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Jenni Bowlin Studios May Kit Projects

I have been missing from Blogland, but needed a bit of a break which was a good thing because it gave me some time to get caught up on much needed attention around the house. Hope you had a nice Mother's Day. The weather was perfect and I was served breakfast in bed by my sweeties- two slices of toast with butter and jam (Alekha so proudly presented it to me with a lovely hand drawn card) and a cup of hot tea made by her Daddy. I'll be back to posting vintage images soon, but in the meantime,
Jenni Bowlin released a brand new patterned paper collection called Front Porch this month and they were my absolute favorite thing about this kit -- the colors were so wonderful and the papers so easy to create with. Jenni also added some amazing new talent to the design team - Amanda Johnson, Lisa Dickinson and Keisha Campbell, so the gallery is utterly stunning this month. Go look! Here are my contributions:

This one was inspired by Keisha, I love her use of vellum on her layouts:

I used the project kit to create this fun birthday banner with these luscious new bingo cards!

Missing in action....

Did you have a happy easter? I hope so! Sorry I have been MIA, and thank you for the get well and easter wishes! I ended up having an upper respiratory tract infection, not the flu as I thought, and apparently they don't give antibiotics for that, anymore. So it took me forever to recover - around day 8 I thought I was never going to get over it. Am feeling ever so much better now.

Thanks so much for all the kind comments on the buttons. I hope to put them up for sale in my etsy shop and should get them listed there in the next day or so.

In the meantime, the JBS Studio gallery is up. This month's kit has to be one of my favorites. The color combination is so fresh and spring-like - turquoise, tangerine, cream, spring green and yellow. I think there still may be a few left in the JBS shop here, but they usually sell out eventually so get your hands on one soon, if you haven't. The girls all did amazing things with the kit this month - you'll want to spend some time poring over the gallery like me.

Here are my contributions this month, save my project kit photos which I will share tomorrow so I don't overload the photos on this post. I did a gypsy inspired mini book with the project kit, so check back tomorrow and I should have the pics posted.

I've also been thinking of taking classes at my local Alliance Francaise. I studied French for six years but it's been quite awhile and of course, since I don't converse daily I have forgotten a lot but I am hoping it will be like riding a bike - that once I get back on track that it will come flooding back. The classes run about three months, once weekly for two hours, plus there are opportunities to speak and converse with native speakers of French in a social setting. A great opportunity to learn about France, its culture and improve your speech and pronunciation or to learn French if you've never been exposed to it before. Hoping to start that as well - we'll see.

Here's a little peek at the Gypsy Project Kit (more tomorrow!)

Jenni Bowlin Studios March Kit Projects

The gallery is up over at JBS Studios - and you must go check out all the gorgeous work from the DT this month. The March kit was really lovely - very nature inspired and I adored creating with it; I have plenty left over, even after all the layouts and projects I did! Here are my layouts and cards; I'll post the altered projects tomorrow.

Here is my contribution this month: