Happy New Year!

We want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! Thank you all so much for your incredible support during 2012 - you made it the most amazing year EVER! Your support means so much more than words could ever express and we can't wait to spend another creative and crafty year with you :)

We have some big, BIG things in store for 2013 and cannot wait to share them with you! But, since we can't share the big, BIG news just yet, we have another sneak peek of one of the stamps that will be releasing later this week:

Make sure you are on our newsletter list to be the first to know when our new stamps go live - before CHA! It's a little, mini release, before the big, BIG one :)

Wishing you a safe and incredibly Happy New Years!

Celebrate December Winners

We have some winners to announce from the Celebrate December Event!!

December 9 with Daniela Dobson- alisa logue
December 11 with Mandie Pierce- Rita
December 14 with Lexi Bridges-  scrappyjacky
December 15 with Kelly Purkey- Kelly Jean
December 19 with Sheri Twing- Jen
December 21 with Laurel Seabrook- Laura O'Donnell
December 24 with Mish Wooderson- Karenj

Please contact michelle@shopellesstudio.com with the following info to claim your prize.
Name:
Address:
Prize/Date Won: Celebrate December Prize Pack

Congrats!!

An after Christmas sneak peek + CHA announcement

We are very excited to be announcing that we will be exhibiting at winter CHA in just a couple weeks! We have some new lines and stamps that we will be releasing, along with some other fun things! So, if you are going, please make sure you stop by our booth! And, if you're local scrapbooking store is going, please let them know they should stop by our booth, too, and check us out! We'll have some CHA specials just for them :)

We'll have lots of CHA sneak peeks in store for you guys, too! So be on the lookout in 2013 :) It's going to be an amazing year and we can hardly wait!!

And... we have a sneak peek for you of something we are releasing before we leave - We have two brand new stamps we are releasing next week, before we take off for CHA. We'll be sending out a newsletter when they are up for sale, so if you haven't joined, make sure you do at our website!

Besides working perfect for layouts and cards, these stamp sets will work perfect for Project Life, too! So you won't want to miss this one!

We hope you guys are having a great week and we are so excited to celebrate the New Year with you!

Sketch Thursday 12.27

Hello and welcome back to Sketch Thursday! Each Thursday we have a new sketch and invite our readers to play along and make a project based off the sketch! There's a cool prize in it for one lucky winner, too!

Today's sketch is inspired by our guest designer, Nicole Harper.

I love all the texture Nicole added to her Christmas Traditions layout. I was also drawn by the cluster of tags in the middle of the page. Pure awesomeness. 

So what do you think? Time to scrap all the wonderful Christmas pictures you took this week... ;) We'd love to see what you create with this sketch! Link your projects or simply leave a comment here for a chance to win a $10 Elle's Studio gift certificate.

Last week's randomly selected winner is... CynthiaB. Congratulations!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:

Name/Address:

Contest: Sketch 12.20.12

Prize: $10 ES gift certificate

Celebrate December: Merry Christmas!

 

We want to wish you a wonderful Merry Christmas! We hope you all have an amazing and beautiful holiday season!

We had so much fun celebrating December with you all month long! Thank you so much for joining us each day! Today is our last Celebrate December blog post, however, the giveaways will remain open until Saturday - so if you haven't entered, make sure you do! You can find them here and there throughout all the Celebrate December blog posts. We'd also love to hear your feedback on this big blog event! We had so much fun that we plan to do it again next year :)

Also, wanted to give a HUGE THANK YOU to all the special guests that joined us and inspired us along the way. I was blown away by the amazing projects they each created. And, also a special thanks to Jenni Hufford who put all the blog posts together and organized it behind-the-scenes, during the busiest time of year! Thank you all so much!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day and Merry Christmas!!!

Celebrate December with Mish Wooderson

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle's Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle's Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration! 

Today we have Mish Wooderson joining us for our last day of Celebrate December.  Mish is one of my go-to sources for Project Life Inspiration, so when she said she would like to share a Project Life spread with us, I was particularly excited!  She offers great tips on completing a December Daily and Project Life.  Thanks Mish for joining us today! 

I am so excited to be sharing a project with you during this fun month at Elle's Studio. This year I'm combining my Project Life and December Daily pages into one album.  I'm calling it Project + December and I have to say that it's been so much easier than trying to accomplish two separate projects during the busy month of December.   My main 2 page Project Life spread contains more of the day to day happenings and then I've included inserts using divided page protectors that hold more of the special holiday events.

This is my my main 2 page Project Life spread for the week. 

Below are some of the 4 x 6 inserts of the main spread. I love to use Elle's 4 x 6 pieces for bases for photos and embellishments.  

I'll be sharing more photos and my insert pages on my blog today also.  Below are a few peeks at some of the inserts using Elle's Studio products.  

Today we are giving away a Celebrate December prize pack!  Leave a comment on this post and we will draw a random winner to receive this prize pack full of Elle's Studio goodies!

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Celebrate December: Free Download!

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle's Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle's Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle's Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle's Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have a special freebie for you! You can use it on your layouts, as a Project Life filler card (it's 3 x 4 inches), OR even as a card or present topper! Here's a peek at what it looks like:

It's it cute?! Click here to download it for free - you'll have to have Adobe Reader to open and print the pdf file.

We are having so much fun celebrating the month of December and we hope you are too! We'd like to invite you to post your feedback in our message board, here. We'd love to hear what you have to say and any suggestions for next year that you might have :)

Christmas is almost here - crossing our fingers for a little bit of snow :)

Celebrate December with Jenni Hufford

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle's Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle's Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Jenni Hufford joining us with a fun December over-view layout.  Jenni currently serves as a blog contributor for Project Life at Elle's Studio and was on our Design Team in 2010.  Thank you Jenni for joining us for Celebrate December.

One of my favorite pieces from the Be Merry collection is the Be Merry Number Cutouts.    I was inspired to use this cutout as the foundation for December "over-view" layout.

To create this layout, I printed various wallet sized photos and mini sized photos (from Mpix.com) from our favorite December moments in 2011.   I then cropped the photos to fit different spaces within the Be Merry Number Cutout.

One thing I kept in mind while making this layout was to not be so worried about having the actual date match the number (shh! don't tell).  Looking back, that is NOT what will matter most to me (matching the date with the photo)-- it's sharing the moments and story that is most important.  

If you are not doing a December Daily, this would be a great alternative to document the month of December and all the wonderful events and memories it brings!

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Celebrate December with Laurel Seabrook

Welcome to Celebrate December at Elle's Studio!  The month of December will be packed with holiday inspiration, projects, layouts, and gift ideas from many talented designers.  Be sure to check the Elle's Studio blog everyday for prizes, giveaways, and inspiration!

Today we have Laurel Seabrook joining us for our Celebrate December event!  She has provided SO much inspiration by creating a layout, card, AND an advent calendar!  We are blown away with her projects and know you will be inspired!  Thanks Laurel!

The kids and I love decorating for Christmas.  December First is when we always dig out the Christmas bins and begin the transformation to Christmas.  My favorite decorations are the ones that have a special meaning -- whether they used to belong to our grandparents who have passed away or ones that my kids have made-- they are not the ones just bought from a store.

Laurel upcycled a couple of garage sale wooden plaques in order to create these Activity Advent Calendar.  She mixed many items from our Be Merry Collection along with clips and small envelopes to create this beautiful Christmas Countdown.

Today we are giving away a Celebrate December prize pack!  Leave a comment on this post and we will draw a random winner to receive this prize pack full of Elle's Studio goodies!

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