I can hardly wait – coming November 1st is something fun, that we’ve never done before! Make sure you’re signed up to receive our newsletter to be the first to know about it! Eeeeek! 🙂

We’ve had so much fun with Halloween over the years that we thought a fun little recap post would be perfect! Here’s a look back from this year and last year at all the fun we’ve had with this holiday! This year, we just had digitals for Halloween – next year we will be back to printed tags!!
Halloween Mini Book by Kristin Hayne, using these digi/printable tags. Full instructions here.

Trick-or-Treat bag by Valerie Allen using this tag set. Click here to see the original blog post.

Cards, candy bar wrappers and more by Anna Jo. She used all our digitals to create this set. Click here for original blog post.

These fun boxes where made by Sheri for our Inspiration Gallery. She used this template to create these out of our digi papers and tags.
Halloween Pail by Emily Cheney – she used our Halloween papers and tags.

Yummy, yummy coconut cake! Original blog post here.
Spooky cupcake toppers – free download available here.

Witch hat’s that hold little treats inside! Original blog post here, papers used are now available has digital downloads.

Fun banner by Jennifer Findlay using lots of our digitals. Original blog post here.

Halloween decor by Lisa Andrews, also using our digitals! Original blog post here.

Halloween Punched Tin Cans – original blog post here.

Trick-or-Treat banner that you can print out and create at home! Now available here.

Happy Halloween banner that you can print out and create at home! Now available here.

And, last but not least! Our Halloween Goodie Bags that can hold candy for your trick-or-treaters or even other stuff like popcorn! So much fun and super easy to make!

It’s already that time again! We are on the hunt for 8 people that love to scrapbook and that would like to work with our items for the first six months of 2011 (from January through June)!

You will be responsible for:
– 2 layouts and plus either one card, special tag or mini per month for our inspiration gallery
– Sending photos of your layouts, cards and tag to us by a certain date
– Participating in two of our new monthly blog tutorials/projects during your six month term (2 total)
– Each designer will be spotlighted during a special month! During your month we’ll need you to answer a short interview questionnaire and create a fun layout to go along with your spotlight
– Checking in and keeping up to date with our Google group
– Posting your creations on your blog and in other galleries around the web

You will receive:
– All your layouts, cards, tags and projects posted on our site and blog
– Tons of Elle’s Studio products to work with!
– A link on our blog to yours
– Ability to request items for projects you have in mind

To apply:
We have set up a special email account for collecting applications only. Please send the following to us in one email, to ellesstudio@gmail.com Applications are due by November 15th:
– Three images of three different layouts, cards or project(s) that best represent you and your style. Images must be no larger than 600 x 600 px.
– A short 300 word bio about you
– Link to your blog
– Link to any gallery you are currently posting to
– Include any current or past design team or publications
– Also, we are looking for some people that would like to incorporate our digital elements into their pages. If you are able to do this (download and print), please let us know when applying!

We will be announcing the Design Team members in late November! This team will be designing from January – June and then we’ll be putting another team together to finish off the year!

Please note: Overseas and international designers are welcomed to apply, too – Yes! We’d love to have people from all over the world design for us!

I saw these punched cans that they did for a wedding and I thought how fun would it be to do something like this for Halloween? Well, I’m not going sugar coat it, it was hard! But, in the end, it turned out to have a cool look on our porch, so it might be worth it 🙂 Probably easier to just carve the pumpkins, but if you’re looking for a challenge and something different to do this year, then this is the craft for you!

Here’s what you’ll need:
Cans that have frozen water in them (fill all the way to the top and freeze overnight, the bottom will probably pop out, but you can just hammer it back in), hammer, a nail, a Sharpie, and spray paint.
Try to wipe some of the frozen frost on the outside away and draw your word or shape with the Sharpie.
Take the hammer and nail and start punching! Try to get the holes as close together as possible. It’s super hard to punch on the bumpy surface and should probably only be done by an adult.
After they are punched, let the ice melt away and take them outside to paint. I painted the inside first, taping off the holes on the outside. Then I painted the outside, taping off the holes on the side. Warning: The holes will be SHARP!
And, here it is on the porch! Like my tricks or treats sign? I got clever this year and found some magic tricks at the dollar store! Some bags are filled with a magic trick for the “tricks” and some are filled with candy for the “treats”! Should be a fun surprise for the kids 🙂 I used our hybrid Halloween bags!

Hope everyone has a fun and crafty weekend!
xo, Elle

October’s Inspiration Gallery is LIVE and it’s pretty amazing!! Head over here to check it out, below is just a tiny sneak peek of what’s in store:

By Valerie:By Sheri:
By Mel:
By Lisa:
By Jennifer:
By Ann-Marie
By Anne Jo:
By Amy:
There’s LOTS more to see – don’t miss it!! You can see the rest of the galleries here!