Get To Know...Romy Veul

Hi, Bo Bunny fans! Today it's time for my spotlight on the Bo Bunny blog and I have to say I'm pretty thrilled to see a post about me and my creations appearing on the blog of such an amazing manufacturer! I joined the Bo Bunny team about 10 months ago and have loved every minute of my term with them so far.

First I'll tell you a little bit about me. My name is Romy, I'm 18 years old and I'm one of the three Dutch girls on the Bo Bunny team. At the moment you're reading this post, I am about to start a completely new phase in my life. I graduated high school before summer vacation and today is my very first day at University! I live in a small village close to Amsterdam, which I'm fairly happy with since it means that my University is only 30 minutes away from my home. So today is the very first day I can call myself a psychology student. I have to admit I'm quite a bit nervous about this big change in my life, but I'm also looking forward to majoring in the beautiful science that is called psychology!

A little over five years ago my school introduced me to scrapbooking. My school celebrated its 45th anniversary and thus organized a few creative workshops for its pupils, including a workshop scrapbooking. I have been creative since I was in kindergarten and always loved painting, making my own jewelry or being creative with flowers and home deco. But always after a while I wanted something different and started to look for another hobby. That was until I attended my first scrapbook class...I immediately fell in love with this hobby and haven't looked back ever since. I love the fact that you can record your memories and photos in a creative way by scrapbooking and being creative is also a great way for me to forget about my busy daily life as a student and webshop owner at the end of the day.

As you might have noticed the past few months I love doing both cards and layouts. If you'd ask me whether I consider myself a scrapbooker or a cardmaker, I really couldn't give you an answer to that question. I love it to create both cards and layouts. Usually I do cards when I don't have enough time for a layout or when I'm in the 'cardmaking mood' and feel like spending my entire evening whipping up a few cards;) I usually send my cards when they're finished to (online) friends and family. I have also filled quite a couple of albums with my scrapbook pages so far. I love doing them a lot and my love for scrapbooking has also introduced me to the wonderful hobby that photography is. I bought a new camera and now try to capture every remarkable moment with my camera, even though not all my family members love being photographed at E-VE-RY single moment of the day, LOL!  

I think you could best describe my style as shabby chic, layered and detailed. The final phase (adding the details) is always my favourite part of the process. I can often hardly stop adding details, so usually every corner of my pages is filled with a little something. I also use my edge distresser a lot and love fussy cutting all those pretty images from the Bo Bunny papers with a little help of my favourite Tim Holtz scissors.

This hobby has brought me so much the past few years, including the many wonderful girls I've met through this hobby and the online world behind it. Some of them I even met in real and became 'real life friends'. I still wish I would be able to make a journey around the world one day, so I can meet all those sweet international girls that I haven't got to speak to in real yet!

I joined the Bo Bunny team about 10 months ago. And I can hear you asking: "The DT announcement was over a year ago, how can it be that you joined the design team later?". Well it's quite a story and one with a very nice ending;) A few weeks after the announcement of this team of amazingly talented ladies I noticed a call on this blog for Bo Bunny lovers who would love to have their work being featured on the blog. I thought I'd just give it a go and e-mailed some of my work to the office. Only one day later I received an e-mail that made me so super happy: I was asked to become a guest designer for Bo Bunny for a few months. I think I reread that question a hundred times that evening, because I couldn't believe one of my dreams all of a sudden appeared to come true:) Two months later I received an e-mail that made me even happier: Kris asked me as a permanent designer on this team. I still feel so honoured for the opportunity that is given me to design with the gorgeous Bo Bunny products and to work together with so many talented (and also very sweet) ladies. Being part of the Bo Bunny family is such an amazing opportunity, so I just wanted to say thank you once again to the Bo Bunny team for having me as a designer and to the other designers for being so sweet and encouraging. You are the best!

I'd also like to share a bit about my family. I share my home with my four family members and four sweet, crazy and furry friends: our cats and guinea pigs.

This is my sweet mom, who I'm loving to pieces. Everytime I go shopping, visit family or friends or just walk around with her, people tell us how much we look alike. But just so you know: my mom has died her hair red, while to me red is my original hair colour LOL! We recently made a mother/daughter trip to Stockholm and both had an amazing time. It was wonderful to spend some time together.

My dad is a hardworking accountant for a Dutch bank, but he's also a real family man and besides that he loves to spend time on his bicycle: the vehicle that Holland is kind of famous for!

My 16-yo brothers, Joeri and Ivan, are twins, but as you can see on the photo above they are like chalk and cheese. They are so different from each other, both inside and out. Joeri spends many hours on his favourite bicycle, his BMX, each day and in fact he's pretty good at it too. Ivan prefers playing inside: he plays League of Legends at his laptop almost all day long. They both love goofin' around especially when I have my camera in front of me;)

Our tomcat Paco is as crazy as can be. He has quite a few quirks. His favourite thing to do is hiding inbetween the green plants, so he can scare us as soon as we enter the backyard. Apparently he didn't give it a moment's thought that the green plants don't really cover his white fur.

Beertje (pronounced as [Bear-tja]) is our 9-yo diva: she walks like a diva and she also has her very own divalicious way to express that she wants you to not walk away, as she's sitting on your lap at that moment;) I sometimes wish I could spend my days in the way Beertje and Paco spend them...I'd love spending my days relaxing, sleeping and eating without having to worry about anything at all...

 

Our littlest family members are called Babetje (pronounced as [Bu-bat-ja]) and Trudie and they're two cute guinea pig girls.

My favourite scrap subjects are my family, our vacation trips and my friends. I have a few very adorable nieces and nephews. Most of them don't live in my neighbourhood unfortunately, so I don't see them as often as I'd like to. But my two nieces Naomi, who is five years old, and Elise, who just turned one, live almost in the same street, so I usually get to see them at least once a week and for some reason these two cutie pies end up on most of my layouts. Can you tell why? ;)

 

As you can see Naomi is just like my brothers, she only wants me to take a photo of her if she's doing nice 'tricks' or if she's goofin' around...


Well, I think you know enough about me by now, so it's time for the scrapping part of this post...

A few weeks ago I received a huge box of new Bo Bunny yumminess and needless to say I enjoyed every minute of playing with these wonderful collections so far. I managed to create something with each one of the new releases. As you can see I did both cards and layouts this time around;)

Et Cetera:

Artis

Bo Bunny supply list:

Patterned Paper: Extra, Geography, Symphony, Cutouts and Filigree Diecut/Et Cetera

Cardstock: Double Dot in Chiffon Journal

Stickers: Et Cetera Combo Sticker

Jewels: Et Cetera

Rub-ons: Et Cetera

Chipboard: Et Cetera 12 x 12, Et Cetera Layered Chipboard

Flower: Et Cetera Petals

Buttons: Et Cetera

Stamps: Et Cetera, Gabrielle

Wrap and charm: Et Cetera

Tip: On this layout I cut the petals of the Et Cetera flower apart and used them as little flowers, for example in the upper left corner of my page.

Sweet Tooth:

Birthday Wishes

Bo Bunny supply list:

Patterned Paper: Temptations/Sweet Tooth

6" Paper Pad: Sweet Tooth

Stickers: Sweet Tooth Combo Sticker

Rub-ons: Sweet Tooth

Noteworthy: Sweet Tooth

Buttons: Sweet Tooth

Garden Girl:

 Thanks so much

Bo Bunny supply list:

Patterned Paper: Garden Girl/Garden Girl

6" Paper Pad: Garden Girl

Stickers: Garden Girl Layered Stickers

Noteworthy: Garden Girl

Rub-ons: Garden Girl

Jewels: Garden Girl

Welcome Home:

 Miss You

Bo Bunny supply list:

6" Paper Pad: Welcome Home

Stickers: Welcome Home Home Grown CS Sticker, Welcome Home Dimensional Stickers

Noteworthy: Welcome Home

Rub-ons: Et Cetera

Jewels: Welcome Home

Charm: Et Cetera Buttons

Father Christmas: 

 Seasons Greetings

Bo Bunny supply list:

6" Paper Pad: Father Christmas

Stickers: Father Christmas Combo Sticker, Father Christmas Card Kit, Father Christmas Dimensional Stickers

Chipboard: Father Christmas 12 x 12, Father Christmas Layered Chipboard
Noteworthy: Father Christmas

Jewels: Father Christmas

Charm: Et Cetera Buttons

Blitzen:

 Merry Christmas

Bo Bunny supply list:

6" Paper Pad: Blitzen, Et Cetera

Stickers: Blitzen Dimensional Stickers, Blitzen Card Kit

Noteworthy: Blitzen

Chipboard: Blitzen Layered Chipboard

Rub-ons: Blitzen

Buttons: Father Christmas

Forever Fall:

Peek

Bo Bunny supply list:
Patterned Paper: Forever Fall, Blaze, Dot, Nature/Forever Fall
6" Paper Pad: Forever Fall
Cardstock: Double Dot in Chocolate Journal
Stickers: Forever Fall Dimensional Stickers
Chipboard: Forever Fall 12", Et Cetera 12", Forever Fall Layered Chipboard
Trinkets: Forever Fall
Jewels: Forever Fall
Buttons: Forever Fall
Noteworthy: Forever Fall
Brads: Forever Fall
Rub-ons: Forever Fall

I'd also like it to share some of my older Bo Bunny favourites with you. I picked one layout for each of the previous releases that I've got to play with. Don't you agree that Bo Bunny has some truly amazing products? I simply [heart] everything they come up with:)

Super cute, super pretty and richly and deeply coloured Zoology:

Fresh, bright and summery Barefoot & Bliss:

Patriotical, masculine and totally awesome Liberty:

Spring-y, colourful and girly Vicki B:

Feminine, elegant and shabby chic Gabrielle:

Timeless, vintage and whimsical Timepiece:

Happy, playful and fun Ad Lib:

Boyish, adorable and trendy

Romantic, lovable and elegant Crush:

Sweet, detailed and pretty Crazy Love:

Wintery, frosty and delicate Midnight Frost:

If you leave a comment on this post you're also eligble for a fabulous Bo Bunny prize. The winner will be drawn at the end of the month. To thank each and every one of the Bo Bunny blog readers I'm also going to give away a little Bo Bunny package on my own blog: Scrapstuff and More. Just leave me a comment there and I'll randomly draw a winner next Wednesday.

Thank you so much for making it through this long, long post and for all the sweet and encouraging words that you've left our entire team throughout this past year. You are the best:)

XOXO, Romy