I am so excited for this week because Jing Jing is our guest blogger and she is so talented and full of energy!!! I met Jing Jing during our Adornit Blog Hop and I have instantly fallen in love with her designs. Meet Jing-Jing:

  I am Jing-Jing Nickel. Pronounce it like there are nickels in your pocket making that jingling noise! *laugh* 

I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. My teenage years were spent in Dakar, Senegal, a West African nation. I went to college in Minnesota and hold a graduate degree in mathematics from the University of Arizona. Now I work full time in the Twin Cities, MN, as an I.T. engineer. 

When I started scrapbooking in 1999, it was the most perfect extension of my love for traveling and travel photography.  Then with the birth of my first daughter, a new dimension of scrapbooking as well as a new realm of creative possibilities was born with her. Today and every day, I scrap my family, my trips, and my family on trips. 

After nine years of scrapbooking, I finally began submitting to publications in June 2008. I was honored to be named one of the runners-up to the Memory Makers Master 2009 Contest. I have been fortunate enough to have publications in Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Scrapbooking and Beyond, Cards, and Creating Keepsakes. Find me on my blog:  http://thislittleartofmine.blogspot.com/

How do you get started on a scrapbook page? Do you start with products first and find matching photos? Or, do you begin with products that you love and find photos that would work with the products?  Well, I do both. In this particular case, I fell in love with the Lollidots paper and it was a struggle for me to cut into it. I played around with the whole sheet for several days before I finally got out the scissors. 
 
I also am not a print-photo-as-I-scrap type of gal. I have hundreds of photos printed and waiting for me to scrap.  In this particular layout, I would have preferred more than photos so I could trim the photos to line up with the existing lines on the paper, but I'm a firm believer in good-enough, so I used the three photos I had and created this layout. 
 
I used a piece of label paper and traced the shape onto Flutter Flight, and hand-stitched it onto the layout and then journaled.  I also think the birthday girl sticker sheet's "...and many more!" describes our family's raspberries consumption quite accurately, so I added that in there for accent as well.