Do you ever encounter reluctant or challenging subjects for your photos? My mischievous husband dons a silly expression or feigns a grumpy face whenever I try to take his picture. When this happened again recently, I didn’t let that stop me from documenting his “true” self on the page.

Supplies used: Elle’s Studio August 2016 Kit; “You” Acrylic; Heart Circle Acrylics; School Days Stamp; Sunny Days 12 x 12 Paper Collection.

In fact, these two oddball photos — the best of the bunch I attempted to take — became the inspiration for the layout elements that I chose, including the Elle’s Studio August kit and extras, which I paired with stamps from the new “School Days” mini-collection and paper from the “Sunny Days” collection.

After using various hues of blue to stamp the pie charts on a sheet of white cardstock, I stitched loops around the stamped images, and then arranged the photos and accents. Over one of the pie charts, I arranged the days of the week, cut from a journaling card in the August kit.

The days, set against the backdrop of differently sized pies, represent the constancy of this guy’s love regardless of his mood or what is happening in our lives. Over a second pie chart, I added my journaling, which reinforces that idea.

For the first time, this month’s kit features its die-cut shapes on sheets. I took advantage of the negative space left behind after popping out the shapes, and included the sheet behind the photos on the page. I love how the colors peek through!

While I was working on this page, my husband stopped by to take a look at it, and he chuckled. Hopefully now he’s realizing that regardless of the faces he makes, he can’t avoid a place in this scrapbooker’s albums — or heart.

We are so excited to announce our next new collection: ‘Tis the Season! This collection is perfect for documenting all those special holiday moments in your life with the 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 papers, labels, journaling tags, die cuts, wood veneers, acrylics, stamps, puffy stickers, and more!

With this new collection we have made the journaling tags double-sided and are excited to introduce washi tape stickers – wait until you see the patterns!!

For this collection we were thrilled to be able to collaborate with two of our talented friends! Rachel from Citrus and Mint created the fun and colorful illustrations that are perfect for the holidays! And, Jen Schow illustrated an alphabet set and numbers set that was used throughout the collection and that we also turned into a stamp!

Here is the very first look at ‘Tis the Season:
This new collection will start shipping to stores early September and is available for wholesale pre-order now, so make sure you call your local scrapbook store or email your favorite online store and request this collection! This collection should also be available in our shop towards the end of September.

We would love to hear what your favorite part of the collection is – leave a comment on this post and we’ll draw two winners to receive a ‘Tis the Season collection pack! Winners will be drawn and posted on our blog on Monday, August 22nd, 2016.

Thank you so much for stopping by on this exciting day – we appreciate each one of you so much!

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Hi guys! Michelle here with you on this lovely day to show you a quick and easy way to document a fun moment using bits and pieces from all of the latest collections. Now, if you are anything like me, your attention span is short when it comes to scrappy supplies and you are always ready to jump on the latest collections! And if you are like me, you end up with quite a little stash of products! Luckily I have found that the collections from Elle’s Studio along with the exclusive kits and extras all coordinate really well together, making it a breeze to pick out some supplies, create, and make a dent in my stash. Today I am going to show you how I picked out supplies from various collections and kits and pulled together a quick layout documenting a certain friendly giant!

Since the beginning of the year, the girls and I have made it part of our nighttime routine to read a chapter or two from a “big” book during storytime. Ronald Dahl made an early appearance in the lineup and the kids and I have been hooked on his stories ever since. So of course, we had to get in The BFG before it hit the theaters! To document this little story I wanted to create a 6×8 layout and I turned to my Elle’s Studio products and pulled out bits and pieces from all the latest releases, including this month’s kit and the Read Mini-collection!

When cropping down your layout size by several inches, you have to consider your picture size. Occasionally I will want a big impact with the photo and I will print it as a 4×4 or 4×6. For this layout I wanted to make sure and leave room for all the elements that I had pulled out and chose to print my photo at roughly 3×3.

One of the things I have learned about creating on a smaller size is that I do my best when I keep it simple and so I went with a classic vertical design, lining up all my elements straight down the middle. To create my layers behind my photo I reached for the Sunny Days 6×6 Paper Pack which is probably my most used product from the collection. I love that I can quickly flip through the pack and see all the patterns. I included a sheet of vellum, tore the edge of one paper to add a little texture, and stapled my layers all together.

After the foundation of my layout is complete, I dug into the tags from the August Kit and layered those around the photos aiming for balance. Often times if I layer elements on one side I can find that my project looks “off” and this is usually remedied by adding or moving some elements to the opposite side of the page. For my design, I balanced out the heavy top left with a tag and wood veneer on the bottom right.

Here’s the final project:

Supplies: August Kit; Good Times Wood Veneer Flags; Letters & Numbers: Pink; Read Journaling Cards; Read Stamp; and Sunny Days 6×6 Paper Pack.

We’d love to see how you are using these new collections with the monthly kit – when posting on Instagram, make sure you use the #EllesStudio hashtag for a chance to be featured on our feed!