Why Dragons Can’t Blow Out Birthday Candles!

Hi everyone,

It’s Thursday which means it’s challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. This month it is my turn to host the challenges!

Chinese New Year is celebrated on January 23rd this year and it is the Year of the Dragon … so this week either use a Dragon on your card or find out what animal relates to your birthday year in the Chinese Zodiac and create a card using that animal. You can find out what year correspondence to what animal here.

I was actually born on the Year of the Goat, but as I have a ton of dragon stamps and probably not many goat stamps that I can think of offhand I wanted to use one of my dragon stamps.

The one I used on my card today is one from a plate of stamps from the Wizard of Bez um plate from Sunday International which I have had for a number of years now. Sometimes it is fun to be able to pull out some older stamps and use them on challenges etc.

I just love that sentiment … “Why Dragons Can’t Blow Out Birthday Candles!”. I guess it would be a problem if you were a fire breathing dragon right!

Here is the inside of my card, I used a birthday sentiment another stamp I have had for years.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Charlene Merrick

Cindy Haffner

Joanne Grzelak

Shirley Quarry

Tosh Leyendekker

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Stamps: Dragon from Wizard of Bez um plate – Sunday International; Sentiment inside – Stamp It (Australia)

Paper: White; Black; Yellow; DP

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Sewing Machine; Yellow Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Flashback Friday - Mini Books

Well Friday certainly came around pretty fast this time round. I am having lots of fun selecting past projects to highlight each week for Flashback Friday, I hope you are all enjoying it too.

This week I am highlighting a um plate by Sunday International called Altered Book. This plate has all you need to create the basic book ie the cover, the inside pages and a few other things you can use to create a book if you wish. But with a little bit of imagination (which we all have) and other stamps etc you own you can make some unique creations suitable for all sorts of occasions including birthdays, birth of a child, Christmas or just for fun.

The first book I found the template for the woman's body in a Paper Crafts mag and just had to use it to create a book. I came up with my title for the book and used my Lucy's Stamps tag alphabet stamps to create it. Inside the book I had to work out something to go inside that suited the theme of the book - I ended up going with the ladies running and as I had lots of food stamps the eat right page was easy to do.

The Winnie the pooh book I made for a friend (and one for me too, which is why you can see two in the above picture. Somethings just can't be given away without having one yourself LOL!) I used a variety of Winnie the Pooh stamps from All Night Media & Rubber Stampede to create this book. I think there are a few other scenery stamps from other companies too. The letters in the title are again from Lucy's Stamps (Aust). If you look closely at the inside of this book you can see that Tiger and Winnie the Pooh actually pop up as the book opens. This one did take a bit of time to work out the pop up bit (thanks also to Susan who originally came up with this idea and shared with me)

This last book could be suitable for a male that likes to play poker, however I just made it because I could and sent it to my friend Susan who also has this set and has sent me a few of her books too. I am not sure if those HM are really playing poker but they are playing cards so that is how this book came into being. The rules of poker I found in a games book and shrunk down to fit into my book and yes I do have a few playing card stamps so it was easy to decorate the front of this book.