Supplies used: 2010 Vintage 5 x 5 Calendar and 7gypsies Photo Display Stand

We want to start off with a huge THANK YOU to all our family, friends and customers – words cannot express how blessed we feel to have you! Your support over the years has been incredible and we feel so blessed to be able to create things you enjoy 🙂 We love you!!

We are looking forward to spending 2010 with you – each year gets bigger and better, so 2010 should be a blast! A couple things we are super excited for are: our Design Team will be inspiring you all year long, new blog challenges (check back tomorrow!), our valentine’s line (eek!) and our very first super duper HUGE sale on our Limited Quantity items, plus many, MANY more things we have in store that will be talking about soon! We’ll have dates set for our new line launch and sale very soon, just have to make sure we have a couple more things lined up before we announce it 🙂

We wanted to look back and reflect on all the happenings in 2009 – I went through and pulled out some of our favorite memories. It was so much fun to do this, I highly recommend it! I can’t believe how many things I had forgotten about, already!

Some of our favorite memories from 2009 are:
Designing our first stamp set
Handmade With Love craft week
Valentine Tags featured on “Your Carolina”
We turned two years old!
Launching our first Digital Items
Going to the Farm Chick show and getting to meet tons of amazing people
My Mom’s Fourth of July cake 🙂 yummy!!
Summer 2009 Documented
The deer that lived in our yard
Halloween photo shoot
Shipping candy treats with every order in October
World Card Making Day Blog Party
My dad spraying spider webs with paint!
Our first design team search
Our first design team 🙂
CKC in Seattle – met so many people, it was a blast!!
Operation Write Home card contest
Making gingerbread houses with my sister

There’s so many! And, we are hoping to make even more memories this year with you 🙂

We wish everyone a wonderful and fantastic New Year! Happy 2010!!
xo, Elle
p.s. Our first blog challenge starts tomorrow 🙂 Can’t wait!

Eek! We are so excited to share this tiny sneak peek with you of our upcoming valentine’s launch! We are planning to launch our new items very soon, but are waiting on one last thing before we set and announce an exact date 🙂

Lots of super fun things in store for the new year! I still can’t believe another year has went by so fast! It’s incredible to think about all we’ve been through and all the new friends we’ve made and met 🙂 I think I’m going to make one of those “looking back” lists… those look fun!!

Thanks for letting us share this with you, we hope you like it!!

Xo, Elle

We are back from our vacation! We had an amazing time with our family and friends, and we hope you did, too! No snow this year for us, but that’s okay… maybe next year! Anyone have any great holiday stories? We’d love to hear them!!

I felt so excited, inspired and refreshed that I started extra early this morning 🙂 We have so, SO much in store for the new year and we’ll be sharing some details, soon!

We are hoping to get all orders, that were placed while we were gone, out today. We don’t want to make you wait any longer!!

Thank you for all your patience and support during this time, we appreciate, love and missed you so much!!
xo, Elle

We want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season 🙂

The shop is now closed until December 28th as we spend some extra time this week with our families!

See you when we return! Merry Christmas!
xo, Elle

Christmas is almost here!! I’m getting so, SO excited, I can hardly wait to give my family their gifts! I picked out and made some really fun and unexpected ones this year… since they read this blog, I can’t tell you what they are… yet!

We were super excited with these little gift boxes Kristin Hayne made for us! They are perfect for gift giving! And, what’s in this one? A super cute ornament filled with our mini papers all curled up – love it!She also made this box, that is a little smaller and waiting to be filled with something special 🙂
These little boxes look so cute in our Christmas decorations, too! Thanks so much for all your hard, amazing work, Kristin!

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
xo, Elle

Please note: We will be taking December 21st – 28th off to spend the holidays with our families. If you are planning on placing an order, please make sure your order is in by 8 am (Pacific Time) on the 21st. The 21st is our LAST shipping day until the 28th, when we return.

I’ve had a couple people ask for other ideas of what to fill the goodie bags with and thought maybe I should do a blog post about it! If you live near a dollar store, make sure you check it out! They have perfect, affordable little knick knacks that work great for putting in the bags! Also, don’t forget about candy canes, too!Supplies used: Digital Download Holiday Bags

The bags couldn’t be easier to make! Print them out at home, fold and glue! Can’t wait to hand these out 🙂

Tomorrow we have one last project to share from Kristin, can’t wait! Hope everyone’s having a wonderful holiday season!!

Christmas is only a week away, can you believe it?!
xo, Elle

Brown paper packages tied up with… holiday tags, gingerbreads and fabric ribbon! Daniela made these cuties and we are so glad she did!
Supplies used: 4 x 4 mini papers, holiday tags, and gingerbread stamp set
I love their little hair accessories! Too cute!! And, in each of the bags are these adorable cookie cutter sets! These would make great gifts for the holidays – perfect for hostesses, too!
Thanks so much for sharing these with us, Daniela! We loved the way you decorated these gifts!

Samantha surprised me over the weekend with this amazing flashcard/gingerbread Christmas garland!
She did an amazing job – I love how she added the gingerbread between each of the flashcards, too cute!!
And, I love how she made the dresses and shorts out of our 4 x 4 papers and how strung it on her tree!
Supplies Used: 4 x 4 mini papers, Christmas Flashcards and Gingerbread Stamp set

So cute! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, Samantha! Love all those extra details you added, too!!

This is something new we will be starting for 2010, but we wanted to give you a little preview of this new and fun idea extra early!

Each month we want to feature items from people that have used our products, but are not on our design team! And, soon, you’ll see on the side of our blog how you can submit your project to be showcased 🙂 We are super excited to see what everyone creates and to be able to share it with our readers!

Let’s get started:This whisk gift project was made by Valerie and what a cute idea! She even filled the whisk with Hershey kisses!! Love it! She used our scalloped circle tags and Granny’s Doily tags.

Christine Middlecamp amazing layered layout features our 4 x 4 mini papers and vintage winter flashcards. She has also put together a little tutorial at her blog to show how she put it together, make sure you check it out – looks amazing!!

We love how Jill used our calendar tag from her Studio Calico kit! And, all the other details in this layout are incredible! So pretty!!

And, Marci, from the Helmar Design Team used our vintage Christmas flashcards on her adorable little gingerbread house! We love it – so inspiring!!

Thank you so much for sharing these projects with us, ladies. We love them all so much!!
xo, Elle

Aren’t these just the cutest?! Kristin Hayne totally surprised me with these a month ago to put on display at our CKC show! She covered paper mache shapes with our 4 x 4 holiday papers – I never thought to do this for ornaments! How cute would these look on the tree?!
She even distressed the edges and added a little white paint. And, added some extra texture embellishments, too!
The star turned out amazing – love how she used each of the 6 different papers and alternated them! I think I’ll have to make a couple of these for my mom – she’ll love them!

Thanks Kristin!