Friday, 13 May 2016

The Dragons Lair Designs Blog Hop

Welcome To The Dragons Lair Designs Blog Hop

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This Blog Hop is now Closed!

 I’m sorry that you missed the chance to collect all the sections of the collection being given as a freebie during the Dragons Lair Designs Blog Hop.  However – you can still hop around all the blogs in the hop to view all the creations and gain inspiration.  You can also buy the collection in the Dragons Lair Designs Online Store – Here! – in the special Pound Shop section.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We hope that you will enjoy going round all the blogs in this Blog Hop, and to show our appreciation to you for taking part we have a freebie for everybody.


You’ll be wondering what the freebie is – well …

… it’s the whole “Sugared Brights” collection from Dragons Lair Designs!

To get the whole collection you just need to -
  • follow the whole Blog Hop from start to finish, 
  • download pieces of the collection from each blog, 
  • collect a word from each location.

Please take a moment to leave a comment for the person who owns the blog as well  – we all love to receive comments that tell us what visitors think of our creations.

Here’s the full Blog Hop list:
 (You are Here - the first blog in this Blog Hop)
Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog

If you are not already a member of the Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group you will need to request membership once you get to that location.
As soon as your membership is confirmed you will be able to comment with the list of words you’ve collected and you will be messaged the last piece of the collection.

As you go round the different blogs you will see what each Design Team Member has made using items from the “Sugared Brights” collection.  Here's a taster of what you will see - Just for fun - can you spot which DT Member's work each piece comes from?

We'll show you the names when you get to the last blog!
 

This is the word you need to collect from this blog – “Dragons”.

And - this is the link - to download the part of the collection that we’ve got to give away.
(I’m sorry, but the link is no longer working as the blog hop has ended, nowever you can still get hold of the lovely Sugared Brights collection in the Dragons Lair Designs online store – Here!)

Now off you go to the next location in the list - Janette - to see what is available there for you to collect.

Thank you for joining us for this Blog Hop today.  It will finish at 8pm UK Time on Tuesday, 17th, May.

Have fun collecting and crafting,
The Design Team At Dragons Lair Designs

Thursday, 12 May 2016

More "Butterfly Garden" Collection Creations

Have you been to the Dragons Lair Designs Online Store and got your copy of the new
"Butterfly Garden"
collection yet?

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

And buying two parts together gets you the extras for free


Our Design Team members have had lots of fun making different creations using items from the "Butterfly Garden Collection" since it launched in the Dragons Lair Designs store on the 1st May.

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 might have missed seeing.


Gwyneth
On the 2nd I showed you my creation, a framed piece to put on the wall.

And on the 6th I showed you a scrapbook layout made as an inspiration for the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - May's challenge is "Women at Work" so please Pop Over and join us.


On the 10th Janette showed you this lovely digital scrapbook layout.

Carolyn
 Carolyn made this lovely card which she showed everybody on the 9th.

This great layout was shown by Carolyn on the 3rd.

On the 10th Susan showed us this lovely layout.



Diane
A week or so ago Diane posted this lovely card online.
 And this card shows how totally different colours can be picked out from the collection.



Keep an eye out for even more creations from the Butterfly Garden Collection made by our very creative Design Team members, over the next few weeks.


-oOo-
Dragons Lair Designs Links:

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Carolyn's Butterfly Garden Card

Hi all, DT Carolyn here,welcome to my inspiration post! 

I am going to share my card using the wonderful Butterlfy Garden collection.

This fun collection has a variety of elements that make layout creations easy!  I love the earthy feel and of course those beautiful butterflys'.


Thank You For Visiting!

Till next time - Have Fun Crafting!


-oOo-

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 supplies an eclectic assortment of digital downloads.  These include whole collections of items that work well together, digital 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


Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Butterfly Garden Inspiration - Susan R

Hi Susan R here!

In recognition of National Scrapbooking Day (May 7th),
 this week I have been doing layouts!

I have used elements from the new collection at

Butterfly Garden - this picture gives you just an idea...



Rather than my usual 'cutting and sticking' processes
I have used Serif Craft Artist 2 to put my page together:





(By the way, Janette wrote a tutorial on using a template here)


Do take a look at Dragons Lair Designs  for all the other lovely makes!

And don't forget to look for the current Challenge ...

Happy Crafting!

Susan



Why not visit some of the other areas in the Dragons Lair Designs family of sites?


Monday, 9 May 2016

Dragon Lair Designs Inspiration Post...

 Inspiration DT Carolyn here, welcome to my inspiration post! 

I am going to share my card using the wonderful Butterlfy Garden collection.

This fun collection has a variety of elements that make card creations easy! Everything is color coordinated and easy to match up. 

I hope my card has inspired you to get crafty. 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. I thank you for visiting!

Till next time - Have Fun Crafting!


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 supplies an eclectic assortment of digital downloads.  These include whole collections of items that work well together, digital 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


Sunday, 8 May 2016

Dragons Lair Designs Sunday Showcase

Janette's

Including Challenge and Weekly Freebie!

Challenge

Show us your makes made using any of my designs -
  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.
I will use a Random Number Generator to pick the winner at the end of the week to make it completely fair to everybody.


DONT FORGET TO CHECK OUT THE NEW BUTTERFLY GARDEN COLLECTION

AND SAVE 40% UNTIL MAY 14th

CLICK IMAGE TO GO TO STORE.




See you next week :)


Dragons Lair Designs Links: 





Friday, 6 May 2016

A New Challenge Launches On Our Sister Site Today - "Women at Work" 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.

Nan, the Design Team Leader for the Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog, has chosen "Women at Work" as the theme for the May challenge.  She's asking for any make with a woman involved at crafts or any of the thousands of jobs women do!

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 go, and let us see your creative entries.

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

-oOo-

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 any DLD download.  You may not be aware, but on this DLD Inspiration Blog our Designer Janette Padley does a Sunday Showcase post every week and she gives a DLD freebie every week, so even if you've not been to the store to buy something DLD you still have access to DLD digital downloads you can play with and let us see your makes.

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails