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New Silhouette Cut Files Available in the Silhouette Design Store

Hello Jillibean friends! How's your week?

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

This week's new cut files include fun/pun designs such as "See You On The Flip Side" - with a spatula.  Ha!

Check a few new fonts in the new designs too! I love the open design that would be great with different pattern papers filling in the interior!

Check out our latest designs! 

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

Scrapbook Layouts featuring You Make Me Miso Happy Soup and Garden Harvest

Do you remember the blue jean pocket card that Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Melinda Spinks created recently? She enjoyed making it so much that she decided to reproduce the concept onto a layout. Not only did she add the little denim-look pocket she also added the waistband with keepers and a few epoxy stickers to act as button holes. And, the little hello tag on the pocket was added for that extra touch of authenticity.

Joy Scrapbook Layout by Melinda Spinks

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Garden Harvest Collection Pack
Pea Pod Parts: Garden Harvest, MISO Happy
Epoxy Stickers: Garden Harvest

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

Do you get adventurous with your background colors on layouts? Quite often we stick with a plain white or pale color, pattern free background to play it safe. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t drag out a dark color every now and again and have a bit of fun. For this scrapbook layout,  Melinda not only chose to go for a black background covered in writing, she also combined it with a rainbow of colors and patterns in the overall design. Somehow it actually works without looking too busy as the design was kept relatively simple and Melinda used a monochromatic photo so it wouldn’t be lost in all that color.

Smile scrapbook Layout by Melinda Spinks

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: MISO Happy Collection Pack
Paper Pad: All About Dots 6x8, All About Plaid 6x8
Pea Pod Parts: Garden Harvest, You Make MISO Happy,
Foam Stickers: MISO Happy
Epoxy Stickers: Garden Harvest

Other: Foam Pop-Dots, Heart Punches.

Have a great day!

Card Ideas: Shape Shakers

Happy Wednesday!  Time to shake things up with more shaker card ideas!  These shaker cards make electronics look adorable!

Relax!  You Deserve It Shaker Card by Patty Folchert

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Stamp & Die Set: Super Star- JB1326
Ink: Ranger Archival- Jet Black
Papers: You Make Miso Happy/Bite Size Bits
Paper Pad: All About Plaid-JB2103
Paper Pad: All About Dots- JB2102
Pea Pods: You Make Miso Happy JB2096
Shaker Card: Small Square- JB0830
Shaker Insert: Small Square- JB0813
Shaker Fillers: Cool Seed Beads- JB1369; Birthday- JB1328

Other:  Tombow Tape Runner; 3L Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam dots; Brother Sewing Machine; white thread; Cuttlebug

Thanks for Always Backing Me Up Shaker Card by Summer Fullerton

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper: Spoonful of Soul/Be Fearless
Shape Shakers: Square Card & Insert
Shape Shaker Stamp & Die Set: Computer
Shape Shaker Filler: Sequin Jewel Warm Mix & Chunky Glitter

Other: VersaFine Ink & Recollections Gold Embossing Powder.

Have a super day!

Scrapbook Layouts featuring You Make Me Miso Happy Soup

The Jillibean Soup You Make Miso Happy collection is perfect for documenting spring memories. The bright and colorful mix of patterns co-ordinate so well, designer Nicole Nowosad created her own quilted pattern easily using triangles of pattern from this collection. The fussy cut flowers from Souper Celebration float across the top of the page to break apart the grid of pattern in the middle of the project.

Sweet Scrapbook Layout by Nicole Nowosad

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper:  You Make Miso Happy/Miso Paste/Tofu/Bonito Flakes/Dashi/Wakama/Green Chard; Souper Celebration/Cup of Ceremony
Foam Stickers: Garden Harvest

Other: cardstock, bling, sewing machine.

Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Marielle LeBlanc was so lucky to have spent a few weeks in France last Spring. Everything was so fresh and beautiful. She took these photos of a beautiful display of succulent plants during one of my many walks in the narrow streets of Provence.

Spring in Provence Scrapbook Layout by Marielle LeBlanc

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
You Make Miso Happy: Tofu,  Bonito Flakes, Wakama, Bite Size Bits,Coordinating Stickers, Pea Pod Parts
Garden Harvest : Epoxy Sticker Sheets
All About Dots Paper Pad
All About Plaid Paper Pad
Alphabeans- Blueberry Teal
Jillibean Soup Cut File- Wise Word “Spring” # 59058

Other: White cardstock, sewing machine.

Have a great day!

Card Ideas: Shape Shakers

Happy Monday!  Spring is around the corner, right?!  For those of us in the 'polar vortex,' this is the only thing getting us through the weather.  Today's shaker cards help bring a little bit of spring and a lot of color to brighten the day too! Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Mindy Baxter created two shaker cards and here is how she created the Blessed card.  First, Mindy sponged her distress oxide inks all over her card base and then flicked some water so she can get the reaction with the inks.  Using white ink, Mindy stamped butterflies all over the sponged background and stamped ‘Unbelievably Blessed.'  She used the same color foam ball fillers for the inside of the butterfly shaker and finished the card with some twine on the inside and tying a bow to the front.

Unbelievably Blessed Shaker Card by Mindy Baxter

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Stamps - Garden Harvest Clear Stamps
Shaker Card - Butterfly
Shaker Fillers - Foam Balls

Other:  Distress Oxide Inks, Twine, Black ink, White Ink, Sponge dauber.

Mindy created this card with some watercolor paints and dripped the colors going all the way down her card base.  After drying, Mindy stamped World Globe using her Misti so that the circle is in the inside of the globe.  After stamping the sentiment, she added feather wood veneers in the circle cup and adhered to the card so the plastic circle is through the window.  For some extra shine and texture, Mindy added some glossy accents to the globe outline.

You Color My World Shaker Card by Mindy Baxter

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Stamps: Shaker Clear Stamps & Dies - Globe
Shaker Small Circle Pack
Shaker Card - Small Circle
Shaker Fillers - Wood Veneers

Other:  Black ink, glossy accents and watercolor paints.

Have an amazing day!

Free Cut File: Stressed Spelled Backwards Is Desserts

Heck ya! Stressed = Desserts!

Enjoy this week's free cut file from all of us at Jillibean Soup who LOVE our desserts!

Click HERE to download the FREE .svg cut file.

Click HERE to download the FREE .studio3 cut file.

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!