Christine Middlecamp is our Guest Designer! We are so thrilled and honored to have her on board this month with us! Her layouts feature beautiful layers that always amaze us! Check out her full gallery here.

She also picked our 2010 Vintage Calendars for the special of the month! For the entire month of September you can receive 10% off them!!

Thank you so much for your amazing layouts, Christine! So inspiring!!
xo, Elle

All of our new items are up in the shop! Here is a look of some of the new items we didn’t show in the sneak peek: Snowflake stamp set that allows you to mix and match like the Gingerbread stamp set! You can make gift and journaling tags, and more! Great for cards, too!!
These “yearless” vintage calendars were a special request! Now you can write in the year at the bottom!
Lots and lots of flashcards! New sets are: Fall, Halloween, Christmas, Santa and Winter!
Vintage Moments at Christmas journaling tags! These are larger for those longer stories you want to journal!
BRAND NEW! 4 x 4 papers! These are printed on lightweight paper and are perfect for mini books or cards! We designed two sets: Holiday and Halloween!
Gift tags to top off those special packages, too!

There’s lots and lots more, 25 new items total! You can check them all here. Even a card kit, which we will be showing off some cards we made with it soon!

And, there is a little special we are doing with this launch:Every order will receive a free roll of deco tape*!! We fell in love with this tape and since it is our Holiday launch, we thought everyone should get a little present with their orders! *while supplies last!

Thank you so much for all your comments and well wishes! We are so excited to hear how much everyone is liking this launch, it means the world to us!! We love you guys so much!!

xo, Elle

p.s. We have two winners from our last post! They are:
JPScraps at: August 27, 2009 6:35 PM
Jenny Wilson at: August 29, 2009 8:49 PM

Congrats!! Please email me your address and I’ll get your goodies out asap!

{Christmas Advent or December Daily numbers!}
{eek!! There will be Halloween stuff, too!}

Today we have our last sneak peek and giveaway before our big launch this coming Monday! To enter, just leave a comment below or email us (with the subject: Giveaway for sneak peek #3) and tell us what your favorite part of the holiday season is!

We will draw two winners on Monday and each person will win a surprise pack of our new items valued at over $40!

Thank you so much for joining us this week and all your comments! It’s been a blast!!
xo, Elle

p.s. We had previously posted that we’d be wrapping up our Summer 2009 Documented project this week… but, we decided we still have more pages we’d like to add! So, we’ll continue this project through the first couple weeks of September!!

Sneak peek #2 is of one of our new stamps! It’s a gingerbread dress-up doll! You can put a dress or shorts on them and top them off with a hat, tie or bow! They look sooooo cute and I just couldn’t wait any longer to share this sneak peek with you!!

Love you all!
xo, Elle

Here’s a sneak peek of two of our new items that will be launching on next Monday, August 31st:We are so excited to share these with you!! Make sure you check back throughout the week as we share more sneak peeks of our new items and we’ll be having a fun giveaway, too! We have a ton of fun things in store for this launch and we can’t wait to share all the details!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
xo, Elle

P.S. We just sent out a newsletter… if you didn’t receive one that means you are not on our list! Click here to sign up – we’ll be sending one out with our new item release and it will have a special offer just for newsletter readers!!

We have a winner to announce from our last post! The winner of the Kitschy Digital {Goods} is….
Carrie who posted on August 20, 2009 8:09 PM

Congrats, Carrie! Please email me soon 🙂

We want to give a huge thank you to Danielle for providing the giveaway! Make sure you check out her shop – it is stocked full of amazing paper goods and some really fun embroidery patterns, too!

And… we are super excited to announce that new items will be launching on Monday, August 31st! Check back next week as we wrap up our summer project and share some awesome sneak peeks of our new items that are coming really soon!!

Happy weekend, everyone!
xo, Elle

The end of summer is creeping up on us so soon – I truly wish these long and sweet summer days would last forever, however I am really excited for what the fall and winter season brings, too!

My newest page I added to my summer mini is about our favorite ice cream parlor called Big Scoop. This place is so special to me and my sister – my parents took us there when we were little kids and it was always, and still is, a special treat!

When I was starting to scrapbooking this page all I could think about were Danielle Thompson’s Ice Cream Cones and how perfect they’d be for it 🙂 The hardest part was choosing which one to use – they are all so cute!!
I also used the Ice Cream tag and journaling block from our digital download and a Vintage Calendar tag.
I also roughed up the edges of the ice cream cones and ice cream tag with my fingernail – love the vintage look it creates!
And, since I had a ton of photos from the parlor I decided to just punch holes in the photos and put them in the book with Danielle’s Ice Cream Cones and our Granny’s Doily Circle Tags – it’s like the ice cream cones are talking!
We are so, SO excited because today we have a giveaway from Danielle Thompson for you guys! Danielle is one of my favorite designers and I just love everything she does! Her blog is a must see! She also has an etsy shop that has some amazing prints and Blythe accessories (Blythe accessories coming tomorrow) I don’t own a Blythe doll but her accessories make me want to get one just so they can wear the things she makes! So cute!!

So one person will win four cut out sheets from her Kitschy Digital {Goods} shop!
PLUS! Her new Washi Tap Frames Digital Kit:
And, her new Woodgrain Frames Digital Kit!
Pure eye candy! These would all be great for your summer minis and MORE! Make sure you check out her other Kitschy Digital Blog, too for tons of inspiration! They have an amazing design team. And, some of her kits are also for sale at Two Peas!

To enter the giveaway just leave a comment below or email us (with the subject: Kitschy Giveaway) and we’ll be drawing one name this coming Saturday!

Happy Summer!!
xo, Elle

Have you seen these amazing Escape Art Journals from Evalicious?
They are packed full of goodies and include some of our tags, too! They are definitely a must see – thanks so much, Eve for making such a wonderful kit and including some Elle’s Studio tags!!

xo, Elle

Hi there! Kristin Hayne here and I wanted to show you a quick tip on making your products stretch! Ever get a great idea and then find that you don’t have the right color for the project? Take this sunshine card… I wanted to add felt swirls for a little extra dimension on the card but I only had the color pink.
So, I simply pulled the backing off and sprinkled yellow flocking to the adhesive side to make a more cohesive yellow look.
Next, I added it to the card as seen below…
Along with a Granny’s Doily Circle tag and ta da!
Here it is!
You could also do this with shaped borders, acetate, stickers… the possibilities are endless! Try using glitter on the adhesive as well. You get an entire new look out of a product that may have not been used otherwise!

Have fun!
-Kristin Hayne

Thank you, Kristin! This is an amazing idea that I have never, ever thought of! I can’t wait to dig into my unused scrap items and put them to good use now!! xo, Elle