Guest Designing :)

Hello...or should I say, HOLA! Abby from Scrapbookaholic By Abby has a line of Spanish stamps and has asked me to guest design. I do not speak fluent Spanish, but I took 2 years in high school and got straight A's. ;) For this card I used Set 3 Suspirando Con Tinta. I cut the sweet little love bug from the Simply Charmed cartridge and gave him a face from the Faceless Corn set from PeachyKeenStamps. The faces from that set are now available in an assortment set called The Cornies. 

I used the small and larger hearts from Set 3 Suspirando Con Tinta to make my background. I stamped them with berrylicious colorbox fluid chalk ink and then swirled on some spun sugar distress ink. I stamped the sentiment {I love you with all my heart} onto the Curly Label Die from MyCreativeTime. 

Be sure to head over and check out Abby's cute Spanish Stamps! :) 

♥ Nikki ♥ 

p.s. in Spanish class, my name was Mercedes. hehe. fancy! 

enjoy today.

Here is another card I made for the MarketStreetStamps Paint The Town challenge...but I decided to enter the butterfly card from yesterday. I hope I made the right decision! I stamped the Too Many Martinis background from MarketStreetStamps. I colored in some of the circles using a mix of distress inks and perfect pearls and water {painted it in}. 

I stamped the sweet cup from the Enjoy Today set and colored it with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. I swear it is more sage in real life! I added some rock candy distress stickles to the "liquid" in the cup. For the little heart tag I added some glossy accents. The sentiment is also from this set from MarketStreetStamps. 

Hope you're enjoying your day!

♥ Nikki ♥

It will get better

Hello! Here is a card I made for the MarketStreetStamps Paint The Town Color Challenge. The challenge is to use the colors Concord, Dusty Lavender, Thistle, and Subtle Sage. I stamped the Vintage Wallpaper background stamp and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I used my large Martha Stewart butterfly punch. I used distress inks on them and then misted with perfect pearls in a mini mister. The sentiment is from the Cheap Talk set. I wanted to keep this super simple so the butterflies would pop.

♥ Nikki ♥

Announcement, and 2 cards!!! :)

Hello! First off I have to say that I'm super excited to be staying on Emma's Design Team!!! :) Here's a lil' blurb about me if you're new to my blog...As my blog name suggests, I am a PROUD NAVY WIFE!!! My hubby and I have been married for a 12 years and have been in the U.S. Navy the whole time. I absolutely LOVE crafting and it definitely keeps me sane during long deployments. I hope you will enjoy the creations I share here, and as a part of Emma's awesome Design Team!!! Her stamps ROCK :)

♥ WUB YOU EMMA!!! ♥

Ok, back to my first card for today...I used the sunburst shaped die from the Build a Banner Kit to create masks using Post- It craft paper{it's sticky on the back}. Cutting out all the little dies was actually the most time consuming part of this card, and that took all of a few minutes! :) I arranged them how I wanted and stuck them down to my card making sure that I rubbed them down well. I then used my foam blending tool to pounce on distress ink in scattered straw. Be sure to pounce rather than rub or you will get color under your masks. Before removing the masks I spritzed on some gold perfect pearls and water in a mini mister. You can see the shine a little better here...

After removing the masks I stamped the sun, moon, and star from the Encouraging Quotes stamp set into the negative images left behind by the masks. The sentiment is also from the Encouraging Quotes set and I heat embossed it with white embossing powder....onto my other card for today...

I used four different stamp sets from MyCreativeTime for this card. :) I stamped the snowflake from the Anyday Bingo and Crossword set with Tim Holtz embossing ink and heat embossed them with white embossing powder to make my night sky. To make the snow banks I used the burlap stamp from the awesome Build a Banner Kit. I stamped it over itself a few times to make a line long enough to cover my card. I white heat embossed it and used distress inks in tumbled glass and broken china to add color. I then spritzed on some perfect pearls and water to add some sparkle.  

I white heat embossed the sentiment from the All Around Christmas set onto the Curly Label Die. I stamped the sweet snowman from the All Around Accessories set and used my prismacolor colored pencils to color his hat, scarf and nose. I added some sakura stardust glitter pen to his scarf. And lastly, for the hearts on his tummy, I mixed some white opal liquid pearl with barn door distress ink on my craft sheet and painted in the hearts with a brush. This gives it a raised, pearly look. You could use perfect pearls and ink here, but it wouldn't look raised. 

Okie dokie...I hope you likey my cards for today! :)

Thanks again, Emma!!! 

♥ Nikki ♥

PeachyKeen Challenge 64

Hello! Sorry I'm late posting this!!! My Nana is here and we are just stamping away! :) For this challenge we have the above sketch to follow. I flipped the sketch on its side...here is my card

I colored up the adorable Tanner Turkey with my prismacolor colored pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits.

The sentiment is also from the Tanner Turkey set. I put him on an Action Wobble...so he really did gobble till he wobbled! hehehehe Ok...head over to the Challenge Blog to play along!!!

♥ Nikki ♥

Happy Haunting!

Hello and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Here is just a super quick card I made using the Mini Monsters cartridge and The Uglies faces from PeachyKeenStamps.com. I am waiting on my Nana to get here for a visit...we'll be having LOTS of stampy fun!!!!

HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE HALLOWEEN!!!

BOO

♥ Nikki ♥

i like you just the way you are

Hi bloggy friends! :) For this card I used one of my all time favorite background stamps from MarketStreetStamps called Hearts a Plenty. The birds and the talk bubble and sentiment are from a set called Cheep Talk also from MarketStreetStamps. I wanted to keep it simple, so instead of coloring the image in, I used my Sakura Stardust glitter pen. It's really REALLY sparkly in person. :) 

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. Happy Sons of Anarchy night...I LOVE that show!!! :o)