The first AEI♥U Challenge winner is Veronica Z.  Congratulations.  I love the mix of patterns and colors in this card.  It is so sweet.  We are so fortunate to have you as a guest designer for our February release!

A big thank you to all that participated this month.  I loved your entries and I hope that you will consider entering the next AEI♥U March Guest Designer Challenge that starts on Friday, January 18th.  I didn't realize how difficult it would be to choose just one winner.  I wanted to pick all of you!!

To continue the inspiration today JJ made this cute card with our Lots of Love and Fun With Letters stamp sets.  Doesn't the sentiment look fantastic coming out of that old fashioned typewriter?  The letters, numbers and symbols stamped onto the background is the perfect compliment to the image.  Amazing as usual!

JJ Bolton

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Happy Friday & One Day Left!

Happy Friday.  Are you ready for the weekend?  I definitely am!  I wanted to pop in to remind everyone that today is the last day to enter our AEI♥U challenge.  Thank you to all that have participated so far. The entries are all FANTASTIC.  If you haven't entered yet, it isn't too late.  You still have until 11:59pm PST tonight.   

Since this month's challenge is to create a project that sums up your personal crafting style, I thought that I would post a project that represents mine.  I have many styles depending on my mood, but CAS is usually where it is at for me.  I used our Lots of Love stamp set for this card and heat embossed the images onto our Fog heavy card stock. After embossing a few of the hearts and adding some dimension behind them I was finished.  This card was very easy to put together... I didn't even take the stamps off of their acrylic sheet. Is that cheating? ;)

I will be back on Monday with our challenge winner.  Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Happy New Year & Updates

Happy New Year!  I hope that the holidays treated all of you well.  We had a wonderful break here visiting with family and friends. Now that things are getting back to normal, I thought that I would fill you in on some changes that will be taking place here on the Avery Elle blog.  As many of you already know, we will be hosting a challenge on the blog starting the middle of each month.  The winner will get to be a guest designer for our next release and will be featured here on the blog throughout that month.  I am blown away by all of the entries we have received for the first challenge.  If you haven't entered yet, you have until this Friday to submit your creation here.   It is going to be a tough decision!!

Starting this month, our releases will take place on the last Thursday of the month and will be celebrated with a design team blog hop.  Our next release of 4 stamp sets and some new card stock colors will be on Thursday, January 31st.  We will preview our sets earlier that week so that you can see them before they are available for sale.  Our designers' projects will now be featured over the course of the month.  More inspiration for all of us!

We currently have a few stamp sets that are out of stock in the store.  The lead time to get these restocked is taking longer than we would like due to the holidays.  We expect a shipment of these sets in next week.  As soon as we receive them, we will send out email notifications to those of you that asked for them. 

I couldn't end the post without a small project.  This is a gift card holder that I made using our All Occasion Tags and Fanfare stamp sets and their free cut files.  I attached a gift card to the back of our Aquamarine card stock and tucked it into a glassine envelope.  I tied the tag around the envelope with some twine and added a bit of washi tape for fun.  Easy and fun!

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!