Stamping With The Dragon Sad Farewell to the DT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today is a very sad day for me as I have decided to move on and have now permanently stepped down from the Stampin with the Dragon Design Team.  I just have to say that working with Janette, Beth and the team over the past year has been fabulous with such a family it was a great experience and I had the best time ever.  I am sure that they will go from strength to strength and I will be popping by to keep in touch with all of the great team as well as now and again, using my fabulous images and maybe entering a few of their challenges myself.  ( On numerous occasions with their fabulous sponsors I imagine)

So on that note, today sees the next challenge at

Stampin with the Dragon

with the theme of 

Food

my fabulous teamies and I got to play with the sponsors fabulous images and I chose this one, it is great.  But I could not be normal on my last challenge with the family, so as the image is a cupcake I used an old biscuit tin and create a rather large cupcake...................... I hope you like it and that you will pop over and see what the rest of the team have created for your inspiration.  

Here is the top angled view, hope you can see the fluffy marshmallow topping to the cupcake surround the Bugaboo image which has been die cut with a large round nestie and air brushed in G07, the glitter marshmallow top on the image doesn't show to well in the photo.

Here is the side view

The beautiful lace is the drippy icing which is oozing down the side of the green cupcake :)  I added the little green and red bells as I did not have any candy canes (not bought them for my Xmas tree yet)

Now if you have not noticed, although I am sure you have my new 600 follower candy has been posted and you can enter this here . I would like to welcome all my new followers  and wish all my followers luck in the 600 follower candy.   

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline for your assistance as always

Crafty Ribbons - Anything but a Card

Crimbo Crackers - Sparkle

Southern Girls - Inspired by a Song (Food Glorious Food)

Freshly Brewed - Food

Inky Impressions - Glitter

Stampavie and More - Anything Goes

Digital Tuesday - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes Xmas

Hugs and enjoy your day, I just know I will

Kate

xx

Bow's and Buttons with the Stampin with the Dragon DT

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the new challenge at

Stampin with the Dragon

with the Theme of

Button and Bows

we are sponsored this week by the fabulous, Stamp Fairy

with a fabulous prize of $10 GIFT CERT FOR STAMP FAIRY

but before I move on I would like to thank the ladies at Bow's and Berries for my top three placement

 and

the ladies at the Crafty Purple Frog for my top three placement

so moving on to the challenge at hand, as I must go to work today :(

Here is my design team inspirational piece for this challenge

This is  a wall plaque, painted in gesso and then airbrushed with B97 copic to create a night time scene.  The sentiment is made from little cork tiles, behind this is a doily and behind the image plate some cheesecloth.  The heart MS punch creates a layer a the bottom which covers some gorgeous ribbon pearls.  Flowers are Wild Orchid and the little pearls are from the Hobby House.  The feather is from a local department store and the little clock is one from a doll's house set.  The silver butterflies are made from metal ribbon. The bow and buttons from stash.

please pop over and see the rest of the gorgeous creations from the Design Team.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 400 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 500 follower candy you can do so here, 

Totally awesome, you guys are amazing................thank you so much :) 570 followers, if you are already follow me please don't forget to put your name in the hat :) 

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Divas by Design - buttons

Ruby's Rainbow - Cute and Cuddly

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Use it Tuesday - Metal (Metal ribbon, the husband brings me it from work and I hoard loads of it, I do share to )

Crafty Card Makers - Anything Goes

Digi Make Over - Anything but a card

Hooked on Crafts - Anything but a card

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Things with wings (metal butterflies)

Hugs and enjoy the rest of your day

Kate

xxx

Sam The Vamp comes out to Play from Stampin with the Dragon

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees my return to a little normality.  I have as you know taken a two month break from Stampin with the Dragon, but today I am back, although not in my full capacity but at least I am back and thrilled to be back

but before I move on I would like to thank the ladies at Inky Impressions for selecting me as one of their top three

and for the redraw at House Mouse from their blog hop as I have been selected to win

A fabulous gift from Pizazz a Plenty

thank you ladies :)

Today I get to introduce you to one of the fabulous new images just perfect for this time of year.

This is Sam the Vamp 2 and is available from the Home of the Dragons, the Dragon's Lair Designs, along with lots more fabulous pieces.

So here is what I created with this fabulous image

A spooky/eery Halloween card. The base layer is black and the contrast is bright orange and purple.  The papers are Papermania mono collection.  The image plate and surround is made with the smaller of the Grand Nesties.  The ribbon from stash and the pearls airbrushed to perfectly match.  The webbing (metal ribbon) airbrushed in black used to look like a spiders web.  A little silhouette of Sam hiding under the web at the bottom left and a hand made sentiment at the top.

Here is a close up of the sentiment and the black wire mesh ribbon, which has been stretched.

and here is the image, the background has been airbrushed in purple tones, copics have been used to colour the fabulous image and I added a little clear glitter sakuro pen to the spooky tree.

I hope you like it, do please pop over to the shop to see all the other gorgeous image, papers, and all the new decoupage sheets.

Now don't forget the current challenge at

Stampin with the Dragon

with the fabulous theme of

Fall into Colour

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Crafts and Me - Use a Digi

Little Darlings - Halloween

More than favours - Purple green orange and black

The Paper Shelter - Halloween

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Silhouette

Tuesday Throwdown - Halloween 

Karen's Doodles - Halloween

Charisma Cardz - Black and Orange

Crafty Ribbons - Halloween Projects

Delightful Challenges - Dimensional

Meljens Design - Halloween

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

Kate 

x

Stampin with the Dragon Design Team Call

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

I am a little sad this morning but at the same time excited, why you wonder, well I have moved into a new role in my work life that means I need to for a short while step back a little from some fabulous design team duties to adjust to the new and extra role

..... Our Vintage Affair has temporarily suspended it's activities, but will be back in the near future I am sure, so keep watching for when things pick up their again 

........Winter Wonderland, I think I have enough Xmas cards now (actually they are overflowing my draw) so will for a short time, unless I get the chance to play, I will only be creating for Team Kate's week :) but don't forget Team Marianne still provide some awesome inspiration on the alternate week.

and this will be for the next couple of month's my last post for Stampin with the Dragon, but I will hopefully be back with them again in November when I am hoping that my work role has settled back down to some sort of normality.

So I would like to apologise for commenting on challenge entries but maybe not getting to all of my followers, trying to catch up so please be patient :)

Therefore today I would like to advertise the Design Team call at Stampin with the Dragon, working along side a fabulous team of talented ladies, with a super co ordinator and inspirational designer

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Commitment is for a 6 month term
2. You are required to have a blog. If you need help in setting one up we will be more than happy to help.
3. Must make a minimum of 4 projects a month. 
4. Must submit and post on your blogs on time.
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PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING:
1. Your name and about yourself
2. Past experience if any but, not required.
3. 3 samples of your best work plus your project with our image (below)
4. A link to your blog

Please send to

dragonslairdesigns@googlemail.comANDbeth.colella0126@gmail.com 

and re introduce to you one of the fabulous image that are available from the Dragon's Lair, home of Stampin Dragon Designs

This is Jiggy Goes Back to School

and here is what I created using this image

what a cutie, I laid the printed images on clear double sided image paper and coloured him in with copics, I then cut him and peeled off the remaining sticky side to add him to this little storage jar.  Once stuck down I over sprayed with a clear glitter varnish and added a little bow and added liquid pearls around the bottom of the glass, before quickly placing my water colour pencils in the container.

Don't forget the current challenge running at Stampin with the Dragon and the oh so special card drive see here

although there is hopefully some more interesting news to follow in the near future, oh you know how I love to keep you all in suspense.....................................:)

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 300 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 300 follower candy you can do so here, thank you to Feline for now advertising my candy too. 

I am thrilled to bits that I now have 454 followers, but still only have currently 196 entrants, and would dearly love to reach 300 entrants by the closing date, so if you already follow me - do pop your name in the hat :) so as not to miss out ..............

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, and once again apologise for my poor hop back rating at the moment, I am on catch up honest :)

Not really sure what this little number will fit into so here goes with what I found on that awesome Feline Playful blog site, oh and have you seen this????? if not do pop over and check it out :)

For Fun Challenges - Back to School

Papercraft Star - Back to School

7 Kids College Fund - School Spirit

Creative Craft Challenges - Anything but a Card

Scrap Creations - Back to School

Party Time Tuesday's - Back to School

well that was more than I thought, surprisingly :)

so that is me for now, will be back later with this weeks Winter Wonderland DT inspirational piece

Hugs and thank you all for your understanding

Kate

xx

Send a Smile for Kids Card Drive Challenge and soooo much more.....

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

oh this is going to be a long long post, with lots of information and photo's, do please take the time to read the content for a very special cause, over a lovely cold or hot beverage, I will leave the choice down to you.


Firstly I would like to say thank you for my top three position on the last challenge at
Do It With Digi's
due to illness the challenge blog is now closing, and will be sadly missed

and then on to the rest of this interesting post....................

Today is a very special day, as the Dragon Family DT are getting involved in two special occasions

Pop over to Stampin with the Dragon to join in

• a Card Drive for "Send a Smile for Kids" 

and the secret bit - oh don't we just love a secret, 

• we are wishing our very own talented Janette, designer of the Dragon's Lair images and papers an early "Happy Birthday"

Our sponsor for this special challenge is our very own Janette's - 

Stampin Dragon Designs from the Dragon's Lair

There will be two prizes

• The first one will be for a holiday theme other than birthday.  
• The Second prize will be for a birthday card.  

Each winner will receive  4 images winners choice.

The theme for this fortnight is

Either a holiday card or birthday card.  

Now as the cards you will be creating are for the children, Send a Smile for Kids do have a few rules to protect the children who will receive the cards........

-All cards must be handmade - no computer card-making programs please, such as Hallmark, etc. and no store bought cards. 

-All cards should be made specifically for children ages 0-19.

-Please use loose glitter sparingly (make sure to shake off excess), stickles or glimmer mists are a great alternatives to regular shake-on glitter

-Small embellishments such as brads, buttons, googly eyes should not be used on cards intended for very young children (choking hazard). -Please leave cards completely blank on the inside so the nurses and staff can write messages to the patient and their family. If there is something on the inside of your card, we can cover it with a blank inside piece or you can. -Keep the cards upbeat (no "sorry you're sick", "get well soon", etc.), these cards are intended to take the focus off of the hospital and just be a cheery holiday, birthday or any day greeting.-If you are able to, please include envelopes, especially if your cards are not the standard A2 size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2). If you cannot provide envelopes, you can still send cards and we will provide envelopes where needed.-The hospitals ask that we not include religious symbols or themes in the cards. Many families have many different faiths and beliefs and the hospital staff is not always aware of what faith a child is. -About Donations Thank you for your support of SAS4Kids! We do have expenses such as envelopes, shipping and blog costs and if you would consider donating a check to help with those expenses, it would be greatly appreciated. You may send with or without a donation of cards.

Please send your check and/or donated cards to: SAS4Kids, C/O Karen Hasheck, 5507 Hickory St., Schofield, WI 54476. Please include an email address or snail mail address so we can acknowledge your gift.

-Please include an email address and your name or a snail mail address so we can acknowledge your gift of cards or monetary donation.

Other than that let your creativity run wild and put some smiles on those little faces!! You may sign or stamp the back of your cards if you wish. All cards received will be labelled "Send A Smile 4 Kids" on the back.Thank you again! We can't wait to see what you send us for our kids!

Please take the time to create a card for the children and send it off, I did, here is what I created and sent off and received a lovely e mail back, so rewarding...............

My card focuses on the image.  The base layer is gold mirror card as is the Marianne die.  The image plate has been edged with stickles (not my favourite thing to use but it is better for the children than my normal glitter, so the rules for sending state)  The image coloured in copics, one of the new images available here, called "Penny's Pudding"

The star at the top of the hand drawn and copic created tree (get me hand drawn and coloured) is from a flower centre punch, punched out in glitter bronze paper and stickles has been added for the lights on the tree.

Now the surprise for Janette

Early Happy Birthday hun xx

This is what I created for her

It is a three piece wall plaque.  The plaque is available from the Hobby House as is the ribbon.  I used the ribbon to link all the pieces together and covered all of the pieces in some GCD Studio's Ella Blue papers.  The contrast is a pearlescent bronze paper.  The sentiments from my stash but the image is "ooooooooooooooooh cake" and again available here from Stampin Dragon Designs at the Dragon's Lair. All the edges of the sentiment and image have been distressed with Tim Holtz "Old paper" and over stamped with  Prima clear stamp with a little diamond stickles used to accent the swirls. The flowers are distressed with the same colour and are Prima also.

Here are a few more images

Do please take the time to visit our main challenge site at

Stampin with the Dragon

and view all the other lovely creation by the Design Team

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 300 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 300 follower candy you can do so here, thank you to Feline for now advertising my candy too. 

OMG!!!! totally stunned at 429 followers, but only 163 entrants in the candy this time around, so if you have not already please do, would love to get 300 entrants :)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! without you blog land would not be as special.

I would like to enter the following challenges for the Xmas Card

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Food and Drink

and these for the wall plaque

Art Impressions Stamps - Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Shelly's Images - Show us what you got - anything goes

Stamp Insanity - Anything Goes

Colour Create - BLUE, GREEN, WHITE, RED and BROWN

Divas by Design - Birthdays

Pixie Cottage - Birthday

Scrapbook Sisters - Blue

A Spoon full of Sugar - Happy Birthday

Creative Craft Challenge - Anything but a card

Deep Ocean - Light Blue

Try it On Tuesday - Anything Goes

and breath..................................

Hope you all have a wonderful day

Hugs

Kate

xx

Fun in the Pool at Stampin with the Dragon

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today I get to show you one of the fabulous new images available at the Dragon's Lair.

 But before I move on, I just have to tell you that my younger sister who lives in Tanzania, is visiting the UK for a month, and she will be coming to stay for a couple of days today.  Cannot wait to see her miss her terribly when she is away.

Any way back to the task at hand, Janette continually brings us the latest Season or trend images.  I just had to play with this one called "Pool Fun" which is available here in the store

So here is my creation

A Summer Fun, Birthday Card, 

I just had to use the warm browns with the deep oranges a fabulous contrast.

I used again that 12 x 10 inch card and this time used the deep warm brown, I used my daisy around the page punch by MS and also used the grand oval circle die and the complimentary scallop oval.  The base papers are Papermania Capsule the orange ones, sorry cannot remember the correct name, but one of the mono packs.  The ribbon and the little pearls have been coloured with copics to perfectly match the creation.

Here is cute Jiggy on a close up, don't you just love the orange/yellow blend.

If you look closely opposite the feather at the side of the Grimsby Crafts glittered flower is a little fish charm.

On the centre of the ribbon tied bow is a little pair of flip flops.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 300 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 300 follower candy you can do so here, thank you to Feline for now advertising my candy too. 

Blown away at the moment by the number of followers - thank you so much and already planning for September's 400 follower candy. Still hoping to get 300 entrants into the 300 follower candy :)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!!

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges - Things with Wings

Moving Along with the Times - Fantasy

Divas by Design - Birthdays

Creative Craft - Summertime

Tuesday Throwdown - birthdays

Hugs and enjoy your day

Kate

xx

Christmas in August With Stampin with the Dragon

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today brings the next challenge at 

Stampin with the Dragon

the theme for this fortnight is

RED, GREEN, WHITE CHRISTMAS COLOURS. 

CREATE A CHRISTMAS CARD IN THESE COLOURS.

The sponsor for this challenge is our very own Janette owner and fabulous creator of everything in the Dragons Lair

http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

The fabulous prize for one lucky winner is: 6 IMAGES FROM THE NEW XMAS IMAGES WINNERS CHOICE.(and I have to say the new images are absolutely gorgeous)THERE IS ALSO A VERY SPECIAL CHALLENGE GOING ON AT JANETTE'S BLOG . So an extra chance to win some of her delicious goodies, do pop over and take a look.

I could not help myself and just had to choose this little fellow

He is called "Jiggy's Candy" and can be found here within the store

Here is what I created for my design team inspirational piece, but don't forget to hop over and check out the other inspiration by my fabulous design team buddies.

I created an acetate fronted card.  I hope you can see from this angle that the acetate front has been stamped with glue and glitter added.

The base layer is a gold mirror card, don't you just love the shine so perfect for Xmas.  I have used some of these papers

The one on the far right, you can buy these "Christmas Tree" papers here

I have added a tag and a little ribbon with bow using the holly MS edge punch to frame the acetate.

This is the image

I have masked the image to create the sky and grass around him.  He has been coloured in copics, with a white gel highlighter to add the extra highlights.  His toe nails have been coloured with a clear gel sakuro glitter pen.

Here is a close up of the glitter snowflakes on the acetate.

I really really really enjoyed colouring and creating this Christmas card.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 300 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 300 follower candy you can do so here, thank you to Feline for now advertising my candy too.

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!!

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp - Christmas in August

Aud Sentiment - Merry Xmas on your card (the tag)

Crafty Sentiments - Christmas

PaperPlay - Christmas in August

Amber's Crafts - Sparkle and Shine

Copic Creations - Be a landscape artist

Don't forget to hop over and see all the lovely creations for the challenge and the fabulous new creations in the store

Hugs and back later with another creation

Kate

xx