Capture Life – 11.11.13

Capture Life – Currents

I love to randomly include “current” lists in my album. Because it’s all about the Right Here – Right Now. Today we’re going to take just a bit of a twist to the list idea.

Grab a piece of fabric or just your kitchen table and create a visual “favorites” collage using those actual items!

Our oldest son chose:
hunting (yep that’s him in the newspaper article), trapping, playing outdoors in the cool air, playing Legos, and playing cards with his brother.

Our youngest son chose:
Duck Dynasty, Hunting, Trapping, Legos, and cutting wood with his daddy.

Ella and I took a walk around her room and came up with these favorites:
Hello Kitty, Sponge Bob, her new Fall book, her new mittens, and her play food that she had set up for a tea party.

This is such a simple idea, yet something we’ll look back on and be thankful we have these small mementos.  I’m sure I’m not the only child of the 80s that doesn’t see a photo of Rainbow Brite or Cabbage Patch dolls and isn’t immediately back to my younger days; right?

Now, let’s get those photos on a page and our memories recorded!

I created a page using a fun combination of collections: November and September Tag Kits, 2014 Calendar collection, Penelope, Noel, and the Saltwater Summer Happiness Stamps.

I hope you are inspired to capture your current favorites today!

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November’s Exclusive kit is here with gratitude and December Daily tags!

We are so excited to reveal our November exclusive and limited edition kit! This kit is full of gratitude tags and tags that would be perfect for getting a start on your December Daily albums (I can’t wait to put the December 2013 tag on the cover of mine)!

Here’s a closer look at some of the 27+ tags that are included:

You can find our exclusive kit for November 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, 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 also have coordinating cut files again this month! These cut files coordinate with our November kit and as you can see, some of the designs where pulled right off the tags! Our cut files include .png and .svg files. Here’s a peek at the November cut files:

And, we are so excited that you guys are loving our new wood veneers! There are three sets to choose from and these would be perfect for all your December projects, too!

Also, since it is November 10th, that means we have some new inspiration in our, Inspiration Gallery, from our amazing and incredible Design Team and special Guest Designer this month, Summer Fullerton! Look for a special blog post all about Summer, coming soon! Here’s some sneak peeks of what is in store and in the gallery now:

There are so many wonderful projects to check out – many use our November kit and some even use our newest collections (Penelope, Noel, and 2014)! Don’t forget, while you’re checking out the Inspiration Gallery you can bookmark your favorite layouts by clicking on the “I heart this” button!

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!

Thanks for stopping by today and checking out all the new items and inspiration! We hope you find yourself super inspired this week 🙂

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Project Spotlight – November 10th

Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, Ali! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! We are all getting excited for the Holidays around here, and Ali’s layout definitely gets us in the spirit! We love how she beautifully displayed our Noel collection! 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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We have a quick question for you!

We are getting ready to ship our new catalogs soon, we wanted to make sure YOUR favorite scrapbooking store is on our mailing list so they will receive a catalog full of the newest and greatest Elle’s Studio products!

And, to reward you for taking the time to do this, we are going to be drawing some random names to ship some fun prizes to! All you have to do to be entered to win is provide us with your favorite stores name and address (including city and state please). Please email them to info@shopellesstudio.com and if you have more than one favorite store, that is great! We will be notifying prize winners by November 15th, 2013.

We appreciate you guys taking the time to do this and we are excited about what is coming!

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sketch thursday

Welcome back to Sketch Thursday. Today’s sketch was initially inspired by the Deck the Halls paper from the Noel collection.

I have been dreaming about this paper and my craft knife since I first got it 🙂 There’s so many possibilities with all these triangles…

I started by cutting lots of random triangles, some with the white border some without. I then played around and arranged them on my page. I decided to add just a few red ones form the Snowflakes paper and then embellished with wood veneer and sequins.

For a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Shop create a project inspired by today’s 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… jennifergrace!
Congratulations!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info:
Name/Address:
Contest: Sketch 10.31
Prize: $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate
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Challenge | Create A Pocket Page Layout

It’s time for a new challenge!  On the first and third Wednesdays of each month, we’ll be issuing you a challenge and then asking you to create a project.  
Here’s how it works: We will give you a layout example and a short description of what to do/use for the particular challenge. Complete the challenge and upload it to our member gallery to be entered  and then post a link to the specific challenge post as a comment for your chance to WIN! The winner will receive a $10 Elle’s Studio Gift Certificate to use in our shop (winners will be announced during next Challenge post). 

Today’s Challenge was inspired by a layout created by Jenni for our CHA booth using our 2014 collection.

CHALLENGE | Create A Pocket Page Layout.

Whether you’re documenting your week, a trip, or any other topic, we’d love to see you create a layout using a pocket page protector and our product!

Contributing team member Jen Chesnick took our challenge and created this awesome spread documenting her family’s Halloween celebration.  Kudos to Jen for already having last week documented!

Are you ready to play along?  Entries are due November 19, 2013 and the winner will be announced with our next challenge, November 20, 2013.  Here’s how to enter:

  • Complete a project based off our challenge
  • Upload your project to our member gallery
  • Tag all Elle’s Studio items used when uploading to our member gallery
  • Write in the description that this is for the November 6th Challenge (very important so we see it’s an entry)
  • Come back here and post a link to your project in this post.



Congrats to our winner of our last challenge lizzyh! Please contact michelle@shopellesstudio.com with the following info:

  • Name:
  • Contest: October 16th Challenge
  • Prize: $10 gift certificate


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cards: wood veneer


Hello hello! Today’s post is all about our newest member of the family… wood veneer!


I love how these, just like all other  Elle’s Studio products, are so versatile and perfect for all kinds of paper crafting! While the main shapes are Christmas-y, the extra stars and banner pieces are perfect for everyday crafting. 


merry christmas: I originally created this card for CHA back in July when my rolled paper obsession began :). After getting the wood veneer snowflakes I thought I should re-do it and replace one of the snowflakes… it’s the perfect touch!  I cut strips of papers from the Noel collection, rolled and glued them to the card base then embellished with snowflakes and gems. I used a Noel Lil Snippet- Label for the sentiment.




love: This card is one of the many ideas that popped in my head after seeing this amazing wood veneer tree. I used the big piece as a template to pierce my card, then used red thread to stitch it. I added back a few of the veneer pieces and embellished with small gems and a strip of paper.

Have you purchased your wood veneer yet?! What have you made? I can’t wait to see.
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Project Life

This week’s Project Life covers the week of October 14-20th.
This is the week my daughter Jordan had her tonsils taken out.   Although there were many other events from this week, the surgery was a huge focus.  

I decided to enlarge an iPhone photo of her right after surgery (once she was feeling more herself) and included it on one whole photo pocket page.  I added her hospital bracelet, a badge by Basic Grey, and my title at the bottom of the page.

This image of her in a tiger hospital gown, with her teddy bear (in a surgery cap), and an orange popsicle, is what I will always remember from that day.  Don’t be afraid to enlarge candid iPhone photos to include in your album.

On the right side, I included an insert (Design I by Becky Higgins) that told the story of her surgery.
I used papers from the Serendipity and Saltwater collection, along with a Cameron circle tag and Penelope Lil’ Snippet.

On the backside of the pocket page, I included three instagram photos from the day of her surgery.  I loved how the photos progressed and showed how well she recovered the day of the surgery.

I used the Number It Stamp on kraft paper and punched it out with a 1″ circle punch.  I also included the time each photo was taken to show the progression of the day.
The right side of the page really shows the remainder of our week.  It was also fall break so I included fun activities my son enjoyed, a prescription tab, a lego packaging image (for Jordan after her surgery), a  very important football game, and how my husband and I spent most of our evenings while we were homebound watching two full seasons of “Homeland”.   I loved incorporating the October 2013 kit and seeing how pieces from the Cameron collection worked perfectly with it. 
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.  We will be posting Project Life spreads on our blog tomorrow!   If your spread is featured we will be sending you a $5 gift card to use in our store.   Good Luck!

Project Life was created by Becky Higgins as a way to simplify how you document life and preserve memories. Photo pockets used in my Project Life album are created by Becky and can be found here.  You can read of all the Elle’s Studio Project Life posts here.

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Free gift tags with every order in November and December!

November has arrived and we are so excited to celebrate the holidays with you! All orders placed in our shop during November and December (that ship) will receive these cut apart gift tags for free, as a thank you for all of your support! We couldn’t do this without you guys – you mean the world to us! So make sure you check your order for them – we usually tuck them inside the invoice.

We hope they make your gift giving extra special this year 🙂

 
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Project Spotlight – November 3rd

Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, Maryann! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! Her First Photo layout beautifully displays our You & Me collection. We absolutely love the tidbit & pennant banner! 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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