Happy Easter Greetings - Handmade Cards featuring Cottontail, Double Dot Damask and BoBunny Essentials Dies with Denise

Hello BoBunny Fans!

It's Denise here today, to share some cheerful Easter greeting cards with you, using some tried and true BoBunny staple items along with the gorgeous Cottontail Collection. This set has elements for Easter and all occasion spring, with a distinct "vintage" flavor.

Here is the first of my two cards that I created for you today.  In addition to Cottontail, I used Double Dot Damask and a couple of my favorite go-to dies.

I used dies and layeres lots of die-cuts on this first card to create the center and focal point. I also used BoBunny cardstock to create the little blue flowers and the fresh leaves. Here's a closer look at that center element piece, with the stamped sentiment.

For the second card, I really went to town with fussy cutting and just used beautiful, patterned papers to create it. The pretty patterns on the papers caught my eye and I just knew that I would have to use them.

I also fussy cut those small, pretty orange flowers and then used some Pearlescents for the middle of the flowers.

This card ended up with various layers, but all from patterned paper and so even though it is detailed, it is really economical, as I did not need any embellishments.


I hope this will really inspire you to make the most of your staple patterned papers too.


Thanks so much for stopping by the BoBunny blog today.

Have a fabulous day!

Denise x



BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Papers: Springtime, Bunnies, Festive, Gardening/Cottontail

Cardstock: French Vanilla, Brilliant Blue Damask, Power Blue Vintage, Wasabi Vintage

Noteworthy: Cottontail

Jewels: Blue Hues

Stamps: Captured, Eggcellent

Pearlescent: Licorice

Dies: Mandala

Easel Fold Card Duo featuring Stay Awhile with Katherine

Hello Everyone, 

Katherine here with some really easy Easel Fold cards using Stay Awhile.  This sort of card is great because it folds flat which is great for posting.

My basic design is a 12" by 4" piece of double dot card stock which I fold at 6" and then 9", both of those fold are mountain folds.  To make the card stand up you add an area on foam pads (in the case above the flower square) on the inside of your card, so you can tuck the front of the card behind it.

To decorate my cards I added a 5 3/4" by 3 3/4" purple panel from the paper Welcome on the base of my card and then as there is a fold in the middle of the front cover I added 2 panels to the front of my card (you can see this best in the last photo where both cards are flat).  To disguise the fold I created my colourful hills and just stuck them to the bottom panel, the same with the house so that they pop-up when you fold the card.

I snipped the hills to make it look like grass and inked the edges of all the papers to add a little more definition.

Here you can see the square that the front cover tucks behind, I added some of the Double Dot Blue Hues jewels on the flowers to coordinate with the ones on the main card to tie the looks together.

The same template, but this time I cut out lots of the coffee cuts, the perfect card for a coffee lover!  I stuck the coffee cups just to the bottom fold so that they pop up.

My sentiment is on foam pads which meant I could tuck all the cups behind it, and I added a few coordinating jewels for just a bit of shine.

Another coffee cup to provide the stop and hold the card up.

This should give you an idea of what the cards look like when flat, you can see the panel at the base and top on the front of the cards and how it  has been disguised with the hills and coffee cups.

BoBunny Supplies

Patterned Papers: Stay Awhile  - Welcome, Neighbours, Mugs,Cozy and Warm

6" Pad: Stay a While

Double Dot: Rust and Vintage Dot Kiwi

Stickers: Stay Awhile

Wooden Shape: Hears

Jewels: Blue Hues and Mocha

Paint: White Gesso

Down by the Sea, Mixed Media-One Layout Three Ways with Marilyn

Hello everyone! We all have different styles, some like simple things, others with more details or someone like me with lot of layers, paints and details.. I'm going to share with you today-one layout  in three ways with the new Down by the Sea collection and the new Spring stuff, let's take a look...

This is my final project with many layers, stamping, mixed media product but before that I explain all the creative process let's go to see how I started in the next picture, working backwards with me. 

 #1 Way

I selected the Down by the Sea Seahorse as my base paper. Then I made a design with the chipboard and Noteworthy pieces, next I adhered the photo. It looks simple and clean.

 #2 Way

Then I added color around all the design with Pentart Delicate Metallic and blue creamy acrylic paints. After drying, I gave textures with the Backsplash Stencils and the new Pentart Stencil Paste in Ice Flower color. Finally, I added white and blue paint splatters.

To take it to the next level (#3) I stamped randomly with the Doodles stamp and added yellow paint splatter for extra textures.

 I added some Blue Hues Jewels and a well placed touches of  3D Balls that I adhered with Pentart Express Glue.

I love the chipboard pieces, they look adorable and fun  and add just the right feel to this seaside layout scheme.

You can see here all the textures...

And here are the three ways...which one is your personal favorite?

Bo Bunny Supplies

Pattern Paper: Down by the Sea- Seahorse-Ripples

Chipboard: Down by the Sea  

Noteworthy: Down by the Sea

Stamp: Doodle Stamp

Stencil: Backsplash Stencils

Blue Hues Jewels

Gesso White

Pentart Supplies

Stencil Paste- Ice Flower

Delicate Metallic- Greenish silver

Creamy Acrylic - Blue- Baroque Gold

3D Balls

Express Glue

I hope you had some inspiration today!

Thank you so much for stopping by...until next time!

Marilyn Rivera

Down by the Sea and Pentart Crackle with Rhonda

Gift Idea: Artists Tray with Rhonda

Greetings and welcome to Sunday Funday on the blog! I have a project featuring the Down By The Sea collection and the Pentart Cracking Paint System. We recently took a vacation to Florida and spent a bit of time at the ocean. This collection was perfect for my photos!

I found this artist tray at my local craft store on clearance and thought it would be perfect to showcase this collection and my photos. This is also such a perfect gift for Mother's Day or Father's Day. I prepared the tray by painting my Cracking Paint System 1, let dry and then applied the Cracking Paint System 2 in White on top and set aside to dry and crack.

While the tray was drying, I measured the compartments and started trimming a variety of the papers, then I selected the photos that I wanted to print. I started with a 4x6 that I could cut in half for the focal center of the tray, then I printed smaller 2x3 photos to use in the opposite corners.

I cut several pretty die cut elements out from our new dies, used them in a few of the compartments. I also used bits from the fabulous Noteworthy package and of course, embellished with some Chipboard, Layered Chipboard and Double Dot Jewels.

Once I had the tray completed, I decided to accent the plain white crackle, so I mixed some Glimmer Spray in Frost and Mint to make a pretty aqua color to coordinate with the collection. I lightly brushed it on with a medium flat paintbrush.

I love how the Pentart Cracking Paint is so versatile and it took the color of the Glimmer Spray so nicely, I could control the depth of color easily.

BoBunny Products:

Patterned Paper: Seahorse, Down By The Sea, Mermaids, Mystical, Paradise, Ripples, Tide and Wonder  / Down By The Sea

Noteworthy: Down By The Sea

Chipboard: 6x12, Layered Chipboard / Down By The Sea

Double Dot Jewels: Aqua and True Blue

Jewel Flourishes: Glaze Jewels

Double Dot Brads: Aqua

Dies: Darling Doily, Sweetheart, Congratulation Card and Mandala

Glimmer Spray: Frost and Mint



Pentart Products:

Pentart Cracking Paint System 1

Pentart Cracking Paint System 2 - White

Super Hero Misc Me!

My grandson celebrated his fifth birthday with a party which theme was Super Heroes. He was Super Man and his friends were using fantasies of several heroes, it was so funny. When I saw the Firecracker collection, I thought that was perfect for the Misc Me about her party. 

 On the first page of this Misc Me I used the invitation for the party:

 

I covered the title using blue Pearlescents:

Here he is Clark Kent, his secret identity:

And here he is doing the dramatic gesture of ripping open his shirt to reveal the familiar "S" emblem when called into action!

 I mixed pearlescent with BoBunny gel and I applied it on the stencil :

 I made the same on this page and I also applied pearlescent on the hearts:

BoBunny supplies:

Patterned Paper: Anthem/Firecracker

Stickers: Firecracker Combo Sticker; Beautiful Dreamer clear stickers, Double Dot Tuxedo Alpha Stickers
Noteworthy: Firecracker
Brads:  Firecracker
Jewels: Double Dot Blue Hues
Chipboard:  Firecracker Layered Chipboard, Celebrate Laser Cut Chipboard
6 x 6 Paper Pad:  Firecracker
Misc Me Binder: Kraft 8 x 9
Misc Me Contents:  Firecracker Journal Contents,  Firecracker Pocket Squares
Stencil: Cascade Stickable Stencil
Pearlescents: Brilliant Blue
Transparent Gel