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Sunny Days Pocket Stuffers

This digital collection is bright and sunny and just right for your divided page protectors, hybrid projects, and digital pages.

Van Nguyen created a digital pocket page about a sunny outing.  I love the idea of splitting one photo into two spaces.  She used three cards from the kit that have a lot of white space using that space for journaling.  You could also use these for photos, too.  There are lots of fun, bright options in this kit that would work for any way you scrap!

Pick it up this weekend while it's 25% off!

JBS Mercantile Exclusive Papers

This month's Jenni Bowlin Mercantile papercrafting kit features exclusive papers designed by the wonderfully talented Lisa Dickinson.

I used these beauties, along with other items from the May papercrafting kit,  on a layout that documents my mother's long-awaited trip to Paris. 

One of the exclusive papers is printed with postmarks from Paris, and serves as the background for the layout. I worked in the aqua floral and polka dot exclusive papers as well, mixing them with other patterns from the kit. To temper the boldness of some of the patterns, I added vellum over the papers. 

I also fell in love with another kit exclusive: a unique camera stamp. 

Holding the ink pad at an angle, bringing it to the stamp rather than the other way around, I inked sections of the stamp rather than the entire stamp, and stamped specific parts of the image on the labels above.

Thanks for visiting today!

Stamp Inspiration

The exclusive stamp in May's Papercrafting Kit has me inspired!

The stamp has vintage camera images and text about "film negatives".  This inspired me to go with the film negative theme and create a layout that would contain negative-type images in some way.

A plastic film negative holder is the structure behind the layout.  I created the photo strips in MacPages (a word processing program) and slipped them along with paper strips into the negative sleeves.  

The vintage tags, flowers, and sunburst are adhered to the top of the plastic sleeves.  This was such an easy and fun way to embellish a page.  This stamp is so versatile, I can think of many other ways to use it:  as pages in a mini album housed in a tin, stamped on clear acetate, as a photo album label ... the

ideas are endless!

The cutest stencil...

The cutest stencil ever is in this month's paper crafting kit.  Oh my goodness it is awesome.  Have you seen it?  Here is the stencil cut file image to give you an idea of how cool it is.

I really enjoy using stencils.  There are so many ways to use them too.  You can use a stencil with mist or paints or gesso or even a pencil.  I also like to use them with some modeling paste to create a dimensional image from the stencil.  They really are a lot of fun to play with.

I used this month's stencil with some modeling paste and then painted right over it.  It is awesome for a customized look on your pages and projects.

I just love the texture.

Here is another detail of my page.

And all together!

These kits are FABULOUS!  Definitely snag one before they are all gone!

~Corrie

Re-purposing from the JBS Mercantile~

Hi everyone, Connie here with a couple of re-purposed items from the JBS Mercantile.   I started with this suit sample binder~

and I made it into a nature book of our ranch~The pages are material so I just stapled my items on the material samples.

 

The next one I did was this metal ceiling tile~

and this is what I did with it~

I made a note pad with JBS pattern paper, stickers, the feathers and rub-ons.  I embellished with the flat back and chipboard pieces.  I did one more and I'm going to sneak it in.  The two boys (puzzle) probably brothers, had been speaking to me for sometime. I just loved it and wanted to scrapbook it with my two boys.  This is what I came up with~

This was a one-of a kind item (in the JBS Mercantile section).  I have it on an easel in my sitting area.  I used JBS paper, stickers and stamps. A favorite project of mine.

ConnieM.

Oh Happy Day!

Oh Happy Day! Tina here today!

That is how I feel when I receive my monthly box from Jenni Bowlin.  I’m like a kid on Christmas morning, anxious to see what goodness is awaiting for me behind the cardboard flaps.

The May kits are SO full of happiness and joy, I wasn’t sure where to start.  This month’s Mini Album was especially full of yummy product, so I used it as a base for my c.1960 layout.

This layout is a really special one to me.  This is a photo of my mom, circa 1960, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, sitting on the hood of my dad’s car.  I thought the wonderful colors and designs of the embellishments in the Mini album kit would be the perfect complement to this special photo.



I especially loved the Chic Tags die cut sheet included in the Papercrafting kit, so I used it with the fun Basic Grey stickers and Studio Calico wood accent pieces.  Did you notice that I used the entire die cut sheet?  I couldn’t bear to cut it up and use the individual pieces, so I used the entire sheet as a fun paper accent behind my photo.  Did you spy the product packaging on my layout?  I never throw the fancy product packaging out.  I try to incorporate it into my layouts and projects as often as I can.  Another favorite item in the Mini Album kit is the American Crafts vellum.  Vellum is a current love of mine and how fun is this red dot pattern?  It added the perfect little POP of color!

Be sure and stop back!  More May kit projects will be shared and the inspiration is unbelievable.

May Gallery Updates!

We've delivered more inspiration for the May gallery!  Inspiration like this gorgeous page from Corrie using the exclusive stencil from the May Papercrafting Kit . . .

This fabulous page from Jill spotlighting the exclusive papers designed by Lisa . . .

and this charming mini-album created by Karine with the May Mini-Album Kit.  Almost sold out.  Catch them while you can!