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Soup Spotting 9.30.09

Last week I received an email from one of our readers, Becky Williams. She wanted to share a blog entry she posted using Jillibean Soup products. 1st off, her project is simply stunning. I have always loved how all of the Jillibean products can be mixed and matched but, Becky took it to a whole other level with texture and technique.

Please check out her blog and read how she went through this process. She is a true inspiration!

Thank you so much Becky for sharing your beautiful work!

I YOU would like to be featured here in Soup Spotting, please drop me an email kimber@jillibean-soup.com

Have a good one!

Bonus Projects on Tuesday

You just never know what you are going to get on Tuesday's here.  Today we have some fun projects by Design Team Members Jenifer Harkin, Linda Harrison and Ingrid Davers.

Altered tin  by Ingrid Danvers
Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Alphabet Soup/Hot water, Soup Staples/Light blue sugar
Bean Stalks: Brown/Natural ribbon

Other: tin, cardstock Bazzill Basics Paper, Crealies CS01 Swirl die, Crealies CF06 Flower die, button Rusty Pickle

Sunflower Necklace by Jenifer Harkin

Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper:  Lentil Soup/Kosher Salt
Bean Stalks:  Brown/natural

Other:  Pendant, Mark Richards Glitter Dome Crystal Stickers, and Modge Podge

Altered Pick Up Sticks with Tag by Linda Harrison

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples/Red Sugar, Olive Sugar, Black Sugar
Journaling Sprout: Black on White Circles
Bean Stalks: 5 Color Polka Ribbon, White Satin Ribbon, Numbers

other: Clearsnap ink, Making Makers Paint

Have a good one!

Cards on Monday

Here's another reason to be happy it's Monday, more cards!

Today's cards are brought to you buy Design Team members Summer Fullerton, Kim Moreno and Ingrid Danvers.

February 14 card by Summer Fullerton

Supplies Used:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Grandmas Christmas Crab Soup/Chives & Can Beef Consomme
Journaling Sprouts: Black Numbers/White
Kraft Accessories: 12x12 Paper

Other: Bazzill Cardstock, Stamp Hero Arts, Black Versafine Ink, Provo Craft Die Cut Hearts & Basic Grey Chipboard Number

Card Baby by Ingrid Danvers

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Alphabet Soup/Hot Water, Ground Round,  Soup Staples/Light blue sugar, Navy sugar

Other: cardstock Bazzill Basics Paper, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eight, Fiskars Twinkle Twinkle punch, American Crafts thickers, button, ribbon, foamtape, sewing machine

Happy Birthday Card by Kim Moreno

Jillibean Soup:
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples collection/Yellow Sugar, Talk Soup collection/Jibber Jabber
Journaling Spots: Green circle

Bean Stalks: 5 color Polka ribbon

Clear Stamps: Discover

 

other: Coats and Clark string, DMC floss, Maya Road stick pins, Doodlebug button, Storage Unit Inks & More ink

Have a good one!

Announcing Our New Team of Guest Designers...

THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a profile for one of our guest designer positions!  I wish we could take everyone!  It's just amazing to see such great projects all being made with Jillibean Soup products!  Thank you again for being so supportive of Jillibean Soup!  You guys ROCK!

ETA the names typed out. There seems to be some issues of people being able to read the image above. We believe it's due to the type of browser being used. Some are seeing it fine, others are not. We are very sorry about that.

Fall 2009 Guest Design Team

 

Melanie Blackburn – Canada

Wendy Bretz – New York

Lisa Henke – Ohio

Lisette Gibbons – United Kingdom

Cindy Gibson - Texas

Brenda Johnston – California

Laina Lamb – Ohio

Hanneke van de Linde – Netherlands

Juliana Michaels – Missouri

Deanna Misner - Tennessee

Berdien Weideveld – Netherlands

Lisa Westphal – California

Sandy Zech – Ohio

Layouts on Thursdays

It's Thursday and that means more great layouts created by the Jillibean Soup Design Team. Today's layouts were created by Ingrid Danvers, Summer Fullerton, Jenifer Harkin, Laura Vegas and Karen Nuce.

Christmas Toys by Summer Fullerton

 

Supplies Used:

Jillibean Soup

Patterned Paper: Frozen Crab Meat and Gray Sugar

Corrugated Alphas

 

Other: Bazzill/Prism Cardstock, Making Memories Paint, Ranger Glossy Accents, Chipboard trim from Lil Davis, Rhinestones from My Minds Eye, Alphabet stickers from American Crafts, Chipboard glitter flourish from Making Memories and font Traveling Typewriter.

Jewlery Maker by Summer Fullerton

Supplies Used:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Toasted Cumin, Olive Sugar, Mixed Veggies, Thin Zucchini & White Macaroni Corrugated Alphas
Bean Stalks: Red/Black Ribbon

Other: Bazzill Cardstock, Making Memories Paint, Ranger Glossy Accents, Making Memories Vintage button, Making Memories stick pins, Doodlebug brown alphabet stickers, Fancy Pants Felt frame, Punches from Stampin Up/EK Success & Font Traveling Typewriter

Corrugated Alpha Tip: Try painting the corrugated alphas with paint and then topping them off with glossy accents to give them a new look. Attach to your layout with pop dots for added dimension.

Her Curls by Laura Vegas

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Grandma's Kitchen Soup on White (pinch christmas cheer, chives); Soup Staples on Kraft (white pea pod)
Journaling Sprouts: Black Circles on White
Alphabeans: Black
Bean Stalks: 5 Color Polka

Snorkelles by Ingrid Danvers

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on White/Light Blue Sugar, Orange Sugar, Pink Sugar

Other: Bazzill Basics cardstock, American Crafts Thickers, Fiskars Upper Crest border punch, machine stitching

Birthday Girls by Karen Nuce

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper –Pink Sugar, Purple Sugar (both sides)
Journaling Sprout: Pink Circles on White
Alphabeans: pink dots
Bean Seeds: small, medium & large Spring Fling

Other: Purple cardstock & pink pen & white brad, Stampin’ Up; purple rhinestone brads, Making Memories; White paper frills, Doddlebug Designs; black pen to outline letters, slick writer 

Sandbox by Jenifer Harkin

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper:  Soup Staples/Black Macaroni, Soup Staples/Pink Sugar
Journaling Sprouts:  Black circles on kraft
Corrugated Alphas

Other:  Core'dinations cardstock, embroidery floss, brads

Have a good one!

Soup Spotting 9.23.09

Sandie Vincent from the UK sent us some great projects she created using the September kit from My Creative Scrapbook. We're glad she did! These layouts have such a fun spin on the Jillibean product. She layered and distressed and folded and torn the papers to give her projects so much texture.

Thanks so much for sending us your projects Sandie!

If you would like to be featured on Soup Spotting, please email me your projects or a link to your work online at Kimber@jillibean-soup.com

Have a good one!

Tutorial Tuesday

As promised, we are going to have at least 1 Tutorial post each month highlighting a fun project that may have been already posted and instructions requested or something new and fun from the Designers.

Today we have a tutorial of Summer Fullerton's Apple toppers and pencil cup using the Alphabet Soup and Soup Staples line.

Pencil Holder and Topper Tutorial

Supplies Needed:

12 ounce can (like PET evaporated skim milk)

Pencils

Bean Stalks red/black ribbon (Alpha Twill) & red/brown ribbon (green check)

Jillibean Soup Patterned Papers (Vegetable Soup, Mixed Veggies & Red Sugar)

Cardstock (light blue, green and red)

Bean Seads (Medium Harvest Leaves) 

Pop dots

Crop-a-dile (hole punch)

Scallop punch (or scissors)

Spray Adhesive

Optional: dried black beans

Pencil Holder

1. Clean can, remove label and beware of sharp edges. I used the Pampered Chef can opened it doesn’t leave sharp edges.
2. Cut vegetable soup striped paper approximately 10x3
3. Cut a 10x1 1/2 strip of Mixed Veggies patterned paper and green cardstock then scallop one edge of each piece of paper
4. Cut a 10x5/8 inch strip of light blue cardstock
5. Glue patterned papers to the can using your favorite adhesive (I used a spray adhesive) starting with the striped paper then layering the other papers accordingly allowing the scallop to extend over the top edge.

6. Then top off the pencil holder with the ABC Twill tied in a bow.

 

Apple Pencil Toppers

1. Using my Cricut I cut 2 3 inch apples from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. If you don’t have a Cricut use the pattern below. Make sure to adjust the size when you go to print the pattern.

2. Trim off the stems and cut the felt leaves apart.
3. Then glue 2 of the felt leaves to the inside of your apple.

 

4. Line up your apples and punch 2 holes approximately ½ inch apart.
5. Sandwich the pencil between the 2 apples using pop dots as spacers. Then Thread your ribbon and tie a bow.

Thank you so much Summer!

Cards on Monday

Let's kick of this week with another batch of great cards from the Big Bean her self!

Halloween Card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on Kraft/Black Elbow Macaroni, Soup Staples on White/Black Sugar
Alphabeans: Corrugated Alpha
Bean Sprouts: Polka Ribbon
Journaling Sprouts: Circle Numbers Black
Clear Stamps: Calendar

Other: spider brads from Eyelet Outlet

Hi card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on Kraft/Brown Pea Pod, Soup Staples on White/Olive Sugar
Alphabeans: Corrugated Alpha
Clear Stamps: Give Thanks
Bean Seeds: Medium Havest

So Sorry Card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Lentil Soup/Ground Grains of Paradise, Vegetable Broth
Clear Stamps: Sentiments
Bean Seeds: Large and Small Harvest
Bean Stalks: Red/Black Ribbon (tan twine)

Thank You card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Grandma's Christmas Crab Soup/Can Beef Consumme, Soup Staples on White/Olive Sugar
Clear Stamps: Sentiments
Bean Seeds: Small Harvest
Bean Stalks: Red/Black ribbon (tan twine)

Thinking of You card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on Kraft/Brown Pea Pod, Lentil Soup/Toasted Cumin, Vegetable Broth
Clear Stamps: Sending Thoughts and Sentiments

Other: clip from Stampin' Up!, bling from The Paper Company

Thank You card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on White/Pink Sugar and Green Sugar
Clear Stamps: Sending Thoughts and Thank You

Other: bling from The Paper Company

Happy November card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft A2 card
Patterned Paper: Alphabet Soup/Vegetable Juice
Clear Stamps: Calendar and Sentiments
Bean Sprouts: Polka Ribbon

Sending You Sunshine card by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Alphabet Soup/Hot Water
Journaling Sprouts: Red Circles on White
Bean Stalks: Green/Brown Ribbon
Clear Stamps: Sentiments

Other: heart pin from Fancy Pants

Have a good one!

Free For All Friday...and the yummy goodness goes to...

HOLLY D!!!

Here are your random numbers:

34

Timestamp: 2009-09-18 10:46:48 UTC

I would love it if all the layouts you post were available somewhere, so I can go look at them without scrolling back through the pages and pages of the blog. Like an album somewhere. And if that already exists, then I'd like to see a link to it.

Posted by: HollyD | September 11, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Congrats on winning our Free For All Friday giveaway from last week!  Please e-mail me at jill@jillibean-soup.com with your address and we'll get your goodies out to you!

Furthermore, if there are any blog winners out there that have not received their prizes, please send me an e-mail!  We've recently had a little difficulty with some product going to Canada.

For today's Free for All Friday, we thought we would comment on a few of the comments...

1. I love this blog! I would love sidebar links on where we can buy your products. Which online stores carry your lines.

Posted by: Diana Fisher | September 11, 2009 at 08:19 AM

Thank you Diana!  And thank you to everyone else who asked this question!  I would love to link you up...right now we have numerous online stores carrying our products.  If we put one than we need to link them all.  I have started updating our store directory (which never made it to the website), and have plans to have it up in the next month.  I'll shoot for the next 2 weeks so you guys can get some Jillibean goodness!

2.  I would love to see some projects with instructions. Maybe some altered items.

Posted by: Renee K | September 11, 2009 at 09:13 AM

Thank you Renee!  We have started a tutorial calendar and will be presenting tutorials each month (1 per month).  If anyone has a good idea for a tutorial, send them our way!  And about the altered items...we'll see if we have any takers. :) 

3.  My feedback is a very technical one. For those of us who subscribe to your blog in GoogleReader, the image sizes are really very varied. Some of the layouts show up really huge and others show up regular sized. The layouts that show up really huge, I must open it up in a window outside of GoogleReader to view otherwise it is not containable in the window frame. This is just a usability issue and like I said a little technical for those of us who are RSS feed reader users :)

Posted by: Jing-Jing | September 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Thank you Jing-Jing.  All of our design team members use different photo editing software for their projects.  We (Kimber) has already addressed this - hopefully you'll start seeing some smaller files coming through.

4. I love Jillibean products!!! I am not a card maker though, and it seems that you showcase more cards than anything. I would love to see more layouts.

Posted by: Joli | September 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Thanks Joli!  Noted.  We also noticed that people would love to see more 2-pagers!

5.  I would love it if all the layouts you post were available somewhere, so I can go look at them without scrolling back through the pages and pages of the blog. Like an album somewhere. And if that already exists, then I'd like to see a link to it.

Posted by: HollyD | September 11, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Thanks HollyD!  All of our design team projects are loaded to their individual albums to the right.  They are loaded once a month so they may not be as up-to-date as the blog posts.  We have started using the "categories" tag more often.  If you click on the category "cards" (to the right), you should be linked to all of the cards posts.  We need to go back through our old posts and add this tag.

6.  I love everything I've seen! My only (selfish) request would be for more 8.5 x 11" pages when possible. It's the only size I scrap and I love seeing inspiring work in a smaller foramt.

Posted by: jen | September 11, 2009 at 02:20 PM

Thanks Jen!  This is kind of funny (not funny for you) but some of DT members had never scrapped an 8.5 x 11 until asked to for the recent Craft and Hobby show.  Unfortunately, most of our DT scraps 12 x 12 but we will definitely consider doing more 8.5 x 11!

7.  You know what I love about this blog? It's not just the fabulous scrappy goodness but the fact that your DT just rocks! I love that there isn't just one style. I see lots to love here and I especially like that a lot of the creations are little "outside the box" compared with so many other manufacturers. Thanks for bringing something to those of us who don't believe in measuring twice and cutting once on every layout!

Posted by: Velvet | September 11, 2009 at 08:50 PM

Thank you Velvet!  I love the DT as well!  They are awesome!  Kimber does a great job keeping all of the team on task, organized and functioning!  She is responsible for 95% of the blog posts and does an amazing job keeping up with everything! 

8.  I don't know what I would change. You have awesome samples and all the product is amazing. I would like to know where I can get the corrugated letters. I don't see them listed in your products on your main site.

Posted by: Heather Lough | September 12, 2009 at 03:44 AM

Thanks Heather!  Shhhh, don't tell anyone that we were late in getting the Corrugated Alphas up on the website. ;) 

9.  I love that you show SO much and have such a great team. It's been really cool to watch you grow.
I was at an LSS (in Lodi, OH) who introduced me to your product, mentioning that you were an Ohio company and that made me even love you more.
Keep doing what you're doing. I love the products you show, the interpretations by the DT... Would possibly like to see more about the behind the scenes stuff--like how you come up with a line, development times, etc.
Great job!
Happy Creating!

Posted by: Nicole K | September 15, 2009 at 02:56 PM

Thanks NicoleK!  Would love to show you more behind the scenes stuff!  Unfortunately, we only release new product twice a year.  The next new releases will be for the January CHA show.  Once it's gets closer, I can start to share some more secrets. ;)

10.  I'd love more tutorials/instructions for the altered projects like the Christmas tree.
Like the balance of cards and layouts.

Posted by: christi | September 15, 2009 at 04:30 PM

Thanks Christi!  Watch for our October tutorial from Kimber!

11. I love seeing all the sample projects, and the peeks of the new products coming out. Maybe a few more layout & card sketches or small "how-to" projects (like an on-line make&take)would be nice!

Posted by: Brenda Becknell | September 13, 2009 at 03:05 PM

Great idea Brenda!  Online make-n-take...I'm intrigued!  We'll have to try this!

 

Thank you everyone for your great comments!  More importantly, you awesome support of The Bean Talk blog and Jillibean Soup!  We wouldn't have much of a blog if it weren't for our readers!  Also, we love the "Soup Spotting" too!  Keep up the great work everyone!  Please feel free to e-mail Kimber at kimber@jillibean-soup.com with your projects. 

Have a great weekend!

Layouts on Thursdays

It's another Thursday and time for some more layouts from the Jillibean Soup Design Team.

Girlie Girl by Sarah Hodgkinson

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Grandma's Christmas Soup/Can Tomato Soup

Kraft: 12x12
Calendar Sprouts: Red
Alphabeans: Corrugated Alphas
Cool Beans: Red

Bean Seeds: Harvest Medium and Large
Bean Stalks: Brown/Natural Ribbon

Other: Core'dinations cardstock (French Roast), Making Memories sanding block, ProvoCraft/Cricut diecut letters (Opposites Attract cartridge), Bazzill heart brad, Fiskars embossing border punch, Xyron sticker maker (to adhere "girl"), Font: Teletype, other: sewing machine, thread, and foam layering tape.

Twilight by Laura Vegas

 

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on White (red sugar, black sugar)

Journaling Sprouts: Red Circles on White

Alphabeans: Black

 

Other: ribbon (Creative Imaginations), chipboard accent (KOTM, September 08), stamp (Stampin Up), ink (Stampin Up)

Goofy by Kim Moreno

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Split Pea/Chicken Stock, Pinch of Sugar, Ham Hock, Bay Leaf
Alphabeans: Oh So Orange
Journaling Sprouts: Orange circle on Kraft, Pink circle on White
Bean Stalks: Brown Twine

other: Core'dinations cardstock, Basic Grey Alphas, Fancy Pants Designs straight pin, Brads, EK Success Punches

Have a good one!