Summer 2010 Documented - video tutorial!

Sheri has went above and beyond and put together a video tutorial of the Summer 2010 Documented mini book she made! I feel so blessed and excited to be able to share this with you today - it is so inspiring to watch as she takes you step-by-step through her book and even explains how she put it together with the hybrid kit!

Summer 2010 Documented Mini from Sheri Twing on Vimeo.

Thank you so much, Sheri!!
xo, Elle

P.S. We've been getting a ton of emails, so I wanted to give everyone a little update... My sister hasn't had her baby, yet! Should be very soon, though! Sooooo excited!!

Summer 2010 Documented!

Our Summer 2010 Documented kit is now avaiable over at JessicaSprague.com! This is a hybrid kit, so it comes with three pdf pages that you open and print out. There are 28 different components in the set - including an envelope that can hold some of the tags, little flags, a postcard, journaling tags and more!

Sheri made this adorable booklet below for the Inspiration Gallery, but I wanted to highlight it again so you can see what you can make with this fun kit! Also, over at JessicaSprague.com you can see what others have made, too! Don't forget - you can click on each photo to make it larger!
So inspiring! Thanks, Sheri!!

Hope everyone is having a great summer! We are hard at work in the studio on the upcoming journaling class and new items for Halloween and Christmas! Eeek!! Plus, we are eagerly awaiting my sister's baby :) So much fun!!

Love ya!
xo, Elle

July Blog Challenge + Winner!

We are a day late sharing these amazing entries to our July Blog Challenge - so sorry for the delay! We had some awesome entries, again, thank you so much for participating! It's so much fun to see what people make with these challenges and our tags :)

Here are some of the entries we received:

By Melanie:
By Rebecca:
By Angie:
By Lissa:
Awesome job, everyone! Such fun and creative ideas!!

The randomly drawn (from all the entries received) $25 prize goes to Rebecca!! Congrats Rebecca, please email us at info(at)shopellesstudio(dot)com to claim your prize!

Big thanks to everyone who participated! We'll have another blog challenge posted on August 2nd - it's going to be a little different this time around, we're changing it up :)

Hope everyone has a happy Monday!!
xo, Elle

The Baby Project - part four

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

Thank you so much for following this project and all your super sweet comments! I had so much fun doing this and I got to give it to her a couple weeks ago - she loved it! I also had a bunch of photo pages, and an extra 12 x 12 album (I thought it was going to be thicker than it was), so I gave those to her, too! Now she is going to use both 12 x 12 albums as her photo album for his first year, with the layouts tucked in between the regular photos! So fun!!

Besides putting this album together, the other fun part was buying all the items! I'd been buying items here and there for awhile, but once we found out it was a boy I could really stock up!

The first three items on my list of "must haves" for an album like this is, of course, our Elle's Studio items :)

Each page contained one of these Month-to-Month tags:
Some contained our Baby Note tags (which also fit perfectly in the ATC pages for special keepsake notes):
And, our Month Circle tags - which I filled in the number with blue glitter and it turned out so pretty!
Some of my other favorites and must haves are below - these products where awesome and some I even used up, entirely! I will restock these in my scrap room for sure, for future layouts:

Paper Girl Collection - Chipboard Alphabet:
EK Success Bubbles Edger Punch:
Making Memories Felt Stars:
Making Memories Felt Alphabet:
Jillbean Soup Alphabet Letter Stickers:
October Afternoon Thrift Shop Stickers:
October Afternoon - Ducks in a Row Cardstock Stickers:
Evalicious embellishments:

And, this is the album I put it all in - it matches his room perfectly! Making Memories Pitter Patter 12 x 12 album:

Thank you for letting me share all these exciting things with you :) and for all your super sweet comments! I'll make sure I take some photos of the layouts with the photos on them so you can see the end result!

xo, Auntie Elle

The Baby Project - part three

Part One | Part Two

Eek! This is the third part of the album, can't believe we are already here! I did do quite a few extra pages that I won't be showing here (they're more on the personal side), but I'm super excited to be able to share these :)

I'm also excited to see how it ends up looking once she puts the photos in. And, I'll have to do a follow up with those!

Month nine:
Month ten:
Month eleven:
Month twelve:
Ta da! Woohoo! :) I was so thrilled to be able to complete this project for my sister and her husband and their new bundle of joy! Her due dates getting closer and closer :D

Thanks for stopping by! Tomorrow I'll do a highlight post of all the products I used and LOVE!!
xo, Elle