High Hopes Release...Kards for Kids...

Sneek Peeks start tomorrow on the High Hopes Blog http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/ with a new release in rubber of some new Dustin Pike art on December 1st...

Blog Hop on Wednesday with awesome prize...
http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-98-sketch.html

They are also asking for Kards for Kids, a card drive to help http://www.sickkids.ca/ the Sick Kids hospital in Toronto CA,
http://highhopesstamps.blogspot.com/2010/11/kards-for-kids-card-drive.html

More details on the links I have added above...

For each card received by December 14th,

you will be entered into a drawing for a

$20 Gift Certificate to High Hopes Rubber Stamps!!

The more cards you send, the more chances of winning!!

 

 

This is an awesome cause and I hope we could send so many cards they wouldn't know what to do, I know everyone is working on cards for friends and families, or might already be done with a card or two to spare. I have seen the number of cards that can be received personally. Would you please take time out of your already crazy Christmas schedule to make a card or two or three to send to these kids. I try not to ask too often for too much for all that I do give, but this is something I feel we should all take a minute to do...

 

Dustin 

Going...Going....

Almost gone. Today is the last day of the Super Duper Mega Deal... As promised the price has increased to $50. That's still almost 20 digi's for a buck...

I think I have almost recovered from the weekends shopping um....craziness. Tomorrow I will have the winners pulled for the prizes for all who participated in the Super Deal. I am finishing up November month this weekend, starting December here soon and right now the only thing planned for December is the monthly stuff, the DT is taking most of December off if not all, and with all the family, wife's work. kids dance, school craziness I will be taking a lot of the month as a breather. I do have a new release over at High Hopes Stamps the first part of December, When I know the exact date I will let everyone know.

Dustin

Super duper Deal now

$40.
Thanksgiving is over and the crazy shopping is done...

Dustin

Happy Turkey Day...

to those who celebrate Thanksgiving, Those who don't Happy Thursday it's almost Friday....YEAHHHhhhhhh.
Each year a different member of my wife's family is in charge of a family ornament that everyone sits down and makes after eating Thanksgiving dinner. This year it wasn't our turn but some how I ended up helping stuff fake snow into glass ornaments and white paint into others..And it's all for these. The samples I made are not the greatest.

Also, they Super Duper Mega Deal is in full swing, see yesterday's post, http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/2010/11/turkey-timefreebie-and-its-midnight-in.html But I also left out one little important bit of info...well actually 3...Everyone who buys the MEGA Deal will have their name entered into a drawing. 3 names will be drawn and they will win either a framed and signed 4 card set of Artist trading cards I have designed, one set will be my Alice cards I took to the State Fair...

The other prize is my clay dragon peeking out of a wooden box, one of a kind clay sculpture,
http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-drawing.html
and the 3rd is another framed 4 card artist trading card set of my dragons, photo to be shown tomorrow or Saturday. (now starts the craziest part of my already crazy life)...Eating, crazy store hour shopping and anything else coming my way...

OH yes...IF you buy the Secret Santa set for a friend PLEASE let me know if when I send it I am supposed to keep it a secret or if you have a special message for the recipient....

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving...
Dustin

Turkey Time...Freebie and it's Midnight in Australia...

SUPER DUPER MEGA DEAL SALE OF THE YEAR:
So technically it's midnight somewhere in the world, Australia to be exact and with all the craziness of the next 2 days I thought I'd give you all a head start on the sale everyone's been waiting for...Don't want to compete with Walmart and the likes...
Here is the link:
http://www.doodledragonstudios.com/SDD2010.html
$30 bucks today and tomorrow. Friday the set goes to $40 and Saturday the last day of the sale it's $50...
Dinosaur train is included but not shown on the page as well as Dragons and Wizards that I showed here on my blog a few posts back...

Also on the page where you download images I have another link to purchase the same set at a special Secret Santa price for a friend , co-worker, family member as a Secret or Not-so-secret Santa...When you buy this set send me an email letting me know the email address of the one to receive it and I will get them set up to download the goodies...Let me know if I can tell them it was from you or if it's meant to be a surprise...

TURKEY TIME:

Originally I had the family help making these 30 plus turkeys...Towards the end the fun wore off and Dad ended up finishing the bunch.... Place settings for tomorrow's Dinner...

 

Today's Freebie, Black N White, Colored version and a versions with a verse...

Hope everyone has a Fantastic Thanksgiving, those that don't celebrate have a great weekend, I will be around when I am not sleeping from over eating. Oh yes and seeing "Tangled" as well...

Dustin

Only 2 days remain...

But for some people in Australia they keep emailing me and saying their midnight occurs before it does here in Utah, so technically I should start selling the set at 4 P.M. my time tomorrow.

All I know is, we got a storm that came from Seattle and dumped snow and blizzard like conditions...It's somewhere around 18 degrees outside right now...and I really hope it stops. The kids all have school off tomorrow and that means I have munchkins to watch, no more lounging on the couch eating cheeto's and watching my soaps. Yeah right like I have the time to do that...

Freebie coming tomorrow and another peek at a giveaway for the Super Duper Mega Deal...that may or may not start at 4 pm tomorrow, depending on how Australian I am feelin'...

Dustin

Only 3 days...

So I asked for test subjects and I received a few emails. Thanks to all who contacted me, but applications for test subjects are no longer being accepted. Thursday is sooooooooo close. Turkey, Pumpkin Pie and over 900 images, yes I had a few pointed out to me that were missing so I tracked em down and the folder now has 904 images. That's 30 for a dollar if you buy Thursday...A few less than that on Friday and still an awesome deal if you don't buy til Saturday, if you wait til Sunday, well leftovers will have all been eaten and Tom Turkey will pack up his files and settle down for a long nap after all of the excitement....

In the spirit of giving for the Holidays, I am considering another deal of sorts...What if once you purchased your Super Duper Deal you were able to buy a second set (at an even better price) and have it sent to a friend. Anonymously as a Secret Santa, or they could know who you are...People are always looking for little gifts to send to web friends, friends from a forum, things along those lines, wouldn't it be nice to be able to send then a supply of digi's they could use all year. That's better than Lilac scented bubble bath any day...Is this something I should even consider...?

This shows the final updated files that are included in the Super Duper Mega Sale...

http://www.doodledragonstudios.com/SDD2010.html

Dustin

Need a few guinea pigs...

That are dieing and can't wait til Thursday...
Oh yes, image count is over 900. 904 to be exact...
If you plan on buying the set email me and want to be a guinea pig email me...

Dustin

Found some more...

783 official count so far...

 

Also anyone linked to my personal website...I need you to change it to www.dustinpikedesigns.com.
4 more days....Who knows what else I will find by then...

Super Duper Deal Coming, Something lost is found...

So it's Saturday...That means only 5 days left to wait...In the meantime I found some friends that were lost until I was asked if they were to be included...

With 5 days left I have already started prepping the page, started cooking the turkey...Actually I think the turkey is done!
http://www.doodledragonstudios.com
The link has the whole preview of all the previously question marked images...
Working on other things, I have 2 books to finish, finishing a few Holiday honey do's, Think the Christmas tree might go up today/tomorrow...yes we are one of those families. Actaully there are a few people around the neighborhood that have their lights on and trees up. Thanksgiving is a good day with family, good food, and getting ready to shop friday morning...

Dustin

Medicated Freebie...

So I had 2 teeth pulled this morning, forgot it was Wednesday and didn't want to leave anyone hanging...Which brings me to today's freebie...
Black n White...

Colored Version as well...

Now I have a couple of questions for you all. Is there anyone out there in DoodleDragon land that has and uses OR plans on getting a ECraft machine from Craftwell?


Also is there anyone out there who next week's Super Duper I will kick myself in the butt if I miss it Thanksgiving Day sale doesn't work for them next week because of the holiday? Please email me privately...dustin_pike@yahoo.com.

OH Yes... There will be prizes to go along with the sale next week. Can't tell you exactly what but there are a few posts here on my blog that show a couple of the goodies I am giving away...One of them is "Not a Drawing" and another is...maybe a set of ATC's from wonderland, framed and signed (not that it makes them worth money or anything)...plus a few more surprises...Ok, so maybe I just did tell you what they will be, maybe the dentist gave me truth syrum instead of pain meds...Uh Oh...

Dustin

Black Friday...

Everyone else is leaking their Super Day after Thanksgiving sales, so I told Dudley he could share the news he's been dieing to tell everyone.

Dudley can't decide if he is more excited about Eating, the nap that follows, football or shopping on Black Friday. He does know this, Starting Thursday Thanksgiving Day. I will be selling over 700 digi's, pretty much everything I have done since I started this whole thing for $30, yes that is right Thursday only $30. The only ones NOT included are the October and November Month Membership digi's. PLEASE do not email me and ask where they are, They AREN'T included. Friday it goes up to $40 and Saturday the last day of this sale it's $50. This includes all of the digi's on the following page...

http://www.doodledragonstudios.com/BlackFriday.html

Notice there are a few mystery ones, they are not new, There is no new art in this sale, so if you have everything I have done, then I am sorry. BUT if you joined along the way there will be some you might have been looking for...After this sale High Hopes Stamps has their pick of the next images they want to produce in rubber, so those won't b returning, everything else will but at the normal price. I know we are all saving our rainy day money and eager for holiday shopping, but this deal is awesome just because you don't have to stand out in the cold waiting with the crazies for the doors to open, Oh wait I am usually at the front of the crazies line...More to follow...12 days....

Dustin

IF ~ Burning...

Today's Illustration Friday is "Burning"...

You can't call it camping if you aren't burning a few marshmallows...

Today's Freebie...

Little later in the day but this could be for an after dinner snack...

 

and in color

Ollie wanted to know he had updated his page today as well...

http://travelingollie.blogspot.com/

Dustin

New November Art, this n that....

First I apologize for the lack of things lately, I have whatever's going around and it's kickin my butt, health wise and creatively...Last week my DT said they wanted donuts for Friday work day. Great idea except I live in Utah and they are west coast, east coast, Australia, Arizona, and a few other places, maybe fedex them a donut...that'd cost a fortune. We discussed favorite donut's and I mentioned Alligator jaws... I thought everyone knew what an alligator jaw was...apparently not. So I present to you...My favorite donut/pastry, don't ask how many calories, I personally don't want to know, if my wife finds out I may never get to eat one again...

New Art for November members...

Included in the November month is the art and a PDF file for these cute little projects...

Reindeer Noses...Red Hots

Don't eat yellow snow...Lemon Drops

Elf Pillows...Butter Mints

I have also read a few comments from people saying I am not responding to emails, or they are returned. I have responded to every email I have up to about 5 minutes ago...Are you sending them to the correct address?? dustin_pike@yahoo.com...

One last thing, the last sale of 2010 is coming Thanksgiving...I recommend saving your rainy day funds til that time, I have over 750 digi's (2 years of art)  for a low, low price. Some that have been gone for a while, some that were missing and if you have recently jumped on the Doodle Dragon band wagon, I suggest you keep an eye on this one...Details to follow a little later on...

Dustin

Finally a Freebie...

So a quick correction to my last post I did win first place on the pumpkin painting contest...

Now the reason most of you are here...the freebie...
First a Black N White...

Or a JPG Hand colored version...

 

Or a  hand colored PNG with a transparent background...

Guess you could take all three...
Dustin

No new art, just a few photos...

So I entered a pumpkin contest this past weekend for Halloween and here was my entry...

 Side View

 Sad to say I didn't win...

 Last weekend breakfast at Disneyland...

 Second favorite villain...

 Tigger is awesome...

 Me and Sally, I have one with Jack too, will post it later...Weird having hair again...

Kerri, one of my awesome DT members...KBear.

Halloween was a blast at Disneyland, it's my second favorite holiday and spending it at my most favorite place in the world just makes it better, you know I have done just about everything there is to to at Disneyland except eat at Club 33. That is one of my life goals still waiting to cross off the list, I have been to Europe, traveled the U.S. but Club 33 is just that one that might be out of reach... :(

http://travelingollie.blogspot.com will be updated here in a bit with some summer monkey photos...
Dustin