Welcome to World Card Making Day! It’s an exciting day for card makers and we have tons of fun in store for you! First, we are going to start off the day by announcing that we have a brand new printable in the shop and for this weekend only, it’s on sale for only $2!

It’s a super fun printable with tons and TONS of sentiments that are perfect for any kind of card! Just pull out some of your paper scraps, add a sentiment and you’re done! Plus, with this printable, you can print them out over and over again – so you’ll never be without a sentiment for your card!

We’ve asked some past guest designers, some current design team members, and some Elle’s Studio community members to play along with us today and put this new printable to use! We’ve asked them to share a sneak peek here, and then you’ll want to click over to their blog to see the full reveal!

Visit their blog (click on each of their names above) to see the full reveal of their card! You’ll even have a chance to WIN the new digital, so make sure you leave them some love to be entered!

We also have some fun cards that might inspire you, to share here at our blog!

Waleska made this cute card using our Everyday Greetings printables! We love that little cupcake with the big Thanks flags on top!

And, then Elle also had some time to make some cards to share with us today! The first ones where inspired by the new Be Merry collection! For the first card she used the “merry” tag from the mixed journaling tags and a tidbit! And, for the second card she was inspired by the Two Peas card sketch and used the Be Merry Cutouts, 3 inch circles and Pennants.

And, these fun thank you cards were made from scraps! We love, love, love using up our favorite scraps on our cards! The first card here uses a “thank you” tag from our Blessed Lil’ Snippets and the second card here uses a tag from the new Everyday Greeting printables!

And, last we have a little Halloween bag – even though it’s not a card, we had to squeeze this one in! It’s a cute sack that is full of candy, decorated with tags from our Spooky Tales collection!

Wow!! So much fun and inspiration – we hope you guys are loving it as much as we are!

We have two awesome giveaways for you today! First, we are giving away our new download to one lucky winner! And then, second we are giving away a fun prize pack of Elle’s Studio tags that we’ve put together!

To be entered to win, just leave a comment here and we’ll be drawing the two lucky winner tomorrow night (Sunday, October 7th at 8:00 pm PST)! So make sure you check back to see if you’ve won!

Also, if you are making cards today, make sure you join the ES community and upload your creations! We love browsing the gallery and you never know when we might ask YOU to participate in fun events like today! Hope you guys have a WONDERFUL and CREATIVE World Card Making Day!

I strongly believe that the words on our layouts and projects are just as important, or even more important than the photo. Most of the time, the photo cannot tell the whole story by itself. And, especially after years have past, we rely heavily on the journaling to tell us and others, the story behind the photo.

I’m excited to announce our new blog series, called Documented! With this series we will focus on helping you find and the tell the story you want to share on your projects!

For our first post in this series, we have a TIP! Sometimes the smaller details are the best details. Try telling a fun fact or detail that you cannot “see” in the photo. This layout is about the special flag cake my mom makes every year for our family reunion. But, what you can’t “see” is that it’s made from scratch – no box mixes here! And, she painstakingly picks through boxes and boxes of berries, and only the best ones go on top!

Even though I know these small details, the future me in 10 or 20 years may have forgotten such a fun fact! And, someone that hasn’t watched her make this cake would never know how much work goes into it. I love how it really personalized the story and showed how much work she puts into this cake. Without those details, you might just look at the photo and think it’s just another simple cake. 

I want to challenge you this week to share a fun fact and detail that you can’t actually “see” in the photo on your next project!

Supplies used: Elle’s Studio The Sweet Life Tiny Tags, The Sweet Life Cutouts, Monthly Tidbits and Detail Flag Stamps.

I’d love to know what topics you’d like help with in our future Documented posts! Please leave a comment with your suggestions or questions and we’ll try to answer them in the future!

Mark your calendars and join us here, at our blog, on October 6th & 7th for World Card Making Day! We have a TON of fun planned for you, including lots of inspiration for making cards from our design team, past guest designers, AND ES community members! Plus, we have a brand new printable tag set that has all kinds of card sentiments – This new printable will be on special this weekend only, so you don’t want to miss it!

Here’s a tiny sneak peek of the new printable that is coming on Saturday:

We can hardly wait until Saturday! We’ll see you bright and early – the fun starts at 6:00 am pst!

And, we have another special sneak peek for you guys – our instagram followers saw it first (if you’re not following us on instagram, you can find us with the user name ellesstudio). This fun EXCLUSIVE might be popping up in the store in a couple weeks, so keep your eyes out for more info! We’ll be sure to announce it here 🙂

Lots of fun in store for sure!

Fall is in the air around here and our design team has some incredible layouts and projects this month to inspire you! Above is just a tiny, TINY sneak peek of what’s in store for you this month in our October Inspiration Gallery!

We also have an amazing guest designer that is joining us this month, Linda Barber – it’s so exciting to have her on board! I got the chance to meet her at CHA last year and she’s a doll!

Alright, don’t wait any longer – hop on over and take a peek at the inspiring things! And, make sure you leave some comments and love for the team!

We have two winners to announce from our weekend challenge! The randomly drawn winners are ES community members: Laura and dorito6778!

Congrats, ladies! Please email us the following information as soon as possible:
Name:
Address:
Prize: Weekend Challenge prize pack

We had so much fun watching the layouts being uploaded this weekend and seeing what everyone is creating with our tags, so we wanted to feature a few of them here on our blog! If you aren’t a member, make sure you sign up – it’s totally free and you can upload your layouts, chat with other members, and more! And, we have some BIG plans for the future, too, that will either be highlighting the layouts being uploaded OR the members 🙂 It’s going to be tons of fun!

Below are just a few of the inspiring things people are making – head on over to our site to see the rest!

Brimfield 2012 by dorito6778

I Wash It Myself by mprantner

Prop Magic by Curlywiggles

The Wonderful Days of Summer Are Here by SuzMannecke

{smile} by jenchapin

Amazing!! Head on over to our site to see the rest – they are all so inspiring! And, thank you to everyone who played along – it was so much fun! Keep them coming!

We have two winners to announce tonight from our blog hop on Wednesday! The winners are:

Spooky Tales Collection:
The Copes

Be Merry Collection:
Sheezie111

Congrats! Please email us the following information:
Name:
Address:
Prize:

And, don’t forget about our Weekend Challenge!

Read all the details in this post. We’ve put together two really fun prize packs for the winners 🙂

Are you a member of the Elle’s Studio community? Signing up is free and allows you to upload your layouts to our member gallery, view, bookmark and comment on projects you love, chat at the message board and more! We also have some fun things planned for our members in the future 😉 so get signed up today and play along with us below!

Hey members! We want to see what you have been working on! Upload two layouts in our Member Gallery that uses at least one ES product (and make sure you tag them) and you’ll be entered to win one of the two fun prize packs we’ve put together!

After you’ve uploaded them, come back here and link us up to them – we’ll draw two winners on Monday so check back and see if you’ve won! We’ll also be featuring some of them, too, here on the blog!

I am so excited to announce that I will be teaching a Make n’ Take at True Scrap 4! I feel so blessed for this opportunity to be among the amazingly talented ladies who are also teaching! Lain has pulled together an amazing group that will leave you beyond inspired!

Here is a sneak peek at the project I will be showing you how to make in less than 15 minutes, from start to finish! And, I love how it makes the perfect display piece, too! I used our Spooky Tales collection and it came together so perfectly! However, I’m going to have to make another one, because my mom already “called dibs” on this one and it’s now on display at her house!

If you haven’t heard of True Scrap 4, you have to go check it out – it’s on online scrapbooking weekend that you do online, without leaving the house! Instructors teach via video and you can even watch them in your pj’s! I also love that you don’t have to travel and pack up your supplies – that is a double bonus!!

I hope you can join us for this scrapbooking weekend “getaway” – it’s going to be a blast!