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Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did! A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize! Emma will be announcing the winner on Friday morning in her video during the release.

 

Here is my card for today....SUPER SIMPLE

This sneak is from the about to be released set called All Around Halloween. I LOVE THIS SET!!! Nothing fancy with this card, so it would be easy to mass produce. ;)

Ok, make sure you pop over to Emma's Blog and see the other awesome work from the design team!

♥ Nikki ♥ 

 

Hold tight to memories........

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did! A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize! Emma will be announcing the winner on Friday morning in her video during the release.

 

 

Here is my sneak for today. I used two of the soon to be released sets for this card. The angel wings are from the Happy Mail set and the sentiment is from the Many Greetings set.

I swear this looks way cooler in person, but my camera didn't want me to get a good photo of it because it couldn't handle all the sparkle. ;) I stamped my background and inked it up with victorian velvet distress ink. I then stamped 5 of the larger wings and cut them out and inked them. I used my sakura clear stardust pen to glitter up the wings. Okie dokie, that's it for me today! Be sure to pop over to Emma's Blog and see the rest of the awesomenesss there!!!

 

♥ Nikki ♥

 

p.s. Today is my sweet Jinxy girl's birthday AND also my awesome Mom in law!!! Happy Birthday to two of my favorite chicks! ;)

A Standing Ovation Just For You

Sneak Peek Giveaway Time!

Listen up "My Creative Time" friends! We are giving all of you an opportunity to win a prize during Sneak Peek week with four {4} winners to be announced during Friday's stamp release! All you have to do is leave a comment HERE on my blog as well as

the rest of the design team blogs for a chance to win!

AND we are giving you ANOTHER opportunity to win....

ALL you have to do is "SPREAD THE WORD" about My Creative Time's "8th Edition Stamp Release" happening this Friday at 8 a.m. Pacific time! You can announce it to all of your Facebook friends! If you don't know how to tag me in your post, feel free to come to My Creative Time's Fan page HERE and let Emma know you did! A winner will also be chosen at random from Facebook to win a prize! Emma will be announcing the winner on Friday morning in her video during the release.

 

Ok, on to my sneak for today. I'm sorry I am so late in posting, but the mail dude just brought my stamps a little over an hour ago! ;) I'm sneaking an upcoming set called Many Greetings.

My girl is from the Rock Princess cartridge and her face is from the Laughy Taffy set from PeachyKeenStamps.com. I stamped my sentiment onto the Curly Label Die that is already available in Emma's store. Okie dokie...make sure to head over to Emma's blog and see all the AWESOME creations over there!

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. are you clapping yet??? ♫ clap your hands...♫      hehehehehe

 

Thinking of you

Hello. Yesterday I got some happy mail from my friend and DT sista Shar. THANKS SHAR!!! She made and sent me two of these pretty rosettes! As soon and I saw the little perforation marks I knew exactly what stamp was just screaming to be used so I went and got the adorable Hearts a Plenty background stamp from MarketStreetStamps.com.  I also just happened to have my aged mahogany distress ink out and it matched that button perfectly! SCORE! ;)

The sentiment is from the Vintage Greetings set from PinkByDesign. OH "tip alert"!!! Speaking of distress ink..... It can sometimes be hard to get a good stamped impression when using distress inks, but here is a tip to remedy the problem! Before inking up with distress ink...ink up your stamp with embossing ink first! The embossing ink acts a little like glue to help hold the distress ink on. :)

I hope you are having a fabulous weekend!

♥ Nikki ♥

hello

HAPPY FRIDAY PEEPS!!! Today's card is super simple, but I love how it turned out. I used the Martha Stewart Crafts 3 in 1 butterfly punch to use up tiny scraps of my FAVORITE paper from the Stella and Rose collection by My Mind's Eye. I ♥ it so much I don't want to waste any at all!

I mounted them on little punched circles and gave them pearls. The sentiment is from the set called Vintage Greetings from PinkByDesign. I've said it before and I'll say it again...I ♥ that set!

Have a WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!!

♥ Nikki ♥

psst...do you see what's peeking out from the inside of the card? ;) I always like to add a lil' somethan to the inside of my cards.

Gettin' inky with masking!!!

Hello! I have some fun masking techniques to share today using Emma's Curly Label Die. For this first card, I cut out 3 and evenly spaced the cuts on the front of a 4.25x4.25 card. I used the "negative" spaces for this card, but you'll see in a bit how I also used the "positive" cuts. For all my masking today I used Post It Craft Paper which is self adhesived backed, but not super sticky so it is PERFECT for these kinds of techniques!!! You do want to make sure you rub it down really well so the ink doesn't seep underneath your mask.

Use your ink blending tool to really blot on a lot of ink...but be sure to be careful not to rip the mask. If you did the "normal" technique of swirling on color from off the side, it might get messy! Above you can see what I used. There are copper perfect pearls and water in the mini mister. I ♥ perfect pearls!!! And here is this finished card......

The sentiment is from the This and That set from Emma. And the coordinating stamp that fits inside the die is from the Inspiring Words Accents set. The flower stamps are OLD from my stash...

Here you can see the perfect pearls sparkle a little better. And here is a card I made using the same technique, I just made a strip instead of a card front...

The sentiment is from the Wow So Many Candles set also by Emma.

I promise they stamp perfectly, I just really REALLY need to re-ink my staz-on pad! And now onto my FAVORITE card for today...I ♥ how this one turned out!

Here I used a bunch of "positive" cuts of the Curly Label Die to create my own patterned paper. Again, make sure to really rub them down so the ink doesn't get underneath them...

I blotted the ink on and then misted again with copper perfect pearls and water. See the shine? And here is the finished card which I just ♥!!!

The sentiments are from the So Grateful For You set. This is just a simple one layered card that packs a lot of punch because of the bright ink color! Here you can see the shine a little better...

Well, I hope you like my cards for today! Have a GREAT day!!!

♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. sorry for this looonnnggg post! ;)

PeachyKeen Challenge 56

Hello! It's challenge time again and this time we have the above sketch to follow. No twist this time. ;) I decided I wanted to do a sort of Christmas in July card...but it turned out more Winter in July...guess that is fitting because it is HOT HOT HOT out!!!

I stamped the snowflakes from the Snow Flakey set with embossing ink and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. I then went over my cardstock with distress ink in Broken China...and while it was still wet I spritzed with water from a mini mister to make it look more "snowy". And then I spritzed the whole thing with some perfect pearls and water in a mini mister to add sparkle.

The sentiment is from the Chill Baby Chill Snowman Set. I white heat embossed the sentiment too. Then I just did some white stitching with my sakura gelly roll pen and called this card done. ;) So pop over to the CHALLENGE BLOG and see what everyone else made..and to play along!!!

♥ Nikki ♥