Welcome February Guest Chantal Vandenberg

This month we are excited to welcome the lovely and talented Chantal Vandenberg to the JBS Mercantile Gallery.   Chantal is an Australian designer and one of this year's Scrapbooking Memories Masters.  You can find more of her work on her blog, "Girls Just Wanna Scrapbook," and in her shop.

I have used the awesome February 2014 Papercrafting Kit  here for my layout, "Say What??!."

 

I was so inspired by the wonderfully playful speech bubble paper and the coordinating Maya Road paper clips.  These elements gave me the perfect opportunity to scrapbook some wonderful memories about my youngest daughter, Heidi, who says the cutest and funniest things!  It's so important to jot down these little moments as they are so easy to forget over time.  I really enjoyed creating this layout, as I had some fab photos and journalling all ready to go and this kit just made the whole layout come together so sweetly!  I absolutely adore the colours and the lovely timeless embellishments included!  I used the Mercantile Exclusive Stencil with some different coloured mists - to pepper a sweet rainbow of hearts over the patterned background for extra depth and for a cute and colourful detail.

 

I absolutely love JBS Mercantile kits and I can't wait to create some more projects very soon!! 

I recently was announced as a Scrapbooking Memories Master, and not only that, my layout was on the cover too!  The layout is one of my very favourites ever and I have it sitting on my shelving unit where I keep all my magazines, albums and scrapbooking supplies.  I can't put it away yet!! :)

This photo was taken of myself and my youngest daughter Heidi only weeks ago at the beach.  I'm so glad I asked my husband to capture this moment, as I am usually behind the camera!  I try to remember to hand over the camera and this shot is my latest fave!