Bean Talk

Layouts on Thursday 8.5.10

I just sorted through our design team's projects for this month and it looks like you're in store for some fun stuff! The team played with a mix of the brand new products and some of their favorite's from past collections. This means many great projects to share with you again this month.

Up today are layouts created using Monster Stew. For the record... it's not a Halloween line BUT it certainly could be used for Halloween. Check out how some of the team put it to use... 

Enjoy!

Totally Buggy by Summer Fullerton

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Monster Stew/2 Tbsp Slime & 3 Arms 
Journaling Sprouts: Monster Stew
Alphabeans: Boiled Blue 
Corrugated Alphas: White
Cool Beans: Green 
Kraft Shipping Tags: Any 
Bean Stalks: Pigs

Other: Bazzill Cardstock, Fiskars Punches, Making Memories Metal Circle Tag Rims, Brads Basic Grey and Font Arial Narrow

 
Vampire Lookalike? by Melanie Blackburn

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Monster Stew/2 tbsp lime/3 arms

Journaling Sprouts: Monster Stew

Alphabeans: Mixed Yellow Sunshine / Blanched Black

Other: Doodlebug Rubs, Bazzill Cardstock, Michaels Vampire Stickers

Tickle Monster by Becky Williams

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock 
Patterned Paper: Monster Stew/3 arms, 2 tbsp slime, cup of eyeballs
Journaling Sprouts: Monster Stew
Alphabeans: blanched black
Corrugated Alphas: green

Other: Helmar Zap Dots foam adhesive

Yikes by Juliana Michaels

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Patterned Paper: Patterned Paper on Kraft/Green Stock; Monster Stew 3 arms, cup of eyeballs
Journaling Sprouts on White: Monster Stew and Green
Cardstock Sticker: Chicken Noodle
Custom Twill: Flour Tortilla (black twine) 

Other: Brads by American Crafts, Pearls by Kaiser Craft

Designer Tip: Cut the images from your patterned paper to create your own embellishments or design elements. For added dimension adhere them with double sided foam adhesive. 

Have a good one!

    

Soup Spotting 8.4.10

We haven't done a real soup spotting in a few weeks due to all the CHA sneak peeks. 

I just did a bit of browsing around over at Two Peas in a Bucket to see what great projects people had loaded up recently. I found many great ones!

1st up is this fun one using the Summer Squash line by hyperstarre aka Caroline.

Sunshine & Wonder by Caroline Ikeji

And then another great one using the Summer Squash line by scrappersu aka Suzanne.

Hello Sunshine by Suzanne Sergi

Then I went looking into Cari's gallery. (She's always got great things in there! ;) )

Family Altered Tray by Cari Locken 

And finally a fun layout sent to me by Cherie Nymeyer

On the Move by Cherie Nymeyer

We also wanted to mention that Scrap Freak has some Jillibean Soup items in their August Embellishment kit. ;) 

Happy Travels card by MichelleR at ScrapFreak.

Would you like to be featured on Soup Spotting? Simply send me an email with your project at kimber@jillibean-soup.com for consideration.

Have a great one!

  

Welcome Guest Designer Katherine McElvain!

Please help me welcome our next guest designer Katherine McElvain! 

We were lucky enough to meet her at CHA last week. I hope we didn't frighten her. We're a bit out going and chatty bunch. :) She's a super kinda gal with a good sense of humor. So glad to have her with us this week.

Katherine's fun and layered style is really show cased in the two projects she put together for us. 

Make sure you pop on over to her blog to see more of her wonderful work. 

Thanks for sharing your talent with us Katherine!

 

Freckles by Katherine McElvain

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Chicken Noodle/Dried Egg Noodles, Chicken Noodle/Whole Chicken, New England Chowder/Fresh Thyme, Lentil Soup/ Lentils, Soup Staples/Orange Sugar
Corrugated Kraft Alphas: White
Alphabeans: Old World Cabbage Stew
Cool Beans: RedCanvas Flowers: Red Polkas, Brown Letters

Other: Sassafras stitch blossoms, Bazzill Craft Paper, Colorbox chalk, CK border punch, misc buttons

Four You by Katherine McElvain

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Journaling Sprouts: Numbers/Brown
Canvas Flowers: Brown Letters
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Red

Other: Bazzill Cardstock, Misc buttons

Have a good one!

 

Cards on Mondays!

It's time to get back into the groove after a week away. Jill's busily getting all the orders entered into the system and with luck the new CHA products will be shipping on or before August 18th to a store near you. 

Until then, we'll continue to offer you great samples created by our design team. As always, we've got cards to share with you today.

Enjoy!

Congratulations card by Juliana Michaels

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Soup Staples on White/Pink Sugar
Kraft Accessories: A2 Kraft Cards
Kraft Shipping Tags: Luggage Tag
Cardstock Sticker: Egg Drop Soup
Clear Stamps: Sentiments

Other: Cardstock by Cooredinations, Bling by Kaiser Craft, Ink by Tsukineko

Bloom where you're planted card by Kim Arnold

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Egg Drop Soup / White pepper / Green Onions
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Egg Drop Soup
Canvas Flowers: Green Grid

Other: Core’dinations cardstock, Kaiser Pearls, Martha Stewart punches, string.

Detour to Fun card by Kim Arnold

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Card base
Patterned Paper: New England Chowder / Diced Cooked Potato / Diced bacon
Alphabeans: Roasted red

Other: brad, twine, machine sewing, staples.

 

Tip: trim the serifs from the stickers to form a sans serif font that is smaller to fit on the limited space on cards.

Summer Birthday card by Karen Nuce

Supplies:

Jillibean Soup

Patterned Paper: Summer Squash: Crookneck Zucchini, Small Hot Peppers, Yellow Squash

Journaling Sprouts: Pink Circles on White

Bean Seeds: Small Spring Fling

Other:  Bazzill/Blue, Pink Cardstock; Stampin' Up/Border Punch, Flower Punch, Pink Ink; Making Memories/Brads; Marvy Uchida/Scallop Square Punch, Dimensionals, Scor-Pal

Best Fishes card by Paula Gilarde

Supplies: 
Jillibean Soup 
Kraft Card base
Patterned Paper: Summer Squash Soup/tumeric, Summer Squash Soup/small hot peppers
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Summer Squash Soup
Bean stalks: 5 color polka ribbon

Other: Fiskars border punch.

It's all about fun card by Laura Vegas

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Summer Squash Soup (tahini), Soup Staples (yellow sugar)
Alphabeans: Brown
Bean Stalks: 5 Color Polka Ribbon

Other: embossed cardstock (Core'dinations), brads (Doodlebug), mini staples (Tim Holtz), ink

Love You card by Melanie Blackburn

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Card base 
Patterned Paper: Old World Cabbage Stew/Caraway Seeds
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers:Old World Cabbage Stew
Canvas Flowers: Brown Letters
Cool Beans: Brown
Bean Stalks: Pink/Green

Other: Recycled ribbon from a gift box, misc heart

Have a good one!