Happy new week, everyone!! I'm honored to be guest designing in The Shabby Tea Room this week, with this beautiful photo for inspiration...

The challenge calls for the colors of gray, lilac, peach and pink...and some lace...

Decorating this cake (a Crate Paper sticker) was a treat! I thought of my mom, who was known throughout our county and the surrounding ones for the wedding cakes she baked and decorated. I trimmed off some little bits of lace for it, added some pearls, and just a dab of stamping. The challenge this week also calls for a metal embellishment (or two)...

I utilized some silver bead caps to create the trinket pins, and incorporated the little silver "Love" tag. I also incorporated more lace into my layers of scallops at the bottom (Papertrey's Border Banner die).

The floral paper, one of my favorites, is SU, and the gray gingham/matching ribbon is October Afternoon. The large heart was trimmed from a heart-shaped doily. The little sentiment at the bottom is from Papertrey. And I guess that's it. I must thank Debbie and the rest of the girls in The Shabby Tea Room for allowing me to join them this week...it's always an honor and just a special treat!

Hope you know how much I appreciate your visits, so thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great crafty week!!

Geri

Hello, everyone! Hope this post finds you snuggly and warm! Winter has finally come to Indiana, but it sounds like folks down south have been dealing with our spring-like tornadoes...hope everyone is safe and sound.

2 cards today...the first was this month's project at the nursing home. We really enjoyed friends there at the holidays. Our children's department at church made 100 cards to deliver there before Christmas. We caroled and passed out candy canes. It was wonderful. My two youngest kids' classes and I got involved in door decorating there also. Jonah's class made snowflakes out of silver cupcake liners and I did the rest...

Jillian's class cut out handprints for a wreath...

All the doors were done by various volunteers and the whole place looked quite cheery!! Fun... and a great thing for the kids to get involved in!

Then Jonah and I got busy making cookies for a Random Act Kindness activity...

These are just some of them. We packed up 13 little boxes and bags of cookies for the residents at the nursing home that are my regulars for card making. Jonah and my older son, Caleb went with me to deliver the treats, along with our family photo Christmas card. It was a great night! The more we get to know eachother, the more I look forward to visiting to create a card with the residents each month. They are always anxious to see the sample, to know what it's going to look like...this was this month's...

They were thrilled. Simple card, but it turned out pretty. The next card made my heart happy as I finally got to get into some new things (for me) and create something sweet for Valentine's Day...

I've been wanting some of these hearts from Melissa Frances. I framed it in with some of my favorite papers...downloads from Bety...

The new Papertrey die cut from felt added some soft detail.

Soft and sweet...just the way I like it! Hope you like it too!

Thanks so much for popping in!!

Geri

Hey, strangers! Finally have the kids in school for a full week and am getting back around to a little crafting. We so enjoyed the holidays...sad to see it all end...but here we are starting a fresh new year!

Just a couple cards today using some digital images from Rhonna Farrer. Not my typical cards, but the images were so pretty, I just had to get a kit and play around a little...

I cut the full image out with my Papertrey die, then did a little fussy-cutting with a couple extra copies of the image to layer and embellish...

Here's another image from the same kit, Spring Mix...

Love that little Melissa Frances frame from Henny!

(The inside of the card says, "Just me...thinking of YOU!)

Rhonna has lots of lovely, lovely images! I think their detail can be appreciated more in a larger version, rather than on these tiny cards (and in better light!! Sorry!!) She has lots of accents, fonts, and background papers...I just got this one kit to investigate with, but I know I'll be returning. I'm even gettin' the itch to do a little scrapbookin' just looking at all she has to offer!

I think that's it for today, but I'll be back soon. My nursing home card "demo" is ready. Now for the cutting and preparing of all the elements to make it happen on Thursday with the residents. It's a simple one, but I like how it turned out. I'm also finishing a card for The Shabby Tea Room for this coming Monday. When these two projects are done, I plan to devote what crafting time I have to some SERIOUS Valentine's love, with some new papers and embellishments. Can't wait!

So good to be back!! Sure have missed crafting with you all!!

Take care!

Geri