Good morning sweet friends! What a week for me – if you follow my Instagram Feed you can tell that I haven’t been tucked away in my cozy little home this past week; I was on an adventure in New York City! I’ve been to New York, but I’d be embarrassed to tell you how long ago. This was a trip that fell into place and almost made it easier for me to get here than to stay at home – – it was meant to be. My sweet little sister made it so enticing that there was no possible way to say no. So I have had a week of sisterly love, great conversation and the clarity.
I had the opportunity to meet some wonderful people and make some memorable stops, checking two things off of my bucket list. Last night we went to Ground Zero. I can’t even explain what it feels like to walk on that hallowed ground. It simply stole my breath and made me speechless with a feeling of both awe, grief and a realization of what happened on that very spot. I was going to post a different card today but it just so happened that I brought some pre-stamped sentiments with me. Sometimes I Just Look Up floated to the top – a meant to be thing – that speaks to the feeling that washed over us as we surveyed the names and looked into the fountain.
My friend Suzanne Cannon with Quietfire Design, sent me this stamp a couple of weeks ago and I’ll say it’s speaks a thousand words. I worked on it this morning with a simple card base using Spellbinders Fairmont Decorative Accents and flowers from Spellbinders Cinch and Go Flowers. It’s a tad subdued from my normal layers and embellishments, but lets just say I was inspired by my experience last night and the sentiment and supplies I had with me. I feel blessed today as I travel home and know that everything we come across, that we see, that we experience, that impacts us, is put in our paths for a reason.
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 – our winners list is up to date! For your comment: How blessed are you today?
Rubber Stamps: Quietfire Design – Sometimes I Just Look Up
Craft Paper: Neenah Classic Crest – Natural White – Cover – 80lb smooth
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Spellbinders Fairmont Decorative Accents, Spellbinders Cinch and Go Flowers, Seam Binding, Darice Pearls.png)
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Becca,
Glad you are embracing the magic of NYC and the patriotism of The Ground Zero Memorial. The card today captures your special feelings, and brings back great memories and emotions for me. Thank you for the opportunity to win this treasure. It is a art piece to be framed for sure.
Perfectly beautiful card, Becca! I am so very blessed by my amazing family and the love we share. It is the most wonderful feeling to be able to think f them and have my whole self just smile!
I am very blessed. I have a wonderful husband, two sons and two grandsons. We moved this year and now have a great craft room which is a pleasure to work on my cards. Another great card as always. Christine S.
What beautiful thoughts. I hope someday to see ground zero. I cannot even imagine how awe inspiring it must be. I hope to see Pearl Harbor and the memorial there too. My dad fought in the Pacific during World War 11. All the brave and courageous people. A beautiful card and a momentous event.
Another lovely card Becca! I’m blessed today to be inspired by you and blessed beyond measure to have a wonderful family and church family. Eph 1:3
I say this often as there is always a surprise from God for me when I take the time to see it. Whether it’s a gorgeous sunset, listening to my grandchildren talk about their day, celebrating 44 years of marriage with my husband whom I’ve known since kindergarten, and so many other blessings! God has provided all. I also have Ground Zero on my bucket list; thank you for sharing your experience and gorgeous card – very inspiring!
Becca, love the layers and beauty of your card. The sentiment put a smile on my face because I find myself doing just that many times throughout my day. I am blessed beyond measure. I tell my DH we live like kings with all the freedoms we have. Loves, Ruthie
Love your card! Would mean a lot to the person getting this. Wow and wow is all I can say about your visit last night. I can’t imagine the site …bless u…have safe travels back home…blessed I took my 80 yr mom out for supper the other nite, nothin better than mommy time…
Ahhhh! Yes! Often times
A gorgeous card, Becca!
I love the simple design of this one :))
Today I am blessed with the chance of having time to make a card for my wonderful daughter living in US (so far away from the rest of the family in Norway) – and also spending a lovely evening with my husband enjoying a good dinner together:))
What a beautiful card. You inspire me with your amazing creations. I’ve had a very unhealthy summer with several runs to the ER and a few admissions. Therefore, I feel so blessed today for my journey back to recovery. People who saw me undergo what I went through cannot believe how fast I’ve gotten better, including my doctor who thought at one point I “was not going to make it”. Blessed by God’s grace and so very thankful for another day.
Becca,
What a beautiful card and sentiment. NYC is also on my bucket list. Being from the west, I don’t know if I will ever get there, but I will be waiting for my chance as well. I am blessed today with being back home where I grew up, to have family and life-long friends close by to visit and be a part of their daily lives again. I am blessed that my wonderful husband of almost 40 years has brought me back to where I belong. God Bless
Where do I begin? Sold our house within one week, found a beautiful townhome on a single level, husband diagnosed with prostate cancer, but doing well, friends that I deeply cherish, a warm, welcoming church that recently burned down but we are now rebuilding, a comfort care home for the dying that I volunteer at. Blessed, so blessed.
I am so blessed. I am a daughter of the King. I have a wonderful family, Everyone is healthy .i love the card. We don’t reflect enough for the sacrifices of those around us who protect us
Hi Becca
I would love to get hold of this stamp. My granddaughter became an angel baby in March 2016, born sleeping. I have always called her my shining star and would love to know how to get hold of this stamp in the UK. I look in now and again at the moment but this stamp really touched my heart. I hope you can help.
Tina XX ( Siovan )
Hi, Tina,
I am sure Becca will respond personally when she can but, in the meantime, if you click on the pink “Quietfire Design” it will connect you to Suzanne Cannon’s website where you can order her wonderful stamps.
My heart goes out to your family in the loss of your angel baby earlier this year but what a beautiful thought to feel her presence as a shining star.
Blessings, Sandy
I’ve tried to buy this stamp from “Quietfire Design”, but have had no luck so far. Thank you so much for such a quick response, and also for your heartfelt thoughts Sandy
Love Tina XX
Hi Becca,
Was born in NY but been in Florida going on 41 years. Love you card today and the sentiment is something I often speak. I have a special needs daughter and every day she is healthy is a blessed day.
Hugs
Mstgane
Ann R.
Your card today is pristine and inspiring. Thank you! I am very blessed today. I have a wonderful daughter-in-law. She is very generous of heart, smart and gorgeous. How lucky is that!
Becca, I really like this card. It is elegant.
I have so many blessings. God is good & faithful.
A man hit our car & totaled it but my husband & I
are fine except to look for another car that is as great
as this last one.
Such a beautiful card! I am blessed to be in good health, with a warm roof, two adult children who are married and employed! And we have a granddaughter on the way in April!!!
Hi, Becca,
What a great adventure! A few years ago I was blessed to rendezvous with my twin sister in NYC. We spent a week together and that time is such a treasure-I’ll hold it in my heart forever.
My blessing today is a feeling of peace. A week ago I attended a weekend retreat and I there I let go of negative “stuff” keeping me in turmoil. I think I could sit and watch grass grow today and be happy as a clam. Oh, what a blessing! (Yeah, that and looking at your inspired card!!!)
Love, Sandy
What a beautiful card and beautiful sentiment Becca. Another outstanding card.
I’m so blessed to have such wonderful neighbors who are helping me daily after fracturing my pelvis in two places. Hoosiers are the best!
Another beautiful card I am blessed everyday that I wake up
What a beautiful card! I have been fortunate enough to get to go to NYC twice- and was able to take my two youngest children on the last trip! So much fun!! I am so blessed today! I have three of my grandchildren with us this weekend! My son-in -law (their father) committed suicide in August, so we try to do as much as we can with them, to help with the pain of transition.
I hope you enjoyed your “sister time”!
A very beautiful card Becca and such a touching verse.
I am very blessed to have such a strong son who is in pain and fighting cancer , who believes all will come right for him when the treatment is over .
God Bless.
Elaine H X
Such a beautiful card with an awesome sentiment. Your trip to NY sounds interesting and having a visit to your sister would have been time well spent. We are all blessed by your generosity of spirit in giving us inspiration each time we visit For this I thank you so much!
everyday is a blessing. sometimes i just have to look harder to find it. gorgeous card.
Hello Becca! It sounds like you had a very special trip to NYC. I’d love to go b to Ground Zero to pay my respects some day. Your card today has an elegant look and is beautiful. I love that you didn’t use a lot of color. It works so well with your sentiment.
I am feeling very blessed. I just returned home from spending 7 weeks with my Momma and Auntie plus my two brothers and even got to spend some time with my wonderful sister and her husband. While saying goodbye to my time with family and friends, I missed my hubby, son and family to I so I feel doubly blessed to be home too. My trip was so special, with two getaways with my Momma, including one with my Auntie too plus a birthday bash for both of them. I feel like I’ve been given many many blessings and I’m very thankful for all of them. God is so good!
Beautiful card, Becca! I did not recognize the Cinch and Go Flowers in this format! Wow! I am blessed to have my daughter, her fiancé, and their 3 month old son living with us while they save for a house. We’ve been able to help them when he’s been sick, we’ve been able to watch him do new things, and we’ve been able to reassure the parents they’re doing great. But most important, we have time with him we wouldn’t otherwise have.
I am Blessed in that:
1. I have more than one pair or set of shoes, clothing, and socks.-
2. I am have running Hot and Cold water that is clean.-
3. I am still married after 12 years when we were given 6 months by my own mother who Disowned me.-
4. I finally have access to Great Medical Care thanks to the Obama Plan. Most of the State plans before refused to cover the very Tests and medications and Services I needed due to my Complex Chronically Painful Conditions that have left me a Cripple.-
5. That I was able to have children even though I was forced to give them up by my own mother.-
6. I was born in the age I was born.-
7. That I have the Freedom to Worship Christ as King of my Life.-
8. For the Skills, Talents, Lessons, New Perspectives, Compassion for others, Grace, Mercy and Abilities I have learned through my long Season of Suffering from agonizing uncontrolled physical pain. (Which is still not treated and has been going on since 2006.)-
9. That I can still somewhat see.-
10. That I have a warm, dry , safe place to live with a comfortable bed.-
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Of Course, for an Inspiring, Courageous, Warm Friend Like Becca :) <3. I am so glad you got to spend time with your younger Sister and that you had an amazing time.
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What an amazing card. Sometimes the best and most memorable things are the Simplest.
What a beautiful card Becca. I feel blessed today because i was able to spend the day with my daughter.
I am humbled to realize that I am far more blessed than I have expressed to God in gratitude today.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful card and for a glimpse into your trip, but, most of all, thanks for asking the question that I needed to think about.
I am blessed so much! I have an awesome God, church and church family, family, a roof over my head, food in the cupboard and can pay my bills. I am blessed beyond measure!!!
I’m feeling very blessed today as I wait for our grandson and his finacee to get here for the weekend! Feeling very special!!
I am blessed with a loving family!
Carol b
Another pretty card. I am blessed for every day that I am alive.
Beautiful card and sentiment. With such intricate dies not a lot was needed. You always have an adept eye for exactly what each piece you create needs. Shear talent! As every day that I can open my eyes with all my faculties is a blessing, I thank God each morning as soon as I realize I’ve been given another opportunity to improve.
Good morning Becca, you take my breath away with the fabulous creations you produce!!!
This card is stunning and the sentiment words fail me!!! Glad you enjoyed your trip and the time spent with your sister!!!
My blessing today was having lunch with my mum, daughter and granddaughter 4 generations how blessed am I!!!
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lyndaxxx
I am Blessed and highly favored today and every day. I just love your card…simple elegance Becca. Thanks for sharing. And the sentiment is perfect.
Well said. And lovely card, too. Hallowed ground for sure. I am blessed with faith and family.
Ohhh, LOVE that sentiment, it’s something that we’ve done a lot here in the last 25 years of married life. I’m feeling especially blessed this month cause my hubby and I just celebrated our 25th anniversary. Been a hard year, financially, so we couldn’t do what we had hoped to do, but we still spent the day together and hubby surprised me with a few things including a small gathering of our wonderful neighbors so I’m still feeling extremely blessed right now. :-))
As I move forward in the 14th year of dealing with a very rare, and sometimes debilitating, autoimmune disease,(found in 1 out of every 3 million people worldwide) I feel blessed to be able to get out of bed each day and, as a retiree, use the day doing what I want. I am also blessed to have my younger daughter living with me and adding joy to each day.
What a beautiful card and sentiment. So happy you had a wonderful time in NY and was able to go to Ground Zero Memorial. I hope to be able to go there sometime. My husband and I went to Pearl Harbor last year (for our 48th wedding anniversary, and was so moved to tears. Pearl Harbor and the battleship Missouri should be on every American bucket list! I have so many blessings I fall to sleep at night just counting them.
What a beautiful sentiment and card! There are many moments in my life, when I have had that thought!
Very blessed. I have housing and food, friends and family, and live in a country where women are allowed to flourish and religion is not stifled.
A very pretty card, Becca, and I love that die cut. I was blessed today with the company of a re-connected relative and we thoroughly enjoyed the whole day.
Truly blessed today with a beautiful day that I was able to spend with my grandson.
Hi Becca,
Stunning creation, so beautiful and such a lovely sentiment. My friend has just come back from New York and she showed me a video of Ground Zero, its breathtaking, such a fitting memorial.
Glad you had a lovely trip with your sister.
Love & Hugs
Jacquie J xxx
Very beautiful card. Happy for you to spend special time with your sister. Seeing the 9/11 Memorial made me sad but also proud of the way people came together to help each other. Blessed today with a lull in the rain so I could spend a couple of hours cleaning up the yard and then spent the afternoon with seven cherished friends with a lot of laughter. Good for the soul! Thanks for sharing, Becca.
Oh my life …. this is truly beautiful. Your work is stunning. I’m blessed that I found you. Xx
Gorgeous card
Blessings,
Kathleen
God is Good. He always knows what is best for His children. Going home to be with Him is not a bad thing. Not accepting Jesus as our personal savor is a travesty. If only this world would understand this and stop living as if all that matters are themselves. God bless…Denice
Beautiful sentiment ,gorgeous card happy you have had an uplifting
week with your sister !
Although I live far away on the other side of the world the whole thing
that happened that day in the U.S. I will never forget .
Ground Zero must be such an overwhelming place but so special.
Hugs Pamxxxx
You did a couple things on my bucket list as well, now have heard about them but have to self experience it to make it count. I too get to experience some sisterly love but mine does not begin until this Thursday and believe me, I am over the moon waiting for this little trip. LOVE the sentiment on this one, will have to go order it because it just speaks volumes. Thanks again for the inspiration.
Hello Becca,
I love this stunning, exquisite card.
I am blessed as I have faith and know that family members watch over me.
Maureen xx
Hi Becca, Enjoy your time with your Sister. What an emotional visit you have had, it would be unbelievable I presume, and very thought-provoking !!
Your card is gorgeous, and the sentiment is so appropriate !!
Lots of love from Patricia xx
Lovely card design with a heartfelt sentiment. So glad you had a fab and memorial time in NY city with your sister. I am so blessed today for I am personally able to do some much needed chores before winter sets in here in the mountains. God is great!
Another beautiful sentiment Becca – you never fail to inspire me!
Dianne
Beautiful card, Becca. I just love the elegant tone-on-tone. Gorgeous!
Yes, I’ve been enjoying seeing all of the wonderful places you visited on your trip. Is there anything better than a sister trip? :-D
How blessed I am today. Wow. Loaded topic! I could write for hours about how blessed I am. But my special blessing for today is to be enjoying a vacation at beautiful Priest Lake in northern Idaho. Tucked away in the Selkirk mountains this jewel refreshes me with its beauty, serenity, and peace.
Hi Becca, thank you for sharing your beautiful work with the world and would love and feel honored to receive one of your cards.
thanks once again for using http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/. stamps indoor lovely creations!
Such a gorgeous card and those dies are astounding. Quietfire create some wonderful sentiments.
As ever, thanks for the opportunity to win one of your beautiful cards. I just got out of the hospital after almost passing from pulmonary embolisms, but I’ve was blessed with more time. More time to be with family and friends, and more time to be inspired by you and your blog.
Becca, i looked at this card Friday and got caught up looking at your other cards and Quietfire designs. I love this sentiment and the way that you have created this card. I need to try this with my dies. I am truly blessed to have met many wonderful friends in my life and now I am so very blessed to be able to spend time with my sister and her family. I wish the circumstances were different but if I was able to get around better I would still be in Alabama. I believe things happen for a reason and this is were I should be now.
Hugs
Kay
Hi Becca. Sounds like youve had quite an adventure in NY. Card is fab as always. Yes I am blessed in so many ways. Even on tough days I try to think of 3 positive things. That soon puts stuff in perspective! Have a great week.
What a Beautiful card love the style and the dies you used. thanks for sharing this Amazing Card.
Hi Becca,
When I wake up in the morning I feel blessed everyday. I am thankful for my beautiful family that the Lord has given me & am blessed that they are all healthy.
Thanks for sharing another beautiful card x
Oh Becca – so glad that you were able to go to NY and spend time with your sister. Do hope your foot behaved and that you managed to get around without problems. We visited NY 6 months after the tragedy and I can still remember that terrible day when the news was reaching us in the UK. Just devastating. My sister-in-law’s cousin was on her way there for a meeting that day! An hour later and she would have been in one of the buildings.
Be still my beating heart!! I adore your card, Becca! And that sentiment! Just WOW!
We are blessed to be on holiday in Madeira and this morning, I woke from a nap, opening my eyes to gaze at the most wonderful azure sky, clear but for one or two candy floss clouds. It was breathtaking. It is not often that I have either time or opportunity to be on my back gazing up at such a wonder of creation and just murmurred my thanks for this beautiful world. When I just opened your site and spotted your card and that sentiment, I smiled at how apt it was for me today. My blessings are manifold and I am eternally grateful.
Hugs
Anne(UK) x
So perfectly sweet. Beautiful!
I feel blessed because my partner of nearly 40yrs still loves me and wants to spend time with me every day !!!
Thank you Becca for making me realise that i AM blessed !
Love the card as always
Sending paperhugs to you
Ang from GB
Wow! What a gorgeous card!
I am blessed to be recently retired from a job that was getting more and more draining! Happy to have the opportunity to retire!
I felt very blessed today to spend it with my husband fishing and enjoying a beautiful autumn day. At our age we never know what is lurking around the corner so we take today and thank God for a marvelous time.