Document December Inspiration: Week 05

Hello, friends, and Happy New Year! Today we’re bringing our final post of Document December inspiration from our amazing 2020 design team, and we can’t wait to share how they are finishing off their December albums! Let’s take a look!

Patricia Roebuck

Patricia is documenting her advent calendar in this spread, and we just love the vellum title page that she added on the right using our Large Jane Alphabet Stamps and Document December Kit.

Suzanna Lee

Suzanna chose to document a special delivery and how her family spent Christmas Eve on these spreads using our Document December Kit. We love how she used the Pocket, Frame, and Flip Up Metal Die to add extra journaling to her pages, too.

Tracey Fox

Tracey is recording an epic baking day on this layout, and we just love her title in the round created with our Dark Red and Dark Green Puffy Alphabet Stickers.

Melissa Mann

Melissa is recording lots of festive moments: the Christmas tree, Grinchy decorations and baking adventures using our Document December Kit!

Amy Jo Vanden Brink

Amy Jo created the sweetest tiny envelopes as embellishment to a family photo using our Fa La La Paper Stack and Document December Kit. We just love this spread!

Amanda-jayne Baldwin

Amanda created the sweetest pages to record Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day in her album in such a lovely way using our Document December Kit! We especially love how she used our Merry Christmas Card Front Tags to create her beautiful page for Christmas Day.

Jess Forster

Jess created a magical spread in her mini album using our Document December Kit, and we love the special moment she captured of her kiddos in front of the tree!

Kristina Proffitt

Elf antics abound in these awesome pages created by Kristina using our Document December Kit and Elf Approved Stickers! We love her small 2″ x 2″ pockets filled with fun! 

Marsha Farris

Marsha used our newest dies in such fun ways on this spread to record her son and his teach gifts. Her trio of hearts created with our My Heart Metal Die on the left balances a tag created with our Merry Christmas Card Front Tags and a pocket created using our Pocket, Frame, and Flip Up Metal Die on the right.

Jennifer McMurtrey

Last, but not least, we love the shiny title page that Jennifer created using our Large Jane Alphabet Stamps that opens to reveal hidden journaling. She balanced that with a fun embellished tag created with our Pocket, Frame, and Flip Up Metal Die that flips up to hold extra photos. What an interactive and beautiful spread!

We hope that these posts have inspired you to finish off your December albums, and in case you missed any, be sure to click the links below to see more inspiration!

Document December Inspiration: Week 01

Document December Inspiration: Week 02

Document December Inspiration: Week 03

Document December Inspiration: Week 04

Thanks so much for recording your December with us this year, and be sure to share your pages with us in our Elle’s Studio Facebook Group or on Instagram using the hashtag #EllesStudio!

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Say Hello to our 2021 Design Team and January sneak peeks!

Happy New Year, everyone! One of our traditions is to kick off the start of the new year by introducing our new Design Team! Before we do, we want to send big hugs and give a huge THANK YOU to our 2020 team who kept us inspired all year long! We are so thankful for all of their amazing projects they created and grateful for our time together! We love you!

2021 is going to be another amazing year filled with incredible inspiration and we are excited to welcome some of our past team members back, along with new team members, too! Say hello to our 2021 Design Team:

Row 1: Aimee Mertell, Amanda Baldwin, Ellie Augustin, Jackie Ashton, Jennie McGarvey

Row 2: Jennifer McMurtrey, Jody Compton, Junell Kruzel, Katarina Prevendarova, Kim Chaffin

Row 3: Marsha Farris, Meg Gundlach

Row 4: Meghann Andrew, Melissa Mann, Michelle Flynn, Nathalie Leonelli, Nicole Kerr

Row 5: Patricia Roebuck, Sarah Kee, Shannon Dombkowski, Suzanna Lee, Wei Wei Wang

We feel so blessed to have such an awesome team and we cannot wait to see their projects they create with our products – These ladies will be bringing us new inspiration all year long here on our blog, Instagram, and Facebook group! Make sure you follow each Design Team member on Instagram by clicking their links above or by visiting our Instagram post!

We are also excited to announce that our January kit + coordinating add-ons reveal is almost here and we can’t wait to share all the new and exclusive products that will be available soon! Our reveal will be full of the perfect products to document your January stories and take you right into the month of February! This month, our January kit will include 3 – 4 x 6 inch tags, 18 – 3 x 4 inch tags, and 25 die cuts, and we also have a special surprise for all of our kit subscribers this month:

Not a subscriber? Reserve your spot now by pre-ordering our January kit and lock in our $9.99 kit price by starting a subscription today! You’ll want to choose our SUBSCRIBE & SAVE option to get signed up and start your subscription with our January kit. We will then hold your kit and you’ll be ready to bundle and save at our January 10th reveal! Details on how to bundle with your subscription order will be emailed to you once you have purchased this product.

Kit subscribers, don’t forget! Along with being able to bundle any products from our shop that will ship for FREE with your kit during our 24-hour bundling period, starting on the 10th at 8:00 am Pacific each month, our subscribers will also have access to special discounts on select items! These discounted items shown above can be found in our SALE section during our 24-hour bundling period, and you must be logged into your kit subscriber account to see them. Quick note: Our kits and add-ons are available without a subscription each month, too.

We have so many exciting plans for 2021 and lots of fun and inspiring products coming in! We also want to thank you all SO much for your incredible support throughout the years! We feel so blessed to be able to spend another year with you and we are so grateful to see you using our products to document your special memories!

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Wrapping Up 2020 with Jess Forster

Can you believe that it is New Year’s Eve, friends? If you’re reading this, we made it! A new year is almost upon us. I think we can all agree, that the year 2020 has been chaotic and stressful. Maybe for those reasons you are considering giving up documenting this year. I am here to say: Don’t give up! A simple summary page could be one way to highlight some good things in an otherwise not great year. Have a look!

Supplies | December 2020 Kit, Stitched Stars Wood Veneer, Autumn Days 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack

On this 9″ x 12″ layout, I created a synopsis pocket page of my favourites over the last year. I used the 4″ x 6″ “pause and reflect” and 3″ x 4″ “2020 favourites” journaling tags from the December 2020 Kit as jumping off points for my page. As always, Elle’s journaling tags have great prompts to get you started if you’re not sure where to begin. Here I cut the 4″ x 6″ tag in half so I could use more photos in my layout. 

I selected four photos and downloaded one image of the Mandalorian—my family’s favourite show of 2020. My initial thought was to turn all these images into black and white; however, I decided to use a variety of colour and black and white photos. Each photo was sized to 3″ x 4″ in Photoshop Elements. I selected these pictures as they represent my favourite memories from the year; this included our family Christmas photo where every member of my family was looking at the camera, a picture of me running my first trail race and my kids during our summer camping vacation.

Next, I used pops of teal on the labels from the December Kit to create a visual triangle around the page. I clustered the die cuts by pairing them with the beautiful Stitched Stars Wood Veneer to add some depth or texture to my layout. 

Overall, the twenty twenty was a stressful year, but it is worth documenting, even if it’s just simple moments. Just a few journaling tags and embellishments from the December 2020 kit and add-ons can help you record some of the details you want to remember from 2020. 

On a final note, this is my last blog post for the Elle’s Studio Design team. I want to personally thank Elle Price and Meghann Andrew for having me on this lovely team. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Elle’s products these last three years. Some of my all-time favourite pages were created because of Elle’s great designs. I know I will cherish these layouts forever. As a hospital worker, I need a little more down time in the coming year, but I can’t wait to see what the new creative team will make in 2021! Like you, I will become a subscriber and to continue to document my family life with the monthly kit in 9″ x 12″ format. Thanks for reading and I wish you and yours a happy, healthy and creative 2021! 

Happy New Year from all of us at Elle’s Studio! We can’t wait to see how you wrap up your 2020 albums using our products, or set up a fresh, new album for 2021! Share what you’re finishing and beginning with us in our Elle’s Studio Facebook Group and on Instagram using the hashtag #EllesStudio!

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Wrapping up 2020 With Amy Jo Vanden Brink

Hello Elle’s Studio fans! I’ve got a great project for my last post of the year: a look back at 2020. This project features tags straight from the December 2020 Kit, which features tags and die cuts perfect for this type of project! I found this very easy to pull together using the kit, and the yellow and blue color scheme to be very calming. It was a nice break from holiday documenting!

Supplies | December 2020 Kit, Joyful Chipboard Stickers

My photos included family shots from various parts of the year and a self portrait from the very beginning of the year. In order to make the dual color scheme work and not feel odd, I tried to use it across the whole page.

I pulled the two yellow “family fun” and stars tags from the December Kit, pairing them with the “2020 favorites” and “pause and reflect” tags. These are perfect for summing up the year on your project.

Using the die cuts from the kit along with the Joyful Chipboard Stickers, I added small embellishments to the blue and yellow color scheme with stars, asterisks and labels.

This layout is a great way to end my 2020 album, and it was nice to start thinking ahead to my 2021 album as I was working on this page.

Thank you for stopping by today to check out my project! I hope that you get a chance to look back at this odd year and start getting excited for documenting in 2021—it’s just around the corner!

Show us how you are finishing off your 2020 album! Post your project on Instagram using the #EllesStudio hashtag or in our Elle’s Studio Facebook Group!

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5 Ways with the My Star Metal Die

We just love how our design team has been using our My Star Metal Die this month on their projects, and today we wanted to share 5 different ways you can incorporate their techniques into your own projects!

  1. Create a shaker pocket | Meghann Andrew created a fun star-shaped window using the My Star Metal Die along with the Pocket, Frame and Flip Up Metal Die. Just by adding a piece of actetate across the window, sequins and dimensional adhesive, you can make a custom shaker pocket! How fun!

2. Use a star as a tab for a tag | Suzanna Lee certainly thought outside of the box when she created these full-sized tags in her Document December album using stars from our My Star Metal Die at the top of her tags, allowing them to peek outside of her vellum pockets. What a fabulous idea!

3. Create a starry mixed-media background | Katarina Prevendarova’s background using the My Star Metal Die cut from different mediums like cardstock and patterned paper, then painted and stamped with phrases from our My Star Stamp creates an amazing base for her winter photo! Using the metal die and stamp together creates so many different creative possibilities for your projects!

4. Add a starry wreath | We love this wreath of stars that Marsha Farris created on her traveler’s notebook spread cut from the Christmas Basics and Fa La La Paper Stacks, paired with the My Star Stamp. What an eye-catching design, and we love that she even added a star embellishment to her title, “joy!” If your Document December pages are not complete yet, consider trying this in your own album!

5. Back your star die cuts | We tend to use die cuts by adhering them to the page, but we love how Patricia Roebuck backed her die cuts not once, but twice using our Bright Polka Dot Paper Stack and Summer Fun Paper Stack. What a creative way to use those dies!

We love our newest die, and we hope you love creating with it, too! Share your projects using the My Star Metal Die with us using the #EllesStudio hashtag on Instagram, and in our Elle’s Studio Facebook Group!

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Joyful Moments with Marsha Farris

Hey, Elle’s Studio friends!  This is Marsha, and I am here today sharing a traveler’s notebook layout created with the amazing December kit and add-ons, using the Joyful Chipboard Stickers as my main embellishment. I am still working away on my December album and this month’s release was perfect for a layout documenting this sweet photo of my niece and nephews.

Supplies | December 2020 Kit, Document December 2020 Kit, December 3 x 8 Inch Journaling Tags, December Labels, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Christmas Basics 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack, My Star Stamp

Chipboard stickers have always been some of my favorite embellishments, and I love using them on my layouts. They add the perfect amount of dimension to a project, and Elle’s Studio chipboard stickers include such awesome designs and colors. On my layout, I wanted to use the Joyful Chipboard Stickers in a fun and different way! I chose to layer them along the sides of a striped tag from the December 3 x 8 Inch Journaling Tags. By color-blocking the embellishments, it kept the design from appearing too cluttered or busy.

These chipboard stickers, layered with some die cuts from the December Kit, Document December Kit and stickers from the Comfort and Joy Stickers were the perfect embellishments for my layout. I also added some stamped dots and stars using the My Star Stamp with black ink. This page came together so quickly using the chipboard stickers as my main embellishments!

On the right side of the spread, I decided to keep it simple by using a pocket page. I printed my photo in black and white and added it to the top pocket. I embellished it with another chipboard sticker and stamping using the My Star Stamp. The bottom pocket was the ideal spot for my layout title, using the word “joyful” from the Joyful Chipboard Stickers layered over a dot patterned paper from the Christmas Basics Paper Stack. I added my journaling to a green label from the December Labels and added a few more stamped stars to finish off the page.

I hope I have inspired you to create a project with the Joyful Chipboard Stickers and your December Kit. Be sure to share your projects using the hashtag #ellesstudio on Instagram or by posting in the Elle’s Studio Facebook Group. We can’t wait to see what you create!  

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Document December Inspiration: Week 04

Happy Boxing Day, friends! We hope that you had a lovely Christmas yesterday! In case you needed some inspiration to record your festivities from this week, our design team has been creating with our Document December products to get your creativity flowing! Let’s take a look at what they made this week:

Tracey Fox

We love Tracey’s excitement about a white Christmas, and the way that she recorded it even more using our Fa La La Paper Stack and Document December products, like our popular Acetate Numbers!

Suzanna Lee

Have you been baking for the holidays? Suzanna recorded her baking sessions perfectly using our Holiday Baking Stamp and Document December products. We love that she included a recipe, too!

Jennifer McMurtrey

Jen may win the prize for the best dog photo of the season, and she recorded it here in her traveler’s notebook using our Document December Kit along with other fun products like our Very Merry Chipboard Stickers, Elf Approved Stickers and Dark Green Puffy Alphabet Stickers!

Patricia Roebuck

We love the addition of black in Patricia’s spread below, and how she used some fun embellishments here, like our Acrylic Christmas Trees and Acetate Stars!

Kristina Proffitt

Did you have a white Christmas this year? Kristina documented a day of fun in the snow using our Document December Kit and December Memories Stamp in such a pretty, pastel way!

Amanda-jayne Baldwin

Elf antics, Santa cookies and holiday crafting have all been recorded in Amanda’s album so beautifully using our Document December products! We especially love her “Aussie Santa Cookies” page, and the way that she used our Dark Red and Dark Green Puffy Alphabet Stickers along with our Deck the Halls Puffy Stickers and Jane Tile Alphabet Stickers from our Document December Kit to build her title!

Amy Jo Vanden Brink

Amy Jo’s simple, shaped album is really perfect for the past holiday memories that she wants to record. Having a pretty title created with our Large Jane Alphabet Stamp and Fa La La Paper Stack across from an enlarge photo really makes for a striking spread!

Marsha Farris

Don’t forget to document your holiday collectables before you pack them away! We love how Marsha did that here using our Document December products and our My Star Metal Die!

We will have one more round of Document December inspiration for you next week, but until then, we hope that you are still plugging away at your Document December album! Be sure to share your progress with us on Instagram using the hashtag #EllesStudio, or in our Elle’s Studio Facebook Group!

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Merry Christmas!

We want to wish you a very Merry Christmas from all of us here at Elle’s Studio! We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season celebrating the most magical time of the year! We want to thank you all so much for letting us be a part of your memory keeping!

Merry Christmas!

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December Design Team Inspiration: Volume Three

It’s Christmas Eve, and today we have some holiday inspiration for you from our design team! Take a look at these traveler’s notebook spreads, pocket pages and layouts that record the best holiday memories using our December 2020 kit and add-ons!

Ready for Santa traveler’s notebook spread by Marsha Farris – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, December 2020 Cut Files, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Green Acetate Alphabet, Holiday Cork Tags, Stitched Stars Wood Veneer, Winter Wood Veneers, Dark Red Puffy Alphabet Stickers, Christmas Basics 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack, Fa La La 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack, Happiness & Cheer Stamp, Daily Tabs Stamp, Mini Dated Stamp, My Star Stamp, My Star Metal Die

December pocket page spread by Steph Grimes – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, Good Cheer Printables, December Labels, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Dark Red Puffy Alphabet Stickers, Christmas Basics 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack 

Family Fun by Kristina Proffitt – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, December Labels, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Winter Wood Veneers, Fa La La 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack

Twinkle pocket page spread by Amy Jo Vanden Brink – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Dark Red Puffy Alphabet Stickers

Twinkle by Suzanna Lee – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, December Labels, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Green Acetate Alphabet, Bright Polka Dot 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack, Happiness & Cheer Stamp, My Star Stamp, Mini Dated Stamp

Accordion Tag Album by Melissa Mann – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, December 2020 Cut Files, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Winter Wood Veneers, Stitched Stars Wood Veneer, Fa La La 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack

Twinkle traveler’s notebook spread by Patricia Roebuck – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, December 2020 Cut Files, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Dark Red Puffy Alphabet Stickers, Green Acetate Alphabet, Holiday Cork Tags, Winter Wood Veneers, Christmas Basics 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack, My Star Stamp, My Star Metal Die, Happiness & Cheer Stamp

My Bright Star by Amanda-jayne Baldwin – supplies used | December 2020 Kit, Comfort and Joy Stickers, Joyful Chipboard Stickers, Dark Red Puffy Alphabet Stickers, Holiday Cork Tags, Christmas Basics 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack, Fa La La 6 x 8.5 Inch Paper Stack

Be sure to pin your favorite projects here to create with after the rush of the holidays are over, and share what you’re making with us using the kit and add-ons! You can do that on Instagram using the hashtag #EllesStudio, or in the Elle’s Studio Facebook Group!

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Setting Up 2021 For Success with Stacie Watson

Hello and Merry Christmas, Elle’s Studio friends! It’s Stacie here with you today to share some of my tips on setting up my memory keeping for success in 2021. How is it already time for a new year? I know at times this year has seemed to drag on forever and has had it’s challenges for sure, but I still can’t believe that it’s almost over. I’ve been doing pocket page scrapbook for my main memory keeping for ten years, and I’ve learned a few tips that have helped me to not become overwhelmed or get so frustrated that I say I’m done, no more. I love adding my memories to albums. I love the supplies that are out there and I love looking back at my albums and reliving those memories. 

Supplies | 2021 Calendars, Monthly Highlights 3×8 Journaling Tags, Weekly Die Cut Labels, Acetate Months, Large 2021 Wood Veneer, Notes From Today Stamp

For the past ten years I’ve used a 12″ x 12″ album, with the exception of two years where I used 9″ x 12″ albums. 12″ x 12″ is my go-to size because it really has a lot of flexibility to it. At the beginning of 2020 I started out with a 6″ x 12″ sized album and quickly realized that that size wasn’t going to work for me. With a 12″ x 12″ sized album I know that I can always create smaller pages if there is a week that I don’t want to or can’t fill in that size. My first tip is to make sure that you choose an album size that is right for you. If you’re new to pocket page scrapbooking and just the thought of a 12″ x 12″ album overwhelms you, go for a smaller size. For me, when I decide I want to do something different then 9″ x 12″ is the size that I go to. I know that 6″ x 8″ is to small for me for my year long memory keeping. Pick a size that you know you can work with.

I LOVE the Acetate Months, and I know that I want to include them in at the beginning of every month. Since you get all of them at one time I will go through my album and add them into one of the pockets, that way when I come to the start of that month they are already there and ready to be used. I’m not the best at remembering to include the week number or even the dates of the week on my spreads, so the 2021 Calendars and the Weekly Die Cut Labels to the rescue! I love that again you get all of them at one time, so I’ll do the same with these as I did the acetate months. That way they will already be in the pockets of my album and I’ll have dates for each of my weeks. 

I’m not the best at journaling. I tend to focus more on the photos and the pretty journaling tags and embellishments instead, but when I look at other peoples’ albums who do a lot of journaling, I always think that I need to do way better at actually writing the story down. I may remember why I took the photo for a few years, but I wont always remember. So I like to have an easy way of writing down the things that happen in a week that also makes it easy to add to my album.  I really like the Notes From Today Stamp. You can either stamp these into your planner to make quick notes of the day (and check off what kind of day it was). I like the idea of creating some simple journal pages like in the photo above, and when I’m working on spread I can just simply add the pages to album and my journaling is done. I don’t have to use up more time telling the story again. The same can be done with the Monthly Highlights Journaling Tags. These would be easy to quickly jot down what you want to remember and keep in your planner! 

These are just a few tips to help get you organized and started for the new year.  I hope you found them helpful and will want to include them in the new year to help you stay on top of your memory keeping! I hope y’all have a very Merry Christmas and may the new year bring you awesome memories to document! Thanks for stopping by today!

Show us how you’re setting up your 2021 album using our 2021 products! Share your setup on Instagram using the hashtag #EllesStudio, or in our Elle’s Studio Facebook Group!

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