Project Life

This week’s Project Life covers the week of April 8-14th.

This week I was on a mission to add more “found items” in my spread.

All too often I rely only on photos to tell the story of our week.  This is completely fine, but I wanted to challenge myself to find other items that might tell a story.  

A few things I found were tags from workout clothes, a napkin, a grocery store receipt, an part of a Stitchfix box.   These items were prompts for me to tell stories other than what we simply did this week.  

How about looking around this week and finding a few items that encourage you to tell stories that might not otherwise be told?


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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We have some winners to announce!

We have FOUR winners to announce today from our mid-release that will start shipping to stores in May!

The four winners are:
Mary Jo Rhoda – Cameron collection
Lisa Spiegel – Cameron collection
Laura Turcotte – Saltwater
Kim Warne – Saltwater

Congrats, ladies! Please email the following to michelle@shopellesstudio.com, to claim your prize:
Name:
Collection won:
Shipping Address:

And, we wanted to say THANK YOU so much for all the amazing comments on that post from everyone – we are so excited that guys like the new collections so much – it means the WORLD to us and we cannot wait to see what you create!

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Project Spotlight – April 28th

Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, amanda37! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! Her U & Me layout is so fun, and such a creative way to display instagram photos! We loved how she used our Cutouts from The Sweet Life and Serendipity line! 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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Elle’s Studio & Paper Issues

This week and next Elle’s Studio is teaming up with Paper Issues!  

The talented design team members at Paper Issues are highlighting fabulous projects using our Serendipity line.   We are even giving away five Serendipity prize packs!!  Make sure to head over to Paper Issues to enter to win!

 We have some fabulous layouts to share by the Paper Issues Design Team

by: Leslie Ashe
by: Diana Fisher

by: Amy Tsuruta

by: Audrey Yeager

Make sure to stop by Paper Issues today for your chance to win Serendipity!
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thursday sketch

Happy Thursday! Today’s sketch was inspired by our super talented DT member, Megan Klauer. 


I love the cluster of tags and shapes down to the right of the pictures on this layout. Such a great way to mix and match several products with different shapes and sizes. 

Show us how you interpret the sketch! For a chance to win a $10 gift card to the Elle’s Studio Store upload your projects to the member’s gallery and post a link right here. We will select a random winner and announce it with the next sketch. 

Last week’s randomly selected winner is… nkramer:

Congratulations!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:
Name/Address:

Contest: Sketch 04.18.13

Prize: $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate

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fun with cards- tidbits

Hi guys! I’m glad to be back with another edition of fun with cards! Today, we are highlighting one of the funnest items in the Elle’s Studio collection… tidbits (even the name is fun, don’t you think?). DT member, Kate Vickers played along and created this gorgeous colorful card!

happy birthday 1. Cut a piece of the top left of the patterned paper to 5.5 inches tall X 4.25 inches wide. 2. Cut out the yellow tag from the Serendipity Lil’ Snippets – Favorite Things and stamp a sentiment on the tag with grey ink. 3. Cut out the pink and cream patterned tag from the Serendipity Cutouts (second tag down from the top left of the cutouts). Cut out the ‘Celebrate’ tag as well. 4. Adhere the yellow tag on top of the pink and cream tag with foam adhesive squares. 5. Adhere the yellow tag and pink tag pair on top of a 3 inch circle with more foam adhesive squares (there will be one layer of foam adhesive squares in between each tag.). You can see what I’m talking about a bit better in this photo. 6. Adhere the 3 inch circle with tags on top, to the bottom right of the patterned paper. 7. Adhere the ‘Celebrate’ tag to the top left of the patterned paper.  8. Using more foam adhesive squares adhere one of the tidbits to the top left of the card below, but slightly overlapping, the ‘Celebrate’ tag. 9. Apply another tidbit to the left of the 3 inch circle tag cluster using foam adhesive squares. I embellished this tidbit with an Elle’s Studio heart stamp from the You & Me Collection and an enamel dot.  10. Adhere your finished card top to the top of your card base and you’re done!


I made these cards back in January for CHA but I still like them and they are great examples for today’s highlights (I think! :))

hello: On this pie chart card I used a single tidbit but it pretty much is the main design for the card. I used a ruler to trace the pieces into different patterned papers, cut and arranged them to match the pie chart. I used the ‘hello’ cutout for the title, then embellished with wood veneer stars and sequins.

totally awesome: On this card I combined tidbits and circle punches to create the background. Tidbits have different functions here, as a title (totally awesome), stand alone decorative piece (floral) and background (stripes). I inked, pop dotted or added butterflies to each circle for dimension and interest. I then placed them into a 4×6 journaling card and sewed around it to give it a nice finishing touch.

Supplies:

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Project Life

This week’s Project Life was the week of April 1-7.   
As I was sitting down to document this week (which was our Spring Break week), I began to notice a pattern in how I like to put together my pages.  I think it’s a great thing once you have found your Project Life “routine”.  There’s no need to reinvent the wheel.   Continue to do what you like.  

The Day to Day “This week at a glance” card is perfect for a week like Spring Break.  It allowed me to do a brief over-view.   It also cut down on the need to journal on every single photo.

I cut out the speech bubble of the Sweet Life 4×6 journaling tag in order to include a few recent “Jonah-isms”.    I love documenting the sweet things the kids say.



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!

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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Announcing our NEW collections!

Happy Monday, everyone! We’ve been waiting and waiting to show you all the new stuff that is coming to Elle’s Studio and we are so, SO excited to introduce to you our mid-release today, which includes two brand new collections, that start shipping to stores on May 13th! 

Our very first all-boy collection is here and named after Elle’s nephew, Cameron!

12 x 12 papers:

Cutouts and Lil’ Snippets:
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Tidbits and Tiny Tags:
 

3 inch circles:

Large & Medium Journaling tags (4 x 6 and 3 x 4 inches)

Tabs (4 x 6 and 3 x 4 inches)

And here is our NEW SHAPE!

These die cut frames are so fun to use! They are cut out, so all you have to do is glue your photo behind them and you’ve got a framed photo! They’d be great for layouts, mini books, cards, and they are also sized to fit your Project Life pockets!!

With our Cameron collection also comes our first ever alphabet stamp! This is the same font that is used throughout the collection, too.

And, get ready for SUMMER!!

Whether you’re headed to the beach or staying home, this collection has everything you need to document your summer!

12 x 12 papers:

Cutouts and Lil’ Snippets

Tiny Tags:

Tabs (4 x 6 and 3 x 4 inches)

Large & Medium Journaling Tags (4 x 6 and 3 x 4)

We’ve made frames (our NEW SHAPE!!) for this collection, too!
And a 4 x 4 inch stamp with 9 stamps on it:
 

These new collections begin shipping to stores on May 13th and we can hardly wait to see all the amazing things you guys make with them! If you have a local scrapbook store that you want to see these new collections at, please call them and let them know 🙂

How about a giveaway to celebrate this BIG day?!
Here’s four different ways you can enter to WIN:
1. Post a comment here on the blog telling us your favorite part of these new collections
2. Tweet about our new collections (and then leave a comment here with your twitter handle, letting us know you did)
3. Post on facebook about our new collections (and then leave a comment here letting us know you did)
4. Pin your favorite item on Pinterest (and then leave a comment here with a link to your pinterest account, letting us know you did)

We’ll draw FOUR winners on April  27th – each person will win either the Cameron OR Saltwater collection.

Thanks for joining us today – we hope you love our new collections as much as we do!

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Project Spotlight – April 21st


Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, mellierc! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! Her Love layout is adorable, and such a great keepsake! We loved how she incorporated lots of goodies from our You And Me line! 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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Winners

We have some winners to announce from the Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop

Congrats to Bren  who won the Serendipity Collection and Po prostu Asia who won the Day to Day collection!

Please contact michelle@shopellesstudio.com with the following information:

Name/Address:
Contest: Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop
Prize:

Thank you to everyone who joined us on the Blog Hop!

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