Good afternoon friends! Please forgive the delay in posting, I was tied up this morning but Day of Giving Friday is never forgotten and I have a feminine card to give away. I hope you are having a wonderful day and making plans for the holiday to come! Other than deadlines, I’ve been working in my craft room this week. I got so frustrated by tripping over piles of papers and stacks of things ‘to-do’ that I had to make sense of the chaos. Now please know, my room is a working room, meaning not so much for show, but if I get further along and am feeling brave, I may indeed post some pictures.
In addition to the craft room I moved an armoire into the dining room, it’s a scrapbooking armoire and holds all the pictures that for years and years I was going to put in scrapbooks and complete with captions. Here’s a place I sit every morning with my coffee while the rays of sun flow in – I thought the new location would entice me to spend more time going through the pictures. I made a wonderful find in that armoire – it’s ‘the’ box. ‘The’ box where over time I’ve tucked everything that has ever meant anything to me and ‘the’ box that I hope everyone has tucked away. It’s a box of memories and I didn’t even remember what was in that box. I spied love letters and silly letters from my kids during a time their minds believed anything was possible. It is safe and sound; one day when I’m feeling brave (again) I’ll crack open the letters and let the dreams and love spill out.
So on to the card. I used patterned paper from one of my favorite Etsy shops linked below. I stamped my sentiment directly on the pattern cardstock and framed it with Spellbinders Ornate Squares. On the bottom I made a frilly sash from Spellbinders A2 Scallop Border One. That’s it!
About Day of Giving Friday
As a courtesy to new readers – welcome and hugs if you’ve been a regular! Just to bring you up to speed, 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.
As I moved and rearranged things I thought needed more attention in my life, I hate that putting my pictures and memories in order became a ‘someday’ project. The documentation work that I’m talking about is important, if we don’t do it, who will? I’m ever reminded of the someday projects because I’m mindful that sometimes if they are put off, they never happen. For your comment today – What’s the next ‘someday’ project on your list?
Rubber Stamps: Wordsworth – Life Affirming
Craft Paper: Amuse – Pistaschio, ByDigital – Romantic Paper Roses, Georgia Pacific – White, EK Success Pink Viburnum
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder
Accessories: Spellbinders A2 Scallop Border One, Spellbinders Ornate Squares, May Arts Silk Ribbon, Recollections Pearls, doily, ribbon flower.png)
By the way, it seems that I forgot to post some winners – it totally slipped by me and I thought this was done. It is now done and winners for all recent cards have been posted. You can check for your name HERE. Have a great weekend!
I too have those pictures to put into order, or better yet scrapbooks. That is my “someday” project just waiting! Have a truly wonderful weekend. Lovely card and sentiment.
my someday project is a long list. the top of that list is organizing my craft space better. I think I will someday scrapbook my fav pics but then I look at them and there are too many favs so there they sit in the photo albums and in my digital files.
Lovely card Becca and the sentiment is perfect!!!!
I have picked up a ‘someday project’ and am on page 8 (of 50). My husband has written his life story and family history and wants it checked. He has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and has been on Hospice since January so this project MUST be taken care of. It goes back to the 1800’s so I am learning a lot of family history!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
My next project is to get my outdoor projects done, getting things out of back shed. Another lovely card Becca. Christine S.
What a lovely card! I forget how pretty the scallop curve border die is. Thanks for the reminder. I’ve been trying to organize my craft room too. It has gotten to the point I don’t have room to work on any cards as my desk is covered with card stock, dies, and stamps. I’m making cards as a “give away” for our cancer “Relay for Life” Survivor Dinner next week. I have a few more to make—think I’ll use the scallop curve die. Must first clean the desk so I have room to work! LOL. Thanks for the inspiration.
Dear Becca,
Please never apologize for the delay in posting your absolutely beautiful designs. I can’t think of a better way to sign off on my busy Friday than the memory of your card. Love the way the die cut frames the verse beautifully.
The next someday project on my list is: I hope I get to make the wedding ensemble for my precious niece who recently lost her mom. I can’t think of a better way to say I love you than to make all the paper goods for her. And Becca, you have created just the perfect ensemble for me to work with…and I have them all. God bless you and your God given talent. Hugs, Sara
Love the flower background. Beautiful card!
Good afternoon, Becca. I loved the idea of stamping directly on patterned paper. The card is quite lovely; thanks for sharing such clever designs! My next “someday” project is making four albums to lovingly showcase a very special Christmas reunion of 18 family members in 2013. I’ve have several false starts, but hope to launch a full fledged assault on the project “one of these days!”
Another beautiful card, Becca. I haven’t used my scalloped dies for quite a long time, so now that you have reminded me, the next time I have a long session, these will come out! Funnily enough, the main ‘some day’ project on my list is to totally reorganise my craft store room. My husband is away until mid June and on Monday, I am starting my project. You have to have a mess before it gets put back, right? I can cope with that for a few days (probably more like a week!) while I get to the bottom, top, back and sides of my shelves, clear the floor, sort out the several drawer towers in there, and get everything out and start again, to get it all in better order. I am going to be ruthless and take out and give away things I no longer use. A huge task but it will get done. It will be interesting to see if my husband even notices! Best wishes
Doreen R from Bournemouth UK
My next “someday project” is the geneology of my father and my husband’s mother’s sides of the family. That may be biting off more than I can chew!!?! Beautiful card as always!
Another lovely card, Becca! And it shows that beauty can come from simplicity… Thank you for sharing your talent with us. I have boatloads of ‘some day’ projects, but the main one that whacks me every single day is organizing the garage. I’d love to have a workshop area, a laundry area, and an agility storage area. Heck, we might even have room for a car after all that :-D! But I’d just settle for getting rid of all of the junk that has accumulated over the years…
I just LOVE this card today but of course every card you do is lovely. I love feminine and yours always fit the bill!
I have an embroidery machine and I am just dying to get in there and do some stand alone flowers! I just need to take the time and sit down and get it done. That “someday” might be coming next week! :)
Love the design of this card and that paper is soooo sweet! Projects always to finish and the one that is bugging me to finish is learning how to use the brother label maker so I can finally finish my stamp organizing! There I said it! Lol! Such s procrastinator when I’m stumped or challenged with the ole learning curve thing. Thanks for asking Becca, now I gotta do it!
Your card is beautiful as always! My someday project is to write names on the backs of my pictures of the people my son never got to meet so he will know who they are when I am gone.
Great idea Joni. I’ve found pictures while clearing out the things of deceased love ones of people I have no idea who they are and if they are family. That project will be a great help to your loved ones for sure. It may even make for great conversations while you are still here. I loved talking to elders about old times. Now I’m the elder!:{
Becca like you its my craft room, I really need to get some organization in there.
Becca love this very lovely card. Just beautiful.
Hugs Trish
Hi Becca, That’s it has a bit more going for it than 2 die cuts and a bow–it’s a classic and a beauty. I count at least 4 layers onto a base card, the unusual stamping of a sentiment onto the patterned piece, main die cut framing only the sentiment not the entire card and just enough of a die cut border at the bottom for balance. Different, fresh, how do you keep doing it? I can’t but am so glad you can because you share your ideas. Thanks again. Yes, I have all the dies, lots of colored card stock paper and tablets of patterned paper. Surely I can come up with something good, too. Barbara
My next someday project is going thru all of my Mom’s photos, putting them in some semblance of order, try to identify some of the people and then actually do something with them so the next generation will want them and not have them be “just a bunch of old photo’s from Grandma’s Mom) It is really daunting because of the sheer volume of her 88 years and she just passed a bit ago so the emotions are still there.
Do love the card Becca and the sentiment behind it. Wish I could figure out how to make those beautiful bows of yours.
Best of luck with your project. It will surely be a labor of love.
A mini-album of our grandson. I started it when he was a baby (it’s one of those chipboard albums where the page edges have a letter on them) but when my father-in-law passed away, I got interrupted and I never finished it. Jack is now 6.5! I actually have enough to give one to his parents, other grandma and both great-grandparents.
Good morning Becca, better late than never!!! Beautiful card as usual Thankyou!!!
My some day project is my craft room!!! Oh dear me where to start? Oh I know some day : )
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lynda xxx
I cleaned out a corner in a room and opened and umbrella and it had become an ant nest. Boy what a mess. But later in the day I found a package that had a granddaughter’s swim suit. I thought it had gotten thrown away. The bad and the good. Lovely card. Hope you have a blessed weekend.
What a sweet card. Very pretty. Wish I could make bows like that.
Hi Becca, What a lovely card, like how you used the border die.My every day chore is to fix my craft room so I have space to do things, have stuff all over.
Lovely card. I really like that beautiful border.
If you can just stamp names and dates on the back of pictures for now that would be great.
I don’t really have any someday project right now.
what a lovely card and verse.
My someday project is organizing my stamp/craft rooms. Ugh… hate the thought! Overwhelmed actually…. and I thought that now I am retired, it would be an easy task!
What a beautiful card and great sentiment. My someday project besides organizing my craft room is to scrapbook a special series of events in my life that happened 10 years ago.
What a beautiful card with a lovely sentiment. Love the girly look :D So Me :)
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My “Someday” Project is our Vow Renewal. I am hand making everything I can. The Bouquet, the centerpieces, the Victorian Ball Gown, The Reception Dress I will wear, The Embroidered Pillows, The Embroidered Announcement of our Marriage Date, The Invitations, The Favors for 100+ people, The Crocheted Bible Cover for the Bible that Pa Bear (May He be With God ) used that was given to my hubby, The toasting Glasses, and The Candelabras for starters :D. I have been working on this for the past four years with only a $25 a month Budget.
Karen I commend you on your endeavor. Wanting to do everything yourself can be an arduous task, I’m a D-I-Yer myself. If you want some help I give Becca my permission to give you my e-mail address. Best wishes.
It’s funny you should ask this question. This has been on my mind for sometime now. I have so many things that I want to take care of and I’m afraid if I don’t do them now they will never get done. If I am moving slower than I was last year I figure each year I’m going to go even slower and these “someday projects” will never get done.
My someday project is a huge list I am a dreamer!
Guess that is what keeps me going forward lol
This card is so pretty love the green white and pink
Hugs PamXX
A very pretty card. My someday project is to finish my childhood scrapbook and finish the scrapbooks of my children. I have done my brother, parents, grandparents and some great-grandparents. Whew! Wish I new how to have a CD/DVD made out of all those scrapbooks.
I need to catch up the past two years’ worth of photos in my scrapbook. Last year was my son’s senior year, and I couldn’t emotionally spend our last weeks of summer scrapbooking the previous school year. Now that we’ve both survived the separation of his freshman year in college, I can scrap his senior year with more joy and fewer tears. So thankful for the blessing of my dear boy and for God’s provision and protection while he was away from our home.
Hi Becca, I wanna try a quilted tuffet for my next project.
Just love this card. It is stunning! Full of my favorite colors. Busy putting my craft room back together and getting deeper into the Word of God. Whoever wins this one will be ever so fortunate.
God bless.
I started stamping via scrapbooking. But I have no family so whatever I did would just go in the dumpster when I’m gone, so I switched to making cards. But my next “someday” project is to finish a quilt I started with my girlfriend. Maybe tomorrow….
Beautiful card Becca! Love the sweet floral paper!
My “some day project” list is long as well: get my grown kids stuff out of my garage so I can park my car in it, go through our family pictures and go through my recently deceased parents pictures and files…Oi’! lol…
Hi Becca, such a beautiful card, I love the scalloped border die, I’ve used it a lot since I finally got it in march, I love hearts so I keep using that one :) I’m gonna ware it out ;)lol
Hmmmm, someday projects are on a list about as long as my arm…there’s always so much to do, not enough GRS in the day to do tit! I have some craft RM organizing to do for sure, I should get rid of stuff I never use then the organizing would work better since my new craft RM is much smaller :'( I want to work on my scrapbooks, but never seems to have time for them either!
Lovely beautiful card, ty for sharing with us and for a chance to win, I just need to remember to check to see who the lucky winner is, that another to do thing, lol have a great wkend, hugs!
My “someday” project is to organize my craft room and supplies. It has become a bit more challenging, since I have recently moved. I have been trying to get organized for some time now.
Hi Becca,
I always love your girlie cards.Your bows are always to die for!
My next someday project is my youngest child’s photo album. I made albums for my first 3 & scrapbooked all the special occasions. But life just got busy by the time my 4th came around & I have never really got around to doing it.
Have a lovely weekend x
my “someday” project is to start my own Etsy shop selling Childrens crafts and such….one day, one day :P
My someday project is organizing pictures and memorabilia of my husband’s George Washington career! He has ben portraying ouf first president for many years and I have loads of stuff to scrapbook!!
Hi Becca. Fab card as always. So fresh and spring like. Love it. 2 weeks ago I pulled everything out of my craft room and had a much needed deep clean! Most of it is back in apart from some stuff in the lounge. It’s meant I haven’t done much crafting for the past 2 weeks but I did make a birthday card yesterday in my new clean craft room and it is so much better than before. I still need to have a good ribbon sort out though! My next big sort is my closet which I’ve been saying will get sorted for 6 months or so. But it’s next on my list for the treatment. Happy weekend.
Gorgeous card! My next on the list is a smash book for my daughter before her graduation next year.
Hi Becca, Todays card is absolut gorgeous, and so is the sentiment too. Really fabulous work as always here.
My next project, I think will have to be to make some recipee books for my 2 youngest kids, who keeps asking me top make write down those very old recipees, they remember and love from their childhood, and as severl of them is just in my head and can´t be found in any cookbooks, they keep asking me to make them up for them before I leave this world as they so kindly say ha ha. But now I´ve been asked soo many times and they call often to ask how´s this made or that, so think it´s about time to make it into a real recipeebook and not just something in my mind from my grandmother.
Hi Becca, another beautiful card and my next project I must get to is a mirror my daughter wants revamped for her bathroom really must get it done for her.
Nancyd xx
Oh, I managed to miss this yesterday but what a beautiful card. The sentiment is so true, delicate floral paper and a great frame. I think this is a real winner.
Hi Becca. I’m a newby to your site as I only found it on Thursday. (Can’t think why I haven’t found you sooner. You make such beautiful cards, and this one is no exception. And all your sentiments are truely inspiring. Thanks for such a great blog. Take care to you and all who follow and I hope you all have a great weekend. XXX
Your card is beautiful. I do not havea project list as I make most of my cards to donate to charity.
Kathleen
What a beautiful card! I have so many projects for “someday”, too many to list!
Thanks for chance to win.
Wow what a lovely card!! My next project is to learn how to make shadow box cards.
Great question. . . My “someday” project is to get all our pictures, 35 years of them, into order, have them scanned and make photo memory books for our children and family tree books for our grandchildren,
Maybe this will get accomplished this summer!!!
Hi Becca, This card is stunning !! the beautiful papers, the gorgeous die-cuts, the lovely bow, and the fabulous sentiment, all ‘tie together’ this stunning card.
My ‘someday’ thing is ‘scrapbooking’, I have lots and lots of old photos of my Mum and Dad, photos of my children when they were little, etc etc etc, and every year I say “this is the year that I will start to scrapbook my photo’s” and upto now I haven’t started yet, and now I feel that if I don’t start soon it will never get started !! I need to find the time to get everything together, I know ‘tomorrow never comes’ but I really need to ‘start’ !!!
Enjoy your weekend, we have got rain, sun, heavy rain, sun, rain, sun etc etc today.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
I absolutely must get back to scrapbooking! My granddaughter will graduate from high school next year and I hope to have her scrapbooks finished by then. Only have 8 years left to go! After that I can make all the lovely cards I want!
I have such a large supply of things I have put away it has taken over a closet in my scrap room. My husband, my grandson and I are planning a trip to include a lot of the National Parks out west and go through the few states we have not been in before. I can just imagine all of the pictures and special things to scrap. I hope I can get on top of it right after we get home or it will be like our Panama Canal trip, Western Caribbean, Disney World, Boston and Washington DC pictures and other goodies. In a storage containers for that day I can get around to it.
My best someday would have to be an album that’s a tribute to my mother. She kept every card I made her, and she lived a full life for 85 years. I have pictures of most of them. I want to do an album that tells of her life and loves. As her oldest child I lived through so much with her. She was only 21 when I was born, so I was there for most of it.She was my best friend and I loved to take her picture because she was so beautiful.When I get it done, including all the cards I made for her,it should be beautiful and a way her grandchildren and great grandchild to know the wonderful person she was.
A sweetly feminine card you have shared with us today. Love the greens and pinks together. And look at all those layers – love it! I have so many “someday” projects, most of them I have been putting off for some years now, that I don’t want to think about them at this time in my life. Thinking about what all I need to do, is just too overwhelming for me now. Currently, I am making cards. Making cards is the only project I wish to do. Card making is about all the “extra” I can mentally handle right now. If and when this rain stops and the ground dries up, I will add gardening to my list of things to get done.
Another beautiful card, Becca. Thank you for sharing it.
I have so many things on my “someday” list that I’d never fit them into this little post box. I have many needlework, hand crafting, and paper projects waiting for “someday”. I think of “someday” as when I retire, which I do hope will be “someday” and that I won’t have to work forever!!
Someday
I want to stop my organizing and reorganizing all my paper and bits and pieces and be able to make the most beautiful cards like you seem to be able to do
Well, my next someday project is to finish oldest daughter’s scrapbook and get started on daughter number 2’s. She always asks me when I’m starting hers. Yes, she’s 26. I don’t want hers to take as long as the first’s. LOL!
Love your card and sentiment! Especially the background paper along with all the other beautiful elements!!
Wow as always superb Becca you just blow me away with your talent! My to do would one day make cards NEARLY as good as you many thanks for your inspiration
A lovely card! I really like the pattern paper and always love the use of the curved borders dies and your creative idea for using them.
I have two “someday” projects. My wonderful Daddy passed away July 31, 2013. I cannot believe it is almost three years. It seems like yesterday. He wrote a lot of beautiful poems, many expressing his faith. I have long wanted to put his poetry into a decorated album for my Mother. I know she would love something that reflected my Daddy. They were married a few months shy of 65 years! I would love to have it done by the end of August because my Mother will be turning 85 on Sept. 7 and we are planning a party. Once my hubby has his specialized open heart surgery at Mayo in Minnesota in June, I hope to work on this gift for my Mother. My second project is to put all my son, Jeff’s, school pictures into a decorated album. I did this for my daughter but haven’t done it for him. Perhaps for his birthday in January.
What a lovely, lovely card and sentiment!
Isn’t it fun finding things you’d forgotten?! The only problem is I think I can toss things I haven’t seen for years until I open them and they bring back the fond memories. lol. I have a pile of pictures from the years I spent doing missionary work in South America… I only have 3 pages of the scrapbook done. It always seems like I’m needing cards or other handmade gifts and they are more urgent than those old pics. Maybe some day… : )
Hi Becca. Busy weekend so very late catching up with my emails. Your card is gorgeous as always. So pretty.
Think my biggest catchup project is to go through almost 10 years of photos, put into albums and note where and when. Never enough time but it has to be done. My craft room would come a very close second though every time I start to do that, I find something I’d forgotten about snd I’m off crafting again. X
Such a pretty card – and I love the colours!
Top of my list is the sorting of photos into date order. A project long overdue, but which seems to be constantly placed on the back burner!
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Love love the bottom…awesome card, my next is to clean the pile (large ) in the middle of my large craft room….I should be ashamed…I have a large bedroom with a walkin closet…and the pile is terrible…
Love what you’ve done with this card. Your crafting vision is admirable.
Love this card, it is beautiful
Kathleen
Greetings Becca
This card is lovely the sentiment is fitting lovel background x
What a lovely card!! My “someday” project is to get my crafting stuff better organized. I keep putting it off because I know it will take “forever” to accomplish this task, but I may actually get started on it this weekend!
Hi Becca,
This is sooo pretty, love the design and those papers are gorgeous.
Love & hUgs
Jacquie J xxx
Becca, I know exactly what you mean re sorting things out I can imagine the frustration, but you still manage to create such stunning work, fabulous card indeed X X X