Snow, and Jillibean Soup Box

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

We've had lots of snow this weekend, and it just started snowing again. It looks beautiful outside. I am glad we didn't have to go anywhere today, because the situation on the roads is really bad. I wonder what it will be like tomorrow morning. I have to work tomorrow, but I'll first check the news before I go out.

Eric went into town this afternoon to buy a gift for one of Fleur's friends and took some pictures in the city centre of IJsselstein.



I have been busy working on DT assignments and last minute Christmas cards. Since I don't have much to show you at the moment I'll leave you with this little box that was published in Scrapbook Magazine.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Soup Staples Button: Rusty Pickle Tools: EK Success Retro Flower punches, Fiskars Scallop Sentiment border punch Other: wax cord, foamtape, wooden box

Tomorrow I'll have a Christmas card to show you. Until then!

Lots of Jillibean Soup

Yesterday we woke up with a few inches of snow. The girls were excited. I was a little less excited as I had to go to work. I took me 2 hours to get to the office, and it's only 11 miles. Fleur and Sanne were off from school yesterday afternoon and built a snowman with Eric. I do like snow but not when I have to go out by car.

I have been really busy and haven't had time yet to post my layouts that went up on the Jillibean Soup blog yesterday.

The first layout is about Sanne. This photo was taken by my talented SIL Lisette back in August. She and the kids were in the Netherlands for 2 weeks, and when we got together we had a little photo shoot with our kids. Sanne loves it when auntie Lisette takes photos of her. The journaling is written on the kraft tag.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, journaling sprout, bean seeds: Jillibean Soup Stickers: American Crafts Thickers Tools: Martha Stewart Scallop Dots edge punch, sewing machine Pen: Uni-ball Signo White Tag: Creative Cafe

The photos on this second layout were taken by Florence Bavinck during our photo shoot on October 31st. The girls had lots of fun during the shoot. The scan of the layout is not good as there is supposed to be a little white border on the right.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, alphabeans, bean seeds: Jillibean Soup Buttons: Rusty Pickle Ink: Papertrey Ink (Orange Zest) Tools: We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper

With a little one in the family I have an adorable subject to scrap about. Nick is a real cutie, and my brother sent me some lovely photos. For this layout I used my favorite blues from the Alphabet Soup and Soup Staples collections.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, stamps: Jillibean Soup Stickers: American Crafts Foam Thickers Tools: Fiskars border punch, Stampin'Up! circle punch, sewing machine Lace: local haberdashery Ink: Versafine Onyx Black Other: button, tag, date stamp, staples

The journaling of this last layout is about Fleur and Sanne being crazy about their cousin Nick.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper (white) Patterned paper, alpabeans: Jillibean Soup Tools: Sizzix Stars #2, sewing machine Ink: Papertrey Ink (Spring Moss)

I'll be back with a card tomorrow. Until then!

Xmas Banner

I have a Xmas banner to share with you that is up on the Jillibean Soup blog today. Grandmas Christmas Soup collection is one of my favorite Christmas collections this year. I just love the colors and patterns. I had a hard time taking a picture of this banner. It's not that difficult to take a good picture of the banner itself, but the lighting was so poor due to the bad weather. The picture doesn't do justice to the banner, but I can tell you it does look wonderful IRL.



Supplies: Patterned paper, ribbon, twine: Jillibean Soup Buttons: Rusty Pickle Letters: Cosmo Cricket Chipboard Alpha Tools: Sizzix Bigz XL Layered Banner, Sizzix Stars #2 Ink: VersaColor Pinecone Other: chipboard

You can find a new Download Monday project online at www.truikebron.com today. Jeanet Tiemessen and I both made a gift box using October Afternoon papers. You can download the instructions (Dutch only) of our projects here.

Have a Happy Monday!

Pubbed Layouts

As promised, I would also show you the other layouts that were published in the previous issue of Scrapbook Magazine. I used the Soup Staples collection from Jillibean Soup on both layouts. I {heart} the Soup Staples collection. So many colors to choose from, and perfect to match with any of the other Jillibean Soup collections.

The first layout is about Fleur. This picture was taken this summer. Next week she'll be turning 9, and I love to see how she is changing. Not only in looks, but also in the way she acts and the things she loves to do. She spends more time on her hair and clothes and is more aware of her appearance. She is not really interested in kids' music such as K3 and Kus (Belgian and Dutch girl bands) anymore, but loves to listen to the Black Eyed Peas, Pink and Lady Gaga. The layout is based on a sketch by Becky Fleck from her Scrapbook PageMaps book.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper (white) Patterned paper, journaling sprout: Jillibean Soup Flower: Prima Marketing Button: Rusty Pickle Tools: Martha Stewart Embossed Scallop edge punch, QuicKutz Alphabet Grand Diesel, sewing machine Other: foamtape, waxed cord

You may remember that Eric created this poster using a picture of Fleur and Sanne. I loved how the poster turned out and just had to scrap the poster.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper (white, black) Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Stickers: American Crafts Thickers Tools: Fiskars Upper Crest border punch, sewing machine Metal tag rims: CreaMotion Other: staples

Tomorrow I'll have a lovely gift box to show you. Until then!

Jillibean Soup Projects

This card went up on the Jillibean Soup blog today. I created a scallop card using my new Sizzix die. It wasn't a cheap die, and I was in doubt about purchasing it, but I am happy I did. I love the scallop design.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, twine: Jillibean Soup Lentil Soup Button: Rusty Pickle Stickers: Making Memories Alphabet Stickers Tools: Sizzix Bigz XL Scallop Card, QuicKutz Nesting Flowers Ink: Papertrey Ink Other: book page

The new issue of Scrapbook Magazine is available now, so that means I can show my work that was published in the last issue. I'll kick-off with the layout that made it to the cover of the anniversary issue. This layout is one of my favorite layouts ever. It is based on Sketch 64 by Creative Scrappers. I was Guest Designer for Sketch 64 in August, and liked the sketch so much that I wanted to create another layout based on the sketch. The cute little boy is my nephew Nick. The Jillibean Soup blues are perfect for a baby boy layout.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, clear stamps: Jillibean Soup Alphabet Soup, Soup Staples Flowers: Prima Marketing Tools: EK Success Retro Flower punches, QuicKutz Alphabet Diesel Grand, Silhouette, Nesting Flowers, Sizzix die Stars #2, sewing machine Sheer: Maya Road Brad: Making Memories Ink: Versafine Onyx Black Other: twill, waxed cord, foamtape

Later this week I'll show the other layouts that were published.

Jillibean Soup's Grandmas Christmas Soup

I {heart} Jillibean Soup's Grandmas Christmas Soup Collection. The colors are wonderful, and the collection is very versatile. You can use the papers for Christmas and non-Christmas projects. Here's a mini album that I created for this year's Christmas. I only have to add pictures. Usually we always forget to take pictures, but hopefully not this time.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, alphabeans, ribbon: Jillibean Soup Grandmas Christmas Soup Stickers: Heidi Swapp Chipboard Alphabet Tools: Sizzix die Stars #2 Album: Maya Road Ink: VersaColor Pinecone Other: waxed cord, foamtape

I also altered a notepad.



Supplies: Patterned paper, alphabeans, twine: Jillibean Soup Grandmas Christmas Soup Button: Rusty Pickle Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels One, Crealies Creative Flowers 3, Fiskars border punch, sewing machine Ink: VersaColor Pinecone Other: foamtape

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.

Merry Xmas

This card went up on the Jillibean Soup blog today. The card shows that you don't necessarily have to use Christmas papers to create a Christmas card. The circles are cut from the Can Beef Consomme sheet that is part of Grandmas Christmas Soup collection, but all other papers are non-Christmas papers.



Supplies: Cardstock: Jillibean Soup Talk Soup Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Grandmas Christmas Soup, Lentil Soup Ribbon, twine: Jillibean Soup Button: Rusty Pickle Tools: Martha Stewart Embossed Scallop edge punch, Cuttlebug Ice Crystal Stampin'Up! circle punch, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper Ink: VersaColor Pinecone Other: white tag

I still have many Christmas card to make, so I better hurry otherwise the cards won't arrive in time. First, I have to meet a few deadlines, but I might have some time to create some Christmas cards this weekend.

Earlier this evening I received a link to the online gallery of our photo shoot by Florence Bavinck and all I can say is......WOW! Florence did an awesome job and I really love how the pictures turned out. I might be able to show you more pictures tomorrow or Wednesday.

Until next time!

The Big Apple II and Jillibean Soup

This morning Eric and I met up with Kay. I was super excited to finally meet her in person. She is such a wonderful and lovely person, and her friendship is really special to me. The first stop on our ribbon tour was M&J Trimming. Wow.....that store is amazing. I have never seen so many - and I mean MANY - ribbons in one store in my whole life. I felt like a kid in a candy store.


Kay and me at M&J Trimming

I was a bit overwhelmed by the enormous collection of ribbon. I bought some beautiful ribbon, but really behaved myself. *wink* The picture below shows only a small part of M&J Trimming's ribbon collection.



We also went to Tinsel Trading and Hyman Hendler. I didn't buy any ribbon at Hyman Hendler, but they have some beautiful ribbon. I also bought ribbon online, so I think I have enough now. After the ribbon shopping Kay went back home, and Eric and I strolled around Fifth Avenue and went to the Apple store. If you are into Apple computers this store is THE place to be. Beautiful entrance, great store and very helpful and friendly personnel. Since we were close to Central Park we went down there for a walk. The park is beautiful, and the colors of the trees are amazing at this time of year. We walked back to Midtown via Broadway. We bought lunch at Subway, and ate our sandwich in a park. We then went back to the hotel to drop off our bags. Eric wanted to take some more pictures and went out on his own. My feet were pretty sore, so I stayed at the hotel. When Kay came over this morning she brought along a huge bag with goodies that I had ordered before I came over to New York. When I took all the boxes out of the bag I noticed another bag inside. I was completely surprised that it was from Kay. She made me this gorgeous box and it had some lovely gifts inside. Thanks so much, sweetie!



This evening we went for dinner at Ellen's Stardust Diner. A diner that features singing waitstaff. Kay recommended this place, and said it is a fun, crazy place to eat. And she was so right.....we loved this place and had a fab time.





After dinner we strolled around Times Square, and ended up at Rockefeller Plaza watching people skating at the famous skating rink. Eric also posted a few pictures on his blog, and will post more pictures tomorrow.

Today I also have 2 layouts to show that were posted on the Jillibean Soup blog. The first one is about my sweetheart. These pictures of Eric were taken by Florence Bavinck in September 2007. I really {heart} these pictures. We will soon have another photo shoot with Florence. This lay-out is inspired by Sketch #58 from Creative Scrappers.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, journaling sprouts: Jillibean Soup Alphabet Soup, Soup Staples, White Bean Rub-ons: Doodlebug Design Tools: Fiskars border punch, Stampin'Up! circle punch, Coluzzle circle template

The second layout is about Fleur and Sanne and their strong and special relationship. Eric took this picture during our holiday at Texel. He didn't ask them to pose this way. They stood on the beach looking at the sea when Eric caught them on camera.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, corrugated letters, journaling sprouts: Jillibean Soup Paint: Kaisercraft Tools: sewing machine

Have a fabulous day!

Be Inspired #51, and More Jillibean Soup

Today's Be Inspired #51 Challenge on Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot is the last challenge of the Cuttlebug Birthday Palooza, so we end our birthday party with Thank You notes. I chose the same papers as I did for my centerpiece. If you have to make multiple Thank You notes for a party you want to keep the design clean and simple, and that's what I did.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper: Making Memories Paperie Poolside Stamps: Melissa Frances Button: Rusty Pickle Ribbon: local haberdashery Tools: Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl embossing folder, Crealies Creative Flowers 3, EK Success Retro Flower punch small, Carl corner punch Ink: Versafine Onyx Black Other: waxed cord

I also have another Jillibean Soup project to show you. I altered a little tin that I had in my stash for a long, long time. This tin is from Sweetwater, but the Maya Road tins are also perfect for altering.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, twine: Jillibean Soup Alphabet Soup, Soup Staples Button: Rusty Pickle Tools: Crealies Creative Flowers 6, Creative Shapes 01 Other: Make Me Tacky Glue

That's all for today. I'll be back tomorrow with another card. Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by!

Baby

This card went up on the Jillibean Soup blog today. I love mixing all the blue papers from the various Jillibean Soup collections. They are perfect for (baby) boy cards and layouts. Of course you can use them for many other occassions too.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Alphabet Soup, Soup Staples Letters: American Crafts Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eight, Fiskars Twinkle Twinkle punch, EK Success corner punch, sewing machine Other: button, ribbon

Have a wonderful Monday!

A Toot, ShortCuts & Jillibean Soup Guest DT

I have a few things to share today, but let me first start with a.....TOOT. I've been asked by Kelly from Custom Crops to join their Design Team. Custom Crops is an online store based in the USA, but also ships internationally. They have a large selection of Cricut cartridges and Cuttlebug dies and folders, but also many other products. I am excited to be a member of their team.

It's Friday, and that means I have a ShortCuts project to show you. This week it is all about outside the box projects, and I created this bookmark from a frosted sheet. It's quite clean & simple, but Fleur loves it and asked if she could use it. The blue papers from the various Jillibean Soup collections seem to be my favorites at the moment. The colors and designs blend really well.



Supplies: ShortCuts Frosted Full Sheet Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Tools: Martha Stewart Cornice edge punch, Crealies Creative Flowers 06, Crealies Creative Shapes 01, Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl embossing folder Other: ribbon

Today the new Guest Designers for Jillibean Soup were announced, and I was so excited to see some familiar names. One of the guest designers is my sister-in-law Lisette. Another guest designer is my sweet friend Hanneke. I was also happy to see that Juliana and Berdien made it to the Guest Design Team. Congrats to all Guest Designers!

And more happy news to share today. Sanne had her weekly swimming lesson this afternoon, and she got a letter telling her that she will have her exam for swimming certificate A on Saturday October 3rd at 8am. Needless to say, she was excited....and so am I!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Jillibean Soup Xmas Cards

Jillibean Soup's Grandmas Christmas Soup collection is one of my favorite collections. I love the colors and designs of this Christmas collection. Here's a card made with the new collection.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Cardstock Patterned paper, bean stalks: Jillibean Soup Grandmas Christmas Soup Rub-ons: Melissa Frances Tools: QuicKutz Nesting Flowers, sewing machine Ink: VersaColor Pinecone

The new Lentil Soup collection is quite versatile. I used the patterned papers and one of the new calendar sprouts to create another Christmas card.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Cardstock Patterned paper, journaling sprout: Jillibean Soup Lentil Soup Rub-ons: Pebbles Inc. Tools: Martha Stewart Scallop Dots edge punch, machine stitching

Eric and I are planning a trip to New York in October. We find it quite hard to find a nice hotel for a reasonable price, because there are just too many hotels. Has any of you ever been to New York? If so, what hotel would you suggest?

Thank you for stopping by.

CPS #130

This week Jillibean Soup is a sponsor of the card challenge blog Card Positioning Systems. This week a few of the Jillibean Soup Design Team members have participated in Sketch #130 as well. Here's my take on this week's sketch...



Supplies: all by Jillibean Soup except for button (Autumn Leaves)

Have a wonderful day!

Jillibean Soup CHA Projects

It has already been a month ago since CHA Summer was in Orlando. The new Jillibean Soup collections were a huge success. For CHA I was asked to work with the Minestrone and Cold Raspberry collections as it wasn't sure that the new collections would arrive in time for me. No problem for me, because I {heart} both collections. Here are the projects that I created for CHA Summer 2009.









If all goes as planned the new Jillibean Soup collections will be available at Paper & Pictures at the end of the week or in the week after.

Have a Happy Sunday!

Happy Anniversary

Today my parents are celebrating their 43th anniversary. Since my mom loves Jillibean Soup I couldn't resist making a card with the yummy papers. I just love that all the Jillibean Soup papers are so easy to match. I even used one of the Christmas papers on this card. Mom and dad, Happy Anniversary!



Supplies: Cardstock, patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Ribbon: Bazzill Basics Paper Rub-ons, pearl: Melissa Frances Tools: EK Success Retro Flower punch, corner punch, Stampin'Up! border punch, sewing machine

Have a wonderful day!

Jillibean Soup at CHA Summer

Look! Do you see what is up there on the wall at the Jillibean Soup booth? I have been having my debut at CHA Summer this week. Well.....sort of. *wink* My layout and cards among the amazing projects by the other DT girls are showcased at CHA. The layout, cake shaped card, and red/kraft card on the first frame are mine.



Here are the wonderful Jill (owner) and Kim (DT coordinator). These girls do awesome work, and are great to work with. A few of my cards are up in the 'tree'. I am quite a down to earth person, but I have to admit it's kinda cool to see my work at CHA. Given all the gorgeous new collections I am sure that Jillibean Soup will be a huge hit.



Hop on over to the Jillibean Soup blog to see more pictures of the awesome Jillibean Soup booth.

Have a nice day!

ShortCuts, Cuttlebug Challenge and Some Soup

Today's post is about bags and some delicious soup. For ShortCuts I created a clear treat bag inspired by one of Samantha van Iperen's projects in Cards Only #7. A quick and easy project, and a great way to give someone some delicious chocolates or candy. Next week I'll show you the tutorial for this treat bag, so be sure to check in on Wednesday.



Supplies: ShortCuts Clear Full Sheet Rub-ons: Kaisercraft Ribbon: local market Tools: Scor-it Tape: Make Me Tacky Tape

For this week's challenge Be Inspired #41 over on the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog I altered a paper bag. The challenge is to create altered projects from items in your recycle bin, containers to books.....sky is the limit. Provo Craft is our sponsor again this week and will be giving those fantastic new Cuttlebug folders to winners that participate in all 4 challenges for the month. You still have time to enter. Hop on over to the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog to see the other DT members' projects. They all did an amazing job.



Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper: Little Yellow Bicycle Letters: Heidi Swapp Chipboard: Maya Road Fresh Library Ribbon: Vandoros, Bazzill, Creative Impressions Tools: Martha Stewart Doily Lace edge punch, Cuttlebug Butterflies Cut 'n Emboss, sewing machine Brads: SEI Other: ShortCuts Frosted Sheet, waxed cord, eyelet, kraft paper bag (Paper & Pictures)

Are you in the mood for Christmas yet? I know you will when you see this sneak peek of Jillibean Soup's Grandma's Christmas Soup collection. I immediately fell in love with this collection when Jill showed us the first pictures. I love the colors and designs. This collection among others will get in the mail to me this week, and I can't wait to create some projects with it. Jill really did an amazing job and designed awesome collections for CHA Summer. The Jillibean Soup products are so up to my alley, and I am very happy to be part of the team.

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If you leave a comment here before Midnight EST you might be the lucky one to win this gorgeous Christmas collection.

Thank you so much for your sweet comments.

Soup Staples

Here's another sneak peek from Jillibean Soup.....Soup Staples. I guess Jill knew that her Design Team LOVES the grid and polka dots papers, so she designed them in lots of gorgeous colors. *smile* I LOVE this new collection. And what do you think of the Soup Staples on Kraft collection? I can't wait to get my hand on both collections.

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If you're interested in winning one set of each collection (that's 24 sheets), you have until Midnight EST to leave a comment here to be included in the random draw for this line. The winner will be posted on the Jillibean Soup blog tomorrow morning.

I'll be back tomorrow with my ShortCuts and Cuttlebug Challenge Blog projects.

ShortCuts, Cuttlebug Challenge & Jillibean Soup

It's Wednesday so time to show you my ShortCuts and Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot projects. Let's start with ShortCuts today. This month's sponsor is Deborah from MemoryWorks. She sent us some wonderful kits to work with. This card - again quite clean & simple - was inspired by SheetLoad of Cards July sketch. ShortCuts has teamed up with Caardvarks for their first challenge this month. Head on over to their new challenge post to find out how you can play along and win ShortCuts goodies!!

Starting this month, and each month through the end of the year, ShortCuts will welcome a new Guest Artist. You will be able to see their creations using the ShortCuts products on every Friday for the month. This month our Guest Designer is Lisette Gibbons. Lisette is an amazingly talented scrapbooker and card maker, and she is also a very wonderful person. I can tell, because Lisette is my dear sister-in-law. You can read more about Lisette's Guest DT gig here. Hop on over to her blog to see her gorgeous cards, mini albums and layouts.



Since last week my Wednesday blog posts are also dedicated to Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot, because the new Be Inspired Challenges are posted on that day. I have been a DT member for only 2 weeks now, but I can tell you I love being a member a lot. The challenges are great. This week's challenge Be Inspired #39 is to create a woodsy outdoor project, using woodsy animals (except for snakes) using twigs, pebbles anything from nature and a fun colour template as a component for this week. Details on this week's challenge and the gorgeous DT projects can be found here. If you participate in all 4 challenges for the month of July you'll be entered in the drawing and have a chance to win some of the new folders going to CHA.

Here's my card for this week. Except for the ribbon and twine I only used goodies from my stash.



Supplies: Card, tag: Creative Café Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper Patterned paper, rub-ons: October Afternoon Weathervane Paper frills: Doodlebug Design Button: Rusty Pickle Tools: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, EK Success Retro Flower punch Ribbon: Creative Impressions Twine: Jillibean Soup Other: jute

Again, I have some Jillibean Soup sneak peeks to show you. Today the new Calendar Sprouts are revealed. They come in 4 different colors. What do you think? I think they are great, and love them! You'll have a chance to win 4 packages of Calendar Sprouts by leaving a comment before Midnight EST here.



Yesterday the new Lentil Soup Collection was revealed. I love the colors of the new patterned paper collections.



I can tell you that the new papers look even more gorgeous IRL. How do I know? Well, yesterday I received this....



It is full of new goodies. Thanks, Jill!!

Have a Happy Wednesday, and thanks for stoppin by my blog!

Jillibean Soup Sneak Peek #2 - Journaling Sprouts

Another Jillibean Soup sneak peek. The new number sprouts will be available in 4 colors. Don't you love them? Again you have a chance to win this new product. Leave a comment here no later than Midnight EST. The winner will be announced tomorrow.