Our Design Team has a special surprise for you guys today! Originally, we had planned to skip the January gallery because of CHA and all the time the prep work would take up, but some of our Design Team members didn’t want to! Instead of December being their last gallery with us, the January one is!

It’s always so bittersweet having to say goodbye to a team after six months – I feel like these ladies are my best friends! But, then we get to welcome in a new group and that brings a whole new round of fun – we’ll be announcing the new team on January 4th, so stay tuned to see who will be inspiring you for the next six months!

In the meantime, hop on over and see what some members of our Design Team have created to inspire you! Also, please make sure to leave them some love since this is their last gallery with us – they deserve a BIG round of applause and a million thank yous from me 🙂 I’ll be forever grateful for such an amazing team and all the incredible creations they put together for us!

We want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! Thank you all so much for your incredible support during 2012 – you made it the most amazing year EVER! Your support means so much more than words could ever express and we can’t wait to spend another creative and crafty year with you 🙂

We have some big, BIG things in store for 2013 and cannot wait to share them with you! But, since we can’t share the big, BIG news just yet, we have another sneak peek of one of the stamps that will be releasing later this week:

Make sure you are on our newsletter list to be the first to know when our new stamps go live – before CHA! It’s a little, mini release, before the big, BIG one 🙂

Wishing you a safe and incredibly Happy New Years!

We have some winners to announce from the Celebrate December Event!!

December 9 with Daniela Dobson- alisa logue
December 11 with Mandie Pierce- Rita
December 14 with Lexi Bridges-  scrappyjacky
December 15 with Kelly Purkey- Kelly Jean
December 19 with Sheri Twing- Jen
December 21 with Laurel Seabrook- Laura O’Donnell
December 24 with Mish Wooderson- Karenj

Please contact michelle@shopellesstudio.com with the following info to claim your prize.
Name:
Address:
Prize/Date Won: Celebrate December Prize Pack

Congrats!!

We are very excited to be announcing that we will be exhibiting at winter CHA in just a couple weeks! We have some new lines and stamps that we will be releasing, along with some other fun things! So, if you are going, please make sure you stop by our booth! And, if you’re local scrapbooking store is going, please let them know they should stop by our booth, too, and check us out! We’ll have some CHA specials just for them 🙂

We’ll have lots of CHA sneak peeks in store for you guys, too! So be on the lookout in 2013 🙂 It’s going to be an amazing year and we can hardly wait!!

And… we have a sneak peek for you of something we are releasing before we leave – We have two brand new stamps we are releasing next week, before we take off for CHA. We’ll be sending out a newsletter when they are up for sale, so if you haven’t joined, make sure you do at our website!

Besides working perfect for layouts and cards, these stamp sets will work perfect for Project Life, too! So you won’t want to miss this one!

We hope you guys are having a great week and we are so excited to celebrate the New Year with you!

 

We had so much fun celebrating December with you all month long! Thank you so much for joining us each day! Today is our last Celebrate December blog post, however, the giveaways will remain open until Saturday – so if you haven’t entered, make sure you do! You can find them here and there throughout all the Celebrate December blog posts. We’d also love to hear your feedback on this big blog event! We had so much fun that we plan to do it again next year 🙂

Also, wanted to give a HUGE THANK YOU to all the special guests that joined us and inspired us along the way. I was blown away by the amazing projects they each created. And, also a special thanks to Jenni Hufford who put all the blog posts together and organized it behind-the-scenes, during the busiest time of year! Thank you all so much!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas!!!

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle’s Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle’s Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have a special freebie for you! You can use it on your layouts, as a Project Life filler card (it’s 3 x 4 inches), OR even as a card or present topper! Here’s a peek at what it looks like:

It’s it cute?! Click here to download it for free – you’ll have to have Adobe Reader to open and print the pdf file.

We are having so much fun celebrating the month of December and we hope you are too! We’d like to invite you to post your feedback in our message board, here. We’d love to hear what you have to say and any suggestions for next year that you might have 🙂

Christmas is almost here – crossing our fingers for a little bit of snow 🙂

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle’s Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle’s Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Jenni Hufford joining us with a fun December over-view layout.  Jenni currently serves as a blog contributor for Project Life at Elle’s Studio and was on our Design Team in 2010.  Thank you Jenni for joining us for Celebrate December.

One of my favorite pieces from the Be Merry collection is the Be Merry Number Cutouts.    I was inspired to use this cutout as the foundation for December “over-view” layout.

To create this layout, I printed various wallet sized photos and mini sized photos (from Mpix.com) from our favorite December moments in 2011.   I then cropped the photos to fit different spaces within the Be Merry Number Cutout.

One thing I kept in mind while making this layout was to not be so worried about having the actual date match the number (shh! don’t tell).  Looking back, that is NOT what will matter most to me (matching the date with the photo)– it’s sharing the moments and story that is most important.  

If you are not doing a December Daily, this would be a great alternative to document the month of December and all the wonderful events and memories it brings!