Summary

Dragon Coffee Mug

Practicing embossing with blender. (DO not use a Bezier circle with the curve modifier. Use an arc with two ends.)
Create cup with Customizable Coffee Mug Generator in openscad

Inkscape to create SVG out of silhouette pic of dragon.
Import to Dragon.stl to tinkercad to create solidified thick svg. (Way quicker than all the steps in blender to do same) export.
In blender import dragon and cup stls

In blender use curve modifier to curve dragon around arc that has same diameter of cup. (Play with this till you get it right.)

Join when everything is aligned in blender. Use 3dtoolbox Addon to fix stuff.
Export.