For my first day off in a long, long time, this weekend my sister is flying in and I’m actually going to spend a girls weekend filling up on inspiration. I’m itching to create so I’ll definitely see you on the other side of my weekend. In the meantime I have a card to share and to give away in anticipation of Mother’s Day! . . . it’s coming! Are you ready? Other than the reason that Mom’s are simply awesome, what a wonderful occasion to show your love!
How It’s Made
For my card today the main focal point is Spellbinders Heirloom Legacy die template turned on it’s side. Just inside the oval I tucked two filigree corners – although this die is discontinued a great substitute is Spellbinders Corner Flourish Two. The sweet sentiment is from Quietfire Design and it’s stamped on Spellbinders Labels Four. I get the rosy halo around the sentiment by keeping the paper in my die and using a Distress Ink Blending tool that I’ve lightly touched on my ink pad (Victorian Velvet Distress Ink) and stenciled by pulling the color from the outside of the die to the inside with a sponge with a very light touch.
About Day of Giving Friday
This card is up for grabs today to one of my sweet readers. Every Friday, I give away a card to a randomly picked reader 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. For your comment today – How are you planning to share your love on Mother’s Day?
Rubber Stamps: Quietfire Design – Happy Family Days
Craft Paper: Neenah Classic Crest – Natural White – 80 lb Cover, Digital Paper – Iralamija Etsy Shop
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder, Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
Accessories: Spellbinders Heirloom Legacy, Spellbinders Corner Flourish Two, Spellbinders Labels Four, May Arts Silk Ribbon, Recollections Pearls.png)
That’s it for me today, I’m heading to the airport. I’m not sure what the plans are but I’m excited!!
hi Becca lost my mum last april so its my first without her but she will be in my thoughts as always
super card …..you just amaze me with your talent…thank you and i hope you have a super mothers day
We usually spend time with my mom and get her some flowers for her deck. She loves watching them all summer. At 88 she is having more difficulty getting around so just making her surroundings prettier is what we do.
Due to my husband’s recovery, I won’t be able to spend Mother’s Day with my mother this year. We usually go to brunch and the movies. I will be sending her a hand-made card and a store-bought gift, plus speaking with her on the phone.
My grandchildren and I are planning to prepare a love-filled dinner for my daughter – their mother. It’s a special tradition and gives me great joy to have such love surround us.
Hi Becca first of all what a beautiful card I love the bow and the color pink. That was my Mommy’s favorite color. You asked how I will share my love with the most wonderful woman-she passed away 2 years ago but it seems like it was just yesterday. She was shy of being 100 years-she was a small tiny woman-but she was strong-hard working from a child till her last days. Great cook that if she only had a few items somehow she made it a banquet. She had a hard time with my father but I never heard her say anything wrong about him-even with her bruise face. She was a true Christian her faith and prayers brought our family to be united thru some hard times. This is the way I will share her love remembering all the wonderful things she did all she taught me and the precious time she gave not just myself but my siblings. She is gone but believe me she is with me in my heart. Thank you for letting me share this with you. Have a wonderful visit with your sister enjoy to its fullest.
My own mother is gone and I will forever be grateful for all the love she had shown me. I know I’m a better mother myself because of her example. I will show my love to my two grown-up boys on Mother’s Day because they have made me proud to be their mother. Another beautiful card, Becca. Amazing how you come up with one winner after another.
SO LOVELY BECCA!!!! You ALWAYS AMAZE at the BEAUTY of your cards!!! ;)
Beautiful card. My own mother has passed. Not sure yet if either of my step-children will be available to love on. Thanks for sharing this lovely card. If I win it, I will definitely share it.
I shall spend Mother’s Day thinking of my own
Mother—- long gone and being grateful that I am a mother and Grandmother.X just love the card
Another beautiful card and I love the use of the Heirloom dies.
Being in the UK we have already celebrated Mothering Sunday and it was good to share the day with my family. A bittersweet day without one son who passed over three years ago.
Oh, such a pretty card, Becca! My Mom is no longer with us. I like how Maureen spends her Mother’s Day with her grandchildren, making dinner for their Mom. We usually get together and I think the grandkids would really enjoy doing that for their Moms, so we shall see!
Gorgeous card! Love the layers and textures!
I hope I will see my daughter on Mother’s Day! I usually make a special card to send to my Mom for the occasion, but she passed away in October, at age 93, so this will be my first Mother’s Day without her.
Unfortunately i work on Sunday but i get off at 6 so it will be a late dinner with me, Mom, my sister and her husband. Beautiful card – but then again they all are!
I love the card and the bow is beautiful. Nice dolor for it. My husband will fix a nice meal and the kids will call for Mother’s Day. I sometimes make cards for my close friends at church which they appreciate. It’s a low key day because I choose it to be. Happy Mother’s Day everyone.
My mom is gone but I will be thinking of her :) I will be spending time with my daughter and grandkids. Beautiful card Becca as they all are.
Not sure how Mother’s Day will go this year…it will depend on what my family has planned. However it is, we will enjoy each other’s company!
Absolutely gorgeous Becca, as always! Love it, I’m trying to create a beautiful mothers day card for an order, I’m getting there!
Have a fabulius wkend with your sister, what fun and I can’t wait to see your newest ideas for dies, I have everything crossed for you that they get approved, I’m sure they will, I have faith, have a great wkend, so happy your just working diligently in the background, ty for that :) hugs tc
I lost my mom several years back but we all go and lay flowers on the grave. However, I will celebrate Mother’s Day with my daughter in law. You made another beautiful card. I love the colors you used.
I will make my mom a card and take her some flowers, then will spend rest of my day with my two beautiful daughters.
I lost my mom 8 years ago and it still seems like yesterday. Every year my sister and I worked in mom’s yard and planted flowers on Mother’s Day. So now I plant flowers in my own yard and remember all the previous years with my mom.
Absolutely beautiful card as usual Becca. Hope you have a blessed Mother’s Day.
Yet another beautiful card Becca. Sadly both my mother and mother-in-law have died and I don’t have any children of my own so no celebrating for me – other than the fact that I’m still very much alive!! Have a great time with your sister.
I am a mother so I plan on sharing my love with my children and my family. I am creating lots of beautiful Mother’s Day cards that I will donate to our soldiers who can send to their mothers and love ones.
By the way…today’s card is beautiful. So soft and special…. loving the use and placement of the dies.
I’m not sure yet how I will spend Mother’s Day. I like to change it up every year and do something different with my Mother and Mother-in-law. I’m getting some good ideas reading all these posts and brunch sounds good. Now to find a nice place to have it!
Oh sissy time is the best…I’m blessed, one lives in the same town and other about 30mins away…have tons of fun, make new memories…your card is awesome as always…
Lovely card, as always! My mom is not with us in person, but always here in my heart… I will spend the day reflecting on her, and how I can learn to become half the woman she was!
Beautiful card! Great to have you back :) Can’t wait to see the end result of all that hard work! My dear Mother is in heaven, and so Mother’s Day is a bitter-sweet day for me. It is sad on the one hand, but it is also a wonderful day on the other as God has given me three beautiful children (all adopted) and taken away the sorrow of an empty womb. I like to spoil other moms at church with some handmade love, and to reach out with sensitivity to those whose arms are still empty.
Opps…forgot to answer question, us three girls r taking mom to one of her favorite towns and spending the night, lots of time together..lucky to still have my mom, she’s almost 80….lost my daddy three weeks ago….take care
Sometime during the month of May, she will visit to spend time with her twin great granddaughters. What could be more fun !!!
Not a day passes when I don’t think of my Mom or Mama (mother.in.law). They were both very influential and great mentors in my life. I would harvest flowers from my garden and pretty up the patio or kitchen in their memory. And on Mother’s Day, I will prepare a family meal with two favorite dishes that they both enjoyed for us to continue their legacy. Life continues with little pleasures from the past and present.
Hi Becca,
What a lovely card.My Mom passed away years ago so will just be thinking of her.
Have a wonderful weekend with your sister.
Hugs.
Yvonne
Your card is absolutely gorgeous. Of course one of my favorite color is pink as well as my Mom’s (91).
My plan is to take her a hanging flower basket of lovely colors so she can yet hang another basket on her back yard fence to attract hummers. And sit with her a spell, and perhaps take her to dinner.
BTW I can’t imagine that the dies you create not being accepted. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Hi Becca. Fab card as always. Enjoy your well earnt time off. Mothers Day was several weeks ago in the UK. Your dies sound intriguing. Bet they will be wonderful.
Becca, can’t wait to see all the new dies. You are so creative. One Mother will be missed this year. my MnL just passed on to Glory.Such a blessing to know where she is. My mother will be here and the day will be simple. Flowers of course.
Hello Becca,
We’ve had Mother’s Day in the U.K. and my own mother died in 1980, but my daughter, son in law and granddaughters took me out for the day and thoroughly spoilt my husband and I. I don’t know how he got into the act ha ha.
Maureen xxx
First off, flowers for my Mom! Then a special lunch with the rest of the family too! I do love spoiling my Mom. She is 91 and such a Love!! Beautiful card Becca. I can hardly wait to see your new dies! Loves, Ruthie
Hi Becca happy for you.Have a great time with your Sister. I love your cads. Thanks g or sharing
My dear Mother is in heaven and I miss her so much. Looking forward to seeing her again one day!
I will show my love to our two married daughters who are wonderful Mothers of our grandchildren.
I am making Mother’s Day cards to sell at work to raise money for a co-work who’s son as cancer. I hope all the mom who receive them appreciate them, so far I have 11 orders. Christine S.
My Mother is 92, so we will just have a beautiful,loving, peaceful day.
My own mother has passed but forever in my heart. My daughter is planning on taking me to a restaurant for brunch. Love your beautiful card!
I take an elderly lady to church on Sunday and I’ll buy her lunch on that day.
Just love the card. Thanks for sharing and offering as a prize.
Hi Becca, a gorgeous card we had mothers last month ( in Scotland)and I had a great day but landed in Australia yesterday to see our son who we haven’t seen in person for 10 years so this a special Mother’s Day for me.
Nancyd xx
My mother has been gone for a number of years, but I try to make a trip to the cemetery with flowers. Lovely card, Becca! Have a wonderful time with your sister.
I plan on spending some quality time with my mother- not sure what we will yet but I am sure it will be special.
I plan to share the love on Mother’s Day enjoying my Daughter and Daughter’s in Law, and my grand children
Love your card Becca – it is so classically ‘you’. Hope you enjoy your weekend – I am sure you will benefit from it.
Blessings
Maxine
My Mother and Mother inlaw have been dead for 15 years. So just another day. My husband works on Sunday.
Happy Friday, Becca,
Have a great time with your sister! I’m in CA. and my twin sister is in MD. and it’s joyous any time we can be together.
My mother (like me) would have just loved your card-soft and so feminine. I was so fortunate to have a mom who was also my friend. I’ll be thinking about her for sure on Mother’s Day and hopefully, I’ll also be celebrating my kitty-kid’s 18th birthday. My kitties are my kids and I have enjoyed being with Sammie since he was 8 months old. Taking care of his mama is a job he takes very seriously and boy, he’s been at it a long time!
Anything that you, dear Becca, have put your heart and soul into must be wonderful. I wish you all the best as you await decisions but happily have no doubts the outcome will be all you dream of.
Love and blessings,
Sandy
Love your beautiful card, as always! I wish I still had my mom to give such a lovely card to. But, I have a daughter and a daughter-in-law to celebrate with, so I am fortunate, indeed.
Your card is stunning and love that bow, have you thought of doing a tutorial on tying bows, I think they can make a card. As my mother is no longer with us I will spend mothers day with my daughter and autistic grandson and try to make her day the best.
Becca
I definitely have missed your presence but all your hard work will make up for it. I can’t even phathom how anyone would know where to begin creating a die. You AMAZE me and another raft of ladies.
Your card today is georgous!!
I hope you and your sis have a wonderful reunion. Mine lives in Ohio and I go up every year for a few weeks now that I’m retired. Enjoy ladies!!
Hugs
Mstgane
Ann R.
This is beautiful card, Becca. It would make any mom swoon! I’ll have to make some special cards to show love on Mother’s Day.
Hi Becca, lovely card as always. I have ordered a multidude of your new dies & can’t wait to get them! I am looking forward to seeing all your new projects to give me inspiration:)
Going through the above comments it make me realise how easy it is to sometimes take my mum for granted. Us girls like to get the day off from cooking on Mothers Day so we usually go out for lunch with all,the family.
Have a lovely weekend! x
Hi Becca. Love your gorgeous card – the dies are stunning, and the pretty floral paper is beautiful:-) We have already had Mothers Day here in the UK – I spent time with my Mum and made her a pretty card and bought some little gifts. My own sons showered me with lovely chocolates and cards, and my youngest son cooked me a lovely meal :-) I hope you have a lovely weekend with your sister – sure you’ll have lots of fun.
Hugs xxx
Good morning Becca, fabulous card!!! We’ve already celebrated Mothers Day in the U.K. It was early this year, just 2 days after my birthday so it was a double whammy, with my mum, both daughter’s and their partner’s both my granddaughter and grandson, my granddaughter’s Nan and grandson’s granddad it was a fabulous day out!!! So many memories to treasure!!! Happy days!!!
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lynda xxx
Lost my momma almost 15 years ago, but I still pick up the phone to call her. As we had the same number for 30 years, I still know it. I even remember when they added a area code. How strange, the things you remember when you can’t remember yesterday, LOL. Pretty card.
This is beautiful, Becca! I can’t wait to see your new designs!
Marzee
Since both my mother and mother-in-law have passed on, and we live 1000 miles from any of our own children; I always fix dinner for any member of our extended family who wants to come and join us. I have a couple aunts in their late 80’s, and their children and grandchildren do not celebrate this holiday, so I always make sure they can come to our home for dinner and family time. I make them special cards and it really makes their day! I will definitely be scrap lifting some ideas from this card idea.
I love the shading around the sentiment and the bow on your card, Becca. Actually, i love everything about the card – but then it’s a Becca creation :o)
Have a wonderful time with your sister! Hope you hear good news soon about your dies. You pour your heart and soul into your designs, so I am certain that they will be amazing!
Mothering Sunday is in March in the UK, so we have already celebrated. Sadly my mother and mother-in-law are no longer with us. Our eldest was unwell on the day but our youngest cooked a wonderful roast dinner and we took apple crumble for dessert. We didn’t need much breakfast the following day!
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
The card is beautiful.
Have fun with your sister.
I wish you’d do a tutorial on how you make the dies from design to finish. What inspires you, etc.
Becca: Love the Heirloom Legacy card done on it’s side and how you finished it. I made my Easter cards with that die and love it!!! Have fun with your sister.
Beautiful as always!
My mother and mother in law are too far away to see for Mothers Day, so I plan on spending it Skyping with them and sending a bouquet of flowers.
We will be spending the day with our son and his family. One of our grandsons will also be celebrating his 24th birthday and we always celebrate his birthday by heading out into the woods to hunt moral mushrooms. Oh, so tasty and they are only found in the early spring.
We’ll have a nice Mother’s Day dinner. Beautiful card.
I am so excited u will be with your sister! It was a pleasure meeting her at CHA!
Plan to spend mother’s day with my 2 kids since my mom lives in Europe=(
Love
**Milu**
I plan on spending Mothers Day with my children and grandchildren. We will enjoy each other and not worry at all about a big fancy dinner!!
This year I hope to be home for Mother’s Day. I have not been home in 3 years due to cost but my sister is having surgery and she is 4 hours from me so i am planning to go pick her up and we are going home .
Beautiful card again today. I can’t wait to see your new designs. I’ll take a white gardenia to Mom’s grave, before going to church. At lunch, our son’s, daughter-in-law, and 2 grandchildren will join us for lunch. For the last 3 years, I make a big deal on mother’s days for my grandson to make his mother feel so special. My granddaughter is 4 months old, so she’s too little to understand. My daughter-in-law doesn’t have the best mother so I try to show her a mother’s unconditional love and what a good mother should be. I have been blessed, since she married my son, to have her as my daughter!
Lovely sweet and precious card for Mother’s Day. Sounds like you are going to have a wonderful “sister time”. Looking forward to seeing your new creations when you launch them. My Mother has died so there is no more Mother’s Day for her now. I will visit her on “Find A Grave” and leave her a flower and a sweet memory of the times we have shared. Also, Mother’s Day for me will be talking with my sons on the phone. I am so very proud of the adults each one has become. I am so blessed.
Aaah, Mother’s Day. Still so hard to even think about it even though this will be the 4th one without our mama. 14th victim in Dallas county, Texas in 2012–that was her. Saying this to tell anyone reading this to please protect yourself and loved ones from mosquitos. We never thought it would affect our family–but it can–so please don’t take it lightly. So back to the question. I’m so blessed by our 2 sweet daughters with whom I will be sharing my love with. They have grown up and are the best sweet daughters ever! I will also share that love by making a card to honor my sister because she is one fantastic mom! And about to be a grandmother to her 2nd grand daughter. I can’t stop without saying his very beautiful your card is! Love it!!!!! :)
I will make 2 beautiful cards, using your ideas, for my Mom and Mother-in-law and we will take them out to dinner for a lovely time. Have a beautiful day. Rosanne
Beautiful card, Becca! Since my mother is no longer living, I always pause to thank God and praise Him for giving me a wonderful Christian mother. She lived daily the lessons she taught us from the Bible. I still miss her tho it has been over ten years that she has been gone leaving an empty place in my heart.
Planning my Mother’s Day love is to make cards for my 2 sisters, my elderly Auntie and my 2 daughters. They so do enjoy my cards and it is always a surprise for them to see what I come up with.
I’ll make one of my elaborate cards and take it to my mom who is in a nursing home. I’m blessed to still have her with me at 99 years of age. She’s getting more and more frail, so each year with her means a lot to me. Of course I’ll take her some chocolates… her favorite treat!
This year, I think I will send Mother’s Day cards to the special ladies who touch my life through friendship, prayer, and inspiration. It is the best way I can honor my late mother.
Enjoy your weekend with your sister.
I always make special cards for my daughter & DIL — usually the card front is a photo of her & the children. They look forward to these personalized cards — they love to compare the previous cards to the new one to see how the children have grown! My mother passed four years ago on Valentine’s, but I make a card with her photo & scrapbook it.
Hi Becca,
Stunning card. I sadly lost my Mother 25 years ago and our Mothers day has been and gone over here lol! I always think of the many happy memories I have of my Mother loads anyway, my parents are never far from my thoughts.
Have a wonderful weekend with your Sister, make treasured memories.
Love & hugs
Jacquie J xxx
Becca. I don’t even know you but the cards you make and the lovely things you say, just make my day.
Thank you!
Hi Becca
A very beautiful card again and a gorgeous bow .
I lost my Mum many many years ago now Becca { i am 70 } but do you know not one single day goes by when i do not think about her and my lovely Dad too. I think back to the fun times we had together, and it seems like only yesterday , they are both truly missed but nothing can take away your memories .
Take care and have a wonderful time with your sister .
God Bless .
Elaine H X
Gorgeous card!!! No plans. My mama is far away, so I will call her.
What a fabulous piece of art here again Becca. I absolutely love this one too. Sooo soft and beautiful and very very elegant as usual hun.
I must admit, I don´t plan too much for Mothers Day, as both my mum and in law is dead, But I have a very old lady here, that I use to visit, and I normally always make her a nice card, as she have no kids to celebrate her, so I usually send her a nice card, so she wount be the only one on the home, who don´t get anything.
Hi Becca
Your card is beautiful, I love your colour choices and the beautiful font on the Mother’s Day stamp X X X
This card Becca, is so far beyond beautiful it is just, well, undeniably beautiful and classy!
I expect this Mothers Day to be similar to last years and I can feel the sadness creeping up on me already. My 89 yr old Mom passed unexpectedly 3 years ago, healthy as a horse but was slowing down. Not sure what we will do but the sisters try to get on Skype and say a few words together, dig up some old photos to share (I just found a couple doozies!) and do our level best to not make this a completely DOWN celebration. Jokes are welcome (good and bad) and photos are always welcome. Beyond that I have no plans as my son lives on the East Coast and I am on the West. He seems to forget most holidays these days….
Morning Becca
This is a beautiful pink and white card for Mothers Day. Great pink bow.
I lost my mother many many years ago snd my mother in law last year but last month, on Mothers Day here in the UK, my son, daughter in law snd grandchildren visited with gifts and cards. So thoughtful.
Have a lovely weekend with your sister and very best wishes for your new dies. X
I wish I could be home with Mom I may surprise her and fly home for the weekend. It is almost a year and that is too long to see my parents and family. I miss them so very much would love to create this magnificent card like yours for her he is so deserving of it
Hi Becca good to have you back today your card is lovely wish
my Mum was like yours !
All you ladies who have Mothers that love you are very lucky .
My Dad made up for it though but he passed away eight years ago I have special
memories and always have him close in my heart!
My Mother’s Day will be with my two sons and grandchildren and Daughter in law
looking forward to that my birthday is 11 th May so a double dose lol.
Have a great weekend with your Sister take care stay safe Hugs PamXXX.
Good luck ladies !!!
Your card for Mother’s Day is beautiful. Thank you for posting it and the inspiration. You are a special lady yourself.
Love and Prayers,
Kathleen
We will be going to my mom’s and sister’s home to celebrate Mother’s Day with them. I am planning on making Mother’s Day cards for each of them.
this is so beautiful!!! so elegant and soft at the same time, I always enjoy to see how you use my papers and all the elements! thank you for sharing!!!! :)
Hi Becca, This card, as always, is stunning.
I hope you and your Sister have a brilliant ‘girlie’ time.
We have already had Mother’s Day here in the UK, I hope you all have a fantastic time with your Mother’s Day, share the love with your Moms, and cherish every single moment you have them with you.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
A lovely understated card I love it
Unfortunately my mother is no longer with us and my family not local so we don’t usually do anything special. When we were children we were encouraged to do something to help Mum around the house even something small rather than to buy something> Today unfortunately it is so commercialized and people forget the simple pleasures that mean so much more.
My mother died Sept. 29, 2013. We were best friends and I miss her immeasurably. I was blessed to have her for 59 years. Your card is beautiful and I do make Mother’s Day cards for my daughters and the other mothers in my family.
Lovely card, can’t wait to see what you have been creating, hope it gets approved!
Beautiful card Becca. So happy to hear you’re getting to spend some quality girl-time with your sister. Fun times ahead. Enjoy it to the max! My mom passed away several years ago. As I celebrate my fortune for having her as my mother, I ‘ll also be celebrating my sister’s birthday on Saturday 5/7 and my daughter’s birthday on Sunday 5/8. I’m so blessed. This is always a special time for us all.
After racing and working long hours, it is beautiful to rest and catch up and gaze at your great card. Love all the die cuts and pretty bow!!
I lost my mom to cancer when I was a senior in high school. I always spend Mother’s Day reflecting on the time we had together and all that she taught me by her example.
Well, since I have no ‘mothers’ left to celebrate the day with, it will be spent with my Darling Daughter, and the mother of my three amazing grandchildren! I am so blessed that they live quite nearby, and I get to see and be with them often!
Well for starters we are flying home to surprise her, then I will cook for her and my sisters, seeing that they all have children and I don’t I just like to pay it forward and get the family together especially on Mothers Day it us such a special day for them I just want to show them how much they mean to me and I love each and every one of them
Unfortunately, both my husband’s and my Mother is gone now. But I hope to spend some time with my children that day.