Winter Wishes and A DT Farewell

The year is coming to an end, and we're all preparing to welcome in 2011. And with a new year, comes change. Time for change and new experiences. With that being said, I'm sad to say that my time with Stamping Dragon Designs has come to an end. I want to say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to Janette, from Stamping Dragon, for giving me the wonderful experience of working with her, and taking the chance on me, to on my first design team. I appreciate everything you have done. I have enjoyed, so much, working with her, and the rest of the DT members, past and present. I will take away from this experience so many wonderful memories. Don't worry, girls, I will be stopping by your blogs to visit from time to time, and I hope you'll all do the same. Don't be surprised if you see me playing along with your challenges over at Stamping With The
Dragon!




Today is a new challenge over at Dragon, and also my last card for this awesome Design Team of wonderful ladies. This round, we want to see a project using your favorite Winter Color. We're being sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads. She is offering a fab prize-- 5 images of the winner's choice! This is an awesome prize, so be sure you play along for your chance to win!

For my card, I used the sketch at Truly Scrumptious. The image was provided by Di's Digi Downloads and is colored with Promarkers. Obviously, my favorite winter colors right now are red & green, since I'm still feeling a little bit like Christmas. I added glitter and sparkle using a clearstar gelly roll pen. It's winter, and so many of us have lots and lots of snow! And we have to have sparkle, if we have snow! The papers and red ribbon are from my stash, and the sentiment is computer generated.

I made this card for my friend Susie. We met in one of those old RPG games years ago and are still friends.

While I have you here, I want to tell you that the Creative Cowgirls are having a blog hop with Blog candy!




check them out, here!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #47 Sketch & Frame It at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
AIF061 Anything Goes at AI Factory
Winter and Sparkle at Stamp-n-Doodle
DDCC#93 Winter at Dutch Dare
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Crafty Ann's
H is for Hats at Alphabet Challenge
Show Us Some Snow at Fussy and Fancy
Anything Goes at I Did It Creations
Snowman Challenge at Stamp It Crazy
Challenge #42 Snowflakes at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #34 Inspired By A Song (Baby, It's Cold Outside) at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #83 Anything Goes at All Sorts
Chapter #44 Curiouser and Curiouser at Oh! Alice
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
ASC31 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at The Crafty pad
Challenge #122 First Snow at Everybody Art
Challenge #90 Winter Wonderland at The Pink Elephant
Challenge #70 White Christmas (Snow) at Pollycraft
Day 300 Peace, Comfort & Joy at 365 Cards
Challenge #17 Cherish Your Online Friends at Mami Doodles
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Digistamps4Joy
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #20 Anything Goes at Crafts and Me
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Sew Many Cards
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Winter Sparkle at Stamp-n-Doodle
Fountain of Youth (Snowman) at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #3 Christmas winter blog hop at Creative Cowgirls
Inspired By A Christmas Song (Walking In A Winter Wonderland) at Frosted Designs)

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

Celebrate Christmas with Kenny K and Stamping With Dragon

Whooo Hooo, it's challenge time at Stamping With The Dragon. and we have a fabulous sponsor this round. You are going to love love love this prize! But first, let's talk about our challenge theme. We have a fun sketch for you, this time. And, we are so so thrilled to announce that we're being sponsored by the awesome Kenny K!!!! How awesome is that?! Kenny K is giving the winner of our challenge some of his fantastic images, as a prize!

First prize: 3 images of the winners choice!
Second Prize: 2 Images of the winners choice!
Third Prize: 1 image of the winners choice!

That's right! There will be three winners! Be sure to join us, this week in our sketch challenge, at Stamping With The Dragon. You won't want to miss out on your chance to win one of these awesome prizes!

I can't even begin to tell you all how excited our DT was, about this sponsor. Kenny Khas so many cool images! We couldn't wait to play with them! Kenny K gave us images from his new Christmas collection, to play with, and we all had so much fun! Some of us got so excited, that we forgot to include the sketch in our project, and had to make a second card! Not mentioning any names... Ahem *ME* LOL!

Okay, okay, let me stop babbling and tell you about my card. I used this fabulous new glitter paper that I found on sale at Joanne's on a recent shopping excursion. The image, as you know, is by Kenny K and is colored with Promarkers. I've used the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Christmas Sentiment Pack #1 at Stamping Dragon Designs. My card fits the sketch at Inspirational Sketches, Sweet Stop Sketches, Friday Sketchers , Stamps R Us and the simple sketch at Priscilla's Styles. I used some new silver ribbon that I just bought. Oh, and I found some cool silver christmas tree tree and thought... That might look cool on a card! (How's that for using something on a craft item, that isnt normally used as one?!)

I love the way this turned out.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #82 Use A Non Craft Item at Digital Tuesday
IC89 Sketch at Inspirational Sketches
G is for Glitter at The ABC Challenge
Challenge #46 Keeping Clean & Simple at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #114 Christmas at Stamp With Sarah Kay
Challenge #2 Anything Goes at Cards For Men
Week #28 My Guy (Gotta love Santa!) at Scrap It With A Song
Challenge #7 Sketch at Stamps R Us
Square at Paper Pretties
Challenge #20 Anything Goes at Inktegrity
Challenge #41 Christmas at Bee Crafty
Challenge #53 Sparkle at Totally Gorjuss
SSS79 Sketch at Sweet Stop
Challenge #106 Manga at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #28 Cute Holidays at Wee Memories
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at 2 Sisters
Challenge #36 All Celebrations at One Stitch At A Time
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up!
Challenge #4 Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #16 2 x 2 (2 silver items-trim & ribbon)at KennyK's
Challenge #9 Glitzy Glittered Christmas at Making It With Meslyn
Challenge #94 Christmas at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #26 Surprise Me at I Did It Creations
Challenge #31 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #73 Things That Go Bump In The Night (Santa sliding down chimney) at The Treehouse
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #41 Male Project at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #40 Bling It On at Totally Papercrafts
Challenge #126 Sketch at Friday Sketchers
Week #22 Winter Wonderland at Fussy and Fancy
Name That Card (smile) at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #77 Midnight Madness Sketch at Priscilla's Styles

Bathtime With Robyn's Fetish

It is challenge time, again, at Stamping With The Dragon. Our theme is water, and we have Robyn's Fetish as our fabulous sponsor. This challenge is a little different from our usual biweekly challenges. We are going with just one week with this round, so hurry and get your ink and paper out so you can play along. You could win a fantastic prize -- 3 digis images of your choice, from Robyn's Fetish!

I love this image, called bathtime, from Robyn's Fetish. This image depicts one of my favorite leisure activities.. Who doesn't love a nice relaxing bubble bath?! For the card layout, I used the sketch at Fresh Brewed Designs and Inspirational Sketches, but altered them some. I decided to go with a clean and simple look. I've colored the image with Promarkers. I bought this pretty flowered paper specifically to match the colors in the image. The ribbon and pearls are from my stash.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Week #71 Plain & Simple at Allsorts
C4C56 Bling It at Crazy 4 Challenges
Challenge #32 As You Like It at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #61 Anything Goes at Incy Wincy
Challenge #7 Hobbies and Leisure at Karber Challenge
Challenge #17 Sketch (I altered a bit) at Fresh Brewed Designs
ICS85 Sketch at Inspirational Sketches (Again, I altered it a little)
Challenge #39 Circles (I used pearls for my circles) at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #70 Fancy Floral at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #27 3D It at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle

Doggie Doggie Where's Your Bone?

Good Morning bloggers!

Before I get into the challenge info, I wanted to say a sad farewell to Karyn, who's chosen to step down from our DT due to time restraints. Karyn, thank you for all your wonderful creations, and for all your hard work. We will miss having you on the team, and wish you the best of luck in everything!

Ok, now, It is challenge time, again, at Stamping With The Dragon. Our challenge is a color challenge this time: Black, White & one other color. We're being sponsored by the wonderful Angela, from Toucan Scraps, who's giving the winner a fantastic prize---some awesome digi papers! Be sure to join us, this week in our color challenge, at Stamping With The Dragon.

The DT are all working with black and white images from Toucan Scraps for providing your DT inspiration.

I chose these cute dogs at play, and went with a masculine theme. These dogs come in a bundle pack with several choices, but I chose to only use two, so as not to overcrowd the card front. After all, doggies need room to frolick and play. Aren't they cute? They look like best friends!

All papers are from my stash, as are the buttons and the cute dog bone ribbon.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Buttons at Practical Scrappers
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Gingerloft
Challenge #14 Anything Goes at Scrappekammert
No! No! (Sparkle) at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #17 Clean & Simple at Daisy Doodles
Name that card at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #43 Just A Note at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #62 Stripes at OLLCB
Friends Forever at the Crazy Challenge
Black and White +1 at Creative Craft Challenges
I Like To Move It! Move It! At Simon Says Stamp
WFWC32 Stripes at The Wild Flower Patch
B Themed Embellishments (Buttons) at Cretive Belli Blog
Challenge #40 Fur Or Feathers at Pixie Dust Studio
SISC27 One Layer Wonders at Stamp Insanity
Thoughtful Thursday 0026 at Other Lovelies
Digi Day at Stamp Something
Unused stash at Alphabet Challenge blog
Challenge #48 For The Boys at AI Factory