Labor of Love!

Happy Easter to one and all!

Today's post is going to be rather lengthy but it's mainly all photos... I promise. As part of the Jillibean Soup design team, we are given a little challenge each month to incorporate into one or more of our projects. The month of March was the 'Big Bean's (Jill Yegerlehner) turn to set the challenge and Jill knows how to post a challenge! She asked us to dig through our stash and pull out as many old and New papers to see just how many we could incorporate onto a project without it looking completely overdone. And after several attempts at trying to come up with an idea I decided to work on a collage style background to create an ombre effect to my layout and in the process use lots and lots of different papers.

Now wouldn't it be perfect to have a punch for every idea you ever had. Unfortunately I didn't have a square punch of any size so had to pick up the trusty craft knife to individually cut out each piece. Then the fun began because I decided afterwards to punch a little heart through the middle so holding the pre-cut squares to punch the heart was quite tricky and time consuming... let's just say this layout took much longer that I'd first imagined.

Supplies:

Jillibean Soup

Patterned Paper: Chilled Cucumber Soup/Croutons, Minced Fresh Dill, Yellow Tomatoes; Coconut Lime Soup/Straw Mushrooms; Country Pumpkin Chowder/Cream Style Corn; Fresh Vegetable Soup/Crushed Ginger; Grandma's Lima Bean Soup/Lean Ham; Irish Farm House Soup/Sliced Turnip; Macho Nacho Soup/2 Parts Boy, Pinch of Cool; Winter Tortellini and Spinach Soup/Fresh Basil, Garlic Flakes; Soup Staples II/Gray Salt, Yellow Salt

Pea Pod Parts: Chilled Cucumber Soup, Fresh Vegetable Soup

Bean Stalks Twine: Mustard

Cardstock Stickers: Coconut Lime, Southern Chicken Dumpling

Co-ordinating Label Stickers: Chilled Cucumber

Corrugated Shapes

Epoxy Buttons: Chicken Dumpling Soup

Kraft Cardstock

Placemats: White Frames

Soup Labels: Card Sentiments

Wise Words: Yellow Smile

Other: White Cardstock, Small Heart Punch, black journaling pen, Yellow mist

And how excited was I to wake up this morning and find this layout had been featured on the Two Pease in a Bucket site.

JILLIBEAN SOUP GIVE-AWAY

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Now I have one last little project to share before I head off to see if Easter Bunny has left his goodies in the right spots before morning comes.

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Easter!