Winner of the Elle's giveaway...

By random number generator, the winner of the Elle's Studio giveaway is:

 snazzyjj said...

Congrats!! I love your mini album and it will be so much fun seeing what you will be doing in 2015!!! 

That sneek peek has me intrigued. January 3, 2015 at 5:37 PM

Congratulations snazzyjj! Please send your mailing address to: dflanders71@hotmail.com. Thanks to all for your sweet comments! I am excited to work with Elle and her gorgeous die cuts.

And here is another little sneak peek of the January kit. Kit and add-ons will be available this Saturday, January 10th at 8 am PST at www.shopellesstudio.com.

Gossamer Blue sneaks...

The October kits for Gossamer Blue will be out in just a few days! I have a few sneak peeks to share with you. I can't say enough about these kits. If you are looking for a great kit club, give them a try...there is no fee to cancel anytime you want, so there is really nothing to lose! This is just a peek of the main Oct. kit, a fun mix of Teresa Collins' Nine & Co. line, Crate Paper's Notes and Things, MME's Jubilee line, Chickaniddy Crafts and some exclusives made just for this kit.

These two were made with the main kit mixed with a couple of the project life cards from the Life Pages kit.

And last, a couple of sneaks from the October main kit only.

And I have some awesome news!

Gossamer Blue has 3 new scrapbooking collections of their own, and they're now shipping! You can order them directly from the Gossamer Blue store:

GET HAPPY is the first one - a beautiful holiday line. You can see more of it HERE on the blog.

GRAMERCY ROAD is the second one with the pretty leaves and unique take on fall colors! See more of this one up close HERE.

And ON MY DESK - with golds and peaches and blacks and teals. Very pretty! See it in detail HERE.

Pink Paislee sneak peeks!

The Craft and Hobby Show is right around the corner, and we at Pink Paislee have a few peeks for you of our new lines coming out this month at CHA. I cannot wait to show you the whole reveal! Here are a few little snippets to whet your whistle...

SNOW VILLAGE is absolutely gorgeous, slightly shabby but with fun patterns!! I simply can't decide which line will be my favorite, but this one MIGHT be it. You should see all the fun extras that are coming with this line! I'm so flipping excited!!

Next, we have the COLOR WASH line! The watercolor trend is so hot, hot, hot right now!

You will absolutely love some fun surprises that come with this line!!! There may or may not be stamps and vellum involved - wait, WHAT? Shhhhhhh. Don't tell.

A peek at one of the embellishments that go with the Color Wash line, some die cut tags you can customize to your liking! If you don't have the Cameo machine yet, these tags will come in handy to hop on the "cutting" bandwagon without actually having to do the cutting WORK!

When Rebecca asked us for our wildest scrapbooking dreams and desires, I had to chime in with "more sentiments!" As a card maker, I'm always on the lookout for ways to add sayings to cards. And layout people, you can use them too. I will let you. 

Here is a sneak of the SENTIMENT SERIES! Yeah. I'm excited for this one too.

And last, but not least, a line catered for boys...and girls, really. I can't wait to get that floral and those chevrons, and the circles. Oh my! 

This is the HEY, KID collection!

I hope you are as excited as I am. There's so much more to these that you can't see. TRULY! Fun surprises await!! So stay tuned for more peeks beginning next Monday, July 15th!

Tell me ~ which one is your favorite so far?

Spencer's sneaks...

Just popping in to share a couple of sneak peeks to the SPENCER'S kits at Studio Calico! The first one is made with the card kit only. Check out the fun stamps and wood veneer!

The next two are made mostly with the card kit add-on! Great colors in this kit too!

No matter which kits you get this month, you won't be disappointed. I promise! Full reveal is at midnight tonight - WOOT!

a few more sneaks...

Just wanted to pop in quickly! I have a few more sneaks to share with you of the upcoming January Card Kit and add-ons from Studio Calico! The kits will be released in just a few days. These first sneak is made with the Main Card Kit only called Block Party. Loved the patterns in the papers!!

The "thank you set" was made with the Main Card Kit only also - used one of the stamps to create some fun backgrounds.

This one is a mix of the main card kit, add-on #2 Wildberry Court and add-on #4 Westbrook Road. LOVE that tape -- eeeeek! Going to be using it on everything!

This one is made mostly with the Main Card Kit with the exception of the black stickers and orange stripe pocket from add-on #4.

Have a VERY Merry Christmas, everyone!!

Studio Calico has a new team!

One of my favorite kit clubs has some big, big news they want to share. The Studio Calico design team has grown, and I'm honored to be asked to join their new card kit team! As if my life could not get any busier. lol But how could I say no to a great opportunity? Just the card kit team alone will comprise of 16 people. 16! Oh, the card making ideas that will be posted - all in one spot! There will be a large scrapbooking team and a project life team as well. HERE are the new teams!

Speaking of cards, I have a few little Studio Calico sneakies to share with you so far.

These were all made with the Add-on kit 2. I haven't dug into the main kit yet. But I promise, I will try to back away from the hearts! Couldn't resist these Pink Paislee chip cuties and had to ink them up and use them on everything. The "Yeah" card features some awesome new printables for the month...

Love this arrow paper, was easy to cut right along the arrows to create different shapes.

OK, there you have it! I'll be back in the morning with another Papertrey Ink countdown post! G'night!

Yesterday Pink Paislee shared their fourth new line coming out next month called INDIGO BLEU and today they are sharing the fifth new line called PRAIRIE HILL. This is one of my faves! I love the yellows, oranges and blues.

Here I cut the patterned papers into tag shapes and added a new Prairie Hill Accolade Sticker, a stamped "flying high" from the Prairie Hill stamps and some punched stars.

On the XO card, I was inspired by the kite paper and cut around the design into an X.

I used a new Prairie Hill shipping tag and stickers to make the "o" in XO, also used Terracotta Tile and Aqua Mist cardstock. Love the punch that the Terracotta Tile adds!

I printed a little quote to go with it on the white cardstock.

I apologize for the somewhat blurry photos. I had to take quick photos before I mailed them off that day, and it was very dark and dreary out!

On the next card, I used the kite stamp in the background...

Added a kite sticker and made my own little tag.

And last, a layout of my girls when we went to Hampton Beach one year. I used a little bit of everything from the new line on this page.

See the little "clouds"? I punched two hearts and put them together to form the clouds.

Here you can see some of the stamping on the "kite flying lessons" and on the background...

Visit the Pink Paislee blog today for a chance to win this entire line. :)

Melissa Frances sneaks: day 2...

Today Melissa is sharing the new Attic Treasures line with you over at the Melissa Frances blog. Stop over and leave a comment today for your chance to win. This is Volume 3 of our popular Attic Treasures Collection. Beautiful with cream, ivory, white, brown and little pops of muted color, our Attic Treasures embodies a classic look.

 Here are the papers...

I love all of these. If you look in my last post, you'll see that the two layouts I made used some of these papers in combination with the C'est la Vie line. The big "Ledger Dot" is so much fun and pretty at the same time! And the script papers - ohhhh, gotta love them. On this card, I cut the script paper with a Tiny Envelope die...

These lines look so pretty with purples and shades of teal. Cardstock here is Aqua Mist. I added a C'est la Vie sticker and paper with a Melissa Frances resin frame and pearls. Loving the Postmark stamps lately, as you can tell. :)

On this Spring layout, I used the C'est la Vie papers, tags and stickers. I punched some stars from the new Attic Treasures text papers. I rolled up the Melissa Frances fringed crepe paper into a flower.

The photograph was trimmed into a tag shape to match the other tags on the layout. I didn't do a thing to this pretty tag below...it comes just like this! I simply sewed it onto my page on the right hand side.

Well, that wraps up the sneaks for Melissa Frances this week. Stay tuned for more Craft and Hobby Show projects by me with Pink Paislee, however...

Pink Paislee sneaks: day 3...

Pink Paislee is sharing their third peek today of a new line called London Market. This line is completely gorgeous in person!!!

I wasn't assigned this line for the Craft & Hobby Show, but I couldn't help making a card with it today. It's just so pretty. This gray paper is my favorite and is from the 6x6" paper pad, but it comes in a larger pattern in 12x12" too.

The Ephemera pack is to die for!! I cut the blue piece from the Ephemera in half and layered it underneath some of the other die cuts. "Sweet" is a stamp from the London Market stamps. The butterfly is also part of the Ephemera pack. The wooden button is from a new line you'll see tomorrow!

I trimmed the bottom of the gray paper with a Papertrey Ink die called Edgers #4 die collection, and used a yellow Papertrey Ink button from the Spring Mix buttons. I hope you'll stop by again tomorrow to see what's new, as I have more creations to share with you! xo

Melissa Frances sneaks: day 1...

Hello! This is going to be a busy week for me showing you all of the new things coming out at CHA! Stay tuned to more blog posts and more projects all this week! 

Melissa Frances has a couple of new lines, one is called C'est la Vie... meaning "that's life". It's a beautifully, soft romantic line. This collection celebrates life in it’s imperfect, inherent messiness. Like our Thankful collection, these papers will have part proceeds donated to www.breastcancer.org, Melissa's charity of choice.

What are your favorites? I love the colors in the Aqua Doily and Hydrangeas papers. I have a few things to share that I made, but today I will show you one of the layouts I made with these pretty die cuts. I arranged them in a grid pattern, added some smaller photos (wallet sized) and some little lavender punched hearts.

I made the envelope with a Papertrey Ink die called Tiny Envelope. I also used a postmark stamp from Papertrey Ink's Postmarks set on the center die cut.

I love these die cuts. The floral one is so pretty. I cut out "you" with a Wonderful Words die by Papertrey Ink also with gray cardstock. I thought the gray and lavender would look so pretty with this line. The background paper I used is actually from the other new MF line. I mixed and matched, but the two lines go together so well.

We also have new banner stickers, which I've used here on this layout (thankful for you, sweet memories and hello beautiful). You are getting a peek at the other new line here as well! Can you tell what it is?

And check out these gorgeous cardstock stickers (floral above hello beautiful flag). This cardstock sheet is called "Victorian".

Visit the Melissa Frances blog each day this week for your chance to win the two new lines!