Bean Talk

It's here - Summer Squash Soup!

We have a nice little surprise for you this morning!  We've decided to do a mini-collection release!  We had such a great response from CHA winter 2010, we didn't want to keep you waiting for more Jillibean! 

Check out Summer Squash Soup! 
 

 

Of course we want to give some away!  Officially, it will not be ready to ship until mid-May, but we're giving 2 sets away TODAY!  If you would like to win some Summer Squash Soup, leave a comment about your summer plans.  A random winner will be picked Monday morning!

Good Luck!

 
 

Layouts on Thursday 4.29.10

Today's group of layouts from the Design Team has a fun mix of sweet spring lines and Kraft papers. Kraft is a fabulous neutral that can be used as a casual background no matter what the theme of your project.

Enjoy!

Rock Star Bride by Sarah Hodgkinson

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock
Patterned Paper: Egg Drop Soup/Ground Ginger, Sesame Oil, Eggs
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Egg Drop Soup
Corrugated Alphas: White

Other: Core'dinations cardstock (Snowflake white), Stampin' Up! border punch and small butterfly dies, ProvoCraft butterfly die (large), Quickutz letter dies (Disco - "Rock Star"), Xyron Sticker Maker (to adhere "Rock Star"), Helmar layering tape, Font: Mason, other: sewing machine and thread.

Story behind the layout: I recently attended a friend's wedding. Once the ceremony was over we are gathered outside the church and a very loud motorcycle drove by. My friend, Michelle, seized this opportunity to indicate she was having a rockin' good time that day!

You 3 by Cindy Liebel

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Core'Impressions Cardstock & Soup Staples/Yellow Sugar
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: New England Chowder
Corrugated Alphas: White
Kraft Shipping Tags: Luggage, Stock & Repair tags
Bean Stalks: Birds ribbon

Other: Jenni Bowlin butterfly, Doodlebug pearls, Little Yellow Bicycle journaling tags, Fiskars border punches, American Crafts brads & Quickutz heart die-cut

Wat is ze mooi by Ingrid Danvers

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on Kraft/White Pea Pod, Old World Cabbage Stew/Caraway Seeds, Diced Tomatoes, Red Peppers 
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old World Cabbage Stew
Corrugated Alphas: White
Canvas Flowers: Green Grid, Brown Letters
Kraft Shipping Tags: Stock Tag
Bean Stalks: Natural/Brown ribbon

Other: Zva Creative Symmetrical Flourishes Pearl, EK Success Fancy Flight border punch, VersaColor ink, Papertrey Ink Butterfly die, Aqua Mist ink, button, sewing machine.

Adorable Ritual by Melanie Blackburn

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/Caraway Seeds,Diced Tomatoes,Head of Cabbage
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Egg Drop Soup/Old World Cabbage Stew
Journaling Sprouts: Shape Color on White or Kraft
Corrugated Alphas: Green
Canvas Flowers: Brown Letters
Cool Beans: Green
Kraft Shipping Tags: Stock
Bean Seeds: Large Leaf
Bean Stalks: Mini Flowers

Other: Bazzill Cardstock, Misc Buttons, Jenni Bowlin Pins, Kaiser Pearls

Texel by Ingrid Danvers

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/Head of cabbage, Caraway seeds, Red peppers, Diced tomatoes
Journaling Sprouts: Circles Brown on Kraft
Alphabeans: Baked brown
Corrugated Alphas: Green
Canvas Flowers: Brown letters
Bean Stalks: Natural/brown ribbon

Other: Bazzill Basics Cardstock (Kraft), EK Success Fancy Flight border punch, EK Success Circle punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles Large, Butterfly punch, buttons Rusty Pickle, Fiskars Twinkle Twinkle squeeze punch, sewing machine

Happy by Laura Vegas

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples (yellow sugar)
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: New England Chowder
Journaling Sprouts: Circle Yellow on White
Corrugated Alphas: Kraft
Kraft Shipping Tags: Baggage Claim Check
Bean Stalks: 5 Color Polka Ribbon

Other: embossed cardstock (Coredinations), stamp (Hero Arts), ink (Stampin Up), brads (Making Memories), staples

Have a good one!

        

Soup Spotting 4.28.10

Today's Soup Spotting is brought to you thanks to Jill and her web-surfing abilities. Jill scouted out 4 great projects for all of you today. 

Enjoy!

Happy Easter Layout by Robin Wade 
Those flowers are to die for! Check out her blog for more Jillibean Projects. 

Gift card holder by Lynn Miller

Make sure you pop over to her blog to see more Jillibean projects and how she created this gift card holder. So cute!

I gotta wear shades by Hayley Turner

Jill spotted this fun layout over on her blog.  Check it out!

Happy Thoughts card by Carolyn King.
Cami knocked another great card out of the park. She's got amazing card making skillz! Her blog is full of great card ideas. 

If YOU would like to be considered for Soup Spotting either email me a link to your project at kimber@jillibean-soup.com or load your project on our Facebook Fan page.

Have a great one!

   

  

Welcome Guest Designer Gretchen Mcelveen!

 Please help me welcome our next Guest Designer Gretchen Mcelveen!

Gretchen has a fun style and she can mix the Kraft and White based Jillibean product like nobody's business. I love that she did this on each of her projects for us. 

Make sure you pop over to her blog. Her writing style will make you smile and even have a few giggles at her expense. I swear I could even hear her southern accent as I read her blog. 

Thank you Gretchen for your time and talent this month!

Enjoy!

The Brothers and Me by Gretchen Mcelveen

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Pattern Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew Red Peppers patterned paper/Diced Tomatoes patterned paper
Coordinating Cardstock: Old World Cabbage Stew/Egg Drop Soup
Alphabeans: Glazed Green and Baked Brown

Just wanted to say Hi card by Gretchen Mcelveen

Supplies: 
Jillibean Soup
Pattern Paper: Soup Staples on Kraft/Green Pea Pod, Old World Cabbage Stew/Diced Tomatoes,  Caraway Seeds
Alphabeans: Glazed Green 
Corrugated white alphas

Look at me Grow by Gretchen Mcelveen

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Pattern Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/Caraway Seeds, Diced Tomatoes, Egg Drop Soup/Sesame Oil
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old World Cabbage Stew
Corrugated Alphas: Kraft
Canvas Flowers: Green Grid
Journaling Sprouts: Green Calendars
Alphabeans: Glazed Green
Cool Beans: Brown

April Showers Bring May Flowers by Gretchen Mcelveen

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Pattern Paper: Soup Staples on Kraft/ Green Pea Pod, Egg Drop Soup: Ground Ginger, Old World Cabbage Stew/Diced Tomatoes
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Egg Drop Soup
Journaling Sprouts: Green Calendars
Bean Stalks: Twine

Have a good one!

     

Cards on Mondays!

It's a wet and rainy Monday here. These are the days where inspiration is needed more than others! I hope these cards from the design team will help get your Monday moving along.

Enjoy!

 
Thank U card by Melanie Blackburn

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Soup Staples Collection/Green Stock
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples/Yellow Sugar/Olive Sugar; Alphabet Soup/Alphabet Pasta; Grandma's Christmas Soup/Pinch Christmas Cheer
Journaling Sprouts: Green Circle on White
Corrugated Alphas: Kraft

Other: Making Memories Pin, Misc. Button, Cork, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

5 by Kim Arnold

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: New England chowder on kraft/fresh thyme, New England chowder on kraft/clam juice
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: New England chowder

Journaling Sprouts: Circles green on white, circles yellow on white
Corrugated Alphas: green

Other: Bazzill cardstock, twine

Birthday Wishes by Ingrid Danvers

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Egg Drop Soup/white pepper, egg yolk, green onions, sesame oil
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Egg Drop Soup
Journaling Sprouts: Circles: Boiled Blue on White

Other: white card base, QuicKutz Nesting Flowers, Papertrey Ink stamps "Giga Guide Lines", ink Dark Chocolate, Large Scalloped Border die, foamtape

Love card by Shannon Zickel

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Egg Drop Soup Collection/egg yolk, Egg Drop Soup Collection/ground ginger
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Egg Drop Soup
Kraft Accessories: A2 Kraft cards/envelopes

Other:  ink- Colorbox, punch- Fiskars

Moochas Gracias card by Jenifer Harkin

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples/Black Sugar
Journaling Sprouts: Circle Red on White
Clear Stamps: Farm Fun
Bean Stalks: Red/Black ribbon

Other: 15 x 15 mm silver cow bell.

Have a good one!

    

Jillibean In-House Design Team

It's Friday!  Big plans for the weekend?  I'm excited to NOT have plans. ;)  I'll be doing some organizing and purging.  I probably have some scrapbooking goodies to get rid of. :)

On with the post...

Because there's not enough hours in the day, I've started to put together an in-house team to help with quick turn-around projects.  Sometimes we're running really close to a deadline and I don't have time to ship new product all over the world (loving that we have an Australian DT member ;)) or make up class samples, booth samples, etc....so I have a couple of local gals that I can turn to.

Shall we meet them and say "hi"?

First up is Holly Engle-Heerdt from right here in Dublin, Ohio.  Holly is a professional photographer, an avid scrapbooker and a Jill-inspired card maker. ;)  Sorry, Holly - can I say that?  I remember the day when Holly swore she would never get into cardmaking!  Now, she comes up with some really great creations!  She's a clean scrapper like myself and does some cool stuff with different colors.  Holly shared some Jillibean cards with us...

Next up is Laina Lamb from Bay Village, Ohio.  You may recall Laina was a guest designer not too long ago - she does awesome work!  She's also a graphic designer and has worked in the scrapbooking/paper crafting industry for a while now.  Be sure to check out some of her new digital designs on Two Peas in a Bucket.  I love her style!  Here's a couple of layouts she shared with us...

 

Next up is Lori Slawinski from Marysville, Ohio.  Lori has already been an "in-house" member but without the official title.  For the last 2 trade shows, Lori has put together some great projects for our CHA booth.  She's a master at mini-albums...so much so that she and her friend Candy started a kit company that focuses on projects and mini-albums.  Make sure to check out their kit club...Scrapscription.  Lori manages to find different uses for simple products - she loves tags (and I do too)!  Here's a mini album that Lori did for the winter CHA show...

 
 
Please help me in making them feel welcome!

Have a great weekend everyone!   Enjoy this spring weather!

Layouts on Thursday 4.22.10

We are nearing the weekend! That's a good thing, right? :)

I hope you enjoy today's layouts from the design team!

IRL by Melanie Blackburn

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Grandma's Christmas Soup/Can Beef Consomme/Pinch Christmas Cheer; Alphabet Soup/Alphabet Pasta/Vegetable Juice
Journaling Sprouts:Circles Calendar Brown on White 
Cool Beans: Green

Other: Bazzill Cardstock, American Crafts Flair Embellishment, Stampin Up Glitter Powder, Slice Machine, Kaiser Pearls, Lil' Davis Alpha Letters

Broer & Zus by Ingrid Danvers

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/diced tomatoes, head of cabbage, brown rice, 
Alphabeans: baked brown
Canvas Flowers: brown letters
Cool Beans: red
Bean Stalks: numbers ribbon

Other: Bazzill Basics Paper cardstock, cream cardstock, Papertrey Ink Large Scalloped Border die, corner punch, ink VersaColor Pinecone

Life on the Farm by Jenifer Harkin

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Chicken Noodle/Whole Chicken, Chicken Noodle/Chopped Lemon Grass, Chicken Noodle/Peeled Carrots
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Chicken Noodle, New England Chowder
Journaling Sprouts: Red Circle Calendars on white
Corrugated Alphas: Green
Clear Stamps: Eggcellent
Cool Beans: Red

You 2 by Kim Moreno

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Chicken Noodle Soup/Tarragon Leaves, Old World Cabbage Stew/Caraway Seeds, Spring Onions
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Chicken Noodle Soup
Cool Beans: Red
Corrugated Alphas: White
Bean Stalks: Numbers Ribbon

other: Coredinations cardstock (Core Impressions- Jillibean Soup collection), EK Success corner  and circle punch, Scor-Pal tool

For The Birds by Kimber McGray

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
12x12 Kraft Cardstock
Patterned Paper: Egg Drop Soup/Sesame Oil, Chicken Noodle Soup/Dried Egg Noodles, Soup Staples on White/Navy Sugar
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: New England Clam Chowder
Journaling Sprouts: Red Circle on White
Corrugated Alphas: Kraft
Alphabeans: Roasted Red
Bean Stalks: Tan Twine

other: Core'dinations cardstock, Maya Road Chipboard, Stampin' UP! punch, foam adhesive squares by 3L Scrapbook Adhesives

Canuckle Head by Sarah Hodgkinson

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock base
Patterned Paper: Chicken Noodle/Dried Egg Noodle, Chopped Lemon Grass
Journaling Sprouts: Shape Color on White or Kraft
Corrugated Alphas: White (painted off white)
Kraft Shipping Tags: Stock Tag

Other: Core'dinations cardstock (Core Impressions Jillibean Soup Collection), Studio Calico letter stamps (canuckle), Hampton Art letter stamps (journaling), Heidi Swapp edge distresser, EK Success leaf punch, Making Memories paint and sanding block, 3L layering tape, Tsukineko ink, other: sewing machine and brown thread.

Connections by Aly Dosdall

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/brown rice, head of cabbage; Chicken Noodle/tarragon leaves
Bean Stalks: 5 color polka ribbon, brown/natural ribbon

Other: cardstock (Core’dinations), buttons (Creative Café), baker’s twine (Kraft Outlet), border punch (Fiskars), butterfly punch and scallop circle punch (The Paper Studio), digital photo frame cluster (Katie Pertiet for designerdigitals.com), machine stitching

Have a good one!

       

Soup Spotting 4.21.10

Good Wednesday morning! Rise and Shine and enjoy some fabulous projects from YOU! These are some of the fun things I found this week using Jillibean Soup.

Enjoy!

2 Gether by Rebecca Keppel 

Where To Next? by Janis Medina-Maghinay

Holding On.. by Jing-Jing Nickel

1, 2, 3 Jump by Katie Piotrowski

Love Birds album by Jennifer Findlay

WOW! You guys knocked me out this week! I could easily have posted 10 more projects I found this week. I guess I will just have to save them for another week. If YOU would like to be considered for Soup Spotting either email me your project at kimber@jillbean-soup.com or simply load it up on our Facebook Fan page.

Have a great one!

      

Projects on Tuesday!

We've got some fun projects from the team to share with you today. I love it when the team creates fun projects like these for their monthly work. Everyone's creativity is so different and unique. 

Enjoy!

Seasonal Magnets by Sarah Hodgkinson

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock base
Patterned Paper: Lentil Soup/Ground Coriander
Canvas Flowers: Red Polka, Green Grid, Brown Letters
Cool Beans: Red, Green, Brown
Bean Stalks: Cars Ribbon (red twine), Pigs Ribbon (green twine), Mini Flowers Ribbon (brown twine)

Other: Core'dinations cardstock (Vintage Asparagus), Maya Road jumbo bottle caps (3" in diameter) and chipboard snowflake, Sizzix die (leaves) and Big Shot embossing machine, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Swiss Dots), Hampton Arts letter stamps, Tsukineko ink, Elmer's magnets, 3L layering tape and Glue Dots.

He's All Boy block by Cindy Liebel

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock
Patterned Paper: New England Chowder/Butter, New England Chowder/Diced Cooked Potato, New England Chowder/Diced Bacon, New England Chowder/Clam Juice & Black Bean/Chopped Celery
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Line
Corrugated Alphas: Green

Other: Maya Road chipboard gears, Making Memories 6x6 cube & brown ink

Paper Scrap Wreath by Aly Dosdall

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/caraway seeds, red peppers; Chicken Noodle/chicken bouillon, tarragon leaves
Cool Beans: green

Other: patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket), cardstock (Bazzil), baker’s twine (Kraft Outlet), circle and butterfly punches (The Paper Studio), wood wreath base (Michael’s)

Magnet Doll Set by Jenifer Harkin  

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Chicken Noodle/Peeled Carrots, Chicken Noodle/Dried Egg Noodles, Chicken Noodle/Tarragon Leaves, Chicken Noodle/Whole Chicken, Chicken Noodle/Chopped Lemon Grass
Clear Stamps: Eggcellent
Bean Seeds: Harvest/Small, Harvest/Medium
Bean Stalks: Red/Black, Green/Brown

Other: Magnetic Dolls (purchased from the dollar store), brads, magnets, and cookie tray.

Muffin Tin by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Egg Drop Soup/Egg Yolk, Green Onions, White Pepper, Sesame Oil, Ground Ginger
Journaling Sprouts: Number Sprouts -Brown

Have a good one!

 

Core Impressions Winners!!!

I know you've been waiting for this!  The 3 winners are listed below...

Bean Talk winner - #189

Awesome JBS Corestock!! Would make me :)!!

Posted by: jan metcalf | April 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM

 

Facebook winner - #39 (btw...I used random.org to pick from the total number of posts of 205).

Debbie Flowers

Great paper! Thanks for the chance to win!

Fri at 8:25am · · Report

 

Cord Camera winner - Phyllis

The cards are lovely! I'd love to win some paper to play with.

Posted by: Phyllis| April 17, 2010 at 11:46 AM 

 

When you get a minute, can you send your mailing info to jill@jillibean-soup.com so I can get the cardstock pack out to you!

Thank you everyone for playing along!