Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you all have a great night full of lots of fun and candy!! I don’t have a costume this year, but I am dressing up my dog, she’s going to be a strawberry! HAHA!! How cute is that?!

Also, I just wanted to write a quick note and say how sorry I am that I haven’t posted much lately. October has been the craziest month at my day job. BUT, please stay tuned!! I’ve got a ton in store for November, full of lots of fun and even a couple of guest designers!!!! I’m really excited about the things to come!!

Have you checked out The Gallery lately?

Have you checked out The Gallery lately? If you haven't, you should! There are tons of awesome layouts in there, full of inspiration!!

Did you know that The Gallery is also a monthly contest? If you have made anything (layouts, cards, decor) using Elle's Studio products you are welcome to enter! Upload your image to flickr and send it to the Elle's Studio group. Once a month we pick a layout and that person wins an awesome prize pack! Every month it is something different.

This months contest will be ending on October 31st at midnight, so you still have a few days to enter!!

I here!

I’m here!! Really, I am!!

My laptop is having major problems! First it started overheating and the charger acting funny so they replaced the motherboard because my laptop is still under warranty. Now, ALL of my USB ports won’t work, which means I can’t upload photos!!! GRRRRR It makes me soooo frustrated! Every time I want to do an upload I have to run to a photo center and have the photos put on a cd. I guess I should just be thankful my cd reader still works!! HAHA!! So, it looks like it will be awhile before everything gets fixed… the company wants me to reinstall Windows, I think they installed a bad motherboard because my laptop is running hotter than ever!! So it looks like it will be a “fight” and deep down I know they will win and I will have to jump through every hoop they put in front of me to get it fixed. Sorry to complain about my problems, I’m just beyond frustrated! Reinstalling Windows is NOT going to be fun – at all.

Anyways, I’m wondering if anyone knows of a great charity where they accept slightly used, but still in wonderful condition, scrapbooking supplies??

deck the halls with boughs of holly...

Fa la la la la, la la, la, la! I'm so excited for Christmas this year, I mean I'm totally ready to break out that tree and get going! And Halloween isn't even close to being here!!! I've been absent from here because I've been busy working on all my new Christmas items and I've finally got all the colors picked and everything is printed and being packaged up as we speak! Some of the items are currently in the shop, and I will be adding more items throughout the week. All of the Christmas items will begin shipping on Monday, October 15th.

So... What is your favorite part of the holiday season? For me... I think it would have to be all the little traditions we have, the tea that comes out during the Christmas season and SNOW!!! I hope we get lots this year!! *crosses fingers*

October's gotta see kits!

I'm so excited to have some of Elle's Studio products part of some really cool and fun kits this month! You have to go check them all out, they all look like sooo much fun! I'll be doing some shopping this month, you should too!

Q Tea's October kit:

Your Scrapbook Stash's October Kit:

And... There are two kits to pick from over at Create My Keepsake:


Tons of fun!! Now... go check them out! :)

oooo it's almost here!!!

Christmas is almost here! What?! I know, I know... it's only October but I'm totally into the Christmas spirit right now! I've got all these ideas swimming around in my head and drawn on paper - I'm so excited for Christmas this year :)

The photo above is of my gift tags that I just got back from the printers, and I'm lovin' the colors. The photo above does not do them justice, but I'll have to work on that (THAT is an entirely long story about dell fixing - but not fixing - my computer that is under warranty and they have messed up all 6 of my usb ports on my laptop... grrr!!)

Anyways, the gift tags are in the shop now. I currently only have 12 sets of these because my printers ran out of label stock, BUT I will have lots more in the coming weeks when I launch ALL of my christmas stuff!

September's winner is:

I decided to let my mom choose the winner and she had so much fun! She picked this fabulous layout done by Mara! Mara you get to pick any two items from my shop!


And... My mom had a hard time narrowing it done to just ONE, so I let her pick TWO! Creative Sun you won runner up! You can pick one item from the shop!

Huge thank you to everyone that participated! All entries that didn't win will be entered into next months contest AND if you didn't enter last month, make sure you do this month!! I'll be letting my mom pick October's winner too! :)

How do you enter?
Upload any image to our flickr group that uses Elle's Studio products and your entered! We pick a layout every month!

*Winners, please email me your address and items that you'd like! My email address can be found in my blogger profile.