It was a Jillibean Soup day

That almost sounds like a Chicken Noodle soup day which it is here today since we got some rain after a week of heatwave and humidity!  I really do mean Jillibean Soup day though since last week I was soooo happy to be the Guest artist on the Jillibean Soup blog.  Jillibean Soup has so many papers and other products that I really do love so this was FUN!

All of these projects were posted on their blog but I wanted a chance to show you some of the details and to share a little bit of what I did.  For the first layout, I wanted to share this photo of my youngest grandson. I asked him to give me a smile and this is what I got. How priceless!  I thought this patterned paper with the little cameras on it was a great piece to use with it.  The SPROUTS that I used go right along with the theme.  Notice the red cardstock too.  That is Jillibean Soup Core Impressions by Core'dinations.  It comes with that great embossed design in it already. 

The letters that I had to use were white.  They do come in other colors but what I really do like about the white is that I can custom color them.  I sprayed these with red Memories Mist spray and I also rubbed them with a Fluid Chalk stamp pad. 

The little fish come on this piece of patterned paper. I add in some punched out little fish here and there, mine look more like sharks!  For my little square of photos, I created a collage in Picassa.  I cropped four photos in a square shape and then picked those four and created a collage. This is sooooo easy in Picassa.  I then added the white border around and between the photos.  Now I could print this out in the size I wanted.  I picked just the right size to fit in the space I had left.  This is so much easier then cutting four photos in perfect squares.  I did some machine sewing around this square for added interest. 

Again, me letters were white.  I colored them with spray color and by rubbing them with a Fluid Chalk stamp pad. 

How about that punched border? At first I wasn't going to buy this one and now I am very happy that I did. It is by EK Success.   

Probably my favorite supply in all that I used is the red and white herringbone sticker letters and the matching patterned paper.  I picked the letters to spell "joy" and made my card have a slight Christmas look to it.  The label is also a sticker.  The star is a die cut that they offer.  I rubbed it with a white stamp pad and then embossed that ink with white embossing powder.  This gives it a "snow" look.

The card base cardstock is more of the Jillibean Soup Core Impressions Core'dinations cardstock.  This piece is WhiteWash.  I slightly sanded it to expose the little design. 

The flowers are from another piece of Jillibean Soup Core Impressions Core'dinations cardstock. It has embossed flowers all over it and I just cut out three of them.  The buttons are actually stickers, they make the cutest flower centers. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)