MCT Thrifty Thursday

Hello! Today is another Thrifty Thursday over at MyCreativeTime. For my card today I've used more scraps from my Hello Luscious pad by Basic Grey. I cut out the cute girl in the tub using the Playtime cricut cartridge. The card base is from the Songbird cricut cartridge. The girl's face is from the adorable Princess Face Assortment from PeachyKeenStamps. I white heat embossed the sentiment from the So Grateful For You set from MyCreativeTime. 

For the "metal" parts of the tub, I used brushed pewter distress stain. Then I wanted to add shine, so I coated them with glossy accents. Then, a happy accident happened! :) When the glossy accents had dried, the brushed pewter appeared cracked underneath, COOL! :) And for the bubbles, I used rock candy stickles. 

Pop over to MyCreativeTime to see more thrifty creations! :)

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. This card is a Thank You card for my Mom in Law. She got me my favorite Origin's Ginger bath goodies for my birthday. She spoils me! :) 

Peachy Keen Release Party Challenges! :)

The release party chat is over, but now you can get started on the challenges! Challenge #1 is to create a project with flowers on it. For my card, I paper pieced the UDDERLY adorable little cow from the brand new May 2013 set. I used flowery patterned paper for her hooves and horns. And the other bits were stamped on text patterned paper. I then inked those with gathered twigs distress ink. 

The greeting is from the new May 2013 set as well. And that sweet flower in her "hair"? That's from the fantastically cute new set called Hey Baby. And here's my card for the next challenge...

Is this floatin' froggie hoppin' adorable or what?! Challenge #2 is to create a shaped card. I used the Songbird cricut cartridge for my card base. It turns out my Gyspy is still not welding correctly, so I just cut the bottom layer twice and stuck them together at the top to make a card base. I stamped the adorable frog from the new Female Floatin' Frog set...and had lots of fun paper piecing. :) The greeting is also from that set. 

So pop over to the Peachy Keen Connection to play along. :)

And pop over to PeachyKeenStamps to get your paws on the NEW RELEASE!!! 

♥ Nikki ♥

A little Birdie told me...Bird-day Card

Happy National Scrapbooking Day friends!!! I finally finished My Pink Stamper's Challenge #2 which was to use scraps. Buy the way, she is now on 7, I'm a tad slow. LOL Anyhoo, I used my gypsy to design this to make the most of some tiny scraps of PTI cardstock. The sweet little birdie is from the Create-a-Critter cartridge and her cute flower has a glittered brad center. The branch is from the Songbird cartridge which I cut twice in brown and in green so I could hand cut the leaves. I used a punch for the flowers on the branch.

I love the sentiment I came up with for the inside! ;o)

Well I hope you're having a wonderful NSD!!! I know I am! I hope to "see" you over at the AboveRubiesStudio live Ustream chat at 8ET tonight!

Scrappy Hugs!

Nikki

p.s. I did put this in my new Etsy shop. ;o)