Field Trip Friday!

Welcome back to another Field Trip Friday!!  Designing outside of your comfort zone is always challenging and it's no different for the Bo Bunny design team.  It can also be very rewarding, when something you wouldn't normally do turns out fabulous!

Here's what Carin McDonough had to say about her project.
This was hard for me to work out what to do because I often try off the page things and I have scrapped about most things before!I decided to try and do a layout with lots of white space. I have a huge love of patterned paper so if I look at most of my layouts they do tend to have most of the page covered in somthing! I totally adore layouts with lots of white space but do find them hard to do. I really enjoyed doing this layout though even though I kept finding myself trying to spread out and add more stuff all the time and will defintely be doing some more!

Play

by Carin McDonough

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned paper: Breezy, Stripe/Hello Sunshine

6x6 Paper pad: Hello Sunshine

Stickers: Hello Sunshine Lazy Days Cardstock Sticker

Chipboard: Hello Sunshine 12x12 Chipboard

Trinkets: Hello Sunshine

Jewels: Hello Sunshine

Petals: Hello Sunshine

You would never know that this was outside of the box for Carin!  Her project is perfect!

This next project by Luzma Bruna is such a cute off the page project!!  You're going to love it!!
Here's what Luzma had to say about her project.
I´m a layout girl, so I decided to make this box and a card.

Butterfly Basket Gift Box

by Luzma

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Double Dot Cardstock: Powder Blue Vintage

Buttons: Country Garden

Dimensional Stickers: Country Garden

Dream Big Card

by Luzma

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned paper : Country Garden

Noteworthy: Country Garden

Rubons: Country Garden

12x12 Chipboard: Country Garden

Jewels: Country Garden

Next up is Sam Wright.  Sam tried a couple of different techniques and the results are gorgeous! This is what Sam said about this challenge.
This was a challenge!!!!! It is so easy to do what you are comfortable with

I very seldom scrap photos of myself and I "never" sew on my pages! 

I also challenged myself to use more jewels and trinkets!

Bless This Child

by Sam Wright

Designers Tip: To create the heart shapes, I used Bo Bunny's Crush Hot lips Die cut as my template. I traced around it and then cut it out. Simple but effective.

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Double Dot: Passion Fruit Flourish

Patterned paper: Country Garden/ Almanac,Stripe,Vines, Seeds

Crazy Love/ Conversation

Chipboard: Country Garden Layered Chipboard

Trinkets: Country Garden

Jewels: Country Garden, Sweet Tooth, Bo Bunny Flowers

Petals: Cream Gardenia

Wraps: Vicki B

Other supplies: Embroidery floss, Prima flowers

Do you always scrap in your comfort zone??  It's a challenge for almost everyone to try something new!  It's so much easier to scrap something you feel comfortable with.  We hope you are enjoying Feild Trip Friday's and we hope it inspires you to try something different!

Thanks for stopping by the Bo Bunny Blog today!

Focus on Brads and a Guest Designer!

Hello Bo Bunny fans!  In today's post we are focusing on Brads.  Brads have been around in scrapbooking forever, well definitely as long as I have been scrapbooking!  Their popularity has been up and down and up again over the years but they have definitely stuck around.  They are such a handy little item and can be used in various ways from attaching items to your page, to flower centres to random decorative elements and everything in between!  Bo Bunny has quite a range of brads and each pack comes with various different designs and shapes to suit any project.

Let's see what the designers have come up with for us today using brads but first onto our exciting news!  We have a wonderful guest designer joining us for the Summer and I am sure that many of you will know her, I know the design team were thrilled she was joining us.  She is one of the sweetest people ever, and a complete superwoman with all she does so please help us welcome Julie Tucker-Wolek!


My name is Julie Tucker-Wolek and I have been scrapping since my son was born 15 years ago, but really got into it as a major passion about 6 years ago when my daughter was born. I create everything! Cards, layouts and altered projects! I have been a Bo Bunny fan for as long as I can remember! In fact, the owners of BlueMoonScrapbooking.com (who I am the DT coordinator for), tells me when there is NEW Bo Bunny in the store, cause they know I will WANT it! lol!! And one of the main reasons I know that I am a HUGE Bo Bunny fan -- my daughter named her little bunny she got for Easter, "Mini Bo Bunny!" lol!! Gotta love it! I am THRILLED to be here with the Bo Bunny team for the summer, they are amazing, and I am honored to be guesting for them!!

This is Julie and her adorable daughter Brookie.

Now onto the design team layouts, starting with Julie who has used the beautiful new Little Miss range, perfect for these cute photos of her little girl.

Pretty In Pink

by Julie Tucker-Wolek

 Bo Bunny Products :

Patterned Paper : Hannah, Gracie, Jaquoya/Little Miss
6x6 Paper pad : Little Miss 

Stickers : Sweet Girl cardstock sticker
Chipboard : Little Miss 12x12 chipboard
Petals : Little Miss Petals
Brads : Little Miss Brads
Rub Ons : Little Miss Rub Ons

 Next up we have Agnieszka who has used the bright, happy new Hello Sunshine range for her fun page.

Celebrate the little things
by Agnieszka Piskorz

Bo Bunny Supplies :

Paper: Hello Sunshine : Daydream, Stripe
Stickers: Combo Stickers Lazy Days Cardstock Stickers/ Hello Sunshine; Combo Stickers Ad Lib; Combo Stickers Whoo Ligans
Rub ons: Hello Sunshine
Jewels: Hello Sunshine
Noteworthy: Hello Sunshine
Brads: Hello Sunshine, Camp a lot
Chipboard: Hello Sunshine
Stamps: Hello Sunshine
Petals: Hello Sunshine 

Next we have Mahlin who as always has awed us with her mixing of various ranges.

Sjön / The Lake
by Mahlin Wiggur

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Paper: Vines/Country Garden, Stripe/Ambrosia
Stickers: Combo Stickers/Country Garden,
Chipboard: Layered Chipboard stickers/Ambrosia
Rub ons: Country Garden
Noteworthy: Ambrosia
Brads:Serenity, On the go, Ambrosia, Country Garden, Alora

Lastly for today we have Romy who has used Serenity for her beautiful layout.

Love
by Romy Veul

 

 

Designer Tip: Use brads as a finishing touch to embellishments. For example I added a little extra to the chipboard butterflies by attaching them with a brad in the middle.

Bo Bunny supplies:
Patterned Papers: Garden, Blossoms, Damask, Luck, Tomoko, Love, Cut Outs/ Serenity
Chipboard: Serenity 12x12 Chipboard, Serenity Layered Chipboard
Noteworthy: Serenity
Brads: Et Cetera, Serenity
Jewels: Serenity
 

Do you use brads often on your layouts and cards?  We hope you have enjoyed todays layouts and are as excited by having Julie joining the team as we are!  Have a wonderful day everyone! :)

 

Designer Showcase- Debbie Sherman!

It's Wednesday and that means another Designer Showcase! I have loved getting to know these designer's style through their projects. As you can see each one of the Bo Bunny designers has a unique style that is just awesome! Today's designer Debbie Sherman is no exception. I can always pick out her layouts by her fun bright designs and her use of flowers. She always has flowers some where on her projects and I love that! I just LOVE all her work really!

Today she has a layout to share using the new "Hello Sunshine" line and here is what she has to say about it:

This project has to be one of my favorites! It's bright and so summery! The colors are perfect for a fun day at the playground!


The new Hello Sunshine collection really fit this photo perfectly! A day at the colors in the photo helped me choose this collection.


The flower embellishments were made using packaging and a favorite flower and leaf die, I simply die cut the plastic and colored with ink and heated them up to shape. I cut out the honeycomb shapes from the various patterned papers and then popped them up with foam squares, and added Hello Sunshine chipboard to give the layout dimension.



As Final touches I added flourishes and butterflies to give the layout some movement.

Supplies: Hello Sunshine collection
Hello Sunshine Busy Bee
Hello Sunshine Stripe
Hello Sunshine 6x6 Paper Pad
Hello Sunshine Sweet Pea
Hello Sunshine Dimensional Stickers
Hello Sunshine Combo Sticker
Hello Sunshine 12x12 Chipboard
Hello Sunshine Jewels
Hello Sunshine Brads
Bo Bunny Buttercup Dot

Thanks for stopping by to visit and see Debbie's project. Please stop by her blog and say Hello (click on her name on the side of the blog) you won't be disappointed!

Technique Tuesday

It's Technique Tuesday here at Bo Bunny!  It is an opportunity for the design team to tell you about some techniques that we use and to give some tips for how we do it.  This Tuesday, we have made some layouts that show distressing.  From working with other scrappers, I know that everyone seems to have their own favorite way for distressing.  Here a a couple of examples from Robbie and Tomoko.

Welcome Home

by Robbie Herring

This was made using the brand new Little Miss Collection.   I like to just use the edge of my scissors to distress the edges of my paper and then add a couple of strategically placed tears.  The great thing about distressing is that if you accidentally tear your paper while distressing, you can just ink it up and act like you planned it!  I prefer the Cat's Eye Chalk Ink in Chestnut Roan for my inking on distressed pages.

 The flowers and doilies were also lightly inked and then sprayed with Glimmer Mist.  I prefer the Wheatfields color to give a light antiqued look.

I also sprayed the ribbon and the fabric flower with the Wheatfield Glimmer Mist. 

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Papers: Little Miss Jaquoya, Gracie, Maree, Lizzie, Jamayka and Allie

Chipboard: Little Miss

Stickers: Little Miss Combo and Little Miss Sweet Girl

Petals: Little Miss and Green Scrunch

Trinkets: Little Miss

Jewels: Little Miss

Best Friend

Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko added lots of distressing to her layout.  There are tears, inking and lots of texture used to give here layout this lovely look.  Tomoko also used the Little Miss Collection for her layout and came up with a completely different look!

You can see the cutting and inking that she used here.  Notice that there are lots of layers.

Take a look at this next picture to see all the extra texture that she has added to her layout.  You can also see that there is glaze added tothe alphabet.  Many paint dots add such a special touch to Tomoko's work.

Bo Bunny Supply List:
Patterned Paper: Little Miss, Alice, Jamayka, Jaquoya, Lizzle, Maree, Cut Outs/ Little Miss
Cardstock: Decaf Vintage
Jewels: Little Miss
Trinkets: Little Miss
Rub-ons: Little Miss
Chipboard: 12" Chipboard/ Little Miss

We would love to hear about your techniques for distressing!  It's always such fun to try something new!  If you have never given distressing a try, we hope that we have inspired you to do it!

As always, we love seeing what you are creating! 
Be sure to share your work with us on Facebook!

Week 2 - Weekend Market Dad Album

How's everyone doing??  Are your albums coming along?

This weeks pages are the easiest 3 of the book, 

so it shouldn't take long...

Then next week, you'll have to put a little elbow grease  ink into it.

ha ha...  just kidding, it will be a breeze.

To watch video on YouTube click here

CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK

6 x 1 1/2" Dark Brown

3 1/4" Circle. Blue Dot 

2" Circle, Dot

# 1 DAD

4 1/2 X 4 1/2" Dot

(2) 3  x 1 1/2 " Blue Dot

(2) 3 x 2 1/2 Vintage Chiffon Dot

Heart- Vintage Wild Berry

FATHER

(2) 2 1/2 x 1" Dot

3 1/2" Circle, Stripe

3 1/2 x 2 1/2" Vintage Chiffon Dot

Stack of 2 1/2" scallop circles from sewing pattern

Also, here's the shopping list for next month! Gabrielle designed our kit for June using Ambrosia and it looks amazing!

That's it for this week.

Tune in next week when we'll make a mini... to put inside our mini.

How fun is that???

Toodles!