Thursday 15 December 2016

DLD Inspiration blog December 16 using Citrus Celebrations

Hi folks I've popped in with my Christmas post for DLD Inspiration blog.  For this one I've used the Citrus Celebrations kit (and a couple of other bits) to create a scrapbook page of our time in skiing in Andorra. 


Jacqui


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Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

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Sunday 16 October 2016

Dragons Lair Designs October Project using papers from Blended Florals, Winter Solids & Fairies back splash

Hi folks Jacqui here with my October DLD Inspiration project.  For this I used the lilac paper from the Fairies kit, the grey paper & the background paper are from the Blended Florals.  The purple back splash is from the Fairies too & I coloured it purple in my Craft Artist.  The embellishments came from my Craft Artist kits.

I've made another scrapbook page of gorgeous grandson as he had all his curls cut off & he looks so grown up.  It made me sad when I saw it!  I was so shocked I couldn't speak lol!  But I still love him sooooooooooo much. 

Hope you like my project & plz join us on our challenge blog & our fb page & other sites (links below).

Till next time Jacqui over and out.


Jacqui


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Dragons Lair Designs supply an eclectic assortment of digital downloads.  These include whole collections of items that work well togetherdigital stamps, etc.

Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

Buy your Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads here -

 Other Dragons Lair Designs sites you might like to

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Sunday 18 September 2016

Sept/Oct Monthly Fan Group Challenge


you will find a post announcing the Sept/Oct Monthly Fan Group Challenge!

PM me (Susan Renshaw) from the post
 and I will send you some of the papers and elements from

Flowery Blues


 Make something using these elements and add it to the album...
It can be totally digital - or print out the pieces you want to use in a paper-based make!



I have used Serif Craft Artist 2  and elements from the kit to produce this layout...
My daughter Sophie and I were in Kuala Lumpur a couple of weeks ago on our way back from Australia. Here we are with the famous Patronas Towers in the background!


Happy Crafting!




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Saturday 17 September 2016

September Dragons Lair Calendar

Hi...Susan R here...

Today I am showing you the September page of my Dragons Lair calendar!

This year I decided to make my calendar with 6 rectangular white card blanks
stuck in a star shape.



You might remember July and August:



For September I have used elements and papers from Francheska.


  
I used Serif Craft Artist 2 to form a digital design.


I printed this out and added it to my calendar with a ribbon.




Scroll down to see lots more lovely makes...

And by the way do look for the current Challenge Blog Challenge - Books/Paper

Happy Crafting!

Susan



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Thursday 15 September 2016

Dragons Lair Designs September Inspiration project using Vintage Christmas papers, Xmas Border & Ruperts Snowman

Hi again bloggers we're really into Christmas over at the DLD Inspiration blog this September, it's hard to believe it's nearly time again lol.  Anyway for this project I've used the Vintage Christmas Papers, Xmas Border & Ruperts Snowman.  I've made a lovely scrapbook page using my Craft Artist 2 and I can't wait to add this years photos to it.  Don't forget to pop by our challenge blog, fb page & other sites (links below) for some freebies & fun.  Hope you like my page and please leave me a comment.
Till next time Jacqui over and out.


Jacqui


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Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

Buy your Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads here -

 Other Dragons Lair Designs sites you might like to

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Monday 5 September 2016


Hi everybody.

For September, here on the Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog, we are working on the theme "Preparing For Christmas" and hope that we can inspire you with different ideas for crafting for Christmas, but not only for Christmas but for other times of year as well.

I've got a few ideas for you to think about and hope you like what I've made.

They don't look very "Christmasy", but not all Christmas gifts and ideas have to look specifically "Christmasy", especially if they are made to be used all year round, and you can always add more traditional Christmas items to any creation you make.

What I Made:
  • A decorated gift bag to give a baby blanket I'd crocheted in
  • A decorated "Book Box" of hand made cards
  • An unique mouse mat.
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These are what I used:

Stamping Dragon Designs Item:
Items from the "Summer Sunset" collection available - here - in the store.
Items from the "Oh Baby Mine" collection
Background from another collection
Consumables:
Equipment:
  • Scissors
  • My Craft Studio Elite Software
  • Baby Blue Die Cutting Machine
  • Tonic Butterfly Die
  • Tattered Lace Flower Die
  • Non-stick Craft Sheet
  • Paint Brush
  • Pallette
  • Sponge
  • Pokey Tool
Method - Mouse Mat:

This is a great way to make something that will be used a lot, and looked at often, but will be a specific memory for the recipient.

It's basically a scrapbook layout, created digitally, and printed out at the correct size to fit inside a blank mouse mat.  (it needs to be constructed digitally at the correct size for your blank because you must have a perfectly flat image for inside the mouse mat).

As this mouse mat was a gift for my father, who's had his autobiography published this summer, I wanted to keep the image layout very simple - lots of flourishes and frames wouldn't have been suitable for him, but for a different person a different look can easily be achieved in whatever graphics package you choose to work in.

I chose a pale blue background from one of the DLD collections as a background (should have made a note of which one I used I know!).

I then took the image from the front of his book, together with three photos my youngest sister had taken of him at three different book signing sessions during the summer, framed the photos, and made a simple layout.


This was then printed and cut out to size and put into the blank mouse mat before using the tape that was inside one edge to seal it.  I then used ultra tacky tape to attach the gell wrist rest.


Method - Book Shaped Box Of Assorted Cards

If you are a person who makes more cards than you have people to give them to, and are not able to get out and about to go and sell them at craft fairs, etc., then how about boxing some of your makes up to give as gifts to family and friends?  It will be a Christmas gift that will be useful to the recipient for months to come.  You can go all ornate in how you box them up, or keep it simple - how you present your gift is up to you.  I've used a book shaped box file and decorated it simply so that it can sit unobtrusivaly on a shelf until needed.  I'm actually giving this one as a raffle prize in a charity event my niece is organising this month.

I took the same type of book shaped box file as I used in a previous project - here - and painted it with white gesso.  I then painted it using Cosmic Shimmer Paints as I did on another project - here.  I was going for quite a distressed, old book, look.

I took items from the Summer Sunset collection into My Craft Studio software and put together a "book name" panel.  I printed this out quite small for the spine of my book box and larger for the front.  After cutting these out I attached them to book box.




I then went through my collection of made up cards to select an assortment, put in inserts, attached a sticker with my details to the back of each, matched them up with an envelope and put them into the decorated box.

 (You may recognise the dragon on the front of the top card!)


Method - Decorated Gift Bag:

Gift bags are handy to put gifts that are hard to pack into.  But buying decorated ones are expensive, so why not invest in a pack of plain bags and decorate them yourself.

With so many different collections available in the Dragons Lair Designs online store you are sure to find digital downloads that you can work with and print off to decorate a gift bag for anybody for any occasion.

I've used a baby collection to decorate this gift bag to place a baby blanket I crocheted into.

Once again, I took items from the collection into My Craft Studio to resize, add text, etc., and then printed them out onto Super Smooth cardstock.

I did one panel, including a digitaly "die-cut" Christmas Tree, for the front of the bag.


A panel and a frame for the back.  As this is another item that will be given as a raffle prize for the charity event I'm going to slip in a picture of the blanket that will be inside it and slip it into the frame.  The frame in this instance is stuck on on three sides using double sided tape.


I also made a gift tag with a panel for somebody to write a greeting on the front.


 And a pocket with a window that has acetate inside it on the back - I do this for anything I make using yarn these days so that the recipient knows the yarn content and how to wash the item that's being gifted.


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Anybody noticed that the first two items would be suitable for entries into this month's Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog?!  The theme for September is Books and/or Paper.  As the first item is a mouse mat based on the launch of a book and features book signing sessions it would fit into the theme.  As would the gift box of assorted cards that's in the shape of an old book.
So I hope that, not only have I inspired you to think of different things to craft for Christmas, but also to craft something suitable for entry into the challenge.

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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 Inspiration Blog", as well as 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.

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.)

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Thursday 1 September 2016

Preparing For Christmas

With last month being "Holiday Time" we don't have a new collection launching the 1st September - but never fear, the members of the Dragons Lair Designs Design Team will still be posting inspiration for you in this blog throughout the month.

For this month we will be working on the theme "Preparing For Christmas".

Preparing for Christmas means lots of different things to different people.

For some it may mean geting in the mood for this year's Christmas preparations by looking at photos of Christmas past, and scrapbooking/printing them so that they can be passed around during the celebrations and a lot of "I remember ..." can be hear.  For others preparing means making a hundred and one, or more, Christmas cards for friends and family, or perhaps you sell your cards and need to make even more and start even earlier.

Perhaps you like to make gifts for friends and family.  Do you make things that will be used and admired all year, and therefore don't have a particularly Christmasy look, or do you make things like unique Christmas decorations to give that you know the recipient will keep and bring out every year?

Whatever you want to make for Christmas 2016 we hope that we can inspire you during this month.

And to start you off our Design Team Member, Susan, has created this lovely layout to remember last Christmas.

She's used items from the  Christmas Morn Digital Page Kit.

Tree, Turkey - time to make some lists and get organised everybody!

Don't forget to have a look at all things with a Christmas theme in the Dragons Lair Designs online store.  There are a lot to choose from.  Have a look - Here!

There are even some digi-stamps featureing our favourite dragons - such as this one called "In a Tangle".

A really cute one for a child's Christmas card I'm sure you'll agree.


Oh! A little added news -
Our designer says
"SAVE 40% on all Christmas Items until the 15th September"
So go to the online store and get the downloads you want for your Christmas crafting now!

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Dragons Lair Designs Links:

We'd love to have you join us in our Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using this collection, or any other DLD items.

GRAND OPENING SALE AND FREEBIES

Its here, Opening day for the NEW FAITH SISTERS STORE :D

Pop along and have a peek maybe pop a few bits in your basket with
the 50% Store wide sale :D

Visit my store HERE

DONT go yet though read until the end ;)


The designers have all been busy creating this fantastic Collab

You can EARN THIS FREE Check out how here (But not Yet


This is my contribution and below it you can find a FREE Sample ;)

Try out the Collab with this FREE QUICK PAGE


Then head on over to the Faith sisters Blog to find out 
how to get the other FREEBIES


Tuesday 23 August 2016

DLD Quick Page Inspiration...

Hi ya peeps, it's my inspiration day today
using the...
Summer Sunset Collection


I am loving the quick page elements in this kit! There are 5 to choose from and they are all awesome.  This collection has many, many elements for everyone. I just LOVE this new collection, don't miss out!

Now that you have had a look at this inspiration blog post why don't you visit some of the other areas in the Dragons Lair Designs family of sites:


We'd love to have you join us in our Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using any DLD items.

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Dragons Lair Designs supply an eclectic assortment of digital downloads.  These include whole collections of items that work well togetherdigital stamps, etc.

Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

Buy your Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads here -

 Other Dragons Lair Designs sites you might like to

Wednesday 17 August 2016

Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Dat...

Hi ya peeps, it's my inspiration day today
using the...
Summer Sunset Collection


I am loving the paper elements in this kit! I love the sunburst of colors and how the paper seems like it is glowing. This collection has many, many elements for everyone. I just LOVE this new collection, don't miss out!

Now that you have had a look at this inspiration blog post why don't you visit some of the other areas in the Dragons Lair Designs family of sites:


We'd love to have you join us in our Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using any DLD items.

Dragons Lair Designs supply an eclectic assortment of digital downloads.  These include whole collections of items that work well togetherdigital stamps, etc.

Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

Buy your Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads here -

 Other Dragons Lair Designs sites you might like to

Monday 15 August 2016

Dragons Lair Designs DT project 15th August 16 using the NEW August kit "Summer Sunset" kit

Hello again it's Jacqui here with my DT project for DLD using the NEW Summer Sunset kit released August 1st 2016.  I've created another fabulous scrapbook page.  Each page I create is so different but so pretty I just can't put it down!  I hope you like my project and please leave me a comment.  And don't forget to pop by our Challenge & Inspiration blogs & our fb page (links below).

Till next time Jacqui over and out





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Dragons Lair Designs supply an eclectic assortment of digital downloads.  These include whole collections of items that work well togetherdigital stamps, etc.

Buy, download, then either work with the items digitally, start digitally then print out and complete your crafting as a hybrid project, or print straight out and do your usual papercrafting.

Buy your Dragons Lair Designs digital downloads here -

 Other Dragons Lair Designs sites you might like to

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Sunday 14 August 2016

Janette's Sunday Showcase Challenge & Freebie

What's in this Sunday Showcase?

  • Showcase - I'll be showcasing one of my designs and showing you a few creations made using it.
  • Freebie! - As a thank you for visiting the Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog I give a freebie every week.
  • Challenge - Show us your makes using my designs and you have a chance of winning your choice of item from the Dragons Lair Designs Store.
  • Update/News - catch up with what's going on in the Dragons Lair Designs Land.

Keep reading for more information on all of these!

Showcase

Today I'd like to showcase a new collection great for vintage/heritage projects.

In a Tangle




Freebie!

Today's showcase freebie is part of the "M'Ladies Boudoir" collection.



If you like the freebie, then perhaps you'd like to expand your collection by getting some more pieces of the collection, which you can do by going to the Dragons Lair Designs online store to buy the  mini collection for £2.


You'll find the Mini collection at

DRAGONS LAIR DESIGNS 


Challenge


Show us your makes made using any of my designs -
 - These can be from the Dragons Lair Designs Online StoreDragons Lair Designs on Etsyor any of the Freebies I've given away on this blog or the Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group.
  1. Anybody can enter.
  2. Creation should be made up mostly with my products, but you can embelish and add as you wish.
  3. Creation can be in any medium - you can make it digital, hybrid or print out my designs to craft with.
  4. Creation must have been created within the last two months.
  5. Only one entry per person each week.
  6. Creation should not have been linked up to a Sunday Showcase Challenge previously - no duplicate entries from previous weeks.
  7. Remember when you link up at the bottom of this post that you leave a valid E-mail address and details as this will be used to contact the winner
  8. Each Weekly Sunday Showcase Challenge runs from Sunday until the end of the week to give everybody time to make something using this week's freebie even if they have nothing else DLD to work with.

    DONT HAVE A BLOG .. NO PROBLEM SEE HERE ON HOW TO ENTER 
I will use a Random Number Generator to pick the winner at the end of the week to make it completely fair to everybody.  The winner can choose anything from the store worth up to, and including £2, and the winner's name will be posted in my Sunday Showcase post in a fortnight's time.

Update/News


Dont forget to check it out on the 1st August to grab the limited time 40% off
you'll get an extra page kit for free if you buy the elements and papers together

 definitely the better value for money option.

LAST DAY OF THE SALE :)

Click Image to go to store.


Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog

Don't forget that at DLD we have a Challenge Blog that runs a monthly challenge on different themes.  These monthly challenges don't have to be made using any of my designs, you are completely free to use anything.  The theme for June is "One For the Guys" - which gives you a lot of scope.


Winner of Sunday Showcase Challenge 17th to 23rd July

A winner has been chosen by random from the entries linked to the Sunday Showcase
post of the 24th July.
Please Contact us for your Prize ( Link not working on image)
stampingdragondesigns at gmail.com


And that's it from me for this Sunday Showcase - come back next week for another Sunday Showcase, with another chance to win your choice of item from the DLD Store, and another freebie!


Janette Padley - Designer at Dragons Lair Designs

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