Congrats to the Graduate

Congrats congrats!

It's Graduation time!

Time to move forward....to matriculate!

Preschool, Kindergarten, Middle School, High School, College and beyond! It's the time of year for graduation ceremonies and parties to celebrate achievements!

And with parties and celebrations that means a card is needed! We've just just the solution with a variety of card ideas for the graduate!

Journey
Designer: Rita Shimniok

Mama-Razzi Papers - Dot, Word, Slides, Shutter, Stripe; Combo Sticker
Roughin' It One with Nature Rub-on (Compass)

This masculine-style graduation card was created with scraps left from Mama-Razzi layouts shared in May on the BoBunny blog. Tip: Create a cluster and use little scraps, stapled on for added embellishment, as a focal for your card sentiment.

Visit Rita's blog for more tips: http://colorfullycreating.blogspot.com


Congratulations Graduate
Designer: Dee Gallimore-Perry

BoBunny Mama-razzi Dot, Mama-razzi Stripe, Mama-razzi Cut Outs, Mama-razzi Combo Sticker, Mama-razzi Flowers, Mam-razzi iCandy Brads, Mama-razzi Buttons & Bling, Glitter Mam-razzi iCandy Stickers, Dark Denim Dot Double Dot Cardstock (Card Base)



Congratulations Graduate
Designer: Patti Milazzo

Bo Bunny Supply List: Mama-Razzi patterned papers – Stripe, Word, Mama-Razzi and Shutter; Mama-Razzi Flowers; Mama-Razzi iCandy Brads; Mama-Razzi iCandy Jewels; This Is Me Stickers; and Mama-Razzi Combo Stickers

Designer Note: I layered Bo Bunny fabric flowers with patterned paper punched/cut flowers for contrast and to give the flower more bulk.


Congratulations Grad!
Designer: Christine Ousley

Jaymne papers: Symmetry, Noteworthy, Double Dot cardstock: Boysenberry, Passion Fruit, Stamps: Jazmyne Clearly, Embellishments: Jazmyne iCandy Jewels, Letter Stickers: Flutter Butter 12" Combo Sticker


Congrats
Designer: Robyn Weatherspoon

Mama-razzi Film paper, Mama-razzi Tabloid paper, Mama-razzi Stripe paper, Mama-razzi iCandy Brads, Mama-razzi Flowers



And we want to thank everyone who joined in and make the Blog Hop such a success! Did you find out who the Guest Designer is??

That's right it's Jen Gallacher!! Designer extraordinaire!!

Jen will join our Designers this month and share projects with you using our Roughin' It and Paradise lines! We can't wait!!

And speaking of hops....we need to give a big shout out to our blog hop winner...

Jessica Wekenman said...
Yay!!! I can't wait to see what you have in store for us this month! I enjoyed hopping! Have a GREAT Memorial Day weekend!

9:00 AM


Congrats to Jessica Wekenman! Jessica you've won some of our Roughin' It collection! Be sure to email us at Bobunnyblog@gmail.com with your contact information!!

We also need to announce the winner of our prior Card Sketch Challenge! There were many outstanding entries....so please give a warm congrats to Dawne

and her beautiful card!! Congrats to you Dawne! Please email us at Bobunnyblog@gmail.com with your contact info! Thanks again to everyone who joined us in this challenge.

Be sure to tune in this week! We'll be sharing projects using our Roughin' It collection along with idea for Dad and we have some layout challenge winners to announce as well!

Don't miss a day!

Project Rewind

Project Rewind!

What's that?

Designer Kristen Swain threw this fun idea out when we were brainstorming for blog ideas. She suggested we go back to the blog, pick a project and then remake it.

Well you didn't have to twist our arm to agree to this. What's better than a blog filled with endless ideas to use for inspiration?!

Thus created Project Rewind....enjoy!!!!!!!!!




Rita's layouts are amazing and this one really caught my eye! {well they all do!LOL} Her title even worked into my title as well...



You Can Do It!
Designer: Julia Sandvoss

Paradise, Paradise Batik, Paradise Boardwalk, Paradise Locals, Paradise Sunset, Paradise Cutouts, Paradise Combo Stickers, Paradise Harbor Die Cut paper, Paradise Buttons & Bling, Paradise iCandy Chipboard, Paradise Chipboard


Dee wasn't sure if we could call her card a Project Rewind or a FastForward. She took her Mother's Day card from this past month...and remade it into a Father's Day card! Smart girl!


Happy Father's DayDesigner: Dee Gallimore-Perry

BoBunny Roughin' It Cut Outs, Roughin' It Stripe, Roughin' It Chipboard, Chocolate Dot Double Dot Cardstock, Flutter Butter Combo Stickers
Kristen rewound Julia's clear container filled with all occasion cards. Kristen's rewind is bright, fresh and makes for a colorful gift idea!!



All Occasion Card Container & Set
Designer: Kristen Swain

Mamarazzi -Slides, Double Dot ( Orange Citrus, Buttercup, Aquamarine, Kiwi, Concord), Buttons and Bling ( Delilah, Jazmyne, Flower Child)




Sherry rewound her own Easter Egg bouquet and made a Spring Flower bouquet! Perfect to brighten up a desk or spot in your house.


Spring Bouquet
Designer: Sherry Wright

Sophie papers (Rae), Jazymne simply beautiful cardstock stickers, Sophie chipboard, Double dot Tutu ribbon

This original project was made by Guest Designer Anabelle O'Malley.... and here's Juliana's version... fantastic don't you think??!!

Patti chose Julia's Butterfly Shadow Box as the inspiration for her card...


Hello From Paradise Card
Designer: Patti Milazzo

Paradise patterned papers – Surf, Locals, Sunset, Pier, Paradise, Lingo, Flight, Batik & Boardwalk; Paradise Combo Stickers; Paradise 12x12 Chipboard; Paradise iCandy Chipboard; Paradise iCandy Dimensional Cardstock Stickers; Paradise iCandy Brads; Paradise Buttons; Paradise Rub-Ons.


We would love to hear your thoughts if you liked today's blog post!! Leave us a comment and let us know if you liked this and would like to see us "Rewind" projects again! Or if you have suggestions for blog features you would like to see...leave those too!

Coming up this week... a stamping project with Patti and our Guest Designer, Carrie Ferrier shares her last project with us before we kick off another Blog Hop on Friday!!

Don't miss a day!

Dee's Room Wall Hanging

Do you wanna make a really cute wall hanging for your sweet little girl's room or door?

This wall hanging is so easy to make!!

1. Using a BoBunny Kitchen Spice Jasmine Die Cut as a template, trace the flower shape onto the reverse side of Flamingo Dot Double Dot Cardstock with a pencil. Cut out shape.

2. Using a circle cutter (or use a bowl or anything round for a template) cut a circle (6-1/2") from Kiwi Dot Double Dot Cardstock.

3. Stitch circle onto flower. (I used brown thread)

4. Cut out some cute images from the Love Bandit Cut Outs sheet. Mount to the project using foam dots.

5. Adhere Chipboard Alpha letters.

6. Mount flowers (Love Bandit Flowers) with fun glittery brads (Cuckoo iCandy Brads).

7. Using a punch, create the leaves from Kiwi Dot Double Dot Cardstock.

Mount leaves as shown.
8. Punch holes on either side up near the top. Thread some Mint Double Dot ribbon through, tie a knot and trim to finish your project!

So cute! And really fun and easy to create!

(And I so can't resist the sweet little faces on these guys!!)

Layout Share from Dee :)

Title: Friends

Designer: Dee Gallimore-Perry

Supplies: BoBunny Flutter Butter Honey, Flutter Butter Burst, Flutter Butter Stripe, Flutter Butter Ballet Die Cut, Flutter Butter Cut Outs, Flutter Butter Combo Sticker, Butterfly Dreams iCandy Jewels, Flutter Butter Flowers, Hang Loose iCandy Brads, Alora Rub-on, Chocolate Chunky Charms Circles & Arrows, Thankful Cardstock Sticker

DESIGNER TIPS: I adore the colors in the Flutter Butter line - it's so versatile! To add a bit of pizazz to the Flutter Butter Burst (reverse side - the light blue graph paper - which I LOVE LOVE LOVE)... I cut the large circle rub-on in half...used one half behind the top right of the photos and the other half behind the bottom left. It's a fun way to create your own patterned paper, and to add balance to the layout!

If you love the Die Cut papers as much as I do (and you want them to go a long way in your stash), just use a portion of the paper on your project. I trimmed off one edge to use as a border on this layout, rather than using the entire sheet on one layout. I still have plenty of options left with the rest of my Flutter Butter Ballet Die Cut paper!!

Hope you enjoy these quick little tips!

Time for a Card Sketch!!!

Hi Everyone and Happy Friday!!

It's Dee here again...
and...

It's time for a Card Sketch! YAY!!!






Here's the sketch I created:

And here are 3 very different takes on the sketch.

Amber created a shaped card rather than using the typical card shape, but she still place her embellishments and sentiments where they are suggested in the sketch.

Very festive summer card.

Shanna followed the sketch quite closely...and created this adorable friendship card.

I followed the sketch quite literally...and created a colorful birthday card.

Have a peek:

Title: Aloha

By: Amber Packer

Designer note: To make the fun flower shape, I handcut the shape of the Mango Luau flower (don't worry about making it perfect) on a 6 x 6 pre-folded card. Cut out, embellish and enjoy!

Supplies: BoBunny Mango Luau, Mango Luau Combo Sticker, Organic Marigold paper (or substitute Chiffon Dot Cardstock)

Title: Hello Friend

By: Shanna Vineyard

Supplies: BoBunny Tutu Double Dot Cardstock, Alissa Cut-outs, Alissa Adorable, Alissa Pink Flower, Bling, Sugar Dot Ribbon

Title: Birthday Cake Wishes

By: Dee Gallimore-Perry



Supplies: BoBunny It's My Party Cut Outs, It's My Party Day, It's My Party Stripe, It's My Party Presents, It's My Party Surprise, Make a Wish Cardstock Stickers, All Stuck Up Buttons Wild Berry

You know that I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see your take on this sketch! Be sure to post links to your creations and feel free to leave comments here, too! Remember, Julia is on vacation...so if we have TONS of comments and links for her to look at when she gets home, she'll be so excited!! :) I promise!

And...don't forget...Julia likes to send out goodies...so be sure to leave a comment and you might be a lucky chosen winner!!

Have a great weekend!

Dee ;)

Recycle and Reuse!!

Hi! It's Dee here! and...it's that time again!

Time to put on your 'recycle/reuse' thinking caps and look around your home for something to recycle!!

I love it when the Design Team is challenged to Recycle and Reuse...because I am always so amazed by what they come up with... not only their finished projects...but what they choose to recycle! So fun!

Carole and I both chose BoBunny packaging for our fun projects, while Kristen's family must have just finished up a jar of peanut butter!

Title: Quick & Easy Party Favor!

By: Dee Gallimore-Perry

Designer Note: I had a container picked out for this challenge...but, as I was cleaning up by desk before getting started...I picked up my package of BoBunny flowers...and say, "HEY!! This would make a cute quick & easy party favor!!"

(I had already picked up a HUGE jar of gumballs, because I knew that's what I wanted to fill my container with...)

This little bag worked PERFECTLY...and it took mere minutes to complete.

These would be a cute Thank You for a Summer Pool Party or BBQ!

OR... how about labeling each one with the party guests' names...and using them as colorful place cards!!

Supplies: BoBunny Love Shack Flowers, Ready for Fun Cardstock Stickers, Double Dot Wrapped in Riboon - Orange Citrus & Pink Punch

Title: Birthday Fund Bank

By: Kristen Swain

Designer Tip: For my project, I used an empty peanut jar and made it into a bank. I thought it would be a great idea to contribute to a Birthday fund. Notice the name is Birthday FUN-D! I used an exacto knife to cut the slit in the top of the plastic lid, being very careful, but you could also use a drill and jig saw.

Supplies: It's My Party TimeIt's My Party Combo StickersLet's Party Cardstock StickersMake a Wish Cardstock StickersDouble Dot Cardstock- Wild Berry, Clover, Buttercup,and Dark Denim DotAll Stuck Up Wild Berry ButtonsPopsicle Cutouts



Title: Snow Globe Card

By: Carole Jansen

Designer Tip: Cut out the plastic dome from the Bo Bunny Packet and, using the card in the packet as a template, cut a circle out of the center of the card and then create a 3 dimensional scene on another piece of cardstock -adding some silver stars, glitter or even smarties. Then stick the dimensional scene to the inside of the front of card with double sided tape, so that the scene is inside of the dome. You could also create birthday cards and invitations this way.

Have fun !!

Supplies: BoBunny Holiday Cheer, Holiday Cheer Frost, Holiday Cheer Plaid, Holiday Cheer Gumdrops, Holiday Cheer Cardstock Stickers, Buttons and Bling, BoBunny Ribbon

Please feel free to leave a comment or share a link to YOUR most recently recycle/reused project! We love to see what you do!

Julia is on vacation this week... but I bet when she gets back, she'll go through all of the posts from this week and pick a winner or two for some goodies.

So...let's really give her some work to do when she gets back and let's see LOTS AND LOTS of comments and project shares!

Dee ;)

Birthday Book!!

Hi! It's Dee here! I thought it might be fun to share this quick and easy idea for a birthday album with you...(it happens to be quite adorable, if I should say so myself...could be the cute photos of my sweet Brendan, maybe?? Or...it might just be all of the fun 'It's My Party' papers and embellishments!)

The album itself is an 8X8 album..that comes with page protectors already inside*, which makes it so easy just to whip up some 8X8 layouts to slide into the album as you complete each year.

For the cover of the album, I created a quick little embellishment for the title of the book attaching the cute cardstock circle sticker (Make a Wish Cardstock Stickers) to the center of the flower. Then, I simply cut the word strips from my favorite paper of this line (the reverse side of It's My Party Cut Outs!) and slid them under the edge of the cardstock sticker circle.

Cute, huh?

My goal when starting this project was to make one page for each of Brendan's 15 birthdays (so far). I went through all of my photos (scanned the prints taken with film) and made a folder for each of the 15 photos I decided to use from each birthday. Then I went back through my old scrapbook pages from each birthday party, etc to get a few details from each one:

Example:

the date of each party

what the theme of the party was

where the party was held

information about the cake/gifts/guests/etc

Once I had finally chosen my favorite photo from each birthday, I grabbed all 15 photos and my stash of It's My Birthday goodies and got to work!

One of the COOLEST THINGS? All of these BoBunny papers are TWO-SIDED!
Which means, you can cut 1 8X8 ...and use BOTH SIDES to create 2 pages of the album!!
(Isn't that clever??)


On each 8X8 background side, I attached a coordinating 7X7 background...then I started adding the photos, journaling and goodies!
If you look at the It's My Party Poems paper...you'll notice these ADORABLE circles with NUMBERS on them! (They go up to 10) Just grab your circle punches for a quick and easy way to show your child's age!
Once I reached Brendan's 11th birthday, I simply punched a circle from one of the 'un-numbered' circle images from It's My Party Poems paper and used some rubber stamps to create the 11 circle for that page (and up through the 15th birthday). There are also some 'un-numbered' circle images on the reverse side of It's My Party Day paper.
(See the 11th page below)

For the journaling, I decided to keep designing with circles...so I typed my journaling onto the reverse (solid red) side of It's My Party Confetti paper. Punched it out...sanded the edges...and voila...little circles of information from each birthday.

For each page, I cut out various word strips from the reverse side of the It's My Party Cut Outs and added various words to each page, and a brad for a wee bit of dimension. Each page also has one photo corner Cardstock Sticker, too!

I added lots of fun little circle touches by using my circle punch some more...and by using all the fun circle stickers you can find on all of the sheets of Cardstock Stickers in this line.

Brendan will be 16 in November...then I'll put together that page...and maybe one more for each of the next 2 birthdays...up to his 18th!

Now I can look through this Birthday Book, instead of digging through all of my 12X12 albums, to see how he changed over the years...and I know it will be so quick & easy to create a few more pages to finish this book up over the next few years.

(Just remember to hoard some of the papers and stickers from the It's My Party line so you can finish your pages!)

Supply list:

BoBunny It's My Party Confetti, It's My Party Day, It's My Party Cut Outs, It's My Party Stripe, It's My Party Time, It's My Party, It's My Party Presents, It's My Party Surprise, It's My Party Poems, It's My Party Supersized Alpha Stickers, It's My Party Combo Stickers, Let's Party Cardstock Stickers, Make a Wish Cardstock Stickers, All Stuck Up Brads

*Album and some cardstock stickers (corners): KI Memories

Circle punches, sandpaper, number rubber stamps & inkpad

Just a note for those of you that grabbed one of our oh so cute Blinkies and found a Photobucket image saying you've exceeded your bandwidth...yes..that's us. We've been getting some serious web hits and had to change out our site that hosts our blinkies.

So if you want to copy the new links and post onto your blogs..that should fix that right up! Sorry for the troubles!

And we've been working non-stop to make the Design Team selection so I apologize for the delay in posting the Birthday Card Sketch Winner...so here's the scoop...I'll post both the Card Sketch and Orange Challenge Winners tomorrow...how's that?!

Happy Day!!