JBS Mercantile Exclusive Papers

This month's Jenni Bowlin Mercantile papercrafting kit features exclusive papers designed by the wonderfully talented Lisa Dickinson.

I used these beauties, along with other items from the May papercrafting kit,  on a layout that documents my mother's long-awaited trip to Paris. 

One of the exclusive papers is printed with postmarks from Paris, and serves as the background for the layout. I worked in the aqua floral and polka dot exclusive papers as well, mixing them with other patterns from the kit. To temper the boldness of some of the patterns, I added vellum over the papers. 

I also fell in love with another kit exclusive: a unique camera stamp. 

Holding the ink pad at an angle, bringing it to the stamp rather than the other way around, I inked sections of the stamp rather than the entire stamp, and stamped specific parts of the image on the labels above.

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