Project Life Member Gallery Spotlight

WOW, we are loving all the Project Life spreads in our Member Gallery.  This month we are highlighting three Project Life spreads that caught our eye!

This Project Life spread is by andrea wiebe.  I love all the Elle’s Studio tags she included and the hand stitching around the date.  Fabulous!

This spread is by TarynneWise.  I LOVE how she created a pocket out of our Daily Note Tags and how she used our Number It Stamp to document the date/week.

Finally I want to highlight this fabulous spread by sj95014.   I love the photo that includes the temperature and the calendar!

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

Name/Address:
Contest: Project Life Member Gallery Spotlight
Prize: $5 GC

We would love to feature YOU on our blog!  Just upload your Project Life Spread in our Member Gallery and you may be featured!   


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Project Life

This week’s Project Life covers the week of March 4- 10th.

Last week three of the four members of my household were sick (including me).  So, needless to say, I got a week behind on Project Life.   There are definitely times when life happens and your focus and energy is required else where.

I was fun looking back at the week and picking up on obvious themes.  There was a theme of NEW : a new diet (gluten free), a new fresh snowfall, our friends had a new baby, and we added a few new members to our family as well: 6 baby chicks.

When putting together the spread I went SIMPLE.  I pulled colors from my purple smoothie and the pink theatre program.  I knew I needed to somehow highlight these colors that I don’t typically use in my album.   The purple 4×6 card is part of the Serendipity 4×6 Journaling Cards.    The pattern paper in the date pocket is from the Soilel collection by Basic Grey.

Another idea when attempting to catch up is to document what’s happening around you (not only what’s happening to you) . I included an instagram photo from my brother’s travels, and also the photo of our friends’ newborn.   It’s fun to see so many important events from different points of view in one spread.

Congrats to Arielle Elise, you are the winner from our Project Life Special Guest with Stephanie Bryan!  Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:

Name/Address:

Contest: PL March 19
Prize: Stephanie Bryan’s favorite items:  You & Me Tidbits, Day to Day Tabs, You & Me Large Journaling Cards, You & Me Lil’ Snippets: Labels, Day to Day Tidbits


Tomorrow we will be featuring Project Life spreads on our blog!  Today is your last chance to upload your Project Life to our Member Gallery for the chance to be featured and to win a $5 gift card!

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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Project Spotlight – March 24th

Congrats to this week’s Project Spotlight winner, sj95014! Check your email for your $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! Her You are the best layout is so fun- we love how bright and cheerful it is, and how she incorporated our Day To Day Tidbits and Tiny Tags! 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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The Paper Bakery visits Elle’s Studio – Day 5

Today is our final day of our team up with The Paper Bakery. Sarah and I both hope you all have gotten LOTS of inspiration this entire week. If you haven’t checked out The Paper Bakery yet, you must! The Paper Bakery has 3 amazing kits each month: a Project Kit, a Scrapbook Kit, and a Mixed Media Kit. You can get 1, 2, or all 3 each month!! The best part is they all coordinate! So you can mix and match the contents to create awesome projects.

Have you had a chance to check out the Exclusive Elle’s Studio & Paper Bakery flair sets?? You can find them HERE. If you want to pick up some flair packs, all Elle’s Studio followers get FREE SHIPPING the rest of the week!! Just choose the free shipping option at checkout.

Now on to some Inspiration from Paper Bakery DT member Lisa Wilkinson, Paper Bakery DT member Danielle Higginbottom-Brown, and Elle’s Studio DT member Christa Paustenbaugh.

Now a GIVEAWAY to win a HUGE prize pack from The Paper Bakery!!! To enter, leave a comment on here on OUR blog, then head on over to The Paper Bakery blog and leave a comment there. Do you want an extra entry into the Giveaway?? Head on over to The Paper Bakery’s facebook page and “like” them! Do all of that and you have 3 entries!!! This is the final day to enter!! Winners will be posted on both the Paper Bakery blog and Elle’s Studio blog early next week, so make sure to check back and see if you’ve won!

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The Paper Bakery visits Elle’s Studio – Day 4

We continue the team up with The Paper Bakery this week to bring you more inspiration. And giveaways. This will continue to be a fun week, so make sure to tune in the rest of the week to win!

If you haven’t checked out The Paper Bakery, you must! The Paper Bakery has 3 amazing kits each month: a Project Kit, a Scrapbook Kit, and a Mixed Media Kit. You can get 1, 2, or all 3 each month!! The best part is they all coordinate! So you can mix and match the contents to create awesome projects.

Have you had a chance to check out the exclusive Elle’s Studio & Paper Bakery flair sets?? You can find them HERE. This is a super fun set! If you want to pick up some flair packs, all Elle’s Studio followers get FREE SHIPPING the rest of the week!! Just choose the free shipping option at checkout.

Now on to some inspiration from Paper Bakery DT member Ashley Horton and Elle’s Studio DT member & Paper Bakery Owner Sarah Hill:

Now a GIVEAWAY to win a HUGE prize pack from The Paper Bakery!!! To enter, leave a comment on here on OUR blog, then head on over to The Paper Bakery blog and leave a comment there. Do you want an extra entry into the Giveaway?? Head on over to The Paper Bakery’s facebook page and “like” them! Do all of that and you have 3 entries!!!

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Sketch Thursday


Hello and welcome back to Sketch Thursday! Today’s sketch was inspired by Christa’s   Beach Love layout from the DT gallery.

For my layout, I was inspired by the main design on the bottom of the sketch. I cut out the chevron piece of the paper, cut in in half then matched them side by side. I love how it turned out!


We can’t wait to see how you interpret this sketch. Post a link to your projects here or simply leave a comment for a chance to win a $10 Elle’s Studio gift certificate.

Congratulations to last week’s winner… Stephanie!

Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:
Name/Address:
Contest: Sketch 3.14.13
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Challenge Time!

We are excited to introduce a new Challenge Series to the Elle’s Studio blog!!

Here is how it will work:  Every other week (on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month) 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 or your blog to be entered 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).

Our first challenge is inspired by this layout created by Jill Sprott for our CHA booth:

We challenge you to use mist (or watercolors) on our papers!

Megan and Keri from our design team played along with this challenge and created these layouts to inspire you!

Are you ready to play along? Entries are due by April 2nd, 2013 and the winner will be announced on April 3rd, 2013.  Here’s how to enter:

  • Complete a project based off our challenge to “use mist (or watercolors) on our papers”
  • Upload your project to our member gallery, OR your blog 
  • Tag all Elle’s Studio items used when uploading to our member gallery
  • Write in the description that this is for the March 20th Challenge (very important so we see it’s an entry)
  • Come back here and post a link to your project in this post.
We can’t wait to see what you make for this challenge!
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The Paper Bakery visits Elle’s Studio – Day 3


We continue the team up with The Paper Bakery this week to bring you more inspiration. And giveaways. This will continue to be a fun week, so make sure to tune in the rest of the week to win!

If you haven’t checked out The Paper Bakery, you must! The Paper Bakery has 3 amazing kits each month: a Project Kit, a Scrapbook Kit, and a Mixed Media Kit. You can get 1, 2, or all 3 each month!! The best part is they all coordinate! So you can mix and match the contents to create awesome projects.

In addition to the kits they have additional embellishments that will go with any kit in their shop. Elle’s Studio has designed a flair badge set~EXCLUSIVE to The Paper Bakery!! Find those HERE and only here. Here’s a peek at the flair:

Now on to some inspiration from Paper Bakery DT member Shellye McDaniel and Elle’s Studio DT member Keri Babbitt:

To see all of Keri’s Mixed Media Book Project, head on over to The Paper Bakery’s blog to check it out! She even has a tutorial over there 🙂

Now a GIVEAWAY to win a HUGE prize pack from The Paper Bakery!!! To enter, leave a comment on OUR blog below, then head on over to the Paper Bakery blog and leave a comment there. Do you want an extra entry into the Giveaway?? Head on over to The Paper Bakery’s facebook page and “like” them! Do all of that and you have 3 entries!!!

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Project Life Special Guest: Stephanie Bryan

Welcome to another week of Project Life at Elle’s Studio.  We are pleased to introduce you to you today our Project Life Special Guest: Stephanie Bryan.

Stephanie lives in North Carolina with her husband and two kids, Anna (4) and Drew (2).  She loves all things creative and has a slight obsession with paper and photography.   She started out with memory keeping through Project Life in 2011 and has not looked back.  Her style is simple, but classic with some occasional fun pops of color.  As of January this year, she has found a love for recording memories through traditional scrapbooking.

I began noticing Stephanie’s Project Life spreads and layouts in our Member Gallery recently and each one became an instant favorite.  I was floored to learn she just began traditional scrapbooking in January of 2013.  She is a natural!


1.  When and why did you start Project Life?

I started Project Life at the beginning of 2011 after I found myself wanting to record the memories of my then two year old daughter and newborn son.  I lost my mom when I was 19, and hafted having my two kids, I knew I wanted to document our everyday, our journey, our goods and our bars.  Plus I tend to take a lot of pictures and I wanted my family to be able to enjoy them.  I stumbled across the Project Life system and immediately fell in love.

2.  What do you love about Project Life?

I love that Project Life tells our story.  I love that it has pictures of my son’s first stamps, my two kids playing together, our trips, my daughter’s first dentist appointment… basically it’s our memories kept nice and neatly in a book.


3.  Any tips on keeping up or catching up in your album?

Keep it simple and keep it fun.  Most of my weeks are pretty much the same except for the pictures.  I have a system that works for me.  Putting together my week is just.plain.fun.  I love it.  And I look forward to it!  I think the key is to make it “yours”.  Don’t worry about keeping up with it every week… if you miss a week, then just move on to the next.  Years from now you will be glad that you have the memories you do have, and you won’t remember the weeks you missed.

4.  How do you make time for Project Life?

I keep my Project Life album out and open in my craft room.  I find myself there a few times each day, so I try to print off a picture when I can or write down some little notes about our week.   Then I usually try to find some time on Sunday afternoon to put my week together.


We have a special giveaway today featuring 
Stephanie’s favorite Elle’s Studio products!

Leave a comment here for a chance to win Stephanie’s favorite products.  We will announce the winner next Tuesday in our Project Life post.

Thank you Stephanie for joining us today!!

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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The Paper Bakery visits Elle’s Studio – Day 2

We continue the team up with The Paper Bakery this week to bring you more inspiration. And giveaways. This will continue to be a fun week, so make sure to tune in the rest of the week to win!

If you haven’t checked out The Paper Bakery, you must! The Paper Bakery is a unique kit club that offers you guys quality kits. They have Project Kits so you can create a project in a snap~instructions included! They also have Scrapbook Kits that you can take to a crop or work with at home~everything’s already coordinated for you! Last but not least they have Mixed Media Kits~something to get a little messy with! Each kit is designed on their own, however all 3 coordinate with each other each month as well. That way you can get multiple kits to mix and match and create LOTS more fun things with. You can’t go wrong with The Paper Bakery.

In addition to the kits they have additional embellishments that will go with any kit in their SHOP. Elle’s Studio has designed a flair badge set~EXCLUSIVE to The Paper Bakery!! Find those HERE and only here.

Now on to some Inspiration from Paper Bakery DT member Tegan Skwiat and Elle’s Studio DT member Holly Humbert:

Now a GIVEAWAY to win a HUGE prize pack from The Paper Bakery!!! To enter, leave a comment on OUR blog, head on over to the Paper Bakery blog  and leave a comment there. Do you want an extra entry into the Giveaway?? Head on over to The Paper Bakery’s facebook page and “like” them! Do all of that and you have 3 entries!!!

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