Jillibean Soup Bean Talk: Tuesday Tutorial Layout Video

November 26, 2019

Tuesday Tutorial Layout Video

Cut files are my jam and that is no secret! I create with them about 99.95 of the time and I always love the end results! I love that you can take one cut file and create more than one look. When I see a cut file I can usually picture 3 different designs in my head. I can change up the file, make it bigger, make is smaller, arrange the words on a page in a different way. This is one of the reasons why I love working with cut files! Today I am going to use one of the Jillibean Soup cut files that is laid out one way on the page but will show you a couple other different ways it could be laid out!

I saw the JBS cut file This is Us in the Silhouette Design Store and at first I thought I would do a layout of Michael and I but then decided on a layout of my bestie Jami and I! We recently attended a scrapbook event and took a ton of photos! We had the best time and we had a lot of comments on how crazy and fun we were! Well that is just us that is how we are all the time! We love to have fun, we love to laugh and do crazy things! So this is us!

I decided to use the Spoonful of Soul collection on this layout! It has been a while since I pulled this collection out and I forgot how much I loved it! The sayings are perfect and I even took one of the sayings off one of the Pea Pod Parts and typed it out for my journaling!

The image for the cut file shows it laid out horizontal, which is one way to use it! But I changed it up a bit on the page to fit my photo to the left of the word This. I added the Is Us below that and I love how it turned out! I added a lot of floral pea pod parts along with some wood veneer butterflies and enamel shapes.

You can see the full process video on the Jillibean Soup YouTube channel! I will show you other ways this cut file can be laid out to make a beautiful page! Here is a look at my completed layout.

This Is Us layout by Erica Thompson