Guest Designer: Jen Jockish

I couldn't be more excited with our Guest Designer for May-Jen Jockish! I adore Jen's work and was excited to see what she created with Lily Bee products. Let's find out a little bit more about her:

Jen lives in Central Illinois with her husband, Brad, and their two daughters, Ayla & Nora. She works full-time as a high school secretary, so finding time to scrapbook can be a challenge, but thankfully, she's got a great husband who loves to spend quality time with his girls. Jen has been fortunate to have had some great opportunities in the scrapbooking industry. Her work has been published and featured in Creating Keepsakes, BHG Scrapbooks Etc., Scrapbook Trends, Scrapbook and Cards Today, Ella E-Books,and many others. She is a former member of the Creating Keepsakes Dream Team and is currently a Garden Girl at Two Peas in a Bucket and on the design team for Studio Calico. You can read more about her over at her BLOG



Jen has created two fabulous layouts and a card to share with us:













Check back tomorrow as we take a look at her Scrap Room and find out a little more about her.

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Me and You Layout

Hi everyone, Kim here to share a new layout with you! I love using little journal cards and bits and pieces of paper to create my layouts. These little cards from the Victoria park and Handmade collections are just right for layering and creating a collage. They have some really great little designs on them as well. 

For this layout I chose to combine some of the cards with Green elements on them since green is a close runner up to being my favorite color! They are also a nice way to add a bit of a graphic element to your layout. 

Another element I wanted to add to my layout was a hand painted banner. I first cut my watercolor paper into different sized strips and then painted each one a different ombre shade of green to greenish blue and pink. I snipped the ends to create little banners and then sewed them together using ordinary sewing thread. 

I love the layered and messy effect of the sewn banner. To add a little more interest I backed a few of the banners with different pieces of patterned paper. 

This is a very simple way to create a layout with just a few elements. Thanks for stopping by today for a little inspiration! Have a great week everyone!

Kim 

Supplies used

Victoria park index journal cards

Buttercup index journal cards

Handmade index journal cards

Victoria park mixed cardstock stickers

Victoria park ABC cardstock stickers

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Buttercup Collection @ The Scrap-Room Kit Club!

Hi Everyone, Kristen here. I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I was actually busy putting the finishing touches on our Christmas Collection..which by the way I'm SUPER excited about know you are going to love. I know this our best Christmas Collection yet! We will have some sneak peeks coming in the next month so keep your eyes peeled.

Moving on, I'm happy to showcase some fabulous layouts from the Design Team over at The Scrap-Room Kit Club. I'm so excited that Tammy is using our Buttercup Collection in her Main Flavors of the Month kit for May. You get a great sampling of our papers, Alpha Stickers,and Journal Cards.

The Designers have created layouts from Baby to Back To School, Easter, Summer and Spring. As you can see our papers are very versatile and can be used for a variety of themes.









Thanks to Tammy's Designers Melanie, Brenda, Jennifer and Aphra for giving us some incredible eye candy today. Tammy still has some May Kits available so head over and get signed up today.

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Eat Well

As a woman with a family and a home, I don't very often get to eat at what I'd call a 'fine dining' establishment. Of course, it's not because I don't want to, but one can only afford so many $25+ plates in a given year before the bankers come calling.  At least that is the reality for our family.


Given that, when I do get the opportunity, I want it to be memorable.  That involves things like planning the right place and the right time and the right occasions. I can do that is to take extra care with my appearance and preparations.  But all of that will still allow the memory to fade.


Photos, however, will help keep it alive.  A well photographed location or plate of food can evoke so many things in people.  Why do you think they spend so much on marketing photos for all the major restaurant chains?  Because it evokes a certain 'something' when you see a mouth-wateringly juicy burger topped with the freshest, greenest lettuce and the ripest, reddest tomatoes and veritably dripping with secret sauce!!!


With all of that in mind, I decided to take out the big guns when my husband and I recently visited a local restaurant for our 20th anniversary.  I brought my big ole Canon DSLR to dinner with me and took time to shoot the food as soon as it arrived at our table.


I admit, I was a little embarrassed to do it, but the waitress even came by on one of my shooting occasions and gave me a thumbs up for being brave enough. 'Yeah!' I thought, 'I'm not so weird after all am I?!'  Well, maybe I am, but I did get some great shots and we'll not soon forget this occasion of Eating Well!

The rich, warm colors of my photos led me to the Buttercup Collection. That yellow damask pattern seemed the perfect compliment to our fine dining adventures and helped bring out the warm tones in my photos.

I also played with the round frame stamp from the Handmade collection to add a little extra color and texture.

I dug out my turquoise and grey washi tapes which blend so beautifully with the colors of Buttercup and created a bit of extra texture behind the bank of photos on the right side of the page.  The mini cardstock alphas make perfect photo captions.

And I couldn't resist creating another brad from the cardstock stickers and my Epiphany Crafts tool.


Give dining out photography a try and let us know how you like it!  I'd love to see what you come up with!


Lily Bee Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper: Buttercup (Queen Bee, Rain
ABC Cardstock Stickers: Buttercup
Mixed Cardstock Stickers: Buttercup
Journal Cards:Buttercup,  Double Dutch
Bag of Bits: Buttercup
Stamps: Handmade

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Banner borders...

Hi there, this is Danielle Flanders here with an idea for those banner stickers!

I loved the patterns in the cute Buttercup banner stickers, so I wanted to add them to a card. Small shapes are a great way to add many different patterns, colors and interest, and the triangles make it so easy because they are already cut out for you! I was inspired by how they came on the sticker sheet and transferred them right to the card just how they were on the sticker sheet.

A Victoria Park floral stamp was stamped in aqua ink on the top and bottom to frame out the sentiment and add some softness.

 Here is one more where I used the banner stickers horizontally to create a border.

I used the Buttercup stickers on these two cards also. A frame is cut in half and added it to the top and bottom of the "today is a good day" sticker.

This is a super quick and easy embellishment idea for a card/ layout. Thank you for visiting the blog today. Have a creative day!

Danielle

LilyBee Supplies:

Buttercup 12x12 paper - Flower Pot BCP 210

Buttercup Mixed Card Stickers BCS 215

Victoria Park Clear Stamps VCP 235

Other: ribbon, sentiments, ink: Papertrey Ink, twine: Pink Paislee.

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Sketch with Ana-Maria

For today's challenge I have chosen the simple composition, based on rectangles. You can use one horizontal photo, or two... it depend how you would like to transform the basis layout.

I use fantastic 'Buttercup' 'queen bee' paper for the base and 'Victoria Part' 'Hyde park' stripe at the top of the LO. There are a lot of 6x6 papers from Tiny Tablets, die-cuts, stickers, masking tape and amazing Lily Bee stamps.

Please, feel invited to take part in the task and try your best with this sketch.










supplies:

papers: Buttercup queen bee, Victoria Park hyde park

Tiny Tablets 6x6: Vitoria Park, Hande Made

Buttercup Bag of Bits

Victoria Park Bag of Bits

Double Dutch Bag of Bits

Double Dutch Mixed Cardstock Sticker

Double Dutch ABC Cardstock Sticker

Handmade Clear Stamps

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Winners of our Epiphany Crafts & Glue Arts Giveaway

Thank you to all those who left comments for us last week on the blog. We have winners to announce.

First for the Epiphany Crafts Pennant Tool & Punch: Scattychick

Glue Arts Prize Pack:mitzilynn

Please email wholesaleATlilybeedesign.com

Congrats!

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