Welcome to the JBS Team, Amanda Jones Robinson

We are very excited to welcome Amanda Jones Robinson to the JBS Team!  A little more about Amanda . . .

Amanda lives in Devon in the UK with her husband and 10 year old son, Lewis. She has an eclectic scrapbooking style–in which one day she will find herself creating a very minimal, graphic project and the next a textured project with layers of pretty papers and embellishments. One thing that is almost always present in her layouts is ample white space and, lately, she seems to have been bitten by the electronic die-cutting bug!

Amanda is blessed to have had the opportunity to work for some of her favourite scrapbooking companies both as a designer and teacher, and has been published in a number of magazines worldwide. She founded a scrapbooking challenge site http://thestudio.amandajonesdesigns.com back in 2009 which is still going strong and you can find her blog at http://blog.amandajonesdesigns.com.

I created this "Summer Posing" layout with the October Papercrafting Kit. It's a new favourite of mine, particularly because of the fun, bright colours and embellishments. It's unusual for me to use such bright colours in this quantity on a single page, I tend to prefer a neutral background, but I love how it turned out! I also like the way that wonderful exclusive stamp looks when stamped onto a geometric patterned paper.

I live in a small house here in the UK and space is limited, so my "studio" is actually spread between three rooms! I took this picture of how I store some of my favourite vintage crafty items. With such a small home it's extra useful when your supplies can double as a decorative display. I keep a selection of my most used antique books out on the top of a storage unit - ledgers, music, dictionaries and other interesting books which I use in my projects frequently. The little heart in the vintage frame I cut from an antique map and it shows the area in which we live.

My favourite photo at the moment is this one of my son taken at my wedding in June. [photo credit: http://LucyShergoldPhotography.co.uk] It makes me so happy to see the joy and pride written all over his face as he's watching the ceremony. It's at the top of my list to scrapbook... but it's one of those you hang on to for the planets to align so you can make it the perfect page, haha!

Welcome to the JBS Team, Karine Cazenave-Tapie!

We are very excited to welcome Karine Cazenave-Tapie to the JBS Team!  A little more about Karine . . .

 

I'm Karine Cazenave-Tapie, 36 years old, mom to Maxence, a cute 9-year-old boy, who's already well-known among scrapbookers: he's been on almost every layout!

I have been scrapping for about 10 years. Addicted to Scrapbooking, I'm in love with colors, textures, stamps and paints, layout or mini album, depends on my mood. But what I like the most is meeting new people and sharing my love for Scrapbooking.

For the last 7 years, I've been teaching Scrapbook classes all over France and abroad. During a crop weekend, I met Céline Navarro. We became friends in a heartbeat. A few months later, we got started together on a brand new project not yet existing in France: a crop weekend where the two would be teaching classes and organizing the event. These events, called {entreARTistes}, have been travelling all over France for now 6 years.

I am an author of 6 books published by éditions Créapassions, available on Amazon, I've been a member of several Design Teams, like 4h37, Hambly, Tattered Angels, I lowe Scrap, Craft Origine, Pause Créative and a collaborator of {entreArtistes} magazine.

I have also also launched several paper lines for Sultane, called "Cocktail Paradise" and, more recently, "O délices d'Alice".

Outside of scrapbooking, I have lots of activities! I love travelling, love photography of course.. Cooking and practicing Salsa! I'm a real girl, I mean I love fashion, clothes, make-up, shoes, bags and everything! My favorite color is Green! I can't scrap without it!

 

A layout talking about Love with a capital L! This fantastic picture was taken by my friend Valerie from les Jolis Moments website.  I love the contrast on the layout, especially the different textures with embossing textures under the Jenni Bowlin Stencil paper.

A very vintage locker found in an old library ! I can store all my liitle bottles like embossing powder glitter and more! Love it!

My second passion is travel; this is a beautiful sunset I photographed on my last trip in Hawaii.

Welcome to JBS Karine!  We're looking forward to seeing more of your beautiful work here!

Digi Monday! And it's a GREAT one!

First up is this adorable kit for Halloween that you can use in many ways.  Halloween Merry is available in 4 hi resolution digital formats, you can use them as a brush, digital shape, digital mask, and cutting file! 

The Vintage Cream & Black Collection uses Jenni's versatile classic cream background and black patterns.

Take a look at how these digital kits were used in such different ways:

Here a beautiful fall layout from Amy Kingsford:

Amy used the Vintage Cream and Black Collection, Halloween Merry, Halloween Bingo Cards, and Rhinestone Buttons and Bows


Christine Guido used the Vintage Cream and Black Collection to make this class ballerina layout.

I used the cutting file and had fun creating this candle decoration:

I cut the Scary Cat from my cutting machine using the .dxf file.  Embellished with gemstone eyes, a ribbon and a Pearl Charm, this Halloween decoration is easy but oh so cute! 

It's so easy to adhere the die-cut to the candle by adhering a tack on the back.

This critter is made of paper, so as always, don't leave this burning unattended!

These kits are 25% off today!

Let's Scrap Vintage

During the month of October, the design team will be scrapping all things vintage.  The word vintage can mean and inspire so many things:  vintage photos, vintage memories, vintage ephemera, and gorgeous vintage Jenni Bowlin Studio product.  Vintage isn't just one style of scrapbooking either!  I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of different interpretations of this Jenni Bowlin appropriate theme from our design team!

Beautiful vintage can be found not only in our Jenni Bowlin Studio product, but in the Mercantile Flea Market, and in our monthly kits.  Our Antiquarian Kit is full of unique vintage every month and our monthly Papercrafting Kit very often contains pretty vintage bits and pieces.

I scrapped a favorite vintage family photo and used a lot of vintage product along with it:

All the gorgeous German foil is from the JBS Mercantile and from past Mercantile Kits.  I save every precious piece of vintage lovelies from my past kits.

This milk cap is a combination of a vintage milk cap from a Mercantile Kit and a Jenni Bowlin Studio Chipboard Milk Cap.

The beautiful lace circles are cut from the Vintage Applique Trim in the JBS Mercantile.

Other supplies:

Die-Cut Journaling Paper Pad-Vintage

Wired Feathers - Vellum

Mercantile Exclusive Stamp-Photographer's Mark

JBS for Ranger Speckled Egg Dye Stamp Pad and Speckled Egg Re-Inker 

Skinny Alphabet - Black

I hope you have fun scrapping your own version of vintage!

We've got a digi sale going on!

All day today and tomorrow you can get these 2 kits on sale:

Our Pets Bingo Card Kit is only $1 today and tomorrow!  I'll be using these to make a sweet little mini about my pup.

Our Frame Rub-Ons kit is 50% off!

Here's a "replay" of the hybrid layout I made using the Seal image from this kit:

I think I've used this kit more than any others!

edited!  This sale lasts until tomorrow, Thursday October 4th midnight PT !

JBS Mercantile October Treats!

We are all just so very excited to share our October offerings with you!  You can find lots of new treats in the Design Team Gallery.  The October Papercrafting Kit is in a lovely fall pallette in the most vibrant of hues.  It is a joy to work with as Betsy Sammarco shows here!  Of course it comes with an exclusive stamp and stencil, but we've also added in a bonus treat - an exclusive cut file that works perfectly with die cut machines or as a digital brush!

This very first JBS Exclusive Cut File (now available exclusively in our October Papercrafting Kit) not only brings you the sweet doily shape shown, but you also get the outline which is perfect for this month's exclusive stamp or last month's exclusive stencil.  No more fancy cutting needed!

Again, we are very excited to welcome Kerry Lynn Yeary back to the team.  Here she has worked her magic with modeling paste and the October exclusive stencil, the butterflies in flight.

Here is the October Papercrafting Kit including exclusive stamp, stencil, and digital cut file.

More exciting news to share!  JBS Mercantile is now offering digital cut files.  This month we have four perfect fall cuts designed by Lisa Dickinson.  New releases will debut on the first of each month.  These will be offered at a 25% discount on the first two days of the month (subscribers will be able to purchase them on the first and non subscribers may begin purchasing them on the second).

This set is sized to work well with your project life storytelling.

On this page Briana Johnson has worked with that delightful digital doily cut and added in a handmade flower from a vintage quilt square in the Antiquarian Add-on.

Here is the Antiquarian Add-on, as always, packed with vintage goodness.

Our guest this month is the Amazing Amanda Jones Robinson.  Here is a charming layout she created with the Artisan Add-on.

 The Artisan Add-on reminds me of our county fairs in late summer/early fall.

 Our Project Kit this month was designed by Jenni Bowlin.  It is classic Jenni goodness.

And don't forget to stop by our Flea Market for vintage updates!

Digi Monday!

Well digi kit fans unfortunately we don't have a new release today.  On deadline day, a few branches and trees took out our power and that was all mother nature needed to do to delay our next release!

But can I just say that you WILL love the next release come October 8th!

For today, I'd love to leave you with a sweet layout by Linda Roos using our Mercantile Mix 4 digi kit and other digi goodies from JessicaSprague.com!