It's Almost Thanksgiving

Wow, I can't believe how fast time is moving! Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving?! I'm ready for that turkey dinner that day, aren't you?!

In honor of Thanksgiving, I have a new card to show you today.  I wet with  fall colors for this cute Thanksgiving/Give Thanks card.  I've used the  freebie newsletter image, Priscilla Pilgrim, from Rick St Dennis.  If you aren't familiar with the work of Rick St Dennis, you really are missing out! He draws awesome digital images! Go check them out in his store! You will be so glad you did!

I've colored the image with Promarkers. All fall colored papers are from my stash. I've used blue card stock for my cad base and matting, to add a touch of color. I've used one of my favorite tools, my crop a dile, to punch four holes in the bottom panel, then inserted a brad in each hole and wrapped orange and white twine around each brad, before securing the brad to the card.  The Twine is threaded through a brown buttons, recycled from old clothing I threw out during a cleaning spree.  Gotta love recycling! The sentiment is by Taylored Expressions and has been hand stamped, then punched with circle punches.

I am entering this card in the following Challenges:

All For The Animals at Digi Sketch Challenge
Challenge #294 Animal Magic at Cute Card Thursday
November Freebie Challenge at Sparkle and Glitter With Rick
Challenge #123 Fall or Thanksgiving at My Sheri Crafts
Challenge #185 Rust, Blue and Cream at Robyn's Fetish
Challenge #56 Animal Antics at The Squirrel and the Fox
Challenge #58 Autumn Colors at Glitter N Sparkle Challenge Blog
Challenge #33 Anything Goes at Challenges For Everybody
Challenge #25 Thanks at Oozak Challenge
Smores (Brown and White) at Clear It Out
TPE225 Photo Inspiration (Fall/Thanksgiving) at The Pink Elephant
TSG-233 Thanks or Thanksgiving at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Challenge #103 Thanks/Thanksgiving at Lexi's Creation
Challenge #91 Thanks/Thanksgiving at Love To Create
MIM#166 Anything Goes at Make It Monday
Challenge #65 Color Inspiration at Eureka Stamps
Give Thanks at Melonheadz Friends
Challenge # 67 Use A Sentiment at Artistic Inspirations
Challenge #27 Anything Goes at Scrapbook Stamp Society
Challenge #72 Fall/Thanksgiving at Victorine Stamps
Challenge #17 Thanks & Thanksgiving at Get Inky
PYC#8 Grateful at Parade Your Crafts
PNDC#17 Give Thanks at The Paper Nest Dolls
Challenge #146 Use Twine or Hemp at Party Time Tuesdays

Friday

Challenge #173 Gratitude at Tuesday Throwdown
Autumn/Fall Colors at Just Inspirational Monthly Challenge

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