Sketch Thursday!

It’s been a busy week here at Elle’s Studio so we wanted to post a quick note to let you know that Sketch Thursday will be continued next week. But, while we are waiting for next week, we wanted to post last weeks winner:

Corrie, please email the following information to us at: info@shopellesstudio.com and we’ll get you your gift certificate!
Name:
Contest: 09.14.11 Sketch

I can’t tell you enough how much I LOVE looking at everyone’s layouts created from our sketches. Even though we randomly draw one winner each week, I do take a moment to stop by and peek at each persons entry – they are so much fun to see how you changed up the sketch and what you were inspired by! Everyone does such a great job!

Love you all,

September Guest Designer : Susan Weinroth

We are switching things up on the blog today and introducing our September Guest Designer before the gallery goes live tomorrow!

We are absolutely thrilled to have Susan Weinroth on board with us this month! She has such a fabulous scrapbooking style that is always so inspiring! We’ve been a fan of her work for quite some time now, so we feel honored to have her working with our products!

We asked Susan a few questions so we could all learn a little bit more about her, take a peek!

Name: Susan Weinroth
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Blog: http://www.susanweinroth.typepad.com
Twitter: @susanweinroth

Why did you start scrapbooking and how did you get started?
I first started in 2000 – my sister introduced me to lots of stickers and premade frames all just stuck on a page(!) – and then in 2004 adopted my current (evolving) style of page design.

What are three products you can’t live without?  
Circle punches, patterned paper, and my sewing machine.

What is your favorite color combination?
Aqua and ANYTHING – right now it’s usually orange.

Do you record every moment or just special ones?
I like to create pages with the photos that I LOVE – and I usually want the page to tell a story, or to remember a little memory, that I don’t want to go otherwise go unforgotten (but that we all know so easily can in the crazy-busy lives that we all lead).

What are your three favorite Elle’s Studio items?

  1. 3×3 Ledger {no year} Calendar – vintage
  2. Christmas Tiny Tags – set of 10
  3. Mix & Match Vintage Number Tags – set of 31 – Turquoise

Would you like a chance to win Susan’s favorite Elle’s Studio products?  We’d love to give them to one lucky winner!  Just leave a comment below and we’ll select one commenter at random to receive Susan’s three favorite Elle’s Studio products.  Comment must be posted by 11:59p on Saturday, September 24th, 2011.

And, stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ve got an amazing Inspiration Gallery coming your way… you’re going to LOVE it!

Thank you so much!

We want to thank you all so, SO much for your orders and enthusiasm over the last couple of days! We are so excited you like the exclusive kit + new holiday items and appreciate every order! We are shipping orders as fast as possible – check those in-box’s for your delivery confirmation. You’re support means the world to us and we are forever grateful for each one of you!

We have a fun surprise for everyone who bought the kit, or is going to purchase one. We want to see your finished kits and how you put them together! So all you have to do is blog your finished kit and link us up to it (via email, or blog comment by October 30th, 2011). Everyone who does will be entered to win a $50 gift certificate to our shop + have a chance to be featured on our blog! We are so excited about seeing your work and can hardly wait for those emails to start coming through!

Wishing everyone a wonderful week!

p.s. We are giving away one of these kits at Stephanie’s and May’s blog this week – make sure you leave a comment to be entered, even if you bought the kit! Because if you win and you already purchased the kit from us, we will reimburse you OR you can send it to a friend as a gift! How awesome is that?!

New Holiday + Limited Edition Project Kit is here!

It’s a BIG day here at Elle’s Studio! We have two parts to this big launch – the first part is our second ever, extremely limited edition Project Kit – Forever Grateful!

Our kit comes with 7Gypsies newest tray, papers and embellishments from popular manufacturers and 31 exclusive Elle’s Studio tags! Our tags that are included in this kit will never be printed again and are exclusive to this kit only – so once this kit is sold out, they are gone and we will not be restocking!

Here’s a little peek inside the kit:

Our kit includes everything – it even comes with full instructions for those who want to use them! Jenni Hufford, our Project Kit Coordinator, has put together her tray (shown below) and used some fun techniques! Her instructions will walk you through step-by-step to create this beautiful display! And, you’ll have a finished piece in no time!

All you need is your photos, scissors and glue and you can sit back with a cup of coffee while you create this beautiful piece for you, to give as a gift, or both! These would also make perfect holiday gifts for your mom and dad, or grandparents! Give them something that shows how Forever Grateful you are for them!

As a little bonus with this launch, we are giving away four (we upped it from two!) 7gypsies Display Easels – perfect for displaying your tray! Check your box to see if you were the winner!

And, stay tuned! Our design team is also working with this kit and will be inspiring you very soon with their trays, right here at our blog! See how each one put their own spin on the kit and what techniques they used! There will be some inspiration for everyone!

PART TWO of our launch is our new holiday tags! We wanted to launch our holiday items with the Project Kit this time since the kit costs a little bit more to ship. We figured by shipping everything together it would save you on shipping costs!

This year we made tags for Halloween, Christmas and Winter! Along with a couple thankful Snippets that would work great for thank you cards and one of my favorite number items, some layered number cutouts! Here’s a little peek at some of what’s new in the shop:

Whew! There is a lot more to see, so make sure you stop by the shop and check it out! And, don’t forget that the Forever Grateful Project Kit is extremely limited – once these are gone we will not be restocking! Our last Project Kit sold out in 4 days, so do not delay if you are thinking about getting it! We don’t want anyone to miss out on this one this time!

And, big, BIG thank yous to everyone who made a purchase during yesterdays “newsletter only” presale! We are forever grateful for you and will start shipping orders very soon!

Love you all!

Final Sneak Peek is here!

Woohoo! Happy weekend, everyone! Our final sneak peek of our next Project Kit (above) and our new Halloween tags (below) is here! The big launch starts for our newsletter subscribers tomorrow, and then to everyone else on Monday and we can hardly wait for you to see it all! 
Along with the limited edition Project Kit, we are releasing over 20 new items for Halloween, Christmas and Winter – our biggest launch to date! And, to top it all off we will be drawing random names from people who placed orders for the Project Kit to win a special present that goes along with the Project Kit!

We are headed back to work today to prep for it all and wish all of you a beautiful weekend!

Sketch Thursday: 9.15.11

Whew! We are knee-deep in packaging up our new items and kits for the big launch in a couple days and I looked up at the girls today and said “the sketch!” Eeek! We almost forgot it was Thursday – the days are going so fast! 
Today’s sketch is brought to you by our amazing design team member, Waleska! Don’t you just love that cluster of embellishments and the way she’s layed out her photos? And the layers of paper on your right hand side? So many things to get inspired here by!

This sketch has room for three photos and lots of embellishments – however, it’s totally up to you how you complete the sketch! Let’s take a look at how two of our other amazing design team members interpreted it:

Leslie played with the sketch this week and we are liking how she changed it up! She was inspired by the embellishment clusters – she added two and then chose to add one photo in the middle. She then added layers of paper on the top and bottom. Too cute, Leslie! It’s beautiful!

Elle’s Studio products used: Everyday Large Journaling Tags, Summer Circle Tags, 2011 Monthly Pennants, Red Pennants and Handmade Layers Inspiring Pennants

Marcy also played with the sketch and changed it up, too! She chose to put her photos in a straight line, adding paper layers underneath them and then she turned the embellisment cluster sideways! It turned out perfect! We love it, Marcy!

Elle’s Studio products used: Lime Pennants, and Handmade Layer Circles.

We adore both of these takes on the sketch and now it’s your turn! Flip it, add photos, etc.! It’s totally up to you 🙂

Looking for an incentive to use our sketch this week? We can help with that! Post a link to your layout created using this Sketch Thursday sketch for your chance to win a $5 Elle’s Studio gift certificate. Link must be posted by 11:59p on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.  

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:

 

Joanne, please email the following information to us at: info@shopellesstudio.com and we’ll get you your gift certificate!
Name:
Contest: 09.08.11 Sketch

Another Sneak Peek of our Upcoming Project Kit!

We just couldn’t resist posting another sneak peek of our next limited edition Project Kit today! This kit (and our other items) will be available to our newsletter subscribers this Sunday, September 18th and then to everyone the next day, on Monday, September 19th. You can read the full details, here.

This launch is going to be our biggest to date and we can hardly wait! Along with this limited edition Project Kit that is full of brand new items from very popular scrapbook manufacturers, exclusive Elle’s Studio tags and printed instructions, we are also launching our new Halloween, Christmas and Winter tag designs! I’m picking up the last batch from the printers today, so I’ll be able to show you some sneak peeks of them soon! It’s going to be a BIG week for sure!

Thanks for stopping by and we hope you all are having a great week!

Cards with Keisha!

Our guest designer this month, Keisha Campbell, has been featuring some amazing cards that she has made at her blog, with our tags! We love how she used the Handmade Layers line and some of the Everyday Journaling tags, layered with butterlfies and flowers – just perfect!

Imagine how fun it would be to receive one of these handmade beauties for your birthday or special occasion? Make sure you check out her blog to see all the close ups and even more cards!

Thanks for the inspiration, Keisha!

New items coming soon + Project Kit!

We are so excited to announce today that we have the date for our next launch set and it’s next week! Because our next exclusive + limited edition Project Kit is a little heavier than the last, we wanted to launch all our brand new tags for Halloween, Christmas and Winter at the same time so you can bundle everything up and save on shipping! Here are the details for the launch:

PRESALE FOR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS: As requested, we have set aside some kits for the presale! The presale will start on Sunday, September 18th at 9:00 am and be available for our newsletter subscribers only. You will be able to purchase the Project Kit, plus our brand new items for Halloween, Christmas and Winter! We just sent out a newsletter today announcing this, so if you didn’t receive that newsletter then you are not on our list! You can sign up here at our website and make sure you confirm your subscription! Once the kits sell out at the presale, you’ll have to wait until they are up for sale on the 19th to purchase one.

FOR SALE TO EVERYONE: The kit, along with our new items for Halloween, Christmas and Winter will up for sale to everyone on September 19th at 9:00 am. Please remember that our Project Kits are extremely limited and once they are sold out they are gone for good and we will not be restocking. Each Project Kit includes exclusive Elle’s Studio tags that you will not be able to find anywhere else!

SHIPPING: All orders will start shipping on September 20th. We will be shipping in the order that the orders where placed – so kits and tags purchased during the presale will ship first. We will be shipping orders as fast as possible, but because the kits take a little extra time, please expect a delay of a day or two.

Woohoo! We are so excited for next week – be on the look out for sneak peeks here at the blog this week and then we’ll have some special surprises for you next week! If you have any questions, please leave them here in the comments section and I will try to respond asap. Or, you can email me here.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Sketch Thursday: 9.8.11

Hello Thursday! I’m loving Thursday’s because they bring a new sketch and tons of inspiration! This weeks sketch is based off Design Team member, Stephanie Klauck’s Big Fish layout! We love how many photos she gets on a layout and how it tells her story with the extra photos + journaling! She always adds some extra embellishments to finish off the layout perfectly!

This sketch has room for four photos, but it’s totally up to you on how you interpret it! You can rotate the sketch, flip it – it’s totally up to you! Whatever inspires you … go for it!

Waleska played with the sketch this week and I love how she changed it up to an 8.5 x 11 layout, but still kept the basic idea of the four photos, larger journaling tag and echoed the pennant from the original layout! Too cute! Plus, check out that typewriter journaling on our journaling tag… Love it!

And, now it’s your turn – we can’t wait to see what you create! 

Looking for an incentive to use our sketch this week? We can help with that! Post a link to your layout created using this Sketch Thursday sketch for your chance to win a $5 Elle’s Studio gift certificate. Link must be posted by 11:59p on Wednesday, September 14, 2011. 
 

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:

Natt, please email the following information to us at: info@shopellesstudio.com and we’ll get you your gift certificate!
Name:
Contest: 09.01.11 Sketch