The BoBunny Blog: 5/1/11

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Winners!

You've seen our new lines.

You've expressed our love for our new lines.

Now its time to give a few of you our new lines.

And of course a post isn't a post without some outstanding

layouts using our new collections.

And the winner's of Barefoot & Bliss are....

Barefoot & Bliss Blog winner

Barefoot & Bliss Facebook winner

And the winners of the Zoology Collection are...

Zoology Blog Winner

Zoology Facebook Winner

And the Liberty Collection winners are....

Liberty Blog Winner

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CONGRATS TO ALL OUR WINNERS!!!

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Hope you all have a great weekend!!!

Friday, May 6, 2011

Hello Bo Bunny fans! Sarah here with a quick and easy tutorial on how to make your own bound books.

I have some special pictures of my sweet little Isabel that were taken by the hospital photographer on the day she was born. There's over 20 pictures that I wanted to include in a book so I wanted something that wouldn't take that long, but still look very pretty and special. So I searched the internet and combined a few book binding methods that I found to come up with this tutorial.

This is much easier than it sounds and takes very little time. This was the first time I tried it and it turned out great and was very easy. The book you create will have an actual glue bound spine. This makes it very sturdy, but since the spine doesn't give at all the pages inside will have to be relatively flat. That was perfect for me because I wanted something quick since I had so many photos to include. I have gone through the book many times (as well as my two year old daughter) and it still is holding up great! Like I said, it is very sturdy!

To get started here are the materials you will need:
Gorilla Glue
Strong liquid adhesive (Helmar 450)
Cotton Ball
4 sheets of Bo Bunny Gabrielle double sided 12 x 12 patterned paper
Bo Bunny Wraps (Gabrielle and Olivia)
small scrap of cardstock or patterned paper (any size)
4 binder clips

Step 1: Cut patterned paper into 6 x 6 squares

Step 2: Arrange the sheets in the desired order and allign them so the left edge that will be the spine are alligned. The pages may vary slightly in size and that's ok. It gives the book that special homemade look. Make sure the left side that will be the spine of the book is lined up exactly so the book will open correctly and then binder clip the pages together as shown.

Step 3: Wet a cotton ball so that it is damp, but not soaking yet and run it along the edges of the paper that will be the spine of the book. You want the edge of the paper just damp.

Step 4: Apply a thin line of Gorrila Glue down the damp edges of the papers. The glue will be dark yellow, but will dry white like an actual book. The glue expands to 3-4 times so you only want a very thin line. Use a small scrap of paper to spread the glue down the edges of the paper scrapping off any excess glue. There should only be a thin film of glue.

Step 5: Apply two more binder clips in the middle as shown and allow the glue to dry for 2-3 hours. Check the spine after about 15 minutes to make sure all the pages are sticking together. If they aren't press them together with your fingers and add a little more glue if needed.

Step 6: When dry the left edge of the book should now have a glue bound spine! It doesn't look very pretty though so now you will need to use some fabric from the Bo Bunny wraps to decorate it and reinforce the spine.

Trim one 6 inch piece of the Timepiece black checked wrap and two 6 inch pieces of the brown Olivia wrap.

Apply the liquid adhesive (I used Helmar 450) to the spine of the book and glue the Timepiece wrap centered on the spine. Using the liquid glue glue the wrap to the back and front of the book as shown:

Using the liquid glue adhere the brown Olivia wrap to the front and back cover overlapping the Timepiece wrap. Now your book is finished! I used patterned paper for my front and back cover, but you can use cardstock or even chipboard for a more sturdy cover. If using chipboard bind the inside pages first and then use the fabric to adhere the chipboard pieces to the front and and back.

Here are photos of the decorated front cover and some of the inside pages. I kept the inside relatively flat so the book wouldn't be too bulky.

supplies: Gabrielle- patterned papers, 12 x 12 chipboard, stickers, dimenional stickers, wraps, acrylic stamps, 6 x 6 mini pad, trinkets, noteworthy, jewels; Timepiece: wraps, combo stickers; Olivia- wraps, combo stickers; Other- Bo Bunny double dot ribbon, Bo Bunny petals, twine, glimmer mist, inks, letter stickers, Sizzix dies, Helmar 450 adhesive.

Thanks for coming by the blog today! If you have any questions ask away and I will post the answers in the comments. We would love to see your books made from Bo Bunny papers. Please upload your projects to the Bo Bunny facebook page!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Focus on Flowers!

Flowers are one of the most popular embellishments in the world of crafting and today we have asked some of our designers to focus on flowers Bo Bunny style! From our range of beautiful Petals to blooms made from Bo Bunnys Wraps or double dot ribbon to flowers from our chipboard and papers!

Romy Veul

Supplies used:
Timepiece Home, Numbers, Stripe, Tick Tock, Villa, Clockwork Die Cut
Double Dot Coffee Dot
Timepiece Combo Sticker
12" Timepiece Chipboard
Timepiece Defining Moment CS Sticker
Timepiece Jewels
Timepiece Petals
Timepiece Layered Chipboard
Timepiece Dimensional Stickers
Timepiece Brads
Timepiece Clear Stamp
Gabrielle Charm
Gabrielle Clear Stamp

Design Note: To give these gorgeous Bo Bunny petals an icy look, I decorated them with 'Clear rock candy' distress Stickles. I clustered the flowers together with a chipboard flourish and a couple of other embellishments. Bo Bunny's embellishments are so beautifully coordinating with the papers, that is very easy to make pretty embellishment clusters.

Can you spot all the different types of flowers Romy has used on this layout! She has used our Petals, paper flowers, layered stickers and has also made some roses out of our Co-ordinating double dot

Supplies used:
Double Dot Ocean Flourish, Wild Berry Flourish, Kibi Journal
Ad Lib Cut Outs, Hoopla, Improve, Pebbles, Scribbles, Verbiage
Ad Lib Combo Sticker
Ad Lib 12 x 12 Chipboard
Ad Lib Trinkets
Ad Lib Jewels
Ad Lib Petals
Ad Lib Dimensional Stickers
Ad Lib Rub-on
Ad Lib Wrap
Ad Lib Brads
Gabrielle Clear Stamp

Design Notes: What I love about the double dot papers is that there are matching colours for every paper collection. I rolled some strips of double dot paper up to make these tiny flowers and added pearls to their center. When making these little flowers, make sure that you use a strong and quickly drying glue.

Robbie Herring

Robbie has used our Petals, fabric Flowers, trinkets, trim and even chipboard flowers!

Supplies Used:
Vicki B Collection Loverly, Stripe, Floweret and Cut Out Papers,
Petals, Trinkets, Jelwels, Buttons, Brads, Wrap, Noteworthy,
Combo Sticker, 12x12 Chipboard, Dimensional Stickers.

Jolanda Meurs

Supplies;
Bo Bunny Timepiece Paperpad 6 x 6,
Chipboard,
Petals,
Buttons,
Wrap

Gabrielle Pollacco

Gabrielle has made these beautiful blooms using the Hooligans trim and punched the little flowers out of plain paper and then inked the edges and added some pearls from our Jewels to the centres.

Supplies used:
Patterned Paper: Gabrielle Fairest, Gabrielle Flight, Gabrielle Elegance (butterflies), Noel Memories, Ocean Flourish (Double dot).
Flowers: Noel bloom, Aqua blooms made from Hooligans trim.
Timepiece Rub-ons (flourish beside aqua bloom)
Gabrielle Chipboard,
Ad Lib Alpha stickers,
Gabrielle Stamp
Gabrielle Jewels (arrow and flower centers)
Gabrielle Wraps (aqua pearl trim)
Bo Bunny Buttons & Bling (aqua buttons)

Mahlin Wiggur

These little roses Mahlin has made from our Double Dot ribbon are just adorable!

Supplies:
Double dot cardstock - Licorice journal
Double dot ribbon 5/8 Buttercup
Double dot ribbon 5/8 Chocolate
Double dot ribbon 3/8 Orange citrus
Double dot ribbon 3/8 Turquoise
Double dot ribbon 3/8 Licorice
Double dot ribbon 3/8 Chocolate
Double dot ribbon 3/8 Kiwi
Mini edgy album -Pocketwatch
Time piece - Rubons
Vicki B - Loverly
Ad lib - Scribbles
Ad lib - Rubons
Ad lib. Layered chipboard
Ad lib - Combo stickers
Ad lib - Noteworthy
Ad lib- Dimensional stickers
Ad lib- Petals

I hope you have enjoyed all the different flowers on our designers layouts today and if you have any beautiful flowers made with our trim, ribbons or papers that you would like to share with us than please upload them to our facebook page, we would love to see them!