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Scrapbook Layouts Featuring Cut Files

Are you a fan of large titles? Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Laura Vegas is, and loves to include them on most of her layouts. She also loves to create her titles using a mix of die cut words using her Silhouette, stickers, and die cuts from our Pea Pod Parts. Laura came across these older photos of her youngest daughter from when she was little, and mixed them with our You Make Miso Happy collection to make this fun layout. She added a few embossed pieces of vellum across the polka dot patterned paper to soften it up a bit before adding her journaling strips.

Smile & Be Awesome Scrapbook Layout by Laura Vegas

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: You Make Miso Happy/Bite Size Bits, Miso Paste, Tofu
Pea Pod Parts: You Make Miso Happy
Coordinating Label Stickers: Bowl Of Dreams
Adhesive Sequins: Yellow Lemon, Pink Grapefruit, Navy Blueberry
Silhouette Designs

Other: Silhouette cutting system, American Crafts cardstock, vellum, Stampin’ Up border punch, Heidi Swapp mists, sewing machine.

Not all photos need to have four sides, right? If you have a fun design in your head and plonking a rectangle photo in the middle of it just isn’t going to work, then look outside the box for inspiration. Jillibean Soup Design team member Melinda Spinks loves to add funky stitched shapes to her work and more times than not she cuts the photo to sit in the middle of that shape. Some shapes are harder than others but that doesn’t mean they are impossible. You just have to pick the right photo for the right design.

Beautiful Dreams Scrapbook Layout by Melinda Spinks

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: 2 Cool for School 12x12 Collection Pack
Paper Pad: All About Dots 6x8
Foam Stickers: MISO Happy
Cut Files: Cheers To The New Year, Chase Your Dreams

Other: White Card Stock Neenah, Foam Pop-Dots, Embroidery Thread

Have a super day!

New Silhouette Cut Files Available in the Silhouette Design Store

Happy Thursday Jillibean friends! Today we wanted to share with you some of our new cut files that are now available in the Silhouette Design Store.

This week we have added many coffee and wine word art + a few home designs that are perfect for quick and easy home decor projects. 

Check out our latest designs! Which one is your favorite?

Click HERE to head over to the Silhouette Design Store to purchase these fun cut files. 

Cards Featuring Garden Harvest and Stamping

Do you love quick and simple cards? Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Laura Vegas sure does, and this card is a great example of how “quick and simple” doesn’t have to mean boring. She used an embossing folder on the white cardstock to add texture, and then combined it with several strips of patterned paper to create the background for her card. After tucking her sentiment card (cut from our Bite Size Bits patterned paper) under the top edge of the pink patterned paper, she added some machine stitching and a few fussy cut flowers to complete her card.  

Be The Sunshine Card by Laura Vegas

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Garden Harvest/Water The Goods, Bite Size Bits, Plant The Seeds; You Make Miso Happy/Miso Paste, Bite Size Bits

Other: American Crafts cardstock, Park Lane embossing folder, Stampin’ Up border punch, Heidi Swapp mists, Tim Holtz staples, sewing machine.

For this set of cards, Laura combined fussy cutting and die cutting to create two simple, but stunning cards. She kept the base of the card simple, by layering a die cut background, cut from white cardstock, over her white cardstock base. Laura also die cut her oversized sentiment from patterned paper, adding that to the center of the card, and then arranged several floral clusters around the outside edges, using flowers that she fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper. A few tiny adhesive sequins were the only embellishing these cards needed. 

Hello and You Rock Card Set by Laura Vegas

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Garden Harvest/Plant The Seeds, Harvest The Crop; You Make Miso Happy/Bite Size Bits
Coordinating Label Stickers: You Make Miso Happy
Adhesive Sequins: Gray Melon
Silhouette Designs

Other: Silhouette cutting system, American Crafts cardstock, Heidi Swapp mists.

Just starting stamping? Afraid you are going to mess up your next card? Here’s an idea for you. Consider using stamps that come with coordinating dies.  Start by stamping the images for your card on cardstock. Place the coordinating dies on top of them with the cutting side facing down. Use a little sticky note tape (or Washi tape) to hold the dies in place and then die-cut the images with a manual die-cutting machine.  You’ll end up with a whole pile of images to decorate your card with.

Just A Note To Say Hello Shaker Card by Teri Anderson

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Shaker Pack: Flower
Shaker Clear Stamps & Dies: Flower Thanks
Shaker Filler: Foam Balls; Wood Veneer; Sequins & Jewels – Cool Mix
Paper Pad:  All About Dots

Other: Cardstock, Ink, Circle Punch.

Have an amazing day!

Mix the Media Projects

It's project day!  Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Summer Fullerton created these amazing home decor projects using the hanging window, the rustic plan and the home wood script from our Mix the Media collection.  

My Roost My Rules Mix the Media Project by Summer Fullerton

Supplies
Jillibean Soup:
Mix the Media: Hanging Window-White
Jillibean Soup Cut File: My Roost My Rules #265229

Other: Silhouette Cutting System/Vinyl and Gingham Fabric.

Home Mix the Media Project by Summer Fullerton

Supplies
Jililbean Soup:
Mix the Media: MM 3D Rustic Plank 14x14 and MM Wood Script Home White

Other: Ribbon and Wreath from Joann.

Have a great day!

Free Project Sheet: Garden Harvest layout

When designer Nicole Nowosad shared her beautiful layout she created using our Garden Harvest collection, we knew we needed to share how she created it! Nicole put together step-by-step instructions on how you can re-create this layout yourself. 

Grab your Garden Harvest collection, a few pictures and print the project sheet out!

We love this layout and know you will too! 

Click HERE to download the FREE project sheet!

Need to shop for the Garden Harvest collection? Click HERE to purchase supplies. 

Shaker Cards

How fun are shaker cards?  If you haven't tried them yet, why not?!  We have some fun shaker cards to share with you today that will want you jump on the bandwagon:)  Take a look...

Color My World Shaker Card by Juliana Michaels

Supplies
Jillibean Soup:
Shaker Stamp/Die Set Globe
Shaker Card Small Circle
Shaker Small Small Circle Insert
Shaker Fillers Sequin Jewel Cool Mix and Sequin Jewel Warm Mix
All About Dots 6x8 Paper Pad

Other: Ranger Archival Ink, Scalloped Edge Die.

Rainbows and Unicorns Shaker Card by Juliana Micheals

Supplies
Jillibean Soup:
Shaker Stamp/Die Set Unicorn
Shaker Card Large Circle
Shaker Small Large Circle Insert
Shaker Die Large Circle Set
Shaker Die Cloud Set
Shaker Fillers Jewels and Sequins Watercolor
All About Dots 6x8 Paper Pad

Other: Ranger Archival Ink, Copic Markers, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Neenah Classic Crest  110 lb Smooth Solar White Paper.

Hello Sunshine Shaker Card by Mindy Baxter

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Shaker Small Circle Pack
Shaker Card - Small Circle
Garden Harvest Pea Pod Parts
Miso Happy Clear Stamps
Shaker Fillers - Sequins & Jewels - Warm Mix

Other:  black ink, honey distress oxide, pierced rectangles, black pen.

Have a great day!

GIVEAWAY ALERT: Join us on Facebook to win our Paper Pads!

GIVEAWAY ALERT: This week we’re giving away our “6x8 Paper Pads” to ONE lucky winner on Facebook.

To enter this contest, please do the following.

1. Follow Jillibean Soup on Facebook.
2. Share this image on your Facebook page.
3. Leave a comment on the giveaway post to let us know you’ve shared this post.

One winner will be selected from our followers that has shared this image on their feed. Winner will be announced Monday, February 25th on the Facebook giveaway post.

We will tag the winner, but check back to see if you’ve won. Prize will be shipped from our Jillibean Soup offices.

Scrapbook Layouts Featuring Cut Files

Good morning!  Today, we are sharing layouts that use Jillibean Soup's Garden Harvest and You Make Miso Happy collections and our cut files from the Silhouette Design Store.  The Garden Harvest collection includes a sprinkling of butterflies throughout several of its patterns and coordinating elements.  Jillibean Soup Designer, Jaclyn Rench, decided to run with this theme by selecting an intricate Jillibean Soup butterfly design from the Silhouette Design Store (cut file ##267295 Butterflies Set), to coordinate.   She cut the selected design from vellum and white cardstock and layered it underneath the foam sticker page title.  Additional patterned paper and diecut butterflies were used to carry the subtle theme throughout the page.

You + Me Scrapbook Layout by Jaclyn Rench

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Garden Harvest/Bite Size Bits, Water the Goods
Pea Pod Parts: Garden Harvest
Foam Stickers: Garden Harvest
Epoxy Stickers: Garden Harvest
Washi Sheets: Garden Harvest
Coordinating Labels Stickers: Garden Harvest
Silhouette cut file: #267295 Butterflies Set

Other: white cardstock, foam adhesive, mini staples, vellum.

This layout is all about the play of words. On the left is the You Make Miso Happy pattern paper Bonito Flakes with it's white text on a black background and on the right black text on a white background. The Jillibean Soup digital cut file Kid You're Gonna Be Great is perfect for documenting your awesome kids too just like Marcia has done here for her awesome nephew! He is a full-time PSEO college student and training for the Army National Guard on weekends... at 17! So much awesomeness called for a large photo. Marcia continued to added text and embellishments over the photo. Since this is a senior photo, she added the Senior Year digital cut file as well. This was cut from an orange polka dot paper in the 6x8 All About Dots paper pad.

Kid You're Gonna Be Great!   Scrapbook Layout by Marcia Dehn-Nix

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: 6x8 Paper Pads / All About Dots, You Make Miso Happy/ Bonito Flakes, Bite Size Bits
Stickers: You Make Miso Happy
Pea Pod Parts: Garden Harvest
Epoxy Stickers: Garden Harvest
Digital Cut Files: Kid You're Gonna Be Great / Design ID # 275626, Senior Year / Design ID # 273062

Other: Silhouette Cameo, Bazzill cardstock.

Have a super day!

Free Cut File: Let What Ever You Do Today Be Enough

This week we have another beautiful word art for you. The sentiment is one that everyone should take to heart. Let what ever you do today be enough. Believe in yourself!

Enjoy this cut file! Create a beautiful home decor piece, a card or use on a layout. It can fit so many situations!

Click HERE to download the FREE .studio3 cut file.

Click HERE to download the FREE .svg cut file.

New Silhouette Cut Files Available in the Silhouette Design Store

Happy Thursday Jillibean friends! Today we wanted to share with you some of our new cut files that are now available in the Silhouette Design Store.

This week we have added more great Valentine's designs including two beautiful heart wreath designs. It wouldn't be Jillibean if we didn't include a few "pun"ny designs - Just Be Grateful... ;)

Check out our latest designs!

Click HERE to head over to the Silhouette Design Store to purchase these fun cut files.