Saturday, January 8, 2011

New Challenge (Do You Stack Up?) and Sugar Bowl

One of my favorite sites, the Free Digital Stamps blog, has just unveiled their NEW challenge blog - Do You Stack Up?

I made today's card for DYSU's very first challenge, which was "Cute as a Button" and combined it with The Sugar Bowl's sketch challenge this week (I flipped the sketch onto it's side):
The image is Sugar Nellie's Gorgeous Girl "Flower Girl" - she is stamped on Bella's Bestest white cardstock (Stamping Bella) and I used buttons from my stash along with SU! designer papers.

The Sugar's Bowl's optional theme was embossing - I almost always emboss my images because I color with Prismacolor colored pencils and blend with Gamsol, and I find that embossing the image helps prevent bleeding of the ink.  I use Versafine Archival black ink with Stampin' Up! Crystal Clear embossing powder. 

Peace.

9 comments:

  1. Cute card, thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up....Kim

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  2. This is so adorable.. Way to "STACK UP" and use your buttons.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at DYSU Challenge Blog :) Can't wait to see what you create next week.. HUGS

    Alison-Owner

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  3. Gorjuss card!!!! Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.
    Hugs
    Denise

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  4. Cute card, love the image. Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.

    -DT Wenche

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  5. Fabulous mix of DP and your coloring matches perfectly!
    WELCOME to the DYSU challenge! I hope you will be a regular.

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  6. Love the image you used, the card is really cute. Thanks so much for joining us this week at DYSU!
    Janna

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  7. adorable card with lovely colours
    thanks for joining us at the do you stack up? challenge blog

    gr
    Miranda

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  8. that's beautiful - love the way it all goes together

    kitten DYSU team

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  9. Simply Gorjuss card!
    Fab use of buttons and great colour choice.

    Thanks for playing in the Sugar Bowl Challenge

    Love Elaine xx

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