We have a winner from our guest designer spotlight! Congrats to:
Letty S on October 10th at 7:43
You’ve won Linda’s favorite items! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com to claim your prize, with the following information:
Name:
Address:
Prize: Linda’s favorites – True Happiness Stamp, Be Merry Number Cutouts, and Spooky Tales Pennants.
It’s been a couple months since we had a challenge for you guys, so we thought we should start them up again! This month, in honor of our new “Documented” series, you’re challenge is to complete a project and include your journaling on one of our 4 x 6 tags!
On this layout, I used a 4 x 6 inch journaling tag from our Sweet Life collection and trimmed it down so it was the same height as my photo. I love the way the story and journaling stands out and takes center stage with the bits of treasures captured and higlighted below in my homemade hexagon mask!
I’m also loving our Number It stamp – it was such a fun way to capture and display my nephews age on this layout.
TO BE ENTERED TO WIN: Complete a project based on our challenge, upload it to our member gallery, and then come back here and link us up to it! A winner will be drawn on October 31st, so make sure to check back then to see if you’ve won the MEGA PRIZE PACK we are giving away!
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This week’s Project Life covers the week of September 17-23.
We had a lot going on this week, but I kept my layout fairly simple with large photos and simple journaling . Sometimes that’s the best way to tackle a busy week!
One thing I focused on for the left side of this week’s spread was the theme of “goals”. I added a photo of me after my first work out session with a personal trainer (yes on the floor). The commitment to exercise is an obvious goal here. The silverware stamp represents how I am striving for us to sit down each night at the dinner table as a family (instead of rushed dinners). And I included a portion of my son’s chore list which was re-implemented this week and goes along with a “goal” theme. These are all goals that are not necessarily achieved but in progress- and i think it will be fun to look back and see the progression.
On the right side I included a photo booth photo from my cousins wedding. Instead of trimming it down I let the photo overlap into the 4×6 photo pocket. It’s kind of crazy how many people we fit in that photo booth 🙂
Congrats to Owl in the Tree the winner of last week’s Prize Pack. Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:
Today we have a giveaway! Leave a comment here for a chance to win an Elle’s Studio Prize Pack. The winner will be announced next Tuesday!
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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It’s already time for another one of our fun treasure hunt’s through our Design Team Inspiration Gallery!
All you have to do is find the answers to the questions below, and email them to us! The answers to our questions can all be found in our Design Team Gallery. From all the correct entries we will draw one winner that will win a $25 Elle’s Studio gift certificate!
Ready?! Here are the questions:
1. Link us up to the layouts that where used in this month’s sneak peek post?
2. How many total projects are in October’s gallery?
3. Who’s layout is titled “All in the family”?
4. Link us up to the projects that use our “Pumpkin fun” tag from our 3 inch circle Spooky Tales set
5. Who was our guest designer this month?
6. Who’s layout features an “80’s punk rocker”
7. Who has a layout already out for publication!?
8. Link us up to the project that shows how to make a dry erase frame!
9. Who’s layout feature’s their grandma?
10. Who wrote “Party Fun!” on one of our pennants?
Alright, don’t forget to e-mail us the answers – do NOT post them in the comments section! We will draw the winner and notify them, via email, on October 20th, so don’t delay!
Good luck!
I’ve had a personal account on Pinterest for quite some time and realized the other day that we needed an official Elle’s Studio one!
Make sure you follow us, we’ll be pinning lots of fun and inspiring things! And, if you don’t have an account, consider signing up! They are free and it’s a great place to get inspired, pin (bookmark) your favorite projects for viewing later and more!
Hello there friends. It’s Thursday.. you know what that means. Time for a new sketch! With this week’s sketch you have a chance to use and layer lots of tags. Take a look…
DT member, Valerie, accepted the challenge and created this gorgeous layout:
Valerie said: “I was really inspired by all the layers behind the photo and how the title overlaps the photo in the sketch. I mixed some larger Elle’s Studio tags with some patterned paper to fill in the square shapes behind my photo. I layered on some Sassafras border stickers and Elle’s Studio tags throughout the layout. For the title I mixed and matched some different alphas—love that technique.”
Supplies used: Spooky Tales 3″ circles, Spooky Tales 4×6″ journal tags, The Sweet Life Tidbits, The Sweet Life Lil’ Snippets-labels, True Happiness Stamp, Summer Lovin’ Tiny Tags
Don’t forget! You can win some ES goodies by playing along. Post your layouts inspired by this layout to the ES gallery and link it back here.
Thank you so much for participating last week! The randomly selected winner is Miriam.
Welcome to another week of Project Life at Elle’s Studio!
This week’s Project Life covers the week of September 10-16th.
The right hand page shows two specific photos that I told a different story than expected. The top right is a picture of my daughter asleep on the couch at my husband’s work. Instead of stating just that, I shared that this was the hour before her ballet class (which is now in the afternoon this year). There has been a big shift in our after school activities and it’s been an adjustment for our family!
And finally, we took the first trip to our new library since moving. I made a list of all the books the kids picked out to checkout. I know it will be fun and interesting to look back and see what book choices they made.
Today we have a giveaway! Leave a comment here for a chance to win an Elle’s Studio Prize Pack. The winner will be announced next Tuesday!
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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I am excited to introduce you to this month’s Guest Designer, Linda Barber!
I am a big fan of Linda. I just love her and love her work. She creates beautifully balanced layouts, and always features rich journaling and beautiful stitching in her pages. Linda designs for Creating Keepsakes Magazine, Lawn Fawn, and Technique Tuesday. Be sure to stop by her gallery this month– such beautiful projects! Thank you for joining us this month Linda!
name: Linda Barber
location: Los Angeles, California
blog: miles of paper
twitter: @lindabarber
5. What are three facts about you that others might not know?
1. My husband and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year, and no, I was not a child bride
2. When I was little my mom told me that for every grain of rice I left in my bowl, my future husband would grow a pimple. My husband has me to thank for his beautiful skin.
3. I am a total germaphobe. I make everyone who comes into my house go straight into the bathroom and scrub their hands.
We are giving away three of Linda’s favorite Elle’s Studio items!
leave a comment here to win the True Happiness Stamp, Be Merry Number Cutouts, and Spooky Tales Pennants! We will post the winner on Monday October 14.
The two winners from our World Card Making Day celebration are:
New printable: blupixy
Prize pack: Jennybean
Congrats ladies! Please email us the following info asap:
Name:
Address:
Prize
Thank you all for playing along with us, we had so much fun celebrating World Card Making Day with you – if you missed all the fun you can still check out the blog post and get inspired by the amazing cards our past guest design team members, current design team members and our ES community members made! We also want to personally thank them for all the incredible cards they made to inspire us all!
