CHA Summer Reveal – Be Merry

Welcome to the last day of our 2012 CHA Summer reveal! Are you ready to see what’s coming for the holidays?

We may have saved the best for last! Our Be Merry line is one of my favorite Elle’s Studio lines to date – I love the mix of vintage and white with this line and the shades of reds and greens are so beautiful together, just wait until you see it!

There are tons of options with this line and also, did you see those new numbers up there?!? So excited about December Daily with those!

WIN IT: Just leave a comment telling us what you love most about our Be Merry line and be entered to win! We’ll draw one winner that will win the entire collection on Monday, July 23rd!

Check back next week to see some fun pics from CHA adventure!

CHA Summer Reveal – Spooky Tales

Welcome to the third day of our 2012 CHA Summer reveal! Today we get to show you our fall line, called Spooky Tales!

Spooky Tales is a perfect mix of Halloween and Autumn – you’ll find tons of uses for these tags in fall for sure!

WIN IT: Just leave a comment telling us what you love the most and you’ll be entered to win the entire Spooky Tales collection! The winner will be drawn on Monday, July 23rd, so make sure you check back to see if you’ve won!

Tomorrow brings our last reveal and it’s all about Christmas! We can’t wait until you see what we have made!

CHA Summer Reveal – 2013 Calendars, and Everyday Tags & Stamps

Welcome to the second day of our 2012 CHA Summer reveal!

Our calendars are back for 2013 – Even the 3 x 4 size that everyone is loving! And, we’ve added a new design with the 3 inch circles calendars.

We’ve also added on to our Everyday Tags & Stamps, too! We’ve made some new 3 x 4 inch daily tags that work both vertically AND horizontal, which is a huge bonus and makes the tags even easier to work with. There’s also some monthly tidbits and some more great stamps!

WIN IT: We want to know what you love most! Just leave a comment and we’ll draw TWO winners – one person will win the calendars and the other person will win the everyday tags! Winners will be drawn on Monday, July 23rd.

We’ll see you tomorrow with some more sneaks!

Project Life

This week’s Project Life covers the week of June 18-24.

Last week I took the week off from Project Life because we moved!  I am now in the mode of getting back in the swing of Project Life (and unpacking!).   Summer is such a fun time to document Project Life, but I think it’s also important to offer ourselves grace as it really is a busy time of the year! 

I always love a challenge- and this week was no exception.  I had very minimal supplies unpacked from our move and used the basics (Elle’s Studio journaling tags, Becky Higgins’ Project Life Clementine Kit, and alpha stickers) to complete today’s layout.   I also found I didn’t have many photos for the 3×4 spots on the first page, so I created hand-cut chevron shapes out of some of the Clementine Core Kit Journaling Cards from Becky Higgins. 

A few “extras” included my son’s baseball schedule, a treasure hunt list for my kids, and a drawing from my cousin’s little girl for Jonah’s baseball game.

I have to admit, limiting my supply options to a few essentials was a nice change of pace!

 
Congrats to Heidi Y, you won last week’s giveaway! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:

Name/Address:
Contest: PL July 3

Prize: $5
 

We are giving away a $5 Elle’s Studio Gift Certificate!  Leave a comment on this post for your chance to win– we will announce the winner 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.

CHA Summer Reveal – The Sweet Life

Welcome to the first day of our 2012 CHA Summer reveal! We are so excited to show you, this week, what is going to be coming to Elle’s Studio over the next couple of months! Our first line is called “The Sweet Life:

This line is full of cute tags that celebrate LIFE! There are a ton of different sizes to choose from and a little something for everyone – there are even two fun stamps!

WIN IT: Want to win the entire Sweet Life line that will be out in August? Just leave a comment and let us know what you love the most and you’ll be entered to win. We’ll draw a winner next Monday, July 23rd, so make sure you check back to see if you’ve won!

Look for more CHA reveals tomorrow – we’ll see you then!

Our CHA Catalog Sneak Peeks!

We are BEYOND excited to be able to bring these sneak peeks of our catalog to you today! This is our very first catalog and we just love the way it turned out – and we hope you do, too!

Here are sneaks of the front and back covers – my mom came up with the idea to put tags all over the front and back, so besides just seeing the catalog, you are seeing sneak peeks of the new tags inside!!

We will be showing our five new lines next week here on the blog, but until then, here is also a sneak peek of one of the many layouts that will be in the booth at CHA! I had so much fun creating this layout and working with the new items:

Check back next week to see what’s coming very, VERY soon!

Also, I wanted to thank you all SO much for your sweet words on our CHA announcement and for all your emails, tweets, and to those who are telling their LSS about us! You are all so amazing and I can’t thank you enough for your incredible support over the years! Seriously, love you all SO much!

We will be taking a ton of pictures at CHA, and hopefully blogging them from the show, too! But, if we can’t, we will blog about the show as soon as we get home 🙂 And, for those who are going, we can’t wait to meet you!

Say Hello to Our New Design Team!

Today’s an exciting day – we are announcing the new design team members for the second half of 2012! We were so grateful for everyone who applied and had such a hard time narrowing it down – you guys are SO talented!! After a couple of rounds, we got it narrowed down to ten and decided to expand our team of eight to TEN! So now, every month you will get extra, EXTRA inspiration from our TEN Design Team members and our Guest Designer!

Before we announce the new team, we want to take a moment to thank our last team – they were an amazing group of ladies that I will be forever grateful for! Each month I felt so blessed to have them each working with our tags and for their support! LOVE them all!!

As we say goodbye to our current team, we want to welcome the new incoming team – that is also full of amazing ladies! They’ve also let us in on three fun facts about them! They are so fun to read – Please welcome these ten new ladies to our team:

Visit Angela’s blog
Visit Becky’s blog

Visit Diana’s blog

Visit Jill’s blog

Visit Jen’s blog

Visit Jennifer’s blog

Visit Kay’s blog

Visit Michelle’s blog

Visit Sophie’s blog

Visit Valerie’s blog

Also, with this new team, we will now be launching their galleries on the 1st of every month! Look for their first gallery debut on August 1st!

Summer CHA and Shipping Notice

In case you missed the BIG announcement a couple weeks ago, we wanted to let you know that we WILL be at Summer CHA!! EEEEKK! We are SO excited!! Make sure you spread the word and tell you LSS to stop by our booth!

We will be in booth number 1115, in the new exhibitor area and have lots of fun things planned!

We also wanted to let you know that while we are away we will not be shipping any orders – if you were planning to place an order, please do so by Sunday, July 8th! All orders placed after July 8th will not start shipping until we return on July 23rd.

And, for those who are going to CHA, please stop by and say hello! We can’t wait to meet you all 🙂

Sketch Thursday

Hello hello and happy Thursday (it is still Thursday here on the west coast ;)).

I have another sketch for you this week and just for fun I decided to mix things up a bit and make a card with it. Last week, someone asked if it was ok to make cards for the sketch and the answer is, of course! We love to see how the sketch inspires you. Layouts, cards, other crafty projects… anything goes 🙂

I used the Lil’ Snippets: Noted as a pocket and tucked the Lil’ Snippets: Tiny Labels with the birthday wishes in.


For a chance to win a $5 Elle’s Studio gift certificate, please post a link to your layouts inspired by the sketch here. Link must be posted by 11:59pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012.  Gift certificate can be used towards purchase of products only and can NOT be used for shipping charges. Gift certificate balance must be used in a single transaction.

Congratulations to last week’s winner… Kelly Jean!


Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:
Name/Address:
Contest: Sketch Thursday 06.21.12
Prize: $5