Beautiful Day

This is another "wedding-anniversary" card I made with this new set in our Serendipity. This set can be used is so many different ways. I am a Chemo Card angel and my little guy and his wife have an anniversary coming up April 5, married 49 years so I thought this card would be so appropriate for them. I paperpieced the birds, used nestabilities label 1 image and layered with pop dot.A couple of tiny flowers,ribbon and done. Hope they enjoy their anniversary. Going to take DH to St. Louis today to a specialist, he was in the hospital locally for 2 days with a kidney stone and he has yet to pass it, one of the drawbacks of living in a smaller town is no specialists so I brought him home from the hospital last night (with plenty of pain meds on board) and we go to the doctor todasy at 1 pm. I have taken care of a lot of patients with kidney stones and I know they are very painful and even more so when it is your spouse. He doesn't make a real good patient and I "quit" being a nurse when it comes to family. Like what do I know!!!

Little Cupcakes Blog Hop

We are having a Blog Hop over at Paperwings using this cute set from our new Serendipity magalog. These are 2 that I cam up with for this hop. I am still in a learning curve with copic markers but I did a little shading on my cupcake icing using the copics. Hope you enjoy looking at some cards made with this set.
1. Melisa
2. Laurie
3. Maria
4. Barbra
5. Jen
6. Stacy
7. Christina
8. Chelsea
9.Suzanne
10. Angela
11. Jany
12. Carol

13. Gloria
14. Trudy
15. Diana

Thanks

The theme for this weeks tac-art-scan yahoo group was thank you cards. For this card I embossed the flowers on ivory with versamark and white embossing powder. I then used a sponge dauber (the kind that fits on your pointer finger) and used dye ink pad to pick up the color and color the flower, then cut out, pop dot the flowers on the paper. I used the new Graphic Blooms and Playful Parenthesis sets in our Serendipity magalog. Paper collection is from Genevieve made by TAC. You can use this technique with any open area stamp set that you can color in with ink, but this sets works perfect.

The bottom edge was slightly torn then rolled down to give a distressed look.

My Crafting Studio

I ran across these pictures of my craft room taken when it was "clean" and ready to show. I think I was waiting for a class to come.When we bought this house 4 years ago I saw this room (which is 12 x 24) in the finished walkout basement and my DH saw the extra garage (workshop) and we said we will take the house without looking any further. Just kidding, we have 4 beautiful acres in the woods but less than a mile from the hub of our town. Our 3 cats and dog love it here with no fences to keep them in. As you can see I have one of my kitties Nikki sitting on my stool waiting to help me, hence the name of Glittered Paws for my blog. I can usually be found in my craft room working on swaps, projects, or teaching a class. I call it my "woman cave" as I have no windows but my dh put up very nice lighting for me and I hardly notice the fact that I have no natural light. If I want natural light I just walk out to the family room and look out our huge double picture window and observe all of natures beautiful wildlife and creations.

Paper Dolls

We have a stamp group called The Paper Dolls and meet monthly at our senior center. I received this card from one of my Paper Doll friends which I just had to post. She had fabric with the paperdolls on it, she ironed wonder under on the back side then cut each individual image out. I called her to thank her and she said mine was 1 of a kind and she wouldn't be sending the entire group the same card!! She did use the corner image from Want to Fly in our new Serendipity. The card brought back images of my childhood and cutting out all those paperdolls we used to be able to get.

Dear Friend

This is a card for one of the girls I work with, her daughter was in a pretty bad car accident Thursday and is still in the ICU. Thought I would send this to her to let her know I was thinking of her. I have another friend whose daughter also had a car accident on Friday but she was not badly injured so off to make a card for her too. This set is one of my favs from the new Serendipity, she is just so darned cute and fun to color. I colored with Copic markers, still working on shading but I love to color.

Wedding Planners

Here is the 2nd of the wedding planners we made today. They are just a little different. My granddaughter Paige colored her bride and Laci left hers black/white. Colors are different but otherwise very similar.