Projects from our Contributing Team

We have some fun projects to share with you today from our Contributing Team. They all worked with our May kit, May cut files, and wood veneers + stamp add-ons! Let’s take a peek at what they created:
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Happy day by Daniela Dobson[3]Layout By Daniela Dobson

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Love This Moment blogLayout by Meghann Andrew

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Aren’t they all incredible? Thanks so much for keeping us inspired, ladies! We love how they used the May kit and mixed it in with all our other current collections, too!

Can you believe it’s already been a year since we first started offering these kits? Time is flying! Since we’ve been doing these for a year now, we thought it would be fun to put together a survey to see what you guys are loving, want to see more of, suggestions for future, and more!
surveyPlease take a moment to take our survey – we appreciate you taking the time to do this and look forward to reading what you have to say!

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SKETCH THURSDAY

Today’s sketch is inspired by WaiSam’s My Hero layout from this month’s DT gallerysketch 05.15

For my layout, instead of of a big banner I made a mini double one. I cut out different shapes from patterned papers and added little wood veneer & candy buttons. I cut out the white background from the ‘just sayin’ tag and used it to frame the picture.

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Your turn! For a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Shop create a project inspired by this sketch, upload it to our Member Gallery and post a link here. A random winner will be selected and announced with next week’s sketch.

 

Last week’s randomly selected winner is… originalblondi!winnerCongratulations!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info:

Name & Address:
Contest: Sketch 05.08.14
Prize: $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate

 

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CARDS

Hello everyone! I have a couple of cards to share with you today featuring our brand new monthly kit. This kit is so versatile… it has tags for teachers, heroes, fathers and everything in between. I love it!

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I cut out several hearts from the kisses paper and combined it with the ‘best teacher’ tag to create this teacher’s appreciation card.

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The ‘bloom where you are planted tag’ is just perfect for a card as is! To dress it up a bit, I cut out the flowers and re-attached them with pop dots, then added several cutouts to the middle white space. Super simple but so cute, no?

 

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PROJECT LIFE

Today’s Project Life covers the week of April 28 – May 4Image 2

I was involved in a huge fundraiser at our school, which resulted in a huge majority of our week spent working at school— it was so tiring but I managed to document much of our event and other happenings!

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Additionally, my husband’s office (our family business) was named #9 top best place to work in Indiana this week— it was a huge week for celebrations!

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I was excited to unpack the May 2013 Kit and use bits and pieces in this months spread.  It truly is a wonderful compliment to completing your pocket page-style layouts!

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I included a sleeve with our Auction Fundraiser program, in addition to a separate insert (Design H).

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I heavily focused on photos from this week and items from the kit.  Sometimes it’s great to really focus on the photography from the week!  On the final page I included a 12×12 of our final product from our school fundraiser.

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Jenni

 

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Capture Life : My Process from iphone to Print

Today I’m going to share with you the editing process I use when capturing our everyday life via my iphone.

This was the orginial photo SOOC (straight out of camera) or in this case, my iphone.

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I then opened the photo in an app called Pic Tap Go and used a few of my favorite “recipes” within the app to get the look I love – soft and matte.

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In the particularly case, I wanted to share it via instagram as well. So, I then did a bit more editing there, thus cropping it into a square.

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I email the full size images directly from my phone to my email address and create a folder that I later save onto my external hard drive.

When printing the photos for my Project Life album I pretty much always resize them so I can print two images on one 4×6 print. (I do this step in Photoshop) and it looks like this :

Untitled-27webThe next step of course is to preserve those images and memories.

I used a combination of the new SHINE collection, the May Exclusive Tag Kit, and the Bloom Wood Veneers.

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I also wanted to incorporate the cute little creations my kids made me that held the flowers they gave me. I carefully took the cones apart (with their permission of course) and added elements of them to my page. These make the page all the more meaningful. IMG_3986 IMG_3987I’d love to hear you’re phone to print process!

Happy Creating! ~ Megan

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Project Spotlight – May 11th

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Happy Mother’s Day and Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, Stephanie! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! Her adorable layout features our Bits and Pieces tags from the Love You More & Penelope collections. Head on over to her gallery to check it out and you can even add it to your favorites by logging into your account and clicking on the “I (heart) this!” button.

 

You never know when your project will be chosen to be spotlighted! Each week we pick a new project out of our member gallery to spotlight. For your chance to be spotlighted and to win a $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate, just upload your project to our member gallery and tag the Elle’s Studio item(s) used!

 

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May’s kit has arrived, with extras and a mini Patriotic collection!

ES-May-KitEllesStudio-May-kit-09Happy May, everyone! Our May kit is here and full of some fun surprises – like transparent tags! This month’s kit also has tons of tags that would work for everyday layouts, Project Life, mini albums, and more! These kits are limited and once they sale 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. 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.

Along with this fun kit full of tags, we have two special add-ons that coordinate with the kit – an exclusive stamp and exclusive wood veneer set! These two sets are also limited edition and once they sell out, we will not be restocking. And, of course we had to do more cut files! We are so happy you guys are loving these and we LOVE to see them used on your projects! May-StampsWood

We also have a special mini Patriotic collection in the shop today! This mini collection includes a stamp, wood veneers, and a tag set that includes transparent tags! With Memorial Day coming up, and the 4th of July right around the corner, this collection is perfect for documenting all those special moments!
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And, since today is the 10th, that means our design team gallery is FULL of brand new inspiration just for you. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s waiting for you in our gallery this month:MayGallery2We are also excited to welcome Ashley Horton with us this month as our guest designer and are excited to see what she has made with our collections! She’s been a constant source of inspiration and it’s always fun to see the new things she has made!

See even more inspiration at each of our Contributing Team Member’s blogs, today too! Make sure you stop by the following: Angie Gutshall, Daniela Dobson, Jennifer Chapin, Kay Rogers, Meghann Andrew, and Melissa Mann!

Thank you for joining us on this exciting day – we hope you guys love all the new items!

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#ellesstudio on Instagram

We love seeing you guys using the #ellesstudio hashtag on Instagram and posting fun photos of projects your creating, orders you’re receiving, and more! And, since our kit + extras reveal is tomorrow, we are even seeing sneak peeks popping up from our team! Here’s a few we spotted and wanted to highlight today:

instagram-11. @meghannandrew 2. @melissaman1981 3. @happiescrappie 4. @listgirl
instagram-25. @lucylilu 6. @valerielovespaper 7.@ejsa 8.@mywisedesigns

Make sure you use the #ellesstudio hashtag when posting images on Instagram that include our products so we can see them and maybe even feature them here! Also, make sure you follow us on Instagram (user name: ellesstudio) to see fun behind-the-scenes photos, inspiration, and more!

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SKETCH THURSDAY

Happy Thursday everyone! Today’s sketch is such a FUN one I absolutely had to make it in color 🙂

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Inspired by WaiSam’s Celebrate Everyday layout from the NSD blog hop, this sketch is perfect for playing and getting messy (or get creative and stay clean… if you prefer).Celebrate Everyday-7

For a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Shop create a project inspired by this sketch, upload it to our Member Gallery and post a link here. A random winner will be selected and announced with next week’s sketch.

Last week’s randomly selected winner is… Julie!! YAY!winnerCongratulations!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info:

Name & Address:
Contest: Sketch 05.01.14
Prize: $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate

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PROJECT LIFE

Today’s Project Life covers the week of April 21-April 27.Image 5

My motto for this week was: done is better than perfect.   I have had the busiest 2 weeks of my life volunteering at my kids’ school for a huge fundraiser that occurred this past weekend. I have had very little time at home, let alone to scrapbook.  We’ve all had weeks like this!  It is a very common (and understandable) reason to fall behind in Project Life. Additionally, I always have very detailed, and PERFECT visions of what I want to create in my mind.  But realistically, there are weeks where I do not have the time to spend hours on my Project Life spreads.  I have learned that I value DONE more than PERFECT.

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And to be honest, I really love this spread.  I spent minimal time pulling everything together, and with the Elle’s Studio products I used, it just WORKS.  Our week is documented and done… I am thrilled with the way it turned out.

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I used a mixture of Everyday Moments, monthly kits, wood veneer, and Cameron to make this happen.  And that “hello” stamp is my new favorite!

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Jenni

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