Dani has been a long time, favorite designer of mine and one of the few designers I’ve met in real life. I was on Dani’s team for a while and loved working with her and her products. I still love everything she puts out and purchase her goodies regularly. When I downloaded her contribution to The Digi Files this month, I couldn’t wait to use it! Let’s take a closer look at “County Fair” that is included in The Digi Files this month:
This is ONE of SEVEN collections you get when you become a member of The Digi Game this month. You also get an interactive Playbook (in PDF and iBooks formats) that has lots of ideas for using the supplies including techniques, tips, and tricks! All of that, including access to exclusive collaborations every four months you are a member, for only $7.50 total per month!
Here are some layouts created using Design by Dani’s contribution:
Layout by Kim L. Supplies: County Fair by Design by Dani; Template by Cindy Schneider; Fonts: Pea Bandit and Pea Noodle’s Girlfriend.
Layout by Kimberly M. Supplies: County Fair by Design by Dani; Fonts: Teenybopper by Darcy Baldwin.
Layout by Aaron. Supplies: County Fair by Design by Dani; Template by Crystal Livesay; Fonts: A Happy Little Font by Darcy Baldwin and Jenn Barrette.
Layout by Trina. Supplies: County Fair by Design by Dani; Baby Steps 2 by Tiny Toes Designs.
Layout by Melissa. Supplies: County Fair by Design by Dani; The Tattered Pear StoryMappers 3; Micheline Martin Lucky Charms Bubble Stamps; Ali Edwards Happiness brush; The Sketchy Serif font by Heather Hess.
You can see more layouts created with this kit on our “Team Inspiration” page.
Hi! My name is Dani and I am a thirty year old work at home mother of two feisty red heads, an eight year old and a two year old. They are my absolute joy and my inspiration. We call the pacific northwest our home. I have a huge passion for scrapbooking and memory keeping and an obsession with photography. I worked in the pre-press department of an on demand printing press before I had my first daughter. After she was born I was a stay at home mom, and I loved it, but I really missed the creative outlet and challenge in my life. I stumbled upon digital scrapbooking and I was instantly hooked. With my years of Photoshop experience it was a perfect fit! I started dabbling in designing in the summer of 2005 and I have only grown in my love and passion for it.
When I am not working at my computer you can find me behind my camera lens or playing with my girls, jumping on our trampoline or just snuggling up for some quality cuddle time! When I am not on Mommy duty I love to read books, catch up on my favorite shows and spend quality time with my friends and family. I love all forms of crafting and scrapbooking and even like to get out the glue and scissors from time to time!
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Our family just loves our annual day at the county fair! I am always inspired by the kaleidoscope of lights and colors and just plain fun of the fair atmosphere so I really wanted to create something captured that feel! I am a color addict so I had to use lots of bright vibrant colors and fun vintage inspired images. I added a little more fun and interest to my page by creating some digital confetti. Its a cinch with the help of masks and brush settings in photoshop. Here is how I made it:
(Tutorial image included in Bio File)
Place your chosen paper onto your layout file. Add you desired drop shadow settings. Select all (Ctl+A). Press “d” to set your swatches to the default swatch setting and then hold down alt while you click on the mask button at the bottom of your layers
palette (looks like a square with a circle in it). Your paper will disapear and you will notice a black box icon next to your paper layer in the layers palette. This is your mask.
Click on the layer mask on your layers palette. (Black box next to the image of your layer. Choose the brush tool. Go to Window>Brush. This will bring up your brush settings. Click on “Shape Dynamics.” I entered the following: Size Jitter: 84%,
Min Diameter: 51%. (You can change these up for different effects. Set your brush size to about the size you want your confetti to be and click once to make a dot. Randomly make little dots where you want confetti. The brush will automatically randomly resize for you. You can try this effect with different shaped brushes too for even more fun!
Once you have your first layer of dots, repeat the process with another paper and be sure to overlap your dots so that it looks realistic! That’s it! I like to add a few different pattern papers to really make it look dimensional. Before you know it you will be creating digital confetti all over the place! Its like a party on your monitor and alot less mess than the real thing!
SUPPLIES: County Fair by Dani Mogstad
For me it all started back in highschool, or maybe even earlier than that really! My mom was an avid scrapbooker, card maker and all around crafty gal. My sisters and I would often spend entire afternoons with her making beautiful things and covering our dining room table with glitter, paint, glue, clay or whatever medium we happened to be crafting in. (no joke! Its still sparkly!) Once I got married and had my own baby scrapbooking was just a natural creative outlet for me. I would stay up and scrapbook all hours of the night and fill our tiny apartment with all my paper treasures and doodads 
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In high school I started learning Photoshop and I was in love. I learned all I could and would often spend any spare time I had in the school computer lab. When I graduted from High school my parents bought me my very first copy of Photoshop and I was in heaven . After high school I went to work in the pre-press department of an on demand printing company. It wasn’t until after my daughter was born and I decided to be a stay at home mommy that I stumbled upon digital scrapbooking. With my years of Photoshop experience and love of design it was a perfect fit! I dabbled in both digital and paper scrapbooking for a few months before I packed up all my traditional scrapbooking supplies and gave them away to be a 100% digi gal. I still like to get out the mess every once and while though . There is just something therapeutic about making a creative mess!
After being 100% digital for about six months I started dabbling in designing my own scrapbooking products in 2005. Its hard to believe that this was over six years ago! I was instantly hooked on the creative outlet and the rest is history. Since then I have sold at my own store www.designbydani.com, as well as www.sweetshoppedesigns.com. I also have created paper lines for My Minds Eye. I currently just opened my shop at the one and only www.JessicaSprague.com and I am so excited to be working with the amazing team there!
What doesn’t inspire me to create? I love color. Color can set the tone and tell a story so I live for fresh and vibrant color combinations that just beg me to make them come to life. I love vintage illustrations and patterns. I really love to create new and interesting spins on themed kits.
I get inspired by my girls or the places we visit as a family, or the beautiful scenery we have around us in the Pacific Northwest. More often than not my problem is not being inspired, but finding enough hours in the day to create everything that I want to!
Computer: I used to work pretty exclusively on my laptop but have recently gotten a bit frustrated by the speed and limitations. So my hubby being the awesome guy that he is (I love it when he talks hard drives and RAM to me) built me what we affectionately call the BEAST. This computer is massive and is tricked out with 9 TB of hard drive space (I’m just itching to start filling it up!) and 32 G of RAM. I also have dual monitors. You could say I am a little bit spoiled. I have only been working on the new computer for a couple weeks but lets just say I am in love!
Program: Adobe Illustrator is my comfy best friend. I work in CS5 and while I do most of my design work in Illustrator I also work in Photoshop and would be lost without ACDSee.
Camera: I have a Canon 7D.
Anything Else: I have a Bamboo Fun tablet.
Ctrl+Shift+T! This is a handy tip you will love. Once you resize (tranform) an element in photoshop, photoshop keeps that transformation. If you select another element and press ctrl+shift+t it will apply the exact same transformation again to the element selected. This comes in extremely handy when I am scrapping or designing and want to keep elements in proportion or size them to exactly the same size. Try it you will like it!
My favorite kit changes from time but at the moment it is my brand new release, Hometown Proud, which is on sale today only for 25% off. (Offer expires 7-2-12.)
I think it would probably Flying High. I think this kit is so popular because it has great primary colors and is just plain fun to scrap with. It was actually inspired by a creative team members picture of her son joyously flying a kit. I saw the picture and just knew I had to make a kit for it!
Here are some of my favorite products by Dani:
Here are some more inspirational layouts using Dani’s products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.
Save 20% off Dani’s Jessica Sprague store with code 20DANIDD. (Valid thru 7/31 only at www.jessicasprague.com.)
Go have a look in Dani’s store! We will randomly select a winner from the comments to win $10.00 in product from her store! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST to qualify)!
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Thanks for the awesome info and the chance to win!
I really love Dani’s products, I will be out to collect them all.
I love everything that Dani does – she is so talented!
Okay, that ctrl + shift + t is going to change my life!
Thanks for the great tut! And thanks for the chance to win
Dani’s designs are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I love the colors in this month’s kit from her and I’d love to win a gift certificate to her store!
Wow I can’t wait to make my own digi confetti, how cool!!! And I live your Hometown Proud kit!
Oooh, so many kits I’m lovin’, can’t choose just one! Great color schemes! And I am so jealous of the BEAST. lol
Can’t wait to try Dani’s tip. I have not heard of that before and can think of many instances where that would come in quite handy. Thanks for the tip, Dani, and thanks for the chance to win!
What an amazingly talented designer! Dani’s shop is chock full of goreousness! I think I’m going to have to pick up her Flying High kit while it’s on special this month. So cute!
I love Dani’s stuff!!! I want her newest, Hometown Proud, so bad!!
Dani is in my top 3 favorite designers.I have almost all her products.I’m missing a few,mostly new ones.My favorite kits are Aloha,Little Buddies,It’s Elementary,That Old Black Magic,Sweet November.Thanks for the chance to win.
I bought Hometown Proud Complete Kit and High Flying today! I can’t wait to scrap with them!! I would love another shopping spree to Dani’s store! Pick me, pick me!!
Wow, great pick for July! I love several of Dan’s kits!
I love Dani’s kits! County Fair looks great and I also love Aloha.
I am off to purchase hello Gorgeous – absolutely adorable. Thanks for introducing!
Dani’s kits are so lively and fun to use. Love the set in this month’s Digi Files. Thanks for the coupon!
Wow! Thanks for that tip, and for a chance to win! Your True Blue 4th of July kit looks like an awesome one, too.
Love your designs- especially your new release today! Congrats on your feature!!
Such talent! So many beautiful kits.. I love Pumpkin Spiced Latte…it’s so me!
i’ve recently become quite addicted to Dani’s products! this one is no exception & i can’t wait to find the time to use it.
I love all her work! Aloha is my favorite.
Hometown Proud is terrific and would be my choice if I were blessed to win. Thanks for the chance.
All Dani’s designs are bright and cheery, but right now..All American Summer…hits home. btw, we all love spouses who ‘get it’ and supply us with great tech goodies!
I love the Carnival Kit, I found the colors to be awesome! I want to go to a Carnival to use the kit!
Jennifer B.
Dani’s Kits are always so fun and versatile! I wish her all the best at JessicaSprague.com. Oh, and I wanted to say that her kit, Flying High, is perfect for Project Life!
Dani’s kits have such awsome colors! Would love the opportunity to win the gift certificate! I’ll probably spend way more than $10, however!
I love, love Dani’s kits and am so glad I found her store!
Design by Dani is a new designer for me… And I am so glad that you featured her. Love her style
Love the themed elements in Dani’s kits, but especially live the versatility of them!
Love the Snap Happy kit, so cute! I would definitely get that if I won
I really love Dani’s style. Very colorful and beautiful kits!
Great tutorial!
LOVE Dani’s work! She has a fantastic style that I just love scrapping with! Thank you so much for the chance to win!! XOXO
Dani’s products make me…simply put…happy. *sigh*
Love Dani. Love Dani’s kits. She is my idol. LOL. BTW, Dani’s coupon code is not working at Jessica Sprague.
I so needed this kit! I have pictures from the fair last year that have not been scrapped because I didn’t have the right kit, now I do!!
Great color combinations! Great deal on Flying High…I couldn’t resist! Thanks for the coupon & chance to win!
What a cute kit. I’m personally a little scared of clowns but I love all the sweet treats. Makes me want to head to the fair!
Loved the tutorial on making confetti! Her kit for the files this months is great and I love the colors. She has great kits!
Dani has so many amazing kits! I love her contribution to this months files and her new Hometown Proud kit is gorgeous. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love everything Dani! I still dig around in my huge collection of her older kits to find that perfect finishing touch for pages. The new Hometown Proud kit is awesome!
LOVE LOVE LOVE. We go to the state fair every year, this will be just perfect for then. I am SOOO happy with the stuff I get as a member, it rocks! I tell everyone that I know that they have to join:)
What a fabulous feature! It is good learning more about Dani. What lovely products and a creative designer!
I would love to win!!! Thanks for the chance
Your kits are so stinking cute! I wish I could have them all!
Love the bright fun colors of this kit. I really like her style and just looking at the kits makes you happy
This kit is so fun with its bright colors and elements! It was fun to meet Dani and read about her inspiration. Must be because it’s almost the Fourth of July, but I’m really taken with Hometown Proud. I also like Dapper Dan
Thanks for a chance to win.
I absolutely adore that Hello Gorgeous kit!!!! Thanks for the chance!!!!!!!
What a fun kit – actually after checking Dani’s store, they’re all fun looking kits. Definitely love Flying High – such great papers and wonderful colors!
I love Dani’s designs!! In fact, the very first digital kit I ever purchased was one of hers. Can’t wait to use this gorgeous kit.
How cool is her stuff!!! Thanks for featuring her.
Yippee…Dani is on of my very favorite designers and it was such a treat to read about her and of course to play with her delightful new kit. I can hardly wait to scrap with it!
Thank you for the tip – something new for my arsenal. I love Snap Happy, I like love you, A Lot Like Christmas. Thanks for this month’s contribution.
I loved reading all of this introduction and appreciate the great hints Dani shared as well as her fun contribution to this month’s TDD. I think my favorite of her kits “may” be Pop Goes the World. I love the bright colors, fun elements, and the funky word art. Thanks for the intro and the chanced to win.
Loved learning more about Dani. Love her bold, vibrant style. I love her Hometown Proud kit. Thanks for the chance to win.
Dani’s kits have such a unique style and charm! Fingers crossed!
I love the colors in this months kit. Her other kits are pretty awesome also. I love the hello gorgeous kit.