Inside My Planner with Candi Billman

August 22, 2015

Happy Weekend!!! So thrilled to be here again, sharing my passion with you all…planners and scrapbooking goodies!!! Today I am showing you how I am using the August Monthly Kit along with the Oh, No! Stamp Set inside my planner. I love using these monthly kits and stamps for planning! The tags and shapes are just the right size and make my planner so cute! It makes me want to open up my planner and tackle the day!!! Here is a shot of my whole week…
Besides decorating my planner inserts with scrapbook goodies…stamping is right up there too!!! You will see here that I used a technique called “Second Generation Stamping”: ink up your stamp, stamp it out once and then right away, without re-inking the stamp…stamp it out again! This gives a faded image! Such a fun technique! I stapled that cute little “Date” tag down on Monday…I will jot down my most important to-do for that day! The “Hello!” die cut is just hanging on by the planner ring…FUN!I used my mini stapler and stapled down the “My Top Five” tag to the top of my planner insert! This will be a place to jot down a fun memory from each day! The last and final thing that I do to all of my planner inserts, is add washi tape to the inside edges! It just reinforces the holes a little bit better…Inside the front cover of my planner…POCKETS!!! Great place to store those extra tags for decorating or just jotting down random notes! I have a small pouch that stores my must haves for planning on the go and it includes a single hole punch. I love to punch holes in these tags and add them to my week!I am constantly creating a new dashboard for my planner! They are fun to change out…oh the beauty of a planner with rings, change things up all the time 🙂 I grabbed a 12×12 paper from the Shine Collection and trimmed it down to size. Inked up the edges and punched a few holes on the left hand side to place it inside the rings. To complete this look I trimmed down another 12×12 paper to 3×4 and stapled the “Awesome” die cut (from the August kit) on top of that. I did go a little crazy with my ink pad and edged the vellum with some pink! To protect my dashboard, I add a clear transparency on top (not pictured)!Products used: Exclusive August Kit, Oh No! Stamp set, Shine Paper Collection

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek inside my planner!
Have a great weekend!
Candi

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Sketch Thursday

August 20, 2015

Good Morning, All! Alissa here today and I’ve got my take on this fabulous sketch! The original layout was created by Jennifer Chapin and I love everything about it!
I love the big title that spans the page and the 4 “photo” areas.

Products used: Shine Paper Collection; Cienna Paper Collection; Exclusive August kit, XO Acrylics

I turned the sketch on its side to accommodate some of the photos I take of my hubby and myself every week during football season.

I love how the colors in the collections all got so well together and pink is usually included to tie it all together. The acrylic pieces from the August exclusives were just perfect!

I can’t wait 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 2nd. A random winner will be selected and posted with the next sketch on September 3rd.

Our randomly selected winner this week is: Sharmon with her Family 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

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Project Life with Jennifer Chapin

August 18, 2015

Hello! Jennifer Chapin here, and today I am sharing a pocket page from my personal PL album. I keep a few different albums, a 12×12 for my family PL pages and a 6×8 album for my personal pages. In my personal album, I share more layouts about myself, my husband, my schooling, job, etc. Basically anything that doesn’t involve my kids.For this spread, I used the August exclusive kit, along with the stamp and XO acrylics. For a title card, I stamped Hello, then spelled Date Night out with letter stickers. I added an acrylic heart on the outside of the page protector. I like to do this for bulkier embellishments.

I wanted to incorporate the XO acrylic pieces, so I added them to a pocket and used my sewing machine to stitch the top edge. I like the transparency this gives the page.
I also used the vellum “awesome” card in the kit, simply adding it to a piece of blue cardstock and stitching the top edge. It is subtle yet provides just the right amount of color to the bottom corner.

Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today! If you have made something special with our August kit, we would love to see it! Please stop by the gallery and upload it. Have a great day!

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Oh, No! Stamp Highlight

August 14, 2015

Hello, it’s Meghann here with you today! I started papercrafting with stamping and cardmaking, long before I ever created a scrapbook page, so stamping is one of my favorite techniques to use on my layouts, cards and pocket pages. Today I’d like to share an easy card that I created with the squares from the “Oh, No!” stamp set, an exclusive stamp that coordinates with the August exclusive kit.To create this layout, I started out with a purple, folded A2 card base, a piece of smooth white cardstock sized at 4” x 5-1/4”, the “hello” vellum speech bubble, “oh hello” and purple “happiness is” tag from the exclusive kit, a few different colors of ink, a sheet of stickers, and some small enamel embellishments that all coordinated with the August kit.To begin, I decided to stamp a border along the top and bottom of my piece of white cardstock. I inked up my solid square stamp with yellow ink and began the design at the center of the width of the paper, right along the bottom edge.I continued along the edge by stamping with the diagonal lines square in a coral ink.I then stamped the solid square again, in pink.I continued in this manner – solid, diagonal lines, solid, dots, solid; being sure that the same color was never next to each other, until the entire bottom edge of the card was stamped. I stamped the same pattern along the top edge of the white cardstock, changing up the colors from the bottom border.To the bottom left hand corner of the “oh, hello” card, I added a sticker that coordinated with the colors in my border and trimmed the excess off the edges. The small piece of the purple card was cut from the “happiness is” card, adhered to the back of the “oh, hello” card at an angle and adhered to the white cardstock with dimensional adhesive.Using a light amount of liquid adhesive, I adhered the “hello” vellum tag to the “oh, hello” card. To finish off the card, I added an additional coordinating arrow sticker to the top right corner and four different enamel dots and hearts.This colorful border is just one of the many things you can create with this fun, versatile stamp set. Be sure to pick yours up in the shop today!

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Back to School Card with Meghann Andrew

August 13, 2015

Hi there, it’s Meghann and welcome to the Elle’s Studio blog today! When I finish using all of the cards from my exclusive kits, I usually have a few bits and pieces left over sitting on my desk. This month, I decided to combine a few of my July leftovers with the August exclusive kit to create a fun, colorful back to school card that any kid would love to find in their lunchbox on their first day.Supplies: “Weekend” printables, acrylic stars (a July exclusive, sold out), “Weekend” stamp, “Let’s Eat” collection paper pack (Best Ever grid paper), August exclusive kit

To start my card, I cut a piece of white cardstock to a folded A2 card size, 4-1/4” x 5-1/2”. On top of that, I layered the teal and blue 4”x6” card from the “Weekend” printables, trimmed to 4” x 5-1/4”, then the “Best Ever” grid paper, trimmed to 3-3/4” x 5”.

At the base of the grid paper, I stamped the “today is your day” sentiment from the “Weekend” stamp in black ink. Above that, on the left, I adhered the “let’s do this” tag from the August kit with dimensional adhesive & topped it with blue baker’s twine.

To the right of my tag, I added a chipboard stack of books that I found in my stash. On top of that, I stamped a globe stand in black, then adhered my ‘back to school’ tag inside, so that it looked like a globe. Tip: No globe stamp? No problem! This globe stand would be super easy to draw yourself with a black pen if you don’t have a stamp. Just adhere the tag first, then draw the stand around it.

To connect the tag on the left with my stack of books on the right, I adhered a punched pinked circle from the “Weekend” printables, on which I stamped the “yay” sentiment from the “Weekend” stamp.

To finish off my card, I adhered the “first day” tag in between my layers at the top right and embellished with three acrylic hearts and two yellow stickers, to make a visual triangle with the top of my “let’s do this” tag.

I love that I can combine my kits to make special projects like this card, and reduce my leftover product sitting around my desk! Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to add your projects, using our exclusive kits, to the member gallery!

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Exclusive Kit Mini Course – August 2015

August 12, 2015

This month we launched a brand new item in our shop – an Exclusive Kit Mini Course! Each month we will now be offering this new downloadable PDF class to go along with our monthly kit! This is the perfect item to add to your kit purchase if you are looking for a creative jumpstart, or fresh and fun ideas to use with your kit!

August’s class features three different designers: Nancy Damiano, Gina Lideros, and Jess Forster. Each person will be sharing with you a layout, cards, or Project Life spread, with step-by-step instructions of how their project came together, along with tips and techniques using our August kit and coordinating extras. Each project highlights ideas that can be easily transformed to fit any type of papercrafting 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 the printed course:We have already received some incredible feedback from those who have purchased the class! Everyone is loving the projects featured, and the tips to go along with them! My favorite part of this mini course is, even if you didn’t purchase the August kit, the tips and techniques covered in this course can work with almost any products, on any project! And, even though I have been scrapbooking for a long time, it covered a couple things I didn’t know, and reminded me of some tips that I had forgotten! Reading it left me feeling so inspired!

At just $4.99, this class is an amazing bargain but it will only be available till August 31st, 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!

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PROJECT LIFE: SUMMER WEEKEND EATS

August 11, 2015

Today I am sharing a few pages from my Summer Project Life album.

There’s something to be said of your favorite summer foods. For us this summer it’s been shish-kabobs on the grill (with lots of veggies). Totally a fave here!

Cant get over how perfect the “Week End” card (from the July Weekend Printables), and the “Eat” card (from the Let’s Eat Paper Collection Pack) go so well together. I paired it with a spoon from the Let’s Eat Wood Veneers

One thing I LOVE is the Elle’s Studio monthly Printables!

I used the August Printables in this spread– I love that I corresponds with the monthly kit and that I can use them over and over. I used both the August and July Printables in this spread.

How’s your summer scrapbooking coming along?

Elle’s Studio Products Used: Elle’s Studio August 2015 Kit, August Here We Go Printables Weekend Stamp Set, Elle’s Studio, July 2015 Kit Let’s Eat Paper Collection Pack, July Weekend Printables, Let’s Eat Wood Veneers, Let’s Eat – Stickers, Let’s Eat Bits and Pieces, Letter and Number Stickers – Yellow

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Our August kit is here, along with coordinating extras and a class!

August 10, 2015

Are you ready to document August with our next exclusive kit? This month brings us another kit packed full of over 37 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 ideas 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 July 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 acrylic set! This is a fun stamp set that could be used on cards, journaling tags, and layouts – you can even make your own arrow banners by stamping the arrow banner, then stamping one of the words inside!

We also have coordinating printables and cut files this month – once you download these files, you can use/print them over and over again!
We are also excited to introduce to you our very first Exclusive Kit Mini Courses: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! August’s class features three different designers: Nancy Damiano, Gina Lideros, and Jess Forster. 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 August 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 till August 31st, 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:

Our team worked with all the new products this month and each one of their projects, from layouts, to cards, to Project Life, and more, are so fun and inspiring! There will definitely be something in the gallery for everyone to enjoy!

And, one more announcement today! We are making room for the new products that are about to arrive – so don’t miss this sale with a ton of awesome deals! Bundles, grab bags, and more, plus FREE SHIPPING on any $50+ purchase with coupon code HELLOAUGUST Please note: if paying with PayPal, you will enter the code after you have visited Paypal, entered in your information, and are returned to our site. If you have any trouble, please contact us and we’ll be happy to help.

Thank you for joining us again during this exciting month!

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A sneak peek at what is coming August 10th!

August 7, 2015

How is your summer going? We hope it is going well and you are taking tons of photos to capture all your special memories! Our next kit + extras launch is right around the corner and we are thrilled to bring you another exclusive kit that will be full of fun journaling and embellishment tags to help you capture your memories and document your stories. Above is a sneak peek of what’s in store for our August kit – Just a reminder that these kits are limited and will not be restocked! Our May and June kits sold out pretty quickly, and July is almost gone, so you don’t miss August!

Our next launch will be this Monday, August 10th, at 8:00 am PST and don’t forget, if you purchase it on launch day (August 10th), you save $2 with our launch day special pricing of only $9.99! These kits can also ship first class, so depending on your location, shipping starts out at around $2 for USA, and $6+ for international.

Our next peek is of our coordinating August stamp and acrylic pieces that will also be available on August 10th! These are so fun and the design team has been loving them, so we hope you do too!

But, that’s not all! We just announced our Exclusive Kit Mini Courses – Every month we will now be offering a downloadable pdf class to go along with our monthly kit! The class will feature three different designers, along with a tip, technique, or fun idea, using our monthly kit and coordinating extras. This is something that people who want extra inspiration (besides our blog posts, and design team gallery projects) will be able to purchase separately. The class pdf will only be available during the month of the kit it coordinates with, so make sure you are signed up for our newsletter for a reminder of when it is live! If you are looking for new ways to use our kits, or a jump start of creativity, this will be the class for you!

And, then you also don’t want to miss this sale – we are giving you the coupon code now so you’ll be ready for it when it starts on August 10th, at 8:00 am PST! We’ll have some awesome discounted bundles of collections available, grab bags, and select products on sale!

If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, make sure you do to receive a reminder of when everything is available for sale! It’s going to be a BIG day, so set your alarm and mark your calendar! We hope to see you there!

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Sketch Thursday

August 6, 2015

Good Morning! This is Melissa here this morning with my take on this fabulous sketch! The original layout was created by Lisa Dickinson and she has such a classic scrapping style that I love.

I stuck to the sketch pretty closely. I used pattern paper for the top and bottom squares and used a 4×6 picture and a 4×6 Elle’s Studio Journaling card from the August 2015 kit (available August 10th) in between the pattern paper blocks. Before I stitched down all the blocks on the left hand side of the base, I spritzed some mist all over and let it dry. I stitched down the blocks of paper, tag, and picture using my sewing machine. My title “eat well” was cut out using my Silhouette Cameo and this was also stitched down. I sprinkled some enamel dots and small stars on either side of the blocks of paper and stitched the “Good Eats” digital cut over the top of my picture.

Products used: Shine paper collection; Exclusive August 2015 kit (available on August 10th); Let’s Eat paper collection, stickers; and November Cut Files.

I can’t wait to see what you guys do with this sketch! It’s a super versatile sketch that can be used with 1, 2, 3, or even 4 different pictures! 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 August 19th. A random winner will be selected and posted with the next sketch on August 20th.

Thanks for stopping by!

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