My Grandma Rose sang when she was happy, and it wasn’t until years later that I realized most of the songs she sang were by Doris Day. Que Sera, Sera was one of her favorites.
I thought it would make a sweet print for Eleanor, though I did take a little liberty with the lyrics. Doris asks her mother, “Will I be pretty, will I be rich?”, and she asks her sweetheart the line about rainbows. I transposed them because I thought it was better for a little girl’s room that way, and the fact that I could make “RAINBOWS” in rainbow colors may have swayed me a little too.
You may download and print this PDF for your own personal use. The file is 8″x10″, so it will print nicely on a sheet of paper. I used card stock and a white wooden frame from Target.
I’d love to see it if you put this print in your own home too!
151 comments
Ilaria
This is so sweet!
I like singing “Que sera, sera” too! Loved Doris Day’s movies!
Shona Baird
The Que Sera Sera print is wonderful – I sing this to my little ones as my Mum used to sing this to me when I was young, and she is no longer here so this will be a great way to have a happy memory around the house. Thank you xxx
Maggie Zam
I love this! Thank you!
Rian van Alebeek
Hello
Really nice!
Can i use it for my wooden blocks to sell?
Like this:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=500100280021558&set=a.500017433363176.115010.100000647705984&type=3&theater
Are they rights free?
Like to hear from you! Like you’re site!
Greets,
Rian
Making it Lovely
Thanks for asking, but these are for personal use only.
Mery
I really love this print and I really want to display it on my daughter’s birthday party. But I can’t download it (it seems there is a file damage or something like that). Could you please email me the file to meryatmodjo@gmail.com. I really appreciate your help. Thanks…
Oum
I just love how you made the song lyrics your own ! Will definitely keep this in my favorite for my girl’s next bedroom :)
Kaelie
Talent. That’s what you have: Talent. How did you create the water color effect? Did you use photoshop or illustrator?
Making it Lovely
I used Photoshop for the effect.
Laura @Ms Smartie Pants
I’m new to your blog and just saw this. I love it! I sang that song to all 4 of my kids when they were little. The oldest is about to turn 31 and the youngest is 17. Great memories! And as for taking liberty with the lyrics, my first 3 were boys so yep I have done that too! This is just lovely, I will have to print it and keep it in my “one day I’ll be a grandma” box!
Elle
Thank you for this. I used it as part of my living room gallery wall.
http://elleborates.blogspot.com/2011/09/house-and-home.html
Ashley S
I absolutely adore this. It reminds me so much of grandma. I’m definitely going to print and hang it up somewhere. :)
Robin
My mom recently passed away and will miss seeing her first great grandchild. She sang this to us as kids- the song is well known in the family….I’m going to print this and give it as a gift next Saturday at the baby shower. It’s sure to bring lots of happy tears! Thank you! And thank you for changing up the lyrics!
Deebi27
Que Sera, Sera – this rings so loud in my memory. This is one of those Mom (has been gone 31 yrs now :o() memories that I don’t have the chance to bring back so easily. YOU made that spark this evening! Thank you for this, as I heard my Mother say this to be oh so many times as a child/ teenager growing up!
Sammi
I just printed this and framed it in an Ikea white frame for my friend’s little girl who recently turned 5… and it turned out so pretty! Thanks for sharing your gorgeous creation :)
Abby
This is just lovely, how kind to share it! x
Shannon@amomsyear
Thank you for the print download! I love this song AND Doris Day. (And the movie she sang it in.) Gorgeous nursery…we’ve passed through the nursery stage (sigh), but it’s still fun to look. :-)
charmaine
so absolutely pretty! I’m gonna have it printed and mounted on my wall.
thank you so much nicole! it will definitely bring a nice burst of lovely color to my room!:) thank u thank u.:)
Sharon
I was wondering how you got the rainbow text have that water color effect.
Rachel
This reminded me a great brazilian song, “O que Será?”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gjv64g6_oc&feature=related
jenny
Thanks! I found the jpeg copy for my girls’ room. My grandmother used to play her Doris Day albums all the time and I used to tell my grandpa that I loved him “1 million purple rainbows” -my two favorite things when I was 5. Rainbows are special in my house. Sweet memories of the world’s greatest grandparents. Thanks!
Alichia
Totally going to print and frame for my 3 month old niece, Lacey Olivia :)
Thanks!
QingyuanMama
Thanks from my 9-year old and me! I just sang her the song, she loves the print, and we’re going to print and hang. You’re so sweet to share these things.
Becky k
Oh I just love this but it’s not letting me download it. Do you know why? Am I doing something wrong ? :)
Making it Lovely
I’m not sure why some people are having problems, but you can grab the jpeg version instead if you can’t get the PDF to work.
Rachael
This just made my day! I love this song and actually have Doris Day on vinyl and play it on my record player pretty often. Thanks for the happy little bit of sunshine!
nina
Thanks for sharing. I print it and love it;)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1883672205770&set=a.1025704797121.2005439.1060313108&type=1&theater
Making it Lovely
Nice!
Vanessa Paris
The link won’t download for me :( Her room is just darling ♥
Laura
Love this print. I am framing it for my sister for her birthday. We used to sing the song with my mom when we were little girls. Thanks for sharing the print with us! :)
Rosa @ flutterflutter
Absolutely beautiful print. That is so sweet of you to share it with everyone!!
Jaime
I love this SOO much! My mom and I used to sing this song! I am sooo framing it!
melimba
thank you! what a sweet print!
Anne Marie
I will definitely use this!! Thanks for sharing :)
Gladys
Thank you, this is lovely.
Clara
I love that print! I tried to download, but am getting an error.
Making it Lovely
I’m not sure why, but here’s a direct link to the jpeg version.
Vanessa Paris
me too :(
DrBabyMamaDrama
I love it. I printed one out for my daughter’s room yesterday.
nic {luzia pimpinella}
thank you so much … this is so cute! <3
Tracy
I downloaded, printed, framed and hung it. Thanks, it’s really cute. :o)
Kristen
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for for a friend’s daughter’s birthday present – thank you! Would you mind sharing the fonts you used? I’m thinking of making a companion piece that I’d love to match. Cheers!
luuvely
this is really sweet..posts like these make me wish i had a baby girl :)…
but I’ll definitely put this in my office and send a pic! :)
Ali
I love those curtains!
Did you change out the curtains in your daughter’s room?
Are they from land of nod like the bedding for your daughter’s bed?
~ Ali
Making it Lovely
No, these are the curtains that are still up in the nursery (from Pottery Barn Kids). I took the photo there, but I’ve since moved the print into Eleanor’s room.
Kristy Life n Reflection Photography
This is so cute!!
mp
so cute!!
Charisma
Thanks for posting this, Nicole. My mom sang that song to me all the time while I was growing up. Now that she’s moving out of the state next week, I’d be great to put it up in my one-year-old’s bedroom as a reminder of her grandmother. Thanks again!!
daria
Such a beautiful print! Eleanor will love the story of how your grandmother used to sing this song. I have a pile of prints waiting to be framed in my daughter’s room, and I think I will put your print on the top of them all.
Stephanie
Thank you! Your lovely print now hangs in a kitchen in Stockholm, Sweden.
Darcy
I was scanning your website looking for where you bought this when I realized you were giving it to us! Thank you so so much! How wonderful! You made my day!
Darcy
georgia
That’s amazing! Love the concept and the fonts and the frame. Thanks for sharing!! I hope you get inspired for something similar for a boy’s bedroom ;)
Beth@Just{Heart}It
LOVE this! Makes me wish I had a girl! :-)
ArticulateArt
That’s lovely! Thanks for sharing!
Lily
Perhaps you would like to use the actual Spanish letters and symbols, if your font allows it. It would read:
¿Qué será, será?
caro
Oh, Nicole, this is so beautiful! My best friend is pregnant and I think this print would look beautiful in her new kidsroom. Thank you so much. I think I have to go and tell my readers about this … xoxo caro
Kate
Lovely (of course)! I sing this song to my girls all the time and now my 4 year old sings it to our newborn. It’ll be perfect for their shared bedroom.
Anna @ IHOD
Nicole, I absolutely love this print….especially because I am such a huge Doris Day fan and that song is one of my faves:) Thanks for the download!
Leslie
I absolutely love this! Might have to put it up when we move this summer…
Michelle
This is so generous. Thank you for sharing such a lovely picture. Just finishing my daughter’s room so this will be perfect.
Darcy
Thanks so much! I just got a new printer this morning and tried out really thick card stock – worked perfectly and the print is gorgeous!
Darcy
Just snapped an Iphone pic of your lovely print. I used cream corduroy card stock. Thanks again.
http://tinypic.com/r/2qxn9lz/7
Making it Lovely
Yay!
uchenna
Oh how lovely! Thank you so much Nicole and Eleanor!
monique
Such a cute print…i’m in the middle of designing my daughter’s nursery and this would be perfect…thanks for sharing.
Amanda
What a cute poster. If our baby turns out to be a girl, this will be going in her nursery. Perfect!
Bobbi
I love that song! Thank you for the beautiful poster:)
Little Gray Pixel
What a lovely poster!
Mandy Stribling
SO pretty!!!! I love it, and can also see this as a GREAT shower gift!
Brittany
This is just perfection. You are so talented and have the best style (and ideas). I LOVE this. My mother (and Grandma) said this phrase as well.
Catherine
Thank you! Thank you!
This couldn’t have come at a better time! We’ve just started putting together our nursery and I’ve been looking for lovely things like this to have on the wall. I’ll have to send you a picture when we’re all done!
Cx
Carla
This is beautiful, thank you!
Cristina
Nicole! Thank you so much! This will go perfect in my guest room! I’m in the process of choosing prints to put in my guest room, and I already have the perfect white frame for it!
Alanna
Too cute! I am totally using this! Thanks so much! I’m also going to link here from my little blog so others can pick it up!
Debbie
Thank you, I love it and it’s going up in my daughters room too. Thank you for the creative inspiration!
adrienne
Thanks for making this available Nicole. It seriously rocks. I am pregnant now, but not sure yet if it’s a boy or girl… But I might put it in a boy’s room anyways :)
Not sure what my husband will say however!
Rebecca @ beautiful square feet
Thanks Nicole! If we have a girl, this is definitely going on her wall! In the meantime, it may have to go somewhere in our house anyway! It looks lovely in Eleanor’s room!
Ash
THANK YOU!! I love this – had to blog about it here: http://featherandinkblog.com/ – so cute thank you! What a lovely gift.
Making it Lovely
Thanks, Ash!
Julie Anne
I had no problems printing it out bith a test run in greyscale and a high quality color run. perhaos the printer brands and/or drivers make a difference. i’m an all-HP household.
At any rate, many thanks for sharing your design for the print with all of us. Truly a lovely gift for your loyal readers!
cory
oh.my.goshgolly! this is just too stinkin cute! you are so creative and have so many great ideas. i love coming here for inspiration :)
also, even though i am not pregnant yet (ahem….to be married in october though!) i fully plan on doing the picture taking a la baby eleanor when i am (hopefully) blessed with one of my own. totes stealing that idea!
love it, thank you :)
Making it Lovely
Yes, please do the picture project! I love it when other people start their own versions.
Erika
Thank you for the download!
Emily
Ahhh makes me want a lil girl!
Lizzie
LOVE this!! Have you heard the Pink Martini version? It’s pretty fabulous!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Bk4EtqCYk
We are having Björk song lyrics embroidered to hang in our daughter’s nursery. Can’t wait to see the finished result!
Making it Lovely
I have that version as well! It has a kind of creepy carnival undertone to it… but in a good way.
And embroidered Björk lyrics sounds like a fantastic idea.
Elizabeth
Love it! Off to listen to the song
Lauren
So sweet! Can I ask what program you used to make this?
Making it Lovely
I used Photoshop.
Diana Smith
Very pretty! Are you a graphic designer?
Making it Lovely
I used to offer web and graphic design as Smart & Lovely. I’m just not able to take clients these days.
kate g.
hmm… i can’t seem to get this to download correctly. i keep just getting a blank file. can anyone help?
thanks so much for sharing!
Lydia
Kate, I had the same problem! I circumvented it by clicking on the actual image itself (not the “download” links), which took me to the Flickr posting of the image, which I was then able to download as a JPEG. Printed to cardstock it is now pinned up on my office wall awaiting a frame.
Soooo cute (and one of my favorite songs, btw: I sing it to my son all the time, just like my mom did with me) – a very big Thank You!!!
kate g.
awesome, it worked! thanks so much for the help!
Making it Lovely
Smart solution! Here’s the direct link in case anyone else would like to try it that way.
Making it Lovely
Uh oh! Anyone else having any problems? I’m using a new service for the download link, but I thought I had set it up correctly.
Ali
Sorry, I’m no help. I had no trouble at all with the download. Then I printed it quickly onto card stock on my home printer!
Thanks so much! :) I’m going to tell my daughter, Ava Grace that my LOVELY friend gave this to her as a gift! :)
I’ll be sure to email you a pic once I buy a frame and hang it in her room!
~ Ali
Kristen
Awesome… I was just looking at an 11×14 white frame I have …and an empty spot on my daughter’s wall, wondering what to do with it. Seriously – yesterday, in fact.
Thank you so much – this is perfect!
Amanda
This is so cute. The fonts are so lovely. I would love to know what the smaller font is called? (ie: here’s what my mother said)
Making it Lovely
Suomi Hand.
Emily
Modern yet pretty at the same time. Will you be doing more of these? Such a great idea.
Mrs. Foot
How adorable! Thanks for the printable!
Ali
Thank you so much! This is super cute! I’m going to print it for my daughter, Ava Grace’s room! She is 4 1/2 and loves rainbow! Thank you for the sweet gift!
Where did you buy your frame!?! I’d love to copy you on that too!
Thanks again for the beautiful gift you shared with all of us your readers!
I’m curious about the font?
~ Ali
Making it Lovely
Yes, Target for the frame. Which font were you curious about?
Making it Lovely
Thanks! The first font is Verna (which I posted about here), and the other is Knockout.
Ali
I know we are probably around the same age ( I may be older)! But,I seriously wish I had had a mother like you! :)
I was curious about the font you used for “will we have” and “day after day”and then also font you used for “RAINBOWS”!
Land of Nod should hire you to do some of their wall art pieces! :) You have such a neat sense of style and fun!
~ Ali
Kristin Cronk
Target.
Adriana
Nice! I am looking for art for my daughters room! I will definitely share once its up. Thanks!! :-)
Kristin Cronk
Adorable! Just out of curiosity, what is the font you’re using for the smaller type? Its by far one of the loveliest handwritten fonts I’ve seen in a very long time!
Making it Lovely
Suomi Hand. It’s the font I use all over the site.
Kristin Cronk
Thanks! I adore it!
Katie
Love this! Thank you!
jja
I love that song. Great art on your wall.
Beth
This is so cute! And it’s really kind of you to make it a free printable. :)
Ali
Thank You! Just printed this and will frame! I’m giving it to a friend who is in the hospital for the next 6 weeks on bed rest. She is pregnant and is having a girl. Now she will have something beautiful to look at in her room that she can then put in her daughters room when the baby is born! Thank you for sharing!
Making it Lovely
So nice.
Chelsea
Awesome, thanks for giving it away. My daughter *loves* this song, and her birthday is next week! Guess what she’s getting…
PS she also loves pink. =)
amy
am printing for my daughter’s room and it will make a great gift, too!!
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