Guest Star Jing-Jing Nickel!

March is guest star month here at JBS Mercantile! Today we are thrilled to welcome Jing-Jing Nickel to the blog! Jing-Jing writes, "I am Jing-Jing Nickel. Pronounce it like there are nickels in your pocket making that jingling noise! *laugh* I was born in Shanghai, China. My teenage years were spent in Dakar, Senegal, a West African nation. I hold a graduate degree in mathematics and work full time in the Twin Cities, MN, as an I.T. engineer. When I started scrapbooking in 1999, it was the most perfect extension of my love for traveling and travel photography. Then with the birth of my first daughter, a new dimension of scrapbooking as well as a new realm of creative possibilities was born with her. Today and every day, I scrap my family, my trips, and my family on trips. I began submitting to publications in 2008. You can find my layouts, cards, and mini-albums in Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbook Trends, Cards, Scrapbook & Cards Today, Scrapbooking & Beyond, Memory Maker magazines and idea book. You can find me at the Color Room, and you can also find me on my blog: This Little Art of Mine."

Jing-Jing admits to being a hoarder of JBS Chipboard, but we are oh so glad she decided to use these new blag banner pieces. Isn't this layout awesome? About it Jing-Jing writes, "I happened to have cowgirl photos of my daughter that could be trimmed to fit onto the banner chipboard pieces and that's where the idea of this layout came from. Banners continue to be all the rage in scrapbooking and thanks to JBS for introducing yet a new shape of banner that I adore." I say that we thank you for using them so creatively Jing-Jing!

Her second layout is done for the Color Room palette release #48 that debuted today. Of it she says, "I rarely do layouts that does not include journaling, but in this case, all I really have is just a captivating photo of my Second Child, and I said all I wanted to say in the title." Isn't this an amazing color combination? I love it!

What a perfect start to Guest Star Month! Thanks so much for the inspiration Jing-Jing!