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Using our September Course for Inspiration by Toni From
Happy Saturday! It’s hard to believe it’s already the weekend. Do you have any scrapping plans? Do you have a bunch of scrapbook pages, or pocket style pages that you want to catch up on? If any of this is ringing true for you, you should definitely read this blog post today – I have the solution for you.
Elle asked me to play along with the Exclusive September PDF Course this month, and I was more than happy to oblige. Did you know that Elle’s Studio now has a coordinating class to go with each and every monthly kit? You can find out more about the course HERE. I loved this course. The content and product photography were both stunning and informative. Information learned in this class can be used to give you inspiration for the current monthly kit, as well as inspire you in future Elle’s Studio kits and other creative endeavors. I highly recommend making it part of your purchase!
For my project today, I worked on a Project Life spread. I don’t know about you, but I got really behind in pocket scrapbooking over the summer. This course gave me some tips and tricks that really sped up the process for me, and allowed me to make sure I told the important stories.
For the left side of my pocket page layout I used a series of 3×4 photographs and journaling cards. I used three of the journaling cards to tell longer stories. The September Kit, teal letter and number stickers, Let’s Eat Wood Veneer, Let’s Eat Journaling Tags, and Thankful Journaling Tags worked perfectly for this week.
For the right side, I used 3 x 3 pockets and really like how this turned out. I trimmed down some of the 3 x 4 journaling cards by cutting off 1/2 inch from the top and bottom. The pie chart die cut from the September Kit was the perfect embellishment to add on top of a grid card I had in my stash. I used the pie chart as a jumping off point to hi light one key item for every person in our family this week.
I love adding embellishments and stamping to the journaling cards in the monthly kits. For the yellow journaling card (from the September kit), I added a little bit of this and that to make it a graphic statement. I used the Jordan outline and Jordan dots and stripes stamps, the heart die cut from the Exclusive September kit, and teal letter and number stickers. I also used a roller date stamp from my stash and a staple to hold my embellishment group together.
I Love the “(Blank) will always be my fav” tag (from the September kit) and found the perfect thing to use it for. This week in Project Life, marked the first week of school for us and a new super early schedule. (Like Zero Dark Thirty Early.) I found the Coffee Meme the first day of our new schedule on the internet and just screen captured it on my I phone, and later printed it to include this week. The letter and number stickers that spell out “coffee” and the coffee mug wood veneer from the Let’s Eat collection were just perfect for this pocket.
I hope you like what I shared with you today, and that it inspired you to create something with Elle’s Studio products. I am now ready to do a few more projects inspired by the September Exclusive Course.
We would love to see what you are creating using Elle’s Studio products (both inspired by the course or otherwise.) Please post to our gallery or share via Instagram and tag your creation #ellesstudio.
Have a great weekend! xoxox, Toni
Scrapbook & Cards Today Giveaway!
Today is a special day – our friends at Scrapbook & Cards Today have released their brand new fall issue today and we have one of these beautiful issues to giveaway! Full of all the warmth and colour of the fall season, the Scrapbook & Cards Today team have creative ideas to inspire you from cover to cover. For more information about this issue, be sure to visit their website!
To enter to WIN this fall issue, just leave a comment here below! We’ll draw and winner and post on Monday, September 21st, 2015.
Sketch Thursday
Happy Sketch Thursday, everyone! Today we have this fun sketch inspired by Melissa’s fun “Snapshot” layout! Daniela is playing along with us today and she took this layout sketch, and used it to create this cute card, along with a custom made stamped background!! Here’s what she has to say:
For this sketch I made a card and I used 3 stripes of patterned paper for the front, as in the sketch, and nothing for the fourth “photos”. I stamped the background with Thankful Stamp set.
The two hearts, from the Thankful – Bits and Pieces, were adhered using 3D foam squares. I tied twine and added matching pearls to the card. The Hello sentiment is from Cienna – Hello Stamp.
Products used: Thankful Paper Collection, Bits and Pieces, stamp; Cienna Hello Stamp.
We are excited to see what you all do with this sketch! For a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to our shop, create a project inspired by today’s sketch, upload it to the Member gallery and leave a comment here with the link by September 30th. A random winner will be selected and posted with the next sketch on October 1st.
Our randomly selected winner this week is: iislandness with her Road Trip layout.
Congrats!! Please email us at info@shopellesstudio.com to claim your prize, with the following information:
Name & Address:
Contest: Sketch Thursday
Prize: $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate
Exclusive Kit Mini Course – September 2015
Every month we will now be offering a new downloadable PDF class to go along with our monthly kit! This is the perfect tool to add to your kit purchase if you are looking for a creative jumpstart, or a fresh and fun way to use the kit!
September’s class features three different designers: Beshka Kueser, Amy Tsuruta, and Erin Stewart. Each contributor will be sharing with you a layout, cards, or Project Life spread, along with step-by-step instructions of how their project came together, using our September kit and coordinating extras. In addition to their projects, you will also learn tips and techniques that can be easily be transformed to fit any type of project you are working on!
Since this is a downloadable PDF, you can view it on your computer, tablet, or smart phone, but you can also print it out and take it with you into your scrap room! Here’s a peek at just a couple pages in this month’s 12 page course, printed out:
This class is such an asset to have with you while creating – besides the amazing step-by-step projects featured by our contributors, there are also inspiring take-aways and tips that expand on our contributors material! Even if you didn’t purchase the September kit, the tips and techniques covered in this course can work with almost any products, on any project!
We LOVE hearing your feedback! We wanted to share the above feedback with you on our previous course and we encourage you to email us your feedback, too! Your opinion matters so much to us – you are what makes everything here possible! Our goal with our mini courses is to provide extra inspiration, besides what is available in our Design Team gallery every month, for those looking for extra inspiration!
This class is available now and at just $4.99 it is an amazing bargain. The class will only be available till September 30th, 2015, so don’t miss out! And, we want to thank everyone who has already purchased the class – We feel so blessed to have such amazing support from you all!
PROJECT LIFE
Today I am going to share the opening pages of my Fall 2015 Project Life albumI 
I decided to use the 9×12 sized album to document our fall family memories (I am also working on separate Childhood albums for my children which will highlight their school year). I love this particular album and pocket sizes. It’s a very manageable!
For many of my opening pages I use coin pocket pages to create a collage. Often, I will somewhat repeat the pattern I have used in the past and just add different sentiments and photos (you can see my pocket page that I “lifted” here). Why recreate the wheel, right? 
Using the new Thankful collection gave it a “fall feel”, without feeling overly autumn. The September 2015 kit also worked well in this spread. I just love those vellum hearts, and decided to give them it’s own pocket!
This first page after the cover page quickly highlights the first day of school. I documented more details of back to school in each of the kid’s childhood albums.
One of my favorite aspects of using the coin pocket page is seeing how the page behind it peeks through with some of the more open pockets. Below you can see what it looks like when you first open my album.
Elle’s Studio Products Used: September 2015 Kit, Thankful Paper Pack Collection, Thankful Stickers, Thankful- Journaling Tags, Frosted Acrylic Stars, Thankful Cork Shapes, Jordan Alphabet Stamp- Outline, Hello 2015 Cork, Letters & Number Stickers- Teal, Letter & Number Stickers- Yellow, Letter & Number Stickers- Green, Letter & Number Stickers- Kraft, Letter & Number Stickers- Light Pink, Cienna- Hello Stamp, Let’s Eat- Wood Veneers
Ready by Michelle Wedertz
Today we are sharing a new layout Michelle made, featuring our new Thankful collection! Here’s what Michelle had to say about it:
“When I looked back through my camera roll at all the pictures that I took of my daughter on her first day of kindergarten, I was so excited by the fun and color that had captured on this big occasion. The new Thankful Collection was the perfect match for these photos and I was really happy to find a set of papers that conveyed so perfectly the feelings of this special day.”
“Since the background in my picture was already so busy I decided to use small amounts of the patterned paper from Thankful as well as a few of the tags and labels from the Bits & Pieces. ”
We love how this came together, Michelle! Thank you so much for sharing with us today!
You can stock up on our new Thankful collection, and Joyful collection now in our shop – both are great collections for documenting family, fun, autumn, and the holidays! And, don’t forget to upload your projects to our Member Gallery! We LOVE seeing how everyone uses our products!
Pin-Inspired by Jessy Christopher
I absolutely adore Pinterest. It’s one of the first stop whenever I need some ideas. I was browsing for today’s Pin Inspired project and came across these pretty brush strokes. Immediately I knew that I have to paint my background with these similar colors. And instantly I knew that Cienna collection will be perfect too!
I started with painting the strokes in the shade of pink + red violet and in between I filled these shades with gold. I really liked how it turned out.
Once the background is completely dried, I positioned my photo at the far right. Then I slowly work my way around the photo by layering all the bits & pieces in Cienna collection + September kit too. Added that pop of black vellum leaves and word are it turned out great! Lastly, I completed the layout with stamping “remember” multiple times and splattered gold mist. 
I hope today’s post inspired you to create something you have pinned as well. Please feel free to use this piece as inspiration and post it in the Elle’s Studio gallery or on Instagram and tag #ellesstudio. We would love to see what you are creating!
Products used: Elle’s Studio September Kit; Cienna Bits & Peices, Wood Veneers, Stickers, Paper Collection; Hello 2015 Stamp.
Pocket Pages with the Thankful Collection by Melissa Mann
Good Morning! I’m excited to be sharing some of my Project Life Album with you this morning. I just started working on the month of July and I had to start my second album; here’s hoping the last half of the year will all fit in this one album! I’m using the 9×12 size album this year and I absolutely have loved this size!
When I first start working on a spread in my album, I decide first which page protectors I’m going to use. This will determine what size photos and how many photos I need. I usually always plan to have at least one pocket on each page contain strictly journaling.
Sometimes, depending on if I am short on pictures, I may include more journaling. For this spread, I was using a page protector that had ten 3×4 pockets and four 4×6 pockets. I printed off six 3×4 photos and two 4×6 photos using Adobe Photoshop and my Canon Selphy printer. This printer makes it extremely easy to print my pictures directly at home as needed!
Once my photos are printed, I cut them all out and decide which cards I want to use. I typically back all of my photos on either 4×6 cards/paper or 3×4 cards/paper. I typically always stitch these photos down using my sewing machine. First, I get all the sewing done; second, I always type out my journaling on my tags and labels; third, I cut out all the typed labels and adhere them down onto their respective photos. I finish off with stickers and other embellishments.
Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at my pocket pages!
Products used: Thankful Journaling Tags, Cutouts, Lil’ Snippets, Cork Shapes, Bits & Pieces, Stickers; Elle’s Studio September Kit; Let’s Eat Bits & Pieces; Acrylic Stars; and Adorbs Stamp.
Our September kit + extras have arrived, along with our new collections!
Get ready to document September with our next exclusive kit! This month brings us another fun kit that is packed full with over 35 journaling and embellishment tags, designed by us, to help you share your stories 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!
Just a reminder that our kits are limited and once they sell out we will not be restocking. The last couple of months have sold out pretty quickly, and our August kit just has a few left, so don’t delay! 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. These kits can ship first class: shipping for USA residents will start around $2.00 and go up from there, depending on the weight of what is in your cart. For overseas, it will run about $6+ depending on your location.
Coordinating with our kit this month, we have a brand new stamp and frosted acrylic stars! 
We also have coordinating printables and cut files this month – once you download these files, you can use/print them over and over again!
And, we are excited to introduce our second Exclusive Kit Mini Course:
Every month we will now be offering a new downloadable PDF class to go along with our monthly kit! This is the perfect thing to add to your kit purchase if you are looking for a creative jumpstart, or fresh and fun ideas to use the kit! September’s class features three different designers: Beshka Kueser, Amy Tsuruta, and Erin Stewart. Each person will be sharing with you either a layout, cards, or Project Life spread, with step-by-step instructions of how their project came together, along with tips, techniques, or fun ideas, using our September kit and coordinating extras. Each project highlights ideas that can be easily transformed to fit any type of project you are working on. This class comes as a downloadable PDF file and will only be available until September 30th, 2015, so don’t miss it!
Since today is the 10th, that means our Design Team has some brand new inspiration for you in our gallery! Make sure you check out their amazing projects in the Design Team Gallery and don’t forget, once you log in, you can bookmark your favorites, leave comments and see close ups of our design team’s projects, too:
Along with our September kit + extras, our Design Team also worked with our new collections, Thankful and Joyful, that are shipping to retailers and available now in our shop!
Thankful is the perfect collection to help you document Autumn, family, and fun this season! And, Joyful will help you document the holiday season! There are so many pretty pieces in these collections – over 25 new items!! Our Design Team will continue to work with these new collections over the next couple of months, so look for even more beautiful inspiration to come!
And, we also wanted to highlight the above items for those who are looking for items that coordinate specifically with our September kit! Items from our Thankful collection coordinate perfectly, along with our Letter and Number stickers in Cream and Light Gray.
Thank you for joining us again during this exciting month – we can’t wait to see what you create with these new products!