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.
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• 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.)

Inspiration by Gwyneth - September

Good Morning Everybody!

Normally, when I do a lot of digital design construction, with elements from a kit, I still print them out at the end and usually do a bit of hybrid crafting with the design I've come up with.  But today I decided to go a different route, I decided to take one kit from the store, and use it to create several digital layouts.  The kit I chose had an old style photo within it, so I decided to use that as a focus for all the digital layouts, but to see what different looks I could get around it just using items from the kit.  Although I've done them as digital scrapbook layouts, the same sort of ideas can be used for card fronts (making the different layers digitally apear to be dimensional, rather than having to build up lots of layers on a card means less weight and less hight on a finished card which can help postage costs a lot), or you could have a play and put one or more of your own photos into similar layouts.

Even if you never print off your digital creations, or never even show them to anybody else, the aim of this inspiration post is to show you that if you play with just one digital kit you can get different looks.  And if you do decide to print off your creations and perhaps add a bit of glitter and glaze, you can have fab results.

Stamping Dragon Designs Item:

• "Deco Daze Collection - Page Kit" - found - Here - in the shop.

Consumables:

No Consumables Used - as I've only made these as digital layouts I've not used any consumables this time.

Equipment:

No Crafting Equipment Used - other than my laptop and the software installed on it.  I used My Craft Studio Elite, but you can have a play with other software such as Serif CraftArtist 2 to get similar results.

These are the layouts I came up with:

Today the method is simple - I just took the papers and elements from the kit into my graphics package and played!  Resizing, layering up, moving around, etc., etc.!

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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 Den" 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 Stamping Dragon Designs, please do visit the Store to find all sorts of digital goodies (you'll find great digi-stamps and lots more).
• And why not join the "Stamping Dragon Designs" 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
• Crafting with the Dragon - Challenge Blog : new challenge 1st Friday every month
• Follow designer Janette Padley on Pinterest!
• See us on CraftsUPrint
• Etsy Shop - Instant downloads!

Till next time - Have Fun Crafting!

Gwyneth

DT Member

(And if you are wondering "who's Gwyneth?" - then you'll find an "About Me and My Blog!" piece on my blog.)

Happy New Year to one and all

Good Morning and a Happy New Year to everybody, I for one am happy all the festivities are over, ( Bah Humbug I know lol) but i hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and are now ready to face the New One :)

I have been busy busy sorting out the store, getting it all ready for the new year and i am ( fingers crossed and not speaking too soon) nearly there woo hoooo, I took a little time out today to have a play and made this two page layout of my daughters 4th Birthday ( long time ago lol) I cant get over how sulky she looks in the cake pic, must have been serious huh :)

Entered into the Cards Galore Scrap Challenge

Kit used - Simply Soft - Dragons Lair Designs

See the full range here

Cards Galore Scrapbook Challenge

I have been meaning to play along with Marleens Blog Challenge for a few months now, so here we go the theme for this month is:"Kids"..

So i dug around and found these ultra cute ( i am biased lol) pics of my daughter on her first day of school, i remember she was so excited and had a brand new Pekachu Backpack which never left her, as you can see she was shattered when she got home lol Awwww.

I used Dragons Lair Designs Primary Delight Mini Theme Kit for this one you can find it HERE and if you want to play along with this challenge pop over to Cards Galore Scrapbook Challenge HERE

Ok this was fun maybe you will get a few more lol its been way too long :)

More Layouts

Told you there would be more :) what can i say ....

Well i can say not one of these photos are from the bag Hmmmmm ok i know but there we go lol

Smile - KB Rejuvination (Recoloured)

Ninteen - A Man Thing Papers Stamping Dragon

Sea Cadets - KB Rejuvination

What a Job and just look what happened !!!

Ok well it all started about a month ago, the kids decided they would swop rooms giving Aimee the bigger room seeing as she needed it being a girl lol and having loads of stuff, great you may say ... Yes everyone was happy ..

Apart from lil ol me who was left with tons of unwanted stuff to sort sighhhhh

Soooooooo during the sorting i found the photo's now there are a lot and i mean a lot i seriously cant remember taking this many lol, the bag is huge which led to getting the scrapbooks out to work out what had been done (organising has never been a real strong suit until now:P )



so they have now taken over my whole Kitchen

LOOK

And iof you think the bag is the only thing io found think again there are FOUR albums with photo's missing all from when i started my Scrapbboking sooo i have loads to sort and if honest no idea where to start ... HELP LOL

So i decided to play and here is the first of the layouts, this photo was taken by my daughter of herself in 2010 and i loved it way back then sooooooo i played and i LOVE what happened its a digital layout using two papers from a free Shabby Princess kit called Plentifull

There are probably more to come but Beth i am working on what i should be two Promise :)

My Fiday Card ... Ok its not a card but hey .........

I decided to do Digital Layouts this week to show of the kits/papers in store, its been a while since i took the time to do this and i have to say i had such a great time lol, i must try and do it more often, as i say these are totally digital layouts i have to admit i am addicted to digi scrapping :)

Ok here we go lets get started

Southern Comfort - Dragons Lair Designs



Simply Lovable - Dragons Lair Designs

Passionatly Paisley - Dragons Lair Designs

I hope you enjoy them, you can see the full range of each kit by clicking its name, have a very happy Easter Weekend one and all :)

Todays Playtime

Ok now dont think i have just sat here all day and played cos its not true lol

NO HONEST its not true, I finished THREE new stamps and did my Ironing and some more washing first :) but then i had to have a play i dont seem to get to scrapbook much these days, and i dont want to let my albums slip so here we are, I headed over to Scrapbook Challenges and played :)

Sketch 212

Sketch 224

Sketch 225

Ok i best go get these stamps up huh i will be back soon with the previews :)

Playtime

I have not been so good the last couple of weeks and thought it was time to step back and relax a little get my head back together before i jump straight back in so i have been doing a little scrapbooking here are the results i hope you enjoy them :)

Passionatly Paisley - Dragons Lair Designs

Free Mini Kit Dragons Lair Designs

In the mood for Heritage

I promised myself i would scrap today and that is just what i did (apart from a small break to go to the pub for a OJ lol) Not sure why i went all Heritage maybe as its Fathers Day and i dont have one to visit anymore i dont know but thats what emerged sooooo here we go i hope you enjoy them i will be back with stamps/Cards soon promise :)

The kit used in these two layouts is Reminisence by Jen Hanson

The kit below is Southern Comfort from Dragons Lair Designs

Todays Playtime

Finishing off at the Christmas in June Party here is a layout of the Christmas Tree, with my daughter happily decorating it in 2009.

Sketch Challenge at DIDSB Challenges

I made two lol

Viva Artistry - Embrace me (Again)

Rupert in Window - Stamping Dragon Designs

Had to Share

I dont make cards but i DO create Scrapbook Layouts and i just had to share this one with you, as i used a STAMP on it LOL Hope you like :)

Cuddlebees Kit & Stamping Dragon Tractor & Plough STAMP