Calling all Card Makers

There is a brand new Stamping Store opening today they kick off with a Huge Easter Egg Hunt there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs, so if you love stamping and cardmaking pop on over and join in the fun :)

Stitchy Bear Stamps Easter Egg Hunt

You could even pop in and see my stamps lol

Stamping Dragon Designs Store

I cant belive you Scrapped that .......

 K-Joi Studios is having the funnest greatest layout contest ever.
You all have to come join us as we are going to have such a good time.
Are you all ready to have some fun?

I can't believe you Scrapped that Photo!!
Layout Contest

It's time to dig out those photos that you all have hidden in the back of your dresser drawers, photo boxes, photo albums, and on those forgotten folders on your computer. We have a great fun contest for you to use those photos. And don't worry if you don't have any of those unwanted photos you can make your own with a little photo editing take one of your photos and turn it into a work of not so good art
The contest is going to run for a month, from March 17th to April 17th to give you plenty of time for you to get your layouts done.

We will have five categories
The Funniest Layout
The Strangest Layout
The Ugliest Layout
The Best Altered Photo Layout
The Wackiest Animal Layout

There are prizes for each category for the 1st and 2nd place winners and one for an overall winner of the contest.
You can learn all about this contest in our forum here.



The Prizes are fantastic from all the wonderful sponsors we have.

LAImel Designs Professional Printing Services
Lightening Bug Creations
Anita Lee Creations Poser Tubes
Graphics Allusion Poser Tubes
Cancer Moon Creations
Sophisti-Scraps
Barry's Place PSP Tubes and graphics
Aquarius Design
Wool Sweater Street
Scrapz 'n Bitz
ActionFX Photoshop Resources
Dragon Lair Designs
Wendyzine from Scrapbook Graphics
Hummie's World
Scrapper's Workshop
Digital Scrap Addicts
Scrapbook Max
K-Joi Studios
Kara Jones
Panda Bear Designs
Kim Hill from CG Essentials

New Mini Kits in Store

There are three new mini kits in store today, they are my parts of three collabs from KJoi Studio's so if you are a member or have purchased any of the collabs you will have these mini's, if not they now available to all and are priced at $2.00 each

Joi of the Arts

Zoodles

Garden Paths

Selection of Mini Kits Available at K Joi Studio's and Dragon Lair Designs

Adrift in Dreams

My new kit is here somthing a little jazzy for you I think it will be perfect for both masculine and feminine layouts and dont forget to check out the mini kit to match more details below :)

Adrift in Dreams comes in the following options, Page kit, 12 x 12 Papers only, 8 x 11 Papers, Elements only, Mini kit and Tagger Kit.

Watch out for the New Mini Kits as they have money off coupons included for the Full Page Kit :)

NEW RANGE

From now on every kit i produce will also have a mini kit to match, they will co ordinate perfectly with the full sized kits and are only $2 each inside the mini's you will find a coupon to save cash on the full sized page kit

this one has a $1.50 voucher which you can use to buy the page kit RRP $5.50 you get it for $4.00 when you buy the mini and use the coupon

While i was waiting for the files to uploadf i made this layout using the kit for the KJoi Joiful Insperations Challenge for March check it out today and the layout is in my Gallery :)

KJoi Studio's Mothers Day Blog Hop

WE have a great little blog train for you going on right now. It's all things you can use to make a beautiful Mother's Day kit to use. Everything is Commercial Use. Please be kind and leave comments for those that you download a little Thank you goes a long way.

ENJOY

You can download the overlays HERE

It has been reported that some have had problems with the link so heres a Alternative Link for Download

You should have reached me from Lizard Dau Designs
your next stop is Lori Imel
if you lost your way you can go back to the KJoi Blog here

March 2010 Scraplift with a Twist Challenge

I am taking over the Scraplift Challenge at KJoi Studio's I am so excited to be able to showcase some of the fantastic layouts in there gallery, my first choice is this adorable clustered layout by Cooper_Man_2 you can visit her gallery and check out some of her work HERE or click HERE to go straight to it and leave some love.

Heres my take on the layout and you can find that in my gallery here

There is also a BONUS GIFT available if you use a KJoi Kit  soooo what are you waiting for visit the Scraplift with a Twist Challenge TODAY !!!!

New Line in Store

I have a new range of Mini kits in store, these are smaller budget priced mini's they are selling for $2 each some even have a bonus coupon in them, if the mini matches a full sized page kit, you get a coupon to buy that kit for $2 less now how can you go wrong with that it gives you a chance to try the kit and if you like it you get in effect a refund for the mini by buying the page kit :)

Green Dream Mini KitLovely Spring colours lend this kit to all sorts of layouts, you get

5 Papers, 1 Frame, 1 Butterfly, 2 Flowers, 1 thin Ribbon, 1 Thick Ribbon, 1 Ribbon Wrap and 2 Strings.

Dragons Lair Designs   or    K Joi Studio's

Passionatly Paisley Mini This mini includes a coupon for $2 off the full page kit

the mini includes 6 Papers, 2 Bead Strings, 1 Heart, 2 Round Mats, 1 Frame, 2 Buttons, 2 Curly Ribbons

Dragons Lair Designs or KJoi Studio's

More coming Soon !!!!!

March at KJoi Studio's

Check out all the great happening's at K Joi Studio's Starting in MARCH

Friday Night Designer Chat's this is a special meet and greet with our fabulous designers where you can get to know them better, ask them uncomfortable questions, pester them for freebies and have an all round enjoyable time. This will be starting on the 5th of March

This alternates every 2nd Friday with the Speed Scrap hosted again by Stinky (Sande of SandEz Creationz) and the Lizard (Liz of Lizard Dau Designs). There will be a thread in the forums to indicate the dates and which designers will be our guest as well as which weeks the Speed Scrap is to be scheduled.

And if thats enough there is MORE .......

March brings us a NEW Layout Contest called I Can't Believe You Scrapped That!!    Think about the Funniest Home Videos but with Digital Scrapbooking, and you have the idea for this contest.

The contest is starting on March the 17th through to April the 17th. I cannot give you any more details until things are finalised but guys go and grab all those funnneee shots ready for the contest cause it is going to be an absolute blast!!! Oh not to mention all the fantastic prizes we are busily collecting just for you to win!!  So I will keep you posted as to what is happening in the newsletter from now on and let you know the details really soon. I promise!!

March the 6th. It starts at the K-Joi Blog and goes from there!! The theme is Mothers Day but all of the sample kits are Commercial Use friendly.

So come a hoppin to the K-Joi Blog on Saturday the 6th of March for a heap of fantastic Commercial Use goodies!

We Reached 20 Followers

Well we made the first twenty woo hoooooo and as promised as a thank you here is the first freebie, it is a little larger than normal as i did not get to post one at 10 followers, again thank you so much guys for all your support and i will post another at 30 Followers I hope you enjoy it.

Please leave me a comment i love to hear from you ..
OH and if you use it and want to share your layout post the link and i will come and leave you some love  :)

Zips Checked and now on MediaFire they should be fine now.
DOWNLOAD ONE

DOWNLOAD TWO
DOWNLOAD THREE

It seems some of you cant get all three zips so i here is an alternative link set for you I hope you can now get all three zips.

DOWNLOAD ONE
DOWNLOAD TWO
DOWNLOAD THREE

Scrap & Stamp Sponsorship

I am sponsoring Scrap & Stamp this week, this blog is such fun and combines Scrapbooking and Digital Stamps what do you have to do

"this weeks challenge is to use some sort of digital element on your traditional paper layout. Don't forget the stamp, either digi or traditional!"

There is a $10 voucher up for grabs for the winner so what are you waiting for, you can see the layouts the design team made with my Passionatly Paisley Page Kit, Baby Elephant Stamp and Penny Stamp below, thanks so much ladies they are all fantastic.

Onto the layouts

Isolade

Lacey

Pamela

Boni

Cariena

Check out my NEW LAYOUT BLOG for a FREEBIE

I thought I would post a taster of the freebies i will offering periodicly as my followers grow, i may offer them inbetween too but the next one will be after 10 followers so if you like what you see click that follow link and bring it closer :)

Heres a Love themed Quick page in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 11.5 sizes

Pop Over to my New Blog to grab this Quick Page Pack

New in Store Today with 40% OFF

Two new kits in store today, well i say new they started there lives at Digital Designers Den as part of collab kits, i am now offering my parts alone.

Save 40% on these for the first week in store

Southern Comfort

Created with Echo Scraps i love this one mind you i love vintage so i am probably biased lol


Deco Daze

Created with my good freind Ambrosia Arts this one was a challenge for me and somthing totally different from my usual creations Art Deco was the theme i think it worked out well though i hope you agree :)

Designer of the Month at KJoi Studio's

I am Designer of the month over at KJoi Studio's this month, and thought you may like to see what i said, you can visit KJoi Studio's HERE

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From the KJoi Newsletter

You are about to meet one of our most talented designers here at K-Joi Studios. I am soo pleased and honoured to introduce to you Janette aka Dragons Lair Designs. Sit back and relax and get to know the lovely Janette.

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Q. How long have you been designing and how did you get into it?
A.I am from the UK. I am a divorced mu to two and a fur baby. I first started Digital Scrapbooking around 8 years ago. I had been in the PSP tag and tube arena on AOL for a few years and was fed up with all the red tape connected to it, so I went looking for something else and found digital scrapbookiing and the rest they say is history. LOL. I started out with layouts and then quickly moved onto designing page kits which I have now been doing for around 6 years. So as someone called me the other day seasoned in this area. LOL
Q. What other crafts do you do?

A. I have just started designing Digital Stamps for Cards and hope to actually make some soon.

Q. Do you have any personal CT? Please tell us who and how much you appreciate their work?

A. I don't have CT. I usually create my own, or share in the fabulous layouts fromt the CT here at K-Joi.

Q. The CT here at K_Joi are fabulous!! Is there any particular page you like and who did it?
A. There are so many great layouts in my gallery but this one really jumped out at me.
Terrista - Visit the gallery to see it here

Q. What is your favourite TV Show?
A. I am a huge Crime Show fan. I love all the CSI Shows, Cold Case, Law and Order etc But my all time fave is CSI MIami- Horatio Rocks!!

Q. What do you like to do in your spare time?

A. Spare Time!!! What is that??? LOL I don't have a great deal of that. I am usually running around after the kids, looking for a job (I was made redundant in June) or trying to clean up. LOL But when I do have any spare time I am usually at the PC either creating or doing some layouts.

Q. If you could name one thing you could not do with out when designing what would it be?

A. Filters Unlimited. I think it is soo useful to have it or the Machine Wash Filter.

Q. What is it that you like about K-Joi?

A. What is there not to love? Kara rocks!! I have known her for many years now and I love everything about her store. I used to spread myself thinly across four stores but these days I am Exclusive to K-Joi Studios and find it so much easier. The gang here are awesome!!

Q. Is there anything we can do to make things better here for you?

A. Do all the uploading and advertising and posting for me!! ROFL No only joking I cannot think of anything off the top of my head.

Q. Tell us a little about you and your family?

A. We live on the outskirts of Leeds West Yorkshire UK in an old mining area. Coal was big around here before all the pits shut. I divorced 9 years ago and now live with my son who is 18 this year and daughter who will be 13. We also have a fur baby who will be 9 this year. My son is at College Studying IT and my daughter is in the 2nd year of High School. I am looking for work as I said before and hopefully this recession won't last much longer and something will come along soon.

Q. Do you have any pets? If so what are they and what are their names?

A. One a cat named Holly.

Q.Describe your style and where do you get your inspiration?

A. Not sure I have a style and I usually start with a colour sampler or a photo and the kit just grows from that.

Dragons Lair Designs Store at K-Joi Studios

Dragons Lair Designs Gallery at K-joi Studios

Wow Jannette is having a HUMUNGOUS SALE!!

So click on the link in Blue above this advert and go and do some serious shopping. There are almost 300 items to chose from some are retiring and some are not. But they are all magnificent and gorgeous just like Janette herself. Go see for yourself and next week I will be back with some rather cool reviews of Janettes work. Until next time thanks for reading!!

Cheers Liz of Lizard Dau Designs


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Thanks Liz for all your hard work doing this :)

Free Cat Word Art

I found this piece of wordart i made for a scrapping challenge i did if anyone can use it you are welcome to grab it :)

DOWNLOAD HERE

Guilty Pleasures Collab Kit

Guilty Pleasures - time to indulge....
only $5.00 for the month of February

This yummy kit will give you lots of fun things to scrap all of those Valentines fun! This mega kit would also be great for all those romantic get-aways!!!

Guilty Pleasures contains 35 papers (13 solid + 22 patterned) and 67 elements, including:

frames, packets, hand print, mug rings, straberries, hearts, scatters, brads, bordrs, clusters, coffee cup, journaling mats, tags, ribbons, notebook, bows, Word Art, flowers, doilies, strings, stickers, cupids, corners, conversation hearts, 3 Alphas and lots of chocolates!!!

Heres my part of the collab :)

HUGE RETIRMENT SALE - HURRY

I dont think i have cleared out the old for years so its time to make room for the new pop along and pick up some awesome bargains now at

K Joi Studio's

and also check my store as there are additional items there too

Keep checking in as i am still adding items

Dragons Lair Designs

Febuary Challenge Time

Good morning, its the Monthly challenge time again, where does the time go to !! lets start with last months winner, the entries were input into the Random Number Generator and Entry no 2 was chosen.

Congratulations to MissNomer for her entry below, she wins a $5 spend in my store.

NOW on to this months challenge, this month with valentines day approaching we have a love theme, what do you need to do use the sketch below and create a layout using the free mini kit, come back place your link to your layout in Mr Linky and you are entered into this months draw fora $5 spend in my store, easy peasy what are you waiting for lets play :)

DOWNLOAD YOUR PACK HERE

Good Luck i cant wait to see your layouts :)

If you like Card Making check out the Card Challenge HERE

Shades of Autumn & Freebie

The colours used in this kit came from a sample at colorlovers and i just fell for them, then when i started i couldnt stop lol I hope you like it as much as I do.

14 Papers, 4 Buttons, 10 assorted flowers, 2 Knotted Ribbons, 4 Scalloped Ribbons, 4 Scalloped Circular Frames, 4 Wavy Ribbons, 3 Assorted Frames, 2 Torn Papers

Available as Full Page Kit, 12 x 12 Papers, 8 x 11 Papers ( For Scrapping & Cards) , Elements & Tagger Sized Kit

In Both my stores now, 40% off until February 12th

FREE Sampler in store now try it out

Mark your Diaries

I am proud to announce I am joining Scrap & Stamp Saturday in there Hop into Love Blog Hop on February 5th - 7th.

So get the date in your diary and come join us for some fun and maybe even a free gift along the way, there are prizes too soooo come and join us, you can grab the Blinkie from my side bar to spread the word, I look forward to seeing you there :)

Yesterdays layouts

Good morning i have a few more layouts i finished off, in between running around yesterday today is as bad its a trip to town with daughter for an appointment that will probably be a full days job again sighhhh

Hope you enjoy them as much as i did creating them :)

Personal Layouts in 2010 = 18 Pages
Pages Scrapped in 2009 = 89 Pages