i STAMP by Nancy Riley: 2013

Sunday, September 29, 2013

iPICKS #241

Welcome to iPICKS where I post a selection of my favorite Stampin' Up! cards and projects by other talented stamping artists. There's no formal rules or guidelines ... just inspiring projects that catch my eye, clever ideas, and exceptional designs. These are projects that inspire me and I hope they inspire you too! Please click on each link to go directly to the artist's blog for more information about the artist and their project.

iPICKS #241...

Sunday, September 22, 2013

iPICKS #240

Sunday, September 15, 2013

iPICKS #239

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Welcome to iPICKS where I post a selection of my favorite Stampin' Up! cards and projects by other talented stamping artists. There's no formal rules or guidelines ... just inspiring projects that catch my eye, clever ideas, and exceptional designs. These are projects that inspire me and I hope they inspire you too! Please click on each link to go directly to the artist's blog for more information about the artist and their project.

iPICKS #238...

Sunday, September 1, 2013

iPICKS #238

Sunday, August 25, 2013

iPICKS #237

Sunday, August 18, 2013

iPICKS #236

Sunday, August 11, 2013

iPICKS #235

Saturday, August 10, 2013

SIX-SIDED SAMPLER WITH BLING

This is the card I made for my daughter's 22nd birthday last week. I CASEd the second card shown in this post by Amy Bollman. I made a few changes to reflect my daughter's taste - black/white with hot pink (Melon Mambo), and bling (Glimmer paper) - like everything else she owns!

RECIPE
Stamps: Six-Sided Sampler, Bring on the Cake
Paper: Modern Medley DSP, Very Vanilla and Melon Mambo Cardstock, Silver Glimmer Paper Ink: Jet Black Staz-On, Melon Mambo
Tools: Hexagon Punch
Supplies: Stampin' Dimensionals

Sunday, August 4, 2013

iPICKS #234

Sunday, July 28, 2013

iPICKS #233

Sunday, July 21, 2013

iPICKS #232

Sunday, July 14, 2013

iPICKS #231

Sunday, July 7, 2013

iPICKS #230

Sunday, June 30, 2013

iPICKS #229

Sunday, June 23, 2013

POPPY PARADE/CALYPSO CORAL STIPPLED BLOSSOMS

This card combines two challenges: Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #187 and Colour Q Challenge #194 (Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral, Gumball Green, and Tempting Turquoise). I just recently received the beautiful Stippled Blossoms stamp set, and couldn't wait to use it! For the roses, I stamped off with Calypso Coral on the base image and stamped the overlay image in Poppy Parade. The base image for the leaves were stamped off in Gumball Green, then the overlay image stamped in Gumball Green.

RECIPE
Stamps: Stippled Blossoms, Petite Pairs
Paper: Poppy Parade, Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White CS, Poppy Parade Patterns DSP (retired), Pawsitively Prints II DSP (retired)
Ink: Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Gumball Green
Embellishments: Pearl Basic Jewels
Tools: Scallops Circles #2 Die (retired), Paper-Piercing Tools & Mat, Paper Snips
Supplies: Stampin' Dimensionals

iPICKS #228

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

SUMMER CASEing

My craft room has seen some action since I've been on summer break! I've been making cards copied (CASEd) from other great stamping artists. I truly appreciate a great card design, especially one that makes me want to ink up my stamps and copy it!

This first card was CASEd from Mary Brown's card. I'm a sucker for Stampin' Up!'s Daffodil Delight, and SU's Polka Dot Parade DSP really shows it off! The sentiment I used is a retired SU rub-on.

I found this next card on Pinterest, and believe it was originally found on the Stampin' Up! website. If that is incorrect, please kindly let me know so I can credit the proper source.The Patio Party DSP (retired) makes this card super easy to put together! The three cakes are cut out of the designer paper, and raised up on dimensionals. The only stamping is the "Birthday Wishes" sentiment from Bring on the Cake.

This next card is a CASE of Rita Wright's card. I love Daffodil Delight paired with Basic Black! Somehow, my large flower turned out larger that I'd like it to be. Ugh! I used SU retired striped grosgrain ribbon for the horizontal center strip in place of the designer paper strip.

This year, I had many graduates to acknowledge, and I made many of these cards! It was inspired by two cards: Mindy's (Bada-Bing! Paper-Crafting!) card and Teneale Williams card, using the stamp set, Blue Ribbon and Storytime DSP (retired).

Sunday, June 16, 2013

iPICKS #227

Friday, June 14, 2013

FEELING SENTIMENTAL FOR FATHER'S DAY

Now that I'm on summer break from work, I've been spending some time playing with my poor, neglected stamps. For the most part, I've been copying others' designs and building my card stash back up. It would be so nice if I could get back to designing again, and participating in challenges! We'll see!

This is the Father's Day card I made for my Dad, and it was inspired by Rita Wright's card and Julie Davison's card.

RECIPE
Stamps: Feeling Sentimental, Delightful Dozen
Paper: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, First Edition DSP, Twitterpated DSP (for pennant)
Ink: Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Embellishments: Early Espresso Neutrals Designer Button, Linen Thread
Tools: Square Lattice Embossing Folder (for Early Espresso pennant)

Sunday, June 9, 2013

iPICKS #226

Monday, June 3, 2013

iPICKS #225

Sunday, June 2, 2013

iPICKS #224

Sunday, May 12, 2013

iPICKS #223

iPICKS #223 ...

Saturday, May 4, 2013

iPICKS #222

My apologies for being away for so long. Not only did Pinterest have me stumped with their new format, but I just haven't had the time to really sit down and figure it out. Thanks to my friend, Connie Collins who bent over backwards to solve this issue for me! She is really unbelievable, and took it upon herself to help me along! Here's a "catch-up iPICKS" for now. Expect them sporadically in May, but come June, we'll be back to weekly posts.

Welcome to iPICKS where I post a selection of my favorite Stampin' Up! cards and projects by other talented stamping artists. There's no formal rules or guidelines ... just inspiring projects that catch my eye, clever ideas, and exceptional designs. These are projects that inspire me and I hope they inspire you too! Please click on each link to go directly to the artist's blog for more information about the artist and their project.

iPICKS #222 ...

Sunday, April 14, 2013

iPICKS

I've missed the past two weeks of iPICKS because since Pinterest changed its format, I don't understand how to copy and paste the html code into a blog post. I've tried various things, and nothing seems to work. If anyone can offer some assistance or helpful hints, I can get iPICKS back up and running again!