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It’s been a week of blessings in my life. My sweet girl finally got a job after a long time filled with doubt. It’s so hard to tell someone that things always work out, but they always do :-) I’ve been busy designing and got happy mail with new dies that I designed. It kinds of reminds me of what it used to be like when you took a picture with film — you thought it might be okay but once developed, you see the actual picture and it turns out better than you thought – bliss! Speaking of real pictures (I mean the kind you can hold in your hands), I’m always afraid that so many of our memories are stored on a hard drive or on a phone. Over the past many years I’ve been the keeper of some of my extended families real pictures – I’m scanning them so more than one of us can have them. Part of the allure of old pictures is knowing a picture was a part of someones life – it rested on a mantle, it hung on the wall, it lived in someones wallet, it was in a stack on the kitchen counter for family to peruse and remember. I try to imagine what was going on when the picture was snapped. Pictures talk! For my digital pictures, I’m diligent about backups but not so good at getting pictures printed out. That leads to my question for you today . . .
For today’s comment – Isn’t there something special about an old photograph that you know rested in someones hand, giving them joy so many years ago. Do you print your pictures or simply store them for another day?
Rubber Stamps: Retired
Craft Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Natural White 80lb Cardstock, Bazzill, My Minds Eye
Ink: Amuse – Eucalyptus
Accessories: Heirloom Flourish Die One, Spellbinders Elegant Labels Four, Spellbinders Labels Sixteen, Spellbinders Rose Creations, Recollection Pearls, May Arts Silk Ribbon
I hope I piqued some thought in you today. Happy thoughts! Have a great weekend friends!!
Beautiful card..love the colour and layers. Sorting our photos always seems to be on my to do list..love old photos and documents. Xx
Well, I only do Word and email so my husband handles all the pictures and prints out the ones I want. And yes, there is something very special about old pictures that you know meant a lot to someone. And if that old picture is of your grandparents’ young, courting life you see them in a whole new way!
I take digital pix and store them several places. This card is awesome!
Perfect timing on your message and topic. Preparing to sell our house has required going through closets, boxes, etc. Finding old, “real” photos has been a wonderful reminder of the importance of capturing and sharing memories. I tend to take photos but rarely print them. Really gotta get started on scrapbooking.
Lovely card Becca. I only print special photos. Happy weekend! Can’t wait to see your new dies.
Hi Becca what a gorgeous card the color is so elegant. Reminds me of the dresses women wore in the Roaring 20’s just beautiful. I have a copy of a very old picture of my Mama when was 16-17 years old. She had to borrow the dress and jewelry she has on-because she did not have much and needed the picture. My uncle gave me the picture and for a Christmas I had the picture enlarged to 8X10 and with a letter I wrote-I gave a copy of the picture to my sister and brothers. Of course they all had them framed. Mine is displayed and when ever I am feeling sad or going thru a hard time–I go touch her photo and I have many times talked to her. Thank you for touching me with this memory. Have a great weekend. Congratulations on your little girl getting a job–she is blessed as you. Raquel
another beautiful Becca!
oh i store and print off some photos
yhks again for sharing your creativity
I have a copy of an old photo of my father which I enlarged from a wallet sized photo that my mother carried for years in her wallet! My copy is grainy and not of the best quality but it has special meaning for me so I made a scrapbook page of it for a family album. I love the colors in today’s card! Would live to win it so that Zi could give it to a special friend for her birthday! She loves all shades of blue!
Thanks as always, Becca, for sharing.
I have a box of pictures from both sides of the family. I look at them and wish someone had written on them when/where/who/why (shouldn’t complain I didn’t do it either). I get misty-eyed when I see a picture of my dad skateboarding with my son. Daddy is in his topcoat and hat and having a ball. So is my son.
Those are the pictures I treasure and remember.
The roses are so pretty on the card. Love the sentiment – the card would rest in a place of honor – to welcome my friends.
thanks Have a wonderful day yourself.
Congratulations to your lovely daughter Becca jobs are so hard to find these days,
My Hubby prints our Photo’s so we always have 2 , just in case of accidents etc
I am always scrapbooking as i think our heritage is very important to our family as it grows .
God Bless
Elaine H X
PRINT!!!! If at all possible! I love to look at my people – family, friends, events we’ve enjoyed, nature’s beauty! But I am selective. Only so much wall space, you know! :)
Fabulous card! I really am enjoying my education in die cutting from your site! This is a terrific saying too! Have a LOVELY day! My sister has her own when she’s trying to excuse herself from a long-winded friend, Thank you so much, and have a ‘quality day’!
It’s GREAT!!!, but … looses something in the printed translation… you’d have to hear her say it to get the full benefit of her intonation :) Have a lovely day, Becca!
Big congrats on your new and beautiful dies and your daughters’ new job!! Both such wonderful news. Todays’ card reminds me of a gorgeous, midwest, victorian home! Really lovely~ Hope you have a great weekend, Rebecca
We do both. My husband is a picture fanatic. He take the camera with him wherever we go. That’s his way a “documenting” the event. He gets them developed within a couple of days and sits down and puts them in photo books. I save them from the
I gave my 11 year old grandson a decorated scrapbook for his birthday. We used to collect photos in an album that reminds us about the good times. Computers and cameras are nice but hand held albums give a special joy.
Have a blessed day Becca
Hey Becca! As always, another beautiful card! I print out my digital pictures! I love Scrapbooking and although I do not “scrapbook” all of them, I do put most in albums. People actually look through the albums but not digital storage!
Judy
Oh my goodness, Becca, old photographs are so very special. I have a lovely old wedding picture taken of my grandparents in the early 1900’s. I can just picture my grandmother holding and cherishing this picture. It brings me close
to them again, since they are now gone. Some pictures I print out and frame or keep close, and others I hold in a safe place for looking at or printing for
some special day.
Your card is gorgeous as always!!!!!!!!! thx for the chance to own a
“Becca Creation” !!!!!!, I would be sooooooo honored.
What a beautiful card Becca! Of course, all your card are beautiful and elegant – your use of dies is amazing! I print all my pictures and sometimes I even incorporate then into my hand made cards mixing paper (usually die cuts) with the pictures….makes for an interesting card!
Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
There are three phases of a photo’s lifespan: (1) the sentiment at moment the image was captured (2) the sentiment the printed image brought (resting on the mantle, in a worn wallet, by the bedside) and (3) the future sentiment that bubbles up by a generation who only know those in the photo through stories – oral and written.
Love all the layers on this card, just lovely. I have SO many pictures on my computer; use to print them but have gotten lazy about it. This will spur me on to get them printed and do some scrapbooking. I think old photos are wonderful, when we find them they bring back such wonderful memories.
Beauty of a card!
A few years back I had my mom bring down all the old slides from when I and my siblings were younger, took them to SAMs Club, and had copies made for me, mom, and my younger sisters. Love them! I have so many pictures now from cell phones, iPads, and other cameras, that I don’t know what I’ve printed and what I have not printed. I need to organize them by folders and just start getting them printed. It is so cheap to print pics now, it’s a same people just keep them locked up in thier phones, computers, and tablets.
Hi Becca, Your card is as lovely as ever and seemingly looks simple until you count the layers with mats and factor in that silk bow with hand made flowers. Keep them coming and one day I’ll catch on. Days of my Instamatic are over and unfortunately all pictures are on the computer unless I get school pictures from the grand kids and they immediately go into frames usually replacing the previous year’s photos. We have lost something without the anticipation.
Teasing us with your new dies–no pictures of them, digital or otherwise, and no available date for purchase. Can’t wait. Anticipation returns. Barbara
Becca, your card is lovely, beautiful soft colors and wonderful layers. I do both – print some pictures and store most on my computer and in my phone. Hopefully I will get them all backed up on a thumb drive to protect them
This IS LOVELY Becca! I LOOOVE the cool pastel teal & aqua that you used! The lay out is DIVINE!!! ;)
As for our pictures Becca, I have to tell you, I STILL haven’t gotten some, well ALOT of the photos from when our children were young…..that means pictures from an OLD CAMERA….where you have to have the film developed….! LOL
I am working on the 2nd scrapbook for my 11 yr. old great grandaughter. Love my pictures! You are so amazing to share your beauty with us.
I have many pictures in boxes. Now that we have a digital camera many in the camera.
Hi Becca. Love your beautiful card today – simply stunning :-) I have loads of photos stored on the computer. I don’t print off as many as I used to, but still print some for scrapbooking and special family photos to frame. Hugs xxx
I too love old photos Becca. Sometimes I will scan them and then make copies for other family members. I have a family picture of all the girls in our family and cherish it because 2 of my sisters are gone now. Pictures are the guardians of our memories.
Congratulations to your daughter on finding the job, Go girl!!. I have tons of pics save on the computer, and the ones that were on film, well I am slowly transfering them to the computer. I have framed one of my mom when she was 18 and my grandma when she was 50, they are both gone. Those pics are precious to me. The card is just perfect!
I try to print at least one from “events” (which can be parties, road trips, hobbies, etc). And just have one of those beautiful fabric covered boxes full of them. Then I know I can go back to the digital library to get more if I want to….
What a beautiful card. I love those sweet little roses. I have a lot of digital pictures that I hope to get scrapbooked some day. I just bought a comb binding machine and I hope to get my pictures printed and bound. I have my old grade school pictures from my grandma’s “brag book”. I know she loved carrying these pictures of my cousins and me.
Congratulations Becca with the new dies and also your daughters new job.
A gorgeous card and love the colours.
We have sold our house and are now clearing out the accumulated things we collected over20 years of living here.
Looked at some of the photos which are all in albums! And am so glad I did sort them out ,put names and dates with them and the many different countries we lived in.So al set for the next generation!
Have a lovely weekend Becca ,take care Jane B.
Yeah on your daughters job, my daughters Is in the same boat that your daughter was in…even though they r grown, still heart breaking when u can’t kiss it and make everything all better. Congrats on new dies, been saving $ to buy a few of your awesome dies. But dang bills just keep coming….love your card as always, so pretty. And love love the bow, I won’t ask today for bow video…thanks for all u do and all your sharing…your just the bestest!!!
I am getting better about printing my pictures out after storing soooooo many for sooooo long. Lol. It is so much easier to show a printed picture in a nice book rather than searching for minutes trying to find it on my phone. (I really am not good at setting up folders. Have managed a few by accident & then struggle with the next one.) I have a little picture printer that does a great job for me. :)
Becca, your cards are so lovely. They just make me smile!
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Becca, What a beautiful card.
Yes, you gave me happy thoughts.
I print my pictures because I like to look at them.
Also I have 6 sisters And when my parents died. I made copies of all the pictures & gave them to my sisters. They were very happy.
Sweet card! I have said for a couple of years now that I would at least scan all my boxes of photos so my four girls can have them. Well, you know how intentions go. In the days of “film” photography, you had to be somewhat discreet about the shots you took. Not so these days…I have over 1000 on just one of my digital camera disks. Definitely NOT going to print them all out! Thanks for your beautiful blog, Becca.
Your card is beautiful. I love old family photos they are my favorites. The ones I treasure the most are the ones that have a story behind them. My favorite is an old photo of my Grandmother sitting on a suitcase in front of her home in Italy, waiting to be picked up for a what she thought was a grand adventure with her cousin to America for a few weeks. As it turns out, my Grandfather had come over from Italy a few years earlier to work and raise enough money to buy land and begin a life here in the US. He had arranged for my Grandmother and her cousin to come for a vacation and if he liked her and they hit it off, he would ask her to stay. But if they did not hit it off, she would just return as originally planned. Well obviously it all worked out, because here I am. It is my favorite picture just because I know the story behind it.
Marcie
Gorgeous card Becca! Love all the layers.
Yes, I have a lot of old photos with tons of memories. I have one of my grandfather sitting in his “flatbed” truck in front of his grocery store in San Diego… 1901 … this is my favorite of the oldies.
Lovely card. Congratulations to your daughter, waiting is so hard ESP when it comes to a job. Your question about something special about photos we can hold touches me. After my Mom died I found a packet of photos like you used to pickup when you had film developed (our children barely know what that means). I had looked at the photos several times and read the penciled notes on the back of each. Suddenly one day I realized something special about that. I had not known who took the pictures. But I realized the only one not in the photos was my Grandmotber. My Mom was there, Grandpa, and his brother and family. The beautiful writing in the back said “taken with my new camera” and were taken around 1915/16. I suddenly realized the photographer had to have been my Grandmother! So, even though she died when I was only two, I know where I got my love of photography.
What a beautiful card!! I love photographs, not a big digital fan as I tend to not get them printed out. Used to be could go to Walmart and for a relatively reasonable cost print out all my pictures. Then I can just sit and look through them, recalling the memory. Now I have thousands of photos on my computer, not as much fun for me having to boot up computer and go through.
Hi Becca. I am glad your daughter got a job. I know the job market is soo competitive these days.
As for photos, I upload mine to my Walgreens. They print them up and I just pick them up when they are ready. They will also mail them to me if I want. Personally, I want a hard copy of everything. I do not trust computers to not loose my information. I put my photos in albums in the order that they were taken. I also write on the back, who, when and any info that I think my be wanted in the future. I have many photos that my parents took way back when, and do not have a clue who these people are or when they were taken, etc. Love your cards always.
So happy for your daughter and you. Sometimes things just go so right. Makes one wonder what was done to deserve the “gift”. Today’s card is a stunner. Love the combination of teal, brown/beige, off white and accented with rose/cerise. Your handmade roses are lovely. Yes, I feel there is something special about old photographs. I especially like the sepia tone ones from my family. I like to look the person/s in the photo in the eyes and see if I can “feel” their soul as I wonder what their life was like back then. I will often go through stacks of “lost” photos in antique stores and wonder who they are. I always check to see if there is a name on them. If they have a name and the photographer’s name with location, I will purchase the photo and try to locate a family member by researching census records and phone book listings. I have been successful numberous times in the past. Always the receiver is delighted to be reunited with their family. I have not printed my pictures in some time since using my phone. I really like using my camera and printing them. I need to be more disciplined and print them out and write names and dates and location on them. Wishing all a great weekend!
I print most of my pictures and put them in albums.
I have different albums for different categories of pictures. Thank you for another chance to win one of your beautiful cards. Loves, Ruthie
This is a really beautiful card Becca. Some pictures are printed and framed but mostly, they remain on the computer. We have an Apple TV and when it’s in rest mode, all our pictures come up randomly in a collage fashion, so we do see them often. I make ‘birthday books’ for special ‘big’ birthdays and use old photographs from when the person was a baby, through toddler, teenager and through their life up to present day. This is a good way to preserve old photographs but I photocopy them in order to leave the origin tact.
Doreen R from Bournemouth UK
Another beauty, Becca. So glad that you are having a good week.
I am a scrapbooker too. Sadly, the majority of my photos these days remain in digital form. I think because we take so many these days. I think it is a double edged sword. Because we can take many photos without cost we tend to take many. We do seem to place less value on them because they are abundant. Old photos, because there are few, are treasured. I do go through and print the ones that I want to scrap and preserve. I hope that they, too, will be treasured.
Do you have a list of “go to” dies that you use frequently? Have an awesome weekend!
I love the accent dies on top. I have tons discs of pictures. I have do have pictures of my daughter growing up in boxes. Have to make a book for my Daughter. ..someday..
There is something special about older photos. Ones from when my Mother was a child. We only have that one. No pictures of her as a teenager. They were too poor.
She was born in the 20’s and there weren’t many pictures of her until the late 50’s and those were few and far between.
Sadly, we don’t print any pictures anymore. We’ve never been one to hang them on the walls. We do love to look at pictures though.
Both, I have some printed and many stored for a later time. It is always great to capture special moments.
I actually do both right now. I have been doing scrapbooks of the family where I have put the old and printed the new pictures off to be used as a memory for the future generations to know about their past. I put the family tree with these books as well. It is a labour of love and memories!
Hi Becca what a lovely cardsuch a great way to use the dies and such a pretty colour combination. I am looking forward to seeing your dies , if the are half as nice as your cards they will be fabulous.
I think old photos are history’s diamonds and I am sure that many treasured memories will be lost if they are all kept on electronic devices
Wendyx
What an amazing card here again Becca, so beautiful as usual. You always manage to add something new to your cards, so our eyes has some to expirience here.
And yes it is very special to hold a picture in your hand from earlier days and people in our lifes, that´s for sure.
I´m getting much better at printing pictures out here lately, as I realized I didn´t see it as much,, when it´s just hidden on my computer, so now I print a lot out of my grandkids and have them around me all the time, so I can enjoy them much more.
I used to print pictures all the time. Lately, I just store them.
I am fortunate that I have a Sony SnapLab which I use to print out my pictures. I then use them for the scrapbooks that i create for my children and grandchildren. But I do keep all the flash drives – just because! Absolutely love this card and all the neat dies you have used. Think I might possibly be able to case it. Thanks for sharing!!
I store my photos most of the time, then print them out when I share with someone or want them for something special. I do love to go into my albums on the computer and just browse the photos over and over again. They never fail to bring a smile and wonderful memories.
I am going to try to make this card. So beautiful! So I made mini albums of the kids for both grandmas. When they passed away, I found the albums and I could tell that they had worn them out! My sister in law told me that Grandma carried it around with her everywhere. Photo importance cannot be over estimated.
I try to print pictures, putting them in my scrapbook album is another thing. This is such a beautiful card Becca. Hope you have a great week. Christine Springman
My mother is Korean and they do not like to save photos and don’t like to take pictures when they are old. So when I visited they pulled out a few that seemed to have survived the joy on my mother’s face was priceless as she saw her parents in their younger years. I took picures of those photos and now they are displayed in her home and she realizes how wonderful it is to capture theses moments.
gorgeous card as always. thanks for sharing with us. congrats to your daughter.
I love old pics especially if there is a story to go with them. as for my own, I like the digital. I like that you can see them right away and know if you need to take another because your head has been cut off. I have many albums from when I was in my 20’s and if digital hadn’t come along they would have to have their own special house. I don’t have many pics from when I was younger so I made sure I took plenty of the family as I grew up. I still like pics to this day. I just love to store them so easily. every now and then I think of what will happen to media when the next and the next and the next thing comes along. hopefully it will be able to be archived.
Lovely card. The colors and pearls are perfect. You always make the most beautiful cards. Wish I could come up with these ideas. I love old pictures and also wonder about them too. I remember my mother had an old suitcase full of pictures and I used to love to go through them. Too bad name and dates were not on all of them. I do make copes of my photos as well as storing them in the computer.
Becca, I love this card! It’s so nice to see what you create with some of our older dies – I need the inspiration!! But I am also looking forward to what you will create with your new dies. You sure do keep it exciting!
To answer your question about old photos, I sadly do not have much interest in them. (Probably because I don’t have children!)
Good afternoon Becca,
Nice day here in central Florida and a beautiful card to go with the day. So happy for the good news for your daughter and her getting a job. Would love to own this card; it’s exquisite!
My hubby is always hollering (lol) at me – “Did you print those pictures out?” I download them to the computer and figure I can do that *_(print trm out anytime.” Except anytime never seems to get here.I mean well and most of the time I eventually get around to it. That is the only thing I PROcrastinate about .
Hugs
Mstgane
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Beautiful card and I love the rose buds! I keep more photos on the computer these days but before I was in to computers I took a lot of pictures, had them printed and stored them. I have a big album but that was done years ago when I had more time to devote to it. However, I really like to look at the older printed photos saved because there is something about holding it my hand to look at and remembering those peoples, times and places.
You amaze me with your stunning cards! Opening your blog is like opening a gift for me! So inspiring. I always print my photos and file them in a photo box chronological order because I am an avid scrapbooker and card maker. I date each event on a file card with each set of photos so I can always go back later and know when and where or who. I find it’s too easy to forget if it isn’t written down.
Very pretty card, Becca. I have ordered some of your dies and am looking forward to using them. Sadly, I do not print my photos out. I am soon going to take some old photographs to my uncle for him to look at. I am sure that they will bring up lots of conversation and memories!
Becca, Having just recently found your blog, I am in awe of your designs. Todays card is just 1 example of the many I have admired. I cherish old photos now more than ever. Our parents and most aunts and uncles have passed away, their group pictures bring back very fond memories. I enjoy the convenience of digital storage, but some photos beg to be printed. Thank youfor all your inspiration. Kaths
After losing some precious photos of my mom when a hard drive crashed, I’m very diligent about making backups! But I’m afraid I’m not YET that good at printing them out. I want to make albums to store these memories, but time is always an issue at the moment. If the Lord spares me, I know that when this season of raising children & homeschooling is over, I will have more time to actually print them out and store them in the pretty way I so long to: homemade scrapbook albums. I have made a start though – made one album. Just need to get the photos in there now :)
Wonderful news about your daughter! So pleased for you both.
Such a pretty card today :o) Someone is going to be very thrilled to own it!
I love anything old and try to imagine the lives of the people depicted in photos, previous occupants of old houses, former congregations in Churches etc. Family history fascinates me and I just love the old family Bible and scrapbook with the names and contributions of people from a century ago. I wonder if our children will share that same fascination!
I’m not very good at remembering to take photographs, but when I do, I sometimes print them, though there are more saved than I print.
Hugs
Anne (UK) x
Oh, goody, it’s Friday!
Your card is refreshing to my eyes on this hot summer day. So lovely.
When I came to the realization that pictures would sit in boxes waiting to be framed or put in a scrapbook, I started storing them. When I was little, my grandma had a big basket of photos on her living room table. It was so much fun to sit on the couch with my sisters look at them, some of them were of us as babies. I just got a warm, delightful feeling just thinking about that! My grandma and my parents are gone now – and those photos are all the more precious.
Love and blessings,
Sandy
Gorgeous card! Love your use of dies! I do print some photos but store most until I am ready to use them in a scrapbook or some type of papercraft project.
Beautiful card, Becca, thanks for the chance to win.
Our photos are all stored on the computer, but some are being printed out and framed ;))
Hi Becca, a beautiful card as always. I just love the way you make the dies sing!
As to your question today, I do a little of both. Most of my photos are stored on my computer, but those that I treasure are printed and framed. I have two small grandbabies now and they tend to be the focal point. I have my favorites made into my iPhone case. That means that there are at least two cases made each year….they grow so fast :)
Congrats to your daughter. I’m sure she has a weight off her shoulders, as do you! I’m off to track down your new dies :))
I hope you have a terrific weekend. Diana
Pictures are very precious to me as when I moved to be with my husband my own mother destroyed every picture she had of me. So I have lots of current pictures backed up on hard drives and DVD’s and the ones that I really like I printed out and put in photo albums.
Hi Becca, A stunning card, very pretty colours and beautiful die-cuts.
I love photos, I love touching them, I love the nostalgia you get when you remember the time and the place. Sadly I have started taking piccies with my phone, I send them to my email and keep them in a file, but it is never the same as actually holding a photo !!
Lots of love from Patricia xx
Good Day! Congrats to your daughter on the Job!!
I do print my pictures! not all of them but the ones that I will
scrapbook and the special occassion pictures as wll. I still have pictures on the mantle and on the wall. One of my hallway walls has nothing but a collage of pictures with a cling statement saying; The Best Things In Life Are NOT Things!!
Have a lovely weekend
hugs
After years of storing photos in shoe boxes, I finally determinedly sorted and actually put them into albums that were piled up high waiting to be filled. I promised myself to never repeat that again especially with age creeping up and memories fading. Today I immediately file all photos and print out the ones that I want to display or showoff. It’s so easy to put off doing this simple chore but I find that by forcing myself to complete it I can actually relax, feel good about keeping with this resolve and enjoy the photos digitally or in hand.
I am in awe of this beautiful card, Becca! It’s absolutely stunning and would be a card anyone would be blessed to receive. Thank you for being so generous.
In 1972, i learned the importance of keeping pictires safe. My daughter was just 15 months old when we lost everything we owned in a major flood. My extended family did what they could to replace ny daughter’s baby pictures but i was always careful to keep extra copies of our photos stored elsewhere. Today, our pictures are primarily stored on discs. I keep them labeled and in binders where I can access them. In an emergency, i can grab the binders and go. I scrapbook so I tend to print or have printed the pictures I want to scrapbook. I don’t scrapbook chronological so I pick pictures that inspire me or tell a story to print. I have also scanned into my computer many old family pictures and transfered them to discs so there are backups for these precious pictures. This was a great question and made me rethink how I’m protecting our puctures. I need to make copies of the discs and store off site so they are doubly protected.
I love the old photos of my grandparents. On some my mother was able to tell me a little about them. I store and print pictures. My grandchildren love looking at them and giggling over the clothes I dressed their dads in when they were young. Your picture is again beautiful and just right with those dies. Have a blessed weekend full of His grace.
I print my photos, have tons of photo albums!
Congratulations on your new dies and on your daughter’s new job. Best of luck to her. This card is so lovely. I take a lot of pictures and I’m way behind on printing. I do prefer the printed photo to the digital one. I add a photo to the inside of most of my cards. And sometimes the photo winds up being the focal point on the front of the card. Hope you’re having a beautiful day!
What a lovely card, Becca! I prefer real photos – you can imagine where they’ve been and the loved ones who got to smile over them. It’s a wonderful way of remembering with joy and being a part of something special – and you can even hug it if you want!!
Such a gorgeous card! Love the color. In answer to your question, I print out the important pics but the rest stay on my EHD. I doubt anyone will ever find all of them. I never get around to deleting the unimportant ones.
Hi Becca, a photo is a moment in times gone by that you can cherish forever, lovely card.
Rene from OZ xx
Oh Becka your description oh holding on to an old photo brought me to tears. I love holding in my haves an old photo I know was in someone’s treasure. I especially like those that I know we’re near and dear to my late husband. I can picture him holding it in his hands and smiling at the memory it held.
Love this card it is just gorgeous. Thanks for your inspiration. I can’t wait to see your new dies
What a pretty card – love that French blue, dusky pink combo. So nice!
Mostly I store on hard drive, share with appropriate folks. Occasionally print some off to have in hand. We don’t take as many pictures as a lot of folks do.
Have a lovely weekend, Becca. Thanks again for another inspirational card and question!
Joni
I actually do both. Scan , store and keep! I separate old family photographs and package up afterwards to send to the next family member. I always think , wonder who all held this same old back n white snapshot all them years ago. I wonder too who had the money to have them took and who took them!
Hi Becca,
Congratulations to your daughter on her new job & congratulations on your new dies, I can”t wait to see them!
A few years back my son had a school project about his family tree. We asked all family members if they had any old photos we could copy. We were lucky enough to go back as far as almost all my children’s great great grandparents. Unfortunately we are missing one set, so I always wonder what they looked like & who they were. Although the ones we did get were amazing & showed a lot of family heritage. A photo puts a face to those stories your parents & grandparents used to tell you about their childhood.
I am a lover of scrapbooking & try to print out most my photos! I scrapbook the special ones & put the rest in albums. I hope that one day people can go back & see my family’s stories.
Have a lovely weekend! x
Another lovely card!
I am fortunate to have my mums photos which date back to about 1850.
this includes my Grandmothers wedding photo which is hand coloured. Such treasures to be sure! Fashions change and the photos take us back in time.
I’m afraid I am one of those people who keeps the photos. And I have very few. My apartment was broken into and vandalized several years before the computer age. Most of my photos and other important documents were torn up and soaked by various jars of liquid that were smashed on the floor (most notably a table full of mason jars of pickles and food I had just canned). I saved enough to make 3 small photo albums, one for each of my daughters, that showed them from birth to teens with whatever I had salvaged. I have a few photos of my grandparents and aunts and uncles that will be my next project. In each case, by the time I could face working with the pictures I had, I was able to color copy them. Once I have given all that I have of these copies (in albums) to my daughters, it will be up to them to do whatever they would like with them. They keep photos via their computers. Whenever I want to do a layout page of one of my grandkids to frame or create a piece of altered art with, I can access it on my computer. My poor husband was given the job of going through the photos his parents had collected over the years (6 packing boxes like the ones you purchase at Staples) when they passed away. The idea was that he should bundle them as he thought interesting to his 3 siblings. A horrendous task that he never could face doing. After about 6 years, we moved to a smaller house and had no room for these boxes. So he shipped 2 cartons to each sibling after a quick glance through for things he might want. So much easier to view and choose what to keep these days!
Oh Becca that card is delicious!!
I love handling old photos, specially those of my mother or grandmother from ‘way back’ and in black and white. I am not diligent about printing photos now, but I do have a lot of my more recent photos (of the grandies) stored on an hard drive that I must get some printed from…
Blessings
Maxine
Love your cards and your ideas. After seeing your August 9th post I went to my local Tuesday Morning and I was lucky and found The 7 Gypsies ATC Card Holder, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They only had the one left, the manager said they got 4 of them in the week before. Can’t wait to start using it. Thanks for all your wonderful ideas.
I love my old pictures of family and loved ones who have passed on to heaven, I print my pictures so that I can scrapbook them but I also have the special ones on the computer and backed up so I hope will never lose them
Lovely card today. Love the use of the different dies. I print the pictures off my phone and place them in an inexpensive photo album. Only until I get the time to “scrapbook” them—don’t know when that will be, LOL. My doing this, my grandson can look at his pictures without using my phone, and we can discuss all the fun we had. I have purchased different albums for vacations, Steam Engine Shows, Holidays, play time, etc. He picks out the one he wants and we “read” the pictures. He’s only 3, but this is a happy time for us.
Beautiful card as usual. Love the flowers with the bow. I used those flowers just today. I’m working on a project for Halloween & sprayed the flowers black. They turned out surprisingly pretty.
I rarely take pictures with my phone but do have a digital camera. I got into the habit early on to look through them, delete the bad ones & then print out the good, saving a copy on my computer & occasionally backing them up on a exterior hard drive. I suspect I should save them to the “cloud” as if there’s a fire, saving them to a separate drive really doesn’t help, does it?
I love to look at old photos of my Mom taken during WWII. They are so cute & she looks so innocent.
Dear Becc, My house is filled with pictures. I love seeing them and some are very old, like my grandmother when she was a young woman. I like to print my pictures, but usually at a photo store since they apply more ink and last longer. When family members arrive and want to see pictures I have them ready, usually in a box. My daughter has made me some small 8×8 scrapbooking books, usually Christmas ones which I cherish and the younger grandchildren love to browse through them all the time. Thank you Becca, and have a great day.
what a Beautiful card love the layering. I store them in the computer. and when I need to get a photo I do. thanks. I gave a photo of my Mom and my Daughter and her Daughter that is 4 Generations very cool thanks
Hi Becca,
Love your card. I like to print my pictures and some I have scrapbooked, the older ones sure bring back memories, of people and places. Glad to hear your daughter got a job, and you have new dies coming out.
Keep safe hope the storm does not affect you.
I print out my pictures as I scrapbook and I always put the dates on them. Always thought I would remember when they were taken but alas that didn’t happen so I am going through the pictures trying to remember when they were taken. After I have them printed I have a CD made so they are always there. Have non stored on computer as if you don’t back them up if your disc goes you lose them. Beautiful card.
Love your card Becca and what a nice card for someone to find in their mailbox, it would definitely get their day started on the right foot and in the right mind set. Also love the multiple dies that you used, right up my alley for sure.
Love your card…the colors and the die cuts are so pretty! I have tons of photos from past years so now I don’t print my more current ones. Years ago I got into paper crafting to do scrapbooks but some how cards and other projects took over. Maybe next year I will try get back to scraping but cards will always be my first love!!!
Hey Becca….I’m running out of compliments! ALL your cards are amazing!
Hope your day was lovely too! I have digitized the photos and shared with family members! Everyone, young and old really enjoys telling and hearing the stories that go with the pictures!
Hi Becca, I store my photos on the cd, which I have always min 1 backup cd or dvd. But this is so fragile! I don’t like it so as fast as I can I print them (photo service) and then I make album :) I choose best of the best photos and make mini album for members of my family. :)
Hugs Katarina
Thanks for sharing your talents with us all, I go to a class on Thursdays and our teacher has told us to be sure and sign up for your web-site.
This is a beautiful card would like to try this one.
thanks, Jo
sometimes I print my pics and sometimes just save them. I used to print pics of my daughter to use on my christmas cards but at 19 she doesn’t want me to do that any more. It was fun while it lasted!
Beautiful again! I print my favs….of course with digital you snap away like crazy knowing your chip holds a thousand photos. And pick the best to print. I do miss the little film case. Great little storage containers.
I love the beautiful card, and all the layers. I print some of my pictures and store some for another day.
Love your card! The muted colors are so pretty! To answer your question, I have a ton of photos that are printed. I’m making scrapbooks for both daughters and have a lot of printed photos until about 2005. After that, most of mine are stored in iPhoto with an external hard drive to back it all up. As I get to needing the digital ones I orient than out. That being said, I have photos of my sweet grandmothers that date back into the early 1900’s and those are such treasures to me!
I have a question for you. If you can’t answer here maybe for another day? I have your fantastic bow maker and the CD that came with it. So my question is re: the bow on this card. Do you make it that same as other multi-loop, but just add many more loops? It’s a beautiful bow! :)
I get that way with photos as well. It is not just the photo, though. The writing on the back of the photos really gets to me. Some of the older photos I have tell a whole story – “Mom and Dad at Uncle Phil’s wedding. Cousin Seema was 2”. I love the backs of the photos nearly as much as the front, especially if they were penned by someone who has passed.
I love old photos. I love seeing my parents & grandparents in old photos and wonder what they were like when they were young. Do you ever wish you could have met them when the were younger just to talk to them and see their younger self – I do. I print photos into photo books so I have them for everyone to see but I also print some and scrapbook them. I have sooooo many photos that I’d break the bank if I printed them all :-)
Thanks for sharing this beautiful card. I love seeing all your gorgeous creations.
Love this beauty!
What a gorgeous card! The color combination is spectacular and something I have never thought about putting together!
I look forward to each and every post and would be so honored to receive this card for “The Friday Day of Giving”!
Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
Your card is so beautiful!!
not so much any more, but I used to. One year after my parents died, I had the family pictures and my brothers wanted copies, so that year for Christmas, I covered photo albums with fabric and lace and put their picture on the front, printed on computer printer fabric, and with all the photos I printed, gave my 3 brothers and my sister a set of all the family photos and an album to put them in. it was a lot of work, but I am glad I did it as my oldest brother has since passed away.
Stunning card! I too have loads of pictures to get scanned. . . Going to make the pictures into family tree books for my sons 2 children. As for a specialty picture, I cherish pictures of my boys with my parents, they hold many, many memories.
Hi Becca,
Most of my older photos are stowed away in boxes. I do keep my wedding album and look at it occasionally. You have called me back to the things in life that are important, including the written word. I have an older friend who I correspond with, via my handmade cards. Thank you for encouraging me to keep this art alive and giving me the inspiration I need for my next card.
Wanda
Morning Becca, a gorgeous card really beautiful, you have got everyone reminiscing about old photos it is true like you I have lots of photos in boxes and albums I am intending to do some scrapbooks with them I have done a couple for my grandchildren but I have serif now so I can do them on laptop so I have to scan them all in but they aren’t real photos are they but I will still have originals.
Nancyd xx
Hello Becca love the card the colours are pretty someone will have a
treasure to inspire them !
It sounds like you and yours have had a happy week so happy to hear
about your daughter getting her job it’s a huge thing these days well done !!!
As for your happy mail if anyone deserves it you do GO GIRL !!!
My photos are another story I do scrapbooking as well as cards but I will need to live to 100 to get them done LOL .
I just print the special ones…I would rather spend my money on stamping supplies…
Becca, your cards and I do mean all your cards are just so gorgeous!!!
Hello Becca,
This is so beautiful.
I have learned the lesson of cataloguing my photo’s. I have so many that have been handed down and I have no idea who is on them, so I make sure that I write who is whom on the back. Then I scrapbook – but I have soooo many.
Maureen xxx
Hello Becca,
This is so beautiful.
I list on the back of photographs who is on them. I learned to do that after my parents died and I had no idea who was on them.
Maureen xxx
Well Becca, I usually do about half and half, but as of late I’ve not printed many. I usually wait till someone has a sale on prints, (i.e. Rite-aid, Walgreens, etc). I take a lot of photos and professional printing can be expensive.(**)Love this card. The design is impeccable, and the colors divine.
Beautiful card! I tend to store my pictures on the computer these days, I should probably start printing again. One of the best pass times I remember on my yearly visits back home (2,000 miles away) was to sit around the dining room table with my mom & siblings lookin through all the black & white photos of our childhood and reminiscing!
Hello, just wanted to say that I love the ways you do your bows. Do you have a former that you use they are always so perfect. Being a retired florist I have made a few bows in my time but they are not the sort that are suitable for cards. Would love to know how you do it.
Lynda
Hi Becca,I just love love love this card it’s gorgeous, stunning,fabulous it’s everything beautiful!!!
I didn’t post yesterday :( my gizmo was playing up!!!
I think I’ve fixed it : )
I’m so pleased for you and your daughter!!! All good things come to those who wait : )
Modern technology argggh it drives me insane!!! but if I didn’t have it I wouldn’t be able to see your beautiful Amazing Paper Grace!!!
I think, oh goodness me, I sound ancient, that good old photos are best, what’s the point of having 100s of images on gizmos that you never print!!!
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lynda xxx
Love the card Becca, and would be proud to own it. In answer to your question, I treasure my actual photos, and have some lovely older ones from previous generations, but don’t actually print out my digital ones Just not enough time in my life to do everything.
I just adore your card Becca, the colours and those pretty dies all go together so well. I tend to store pictures, but love to print special pictures out. I recently made a birthday card for my brother with some photos I took on his farm. He was delighted with it.
I print quite a few photos although not as many as I used to. I love holding and looking at old ones! They are so precious!
Beautiful card! I like to hold my pictures in my hand but now I find that I have so many it is impossible to print them all off lol
What a beautiful and calming card. It can be for either man or woman.
Much Aloha and Mahalo
It is about 50-50 as far as printing or keeping those pictures.
A beautiful card as always, thank you for inspiring me to try to make crds.
Apparently, I’ve missed this week and next week’s Friday Giveaway. I cannot imagine how I let that happen but a major pain medication adjustment has left me feeling unable to think of more than one thought at a time. I guess that’s what happens when the medications are increased but I’m definitely not pleased! I hope I make sense as my wonderful hubby says I’ve made a few odd statements since the medication change. Hoping for improvement in my cognitive skills as I adjust.
This card is lovely. Everything you create is unique and heartwarming. I love digital photography because we can take so many photos without running out of film, we know whether we got a good picture and we can delete the unsalvageable pictures. I take so many more pictures than I ever did with film. I store pictures on my computer and phone but I try not to leave them there without a backup. I generally store my pictures on discs, which I keep in photo books. Since I’m still recovering from complications related to my broken bones, I’m afraid I’m behind in making that extra copy. Fortunately, my computer is backed up off site but I need to get my pictures on my phone stored in a better place. I need to do that soon but at least they are on a memory card.
beautiful as always!