Jillibean Soup Bean Talk

Cards and a Project on Monday!

Happy 2012 everyone!  Did you have a great celebration?  Or, did you cozy up with the family and fall asleep early?  Hhhmmmm, I think I did the last one:)  It's awful getting old:)  This is an especially exciting month because we've teamed up with Spellbinders.  All month long, you'll be seeing our design team using Spellbinders die templates!  What a great way to ring in the new year!  Today, we have some cards and a great project to share.  Enjoy!

Good Friends Are Like Quilts Card by Carole Maurin

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper:  Homemade 6 Bean Soup/Navy Beans, Homemade 6 Bean Soup/Red Beans, Homemade 6 Bean Soup/Bite Size Bits
Corrugated Sheets:  Kraft
Cool Beans:  Orchard
Felt Blossoms:  Blue
Sugar Picks:  Butterfly

Other:  Spellbinders Grand Nestibilities (Grands Scallop Circles).

Welcome Andrew Card by Celeste Smith (Digital)

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
(Digital) Patterned Paper:  White Bean Soup Paper Pack
Bean Stalks:  5 Colored Polka

You Make Me Happy Card by Nicole Nowosad

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper:  Christmas Eve Chowder/Diced Green Onion, Soup Staples/Yellow Sugar
Corrugated Sheets:  White
Pea Pod Parts:  Blossom Soup
Cool Beans:  Vintage
Bean Stalks:  Baker's Twine (pink, red, orange, yellow, light green, green, light blue, blue, and purple)
Unity/Jillibean Soup Stamps:  Blossom Soup
Kraft Shipping Tag:  Luggage

Other:  white Bazzill cardstock, Cuttlebug embossing plate, Fiskars punch, Martha Stewart punch, Versamark ink, machine stitching.

 

Happy New Year Banner by Lisa VanderVeen

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper:  Christmas Eve Chowder/Frozen Haddock, Christmas Eve Chowder/Boiling Water, Soup Staples/Brown Stock, Soup Staples/Green Stock, Soup Staples/Red Pea Pod
Soup Labels:  Christmas Eve Chowder, Card Sentiments
Cool Beans:  Typography, Christmas
Corrugated Shapes:  Hearts, Arrows
Bean Stalks:  Red/Brown Baker's Twine
Canvas Stars:  Red Script
Journaling Sprouts:  Numbers

Other:  Bazzill cardstock, Spellbinders Pennants Die.

Thanks and have a wonderful day!

Free for All Friday...

It's a holiday weekend here in the states.  We celebrate our freedom and the men and women that make that possible.  We remember all those that gave their lives for our freedom.  Thank you to all of the amazing people in our armed forces - past, present and future.

In the essence of the red, white and blue, I wanted to share a card with you from Kimber McGray...

 

She used Watermelon Gazpacho and one of the Christmas Unity stamp sets (Celebrate).  Watermelon Gazpacho is great for creating those patriotic pages.  If you're on our retail list then project sheets with this card and other great Watermelon creations are headed your way! 

If you love that card, then you'll love our June projects!!!!  I've seen all of them and they are awesome!  LOTS of Watermelon Gazpacho inspiration!  Also, Jen Harkin will be our new blogger - please help us welcome Jen next Wednesday! 

Next...our big ANNOUNCEMENT!!  The consumer site will be up and running starting tomorrow!!!  I know you can't wait!  We have had numerous e-mails asking where our fans can find older Jillibean products.  With that in mind, we decided to develop a consumer site.  Each week we'll be adding new goodies.  You can find things like this...

 

Discount product packs - that's $85 worth of product for only $19.99

 

Project kits like this adorable mini muffin tin!

 

Chalkboards and mini wooden spools!  Lots of great additions to our papers and embellishments!

A friendly reminder - we will not have our latest releases for sale yet.  We want to give our online retail stores plenty of time to offer it to you first! 

Make sure you stop by the store tomorrow!  We only have a limited number of discounted kits and project kits!!! 

Have a great weekend!

Jill 

Welcome Guest Designer Laura Achilles!

Before we get started with today's post I wanted to remind you all of the BIG CONTEST we have going right now. Make sure you check your favorite stores for some Jillibean sprouts. The new releases are shipping NOW!  There are 3 packages out there with GOLDEN SPROUTS! You could win some great prizes for both you and your store if you find that golden sprout.

Also, get creating with sprouts because you can win $100 in cash plus Jillibean Soup goodies. All the contest details are on the left side of our blog over there <------ Check it out! We can't wait to see your projects!

Ok, onto our fabulous guest!

Help me welcome our next Guest Designer Laura Achilles! Laura created a GREAT group of projects with our latest releases from CHA Summer.

She does an amazing job of mixing, matching and layering products on both her layouts and cards. I love how her projects have so much color and vibrancy. If you've ever met Laura you would know that fits her to a T!

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

 

She's Cute and a bit Nerdy by Laura Achilles

Supplies: 
Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: Atomic Soup Stirred Elements, Cup Of Equations, Minced Molecules,  Quart of Quark; Soup Staples Dark Brown Sugar
Journaling Sprouts: Atomic Soup
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Atomic Soup
Corrugated Alphas: Kraft
Alphabeans:  Glazed Green 

Other: Clear Buttons, Bakers Twine

Laughter what a gift! by Laura Achilles

Supplies: 
Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: Pasta Fagioli Romano Cheese, Clove Fresh Garlic, Meatballs, Shell Macaroni, Blended Beans 
Journaling Sprouts: Pasta Fagioli
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Pasta Fagioli
Printed Canvas:  Brown Letters
Alphabeans:  Speckled Brown
Sugar Picks:  Green/Quartz
Corrugated Shapes Flower

Other: Buttons, Glimmer Mist, Burlap String

To help make the alpha stickers pop I outlined them with black fine tip pen.

You Shine by Laura Achilles

Supplies:

Jillibean Soup  Kraft Soup Staples White Macaroni 
Jillibean Soup  Patterned Paper: Pasta Fagioli Romano Cheese, Meatballs, Shell Macaroni;  Summer Squash Yellow Squash; Soup Staples Purple Soup
Kraft Shipping Tag Repair Tag
Corrugated Shapes Arrow
Printed Canvas:  Brown Letters
Alphabeans:  Glazed Green
Sugar Picks:  Green/Quartz

Other: Buttons, Burlap String, brads, bakers twine, chalk ink

Let's Hang Out card by Laura Achilles

Supplies: 
Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: Summer Squash Tahini, Yellow Squash; Atomic Soup Pinch Of Electrons; Pasta Fagoli Romano Cheese, Clove Fresh Garlic, Meatballs 
Journaling Sprouts: Circles Boiled Blue
Coordinating Cardstock Stickers: Old World Cabbage
Alphabeans:  Speckled Brown
Corrugated Shapes:  Flowers 

Other: cardstock

You Make Me Smile by Laura Achilles

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper:  Summer Squash Gold Potatoes; Pasta Fagoli  Blended Beans, Clove Fresh GarlicJournaling Sprouts:  Pasta Fagoli

Other: Ribbon, Chalk Ink, cardstock

What's the Matter by Laura Achilles

Supplies: 
Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper: Atomic Soup Bunch Of Matter, Cup Of Equations, Quart of Quarks
Journaling Sprouts: Atomic Soup
Kraft Shipping Tags: Stock Tag 

Other: Ribbon, Pearls, cardstock

Thank you Laura for sharing your talent with us. We are glad to have you here with us.

Have a good one!

More Sprout Projects...

Good Tuesday! With the upcoming sprout contest coming, I spent some time going through the 1st half of our design team galleries. I found some great projects using sprouts in different ways that I felt should be reposted for some great inspiration. Something just to get your juices flowing. :)

Enjoy!

You are delightful by Cindy Liebel

Cindy cropped down her pictures and placed them in the centers of the square sprouts for cute frames.

Family Fridge Magnets by Aly Dosdall

Aly did similarly added her families photos to the center of the circle sprouts to create beautiful magnets for her kitchen.

Diaper Cards by Aly Dosdall

Aly layered sprouts on scallop circle patterned paper punch outs to create a perfect embellishment for her diaper cards.

Where in the World by Aly Dosdall

For this layout Aly used different sprouts to document the different locations she and her family have travelled. 

Just 4 Us by Aly Dosdall 

I love how Aly created a photo and journaling collage that runs across her layout. 

Eggcellent Job by Becky Williams

Becky stamped on the top sprout and then layered it with another larger sprout for an easy and quick embellishment for her card.

 
Bloom & Grow by Juliana Michaels

Juliana added journaling sprouts to her layout for more than documenting the details. She created a decorative element to the background of her layout with the multiple sprouts.

Minty Sweet Sprouts by Jenifer Harkin

Jenifer dressed up some sweet peppermint patties with a stamped sprout and a few of the felt bean seeds. Who wouldn't appreciate these?

Hopefully that will help get your brain working on some great ways to play with sprouts. The contest will be here before you know it. Consider this a jump start. ;)

Have a good one!

 

Let the games begin...

I'm so excited about the next couple of weeks.  I get so see some amazing stuff from our DT.  Kimber will be posting everything, but I've been sneaking into the posts to see what kinds of fun projects are going up.  Love it! 

I'm to start the DT kick-off.  Unfortunately, I don't have too much to tell you other than I'm the owner of Jillibean Soup and I happen to enjoy scrapbooking.  You can read more about me here. 

 April 2008, 8X8 Layout by Jill Yegerlehner

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup Cold Raspberry collection (Fresh Cherries)
Jillibean Soup Journaling Sprouts (Red, Green, Brown on white)
Jillibean Soup Bean Seeds (Harvest Medium, Spring Fling small)

Jillibean Soup Bean Stalks (5 polkas, Red/Black)

Worldwin Cardstock
Making Memories Brads
Thread
Zots

The Fresh Cherries paper was trimmed to an 8X8 size and then the corners were rounded with Creative Memories corner rounder.  Cardstock was cut to fit photo size - leaving a large boarder.  Several colors/styles of Journaling Sprouts were used to make flowers on the layout.  Each sprout is layered and the top sprout has been attached with a zot to make it 3-D.  The felt flowers were added on top of the sprouts.  The ribbon and sewing were done last.  BTW...I'm not comfortable sewing on my pages yet but I was excited at how straight my line was!  You're probably asking...where did you sew...on the left hand side of the vertical ribbons. :-)

Up Tomorrow -- Design Team Member Ingrid Danvers...you have to stop back for her goodies!

Have a great day!
Jill

Speaking of Sprouts

Sorry, not the best photos.  I know, I know...who wants to see a Christmas layout right now?  Well, I think the layout could be used for just about any title/idea.  I wanted to showcase the sprouts and I think it does.  I worked on this layout a couple of weeks ago at a retreat with friends.  The photos are of my oldest daughter's 1st Christmas.  They are formal photos and I didn't have too much to say about them so I jotted a few notes on the sprouts and "ta da". 

Products Used:  Sprouts, kraft paper, felt flower, ric rac: Jillibean Soup; Trees:Creative Imaginations; Bling:MAMBI; Clip:Stampin' Up.

Jamie, can you help we with the stamp?  I think it's Technique Tuesday...borrowed from a friend.

Updated Correction: Stamp is from Art Warehouse.

Thanks for lookin'!