Colorful Collage With Dina Wakley

This morning we have some amazing collage work from Dina Wakley to share!  These first two tags have the sweet Boy and Girl Silhouette Stamps (all our exclusive stamps from 2011 are now available a la carte at mercantile!) on our Peforated Stamps Paper.

She also used Lemon Drops Re-inker on the Alphabet Diecut Paper and Speckled Egg and Lavendar Sachet on the tags.  (all our Ranger colors can be found HERE).

Here is a journal page with more Lemon Drops on the background and the punched Bird in Flight and Speckled Egg on the Alphabet Diecut paper.

The title is stamped with the Clear Alphabet Stamps onto our Perforated Stamp Paper.

With this journal page, dina used the Diecut Alphabet Paper as a stencil and inked it with Weather Vane Re-inker.  You can also see more Speckled Egg in the background as well as some Cough Syrup on the Bank Receipt Paper and Lemon Drops on the Birds in Flight.

Here are the adorable little girl and boy stamps again as well as one of the Days of the Week Stamps on a bit of product packaging.

And one more page from Dina's Journal!  This one has the Whimsy Silhouette Stamp and Days of the Week Stamp in Fountain Pen.  There is more Speckled Egg, Cough Syrup, Weather Vane, and Lemon Drops here as well as the addiction of a bit of Seed Packet.

Thanks so much for all the inspiration Dina!

Check back this evening for our April Guest and gallery updates!  If you love the artistic collaged look it's a banner day for you!

Oooo Baby!

It's More in Store Monday over at our digi shoppe at JessicaSprague.com and this week our release is all about babies, boys, and girls!

We have two wonderful digital layouts from Jessica's Creative Team:

by Chrissy Guido

by Jenn McCabe

By chance, both artists changed the color of the Bingo Cards they used.  The possibilities are endless with digital!

Did you see the Creative Team call at JessicaSprague.com?  Submissions are being excepted now! 

Click here for all the details!

Join Us for FUN Stashbusting at JBS Mercantile!

We've got a super fun new game going on our message board!  Join us!

Thoughts from Keisha Campbell

Today we have a lovely and serene layout from Keisha Campbell.  I love the softness from the pastels and tone on tone selections.  Thanks for the inspiration Keisha!

And in case you missed it, our CHA Winter release is now available at Mercantile!  If you've already purchased a kit this month you can still get combined shipping for additional purchases ordered through April 5th at midnight. 

JBS is Mollie Makes Magazine!

JBS is in this sweet spring issue of Mollie Makes!  Thanks for including us amongst your delightfully refreshing inspiration Mollie Makes!

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'Mollie Makes is published thirteen times a year. We curate the best craft from around the world into a tactile, collectable and totally irresistible magazine.We love to make – handmade is more than just a hobby for us, it’s in everything we do. We can’t resist hunting down treasures in thrift stores, then customising, re-covering and embellishing our finds with our endless stash of ribbons, buttons, fabrics and felt.We’re forever on the lookout for new inspiration. Whatever we do, we’re living and loving handmade.’

Guest Star Paige Evans!

Today we have an awesomely talented and creative guest to share her creations with our latest release, Magpie.  A big JBS welcome to Paige Evans!

On this first one she's made an amazing concentric border around her page using a medallion punch trimmed in half mixed with some tab stickers.  This is indeed an all boy page for her sweet boy with all the trucks and bikes and the bulldog with oh so much character.

This layout is simply amazing to me.  What a creative use of the alphabet stamp.  And how much patience did it take to create?  But I think the coloring must have been great fun too.

 Notice how she even pop dotted a few of the words.  Details details!

And here is one more fun mix of her little guy at 17 months.  Love the line of button stickers down the center and the descriptive adjectives.  Thanks for the inspiration Paige!

Here is a little more about Paige Evans and you can read even more on her blog.

My very first job when I was 16 years old (almost 11 years ago now - time flies!) was at a local scrapbooking store in Redmond, WA called Yesterdays. I've been hooked to scrapping ever since! Sometimes I think about what my life would be like now if I hadn't walked in and asked for an application (which they didn't have, they just took my phone number!) because so much of my life has revolved around scrapbooking since then... I work full-time from home for Northridge Publishing - they make the magazines Scrapbook Trends , CARDS , Simply Handmade, Bead Trends , Cricut, and Create: Idea Books. Aside from scrapbooking, I love spending time with my husband of five years, Chris, playing with our one-and-a-half year old son Fox, getting ready for our daughter to join our family in July, and entertaining our menagerie which consists of a dog, cat, rabbit, and chinchilla. I love to create on a daily basis and enjoy dabbling in everything from fine arts (painting, drawing, printmaking, etc.), to bookbinding, photography, graphic design, and more!

P.S.  She Tweets @PaigeTEvans and Pins HERE.

It's Digi Monday!

... and there's "More at the Store" at our Digi Shoppe at Jessica Sprague.com !

Jenni's Classic Labels are now available ...

and you've got to see what the team at Jessica Sprague did!

a sweet mailing label from Erin ....

a luscious layout from Iowan and she uses our Homespun Kit, too! ....

and a darling layout from Margje!

These ladies have my mind spinning with ideas now!  There's so much you can do with a kit of labels!