Rejoice Daily Altered Message Board

My altered message board was up on the Jillibean blog yesterday. It was part of our designer challenge this month, to use a quote. I found this message board at Goodwill for $1.00 and it looked like this:

So I added a layered flower focal point,

and chose a favorite bible verse, Psalm 118:4

Added some more Pea Pod and sticker layers with a couple doilies...

And Presto! a fabulous new message center for the Folchert House!

 Materials List: Upcycled Message Board; Jillibean Soup/Grandma's Lima Bean Soup-Lean Ham, Dry Lima Bean, Dried Marjoram, Small Onion, Vegetable Bouillon, Leek Bulb, Bite Size Bits, Pea Pod/DieCuts & 12x12 Cardstock Stickers; Jillibean Soup/Cool Beans Buttons/Vintage, Diced Denim/Alphabeans; White doily, Want 2 Scrap/Pearls; Mod Podge

So what do you think, would love to hear what altered projects you are working on. Lots of Christmas gifts being created I'm sure! I will be back before Christmas with a couple cards. Happy Holidays and best wishes on all the Christmas preparations!

Projects Update

We have been so busy that I haven't had a chance to share my November Projects, here is my other Jillibean Soup Card:

A new article also posted over at the Scrapjazz.com website too, an article on Military Albums featuring pages for my brother-in-law who is proudly serving in the Air Force. Here are a few photos from that article which can be found here:

go to this link to see the other Millitary layouts.
Ok well that is all for now, I will be back soon with some December projects. For Jillibean there will be two Christmas cards this month and special altered project with a favorite bible quote. Over at Scrapjazz the upcoming article includes a Jillibean Soup altered Birdhouse.

Better Late than Never...Pumpkin Farm & Halloween

So I promised Pumpkin Farm photos and Halloween pictures too. Finally I am able to share those, been a crazy month full of fun!

Leed's Pumpkin Farm, Ostrander, Ohio

Our pumpkins this year: Mine/Skeleton & Cat; Scott's: Headless Horseman; Gabe's: Haunted House

Once Gabe realized people would laugh when he shook his tail,  he did it every stop. lol

Sorry so delayed, trying to catch up on posts.

Maya Road & Jillibean Soup Projects

All week on the Jillibean Soup Blog and the Maya Road blog they have been sharing projects that resulted from a product swap. What a combination of inspiration has occurred! So many amazing projects from both design teams, you must go see for yourself!

A few of my projects were shared on the Jillibean blog today in this post: Bean Talk Blog I had fun creating some altered coffee cup photo holders from a chipboard coaster album for Christmas gifts and a fun butterfly card. So if you are a family member and you see your initials then yes this coffee cup photo holder is probably for you :) Surprise! Consider it an early Christmas gift preview:

The Materials list for all of these is on the Jillibean blog here.

Let me know which one you like best, I can't decide which one I like best. :)

Sketch Challenge - Thanksgiving Card

I was so happy to see that Pamela Young is sharing her sketches again from her blog. You can find her here: Pamela's World of Scrap She had this sketch up for her October challenge:

I decided to play along and did a fun Thanksgiving card using some brand new Jillibean Soup. I really love the new "pie chart" trend and decided to make mine an actual pie, yum.

Hope you have a Happy Halloween!
I will post Pumpkin farm and Halloween photos soon, I promise. :)

Officially Announced, New Card

So this week on the Jillibean Blog I was officially introduced, here is a link to the post:
Bean Talk

I just wanted to share my first official project, it was actually a card that I had made for a special lady at our church whose special brand new baby arrived early enough to attend her own baby shower :)

"Baby Love & Joy"

Materials List: Jillibean Soup- Grandma's Lima Bean Soup/Small Onion, Lean Ham, Dry Lima Beans, Dried Marjoram & Pea Pod/diecuts; Jillibean Soup/Cool Beans Buttons-Vintage;  Making Memories/Vintage Pin ; Queen & Co./White pearl

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Happy Fall Greetings!

This is my favorite time of the year here in Ohio. I love everything about this season. The chill in the air, pulling out my cozy sweaters, all the autumn smells of leaves and cider brewing. I look forward to all the leaves changing and the fabulous frenzy of color everywhere. Ahhh such a wonderful time to enjoy family and fun. We are planning our annual trip to the Leed's Pumpkin Farm this weekend and I can't wait! So I thought I would share a Jillibean Soup card that shares some of my October Favorites...

Materials List: Jillibean Soup/Country Pumpkin Chowder-Pumpkin Puree, Bite Size Bits, Pea Pod/Diecuts, 12x12 sticker sheet & Soup Labels; Soup Staples II/Navy Salt; Jillibean Soup/Alphabeans-Diced Denim & Organic Orange; iCandi/Confetti- Toy Box

 

So what do you think? I am really loving the navy and orange color combo right now. What are your current color combo favorites?

 

I Hope to share Pumpkin Farm pictures soon, have a great Weekend!

 

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ALSO I STILL HAVE NOT HEARD FROM MY WCMD BLOG HOP WINNER:

Janet, please contact me asap so I can get your shipping information!

WCMD Blog Hop Winner

Well I hope you enjoyed the WCMD Blog Hop this weekend! I used random number generator to pick my prize winner:

The random number generated was : #50

Which was the following post:

JanetOctober 6, 2012 6:51 AM

Congratulations on your Anniversary!!! A very fascinating card!
God bless you always!

Congratulations Janet, you have won this prize!

Please contact me Janet to claim your prize!
Thanks everyone for joining in on the fun!

PaperCrafts WCMD Blog Hop & Giveaway

Happy World Card Making Day Weekend! I was so excited to be asked to be part of another PaperCrafts Blog Hop, we were asked to make a card for the hop that was from the same category we won in the contest last year. So for me that category was "Love", so this is what I came up with:

"Love Story Postcard"

and here are some close-ups:

Materials List: Jillibean Soup/Grandma's Lima Bean Soup-Bite Size Bits, Small Onion & Vegetable Bouillon; Jillibean Soup/Country Pumpkin Soup-Toasted Pumpkin Seeds; Jillibean Soup/Soup Staples II/Gray & Orange Salt; Jillibean Soup/Bakers Twine-Red & Brown; Jillibean Soup/Sugar Picks-Hearts; Creative Impressions/Brown Silk Crepe ribbon & KI Memories/Wild Life Jewels- red rhinestones.

So on to the good stuff, a GIVEAWAY! Jill at Jillibean offered this fabulous pack of goodies:

 

So how do you win it? Become a follower and leave a comment letting me know, or if you were already a follower than just leave me a comment. I can only ship to residents of the U.S. at this time, my apologies to all the international visitors. I will pick a random winner Monday Oct. 8, 2012 and announce it Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012. So be sure to check back and see if you have won!

Happy Hopping! Wendy is your next stop here: Wendy Frederick

     Trinh Arrieta

·          Amber Daigre

·          Terri Davenport

·          Julie Day

·          Sharon Dunn

·          Patricia Folchert (You are Here)

·          Wendy Frederick

·          Vanessa Menhorn

·          Savannah O’Gwynn and Linda Dreiling

·          Becky Olsen

·          Kelly Rasmussen

·          Alyssa Scritchfield

·          Stephanie Washburn

·          Laurie Willison

·          Veronica Zalis

Thanks so much for stopping by! :)

Speaking of Love Stories, Sat. Oct. 6th  is my 5th Wedding Anniversary and I would like to say Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband Scott! Our love story is currently an ongoing saga of a potty-training 3 and a half yr. old boy and a 17 year old daughter prepping for her Senior pictures with a sprained ankle ski boot brace (Oh and Homecoming is next week..). Never a dull moment around here but I am happy that we keep each other sane. I am blessed to have him.