My Minds Eye Challenge at PageMaps

So I recently came across a sketch challenge at the Pagemaps blog and really loved the sketch. Here is the sketch by Becky Fleck:

Really fun sketch, right? Of course Becky's sketches never disappoint! So I decided to play along, I grabbed some MME papers for a cute Halloween layout. Here is what I interpreted from the sketch above:

Materials Used: My Minds Eye/Mischievous-Bewitching, What a Hoot, Happy Halloween & Creepy Celebration; Jillibean Soup/Placemat- Kraft Lattice; Corrugated Kool Kraft Alpha & Corrugated Buttons; Black Alphabean; Archival Ink/Coffee; Orange Embroidery floss

Really love this collection's cute designs and color combo. So what do you think? If you want to try the sketch challenge go to this link, but hurry challenge ends April 21st.

The Sky is the Limit Printer's Tray

About a year ago I stumbled onto one of my luckiest treasure finds ever at our local Goodwill store. For a mere $7.00 I snatched up this amazing authentic printers tray, I knew it would make an incredible upcycle project for my home someday. So then I waited, waited for the perfect project to maximize its potential. Then there it was, a Jillibean design team forum post with March's Designer Challenge: Use as many Jillibean papers on one project as possible and still make it look good. I instantly knew that was the project for my printer's tray! So I began by painstakingly taking measurements of each opening, and logged them on a diagram sketch I had made of the tray.

A favorite photo of my son wearing his Dad's headphones, that smile gets me every time.

Then I decided to add the 3D hot air balloons so that I could get more papers on the project :)

Another favorite photo of my husband Scott and my son Gabriel at the fair last summer on the carousel. So love that moment captured!

The color families idea came during the process, I just happened to wonder what it would look like if I grouped papers by color. I really loved how that came together, then I selected a gingham pattern in each color family color to mat the photos on. 

I still cannot believe my daughter Aspen is 18 now, where did the time go? I love this photo with her, she looks stunning in this photo from her Sr. Homecoming.

 In the past I had cut photos and placed them into the trays, but this tray had a slant in each compartment. So I decided to try a different approach with this one and see how it would look with the photos laying over top. I was happy with the photos on top, and then I didn't have to cut them into segments.

How do teenagers take the most amazing photos of themselves? I have no idea, but Aspen looks so beautiful in this one.

This photo is from last summer at the Richwood County Fair, my niece Addy took it and it is one of my all time favorite photos. I was so excited to be able to capture this moment together on the big slide.

I had to add some orange in but wanted to stick with an odd number of photos for balance.

The project used 78 Jillibean patterned papers from 23 different collections! A perfect example of how well Jillibean products can be combined, Jill uses the same reds, browns & greens in almost every collection. So old Jillibean lines mix wonderfully with new lines. Love that about Jillibean!

Here is the collections list used:

1)      Chicken Noodle Soup

2)      Old World Cabbage Soup

3)      Soup Staples I

4)      Atomic Soup

5)      Dutch Mustard Soup

6)      Pasta Fagioli Soup

7)      Watermelon Gazpacho

8)      Sweet & Sour Soup

9)      Apple Cheddar Soup

10)   Hearty Barley Soup

11)   Game Day Chili

12)   Homemade 6 Bean Soup

13)   Southern Chicken Dumpling Soup

14)   Neapolitan Bean Bisque

15)   Christmas Eve Chowder

16)   Macho Nacho Soup

17)   Coconut Lime Soup

18)   Country Pumpkin Chowder

19)   Grandma’s Lima Bean Soup

20)   Winter Tortellini & Spinach Soup

21)   Soup Staples II

22)   Fresh Vegetable Soup

23)   Irish Farmhouse Soup

(A few are hidden behind the photo mats in the picture)

Other Jillibean products:

Pea Pods: Homemade 6 Bean Soup

Bakers Twine: Orange/Yellow; Red/Brown; Turquoise/Green

Other products: Cricut & Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials; Want2Scrap/brown gemstones; Mini Glue Dots

Overall the project took an entire weekend to complete, but I couldn't be happier with the result. It has found a happy home on our living room wall.

Folchert's Farm Fresh Mini Album Jillibean Project

So excited to finally share the mini album that made the trip to the Jillibean Soup booth at CHA in California. I call it Folchert's Farm Fresh Mini because of the bite size bit I used for my cover just happens to have my name on it! Coincidence, nope just the Jillibean crew having some fun, they often hide names and dates in our products. This album was shared on the Jillibean blog Wednesday.

This was my assignment for Jillibean for CHA to create a mini album using the fabulous new Fresh Vegetable Soup Collection, and I must say the more I used of it the more I loved it. The B sides are so versatile and I love the vibrant colors and fresh designs in this collection. It was a lot of pages, so there's lots of photos and 3 bonus pics of pages that were not on the Jillibean Blog. See what you think:

This was what the album was held in, a vintage berry basket.

The infamous cover page, just makes me smile :)

 

Inside front cover pocket page with seed packs.

A play on the water theme of the quote, fishing with Daddy and boat ride with PaPa.

Some fave photos of Gabe chowing down on watermelon.

Love the new Placemat diecut sheets, so fun for layouts or cards. Just some fav photos here.

My blog exclusive pic: Had to utilize the super cute cooking accents with photos from one of the amazing meals at my in laws house featuring the adorable Miss Hailey, my niece.

Me and Gabe catching a cuddle in the backseat of the car and him and Sissy on our vacation wrestling  in the Colorado sunshine.

My two favorite pages from the album, the seed stakes idea was a happy accident. Love it when that happens.

My beautiful daughter Aspen, hamming it up on a bright sunny summer day.

My blog exclusive pic: Gabe & Scott at our favorite Pumpkin Farm, one of my favorite days of the year! How fun is this shopping cart paper that I made the mini envelope from?

My 2nd favorite pages in the album, so love the pie chart trend and the photo of my children is a special one for me.

 

My blog exclusive pic: Just a fun kraft tag I added to the album, references an inside asparagus joke among the team.

Last pages and back inside cover, my beautiful family they are my sunshine- I am so blessed.

I couldn't bear to leave the back cover blank so I adapted one of the seed packets into an exclusive breed of sweet pea pumpkin ;)

Materials List: 
Jillibean Soup
Kraft Cardstock
Patterned Paper:  Fresh Vegetable Soup/Baby Carrots, Chicken Base, Stalks of Celery, Mushrooms, Bermuda Onion, Crushed Ginger, Bite Size Bits; Soup Staples II/Orange Salt, Red Salt, Turquoise Salt, Green Salt, Gray Salt, Yellow Salt; Grandma's Lima Bean Soup/Dried Marjoram
Corrugated Album:  Kraft Pennant (tips cut off)
Cardstock Stickers:  Fresh Vegetable Soup Label
Pea Pod Parts:  Fresh Vegetable Soup, Grandma's Lima Bean Soup
Placemats:  Kraft Circles
Alphabeans:  Tomato Red, Roma Red, Tart Teal, Yam Yellow
Wise Words Stickers:  Yellow Happy, White Smile
Sugar Picks:  Sunshine
Kraft Tags:  Medium
Banner Bites:  Priceless, Hello
Hexies:  Remember
Beanstalks:  Orange Baker's Twine, Yellow Baker's Twine
Other:  Woodsies mini dowel, Creative Impressions natural twine, vintage berry basket, silver binder ring, white cardstock, mini glue dots, sticky strip tape, Martha Stewart liquid adhesive, Queen & Co. white pearls, Stampin' Up Close to Cocoa marker and Triple Flower Punch.

Well that is the album, hope you enjoyed the post. Have a great weekend!

Scrapping Everyday Miracles Challenge

So I love to check in over at Scrapping Everyday Miracles for daily spiritual inspiration and creative inspiration as well. Great combo right! I really loved the February sketch and decided to join in the challenge, here is the sketch by Tracey Gregory:

Really beautiful isn't it? Love the shabby chic look of it, the challenge twist was to use distressing. I decided to do another layout for my daughters Europe trip album from her visit to Vatican City:

Materials Used: Basic Grey/What's Up; Jillibean Soup/Gray Salt, Kraft Paper & Mini Kraft bag; Webster's Pages/Cream flower; Jolee's Boutique/Lilac Pleated flower; K Marcella/Rhinestones; white doily; buttons

Be back soon with my Jillibean Mini Album that was on the Jillibean Blog today! Happy Wednesday :)

January & February Jillibean Projects

Well sorry for the long blog posting break, in my defense I have been a bit busy. But now I am happy to report that my gall bladder surgery went well and I am on my way to a full recovery. So now to catch up on Jillibean projects. First off the projects that posted on the Jillibean blog in January:

First up my altered project was an upcycled birdhouse I found at Goodwill for $5.00.

Love how it turned out, used all Jillibean Soup/Winter Tortellini & Spinach Soup

One of my January Cards, titled Country Fresh Smiles Bouquet.

Here is a close-up, this card was mostly Jillibean Soup/Grandma's Lima Bean Soup, mason jar stamp is from Coconut Lime Unity Stamp set.

One of my February cards, was on the blog today- Hope You're Swell; Uses new Jillibean Soup/Irish Farmhouse Collection

My Be Mine Via Airmail valentine card was my other February Jillibean Card, this also was made with the brand new Jillibean soup/Irish Farmhouse collection

 My February altered project has not posted on the blog yet, but it is a super cute mini album using the brand new Fresh Vegetable Soup. I will share it with you soon!

Creative Scrappers Sketch Challenge

I was lucky enough to sneak away to a crop last night with some great friends at Scrapbook Art in Lewis Center, Ohio and this was my fav layout of the night. It happened to be from a sketch that I really loved and wanted to use for some pics of our recent trip to Colorado. The sketch is by the very talented Juliana Michaels and it looks like this:

 I used a collection by Echo Park called Winter Park it reminds me of Crested Butte, Colorado which is where these pictures were taken. I adapted the sketch into a double layout and added two photos per page and a journal card:



Materials List: Echo Park/Winter Park Collection pack; LilyBee/Memorandum; Jillibean Soup/Alphabeans-Tomato Red & Apple Green; Studio Calico/Wood Veneers; Queen & Co/Twinkle Goosebumps-Stars; Maya Road/Trinkets Gray Ribbon

 Let me know what you think, if you would like to play along go to the Creative Scrappers website before Feb. 1st. Have a great weekend!

Mini Cards and a Sneak Peek

Just wanted to share a couple mini cards I did recently for my monthly Jillibean projects. They were featured on the blog this week. I came up with this size by simply cutting an A2 size card in half.

Materials list:

Patterned Paper: Winter Tortellini & Spinach Soup/Garlic Flakes, Cheese Tortellini, Fresh Baby Spinach, Fresh Basil, Frozen Peas, Stewed Tomatoes; Macho Nacho/Bite Size Bits; Card Base: Kraft; Pea Pod Parts: Winter Tortellini & Spinach Soup & Grandma’s Lima Bean Soup; Baker’s Twine: Red & Brown

Cool Beans: Vintage; Wood Flags: Thank you & For You

So on to the fun stuff! Have you been following the new releases at CHA? It has been very exciting to be able to create and send projects for the Jillibean Booth and I wanted to share a couple sneak peeks of my mini album project that made the trip to California. It features the brand new Jillibean Soup/Fresh Vegetable Soup collection, my favorite part is the cover (see if you can guess why):

 That is all I can share for now, but the whole album will be featured on the Bean Talk blog next month. Have a great weekend!