Digital Layouts

Popping in today to share a few digital layouts, for inspiration, I hope you enjoy them.

A ultra cute photo of my daughter with her teddy bear using the Definitions Mini Kit

The second one is using last months release Understated Elegance  and is of my son with his nanan.

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Jacqui DT project for March 15 using Elves kit

Hi there folks I've popped in to show you my March DT project for DLD.  For this I've used the brand new ELVES kit.  I really love the embellishments and accents in the kit, so I put them all together in a wonderful scrapbook page.  I hope you like it till next time Jacqui over and out.

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New Elves Collection Scrapbook Start

I love elves, fairies, anything that is a part of fantasy to escape to and this collection is fabulous in simulating a wonderful place to escape to and stay among the elves!  I am starting a small scrapbook with this collection and hope to share it with you this month.  Here is my first page and I have used some digital elements with the printed pieces.  These can be found in the store under the "Elves Collection" HERE!

The colors are so lovely and the frame just fit the digital image of a fairy house!  I used UTEE on the frame to make it pop and of course added the embossed word "Believe" cause if you don't what is the point?  I also used a bit of UTEE on the elf's flower she is holding.  I could really go crazy with the stuff but the elements really need nothing to add to their absolute perfectness!  

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More "Elves" Digital Download Collection Creations

Have you got your hands on the

"Elves Collection"
yet?
Have you started crafting with it?

Remember That There's A
40% Discount
On Everything From The Collection For A Limited Period
Until the 15th

This image shows just some of the items in the digital download.

Our Design Team members have had lots of fun making different creations from elements from the "Elves Collection" that launched in the Dragons Lair Designs store on the 1st March.

With several items shown online by various Design Team members since our post on the launch day, we thought that we'd collect some of them together to show you today.  We hope they show you some of the versatility of the collection and let you see some creations you have missed seeing.

Gwyneth
I've been cardmaking for my Inspiration post on this blog at the begining of the month. You can find more details - here - but here are one photo each of them.

Lynne
Lynne's been papercrafting and made some interesting and different things to inspire you.

 She's used one of the backgrounds printed on paper to decorated this.

Diane
The first of Diane's card is on a Triptich theme, which she's made by printing the bookmarks at a smaller size.

Another lovely card by Diane, this time incorporating a tag that's in the collection.

Keep an eye out for even more creations from the Elves Collection made by our very creative Design Team members.

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A New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - "Bingo Grid" challenge

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.  The design team rather liked the "Bingo Grid" challenge for February, so we decided to do another one, with a different set of possible items to use, for March. You just need to pick three items that appear in a straight line on the grid to use on your creation of any crafted item.

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 look at the grid of options and a read of 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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Inspiration by Gwyneth - March 2016 - Elves

Good Morning Everybody!

Hi everybody.

For our March posts every Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog Design Team member will be working with the wonderful new collection "Elves" that was launched in the Dragons Lair Designs Store Yesterday.

This collection has very much a vintage feel to it. Although the elves are great for some occasions, they may not go with everything you want to do - but the beauty of the collection is that it contains backgrounds and elements that don't show the elves as well (Have a look at the digital-scrapbook layout I did for the collection launch to see a creation that doesn't show the Elves).  So multiple styles of items can be made with different looks from this one collection.

As my first piece with the collection didn't use the elements that showed the Elves I decided that I needed to use them for this Inspiration Blog post.  So I decided to make a card.

In fact, I got a bit carried away and made 3 different cards. Unfortunately the photograph for one of them isn't good - despite taking more than once - but it shows you an idea for a layout.

These are what I used:

Stamping Dragon Designs Item:

Items from the "Elves" collection available - here - in the store.

Launch day freebie from this blog -> Here!

Consumables:
Black 7" square card; White 7" square card; A4 sheet of 300gsm cardstock; Sheet of Adorable Scoreable cardstock in a toneing colour.  Roller glue tape pen; 1mm deep double sided foam tape; Foiling glue; Gold touch senseitive foil; Zig Glue Pen; Glue Gel; Butterfly Charm; Burnt Sienna ProMarker;

Equipment:

Scissors; Hougie Board

Cards & Method:

I started by printing out various backgrounds and elements from the collection and then cutting them out.

For this 1st card I took one elves topper and two backgrounds from the collection and cut them to size.  The topper was stuck to a piece of Adorable Scoreable cardstock and cut to leave a small margin. The background panels were distressed around the edges with a scissors edge.
I dabbed some foil glue in various places on the base card and on the panels and applied foil.  I then used my roller glue tape pen to attach the backgrounds and foam tape to attach the matted topper.

 Angled view of card.

 After cutting out a background to fit my base card I started off by attaching this.  Then I added the torn edge and ribbon element.  I decided to only use the base image and two layers of the pyramid topper and I lightly went around these two layers with my scissors edge to roughen them up a bit so that they would stand out a bit on the card.  The bottom layer was attached using a roller glue tape pen and the two layers using 1mm deep foam tape.  I then used a Zig glue pen to add dots in various places on the paper ribbon and to write Penblwydd Hapus (which is Welsh for Happy Birthday) to the bottom of the card.  Onto these glued areas I pressed a sheet of touch sensitve foil.  It actually turned out smoother than I wanted so I then scratched the foiled area to distress it a bit, which I felt was more in keeping with the look of the image and backgrounds.

For this last card, in the style of a "screen" that opens out and stands in a zigzag fashion, was made using three of the bookmarks on the bookmark sheet.
These were again stuck to a sheet of Adorable Scoreable and trimmed to leave a very small margin.
Taking the width of these matted bookmarks into account I used my Hougie Board to score a sheet of white cardstock, trimmed the extra off and folded to make my screen card.  I also cut a smaller panel from the Adorable Scoreable, but turning it back to front, to make a panel where the greeting can be written.  Once I had stuck all the matted panels onto the base card using my roller glue tape pen I used the ProMarker to go around adding faux stitching.
I finished off by colouring over the butterfly charm using the same ProMarker, because it wass too silver looking for this card, and then stuck it to the front of the card using glue gel.

The closed card.

A couple of slightly different angles of the opened out card.

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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 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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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.)

Elves - New Collection Launch At Dragons Lair Designs

Some of the design team from this "Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog", and our sister blog "Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog", have already been teasing you with a few creations they've made using this fabulous collection even before it was available in store!
You may even have seen this image with small tasters of some of what is in the collection -

Well - the launch day has arrived!-

And everybody can now get their hands on the new -

"Elves" Collection
Here!

There's even a

40% Discount

on everything from the collection for a limited period from the 1st to 15th March.

And if you choose to buy the complete collection you will get an extra few items completely free (ones that are not available any other way.)

And if you read to the end of this post you will find a link to get one part of the collection completely Free!

If you've missed seeing any of the "Teasers" around the online crafting world over the last week or so then have a look at them now - I'm sure that they will inspire you to get crafting with the new kit.  There are also a few items you won't have seen, so something new to inspire you as well even if you have seen all the "teasers".

Gwyneth
I showed you a sneaky peak of part of a scrapbook layout I was working on a few days ago.

Well this is the whole layout that you can see on my blog today.

Janette
Our DLD Designer, Janette, has also done a layout.

(Photo Credit - Gold elf female by A-gala on DeviantArt)

Lynne
 Lynne used the digi stamps from the collection to great effect on this card which she shows you on her blog here.

Susan
Susan has been giving you a sneaky peak, pre-launch, of one tag but printed out at three different sizes, a great example of how you can adjust sizes to suit what you need.

It's the 1st of March so Susan has prepared her March page for her calendar ready for today's Elves collection launch - as you can see, she's put the tags she gave you a sneaky peak of previously to decorate her March calendar page.

Diane
Diane gave you a sneaky peak of some of the items in the collection ahead of the launch by making this little card with an autmnal theme.

And for today's launch she's made this one on a vintage floral theme.

Nan
Nan did a sneaky peak of part of one of the digital stamps included in the collection a few days ago. You can see her post - Here.

This is a wonderful digital collection that work well for all sorts of crafting, not just digital crafting.

I think that the stunning items made by the Design Team members show the versatility of this collection, so don't miss out on getting it at the launch discounted price and go to the store now to make your choices and get what you'd like.

Freebie!

 As I said near the begining of this post - we have a freebie for you from the new Elves collection.

A card pyramid topper and paper ribbons -
which you can download by clicking - Here! - it comes as a zipped up file of the sheet.
Enjoy Crafting!

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