Text Me While I'm Thinking Of You

Thanks so much to all of you for all of your fabulous entries in last week's challenge at Craft Your Passion! We have another fun challenge for you today! Our theme this week is "Text me." We want to see some text, sentiment, etc, somewhere on your project! Fun and easy challenge this time, so be sure you play along!

Our sponsors this week are Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo. Play along this week for your chance to win digi images from one or both!

For my project, I chose to alter this cute birdhouse. The birdhouse was painted with Adirondack paint daubers and then stamped with a background stamp, on the roof of the birdhouse. The front and sides are stamped with a flower stamp, and pearls added to the centers of the flowers. The bird on the front is a digi image by CocoDingo. The image is colored using Promarkers and attached with foam mounting tape for dimension. All stamping on this project was done using paints, instead of ink.

This was a fun project to do! I hope you were able to get some inspiration out of it!


I am entering this altered birdhouse in the following challenges:


Summer Flowers at Scrappy Frogs
Things With Wings at By The Cute and Girly
Anything Goes at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #32 At Least Two Words at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #87 Anything But A Card at Fun With Shapes and More
Favorite Things (Paint, stamps, pearls) at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #28 Things With Wings at Paper Play
Challenge #32 At Least Two Words at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #45 Coloring at Sarah Hurley
Challenge #87 Anything But A Card at Fun With Shapes and More
Birds Eye View at The Poodles Parlour
Challenge #26 Glitter or Bling at Pattie's Creations
Week 112 Free and Easy at All Sorts
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Things With Wings at Little Claire
Challenge #11 Summer at Dream Valley
Challenge #120 Animal Antics at Stamptacular Sunday
Animals at I Did It Creations
Challenge #5 All Things Nice at Emerald Faerie Garden
Challenge #50 Summer at Paper Playtime
Challenge #102 Summer Fun at Pollycraft
DDH10 Summer at Digi Design House
Anything Goes at House of Gilli

Stampin Dragon Designs Monthly Challenge at CDAC

Good Morning Bloggers!

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that Stamping Dragon Designs now has a monthly challenge at our group over at Crafter's Digital Art Center!

Each month, a DT member will get to choose the theme, and an image will be provided for you to work with, so you can play along! How cool is that?!

You Must use our freebie image given over at CDAC to play along, NO EXCEPTIONS.

This month, our host is the wonderful Tams, and she has chose for us to make a Male card, with the following sketch:



Come on over to our group at CDAC and play along! One winner will receive an image of thier choice!

You have till December 31, 5o play along!

With Sympathy

Today, I have a new card for you, featuring a new image by Stamping Dragon Designs. Awhile back, I had asked Janette to create an image for me, for making a sympathy card. She created two fabulous images for me. This is the first one, and my favorite of the two. I think this image is absolutely gorgeous. If you're looking for a nice image for making sympathy cards, this image is perfect! You can find this image, as well as many others in the Stamping Dragon Designs store.

The image is colored with Promarkers and matted onto green cardstock, to bring out the green in the images. I've used some pretty peach honeycomb patterned Dp and some textured cardstock. The sheer ribbon from my stash makes a pretty double bow. The sentiment is from the Stampin Up set, teeny tiny wishes, and punched with the word window and modern label punches. The sentiment is pop dotted for dimension. My card fits the sketch at Papertake Weekly.

Often times, I have an idea, design or "look" in my head that I want to achieve, and it doesn't always come out the way I envision it. This time, I think I pulled it off. I went for the "simply elegant" look, and I'm very please with how it turned out.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #31 Bows at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
GL7 Bows at Gingerloft
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer at Design Dollies
Anything Goes at Paper Cupcakes
Sketch #51 at Papertake Weekly
Think Ink #34 Punches & Diecuts at Artful Inkables
Challenge #66 Anything Goes at A Craft Little Place
Challenge #12 Anything Goes at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #77 Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Challenge #43 Photo Inspiration at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #79 Old & New (New Digi with old paper) at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #59 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Whimsie Doodles
challenge #105 Anything with R (ribbon) at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #75 For Someone Special at Moving Along With The Times
F is For Foliage at Alphabet Challenge
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Card Makin Mamas
Challenge #9 Texture (textured cardstock & ribbon) at Craft Your Days Away

Card Drive For A Worthy Cause

I'd like to take a moment, today, to tell you all about a wonderful cause, and how you can help brighten a day in the lives of some special people.

The Ear Trust is a wonderful organization that supports the use of cochlear implants across Yorkshire and neighboring areas, to enable babies, children and adults with profound hearing loss to begin to hear. Visit their website here, for more information on the Ear Trust, read patient stories and make donations.


Little Carly is three years old, and is just one of the children The Ear Trust has helped. Carly's grandmother, Trisha, has a blog, and you can read about Carly, and how the Ear Trust has helped her, here, at the top of the page. Trisha also has two Ear Trust digi stamps for sale on her blog for $1.50 each. (Read below for info on the creator of these wonderful digi images!) All proceeds from the sale of these special digi images will go The Ear Trust.

As part of the Design Team for Stamping Dragon Designs, I have volunteered to organize a card drive. (See below for address where you can send your cards) I am asking all of you to send cards to these wonderful people that are being assisted by The Ear Trust.

The wonderful Janette, from Stamping Dragon Designs has generously created two adorable digi snail images, below, to help raise money for this awesome cause!





These images can be purchased from Trisha on her blog, here, or you may purchase them from Janette's store, at Stamping Dragon Designs. Again, all proceeds from the sale of these adorable stamps, purchased from either site, will go to The Ear Trust, to help enable people with profound hearing loss, to begin to hear.


We are asking all of you wonderful people out there to please help bright up a day in the lives of these special people, by sending cards.

We'd love it if you'd purchase the special stamps, to create your cards, since proceeds go to the charity. Those of you who purchase the Ear Trust Digi stamp and create a card with it, to send to the Ear Trust, will receive this special image, Jiggy's Presents, created by Stamping Dragon Designs, for free, as our way of saying thank you.





It is not a requirement to use the Ear Trust Digi on your cards, but we would love it, if you did! You may send cards for any occasion, using any images. Please help out by sending a card.

When sending your cards, please include a blank envelope for each card, and send all your cards in one package.

Please mail your cards to:

Teresa Birchall
94, Canal Street
Barnsley, South Yorks,
S71 1lr


A Huge thanks, in advance, to each and every one of you that take the time to send cards!! We really appreciate it!



*See bottom of post for the challenges I'm entering for my card*



And Now, Here are some cards and projects for your viewing pleasure, featuring the cute Ear Trust digi stamps:


Card By Me - Sammi:




Another Card By Me - Sammi:




Trisha's cute Calendar:




More Cuties from Trisha:














And from Janette, the creator of these cute digi stamps:













A fantastic card By Jenny, who brought this wonderful organization to our attention:




Kate's Cutie:




A Cute Hello From Tammy:




And this adorable snail garden, by Nataliya:



I'm entering my snail card in the following challenges:

Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
Anything Goes at Paper Cupcakes
GL7 Bows at Gingerloft
TSG83 Cards For Kids at There She Goes Clear Stamps

Stamping Dragon Designs Has Blog Candy!

Stamping Dragon Designs has a CDAC group and we need YOU to come over and join us, there! We have some cool new events starting in December, and we'd love to have you participate with us, and stop by for a chat.

To promote our Stamping Dragon CDAC group, Janette, of Stamping Dragon Designs, is giving away blog candy! Hope on over to The Dragon's Den and check out details on how you can win!

SDD Christmas, Christmas is Drawing Near

Don't Miss out! Stamping With The Dragon has a huge Christmas celebration and challenge going on and you still have time to play!! We want to see your projects that are "Inspired By A Holiday Song." Hurry over and play along with us! You wont want to miss these fantastic prizes that are up for grabs!

You can view my post with all the challenge and prize info, here.

There are some great prizes, and two fabulous Grand Prizes, for those of you that use an image from Stamping Dragon and Dragons Lair Designs! You really really are going to want to play along for your chance to win!

Now that I have the big challenge reminder out of the way, I have a new card to show you. I wanted to go simple and show you what a pretty card you can make sometimes, just by using a sentiment and acetate. The sentiment is from Christmas Sentiment pack 1 from Stamping Dragon Designs.


I used white cardstock from my stash, and used Vellum tape to attach a pretty piece of pre printed Christmas acetate, to the front of the card. Then matted and attached the sentiment. Very simple, but pretty!

I hope this has given the beginning card makers out there some ideas and a little encouragement. IF you've always wanted to try card making but felt like you might not have the knack for it, please do jump in and try, with something simple like this. Everyone has to start somewhere!

I'm sending this card to my cousin and her fiance, for Christmas.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #42 Christmas at Bee Crafty
Challenge #13 Christmas at 2 Sisters
Challenge #47 Christmas at Creative Inspirations
Merry Christmas at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #85 Photo Inspiration at Cupcake Inspiration
Challenge #7 Tis The Season at Stamp and Create
Challenge #34 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
H is for Holidays at abc-challenges
Challenge #27 Someone Special for Christmas at The Creative Cottage
Challenge #47 Christmas at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #4 Anything Goes at Hodge Podge Shop
Challenge #14 Winter at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #23 Show Off Your Style at Fresh Brewed Designs
Embellish-It (Corner adornements) at Stamping Vacation
Let Your Creativity Blossom at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #10 Holidays at Card Makin Mamas

Just What I've Been Waiting For! Bugaboo Is Having A DT Call!

Whooo Hooo! I'm so excited! Bugaboo Stamps is having a Design Team Call! I've been waiting for this, because I love Jodie's images, and I've always wanted a chance to be on the Bugaboo DT. Stella is my favorite Bugaboo persona but I absolutely love them all. To apply, we are being asked to submit three projects. One using a Bugaboo image, and two others.

I chose this card as my Bugaboo submission. It features Stella, my favorite Bugaboo lady. She cracks me up. I made this card back in August for a back to school challenge. All of Jodie's images are fun to work with.




My second card is another of my favorites, and my first attempt at a side step card. Halloween is one of my my favorite holidays and I had so much fun creating this card. I ended up doing two side step cards for Halloween, because they turned out so cute. The images for this card are by Stamping Dragon Designs, except for the skull--Which is a preprinted piece of acetate.





My last card is a favorite because of the striking color scheme and the overall elegance. The piano image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps.





Now, I just have to keep my fingers crossed, and hope that Jodie will email me (lunalayercakemall@yahoo.com) and tell me I made it through to round 2.

Friends Are Flowers That Never Fade

Time for a new card featuring an image from Stamping Dragon Designs. You can shop their store, here. I've used Friend Word Art and colored it with Promarkers. I decided to try something new and do the lace up technique up the side of the card. I'm not sure how well I like the way it turned out. I wasn't meaning to go for the simple look, but that's what it ended up to be. I started to add something else to it, but then I was afraid I'd ruin it. My card fits the Twisted Card Sketch at Twisted Sketches.

The glittery sparkly paper is from a new glitter paper stack I just bought. The ribbon is from my stash. The holes for the lacing were punched using the Crop O Dile Big Bite.

Oh, before we go on to challenges I wanted to mention the wonderful people at Letraset, makers of Promarkers, who are sponsoring the Moving Along With The Times challenge blog, this week! What a fab prize.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Twisted Cards #029 at Twisted Sketches
Challenge #35 Embellish It at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #66 Purple, Green & 1 other color (blue) at Pollycraft
Challenge #32 Sketch at Fairy Moon Crafts
Challenge #32 Anything Goes at Tuesday Throwdown
Top Tip #7 Anything Goes at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Meljen's Designs
F Is For Flowers at The ABC Challenge
Challenge #69 Use Promarkers at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #17 Frame It at Glitterbabe's
Thoughtful Thursdays 0031 Starts With H (Holes) at Other Lovelies
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Crafty Purple Frog
Digi Day at Stamp Something
Challenge #1 Get Your Bling On at Digi's With Attitude!

Giddyup Cowgirl

Giddyup little cowgirl! This cute image is called Giddyup and is from Designs. You can get her for your very own in Stamping Dragon's store. I colored her with Promarkers and chose a pink and brown color combo. I wanted to make the card simple, yet girly. The flowered paper, pink pearls and ribbon are all from my stash. I love sheer ribbons, and this one is one of my favorites, with the metallic threads through it. I bought it because I thought it was so pretty, and then just never used it. Once i started creating this, I remembered I had this ribbon and thought it was perfect for this card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Anything Goes at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Animal Fun at 2 Sisters
Challenge #64 Anything Goes at Pollycraft
Challenge #62 Sparkly Glitter (Metallic sparkly threads in ribbon) at Incy Wincy
Challenge #18 Critter Mad at Daisy Doodles
Challenge #8 Go Digital at Karber Weekly Challenge
Bloomin Marvelous at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #79Ribbon, Buttons, Bling plus a digi at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #124 Sparkle & Shine (shiny sparkly threads in ribbon)at Spoonful of Sugar
Anything Goes Girly at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #35 Think Pink at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #43 Use A Digi Image at Fab N Funky
Challenge #24 Bling It On at The Creative Cottage
Unused Stash at For Fun
Challenge #15 Anything Goes at Glitterbabe
Challenge 0029 F is for (Flowers) at Other Lovelies
Challenge #12 Flowers at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Challenge #25 Digi and your favorite coloring medium at Crafty Ann's
Week 41 Use A Digi Stamp at Create4Fun
Challenge #39 Circles (pearls) at Penny's Paper Crafty

Monsters For Sale! Special Price!

The Stitchy Bear Stamps store is having a huge sale in celebration of Halloween! They sell images from tons of talented designers! There are o many cute images that are being revealed today, especially for this special sale. Hurry over to the Stitchy Bear Stamps shop and check them out while you're able to get them at the special price. They have images priced individually as well as in a multiple image collection pack.

Check out the Stamping Dragon DT on their individual blogs, for some awesome Halloween creations!

Today, I am featuring the new images by Stamping Dragon Designs, available at the Stitchy Bear Stamps shop right now! I am using Sam the Vamp, Halloween Word Art, Monsters and the Too Cute To Spook images.... And all on one card! Sam the Vamp is a real glamour puss... look at how he is showing off! Or is at a she?

I wanted to try and get most of the new Halloween images on one card, so I went with a side step card. I absolutely love making this style of card! It would also be a fantastic table centerpiece for Halloween parties. They have such an awesome look and are so much fun to make.

All designer papers are from an old Halloween stack by K & C Company, that I've had in my stash for ages. The images are colored with Promarkers and the ghosts are glittered with a clearstar gelly roll pen to add sparkle. I used my new Halloween punches by Martha Stewart to make the fence and the witch. The skull is a piece of printed acetate that I just bought at Michael's in a new Halloween pack by Recollections. I attached the skull to white cardstock and cut it out, to make it stand out. All of the images and most of the elements on the card are attached using foam mounting tape, to add dimension and the 3D effect.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #61 Anything Goes at Incy Wincy
Halloween at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #18 Critters (On DP) at Daisy Doodles
Challenge #20 Autumn at Cards For Men
No Ribbon Or Buttons at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #19 Punches at Tuesday Throwdown
Here Comes Autumn at Tuesday Taggers
Challenge #14 Something For A Teenager at Crafts And Me
Purple, Green & Black at Delightful Sketches
Challenge #110 More Than One Fold at Stamp With Sarah Kay
Out Of The Box at Whimsie Doodles
Challenge #16 Hump Day Inspiration at Inktegrity
Challenge #76 Animals (Bats on DP) with orange and purple at Shirley's Two Girls
Challenge #27 3D It at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #12 Halloween at Aud Sentiments
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle
Challenge #069 Grid (Fence) at Treehouse Stamps
Challenge #0028 Starts with E (I used an eerie skull--does that counte?) at Other Lovelies
Something To Celebrate (Halloween) at Stamp Something
Wings (Bats on DP) at Alphabet Challenge
Challenge #36 The Great Outdoors (Outdoor Halloween scene) at Totally Paper Crafts
Challenge #49 Use Some Orange (Orange monster) at If The Shoe Fits
Halloween at The Town Scrapper
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug (Bugaboo)
Challenge #22 Purple at Easy Craft projects
Open theme at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Challenge #14 Do I see Black and Orange at Ellephantastic
Challenge #6 Get Ahead, Get A Hat at Crafty Emma's
What A Glamour Puss at Creative Craft Challenges
Challenge #79 Layer It On at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #24 Spooky at I Did It Creations
Challenge #46 Punch It Out (fence & flying witch)at Sweet Stampin
Chapter 33: Dictionary of Nonsense (Text on DP) at Oh! Alice
Challenge #8 Animal Fun (Bats on DP) at 2 Sisters
Challenge #33 "Spooky Halloween" Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up
Challenge #23 Autumn or Fall at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #79 Halloween at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #3 All That Glitters (Glittered ghosts) at Gingerloft
Occasion Oasis at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #1 Halloween/Fall at Baby Bud Designs
October Challenge-Spooky at By The Cute And Girly
Challenge #10 Pick Your Favorite at Iris' Spot

Grand Opening of Stamping Dragon Designs store forum!

I am so excited to let everyone know that Stamping Dragon Designs now has their own store forum! Whoo Hoo! Now all of you Stamping Dragon fans will have a place to communicate with the DT and with the creator herself! You can find out all about what is going on with the store as well as our challenges. We also will be having a new feature called Spotlight Designer each month. For details on how you can become a Spotlight Guest Designer, check out our new forum!

The store forum goes Live tomorrow, October 1 at 7am EST.

Just click on the link for Stamping Dragon Designs Store Forum and then register. Once your access is approved, you'll be able to make posts and interact with us.

We hope you will all register for the forum and come by and hang out with us!

Nurse Penny Hopes you Feel Better, Soon

With the changing weather lately, so many people are coming down with colds and feeling under the weather. Nurse Penny is from Stamping Dragon Designs. She is here to send you get well wishes. This image was a request from me. I had asked Janette to create it for me awhile back, and she did. So of course I had to make a card with it. You can get cute little Nurse Jiggy for your very own (And lots of other cute images) in the store.

I decided to go with christmas colors on a non christmas card, and mix my two favorite patterns.... Gingham and polka dots. The red and white gingham paper is from my stash. I colored the image with Promarkers. And ya have to love the polka dot ribbon, also from my stash. The red flower is by Prima, with a pearl as the flower center. The sentiment is by Stampin Up and punches using the oval and scalloped oval punches by Stampin Up.

I am entering this card in the followinc challenges:

Challenge #48 Wild Thing at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #101 Anything Goes at The Secret Crafter
Chapter 31: Fighting For a Crown (Mythical Creature-Dragon) at Oh, Alice!
Pile On The Flowers at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #77 Grid at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #82 Clean Up The Dust at Corrosive
Ribbon at Practical Scrappers
Challenge #20 Round and Red at Just Scraps
Challenge #77 at Cupcake Inspirations
Bling It! at Keep It Simple
Challenge #22 Keep It Simple at I did it Creations/Robyns Fetish
Challenge #62 Cute & Cuddly at Pollycraft
Challenge #17 Keep It Simple at Daisy Doodles
Animal Magic at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #77 Its All About The Girls at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #122 Anything Goes at A Spoon Full Of Sugar
It Takes All Sorts at Tuesday Taggers
Animal Applause at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #123 Winged Things at Flutterby Wednesdays
Thoughtful Thursday 0027 D is for Digi at Other Lovelies
Challenge #48 Flowers at If The Shoe Fits
Anything Goes at Stamp It Crazy
Flower Power at Scrappy Frogs
To Who Challenge (Hug) at Stamping Vacation

Sweet Baby

It's time for my weekly card for Stamping Dragon Designs. This time, I decided to go with a baby card for a co-worker who just became a grandma, again. This image is from Stamping Dragon Designs and is called Nap Time. I just love the sweetness of this image.

For my card layout, I used the sketch at Tuesday Morning. The papers are all from my stash. The paper flowers are by Flor-A-Doodle, and came from the clearance rack at Meijer. I just bought these cute pink safety pins at Card and Party Outlet and thought they would be perfect for a baby card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Bee Crafty
Challenge #99 Clean & Simple at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #10 Free Theme at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #35 Pile On The Layers at Pile It On
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Gingerloft
New Beginnings (First try at a 3D altered project) at All Sorts
Challenge #22 Flower Power at Lexi's Creations
Pile On The Flowers at Whoopsi Daisy
AS24 Pretty In Pink at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #6 Monochromatic at 2 sisters
Challenge #2 Floral Frenzy at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #29 Blooms, Butterflies Or Bling at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #14 Anything Goes at Scrappekammert
Challenge #62 Stripes at OLLCB
Challenge #58 Celebrate (New Baby) at Incy Wincy
Paper Flowers at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Daisy Doodles
Challenge #29 Clean & Simple at Crafty Cardmakers
Bundle of Joy at The Crazy Challenge
Week #21 You'll Be In My Heart at Scrap It With A Song
Challenge #6 Floral Fantasy at A Pocket Full of Posies
Challenge #75 Dots and Stripes at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #106 Jeweled (Flower centers) at My Time To Craft
Challenge #58 Sketch at Tuesday Morning
Gems and Sparkle at Crafts and Me
Challenge #39 What'eva at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #22 Celebrations at The Creative Cottage
SISC26 It Happens In Threes(3 Flowers) at Stamp Insanity
Occasion Oasis at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #11 Baby at Just Inspirational challenges
Challenge #23 Monochrome at Crafty Ann's
Something With Spots and Stripes at Stamp Something
Challenge #33 Let's Get Dotty at Totally Papercrafts
Name that card at Stamping Vacation

Stamping Dragon Designs First Birthday Blog Hop!!!

Whoo Hoo! Time for the final event to wrap up our week of Birthday celebration! Hopefully you have all had a blast playing along with us in our fun contests to celebrate our one year birthday! If you missed out on any events, you still have time to play in the Name the paper pack and win it contest, here, and in the "guess how many" contest, here.)

Now it is time for the big event... The birthday blog hop! Many of our DT team are offering blog candy.. Some may be posted in their hop post.. Some may be a mystery, so you will have to leave us all some love, in order to win! Just hop along to all our blogs, become a follower and leave us a comment to celebrate our birthday, for your chance to win some great prizes! Please remember, that in order to win, you MUST comment on every blog in the hop. (We will check to make sure the winners have commented on all blogs) Along the way, you will get to see some wonderful creations using digi images by Stamping Dragon Designs. You have until The end of the day on Aug 31 to participate in the festivities. Winners will be announced by Sept 2.

If you arrived here from the blog of our wonderful creator, Janette, then you are on the right track. If not, you will want to go back to the Stamping Dragon website and start from the beginning.



In celebration of our Birthday here at Stamping Dragon, and the birthday of Janette herself, Janette created this special digi stamp, above, in honor of their birthdays. This wonderful image is called Rupert's Birthday. Right now, for a limited time only, you can get this image for your very own, for just 99 cents, in the store.

Now, let me show you what I did with this awesome image. Here is my card, below, created especially to celebrate the birthdays of Janette and Stamping Dragon. I made this cute spinner card. You can see the white scalloped tab on the right of the striped box. Turning that tab makes the text in the window move. How cute is that?!




I used an MS border punch for the punched flowers.

Now, head on over to Tam's blog, to see the yummy eye candy she created for your viewing pleasure.

If you get lost along the way, you may come back here to view the blog hop list, and get back on track. The complete list is at the bottom of this post.

Don't forget to leave comments on all the blogs as you hop along, for your chances to win some wonderful blog candy.

Is my blog, here, one of the blogs offering some yummy candy? Hmmm You will just have to leave me some love and then wait and see! *Shhhhhhh I think it's a pretty good guess that I'm giving away some surprise blog candy*

As a bonus, if you post about our birthday blog hop on your blog,with a link to the starting point, you will get an extra chance to win some blog candy! I will give another entry for anyone who becomes a new follower of my blog. Please mention in your comment that you became a follower. (I will check, too! LOL)


UPDATE: If we get over 50 participants in our blog hop (that means 50 comments from 50 different people that are not part of the hop) I will throw in more blog candy and draw a second winner from the comments on my blog.



Blog Hop List

Janette
Sammi you are here
Tams
Stitchy
Scrappy
Donna
Nataliya
Tammy
Robin
Claire
Beth
Jenny

I think you're Greeeaaattt and I'm not Lion!

Time for a new challenge over at Stamping With The Dragon. For this round, we are using a simple sketch. Jump on over and join us for your chance to win some images of your choice, from Stamping Dragon Designs.

I used a new image by Stamping Dragon Designs, called Lucy Lion. Lucy is colored with Promarkers. The DP is a scrap from my stash. The flower border was punched with a border punch by Martha Stewart. The buttons are recycled from some old shirts I threw away. The flower medallion was made with strips of DP punched with a border punch, then accordian folded and secured together, then folded into a flower. I seen a tutorial on this and just had to try it! They are a lot of work, but well worth it, in my opinion. This card fits the sketch at Papertake Weekly and Raise The Bar.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #16 Cute And Fuzzy at Clearly I Stamp
Challenge #16 Flowers at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #29 Cats at Drunken Stampers
Challenge #26 Pack A Punch at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #17 Open House at Just Scraps
Challenge #40 Recycled Element (buttons) at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #55 Yellow at Incy Wincy
Challenge #72 Use Your Scraps at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #104 In The Garden at Everybody-Art
Challenge #46 Sketch at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #36 Flower Power at Fab N Funky
Challenge #33 Die Cuts at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #32 Sketch at Raise The Bar
Twisted Thursday #70 Yellow at S2G
Challenge #21 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
SISC23 Button It Up, Buttercup at Stamp Insanity
Fall Color Challenge at Alota Rubber Stamps
Digi Day at Stamp Something
Challenge #45 Anything Goes at Stampin For The Weekend
Week #33 Punch It at Prairie Fairy
Challenge #55 Anything Goes at Paper Cutz
TD03 Flower Power at Tiffany's Doodles

Look, it's Dino!

Look, it's Dino from the Flintstones cartoon! Okay, well it really isn't, but I colored this image to look like Dino, because he reminded me of him. (I think Dino was a him...wasn't he? I can't remember) This is a new image from Stamping Dragon Designs. As part of Stamping Dragon's DT, I was asked to create a card using this cutie, for a new challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Center (CDAC). If you haven't checked out the site, you definitely need to, if you love Digi stamps! It is the place to be for all things Digi! Lots of free digi images and great challenges! While over there, join us at Stamping Dragon's CDAC group, too!

As I mentioned before, this card is for a challenge being hosted by Stamping Dragon Designs, over at CDAC. The challenge is a recipe: 1 border, 2 patterned Papers and 3 embellishments. You can check out the challenge at CDAC, here. Stamping Dragon Designs has this cute Dinosaur there as a freebie for you, too. Stop on over at CDAC and play along. Hopefully you will like us enough to join our CDAC group, too!

For this card, I used cardstock from my stash,and some cute new gingham DP that I got recently in a new tablet I bought from Hobby Lobby. The image, from Stamping Dragon Designs, is colored with Promarkers. (I just love gingham for some reason and have been using it a lot, lately.) The flowers are from Flor-A-Doodle and bought on clearance awhile back, at Meijer. I finished the card by adding faux stitching with a white opaque pen by Inksentials.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #42 Stitching at Dare You To Digi Stamp
Something Flowery at Stamp Something
Vibrant Colors at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #7 Anything Goes at Miami Doodles
Week #30 Flowers at Create4Fun
Challenge #76 All Creatures Great and Small at RosieD's
C4C47 Photo Inspiration (I used purple, pink, white) at Crazy 4 Challenges
Digi's at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up!
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Creative Inspirations
Girlie Girl at Scrappy Frogs
Twisted Cards #017 at Twisted Sketches
Challenge #69 Dazzle Me at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #12 3D at Creatalicious
Challenge #71 Animals at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #30 Something With A Tail at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #060 Seeing Spots (on Dino)& Dots at Treehouse Stamps
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle
Inspiration Station at Stamping Vacation

Christmas With Rupert Clause

Just like last week, I am still thinking Christmas. Here is yet another Christmas card idea, for my Xmas cards this year. I like to try several different ones, then decide which I like the best. The problem is, I like them all. I might end up having to just make a variety.

This image is a recent new release, from Stamping Dragon Designs, called Rupert Clause. He is colored with Promarkers, and I used a clearstar gelly roll pen to add glitter and sparkle to him. You can take Rupert in Santa form (as well as many others) home with you,for your very own, in the store, here.

I used the sketch TM#51 from Tuesday Morning Sketches, and the sketch from Critter Challenge, for the card layout. The papers are all from my stash. I used the branch punch by Martha Stewart, to punch out the Greenery, then used skittles dyed with Cranberry Alcohol ink, as the berries. The skittles and branches give the card a nice 3D card. I love cards with dimension!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #7 Anything Goes at Miami Doodles
Vibrant Colors at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #76 All Creatures Great & Small at Rosie-D's
C4C47 Photo Inspirations (polka dots) at Crazy 4 Challenges
Digi Challenge at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays
Challenge #26 Christmas in July at Drunken Stampers
Challenge #2 Christmas In July at 2 Sisters
Challenge #69 Christmas In July
Challenge #7 Christmas in July at Sundays With Crissy
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up!
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #24 Sketch at Critter Challenge
Challenge #10 Christmas In July at Tuesday Throwdown
Christmas in July at Tuesday Taggers
Challenge #25 Christmas In July at I love Promarkers
Challenge #12 3D at Creatalicious
We Are All Going Dotty At Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #71 Animals at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #39 Christmas In July at Little Red Wagon
Christmas In July at OWH
Christmas In July at Tellen's Place
Challenge #7 Christmas Sentiment at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #123 Texting Crazy at Cute Card Thursday
Challenge #30 Something With A Tail at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #18 Punch Or Cut Me at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Week #30 Anything Goes at Paper Play
Christmas in July at AI Factory
Challenge #060 Seeing Spots & Dots at Treehouse Stamps
DDCC #83 at Anything Goes Dutch Dare
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle

Just Popping By

Time to pop by with a new card. This one uses the cute cute cute new Popcorn image, by Stamping Dragon Designs. I had requested Janette make a few images for me, and this is one of them. I absolutely love it and couldn't wait to make a card with it. This image is so versatile and could be used for so many things. You can get your very own digi popcorn stamp, as well as lots of other great images in the store, here. It would be perfect for invitations to a birthday party. I've decided to use it as a Birthday card.

I used the sketch from Card Patterns, for the card layout. I used Spellbinders Shapabilities to cut and emboss the film strip, then used an opaque white pen to add white to the embossed areas of the film strip. The image, from Stamping Dragon Designs, is colored with Promarkers and pop dotted for dimension and 3D effect. Background paper is from my stash. I used skittles for the embellishments. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and was punched with the the oval and scalloped oval punches, from Stampin Up.

This card reminds me of how much I enjoy movie nights out with hubby.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Sketch #74 at Card Patterns
M Is For Men at Alphabet Challenge
Challenge #4 Birthdays at Craftalicious
Challenge #7 Anything Goes at Miami Doodles
Vibrant Colors at Whoopsi Daisy
C4C47 Photo Inspirations (polka dots) at Crazy 4 Challenges
Digi Challenge at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up!
Challenge #13 It's All Fun & Games
Challenge #10 Birthday at Pear Tree Designs
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #59 Birthday at OLLCB
Challenge #69 Male Card
Birthday at Totally Stampalicious
All About Birthdays at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #9 Birthday at Party Time Tuesdays
Challenge #13 Photo Inspiration (colors) at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #12 3D at Creatalicious
We Are All Going Dotty At Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #123 Texting Crazy at Cute Card Thursday
Challenge #18 Punch Or Cut Me at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #69 Birthday at Stampin B's
Week #30 Anything Goes at Paper Play
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle
Challenge #060 Seeing Spots & Dots at Treehouse Stamps
DDCC #83 at Anything Goes Dutch Dare

Just A Reminder! DT Call at Stamping Dragon! Don't Be Left Out!

Stamping Dragon Designs' is having a Design Team call! We need a few new faces and new creative inspiration to join our team.

The DT call is only open till midnight (UK time)on Aug 6, 2010. (For those of you in the US, like me, that is 7pm EST)

All you have to do is to create a project using the image below, and then link your
creation at Inlinkz here. That's all there is to it! Please remember that you MUST use the image below, for your card submission.

To get the image for creating your card, visit us at CDAC Here.

Thanks, in advance to everyone who applies. We look forward to your creations and to adding new faces to our team!