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weekend inspiration: jillibean soup

 

 

Louise N ask's, what is there 'not to love' about a fully co-ordinated paper range from Jillibean Soup?!!! Louise has created two very simple layouts from the paper pad from the Neopolitan Bean Bisque range, but there is so much product in this pad that so many more could be created.

 

How cute is this idea from Jane Clarke?  Shecut out one of the jars in the patterned paper from the Jillibean Lime Soup collection and backed it with acetate, she then punched out some Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterflies and placed them inside the jar. A stitched border was sewn around the edge and a tiny tag from the die-cut sheet added.

 

Jane just loved the bright designs of the Jillibean Soup Coconut Lime Soup collection, the die-cuts and journaling panels made creating a breeze!

 

 

 

We found this super double by Summer Fullerton on the Jillibean Soup blog using the gorgeous Southern Chicken Dumpling Soup range.  We love how she has backed the soft happy colours on plain brown cardstock for contrast.

 

And this is a stunning example of the use of the Neopolitan Bean Bisque range, by Teka Cochonneau.  We love all the pops of colour in the accents on this gorgeous page.

 

 

 

This Beautiful layout and the Window card were created by the fabulous talent of Carole Maurin. Isn't that window card just wonderful! thank you so very much Carole for sharing your wonderful creativity.

2012 cha release: jillibean soup

readers challenge: jillibean soup

This month, in partnership with the fabulous Jillibean Soup brand, we are offering our readers a chance to win a prize pack of papers and products from Jillibean Soup, and an opportunity to showcase your talent on as a Guest Design Team Member on their brilliant blog.  Interested?  Read on!

All you need to do is create a layout using lots of Jillibean Soup patterned papers, alphabeans, bean stalks, bean blossoms, journalling sprouts and/or sugar picks and email it to us by Thursday 3rd November.  We’ll send all your entries over to Jillibean Soup who will choose their favourite to win the prize pack and appear on their blog.  This challenge is open to Australian/NZ residents only.  If you need help finding a local scrapbook store who stocks Jillibean Soup, leave us a comment and we’ll lend a hand finding one near you.

To get you started, here’s some inspiration from our own design team and online.

 

How cool and how fun is this line from Jillibean Soup?!   Leeann just had a blast creating this two-pager using the Sweet and Sour line.

Leeann turned the Bit Size Uncut Cards into totally fun banners which also acted as a photo matt for the silly fun photos of her daughter Holly.   She finished this two-pager off by using the die cut shapes for her embellishments and simply highlighting them with a button to make them pop.

 

Louise created this deceptively simple layout with the Dutch Mustard Soup collection. The co-ordinated cardstock stickers and diecut shapes made it a quick and easy layout to put together, and the Coredinations cardstock base was sanded lightly to enhance the inner core colour and draw the eye slightly towards the centre of the layout.

 

 

Sue has used the Apple Cheddar Soup range from JilliBean Soup to create a layout featuring beautiful autumn tones. Sue really enjoyed using the range, she says, the colours and adorable small prints are fresh and easy to work with. Jillibean produce a die-cut sheet to co-ordinate with their ranges and they are fantastic value, allowing you to add quick and easy embellishments to your page. Sue also added in a little chipboard from MME and a few cute buttons from Crate Paper to completer her page.

 

We just adore this page by Ashley Harris. She has kept the focus on those gorgeous baby feet and scrapped this page perfectly; Ashley has used a mixture from Jillibean’s Homemade line.  Thank you so much for letting us share your adorable page.

 

 

It’s an explosion of colour and such a cool page created by Kim Watson.  We loved the strong vertical lines and whimsical placement of buttons. Kim has used Sweet and Sour by Jillibean. Thank you Kim for letting us share your colourful masterpiece.

 

 

Wendy McKee's 'Love' card using the new Hearty Barley Soup range immediately caught Louise's eye in a gallery. The warm colours and clever use of patterns along with the diecut edges and punches of white, made this a standout.

 

Louise loved Mel Blackburn's gorgeous layout using a Jillibean Soup corrugated background. By cutting circles and rotating the grain, she's added a subtle but interesting details to a very pretty page.

 

This vibrant layout from Becky Williams also uses the lovely Jillibean Soup products to their best. Louise loved the detail of the stripes and photos on the kraft tags and the little cluster with the bakers twine to highlight the journalling. The large corrugated lettering completes the girlie layout with a kid-like twist.

2011 cha summer: jillibean soup

Mouthwatering new collections from Jillibean Soup that will see you through the seasons and Christmas to Valentines Day next year.  Click here for details.

 

weekend inspiration: jillibean soup

 

Nic Finlayson adores the Kraft papers by Jillibean Soup, this range is named Chilled Strawberry Soup. Here she added the green twine by Jillibean Soup as a kind of frame to the main elements of her layout, keeping the feeling fun by making the line wiggly. All of the letters and embellishments are by Jillibean Soup as well and Nic noted that due to the neutral colour of the kraft background, her layout came together quickly.

 

 

The bright and fun colours of the Jillibean Blossom Soup Line provided the beautiful base for this cute photo of Iris' daughter dressed as a lady bug. This line according to Iris has all the elements one can ever think of to come up with a whimsical and fun page.

 

 

Iris loved the Jillibean stickers in the Blossom Soup line. It was the perfect embellishment for this page about her two year old's first time at the See Saw. To bring out the colors of the stickers even more, Iris mounted it on brown cardstock and cut out the shapes before adhering it to her layout with foam tape

 

 

Teka Cochonneau, an illustrator and graphic artist residing in Orlando, Florida created this beautiful layout to document a fun vacation she had with her husband before she gave birth to her daughter. Most of Teka’s layouts center around her daughter and she felt this would be a fun deviation and change of pace to do a more "grown-up" layout. 

Teka is a full time wife to Eric and mom to their daughter Charlotte since she was born 6 months ago. She started scrapping when Charlotte was born thanks to her lovely and creative mother-in-law. Teka loves working with Jillibean papers and elements because of the artistic expression it allows her.

 

Cindy Liebel share with us this fun and beautiful layout – which according to her is one her favorite layouts cause it reminds her of Spring. Cindy loves yellow & how it looked with her daughters purple jacket in the photo. The background is very soft with lots of soft florals. Cindy added the scalloped border edge using pattern paper which just brought in right amount of boldness to the page.

 

This sweet card using the chilled Strawberry Soup range was created by Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Sarah Hodgkinson. Sarah has this to say about Jillibean Soup products, "I will always love Jillibean Soup products though as it is a bright and happy company with bold colours and design. The "Summer Fun" card was inspired by the delicious strawberry printed kraft paper. Jillibean Soup's printed kraft paper collections are what first inspired me to try out for their design team two years ago."

 

This gorgeous layout was created by Paula Gilarde. We love the mat she created by overlapping different patterns from the Chilled Strawberry Soup range. It created the perfect backdrop for some really sweet photos. Thanks Paula.

introducing jillibean soup

 

 

Happy Valentines Day!  Suz had found the day had sneaked up on her and was in need of a card, fast.  But what she had on her desk was Jillibean Soup’s Christmas Range – which surprisingly with a little editing,  lent itself quite beautifully to a cute card.  She cut out two christmas mittens from the Turkish Bay Leaf patterned paper (and tried hard to ignore the fact that the cherries were upside down) and shaped them instead into two halves of a heart.  A few layers of Journalling Sprouts, some of the string from the Bean Stalks ribbon and twine – the palette was perfect for a Valentine, and she had herself a card!

 

 

 

So here, Jillibean Soup’s Christmas line, called Chestnut Soup is used for the purpose it was designed!  It’s a subtle traditional Christmas palette, olive green, crimson, a watermelon red, and kraft.  Christmas is traditionally a busy time of year and, with busy photos, muted colours and smaller patterns help so that they don’t overwhelm your layout.  Containing small bits of pattern and art within boundaries is something Suz is concentrating on with her layouts this year, along with her intention to do more doubles, use more photos and tell more stories, and the Jillibean Soup designs – and journalling spots - are the perfect tools to help her achieve this goal.

 

 

 

 

What a cute collection by Jillibean Soup "Monster Stew" all the adorable little monster make for a fun boys layout. The colours to this collection are just gorgeous so vibrant and very easy to coordinate and a great selection of pattern papers, chipboard pieces and stickers to make a great layout.

 

 

 

Janine fell in love with the Jillibean soup papers, so bright and so much fun! They were so perfect for her boy pages and the journaling circles were so versatile! Janine layered the journaling circles to create the look she wanted on the page. Her favourite thing from the range was the corrugated lettering! It is so wonderfully textural and you can dress it up with inks, or paints or just keep it the way it is.

 

 

We sent Leeann Pearce a well deserved prize pack for a challenge last year, and this is what she did with some of it.  She has used the Jillibean Soup Basics on White and the Pasta Fagioli papers long with Journalling Sprouts to make an awesomely fabulous page.  We loved all the little details like the Bakers Twine and the Corrugated Flower Shapes too, and love that she was happy for us to share more of her talent in this post. 

 

Jane Clarke loved this range of Jillibean Soup, it was perfect for this get well card. The strip along the bottom shows beakers filled potions to make a concoction to make them feel better!

 

 

Jane reports that the stickers have great, versatile captions.  The word 'love' was created using the chemical alphabet stickers and could pass as a great non-traditional valentine!   Jane fussy cut the honeycomb design paper to compliment the DNA designed paper seen at the top and bottom.

cha winter 2011: jillibean soup

Jillibean Soup has cute new lines and some really lovely designs on kraft, just to name a few.  Click on the images to see them larger.