Today’s Project Life covers the week of March 3- March 9th.

The majority of my week was spent preparing for my daughter’s birthday party.  I went ahead with the theme and highlighted her party and a few things she’s been saying and doing recently.

With it being birthday party week, it was the perfect opportunity to incorporate the free gift Elle’s Studio is sending with any purchase during the month of March— it’s all Birthday themed! 

These colors mixed perfectly with items from the Penelope collection, and bits and pieces from Everyday Moments and the March Kit.

My daughter drew her guest list– which I had to incorporate within the spread!

I decided to only include a few photos from her party— when a huge event like this takes place, I usually document it with a layout so I can include more details.

We want to feature your Project Life album!  During the last week of each month we will be featuring a couple Project Life spreads that caught our eye in the Member Gallery.   If your spread is featured we will be sending you a $5 gift card to use in our store.   Good Luck!

March 2014 Kit	March Freebie	Everyday Moments – Journaling Tags	Everyday Moments – Bits and Pieces
Penelope tags	Penelope Large & Medium Journaling Tags

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It’s your lucky day! We’ve got 17 of our top selling items on sale, for one day only, for 17% off! And, don’t forget – we also still have our 7th birthday celebration going on. All orders over $5 get this free gift (show below) and we also have a free shipping special! USA orders over $50, use coupon code 50freeship and Canada/International orders over $75, use coupon code 75freeship

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone!

I am happy to introduce you to our March Guest Designer, Stephanie Howell!

Stephanie is one of my favorite scrapbookers in the industry, so when she agreed to be our guest designer for this month, I was so excited!   I adore her style– and her journaling is phenomenal!  You can see her full gallery here.   Thank you so much for joining us this month Stephanie!   Now, enjoy getting to know her a little better…

name: Stephanie Howell

location: Vicenza, Italy

blog: www.stephaniehowell.com

twitter: @stephaniehowell

your 3 favorite ES Products :  Penelope Bits and Pieces. Cameron Tidbits, Saltwater Large and Medium Journaling Tags

What are the three products you can’t live without?

Doilies, Sequins, Label Stickers

What do you listen to/watch while scrapbooking?

NOTHING. Scrapbooking is pretty much my only time to myself.  I like SILENCE! 🙂Who/What inspires you?

Pinterest.  I’m obsessed.  I find inordinate amounts of inspiration there. http://www.pinterest.com/harpersmama/What are three facts about you that others might now know?

1.  I have two different colored eyes

2.  I was an all-state lacrosse player in high school

3.  I stick my fingers in my ears when I’m scared.  I know.  It makes no sense.

Leave a comment here for a chance to win Stephanie’s favorite Elle’s Studio items!!!

Penelope Bits and Pieces

Saltwater large and medium

Cameron Tidbits

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Happy Thursday! Today’s sketch was inspired by Jenny’s Cherish layout and has plenty of room for creativity. Anything from clean and simple to artsy and clustered.

Creative Team member, Kay played along with us this week and created this fabulous (and super fast!) layout.

Here’s what Kay had to say about it: I love sketches for how easily a layout can come together. I was inspired by the banner and photo placement of the sketch. Instead of two photos, I went with one. I think you can still see the sketch in may layout, even though I went a different direction!

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… antenucci!

Congratulations!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info:

Everyday Moments – Paper Collection Pack

Everyday Moments – Wood Veneers

March Cut Files

Everyday Moments – Lil’ Snippets – Remember

I always love seeing what the talented ladies of our Contributing Team create with our limited edition kits and this month is no different!  The March kit is chock full of awesome tags, perfect for just about any occasion.

This layout from Daniela Dobson once again shows how well all of our kits and collections play together.  I love how she pulled out the green in several items to create such a cohesive project.

Take a peek at how Meghann Andrew use the star strip from our March cut files to anchor the photo of her adorable daughter.  Perfect!

Angie Gutshall used the same cut file along the bottom margin of her layout as well.  As we’re celebrating our birthday this month, it’s been so fun to see so many birthday themed projects created with our products!

I love how one kit can inspire so many different projects – all with the same products!  This linear layout from Kay Rogers is the perfect example.

That Jennifer Chapin.  She’s always inspiring me to use more product on a project.  She has such a knack for using our tags to create the perfect homes for embellishments, photos and other elements.

Looking for a great example of how to make a product your own?  Look no further!  Melissa Mann took an element of one of our cut files to create a large title and then use it as a template for hand stitching.  Pretty amazing, don’t you think?

Like what you see?  Check out other projects from our Contributing Team in the Member Gallery.  I have no doubt they’d love to hear from you!

Spring is just around the corner – we can feel it! March’s exclusive kit is full of fun tags to celebrate spring and MORE! There are lots of fun tags in this kit that would work for all kinds of projects and occasions! Here’s some close ups of them:

So many favorites in this one – like that “spring to do list” and “hello friend’ speech bubble! You can find our exclusive kit for March, here in the shop! 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.

We have some coordinating cut files for this month, too! These are super fun and might even be a sneak peek of something that is up our sleeve for an add-on next month! Our cut files include .png and .svg files. Here’s a peek at the March cut files:

And, our Design Team has done it once again! Because it’s the 10th, that means there are over 25+ brand new projects in our Design Team Gallery!

Above is just a tiny peek at all the amazing things they have created to inspire you! We also have a special guest this month – we are so excited to have Stephanie Howell working with our products! Wait until you see what she created, too! Hop on over the to Design Team Gallery to get inspired and see how they are putting our products to use!

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! 

And, don’t forget about our 7th birthday special – every order (over $5) placed in March will receive this set above, FREE – so that means every kit order will receive one! We are also celebrating by bringing back our shipping special we did in January, except this time it will be good all month long! Orders of $50 or more, that ship to a USA address, will receive free shipping with the coupon code: 50freeship. For our Canada/International friends, your order of $75 or more ships free with coupon code: 75freeship. This would be a great time to stock up on the 12 x 12 paper, since it is a bit on the heavy side 😉

This all wouldn’t be possible without YOU so we want to give you all a big, HUGE, THANK YOU!! And, we look forward to spending and celebrating many more years with you!