Back to School with Stephanie Howell

Stephanie Howell is going back to school with Two Peas in a Bucket! You can read more of her first day adventures HERE. Thanks for the inspiration Stephanie! :)

Fold-Out Postcard Holder by Betsy Sammarco

This “postcard” holder displays your 4x6 photos and is modeled after vintage fold-out postcard holders. Here’s how you can make one:

Cover a piece of cardstock 6-1/2” x 11” with patterned paper on both sides. I use Helmar Premium Craft Glue as my adhesive for this. Score your covered cardstock at 1”, 5-1/2”, 5-3/4”, and at 10-1/4”. This is your postcard holder cover.

Make an accordian fold out piece for your photos using another piece of cardstock cut to 6”x12”. Score one piece at 4” intervals and the other at 1”, 5”, and 9”. Cut 2 inches off the second piece. This piece of cardstock has 2 - 1” flaps. One flap is used to adhere to the first accordian piece and the other 1” flap adheres to the inside of your holder.

The holder can be closed in a variety of ways. I used a Vintage Sew On Button and trimmed the top flap so it secures under the button.

The small bottom flap is folded toward the inside of the holder and secured on both ends to form a small faux pocket for a journaling card.

Add your photos!

Decorate the front of the holder. I used a Journaling Card, Ledger letter stickers, Star stickers, and a Tim Holtz stamp.

Fabulous! Thanks for the inspiration Betsy!

September Mid-Month Releases!

This month we have a Halloween Treat Topper Kit designed by Jenni . . .

A Halloween Vintage Papercrafting Kit . . .

vintage coupon booklets . . .

and vintage green leather mini books! These will all be available under our mid-month releases button at 10 a.m. CST TODAY! HURRY!!! Supplies are very limited!

Guest Star Paula Gilarde!

Here's another fabulous Christmas layout featuring Family Tree! This one's by Paula Gilarde. I especially love how all her great photos capture the moment so well. Thanks for the inspiration Paula!

Guest Star Lisa Pace!

Imagine how thrilled I was when Jenni released her Acrylic Paint Dabbers this summer at CHA. I must tell you the paint colors match her paper lines perfectly. So when I was asked to create a project for her blog the first thing I did was grab her paints and get to work. I painted the outer cover of my binder using Lemon Drop and Malted Milk and the inner cover using Chili Powder. I then accented the edges using Fountain Pen. As you can see these colors work perfectly with her Family Tree Mini Papers and other JBS embellishments.

JBS Products Used:

Acrylic Paint Dabbers – Lemon Drop, Malted Milk, Chili Powder, Fountain Pen

Family Tree Mini Papers

Family Tree Journaling Cards

Old School Alpha Minis – Black, Red

Butterfly Stickers – Black, Red, Yellow

Plain Chipboard Elements - Butterfly

Red Memo Book

Self Adhesive Pearl Buttons – Orange, Red, Yellow

Stick Pins – Garnet, Cream

Lisa Pace is the author of “Delight In The Details”a technique based book that incorporates a variety of materials, from simple paper and fabric scraps to glitter, ink, modeling paste and of course vintage finds. She is presently the Special Projects Coordinator for Maya Road. In May of 2007, Lisa was picked as one of 5 master scrapbookers in Martha Stewart’s scrapbooking contest and August of 2007, was chosen as a 2008 Memory Makers Master. Her work has been published in magazines such as Memory Makers, Scrapbooks etc., Better Homes and Gardens and Scrapbooking & Cards Today as well as numerous idea books like Holiday Home, Scrapbook Trends, Paper Trends, Paper Creations and Scrapbooking & Beyond.If you would like to see more of Lisa’s work, check out her blog “It’s In The Details” at www.lisapace.com

Gorgeous! Thanks for the inspiration Lisa!

Weekend News . . .

Danielle Flanders is featured in the September issue of Ellaments in an article titled "Girly Guaranteed." A free must read if you're a mommy to girls or just like using the lace and bling.

Doris Sander has been busily tidying up the JBS blogs. Did you notice that this blog finally has labels? Now with a click you can see all the work by your favorite designers and all the projects using your favorite products. There are also now links to our twitter and facebook pages as well as to our new blog. New blog did you say? Why yes! We now have a second JBS blog. This one focuses exclusively on JBS product and is an excellent tool for store owners and customers looking for ideas on how to use our lovelies or how to recreate projects that they see here.

September Gallery Updates!

Wilna has five layouts in her gallery . . .

Ranjini has a new layout, two cards, and a project in her gallery . . .

Michelle has a new layout in her gallery . . .

Lisa has a new layout in her gallery . . .

Kerry Lynn has a new layout and two projects in her gallery . . .

Becky has a new layout in her gallery . . .

and Doris has a new layout and project in her gallery . . . Enjoy!