Our monthly kit and your stash!

Hello there, friends and happy Monday! Today I'm super excited to introduce a new idea... Something fun to show you how well Elle's Studio products mix with your stash at home and hopefully get you in the mood to scrap.

This month, Elle's Studio introduced the new version of our Monthly kits; exclusive tags, diecuts and vellum pieces that work wonderfully with your stash for your everyday crafting. Today, I want to show you how I mixed the May 2013 Kit + some stash to create my very own papercrafting kit:

I created a Spring layout and was happy to see how very well all these collections mixed. The colors were perfect and the patterns complimented each other beautifully.

I mixed brand new Elle's Studio May Kit and Saltwater, and Studio Calico Atlantic, newish: Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm, Basic Grey Basics & Hipster, and oldies but goodies: wood veneer sheet, glassine envelopes, stamps, twine.

I also got a head start on a Summer mini album using the same kit and can't wait to start filling it up!

Our May 2013 kit is almost sold out and once it does, we won't  be restocking, so make sure you grab one while supplies last! Then, make sure you  mark your calendar for the 10th of June - new kits launch on the 10th of every month at a special launch day price of $9.99, after that the price goes to $11.99.

And, make sure you post your creations to our gallery - we can't wait to see what you make with your kits!

Project Spotlight - May 19th

Congrats to this week's Project Spotlight winner, Davida! Check your email for your $10 Elle's Studio gift certificate to use in our shop! We loved how she layered some of the new tags from our May 2013 kit, on her Hold On To This Moment layout!  Head on over to her gallery to check it out and you can even add it to your favorites by logging into your account and clicking on the "I (heart) this!" button. 

You never know when your project will be chosen to be spotlighted! Each week we pick a new project out of our member gallery to spotlight. For your chance to be spotlighted and to win a $10 Elle's Studio gift certificate, just upload your project to our member gallery and tag the Elle's Studio item(s) used!

Sketch Thursday

Guess what? It's Thursday! And of course, we have another sketch for you to have fun with. I'm going to let you in a little secret. Today's process was a little backwards. As soon as I received my wonderful box of brand new goodies from Elle, I ripped open the box (oh, who am I kidding, I actually opened the box very carefully :P), started creating and this layout happened:

[Supplies: Cameron Collection- coming soon!]

and then, I thought this would make a great sketch. Right? Right. Glad we agree :)

So... here's the challenge to you: create a layout inspired by today's sketch, upload it to our Member's Gallery and post a link here for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Shop! A random winner will be selected and announced next Thursday.

Last week's randomly selected winner is... Michelle Y.

Congratulations, Michelle!! Please email michelle@shopellesstudio.com the following info to claim your prize:

Name/Address:

Contest: Sketch 5.9.12

Prize: $10 Elle's Studio gift certificate

Challenge!

It's that time!  Are you ready for another Challenge?

Here's how it works: Every other week we will give you a layout example and a short description of what to do/use for the particular challenge. Complete the challenge and upload it to our member gallery or your blog to be entered to WIN! The winner will receive a $10 Elle's Studio Gift Certificate to use in our shop (winners will be announced during next Challenge post).

This week's Challenge was inspired by a layout created by Tara Anderson for our CHA booth using the Elle's Studio Serendipity Collection:

The Challenge is to journal in a pocket in your layout!

Design Team member Ellie Augustin,  played along too!  Check out what she created:

Are you ready to play along?  Entries are due by May 28, 2013 and the winner will be announced on May 22nd, 2013.  Here's how to enter:

• Complete a project based off our challenge to "journal in a pocket"
• Upload your project to our member gallery, OR your blog 
• Tag all Elle's Studio items used when uploading to our member gallery
• Write in the description that this is for the May 15 Challenge (very important so we see it's an entry)
• Come back here and post a link to your project in this post.

Congrats to our winner for the last challenge originialblondi!!!   We love this two page layout she created using a large photo.

Please contact michelle@shopellesstudio.com with the following info

Name:

Contest: April   Challenge

Prize: $10 GC

We can't wait to see what you make!