Tic-Tac-Toe Love with Guest Designer Susan

We are so excited to welcome Susan, a.k.a. @littlethingsbigdays, as our guest designer for the month of February! This month, she will be sharing three different projects with us featuring the February Exclusive Kit and add-ons. She caught our eye with her clean, graphic designs that always share the little stories of her life, and we could not love her projects more! Let’s take a look at her first post, and stay tuned to see her work again next week!
 
Hello everyone – I’m really delighted to be here as guest designer this month! I have always loved Valentine’s Day, and the February Exclusive Kit, with its traditional heart day colors and pretty touches of yellow and gray, inspired me to revisit some Valentine memories. When I opened my box of fabulous goodies from Elle and spied the large acrylic “X” and “O”, I immediately thought of a tic-tac-toe board and decided to use that to inspire the design of my first page.
 

 
Supplies | February Exclusive Kit, What Happened Stamp, Date Stickers, XO Acrylic- White, XO Acrylic- Black, February Labels, Speech Bubble Stickers, Little Moments 12″ x 12″ Paper Collection
 
After lightly drawing pencil lines to guide me, I stitched the lines for my “board” with white thread using my sewing machine. In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably mention that I first tried to freehand sew my board, which left me with a terribly wonky mess that couldn’t even charitably be called a tic-tac-toe board. Fortunately, my second attempt came out just as I’d imagined, leaving me with a nine inch square grid in the center of the page.
 

 
Now it was time to start filling in the squares. I decided to place my photo in the center, and then added the black and white acrylic “X” and “O” in neighboring squares, placing the colorful heart 3″ x 4″ tag (slightly trimmed) under the black “O”. I selected two more 3″ x 4″ tags, trimmed those as well to better fit the squares, using the “nothing means more to me” tag as my title and the “details” tag to hold my journaling.
 

 
I used the February Kit’s die-cuts, Date Stickers, Speech Bubble Stickers and What Happened Stamp to embellish the squares and then, after trimming about 1/4-inch off all the edges, mounted the entire page on a piece of pink and white patterned paper from the “Little Moments” collection (one of my favorite Elle’s Studio collections!)
 

 
I love how the February Exclusive Kit inspired me to record this sweet little Valentine memory! I’ll be back next week to show you how I used the same kit for a non-Valentine page.
 
I love recording stories to capture our memories because I believe that all the little details add up to a big life. You can find me on Instagram as @littlethingsbigdays or on my blog “Little Things, Big Days.” 

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Design Team Inspiration

We are thrilled to share with you today what our Design Team has made using the brand new products that we just released! It’s always so fun to see their projects and to see each of their styles shine through! From layouts to cards, pocket pages, and planners, our new team has you covered! Let’s take a look:

XO Pocket Pages by Alissa Fast – supplies used: February 2107 kit, wood veneer stars, So Happy wood veneer, XO acrylic, XO stickers, What Happened stamp set, and heart circle acrylics.

Love layout by Allie Stewart – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Love and arrow acrylic, Speech Bubble stickers, Everyday Labels Puffy Stickers – Teal, Puffy Heart Stickers, Love You journaling tags, ‘Tis the Season washi tape, Little Moments 12 x 12 paper, and ‘Tis the Season 12 x 12 paper.

Love You Pocket Pages by Andrea Gray – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Love You journaling tags, So Happy wood veneer, XO acrylic, and Valentine Banner stickers.

All of me loves layout by Candace Perkins – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Love You journaling tags, Love and arrow acrylic, Monthly wood veneer tabs, Love Ya wood veneer circles, Jonah stamp set, Puffy Heart Stickers, Frosted Heart acrylics, Sunny Days 12 x 12 paper, and Sunny Days 6 x 6 paper.

Love You card by Daniela Dobson – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Speech Bubble stickers, and Heart circle acrylics.

January pocket pages by Jamie Leija – supplies used: February 2107 kit, large monthly wood veneers, What Happened stamp set, Speech Bubble stickers, Puffy Heart Stickers, and heart circle acrylics.

Details layout by Jennifer Chapin – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Love and arrow acrylic, Speech Bubble stickers, Puffy Heart Stickers, and heart circle acrylics.

January pocket pages by Jen Schow – supplies used: February 2107 kit, large monthly wood veneers, What Happened stamp set, and Speech Bubble stickers.

Meeting Watsky layout by Jill Sprott –  supplies used: February 2107 kit, Love and arrow acrylic, wood veneer stars, Love Ya wood veneer circles, XO stickers, Malia alphabet stamp, Olivia alphabet stamp, Dated stamp, Right Now journaling tags, What Happened stamp set, and heart circle acrylics.

November pocket pages by Kay Rogers – supplies used: February 2107 kit, large monthly wood veneers, and February labels.

Utah pocket pages by Laura Hager –  supplies used: February 2107 kit, What Happened stamp set, Puffy Heart Stickers, Brr acrylic, and Letter and Number stickers – white and gray.

Planner pages by Maggie Massey – supplies used: February 2107 kit, What Happened stamp set, Speech Bubble stickers, February labels, and Letter and Number stickers – black and teal.

Say What? layout by Meghann Andrew – supplies used: February 2107 kit, What Happened stamp set, heart circle acrylics, Sunny Days 12 x 12 paper, February labels, sequins, and February cut files.

XO layout by Melissa Mann – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Love You journaling tags, What Happened stamp set, XO acrylic, and Puffy Heart Stickers.

July pocket pages by Michelle Wedertz – supplies used: February 2107 kit, Speech Bubble stickers, Puffy Heart Stickers, and Letter and Number stickers – black.

XO pocket pages by Nancy Damiano – supplies used: February 2107 kit, XO acrylics, Puffy Heart Stickers, and Letter and Number stickers – light pink and white.

Mini Album by Neela Nalam – supplies used: February 2107 kit, wood veneer stars, What Happened stamp set, Speech Bubble stickers, February labels, and What Happened printables.


Love These Crazy Kids layout by Tessa Buys – supplies used: February 2107 kit, What Happened stamp set, heart circle acrylics, February labels, and Speech Bubble stickers.

Stay tuned for more inspiration coming from our team later this month, and from our guest designer tomorrow! And, don’t forget – we would love to see how you use our products, too! If you are posting on Instagram, make sure you use the #EllesStudio hashtag for a chance to be featured on our blog and IG feed, and win a $10 ES gift certificate!

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Our February kit + add-ons have arrived

Hello, everyone! Our February exclusive kit has arrived and it will have you ready to document all your everyday real life moments, love, and more! Plus, it will take you right into the month of March! February’s kit includes 3 – 4 x 6 inch tags, 18 – 3 x 4 inch tags, and 26 die cuts, and will work great on your scrapbooking layouts, Project Life albums, cards, planners, and more! When designing our kits, we love to think of tags that can be used as prompts to help make it easier for you to get your story started and documented, and this kit is full of that and more!

Keep in mind that our monthly kits are limited and once they sell out we will not be restocking. Look for a new kit each month on the 10th at 8:00 am PST, and as a special bonus to celebrate launch day, kits will be on sale for $9.99 for today only, regular price after that will be $11.99. Or, you can lock in the price with a subscription!

Have you started a subscription yet? If not, you should! By subscribing to our kit, you will lock in the $9.99 + shipping price of our kit, so you won’t have to worry about missing the launch day special pricing or the kit selling out. And, as a special bonus for our subscribers, any products purchased by USA subscribers on the 10th each month (by midnight PST) will ship for free, along with your kit subscription. Orders shipping to International addresses will also receive free shipping on any extra products added, up to 8 oz in weight (including your kit), that are purchase on the 10th by midnight PST. We have set up separate subscription listings for USA and International addresses. Please choose the listing that works for your mailing address, and read over carefully before checking out. Our subscriptions are risk free and can be cancelled at any time, too! Quick note: Our kits are still available without a subscription each month, too.

This month, we have a bunch of really fun coordinating add-ons (that can be purchased separately). Pick the products that work for you and that you know you’ll use – and if you need more than one, you can purchase multiples, too! This month we have a new stamp, label cut outs, acrylics (Love with arrow, fav, sweetheart, xo in white, xo in black, and heart circles), wood veneers (stars, and so happy), date stickers, and speech bubble stickers.

And, don’t forget about our coordinating printables and cut files that coordinate with our kit – once you download these files, you can use/print them over and over again!


We have also restocked our Dated and Malia lowercase stamps, along with added a coordinating number stamp that matches our Olivia alphabet stamp!

Since today is the 10th, that also means we also have some brand new inspiration for you:

You’ll be able to find our design team inspiration in our product listings so you can see the inspiration while you shop! You’ll want to click on the magnifying glass for a large view of the projects our team has created with all these new items. We will also be showcasing our teams projects on the blog later today, and throughout the entire month!

Thanks for joining us for another exciting reveal – we have so much fun designing these new products each month, and we love seeing what you create with them! We also feel so blessed by your support and honored that you are using our products to capture and document your special memories! Thanks so much, everyone!

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February Design Team Gallery Sneak Peeks

Today we are sharing some beautiful sneak peeks of the gallery projects our Design Team created with our February kit + add-ons! This month our kit + add-ons will have you ready to document all your everyday real life moments, love, and more! Plus, it will take you right into the month of March!

February’s kit includes 3 – 4 x 6 inch tags, 18 – 3 x 4 inch tags, and 26 die cuts! Get ready to pick up our February kit for our launch day special pricing of only $9.99 on Friday, February 10th, at 8:00 am PST. After the 10th, our kits go back to their regular price of $11.99. Or, you can lock in the $9.99 price anytime by starting a subscription!

Have you started a subscription yet? If not, you should! With a subscription, you will be guaranteed a kit each month, lock in our launch day special price of $9.99, and receive FREE (USA) or reduced (International) shipping on anything added to your box each month on the 10th. Quick note: Our kits and add-ons are available without a subscription each month, too.

This kit will also have a TON of coordinating add-ons (that can be purchased separately). This month our add-ons include stamps, wood veneers, acrylics, stickers, and more, and they all coordinate with our kit perfectly!

Make sure you set your alarm and mark your calendar for this Friday, February 10th at 8:00 am PST! If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, make sure you do to receive a reminder of when everything is available for sale!  We hope to see you there!

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#EllesStudio Spottings!


 
We are excited to introduce a new monthly blog post here on the Elle’s Studio blog called #EllesStudio Spottings! Each month, we will choose six Instagram posts featuring the hashtag #EllesStudio on a project photo to highlight on our @ellesstudio account, as well as here on the blog. The chosen accounts will also receive a $10 gift certificate to the Elle’s Studio shop! Be sure to use the hashtag on your next creation posted to Instagram to be featured and entered to win for next month, and be sure to check out the Instagram accounts of these talented scrapbookers, and show them some love!
 

 
We loved @julieotte5 ‘s bright, cheerful page (left) using our Jonah Alphabet Stamp, and @prettypapers22 ‘s festive layout featuring our ‘Tis the Season 12″ x 12″ Paper Collection and Bits and Pieces (right).
 

 
@littlethingsbigdays used our Documented Journaling Tags so perfectly alongside her macaron photos (left) and @scrappylikeafox gathered up the small tags from the January 2017 Exclusive Kit on her layout (right). We love them both!
 

 
I spy a cute camera from the Relax Printables in @scrapsofshirlee ‘s digital page (left) and the Collecting Moments Acrylic as well as the 2017 Large White Acrylic on @sweetgirldesigns ‘ pocket page (right). We think they’re both perfect!
 
We can’t wait to see what you create with our products on Instagram using the hashtag #EllesStudio!

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A sneak peek of what is coming on February 10th!

Are you getting excited for our February kit + add-ons reveal?! We cannot wait for you to see everything we have in store! This month our kit + add-ons will have you ready to document all your everyday real life moments, love, and more! Plus, it will take you right into the month of March! Look for our kit + add-ons available in our shop this Friday, February 10th at 8:00 am PST.

February’s kit includes 3 – 4 x 6 inch tags, 18 – 3 x 4 inch tags, and 26 die cuts! Get ready to pick up our February kit for our launch day special pricing of only $9.99 on Friday, February 10th, at 8:00 am PST. After the 10th, our kits go back to their regular price of $11.99. Or, you can lock in the $9.99 price anytime by starting a subscription!

Have you started a subscription yet? If not, you should! With a subscription, you will be guaranteed a kit each month, lock in our launch day special price of $9.99, and receive FREE (USA) or reduced (International) shipping on anything added to your box each month on the 10th. Quick note: Our kits and add-ons are available without a subscription each month, too.

Make sure you set your alarm and mark your calendar for Friday, February 10th at 8:00 am PST! If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, make sure you do to receive a reminder of when everything is available for sale!  We hope to see you there!

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A Love List Mini Album with Jill Sprott


 
For our fifth and final day of our Five Days of Love event here on the Elle’s Studio blog, we are so excited to bring you a mini album created by Jill Sprott, completely from the heart. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to reflect on the things you love the most in your life and what you are grateful for, just like Jill did here. 
 
Any time is a good time to count your blessings, but each year, as Valentine’s Day draws near, I am always reminded of those blessings. I am so grateful to have so much love in my life. In that spirit, I created a mini-album to help me to document my many loves the form of a “Love List.”
 

Supplies | January 2017 Exclusive Kit, December 2016 Exclusive Kit, All My Heart Stamp, Olivia Alphabet Stamp, Always Acrylic Heart, Acrylic Frosted Hearts, Puffy Heart Stickers, XO Stickers, Valentine Banner Stickers, True Love Wood Veneer, Love Ya Wood Veneer Circles, Love You Journaling Tags, Right Now Journaling Tags, Monthly Journaling Tags 
 

 
The album came together with help from Elle’s Studio products, in the form of stamps, acrylic shapes, die-cuts, and wood veneer, like the True Love Wood Veneer, which was stitched to my page for extra texture.
 

 

 
I mixed new and old in the pages of the album, working in some vintage dictionary and handwriting papers here and there. The album base is comprised of a series of alphabetized index cards, which have sat untouched until now for over two decades — my hoarding impulses actually paid off!
 

 
Throughout the album, I added a few pages with stitched garlands made from Elle’s Studio die-cut shapes as well as some hand-cut and punched shapes. Initially, I was going to trim the excess thread, but the strings brought to mind the idea of “heartstrings,” so I decided to keep them.
 


 
The heart of the album is the alphabetized “love list” and journaling that accompanies each item. I inserted embellished journaling cards between pages.
 

 

 

 

 

 
The album doubles as a love letter of sorts to scrapbooking. In the midst of documenting memories and moments, I had fun experimenting and playing with different techniques, some that worked well (like repeated stamping), and some that worked not-so-well (like stitching over puffy hearts). I just went with it.
 

 

 

 
I even made sure to include a few mushy-gushy, lovey-dovey pages for my husband. No love list would be complete without the love of my life!
 

 
Of course my daughter, who stole my heart long ago, deserved a few pages of her own as well, plus lots of extra embellishments.
 

 

 
So who’s on your love list?

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Documenting Things We Love with Nancy Damiano

Since we’re talking all about love this week, why don’t we look at the things we love in our life, as well as the people? Nancy Damiano is with us today to continue our Five Days of Love event with a layout all about her son’s favorite place, and we couldn’t love it more! 


 
Hi everyone, it’s Nancy here today with a design for the season. February is all about love and hearts, and I’m happy to be here celebrating this week with a page all about the love of toys! This is a closeup shot of the Toys ‘R Us flagship store located in Times Square. It has a ferris wheel right smack in the center of the store and it’s my son’s favorite spot in all of New York City.

Supplies |  Puffy Heart Stickers, Letter and Number Stickers- Teal, Letter and Number Stickers- Pink, Letter and Number Stickers- Yellow, Letter and Number Stickers- Red

I wanted to create a dreamy look to this design in contrast to the bold photo. Creating a frame of love and dreams was the objective. The puffy heart stickers were the perfect accent for this story. To create the raining clouds of words, I used a sewing machine to sew lines. The lines created the perfect place to anchor the Puffy Heart Stickers!


 
Layers of white clouds cut from vellum gave the top of the design an airy feel and anchored those sewn lines. This is literally a shower of love (for toys).


 
Using four different colors of the Letter and Number Stickers created a nice subtle sprinkle of words down the layout. A few glittery white enamel dots added just a punch of a different texture to the layout.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this page of love featuring the brand new puffy hearts!

Stay tuned for our final day of the Five Days of Love event tomorrow! 

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A True Love Layout with Melissa Mann

Melissa Mann continues our Five Days of Love event with a beautifully layered layout, complete with lots of color, pattern and texture. We love how she created her title using the January Digital Cut File, and since we’re all about love this week, we think you will love it too! 


 
Hey everybody! I really loved the “True Love” die-cut file included in the January 2017 Digital Cut File and wanted to highlight it on the layout that I’m sharing with you today.

Supplies | January 2017 Exclusive Kit, January 2017 Digital Cut File, Valentine Banner Stickers, Joyful 12″ x 12″ Paper Collection Pack
 
One of my favorite things to do when working with cut files is to take the file and enlarge it to create a BIG title on my layout. I wanted to subtly enhance the title since it was cut on white card stock and I was backing against a white piece of vellum with black text. I used my sewing machine to add a bunch of stitching to the title and then used foam dots to adhere to my layout.


 
The bottom half of the layout was created by simply placing three blocks of patterned paper down on the background pattern and layering the 3″ x 4″ journaling tags from the January 2017 Exclusive Kit with my photo on top. Some of the die-cuts from the January kit were then sprinkled around and I hand-wrote a tiny bit of journaling on the cards.


 
I hope you are enjoying your January kit and the other January exclusives! Be sure to tag us on social media with #ellesstudio so that we can see your work, and possibly feature you in an upcoming blog post!

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Celebrating Love in Pockets with Jamie Leija

Welcome to day two of the Five Days of Love event! Today we have a beautiful pocket page layout created by Jamie Leija celebrating the love in her life. Maybe her graphic and colorful layout will inspire you to do the same!

Hiya, Jamie sharing with you today! I created a pocket page all on the topic of love, well my love at least!


 
To create the page, I chose a few recent photos of my boyfriend and I, and one from the first year we were dating. To make it more unified, I converted all but one of the photos to black and white. Then I just had fun with the January 2017 Exclusive Kit and the Love You Journaling Tags!
 

Supplies | January 2017 Exclusive Kit, Love You Journaling Tags, Puffy Heart Stickers, XO Stickers, Always Acrylic Heart, All My Heart Stamp, Acrylic Frosted Hearts, Valentine Banner Stickers

There are a few different elements that I try to incorporate in all of my projects: texture, dimension and contrast. Contrast is all over the place on this spread with the black and white photos. But the dimension and texture is more subtle.


 
On the red card, I added drops of white mist for more texture and to break up all that color. On the “Love You” multicolored tag from the Love You Journaling Tags, I added texture by stitching using white thread. It’s tone and tone and subtle.


 
For dimension, I adhered the red tag using dimensional adhesive. I also added the  Always Acrylic Heart, which is a few millimeters thick. Lastly, I stamped directly onto the bottom photo using Staz-on Ink to amp up the graphic feel to the spread.


 
The color scheme ended up being really fun. I’m not sure that I’ve used red, purple, yellow and teal together before. It was a great twist on a traditional love/Valentine-esque color scheme. Also, I’m just mega pumped that Elle’s included purple in the last few product releases. I love it!

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