Our design team has put together another amazing gallery for us – here’s a little sneak peek of what’s coming this Thursday, when the entire gallery goes live! Can’t wait!!

Alright, have you guys heard of Color Inc.? They are a really cool company that can print a ton of amazing things for us scrapbookers! Like gallery wrapped canvas, spiral bound photo books, greeting cards and regular photos, too! We are really excited to be able to team up with this company and they are offering a giveaway to our blog readers!

Color Inc. is offering two of our readers each their very own spiral photo book – and the best part is, you get to pick the size! The photo above is what one of them looks like. These would be perfect for a little brag book, large vacation style photo book and MORE!

To win, just leave a comment below, telling us what your favorite book size is, and we’ll be drawing two names this Wednesday night!

And, in the mean time, if you need to order some regular photos, you can get 25 free prints by using the coupon they’ve created just for our readers (found on the left side of our blog) , at checkout use code: elles25 for your free prints!

Good luck, everyone!
xo, Elle

We are in shock that it’s already that time again to start preparing for a new design team for the second half of 2010! We have had an amazing time with our current team and will be so sad to see them go, but are excited for what’s go come 🙂 So bittersweet!

We are on the hunt for 6 people that love to scrapbook and that would like to work with our items for the last six months of 2010 (from July through December)!

You will be responsible for:
– 2 layouts and one card or tag 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 challenges during your term
– Each designer will be spotlighted during their own special month! During your month we’ll need you to answer a short interview questionnaire and create a fun blog project 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
– Special compensation if any of your layouts or projects gets published!

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 June 10th
– 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, this time around, we are looking for one or two 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!

Overseas and international designers, please feel free to apply, too! We’d love to have people from all over the world design for us!

We will be announcing the Design Team members in late June! This team will be designing from July – December and then we’ll be putting another team together to start the new year!

That’s right! Mark your calendars for May 24th, when our digital kits will go live! And, make sure you’re on our newsletter list to receive a special offer just for our newsletter subscribers!

What’s in store for this launch? We have turned a lot of our retired designs into digital kits, along with a couple brand new, never been seen before designs that are going straight to digital! PLUS, we can’t forget about our Print & Cut kits, we’ll be adding more of these, too!

All our digital kits come with .png files, plus .pdf files that allow you to print the set of tags out on one or two sheets and cut them out – this means you get to print as many tags as you need, but only pay once!

We’re excited about our new digital launch and hope you’ll join us!
xo, Elle

Hi there, my name is Mel and I reside in sunny Australia. I live in the south and it gets very cold in winter and scorching in summer. I wouldn’t like it any other way (perhaps a little warmer in winter…).

I live with my husband and two kids, Lilly (6) and Tobey (4). I keep busy by being a stay at home mum, and I am also studying my Graduate Diploma to become a high school science teacher. I plan to work full time when Tobey starts school in January. I have not been scrapbooking as much as I would have liked lately but it is a great way for me to unwind once the kids go to bed.

I love being on the Elle’s studio Design Team, and I am also a Support Team member for Kim Archer Workshops @ Home.

What is your favorite color combo?
I have a few favorites, scrapbooking and in other areas of my life. I love red, black and grey together to wear, but I like brighter colors in my scrapbooks. Red and aqua is nice together too.

What is your favorite scrapbooking supply?
I love Elle’s Studio circle tags… I have ever since Elle started making them. Now that Elle has the bigger circle tags, I am totally in love!!! My second favorite scrapbooking item would have to be patterned paper, because I love to make my own embellishments with it and I love punching shapes too.
Why do you scrapbook and how did you get started?
I scrapbook so that my kids can stay in touch with their story. Everyone has a “story” and unfortunately I remember little about my own childhood, and have only a few photos. I want my kids to grow up with a colourful history of what makes them unique.

I began scrapbooking in 2004 when Lilly was only 5 months old. I went to a local market where a lady was booking Creative Memories parties. I loved the idea of a scrapbook, but did not book a party. It wasn’t until I was in a coffee shop and I picked up a copy of a scrapbooking magazine, that I really started thinking about starting. In the magazine a fantastic Aussie scrapbooker had won a major prize and her work was featured. The artist was Kim Archer. I fell in love with her shabby chic style and bought a bunch of supplies.

There was no turning back after that. It’s funny how you get to meet wonderful ladies through scrapbooking. I met a lady in the local scrapbooking store when we were first starting out, and now our girls (her twin girls and Lilly) go to school together and are best friends. Us mums are pretty good friends too!
Who inspires you?
Lots and lots of crafty ladies inspire me, whether they are artists, scrapbookers, quilters, or fibre artists. I find that if I lack a little mojo, my scrapbooking friends and I get together and try to spark some creative inspiration from one another.

What is your favorite thing about scrapbooking?
I love the friendships that I have made through scrapbooking, and the fun we have together. I also love the creative freedom that scrapbooking provides. One of my other passions is taking photographs so I just love the whole scrapbooking process. Oh and another thing I love… shopping for new products (wink!).

I don’t have a lot of photos of my scrap space because I don’t have one anymore! We moved house recently and downsized. I didn’t think it would be a problem because I would be studying for the next couple of years. I miss my scrap room, and here are a few close-ups of things that used to be around my scrap space.
Thanks so much for sharing with us today, Mel! It was great getting to know more about you and your previous scrap room looks divine! Love all the vintage furniture pieces 🙂 It’s been so fun having you apart of our team – we feel so lucky to have you!

We are headed out of the studio a little early this Friday because we have lots of prep to do for Mother’s Day!

We want to wish all the Mom’s out there a very HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! The day is yours to celebrate and we hope you have a great time surrounded by the ones you love!

I also want to say how thankful I am for my mom! She is such an amazing person! She is always there to offer tremendous help and support to me and has helped SO MUCH with Elle’s Studio that I cannot even begin to find the right words to thank her! She’s the best, BEST, BBBEEESSSTTT mom ever 🙂 Can’t wait to celebrate the weekend with you, Mom! I LOVE you!!

xo, Elle

What an amazing and creative weekend we had – loved celebrating National Scrapbooking Day(weekend) with all of you. Thank you so much for all your sweet comments! You are all so kind 🙂

We have four winners to announce from this post. BIG congrats to…….
Banner Kit: Stacey Newton Legg via Facebook

Adhesives: Shelleycee at May 2, 2010 8:02 am

Stamps:
Kelly at May 2, 2010 3:49 PM
Leslie Gore Owens via Facebook

Please contact us asap with your shipping address and we’ll get those goodies out asap!

I also finished up my “Week In The Life” project, so I wanted to share it with you today! I LOVE documenting events, special moments, meaningful moments and MORE! So, Ali Edwards “Week In The Life” project is always at the top of my list of things to participate in when she does it at her blog – however, this month has been a little busy for me, but I didn’t want to miss it, so I decided this time I was going to do it super, SUPER simple.
I used our “This Week” note tags to make a mini book! These also fit perfectly into the baseball/ATC page protectors!
I journaled on the tags as the days went by, and then printed out my photos all at the same time, and cut them down to the same size as the “This Week” tag.
After decorating the cover with some alphabet stickers, I turned over the “cover” tag and glued Sunday’s photo to the back. I repeated this for each day, so when you turned the page, each photo would line up with the correct day.
A couple of days I had some items I collected (like a recipe I had made) from the day that I wanted to include.
For the recipe one below I used a “The Details” tag, folded up the recipe and glued it to the tag.
Then, I made a pocket with the Tuesday “This Week” tag, by only gluing three sides of the Wednesday photo to the Tuesday tag. Then inserted the recipe that was glued to the detail tag inside.
Worked great! Then, after the photos are glued on to each tag, I punched holes in the upper left hand corner and strung some thread through it!

Here are some close ups:
Lots of fun and it’s like a little treasure! I love little and simple mini books!

Thanks again for stopping by and making our NSD weekend so much fun! Happy creating!!
xo, Elle

Whoa! We feel so grateful for all the entries with super sweet comments and for everyone who stopped by our facebook page and twittered!! Thank you so much 🙂 You made our day!! And, so fun to hear you all liked what Jenni did with our new items – it was amazing!!

First, the winners from yesterday! We gathered all the names together (blogger, facebook and twitter) and drew the following:
David and Jackie at May 1, 2010 4:16 PM
Miss Tami at May 1, 2010 12:43 PM
Angie Backen via Facebook

Please contact us asap with your shipping address and we’ll get those goodies out asap!

Okay, are you ready?! We have another day of giveaways planned for you! We are celebrating National Scrapbooking Day all weekend long 🙂
Remember this banner tutorial that we featured last week (photo above)? Well, we are giving away the supplies for you to create your own, today!

First giveaway: One person will receive the Elle’s Studio Mini Papers and Sweet Summer Circles, a Maya Road Mixed Scallop Triangle Banner Album, and some Cosmo Cricket Paul Bunyan Alphabet Chipboard Letters!
Second giveaway: Another person will win these Helmar Adhesives that Helmar has graciously donated for today’s giveaway! These are my FAVORITE adhesives, they work and stick sooo good!
Third giveaway: And then, last but not least! TWO people will each win these two stamps below, the Sweet Summer Stamp (that was used on Jenni’s layout yesterday) and the Birthday Stamp!
There are TWO ways to enter today:
1. Leave a comment on this post today or you can email us your comment if you can’t post a comment
2. Leave a comment on our facebook wall!

We’ll leave this giveaway open until Monday around noon PST time, so make sure you check back then to see if you’re a winner! And, don’t forget about our NSD Specials! They end on Monday!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by yesterday and today! Hope everyone is having a great NSD weekend!
xo, Elle

Happy National Scrapbooking Day, everyone! Isn’t it so cool that we actually have a national holiday to celebrate the hobby we love?!? Amazing!We have some cute inspiration for you today from Jenni! She used a ton of our new items and we love how she layered them together! The image above even uses the “Sweet Memories” part of our Sweet Summer Stamp, stamped on to our Mini Papers! And, it is so clever how she used a punched out photo to put inside our new and larger 3 inch Sweet Summer Journaling Circles!
And, that pennant banner?! LOVE!!! She cut our Sweet Summer 2 inch circles in half, then added some stitching and rhinestones – so beautiful! Huge thanks to Jenni for inspiring us today!

We have some giveaways for you today, too!

The first giveaway: One person will win this kit that includes all our new items that Jenni used in the layout above, plus more!
The second giveaway: Two people will win this cute kit that includes some of our other new items!
Woohoo!! We have THREE ways to enter!
1. Leave a comment on this post (if you cannot comment, please email us your comment)
2. Leave a comment on our Facebook wall
3. Tweet about our NSD specials or giveaway, linking to our blog or store – Please use hash tag #elles so we can find your tweet!

We’ll pull THREE winners for all the options above, first thing tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Please feel free to enter once at each of the three options!

More giveaways coming tomorrow, too! And, if you are looking for our NSD Specials, make sure you check out the post from yesterday! Free shipping, sale and more!

This is a wonderful day! We hope you all have a super crafty one 🙂
xo, Elle