Update

I appologise i have been absent on this blog for a long time, as many of you know I have branched out to Stamps for Cardmakers and after much thought have decided to merge both blogs into one

I will leave this one open but i would love it if you would come over and join us at the new blog

http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.com/

There is also another New Blog that will hold all my Freebies for both Scrapbooking and Cardmaking pop on over and have a peek

http://stampindragonfreebies.blogspot.com/

I hope to see you over there and thank you all so much for all your support over the years with many more to come :)

June Quick Page Challenge

Liz has the pleasure of hosting the quick page challenge for you all this month and we have 2 fantastic designers and wonderful kits to play with at half price for the duration of the challenge which is from the 1st of June to Wednesday the 30th. 

Sorry this has had to be posted again due to the site being down, Apologies for any inconvenience. Thank God for back ups I say!! 

What's All the Scrap About has given us her very fun and funky A Rumble in the Jungle kit perfect that little boy or girl and zoo pics too. 

Oh and then we have Gentle Waves kit by Dragons Lair Designs which is rich in greens and blues and is soothing and natural perfect for holiday pics and beach outings. Two such gorgeous kits to play with and you have the whole month too!!

Gentle Waves - Dragons Lair Designs

A Rumble in the Jungle by What's All the Scrap About

We will start this challenge on Tuesday the 1st and run for 4 and a bit weeks until
Wednesday 30th of June.

Rumble in the Jungle has 29 amazing elements and 19 fantastic papers and for you guys
it will be half price in the store!! Gentle Waves has 12 papers and 23 elements for you to
play with and it is also half price in the store!! WOW and WOW!!

To participate please go and purchase the kit from the store (see linkies above) and create at least
A: two 4" x 6" Brag Book Page (BBP)
B: and/or one 12" x 12" Quick Page (QP)

For full details and to play along go HERE

Gental Waves

I had time to play a little today (It was too hot to move lol) and i came up with a couple of layouts using my Gentle Waves Page Kit hope you like them

You can find the whole collection in store HERE and there is 50% off for all of may :)

Lost And Found Treasures

Do you enjoy a good garage sale/ yard sale?  Have you found any good bargains lately?   Check out, Lost And Found Treasure, an amazingly fun Kit of garage sale finds!   You will find lots of fun items to use in your LO's. 

Be sure to get this fun kit! 

This collab includes 37 papers (22 solid, 15 patterned) and 81 elements including: arrows, frames, stitches, tags, flower swirls, receipts, signs, notebook paper, ribbons, bracket, doll, border, pocket, stickers, truck, books, box, doodle, fastener, furniture,  measure, shoes, coins, journal, piggy bank, stickers, flowers, garden things, mirror, word art, bear, bows, hat, rug...

Lost And Found Treasures will supply you with plenty of items to use in your LO's and its on sale at the moment too $12.50  down to $5.00

Missed you Heaps Sale

Wow it is soooo good to back!!

We have experienced some serious downtime due to our hosts having major server issues. It was a bit of touch and go this week, But we are back up and running.  As good as new!!

I hope all you mums out there had a good mothers day and got all the pampering you deserve, Since we missed you all soooo much we have decided to do a special sale for this weekend.

There is 25% off select designers stores from the 14th till the 17th of this month. Thank you all for being so patient whilst we were off line. So sorry for any inconvenience and come by and get your Joi fix this weekend!!

See you there!!

May 2010 Scraplift Challenge

Here we go Mays challenge, my eldest baby is 18 this month where do the years go .... Anyway on with the challenge lol  I hope you will play along this month.

Here is this month challenge, lets try some blending.

This month i choose a nice summery layout by Pelzi use the layout as a guide but flip it, turn it, alter it in some way. I cant wait to see what you come up with.

you can pop along and play at K Joi Studios HERE

You will also be getting "reward points" for each LO you do for our challenges.

The Proverbial White Rabbit

What can i say i am late late late on everything at the min so today i aim to try and catch up I owe you guys a freebie and i have two kits to go in store as well sooooo lots to do, lets start with the fun bit and my choice from Britains Got Talent this week ( what can i say i am addicted lol) this week my choice is Connected five young lads aged 13 - 15 hope you enjoy, and i will be back with crafty posts asap :)

Britains got talent and a sneek peek

Well its week 2 of Britains got talent and here i am with my choice for this week an Accountant who was entered by parents all i can say is WOW hope you enjoy :)




And while i am here here is a sneeky peek of my newest kit which should be out in the next week (decorating allowing)

Well guys its started ......

Britains got talent started this weekend and as you all know i am a huge fan so i thought i would share my weekly favorite :) this week i have to say it was hard work as there were not that many that grabbed me but i think this one has to be my number one choice for the first week, 10 Year old Chloe Hickinbottom, I hope you enjoy :)

Gentle Waves Range

I just loved the greens and blues in this colour swatch, and I think the kit turned out well blending the two ranges to a nice soft finish

4 Plain Papers, 8 Patterned Papers, 2 Borders, 2 Brads, 1 Butterfly, 2 Fibres, 9 Flowers, 3 Frames, 2 Corrogated Photo Slides, 3 Gems, 2 Lace Frames/Mats,  3 Mats & 2 Tied Ribbons.

Dragons Lair Designs  and K Joi Studio's

Full Size Page kit and Tagger Sized available

Papers available seperatly in 12 x 12 and 8 x 11

This mini blends perfectly with the rest of the Gentle Waves Range

6 Papers, 1 Mat, 2 Fibres, 1 Butterfly, 2 Frames & 2 Ribbons

Heres a layout i made using the kit for you to see :)

Trip to the Flicks

I promised the kids i would take them to the pictures this week and there was no argument from me AT ALL on the choice of film, How to train your dragon ... WHat do you mean laughing lol its not like i am mad about them AT ALL HONEST LOL 

Anyway we went and BOY it is FANTASTIC although i may be biased lol if you need somthing to go see GO SEE THIS HONEST you will love it LOL

Dragon Fix of the day all done :)

PJ Party

Blues & Pinks to suit either a boy or a girl this kit has so many options its slightly bigger than a mini but not a full size kit so we will class it as a mini :)

6 Papers, 2 Mats, 2 Buttons, 2 Frames, 3 Wavy Ribbons, 2 Fibres, 2 Pillow Stars, 1 Dog Teddy  and 3 Ribbons

2 12 x 12 Quickpages

Free Bracket Pages

I made these pages for an Easter Blog Hop that never happened, so i thought i would put them up here for anybody that can use them, they were made using my Adrift in Dreams Page Kit available in store now


DOWNLOAD HERE

CT CALL

I am looking for a few ladies to create layouts for me using my products, if you are interested in working with my kits please contact me telling me why you would like to be considered and a link to your most up to date gallery

thankyou so much i look forward to hearing from you

dragonslairdesigns@googlemail.com

April 2010 Scraplift with a Twist Challenge

I cant belive it's April already where is the year going, and to think it is supost to be British Summertime we have snow Brrrrrrrr lets hope the weather picks up soon, there were some great layouts last month I hope you will play along this month.

Here is this month challenge.

This month i choose a nice summery layout by JKX3 use the layout as a guide but flip it, turn it, alter it in some way. I cant wait to see what you come up with.

Find all the details in the challenge thread here 

 This is the layout you are lifting 

And this is my Bonus to you for playing along, it will be emailed to you once you have posted your layout at KJoi Studio's

You will also be getting "reward points" for each LO you do for our challenges.

Each reward point is worth 5 cents in our KJOI store!!!
So for every Challenge you participate in - you will get 5 Reward Points (25 cents).

For every challenge that you use a KJOIs Designer's kit - you will get an additional 5 Reward Points for a total of 10 (50 cents).

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