Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio! The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers. So make sure to visit Elle’s Studio everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Yuki Shimada sharing a few beautiful holiday decor projects.

Yuki used out November Kit files and our Good Cheer collection to create these beautiful framed holiday projects.

This tag collage is a beautiful combination of our Good Cheer collection and our Holiday Tags Digital Cut Files

Have you entered for our GRAND PRIZE?Entering is easy – just upload a project you created to our Member Gallery and tag the Elle’s Studio item used. Make sure you also mention in your project description that it is a “Celebrate December” entry!

And that’s it— we are keeping it super simple so everyone has a chance to enter! Start uploading NOW, and you can enter as many times as you want (must be a different project per entry). The three GRAND PRIZE winners will be drawn on December 31, 2014. All entries will have a chance to be featured on our blog.

You can also enter to win prizes on our blog posts all month long – just look for a giveaways on our Celebrate December posts and leave a comment to be entered to win!

We hope you are having a wonderful December!

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio! The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers. So make sure to visit Elle’s Studio everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Tracy Armstrong joining us and sharing a fun holiday themed spread in her pocket style album!

Don’t you just love Christmas time? For me it’s all about cozy nights, warm sweaters, hot chocolate with a pinch of cinnamon, rain boots – hey, I do live in Vancouver after all, and of course spending time with family!

Today I’m going to share a pocket scrapbook spread I created using some of Elle’s Studio’s adorable Christmas products. This past year I’ve scrapbooked in a 6×8 size and it’s been such a fun change from the 12×12 size I did back in 2013.

At the start of each month, I print out a calendar onto a piece of patterned paper. When I first saw the triangle paper from Good Cheer I knew right away that it would be the calendar paper. I loved the traditional red and green mixed with the blue, pink and grey. It totally works!

I used a couple of the journal cards that matched the colours on the left because I like to have everything flow together. The wood veneers from this collection are so, so cute. They were a great addition to the grey 3×4 card.

To add a little something extra to the spread, I created a 4×6 insert using the pie chart card from the December 2014 Kit. I thought it would be cute to break out how I’ve spent my time this year. I used Numbers Stamp to stamp 2014 over the word “day” and the I hand stitched the heart wood veneer directly onto the card.

Have a wonderful holiday season and I hope you guys enjoyed a peek into my scrapbook! To check out more from my album, feel free to check out my blog, follow me on Instagram and follow me on Pinterest .

Leave a comment here for your chance to with the Good Cheer Collection (excluding wood veneer) and the Sycamore Lane Collection!!

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio! The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers. So make sure to visit Elle’s Studio everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Paige Evans joining us with and sharing TWO gorgeous layouts!

Paige says, “Every December Elle’s Studio kicks of the most wonderful time of the year with an entire month filled with festive blog content. I received an huge box full of Elle’s Studio goodies and couldn’t wait to sit down and play with it all! Here are a couple layouts I made with Elle’s Studio supplies:

CHRISTMAS 2013 by Paige Evans

Description: Goodness knows I love to be inspired by quilts 🙂 With a square punch in hand this layout came together in a jiffy.

Journaling says: This was our first Christmas living abroad in Germany and while we were definitely homesick for our families and traditions we got to make our own family traditions like reading stories nightly and advent calendars!

How to: Punch 1″ squares from all of the Christmas papers and a few die cuts then trim them into triangles. Starting in the center of a gray cardstock layout base, begin piecing the triangles in a quilt-inspired pattern. Sew over/around each paper diamond. Place a photo in the middle and embellish with a patterned transparency, die cuts, wood veneer, and more as shown. Place alphabet stickers along the side for a title then journal around that diamond with a white pen.

Supplies: Patterned paper, patterned transparency, die cuts, labels, wood veneer, stickers: Elle’s Studio; Cardstock, adhesive: American Crafts; Pen: Uniball Signo; Sewing machine: Brother; Thread: Coats & Clark; Square punch: Recollections

FA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA by Paige Evans

Description: I found this photo from last Christmas season when we traveled to Italy and one night we met up with Stephanie Howell and her family. The colors of all our winter gear matched perfectly with these Elle’s Studio Christmas supplies!

Journaling says: The day after Christmas we drove down to Italy! One night we met up with the Howells and ate a delicious dinner. When in Rome, or rather, Vicenza!

How to: Watercolor across a white cardstock background and let it dry (or use a hairdryer to speed up the process). Layer die cuts, tags, sentiments, journaling spots, labels, etc, in color coordinated fashion, down the watercoloring. Die cut “fa la la la la la la la la” from white cardstock using a Silhouette Cameo then adhere it with pop dots over the die cuts. Tuck a photo under the title and journal on one of the tags. Place alphabet stickers on another tag. Add a few wood veneer shapes around the layout and stamp the date on a tag.

Supplies: Die cuts, journaling spots from November and December exclusive kits, labels, stickers, wood veneer, “fa la la” die cut file: Elle’s Studio; Cardstock, pen, adhesive, date stamp: American Crafts; Die cut machine: Silhouette Cameo; Ink: StazOn; Watercolors: Studio Calico

Leave a comment here for a chance to win our Holiday Exclusives: Christmas Ephemera Pack, Winter Ephemera Pack, Merry & Bright Stamp, Warmest Wishes Stamp.

Are you guys enjoying our Celebrate December blog event so far? We are having so much fun seeing what our guests are creating this year – so inspiring! Since we are already half way through our event, we wanted to announce the winners so far!

The winners are:
December 6th post – November & December exclusive kits:
Connie P

Deember 8th post – Good Cheer collection and Number Stamp:
Alyssa Fields

December 11th post – $50 Gift Certificate:
Ruth Tacoma

Congrats! Please email us asap to claim your prize! We’ll need to know the following information:
Name:
Shipping address:
Prize:

Look for even more giveaways on each post from now until December 25th and we’ll draw those winners on December 31st!

And, here’s a peek at a couple of the entries so far for our GRAND PRIZE:

We are loving what everyone has uploaded to our Member Gallery so far! Have you entered to win one of these prizes:

Entering is easy – just upload a project you created to our Member Gallery and tag the Elle’s Studio item used. Make sure you also mention in your project description that it is a “Celebrate December” entry!

And that’s it— we are keeping it super simple so everyone has a chance to enter! Start uploading NOW, and you can enter as many times as you want (must be a different project per entry). The three GRAND PRIZE winners will be drawn on December 31, 2014. All entries will have a chance to be featured on our blog.

You can also enter to win prizes on our blog posts all month long – just look for a giveaways on our Celebrate December posts and leave a comment to be entered to win!

We hope you are having a wonderful December!

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio! The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers. So make sure to visit Elle’s Studio everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Valerie Bishop and Meghann Andrew sharing instructions on making Christmas tags!

Valerie Bishop has three lovely tags to share today.  She says “I love making tags – it helps me to use up my scraps and I love to layer little bits and pieces on top of each other! I like to use these on gifts to special people in my life. Most of the products I used are from the Good Cheer Collection with a few cut files from November and bits and pieces from the Christmas Ephemera kit. All of the bases are just basic red shipping tags.

Valerie shares, “I kept this tag simple. I used a tag and wood veneer piece from the Christmas Ephemera kit and layered it on top of a leaf from a cut file from the October cut file collection.

For this tag, I used a tag from the Good Cheer Journaling Tags as the base. I used the Good Cheer – North Pole stamp and then I cut around the edge with a craft knife to layer a snowflake (from the November Digital cut files) and a wood veneer piece also from Good Cheer under it.

For the base of this tag, I used a Good Cheer – Blank Label. I swiped watercolor paint across each label, then stamped the “love joy” words from the Warmest Wishes exclusive stamp set onto each box. I used one of the Good Cheer – Bits and Pieces as the title and layered a couple of snowflakes (November cut file) with some scraps from previous projects.”

Meghann Andrews has three beautiful tags to share with us,   She shares, “I love creating layouts, but every once in a while, I need to create something on a smaller scale. I usually choose to create tags, and with Christmas around the corner you can never have a shortage of cute tags to dress up an otherwise plain gift.”

The addition of teal and pink to traditional red and green colors in your Christmas décor and gift-wrap adds a whimsical touch. Here’s how this tag came together:

1. Start with the teal snowflake card from the Good Cheer journaling tags and cut the top corners off, 15mm from the sides and 20mm from the top. Adhere the edge of a white doily to the top of the card and trim. Adhere the manufacturers strip from the Merry Christmas patterned paper to the top over the doily and trim. Punch a hole at the center.
2. Cut out the pink and the teal labels from the Good Cheer blank labels. Adhere the teal to the pink, slightly askew. Cut a piece of teal glitter tape to fit the inside of the teal label. Adhere both to the left center of the card.
3. Color in the North Pole stamp with water based stamping markers in pink, red and teal. Stamp onto smooth cardstock and cut out. Using dimensional adhesive, adhere to the center of the blank labels.
4. Cover the snowflakes from the Good Cheer wood veneers with a watermark inkpad and cover with white embossing powder. Emboss with a heat gun. Adhere to the tag. Add three white enamel dots to the card.

If you’re like me, you like more neutral, natural Christmas décor and gift-wrap. This card would be a lovely accent on a kraft wrapped box or bag. To create this beautiful, woodsy tag:

1. Cut a bracketed tag shape using a thin die or digital die-cutting machine from the Star of Wonder paper. Using the Good Cheer Merry Christmas stamp, stamp ‘merrry & happy’ all over the woodgrain using a medium brown stamp pad.
2. Cut the ‘joy’ pinked circle from the November digital cut file from textured white cardstock. Using a circle template that fits the inside of the pinked circle, poke a hole with a paper piercer at every 1/16”. In your digital die-cut software, delete the word ‘joy’ and the stars from the pinked circle and cut again from brown glitter paper. Adhere the white die-cut to the brown die-cut using dimensional adhesive, but leaving the bottom un-adhered.
3. Cut the antlers from the November digital cut file out of the Ever After paper. Adhere with the black side up to the back of the ‘joy’ die-cut.
4. Die-cut the evergreen branch from the Good Cheer digital cut file out of green cardstock 4 times. Cut apart, arrange in a wreath on the back of the ‘joy’ die-cut circle and adhere.
5. Cut out the ‘create wonder’ cutout from the Good Cheer cutouts. Adhere to the base of the tag.
6. Wrap a piece of bakers twine twice around the bottom third of the tag. Tie in a knot. Put a jingle bell on each leg and then tie in another knot to secure. Adhere the ‘joy’ die-cut to the center of the tag. Slide the baker’s twine in between the white and the brown layer on the die-cut. Adhere the bottom of the layers of your die-cut with dimensional adhesive.
7. Put a piece of natural ribbon through the hole at the top and secure with a mini-staple. Adhere gold metal dots around the green wreath.

If you’re a Christmas color purist, you don’t tend to stray from red and green. Here’s how I created this traditional tag:

1. Cut a tag from white cardstock using a wafer-thin die or die-cutting machine. Trim 1” off the bottom and cut with a border punch. Using a gold pen, draw gold stitches 1/8” from the edges.
2. Adhere a 2” piece of Merry Christmas patterned paper to the bottom of the white tag and round the bottom corners.
3. Stamp the snowflakes from the Warmest Wishes stamp onto the white cardstock with a watermark stamp pad. Top with white embossing powder and emboss with a heat gun.
4. Using the Good Cheer digital cut file, cut the hand drawn circle from the North Pole patterned paper. Adhere to the white card.
5. Cut the Good Cheer digital cut file evergreen branch out twice from gold glitter paper. Cut apart and adhere pieces to the center of the hand drawn circle.
6. Using a backstitch, hand stitch around the ‘joy’ die-cut from the Good Cheer Bit & Pieces pack. Using dimensional adhesive, adhere to the center of the hand drawn circle.
7. Tie a piece of ribbon at the intersection of the white cardstock and red patterned paper. Adhere red enamel dots to the gold evergreen branches.

Have you entered for our big GRAND PRIZE?

Entering is easy – just upload a project you created to our Member Gallery and tag the Elle’s Studio item used. Make sure you also mention in your project description that it is a “Celebrate December” entry!

And that’s it— we are keeping it super simple so everyone has a chance to enter! Start uploading NOW, and you can enter as many times as you want (must be a different project per entry). The three GRAND PRIZE winners will be drawn on December 31, 2014. All entries will have a chance to be featured on our blog.

You can also enter to win prizes on our blog posts all month long – just look for a giveaways on our Celebrate December posts and leave a comment to be entered to win!