Sail Away with Clyde

Hi  everyone! Today is Tuesday, so that means new release day at Bugaboo Stamps! Are you ready for new cuties?! I hope you said yes, because we surely do have some new cuties for you! There's lots of creative goodness to show off one of one of the new images - Clyde Hot Air Balloon, over at Catch The Bug, so go check out the wonderful creations from the rest of the DT! You're going to love them!

Here's my card, featuring one of today's new release images, Clyde Hot Air Balloon, from Bugaboo Stamps. Clyde is flying up up and away, today - Is he coming to visit YOU? He's colored with Promarkers. I paper pieced the hot air balloon and the basket he's riding in.  All papers are by Recollections and are from my stash. I doodled two clouds by hand and cut them out, then outlined them with Promarkers and blended them, then matted them with an aqua colored paper. The image is attached with foam mounting tape for dimension, so he'll look like he's sailing through the clouds.

My card layout uses the sketch from Sunday Sketch And Stamp.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #158 Sketch at Sunday Sketch and Stamp
Challenge #21 All Creatures Great and Small at Songbird Challenges
Challenge #45 3,2,1 Recipe ( three patterned panels, two clouds, one image) at The Cutie Pie Challenge
Challenge #21 All Creatures Great and Small at Songbird Challenge
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog
Challenge #71 Things With Wings at Let's Craft and Create
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #68 Oh To Be Young Again at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #3 One For The Girls at Crafting With Dragonflies
Challenge #7 Blooming Lovely and Rhedd and Rosie's Challenge Blog
Challenge #172 Scene at Hanna and Friends
Load On The Flowers at Milk Coffee Challenges
Challenge #126 The Same Letter - B (Basket, Blooms, Balloon) at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #186 Anything Goes With Flowers at Totally Gorjuss
Winged Things at Di's Digi Designs
Challenge #7 Flowers/Roses at Hobby Cutz Challenges
Challenge #22 Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #82 Summertime at A Gem of A Challenge
Anything Goes For Kids at Send A Smile 4 Kids
Challenge #166 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #22 Stripes And/Or Plaid at Pile It On
Challenge #162 Use A Digi at I Did It Creations
Challenge #45 Summer at The Squirrel And The Fox
Anything With Wings at Eclectic Ellapu
Favorite Color Combo (Red, Aqua, Yellow) at House of Gilli
TSG210 CAS at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Bring On Spring at Incy Wincy
Challenge #245 Summer Scene at Cupcake Crafts
MIM #143 Anything Goes at Make It Monday
Challenge $65 Anything Goes Plus Texture (Raised Image for Dimension) at Tammy's Scrappin Corner
Summer Fun at One Crazy Stamper
Anything Goes (Celebrate Summer) at Mema's Crafts
Challenge #186 Flowers at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #108 Summer Feeling at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #89 Dies And/Or Punches at Bearly Mine Designs
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Things With Wings at Crafty Calender
Summer Fun at One Crazy Stamper

What A Cute Little Dragon!

Hi There! Are you excited yet? It's new release Tuesday at Bugaboo Stamps! Whoo Hoo! The design team has some adorable creations to show you, using one of today's new releases, Cute Dragon.  Head over to Catch The Bug to see some wonderful examples of talent, featuring Cute Dragon.  Also, check out the store at Bugaboo Stamps to see all the new releases for today!

My card, today, features today's new release, Cute Dragon, by Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers.
All papers are new to me, from a new tablet by Recollections. I just love these papers and colors together.  The border is punched with a border punch by Martha Stewart. I punched the flower with a flower punch by Recollections and used a recycled button threaded with twine, as the flower center. The sentiment is punched with the word window punch and matted with the modern label punch, by Stampin Up.  My card layout follows the sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy.

Turned out to be a really cute "Just Because" card.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #38 Sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy
Challenge #69 One For The Girls at Let's Craft and Create
Happy Mail at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #131 Floral Frenzy at Crafts And Me
Challenge #166 Put A Button On It at I Love Promarkers
IIC#107 Spots And/Or Stripes at Inky Impressions
Challenge #125 Animals (Dragon) at Penny's Paper Crafty
PSC#77 Make It Feminine at Perfect Sentiments
Challenge #196 To Die For at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #40 Friendship at Lia Stampz
Anything Goes at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #66 Very Special Occasion at Fairy Tale Challenge
Challenge #88 Anything Goes at Fussy and Fancy Challenge
Girly at Jellypark Challenges
Challenge #142 Bingo Bash  ( Punches/Dies, Sentiment, Flowers) at 2 Sisters
Challenge #227 Flower Power at One Stop Crafts
Blooms and Blossoms at Crafty Calender
Challenge #162 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #161 Floral Delights at Craft Your Passion
Challenge #20 Flower Power at Card Maniac Challenges
Use A Sentiment at Crafty Sentiments
Two Or More Patterned Papers at Clear It Out
Challenge #9 All About Animals at Creative Craft Challenges
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #9 Things With Wings at Natalie and Amy's Challenge Blog
May Flowers at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #16 For A Female at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog
May Flowers at By The Cute And Girly
May Flowers at Mema's Crafts
Challenge #9 Things With Wings at No Matter Which Challenges
RCC81 Celebrations at The Ribbon Carousel
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Pin And Tack

Rick St Dennis Is In The House!

It's challenge time, again, at Stamping With The Dragon. and we have a special sponsor, with a special prize, this time!

We're being sponsored by none other than Rick St Dennis, and he's giving the winner an awesome prize! There will only be ONE LUCKY WINNER for this week's challenge. That winner will receive a Once in a Lifetime Digital Sheet of the 3 dragons images used by the Design Team, as well as several other images that fit the theme.





For those of you not familiar with Rick St Dennis, here is his bio:

Now a much collected pen and ink artist brings his art to DIGI-Stamps!
Designer of over 100 theatrical productions, Rick St Dennis is also the author of 4 books on decorative painting and contributor to at least a dozen national magazines on crafts and art. He has taught design at the college level as well as seminars and classes across the USA and Canada. He is one of a handful of designers to have designed TWO productions of AIDA, Verdi's massive Egyptian opera spectacle. Currently living in the quiet beach community of Seal Beach, California he writes restaurant reviews and theater reviews between assignments for web designs, logos and creating art for local shows. Rick has appeared on such TV shows as Home Matters with Susan Powell, Aileen's Crafts and others. He was Crafts editor for Country Folk Art Magazine and sells his artwork nationally through galleries and shows. Among numerous awards he has won a presidential commendation in 1976 for his contributions to the bicentennial year including the design of the west coast premier of William Grant Still's opera BAYOU LEGEND. His drawings and paintings are in the collections of Diana Ross, Sandy Duncan, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jacqueline Onnasis amongst others.


Our challenge theme is fantasy. Rick St Dennis gave the DT three awesome dragon images to work with, for our fantasy theme. I was soooo excited, too, because I've always loved fantasy themed things, so this was right up my alley!

For my DT project, I decided to try something new, and alter a clock. This is my first attempt, so I was a little nervous about it, but I'm very happy with how it turned out.


My friend, Dan, loves fantasy themed things as much, if not more, than I do. So I thought this clock would make a perfect Christmas gift for him!






I used this awesome dragon image called, "Late Knight Snack," by Rick St Dennis, and colored him with my Promarkers. Glitter and sparkle were adding to the image with a Clearstar Gelly Roll pen. The blue DP is embossed with silver stars and seems to fit perfect with the image and theme. The silver numbers are cut out and then matted on green cardstock.

This was such a fun project to make, and I love how it turned out!

I am entering this christmas gift in the following challenges:

Challenge #110 Handmade Christmas Gifts at The Secret Crafter
Gearing Up For Christmas at Catch The Bug (Bugaboo)
C4C64 Circles at Crazy 4 Challenges
Challenge #30 Circles at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #86 A Time For Giving at Stamptacular Sunday
Evergreen at Keep It Simple
Challenge #19 Wait "Time" at Scrappekammeret
Jungle Jungle at By The Cute And Girly
TD06 Anything But A Card At Tiffany's Doodles
Challenge #41 Food (Dragon is Holding a sandwhich) at Critter Challenge
Challenge #71 Feeling Blue at Pollycraft
Cut It Out at Papertake Weekly
Decoration at Tuesday Taggers
Challenge #118 Shapes at Everybody Art
Challenge #42 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Tip Top #11 Layer Upon Layer at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #131 Anything Goes at A Spoon Full of Sugar
Challenge #50 Go With The Flow at Fab N Funky
Challenge #97 Old & New (Old paper, New digi) at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #24 Clean & Simple at Paper Pretties
Hump Day Inspiration #24 Anything Goes at Inktegrity
Challenge #78 Christmas Gift at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #4 Anything Goes at Hodge Podge Shop
Challenge #30 Anything With Wings at I Did It Creations
E is for Embossing (embossed stars on DP) at Alphabet Challenge
Challenge #115 Gift Items at Mami Doodles
Challenge #41 Wrap It Up at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #47 Stars at Paper Play
Challenge Yourself-Try Something New (altered clock) at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #28 Photo Inpsiration (colors) at Crafty Ann's