fun with cards


Hi there! Happy Wednesday 🙂 Today’s cards feature one of the newest and coolest items in the shop, Cut Files!

If you love your die cut machine as much as me, I know you are ecstatic over these 🙂 Check out all the AMAZING projects our team did with them!! Lots of great ideas for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas…

Daniela Dobson
Meghann Andrew

Jen Chesnick

Suz Mannecke

Stephanie Bryan
As I said, amazing! I hope these inspired you to create and as always, make sure to share what you make. We’d love to see it.
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Contributing Team Highlight: Limited Edition ES October Kit

Today we’re excited to be sharing the first projects from our NEW Contributing Team!  Their initial projects all use our limited edition October kit which are getting close to selling out.  If you haven’t grabbed yours yet, now is the time!

Contributing team member Melissa Mann created this gorgeous layout with our October kit.  So many amazing details!  The stitching, the embellishments – love it all!

Our kits contain so many tags that there’s no reason to be stingy with them on your projects!  Jen Chapin used many of the bits and pieces within the kit on this layout to make it come together quickly.
And of course, creating seasonal themed layouts is easy with our kits!  CT member Kay Rogers used our October kit for a couple of her pumpkin patch photos.
Creative Team member Angie Gutshall used five tags from our October kit to scrapbook these photos of her adorable family.
Who says that you can only scrapbook children in their Halloween costume?  Meghann Andrew‘s adorable pup is forever documented thanks to her use of our limited edition October tags.
Last but not least, Daniela Dobson also went the seasonal route and used bits of this and that to highlight her pumpkin carving photos.
We hope our Creative Team members have inspired you to reach for your October kit – or reach for your favorite method of payment to grab one before they’re gone! – and can’t wait to see what you create!
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Our Monthly kit + Your Stash


Hello scrappy friends! I’m back with another edition of Our kit + Your stash, where we show you how well Elle’s Studio products mix with your stash at home and hopefully inspire you to scrap.

This month’s kit is definitely a favorite of mine. The fall-ish colors and different tags shapes and sizes are amazing. I love the kit so much that I actually didn’t add too much to it 🙂

I mixed the October kit with our brand new Penelope collection and a few oldish ‘staples’- Thickers, wood veneer shapes and vellum.

For my layout, I cut out some of the elements for my title, layered several tags and papers and punched out fall leaves. It was fun and quick and I love how it turned out.

What have you made with your kits? We’d love to see 🙂

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Project Spotlight – October 20th

Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, Anita! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! We are getting excited for the Holidays around here…so we had to share Anita’s Be Very Very Merry layout! We love how she added our Lil’ Snippets with the Noel paper, such a festive layout!  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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Design Team Highlight: Halloween

Hello Friday and Happy Weekend!

I love sharing projects from our Design Team Gallery each week with you and today is no exception!  As Halloween is less than two weeks away, I thought it would be the perfect theme for today.

Annette added pages to her Halloween mini album using our exclusive and limited edition October kit and tags from our Spooky Tales collection.
Vee also used our October kit to create a Halloween themed card for her daughter’s friend.  A striking minimalist design.
I love the layers on this card created by Laurel.  So many details to take in and a great combination of our October kit and several other ES products.
We hope these highlights from our talented design team inspires you to put your Elle’s Studio products to use!  


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sketch thursday

Welcome back! Today’s sketch was inspired by Annetteh’s lovely girl layout from this month’s DT gallery.


We have Angie, from our contributing team joining us this week. Look what a super fun layout she created:

What caught my eye with this sketch was the cool line up of stripes of paper.  I went with using the stripes from the Penelope line to use as part of my journaling. Angie

We’d love to see what you create with this sketch! 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 next week.


Last week’s randomly selected winner is… Tricia Romo!

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

Name/Address:
Contest: Sketch 10.10


Prize: $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate
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Challenge | Scrapbook A Large Photo

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 Becky Novacek for our CHA booth using our Noel collection which is now available on our site!

CHALLENGE | Scrapbook A Large Photo.

We love how Becky used a photo that was the same width as her layout for maximum impact and can’t wait to see you do the same!

Are you ready to play along?  Entries are due November 5, 2013 and the winner will be announced with our next challenge, November 6, 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 October 16th 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 Lucia! Please contact michelle@shopellesstudio.com with the following info:

  • Name:
  • Contest: October 2nd Challenge
  • Prize: $10 gift certificate


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Project Life: Travel Edition

This week’s Project Life covers a page in my Disney Travel album.

Fall Break is upon us, and I know many of you will be traveling!  I will often tell people that if they are considering the Project Life/ pocket styled scrapbooking method, start by documenting a vacation.  It helps to have an “ending point” in mind as you put together your album.  Vacations are perfect for pocket style scrapbooking!

We visited Walt Disney World in May of this year, and I have really enjoyed documenting this vacation using the Project Life method.  Obviously, I am not documenting in a week-by-week method, but rather, focusing in blocked events and using Project Life page dividers to mark each day.  This page documents our evening exploring the Magic Kingdom.

I decided to balance all the fireworks/evening photos by placing the Elle’s Studio “Love you to the Moon and Back” journaling card on the opposite page.  The chalkboard effect in this card is a perfect balance to the darker photos on the opposite page.

While traveling, I am very aware of odds and ends to save in order to add to my albums later.  For instance, the receipt of the $5 water bottle (!!!) at the Disney Parks was worth noting and saving.  I also love saving maps in order to document our day (this is great for amusement parks, zoos, museums, etc).

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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Capture Life – 10.14.13

Capture Life – Home

The leaves are displaying their beautiful hues, there’s a frost in the morning air, and the evenings end with snuggling around the fireplace. It’s FALL; my favorite time of year.
It means pumpkins, gourds, trick or treating, and spending time at home.

On a drizzly morning when all my kids were gone, I took a little walk around our yard and captured the “now”.

Our house has changed a lot since we bought it. We’ve remodeled, added on, and did a bit of landscaping.

I challenge you to capture your HOME at this beautiful colorful time of year.
 

Canon 24-70mm f5.6  1/320 ISO400

This year we planted a bunch of pumpkins and gourds. We are loving having them on display around the yard.

Canon 24-70mm f5.6  1/400 ISO400

Be sure your capture your front door. It’s then entry way into your Everyday Life and deserves a special spot in your album.

Canon 24-70mm f5.6  1/400 ISO400

Canon 24-70mm f57.1  1/250 ISO400

Don’t forget the details!

Canon 24-70mm f5.6  1/320 ISO200

Canon 24-70mm f5.6  1/250 ISO200

To capture this photo I actually got down on the ground. This angle creates that beautiful depth of field.

Canon 24-70mm f2.8  1/200 ISO800
Now, let’s get those photos on a page and our memories recorded!

I used the October Tag Kit along with the brand new October Digital Cut Files to create my layout.

 

I hope you are inspired to get out and capture your HOME. Big, small, country, or city … capture your special place today!

Now go on … Get out and Capture Life!

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Project Spotlight – October 13th

Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, Kristine! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! We love how Kristine mixed our Day To Day and You & Me collections to create her awesome layout! Love the contrast of the black accents too! 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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