Felicity and Pentart Contour Liners with Irene

Hello BoBunny fans! It's Irene here with my first post for 2017 and today, I'm going to show you all how you can create some fun and interesting embellishments to decorate your projects with. Can you guess it from the picture below? Yes, some acetate or transparency butterflies!.

Altered Mail Art by Irene Tan

Here are three very simple steps along with a picture tutorial on how to create these fun butterflies.

First, you will need the Flutter Dies and a piece of transparency or acetate. Use the dies on the transparency via a die cutting machine. The thin dies won't cut through the transparency but it will form a gorgeous embossed image. You can fussy cut out the outer lines of the butterflies using scissors.

Second, you will want  to outline and color some parts of the butterflies using Pentart Contour Liners. These areas will be resistant to the glass paint that we will be using in the next step. Make sure it dries completely before proceeding to the next step.

Next, paint the butterflies using a brush and some glass paints, I did not fully cover the butterflies as I want to have the translucent effect on them. TWhen all are painted and dried, you can start adding more dimensions and details to them. You can fold up their wings, add more details using Pearlescents and Double Dot jewels.

Hope you all like this simple tutorial and see you all soon!



BoBunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Lattice, Felicity, Romance, Always/Felicity
Double Dot Jewels: Aqua
Pearlescent: Licorice
Dies: Flutter

Pentart Supplies:
Contour Liners: Sparkling Gold, Copper
Glass Paints: Yellow, Purple
Medium for Glass and Porcelain

New Washi Tape Tutorial!

Washi Tape Tutorial by Ilene Tell

I love working with washi tape - it's such a fun, versatile product. I was so happy to see BoBunny new washi tapes with the gold dot and gold chevron. The gold makes the tape such a festive and bright embellishment. I thought it would be fun to use the washi tapes to make a customized embellishment, and it's very simple to do with some dies, washi tape, and tissue paper. 

Pick out the dies you want to use. Then cover the tissue paper with washi tape - cover a large enough area to fit the die. 

Next, cut out the covered pieces of tissue paper.

Now, run it through your die cutting machine.

The result is semi-transparent die-cuts that are very delicate and perfectly match the washi tape you have. You can then add the die-cuts to your project, along with a little bit of the washi tape to balance out the colors throughout. I made two cards and added the butterflies along with their matching washi tape as accents.

Here's a close-up. You can see that the butterfly is still semi-transparent, which helps it convey a delicate feeling:

And as always, I finished out the inside of the cards with some pretty paper from the 6x6 pad:

For my second card, I again added the butterfly and swirl die-cuts, and some washi tape to balance out the elements.

And another close look at the details:

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Calendar Girl / January, August

Double Dot: Dark Denim Dot, Licorice Dot

Washi Tape: Gold Foil Dot, Gold Foil Chevron

Dies: Flutter, Flourish

Jewels: Double Dot Citrus

Stickers: Glitter and Foil Chevron

6 x 6 Paper Pad: Calendar Girl

Noteworthy: Calendar Girl

Stamps: Floral

Tools: Stamp Block Set

Medallions: Gold Foil

Elegance With Foil Rubons!

Hello everyone! The Garden Journal Collection is the perfect collection to create a mini album for the gardener, to display the wonders of a floral garden. The Gold Alphabet gives the album the old world richness of leather covered books embossed in gold. The Gold Alphabet rub-ons allowed me to create that look. 

    Gatefold Mini Album featuring Alphabet Foil Gold Rubons and Garden Journal

 The  gold rub-ons are so rich that they look like gold leaf embedded in the paper. They are so easy to use and rub on with perfection. To enhance the gold, I created a jeweled closure using gold jewelry finds and seam binding, that were strung  through pink wide eyelets that were set in the cover. I also edged the album with Gold glitter paste.

No garden is complete without butterflies. On the back of the album, I used modeling paste with the stencils doing floral corners and the 3 smallest butterflies down the middle.

On the inside of the album there are 6 large envelope/sleeve pages that each contain a journaling card that slips into the sleeve. On a few of the pages as in this one, there is a pocket on the sleeve itself that holds tags and additional cards. I used the Gold rub-ons to spell the word "flowers." The gold throughout the album is a little treat to add to the elegance.

This is a closeup of one of the cards in the album that feature the Gold rub-ons. 

 

These are 2 of the 6 cards that were pulled from the sleeves. The lined pattern on the Delight paper was perfect  as you can use these cards to journal on. The opposite side of the cards have patterned paper and plenty of room for photos. They slide easily back into the sleeves.

The top of each fold on the cards I placed a button. Once the button was adhered to the fold, I used my Cropodile to punch a holes over the existing holes and placed  a piece of string through and tied a bow.

 Thank you for joining me today. I hope that you are inspired to use the Foil rub-ons to add that special elegance to your next project.

Lisa

xo

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper 12x12: Airy, Garden Journal, Bloom, Wonder, Stripe,Sketch, Gratitude, Journal, Delight /Garden Journal

6x6 Paper Pad: Garden Journal

Glitter Paste: Gold

Blossoms: Blush Pansy

Buttons: Garden Journal

Stickable Stencil: Love
Alphabet Foil Rub on: Gold
Chipboard: Garden Journal
Dies:Flutter

Practically Perfect Teacher Gift!

Hello BoBunny Fans! Today I am sharing a teachers gift I created my daughters 3rd grade teacher. My daughter loves her so much I wanted to do something special. This tag has a pocket with a Kraft envelope and I've included some seed packets. I'll throw in some garden gloves and little pots and hope it makes her smile!

I used the Garden Journal collection and the Alphabet Gold Foil Rub Ons. I love how the gold rub ons look against the white tag with a little brown ink for distressing. These rub ons are the best I have ever used! So easy and they come off beautifully! I created a video tutorial to show you how I put this tag together. You could use the pocket for a gift card as well. I know I like to drink coffee so a coffee card would work for me. ;)

Pocket Tag Tutorial - Lisa Novogrodski

I used the new Flutter Dies for my butterfly embellishment. Did I mention how much I love the new dies?

           

I hope you enjoy the video!

A little close up of the sweet bow, tag, and doily.

Another close up of the tag and envelope containing the seed packets. I love how the gold looks against the white.

I did a little masking on the Kraft pocket. The journaling card attached to the front is perfect for my daughter to write a little note to her teacher.

BoBunny Supplies:
Pattern Paper: Garden Journal/ Bloom, Freehand
Dies: Flutter
Stickable Stencil: Brocade
Doily: Medium
Glitter Paste: Gold
Rub Ons: Alphabet Gold
Kraft: Plain Gift Bag
Brads: Garden Journal
Pearlescents: Butterscotch, Island Mist

Blog Hop Day 3....Yippee!

Hello friends! Welcome to the Blog Hop Day 3! Are you just loving all this gorgeousness on all these blogs? We are drooling in BoBunny-land! Take a look at this awesome altered project! Don't forget to scroll to the bottom for your next hop!

You Got This Altered Clock by Rhonda Van Ginkel

I am excited to share my project with you today featuring the Sweet Life collection. I've used a pocket square from our all new Misc Me Pocket Squares for my sentiment. This inspirational decor will adorn my work desk.

To begin, I used the Adhesive Sheets on my background paper to adhere to the circle base. Once this was attached, I added the Film Sticker, then attached my sentiment pocket square with 3D Foam Squares. The Blossoms were adhered to the bottom of the clock using the Dodz - Medium.

I used the 3D Foam Creative Sheets - Mix and trimmed a piece to the size of my Flutters Die, adhered to a piece of the Enjoy patterned paper and ran through my die cutting machine. This created a custom dimensional butterfly embellishment. There are so many fun uses for this product!

BoBunny Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: Sweet Life and Enjoy / Sweet Life
Misc Me: Sweet Life Pocket Squares
Noteworthy: Sweet Life
Blossoms: Clover Bouquet, Blush Pansy and Buttercup Zinnia
Buttons: Sweet Life
Jewels: Double Dot Blue Hues Jewels
Film Sticker: Sweet Life
Dies: Flutter Dies

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Supplies Used:
Adhesive Sheets - 4x6"
3D Foam Creative Sheets - Mix
3D Foam Squares - White Mix
Dodz - Medium
E-Z Runner

Hop #2:  https://www.scrapbook-adhesives.com/blog/

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Glittered Canvas & Sweet Life Layout!

Hello there, Lisa here, sharing a Canvas Wall Hanging featuring the Sweet Life Collection and Glitter Paste. I had so much fun with all of the new BoBunny products from the latest collections. I chose to do a wall hanging for a dear friend who owns a photography business. (check out my blog for link)  The photo is of her gorgeous little one Delilah. This is kind of like a canvas wrapped photo, except it is a 3 dimensional scrapbook layout mounted on 12 x 12 canvas with the edges being adorned to match the layout. I did a lot of stamping using various BoBunny stamps. I mixed older and newest collection. There are so many gorgeous ones to choose from now. The new Flutter stamps are darling. I LOVE butterflies!!

I used the Glitter paste in various parts of the canvas and the flowers and also rubbed it around the decorative punched paper on the background.

I also spread some glitter paste on the leaves of the flowers. I layered parts of the die cut Ornate Frames behind the Noteworthy tag. I even placed one over the word dream.

The Tutorial to create the Canvas Wall Hanging:

Step 1.
Prepare the sides of the canvas by rubbing on some Pearlescents in Blush. This will create a base that the glitter paste will adhere to.

Step 2.  Apply your stencil to the edge of the canvas and stick down firmly. Apply a thick layer of glitter paste using a palette knife.

 Step 3. Pull off the stencil carefully, and repeat this step until the whole perimeter of the canvas is done.

Step 4. Adhere your layout to the canvas once the glitter paste has dried.

 I hope you were inspired to create a canvas of your own. I surely enjoyed creating this project using Sweet Life and Glitter Paste. I hope you give it a try.

Till next time...Lisa xo

Products used:
Patterned Paper:Sweet Life
Double Dots Paper:
6x6 Paper Pad: Sweet Life
Jewels:Double Dot Think Pink Jewels,The Avenues Jewels
Blooms: Blush Zinnia
Pearlescents: Blush
Dies: Flutter, 3x4 Ornate Frame
Noteworthy: Sweet Life
Brads: Sweet Life
Stamps: Stitches, Distress Textures, Flutter
Glitter Paste: Wasabi, Sugar, Blush
Ink: Licorice

Lovely Lattice Dies!

Hello everyone! I will be first to admit with minus 20 outside I have a perfect weather to scrap . Having all new toys from Bo Bunny and so many photos from several  family trips makes my life perfect!

Sweet Life by Agnieszka Bellaidea

If you are not aware yet BoBunny has also beautiful dies! I used some of them on my page.

I have to add a word about new stamps, new stencils, new chipboards and 6 new collection....they are gorgeous! I used the new collection Sweet Life for my layout.

I could not stop playing with all the new yummy products,  so I made couple cards, I am going to show you one on my blog today  - HERE

BoBunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Sweet Life / Sweet Life
Noteworthy: Sweet Life
Buttons; Sweet Life
Stamps: Floral stamps
6x6 Paper Pad; Sweet Life
Blossoms: Buttercup Pansy
Dot Jewels: Citrus Jewel
Pearlescents: Gold
Ink Pad"Pink Punch
Glimmer Spray: Frost, Mint, Tutu
Glitter Paste: Sugar
Stencils: Cascade Stickable Stencils
Dies: Lattice Frame Dies, Flutter Dies

Thank you for looking, have a great day!

Fabulous Flutter Die Tutorial!

Be You by Gabrielle Pollacco

Did you know that Bo Bunny now has metal dies that can help you create intricate and beautiful accents for your scrapbook pages and craft projects?  Today I made up this scrapbook page using the new Garden Journal paper collection and used a variety of the new dies, including my favorite new butterfly design to create accents and embellishments that help give a light, airy feel to the page. Here is a video tutorial I made up to show step by step how this page was made, including a really fun technique when cutting your dies that help release the paper from the die quickly and easily. Enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed this video tutorial and will feel inspired to try out some of Bo Bunny's new dies and mixed media products.  Here are a few close-ups you can view at your leisure...

One of the tips I shared in this video is how you get the cardstock to release from the die in a quick and easy way.  I don't know the science behind it but it works beautifully.  I found this tip on Pinterest, and the basic idea is to sandwich your cardstock between a layer of wax paper and a layer of dryer sheet (yep, those pretty smelling little sheets you throw in your dryer, a fabric softener sheet).  So basically you have your die, the next layer is a piece of wax paper, then your cardstock piece, then a dryer sheet.  Then the piece of plastic that you use with your die cutting machine (I used the Quickutz Revolution for mine).  Just roll it through like you usually do, when you pull it out, the cardstock piece releases very easily from the die, and the tiny bits and pieces with pretty much fall out of the intricate little cuts.  I didn't have to use any tools to poke out my bits, they just fell out as I ran my fingers over the piece!

I also used one of the awesome NEW stickable stencils called Love on this page.  I took the clock design and using a palette knife laid down a thick layer of NEW Blush Glitter Paste to add this shimmery design to the background of my photo cluster.  I also used the Blush and Sugar Glitter Pastes on my Flutter die cut pieces to create these little butterfly accents for my page.

For my floral accent on this page, I combined the coordinating chipboard pieces for the Garden Journal collection with a Bo Bunny Daisy Blossom from the Blush packet.  I made a quick fun little nest using some Spanish Moss and a chipboard egg design from the coordinating chipboard for Garden Journal collection.

Bo Bunny Product used in this project:

Patterned Paper: Garden Journal/Sketch, Wonder

6x6 paper pad: Garden Journal 

Sticker Sheet/Garden Journal

Chipboard/Garden Journal

Glitter Paste: Sugar, Blush

Stickable Stencil: Love

Dies: Flutter Dies, Ornate Frame, Lattice Frame

Glimmer Spray: Bronze 

Blossoms: Blush Daisy

Wood accents: Iron Works

Thanks for stopping by the Bo Bunny blog today, we hope you are inspired to include some intricate and pretty die cuts in your scrapping projects!