Thinking of you

Hi! My card today is inspired by one in the Stretch Your Stamps 2 class. On that card, the artist used water to remove some color from a distress ink colored image. I liked that idea, but changed it a bit and used a mixture of perfect pearls and water. I started this card by white heat embossing the Large Flower Background from Hero Arts. Then I sponged on Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, and Dried Marigold Distress Inks. 

I used a paint brush to add the perfect pearls and water mixture to the flowers. I used a mix with less perfect pearls to do the stems and leaves. I stamped the greeting from the Vintage Sentiments by MyCreativeTime with picked raspberry ink. I wish I could have gotten a better picture of the sparkle of the perfect pearls. :)

I hope you're having a great weekend. 

♥ Nikki ♥

Happy Halloween

Hello! I made this card today using the super cool new Happy Halloween Background stamp from PeachyKeenStamps. I knew right when I saw this stamp that I wanted to do embossed resist on patterned paper. :) I stamped it with Tim Holtz embossing ink on patterned paper. Then I clear heat embossed it. The magic happens when you add ink...the fun part! I used seedless preserves and dusty concord distress inks to add lots of color. This makes the patterned paper pop through the clear embossing. So fun! 

For a few finishing touches I added gems to a few of the gooey drips...and used my sakura glitter pen to add a glitter shadow to the letters. You could make a ton of these cards super quickly. :)

I hope you're having an awesome day!

♥ Nikki ♥ 

I miss you

Hiya bloggy buddies! :) Here is my card for today's Stretch Your Stamps 2 class at OnlineCardClasses. Sorry for the cruddy photo, it's getting dark here. Anyhoozle, I used letter stamps as rain as inspired by the fabulous Kelly Marie's awesome card. I cut the 3x4 Journal Die from white cardstock. I used the adorable Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies for my clouds. I used the new Alpha Pack set from MyCreativeTime to create my word rain. ;) I'm smitten with the Alpha Pack! You NEED it! :) All the patterned papers are from the Lets Polka 6x6 pad from Lawn Fawn. 

I hope you have a great evening!

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. I used soft pool and charcoal Hero Arts shadow inks for my rain letters. :)

Make A Wish

Hiya! I'm back with another card I made for today's Stretch Your Stamps 2 class. I started by ombre stamping the Grainy Wood Background from MyCreativeTime. Then I cut the star out using the 3 Stitched Star Dies. I traced the star onto another piece of cardstock and used the fabulous tall font in the new Alpha Pack from MyCreativeTime to stamp "Make A" in Tide Pool Hero Arts shadow ink. I then used that same set to stamp 36 around it in Mint Julep Hero Arts Shadow ink. Subtle, but I thought it was cool to add the age of the recipient. 

In addition to stretching my stamps, I also stretched my dies on this card. ;) I used the new Stitched Message Bubble Dies for the word "wish". I cut it four times and glued them together. Then I just trimmed out the word. :) I added clear wink of stella glitter marker to the die cut...and used my sakura clear star glitter pen on the "Make A". To finish, I added some Crystal Clear sequins. 

I am LOVING this class! So fun! :)

♥ Nikki ♥

Thinking of you-Inspiration Wednesday

Hiya! It's Inspiration Wednesday at MyCreativeTime. Today my card was totally inspired by the Stretch Your Stamps 2 class at OnlineCardClasses. I started by making my ombre background. I inked up the Cartoon Cloud Background all over with Mint Julep Hero Arts shadow ink...I then inked over that on the bottom with Tide Pool Hero Arts shadow ink...and then I went over where the colors met with Mint Julep again to blend them. Then I stamped it on white cardstock. I used the Stitched Sweetheart and XOXO's dies to cut out my heart window. 

I filled my window with Crystal Clear sequins and the silver sequins from THIS pack. I stamped my sentiment from the Chocolate Greetings set onto the smallest banner in the new Trio Stitched Banner Dies set. 

Pop over to MyCreativeTime to see more projects today. 

♥ Nikki ♥

Hello Watercolor Cloud Shaker

Hiya! It's day 1 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at OnlineCardClasses. I'm so excited for this class, yay! :) For my card today I smooshed worn lipstick, dried marigold, squeezed lemonade, shabby shutters, broken china, and milled lavender distress inks onto my craft sheet. Then I  put my Cartoon Clouds Background stamp from MyCreativeTime in the ink...then I spritzed my stamp with water and stamped it on water color paper. I used a paintbrush to even out the color in some places. I then turned that panel into a shaker. I created the shaker window using the hello die that comes in the Speech Bubble Sentiments set from MyCreativeTime. I filled my shaker with sequins and added a few to the front. :)

Are you taking the Stretch Your Stamps 2 class? You should, it's fun! :)

♥ Nikki ♥

Every little thing is gonna be alright

Hello! I am playing along again in the current Hero Arts challenge. You can see the other card I entered HERE. I had lots of fun making this one layer card. Here it is...

I started by masking off the edges with 1/2inch strips of post-it paper. Then I stamped the butterflies using the Heart Winged Butterfly stamp from Hero Arts. I stamped them with Soft Cantaloupe and Bubble Gum Hero Arts shadow inks. I then stamped the butterfly a few times on post-it paper and cut them out to create masks...

After I masked off the butterflies, I sponged on Soft Pool and Mint Julep Hero Arts shadow inks with sponge daubers to make the background. The greeting is from an older set called Hooray by Hero Arts which doesn't seem to be available anywhere. For a finishing touch I added clear wink of stella glitter pen to the white parts of the butterflies. 

I hope you're having a great weekend! It's raining here in SoCal which is pretty exciting!

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. I bought that set just for the greeting...it's from one of my favorite Bob Marley songs! Enjoy.