Jillibean Soup - Wood Plank project

Good morning! I have a SUPER easy wood plank project to share with you, using a 12x16 wood plank from the Mix the Media collection by Jillibean Soup.

My house doesn't have a lot of room on its' walls for home décor, but at certain times of the year, I always find room to add a little something on top of a cabinet in our front entrance. I made this really easy DIY piece with just a few supplies.

I used the 12x16 wood plank (in raw pine) by Jillibean Soup. It is perfect for adding your own color too, just do a light sanding and add some acrylic paint! I used the Witty White  Happy Hues paint by Jillibean Soup and let it dry.

While it was drying, I cut the images for the wood out of black adhesive vinyl. The designs are both from the Silhouette online store.

Once it was dry, I lightly sanded the edges of the wood before applying my vinyl cut design. I should have distressed it a bit more, but it still looks pretty decent in the end.

As you can see, I simply added on my vinyl to the dry wood surface once it was completely dry. There are some tricks to getting it on (check out YouTube for tips), but once you get the hand of it, it's pretty easy!

I added in some bling to the center of the snowflakes for a little sparkle and I was all done! I figure this is something that can stay around our house beyond the holidays since we have "winter" for almost 4-6 months of the year! HA!

Jillibean Soup - Let It Snow layout

Hello! This month on the Jillibean Soup blog, the DT was challenged to use the new Day 2 Day planner items on non-planner projects!

I started my page by grabbing some of the great Day 2 Day planner stickers. I used those as a grid for the bottom of my page, and as you can see, I added in some stamped rectangle in the same size for the remaining spots. Those were stamped using the Day to Day planner stamps!

I filled in the top of my page with some Mini Placemats (diecut shapes) from the Sew Happy Sunshine Soup collection - I thought they kind of looked like snowflakes. I added in some star sequins and some cute little puffy stickers from the Day 2 Day planner collection too.

A die cut title completed the whole page quickly and easily! (from the Silhouette store)

Stop by the Jillibean Soup blog today to see how some of the rest of the team took on this months' designer challenge!

Jillibean Soup cards - Day 2 Day collection

Did you know that Jillibean Soup has come out with a new planner collection! Yup, it's true - it's called Day 2 Day! Now, if you are like me and not a planner person. ie. use a planner but don't "decorate it", then you try to find ways to use these items in other ways right?

Well, I created these 2 cards using some items from the Day 2 Day collection along with some other items by Jillibean Soup.

Check out those awesome clear stickers. Great for planners yes - but also great for card sentiments and to add to layouts too.

For this card, I used a lot of the Day 2 Day planner stickers as the "paper" for the card front, adding foam adhesive in behind each sticker to add a little dimension.

It's a really simple card, and NO STRESS! I like projects that happen that quickly! Stop by the blog today to see how our DT also used the Day 2 Day collection to make a whole lotta cards this month! 

Joy to the World

Happy Holidays! December is here and I am all ready for Christmas in our house. The tree us up and even most of the gifts are wrapped. I have been working on some holiday themed projects for some DT assignments and wanted to share this one with you today that I created for Jillibean Soup this month.

I started with lots of the Holly Berry Borscht collection by Jillibean Soup. I also used a cut file from my digital cut file store - JustNick studio. This is the Holly Background 2. I cut the background from a white brick paper in the Soup Staples III collection and then popped the whole thing to my background with foam adhesive. I had intended to fill those empty holly berry holes with red paper, but I like the way they are open and the background popping through, so I went with it!

I die cut some holly leaves and berries from more Jillibean Soup papers and added them to my page, after I added my photo and the journaling card. I LOVE using holly and berries in my holiday projects - something different than the standard trees I see on a lot of pages.

I added some sparkly Jillibean Soup adhesive sequins and wood sprinkles to the mix and the page is complete!

I really love how this one came out! The background really pops with those fun holly leaves in the patterned papers! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas if you celebrate!

How sweet are you layout - Jillibean Soup

Playing a little more catch up here on the blog....Today, I have another Jillibean Soup project to share using the Hardy Hodgepodge and Chit Chat Chowder collections!

Truth is, this layout came in the midst of a major no-mojo period... I just had NO desire to get paper to paper and had to get a project completed. I decided to go to fail safe plan for scrapping. Use those scraps up! I grabbed various papers from both collections and just punched a whole lot of 1" circles!

As you can see, I created an almost scale like pattern on each side of the page. I started on the edges and worked my way overtop each row. Came together pretty quickly once I had all the circles punched out. In the end, there always seems to be more circles punched out than I needed, but I am okay with that. Toss those back into the scrap pile to use up on another layout or card.

I also did some fussy cutting of the pretty floral  paper in the Healthy Hello collection - just LOVE that floral design and I go to that a lot ! I finished it off with a simple title, mixing stickers and the new style of corrugated alphas. I even attempted to add a touch of water coloring to the area behind my photos. As you can see - I need more practice!

Enjoy your day!

SCT 12 days of giving !

It's the 12 days of holiday giving over on the Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine blog!

For 12 days we are giving away TONS of prizes, so you want to check it out daily for your chance to win some great stuff from our sponsors.

I am up on the blog today with a fun DIY home décor project, using a Jillibean Soup wood plank and a cut file from my digital die cut store - JustNick studio

I am not a huge home décor person, but once the holidays hit, I love having some small homemade projects around to decorate our home. We don't have a lot of wall space, so this makes things difficult, but a project like this can hang our even be sent out on a ledge or lean against a wall, if it's big enough!

I started with the 12x12 wood plank from Jillibean Soup and sanded it lightly. This helps any paint you want to add "stick" a little better and prevents the paint from bleeding under your stencil too much too.

I die cut the Holiday Wreath from JustNick studio out of Silhouette stencil material. I laid the entire thing in place and then removed the portions that I wanted painted. I like to use a paper piercer for this, so it's easier to remove. Now, it's time to paint! I dab it on in layers so that too much isn't applied all at once - that makes the paint sometimes bleed under the stencil and can create quite the situation.

After 2-3 coats of white paint, I set it aside to dry and then created a small bough out of some craft materials from the local craft store along with some ribbon to add a little color. I die cut a sentiment from gold foil adhesive backed paper and I was done !

I really love how this one turned out. It's really a simple project that would make a great gift too!

Believe

Feeling festive?? I am ! I dove deep into the holidays this year and made a few holiday themed scrapbook pages and wanted to share this one with you today!

This is one I made for the Jillibean Soup blog using the Holly Berry Borscht collection and some scraps of paper!

I have to admit - this is my kind of project. I love working with smaller pieces of paper, and find it way less intimidating than that first cut into a 12x12 full sheet. Making do with what you have is what I like best.

This tree came together with a series of simple strips of paper in varying sizes. I layered them up together, largest on the bottom, to smallest on top, while trying to switch up the width and color of those strips along the way.

I decorated my "tree" with some of my favorite May Arts natural twine, adhesive sequins and Jillibean Soup wood sprinkles and a little bit of machine sewing too.

I couldn't resist a little sparkle and shine, so I added in a gold foil diecut title from JustNick Studio to the bottom of the tree, a glitter star punched star and a few rounded half circles of gold foil throughout the tree itself too.

I love how this one came together and how it made a small dent in my never-ending pile of scraps I just can't seem to get to the bottom of. I hope you are inspired a little to make a tree of your own, for the holidays or otherwise!

Peace, joy & love

Hello, hello! I am stopping in to share a holiday card I made for the Jillibean Soup blog this month. I love the new Shape Shaker program and wanted to use one of the shaker cards for the center of the wreath on my card front.

I die cut a whole ton of holly leaves on my Silhouette Cameo and arranged them around the large open circle area. I did place the shaker insert in place (not glued), so that I could see where the leaves needed to stop so they didn't rub up too much on the plastic insert.

I added some Jillibean Soup adhesive sequins and some punched circles for holly berries and then stitched the whole thing together, adding in some wood sprinkles to the inside of the shaker insert at the end to fill the center in a fun way!

I added my sentiment by using a clear stamp set by Jillibean Soup made especially for the Shape Shaker program! I think it's pretty festive, don't you?

Simple Joy

Good morning! I am stopping in to share a card I made for the Jillibean Soup blog this month in less than 5 minutes! Yep, I am telling you the truth - you can do this in 5 minutes!

I started off with some small scraps of Holly Berry Borscht paper from my Jillibean Soup stash to make my hand cut letters. On the back of the papers, I drew out the letters and then made them into bubble letters, but drawing around the letters around 1/8" in pencil. All that was left to do was to cut those letters out and finish off the rest of the card.

I used one of the Jillibean Soup Shape Shaker cards for my base - this one is the small circle. I used the circle as the O in my card, as you can see. I filled the shaker with a mixture of gold sequins from the Shape Shaker program and then added some mini gold stamped stars and a sentiment, using clear stamps from Jillibean Soup.

I added those hand cut letters with some foam adhesive and all done! It really was a super quick project and this is one you could replicate quite easily, and use up all those scraps you hoard!

I love right now - Jillibean Soup

I have been playing catch up a little here on my blog. I took a bit of a blogging break as I was out of town for a few weeks here and there teaching at some Crop & Create events for Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine!

I am hoping to get back into the blogging habit better now, and I have a lot of projects to share.

This is one that I created for the Jillibean Soup blog earlier this month using 2 of their newer collections - Hardy Hodgepodge and Chit Chat Chowder.

I found myself in a bit of a scrapping rut with all these out of town trips cutting into my scrapping time, so I reverted to a simple grid style layout for this page. It's a go-to when you are in a bit of a no-mojo situation!

I tried to spice up the grid a bit by adding in some stitched & punched shapes, and little bits like wood veneers and journaling cards.

To the center of my grid, I added my title, using some hand cut letters (my new addiction) and a wood wire word from Jillibean Soup along with some corrugated letters that are new too!

That's it for me today, short and sweet ! Hope whoever is still popping by to read is doing well!

25 days of Christmas Tags

Welcome! I am excited to be part of the 25 days of Christmas Tags blog share!

I am here today to share a tag using some of my favorite Jillibean Soup products - the Holly Berry Borscht collection!

Here is the tag I created for this share:

The tag started as a journaling card from the Holly Berry Borscht collection that I trimmed to a tag shape with my trusty scissors. From there, I diecut a holly/berry off my Silhouette using some Jillibean Soup papers and layered them above the sentiment on the tag.

 

I added in some stitched ribbon as well as Jillibean Soup adhesive sequins and wood sprinkles to sparkle up my berries!

I added a little gentle stamping to the background of the tag using some gold ink and some Jillibean Soup clear stamps.

There are lots of great sponsors and PRIZES available for this blog hop! Check out the main post HERE for all the yummy details!

I hope you will check out all the amazing tags in this little blog share and join along too so you can win some of the fantastic prizes up for grabs! 

Jillibean Soup - Make a Wish

I am busy packing for my upcoming trip to Cornwall, ON Canada to the first fall Crop & Create event for Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine but wanted to stop in to share a quick card that popped up on the Jillibean Soup blog today!

I created a large balloon shape in my Silhouette software and diecut it from paper in the Chit Chat Chowder collection. Layered over a fun polka dot paper and a little pennant tag and bam! Easy peasey birthday card! 

I think this is definitely a card that you could make in different papers for people of all ages!

That's it for me today, be back soon with mor projects!

Jillibean Soup DT!

I am excited to announce I will be part of the Jillibean Soup DT for another year! I have been on the team for ... well, a long time, and am happy they have asked me to stay for another term!

I am excited to be working alongside with these ladies (I see some familiar faces) and it seems we have some super talented GDT's this year too!

YAY!

Sept Jillibean - Together

Have you seen the new releases from Jillibean Soup yet? I think the two summer releases (Hardy Hodgepodge and Chit Chat Chowder) are a couple of my faves from them!

I created this page using the Chit Chat Chowder collection - actually mostly from one sheet of paper!

I cut apart the Bite Sized Bits - a full sheet of paper with journaling like cards on one side and a full patterned back. I cut apart that sheet to get the mini squares on this layout.

I used foam adhesive behind all the squares to complete the grid and pop it off the neutral white background. I love the central title and some little Jillibean bits mixed in - wood veneers, wood sprinkles, adhesive sequins and mini placemats too.

Sometimes a simple page can be impactful, and I like how this one turned out!

Enjoy your day :)

Jillibean Soup - Tag Album

Hey everyone! I have a fun project to share with you that I made this month for Jillibean Soup.



The DT was challenged to use the new tag program for one of our projects this month and I decided to combine a whole lot of tags into this pretty mini album:

I started with a wood veneer tag that I painted with Happy Hues Amiable Aqua (my fave color paint). I sanded the edges slightly and added some diecuts from the Hardy Hodgepodge collection.

 

I added in a denim tag that I had hand stitched with a little embroidery floss. I added a neutral patterned paper to the back of each tag so, in this case, the stitching does not show on the other side.

The neutral papers and cardstock tags make great bases for photos in your mini album

I love the gold foil vellum tags and adding one in between layers of photos, allows you to still "see" the photos but keeps them slightly hidden too.

I added in lots of pretty Jillibean Soup die cut shapes and the wood veneer words are perfect for inside a mini album like this one.

I even added in one of the new lace tags- this one is a heart shape that I trimmed off the edge of the tag album shape.

The little felt paperclips are great to tuck behind photos and pop outside of the album itself

  and how cute are the new corrugated alphas !

I love the simple block font! Will use a ton of these for sure.

That's it for my mini ! Been a while since I made one and love how this came together with the aid of a whole bunch of pretty tags!

You can check out the post over on the Jillibean Soup blog HERE if you are interested!