Sunday 29 November 2015

christmas gifts

Christmas Gifts
Hello Lynne here again
when I posted my card I must have ghad
my non reading properly head on as I posted a card
not a christmas gift as it should have been 
so an extra post from me with my Christmas Gift Box
using xmas gifts from Stamping with the Dragon



DLD inspiration christmas

DLD Inspiration - christmas

Hi Lynne here as it is only 5/6 weeks till
the big day sh..sh..(christmas)
I have chosen to use elements
fro vintage christmas
my project for DLD inspiration
a ready coloured card with elements from
vintasge christmas
i printed the image twice one slightly larger then played
decoupaged santa quite effective I think

Sunday 15 November 2015

Jacquis November project for DLD Inspiration blog. Theme "Christmas Gifts" using Christmas Around the World

Hi there folks Jacqui here with my DLD DT Inspiration project for November and the theme is "Christmas Gifts".  I used the grey snowflake paper from Christmas Around the World kit and then I took it into Craft Artist 2 and changed the colour to red.  It took one sheet of grey and one of red to make this.  I used the Tonic lantern die and the poinsettia is a Spellbinder die also using the grey snowflake paper.  The rest is stash lol.
I really hope you like till next time Jacqui over and out!



Monday 9 November 2015

Inspiration By Gwyneth - November - Christmas Gifts

Hi everybody!

Just a short post from me today.  Just an idea.  Something to consider doing.

Have you ever had a stamp or digi stamp that you want to try some different colouring with, or are not sure what medium to use, but decide not to experiment with different colour schemes because you will only use one of the image coloured in and don't want to waste paper and ink?

Well what I've done for this inspiration blog post is to take a digi stamp into My Craft Studio, evenly space the image 6 times on the sheet, and print it out.  I then coloured the sheet in using different colours and pen types for each image.

This is what I finished off with.
The digi-stamp I used is:

And there are the pens I used.
1. Spectrum Sparkle.
2. Nuvo.
3. Spectrum Aqua.
4. ProMarkers.
5. Pro and Flex Markers.
6. Left uncoloured

After colouring I cut each of the images out in the shape of a tag. By doing this  none of the images will go to waste, as the ones I don't put on a card will get used as simple gift tags on parcels I will give this Christmas.  Of course, you can do the same with non-Christmas images and use up coloured images for birthdays and other occasions.

Sometimes it's just fun to experiment with differnet colouring for the same image - even colours you wouldn't normally use.


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And that is it from me for today.
Please keep coming back regularly to look at new posts as, over the next few weeks, you'll find various "Inspiration by ..." posts appear on this "Dragons Lair Designs Inspiraiton Blog", as well as colouring tutorials and other posts by different Design Team members.  I'll be back with more posts over the coming months as well, so keep an eye out for those.

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Saturday 7 November 2015

November At The Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Christmas Gifts!

This month at the Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog we'll be working on the theme "Christmas Gifts".  During the month you will see a variety of creations by the tallented design team.

Expect to see creations with pictures of our dragons with their Christmas gifts as well as DLD downloads used to make some lovely items that can be given as gifts this Christmas.

Also, have a look back at some of our previous posts as they may give you ideas for creations to make for Christmas as well.

How about:

A Christmas card with Jiggy in Front of the Fire with his gift as well as a decorated candle gift.
Christmas Recipe Box
Christmas Wreath










Don't forget to check out the huge number of Christmas themed downloads available in the Dragons Lair Designs Store, and to come back to this blog regularly during the month to see what new creations the design team have made to inspire you.


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  • If you fancy trying out some of Dragons Lair Designs, please do visit the Store to find all sorts of digital goodies (you'll find great digi-stamps and lots more).
  • We are also on Etsy, so you can pop along - here - to find some Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads.
  • And why not join the "Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group" Facebook group. It's a small, fun, group where we have lots of different activities which include exclusive challenges, daily inspiration and giveaways - and there's a loyalty club for those who take part as well.
  • "Like" Us on Facebook
  • Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog : new challenge 1st Friday every month
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  • See us on CraftsUPrint
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Till next time - Have Fun Crafting!
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(And if you are wondering "who's Gwyneth?" - then you'll find an "About Me and My Blog!" piece on my blog.)

Friday 6 November 2015

New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - Rainbows

It's the 1st Friday of the month and therefore time for the start of this month's new challenge over on the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge blog.  For November we are looking your creations on the theme of "Rainbows".

The challenge is open to anybody, no matter what level of crafter and no matter what medium, and your entry doesn't even have to have anything DLD on it.  You are allowed 1 entry per person per month, and everybody who enters is in with a chance of getting the prize as the winner is chosen by "Random".

So go on, click over to the Challenge Blog and have a read about this month's theme and the rules on the left hand side, and then let us see your creative entries.

You'll also see some lovely creations created by members of the Design Team to give you some inspiration.

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Thursday 29 October 2015

Autumn

Autumn

Lynne here:
Yet again another     month has passed which takes us into
the lovely colours of the leaves
on the trees changing colours
to beauitiful yellow,reds,bronze and greens
my card todauy is Ele Autumn from
Dragons Lair Designs

Saturday 10 October 2015

Trick or Treat Collection Digital Play

This is a fabulous kit for Halloween play!  I love the rich purples and the hanging crystals and would love to print this out and play and get all gluey and sparkly but health issues have my "hands" tied (literally, a problem with my hands ) so I am having to go all digital.  But digital makes are so lovely for using Dragons Lairs Designs kits and elements!  They are some of the best out there!

Ahh the mysteries of Halloween!  And love this witch with her best friends, so cute with just enough Halloween mystery with it! 

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Friday 2 October 2015

New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - Halloween!

It's the 1st Friday of the month and therefore time for the start of this month's new challenge over on the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge blog.  For October we are looking your creations on the theme of "Halloween".

The challenge is open to anybody, no matter what level of crafter and no matter what medium, and your entry doesn't even have to have anything DLD on it.  You are allowed 1 entry per person per month, and everybody who enter are in with a chance of getting the prize as the winner is chosen by "Random".

So go on, click over to the Challenge Blog and have a read about this month's theme and rules, and then let us see your creative entries.

You'll also see some lovely creations created by members of the Design Team to give you some inspiration.

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Tuesday 29 September 2015

Christmas in September

Christmas in September

Wow irt's my turn again
Lynne here wondering where August went now we are approaching
the big C (Yes Christmas)
we have started card for Christmas
I thought I would use one of my favorites  old
digi. Jiggy with presents
just another one of the delightful images from Dragon's Lair Designs
well enough from me here is my card

Wednesday 23 September 2015

It's Christmas Already!

No, don't panic!  It is not Christmas just yet, but we are showcasing some of our wonderful Christmas kits and images at Dragons Lair Designs this month.  And there are some very lovely ones to revisit and take a look at, too!  Here is a wonderful kit called " Victorian Christmas " and a happy card I made from it!


This kit contains so many elements for the hands on crafter to the digital crafter and those who like to use a little of both.  There is holly, berries, flowers, ribbon, more ornaments, lovely papers, oh my, just too much to list!  but you won't be disappointed, that is for sure!


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Tuesday 15 September 2015

Jacqui's DLD Inspiration project for September using Holly Dayz


Hi folks Jacqui here again with my DLD project for September.  This time I've done a little Christmas project using the Holly Dayz kit for most of the project. The buttons are from the Francheska kit and the bow is from the O Baby Mine kit.  This is my beautiful grandson Tj who will be 2 on Halloween night!  Can't wait to do that project.  Hope you like what I've done till next time Jacqui over and out.

Friday 4 September 2015

New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - Picture Inspiration!

It's the 1st Friday of the month and therefore time for the start of this month's new challenge over on the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge blog.  For September we have a picture as an inspiration for you so we want you to create anything you are inspired to do when looking at the picture..

The challenge is open to anybody, no matter what level of crafter and no matter what medium, and your entry doesn't even have to have anything DLD on it.  You are allowed 1 entry per person per month, and everybody who enter are in with a chance of getting the prize as the winner is chosen by "Random".

So go on, click over to the Challenge Blog and have a read about this month's theme and rules, and then let us see your creative entries.

You'll also see some lovely creations created by members of the Design Team to give you some inspiration.

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Tuesday 1 September 2015

September At The Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Christmas!

Yes, you read the title right - September at the Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog is all about getting ready for Christmas.


There are so many digital downloads on the theme of "Christmas" available in the Dragons Lair Designs Store, so why not start and pop on over for a look.

Many of the items already have pictures of inspiration pieces available on the relevant store page to give you an idea of what is possible (such as the "Holly & Wild Rose" or the "Rupert with Presents" digi stamps), but the DLD Inspiration Blog Design Team Members will be along during the month to provide new inspiration for you during this month - so remember to pop back to this blog often to see what new inspiration pieces have been uploaded.

It's not all about digi-stamps either.  Wording can be used in different ways, as seen in the previous post - here - on this blog.


From vintage style digital downloads that can be used for crafting digital scrapbook pages or printed out to create any papercraft items, to cute digi-stamps, DLD has a lot - and I mean a lot! - of different styles of digital downloads that will enhance your Christmas crafting.

Have Fun!

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Saturday 29 August 2015

fun in the sun

Fun in the sun

Hello all it's Lynne again 
my the months seem to come round quicker and quicker
Any way August is all about Fun in the Sun
I have chosen to showcase my holiday to the Isle of Wight
with my lovely grandsons
Michael and Jacob and mustn't
forget the other two hubby and
daughter I used a background from 
My Family Collection 

Wednesday 19 August 2015

Around the World with Dragons Lair Designs

I just love this "Steampunk Lady on a Globe" digital stamp at Dragons Lair Designs Store!  I colored her up with Prisma colored pencils and could not help pairing her with papers from the "Simply Soft Collection".  I added some layered elements from the store a butterfly, and a flower and added some beads and wire to bling them up.  I also had an old coin from a piece of jewelry that seemed to fit the steampunk theme.


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Sunday 16 August 2015

Cooling off with a Bottle of Wine

The night, a bottle of wine, and thee?  Kind of a summary of that quote but you understand my theme for today! We have been playing a game at Dragon's Lair Designs Fan Group Page on Facebook each weekend that involves searching through the Dragon's Lair Designs Store to find images that fit a question.  I have found so many awesome digital stamps and paper kits that I had not known existed before playing our game!  This wine glass and bottle was one of those images.  I colored with Chameleon markers and was lucky enough to find a French dictionary for free at a second hand book store so I layered a page from that on some purplish paper.  I had some bling, lace, and tiny roses so that went on the bottom of my card.  Not hard to do and I love how it turned out!  




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Friday 7 August 2015

New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - Three Of A Kind!

It's the 1st Friday of the month and therefore time for the start of this month's new challenge over on the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge blog.  For August the theme is - Three Of A Kind - so we are looking for three's of anything on your creation.

The challenge is open to anybody, no matter what level of crafter and no matter what medium, and your entry doesn't even have to have anything DLD on it.  You are allowed 1 entry per person per month, and everybody who enter are in with a chance of getting the prize as the winner is chosen by "Random".

So go on, click over to the Challenge Blog and have a read about this month's theme and rules, and then let us see your creative entries.

You'll also see some lovely creations created by members of the Design Team to give you some inspiration.

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Monday 3 August 2015

August Summer Fun Season using O Baby Mine kit

Hi folks we're taking it easy over at Dragons Lair Designs and having a Summer Fun Season.  Which means we get to pick what we use and when we want to use it.  So here's my August project.  For this project I've used the awesome O Baby Mine kit which is so versatile I seem to use it forever lol.  I made a scrapbook page of my beautiful granddaughter Lily which is so cute!  Well I'm off on hols in 4 days so I hope you have a great summer and that you like my project.  

Till next time Jacqui over and out.




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Wednesday 29 July 2015

Summer fun season

Summer fun season

Hi all Lynne here
 with my summer inspiration (not summery I agree) but 
this card indicates our 40th wedding
anniversary for Sept. celebrations.
I will be posting some more fun things
later after my holiday      -things we have done




Monday 27 July 2015

Revisiting Sarah's Collection at Dragons Lair Designs

It's Nanette again with a revisit to the fabulous Sarah's Collection kit! This one holds a soft spot in my heart as it was the first kit I created with for the Dragons Lair Inspiration Blog.  The kit contains soft, pastel greens, and a lovely paper with whom I call "Sarah" on it and the kit is just amazingly soft and lovely!  I am very interested in postcards at the moment so of course I was thinking along those lines but couldn't quiet get it to work in my head.  Then I saw an amazing art envelope made by a dear friend and decided to give that a try!  I used 2 5x7 copies of the background paper and glued together and unstuck a small envelope for my template.  It took some adjusting and piecing but it worked rather well.  I stamped a postage stamp on the corner and cut out a fabulous stamp I received from another lovely friend from Finland and glued by the stamped one.  I took my black fine tip pen and tried to make the stamped lines from the postmarked stamp go across my stamped image.  Then I fussy cut "Sarah" out and glued onto the front and added some distress markers around the edge of her to soften the edges and added some green Perfect Pearls powders for a nice shimmer.  On the back I stamped another stamp from the same kit the small stamp came from and that was it!





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Saturday 18 July 2015

Summer Birthday at Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog

As you know by now, we are revisiting some awesome summer fun kits from the Dragons Lair Designs Store.  My awesome son has a summer birthday!  So after finding my digital stamp "Summer Fun" because I love the beach so much, I needed an idea for how to use it.  I colored it up with some Bic Markits and added some sand colored seed beads for some dimensional "sand".  Then some Glossy Accents on the sun (it had to shine!) and the coconuts and water drops and the need for a place to use it!  By this time I had begun thinking of my son's upcoming birthday and my idea was right in front of me.  A goodie bag from a plain brown paper bag, even though I would not be using them for my son's birthday as he is an adult now ( will always be my baby, however!) but so many of these had been made over the years for him and my daughter! 


My label maker made a cute sentiment stuck on some bright yellow paper from the Dragons Lair Designs Store!
 

A close up of my seed bead "sand".

Hope you can take this idea and go look in the store for a digital stamp that fits your summer party theme and can gather the kids to help color them up and assemble the goodies inside!
Enjoy the rest of your summer and the time you have with the little ones and teens!  Coloring is a universal fun thing to do, so get out of the heat, sit on the floor, and color up some fabulous fun!

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Wednesday 8 July 2015

Inspiration by Gwyneth - July - Summer Fun Season

Good Morning Everybody!

Hi everybody.

I'm back again with a digital scrapbook layout.

July and August have been declared as our "Summer Fun Season" across this Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog and our Facebook Fan Group.  And where better to have some fun this summer than out in the garden, either chilling or growing.

I decided to start off with a simple scrapbook layout of some flowers from our garden from years past.  Nothing very complicated, just a quick digital layout that took less than 15 minutes to put together, because I know that summer is a busy season, especially for those with children and/or gardens to take care of, and therefore there's less time to craft.  With digital scrapbooking you can put together layouts quickly and, although I've not done so on this layout, journal relevant information about the day, or holiday, or whatever, and keep a record at the time in just a few minutes.  Then, if you want, the layouts can be printed out and further decorated when time permits, to create a hybrid layout. Or even used as a guide to creating a standard scrapbook page at some time in the future.

Dragons Lair Designs has a vast range of kits for scrapbooking, from mini kits to large collections, so you are likely to find something in the right colour scheme to go with your photos, whatever is in them.

I simply chose some backgrounds and a couple of elements from my chosen kit, together with a double frame element and took them, together with my chosen photos, into My Craft Studio.  One of the double frames was turned through 90 degrees and then I just played around with the layout before saving.


These are what I used:

Stamping Dragon Designs Item:
Items from the "Garden Paths Mini Kit" collection available - here - in the store.
Equipment:
My Craft Studio Software


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And that is it from me for today.
Please keep coming back regularly to look at new posts as, over the next few weeks, you'll find various "Inspiration by ..." posts appear on this "Dragons Lair Designs Inspiraiton Blog", as well as colouring tutorials and other posts by different Design Team members.  I'll be back with more posts over the coming months as well, so keep an eye out for those.

Stamping Dragon Designs Links
  • If you fancy trying out some of Dragons Lair Designs, please do visit the Store to find all sorts of digital goodies (you'll find great digi-stamps and lots more).
  • We are also on Etsy, so you can pop along - here - to find some Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads.
  • And why not join the "Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group" Facebook group. It's a small, fun, group where we have lots of different activities which include exclusive challenges, daily inspiration and giveaways - and there's a loyalty club for those who take part as well.
  • "Like" Us on Facebook
  • Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog : new challenge 1st Friday every month
  • Follow designer Janette Padley on Pinterest!
  • See us on CraftsUPrint
  • And on Etsy

Till next time - Have Fun Crafting!
Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog Design Team Leader
(And if you are wondering "who's Gwyneth?" - then you'll find an "About Me and My Blog!" piece on my blog.)

Tuesday 7 July 2015

July Means Summer Fun at Dragons Lair Designs!

Hi all! It's Nanette here with some fun!  This summer we are taking the time to revisit some fun images and fun kits to play with for our makes!  I saw the popcorn image and it screamed "Summer!" and having made some jewelry last month, the two ideas merged again!  Then I had some lovely papers from the "Rainbow Bundle" kit from the Dragons Lair Designs Store and I found a pin wheel pattern, oh how I loved them as a child and still do! :)  So those two items merged into 2 lovely pinwheels!  I have made them on short sticks (colored pencils for picture purpose) but I absolutely love them! I used the patterned side of the paper and colored the back of the paper with a red marker.  I could have back the patterned paper with a lovely red piece from the collection but it would have been too thick to manipulate the pinwheels to make them. 

Here are my pinwheels!  And my popcorn earrings hanging on the jar!

The earrings..
I colored the image full sized with Bic MarkIts.  Then I shrunk the image down on my printer but will do another pair from Photoshop in my initials in red in the circles. I then pressed them into embossing ink pad and used UTEE to cover them, then I shook it off and used my heat gun to melt it into the awesome shiny finish.  I only did this once because one coat leaves a slightly bubbled appearance and for the popcorn it was perfect.  Then made a big jump ring and hooked into earring finding!
Now it is you time to go look at the store (links below!) and shop for some things so that you can play with your children by making pinwheels and playing!  And while you are at it, if you have older kids make a pair of earrings with your daughter!  Have fun!!
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Friday 3 July 2015

New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - Shabby Chic!

It's the 1st Friday of the month and therefore time for the start of this month's new challenge over on the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge blog.  For July the theme is - Shabby Chic - so we are looking for anything soft, feminine, flowery or lacy.

The challenge is open to anybody, no matter what level of crafter and no matter what medium, and your entry doesn't even have to have anything DLD on it.  You are allowed 1 entry per person per month, and everybody who enter are in with a chance of getting the prize as the winner is chosen by "Random".

So go on, click over to the Challenge Blog and have a read about this month's theme and rules, and then let us see your creative entries.

You'll also see some lovely creations created by members of the Design Team to give you some inspiration.

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