Technique Tuesday with Agnieszka

Here is a great picture tutorial on creating your own background.

I'm always amazed at how Agnieszka can combine lines and

make such fabulous projects.  She's used Powder Mountain,

Weekend Market and Camp a Lot on this tag along with

our Vintage Double Dots & Blossoms and Lace!

Design your own background using embossing.

by Agnieszka Piskorz

BoBunny supplies:
Doubledot Chiffon Vintage
Jewels: Powder Mountain, Camp a lot
Buttons: Camp a lot
Lace: Buttercup lace
Stickers: Dimensional stickers Weekend market
Blossoms: Natural Earth Dahlia

So much fun, I want to get product out and play.

Enjoy and have a SUPER day!!

What are Artist Trading Cards?

Although ATC's have been around for quite awhile,

some of us are just being introduced to them. 

Other's have been making and trading them for years.

What are ATC's?

Artist Trading Cards 

Think of it as your own personal, unique fun business card.

There are only a couple rules to making an ATC.

1. It must have a 2 1/2" X 3 1/2" base

2. It must be a one of a kind creation

That's it.

How easy is that? I don't really like to be

restricted by rules, but these two... piece of cake!

I LOVE the cards the girls have made.

I think it's so much fun how their personal style shows in their cards.

Winter
Agnieszka Piskorz

 Supplies:
Noteworthy: Snow Day
Jewels: Snow Day
Stickers: Combo Snow Day,
Chipboard: Layered Chipboard Snow Day and Powder Mountain
Stamp: Snow Day, Snowfall 

25th
Irene Tan

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Glad Tidings, The Season, Crossword/Rejoice
Stickers: the First Noel Cardstock Sticker
Trinkets: Rejoice
Jewels: Rejoice
Petals: Rejoice
Lace: Natural Earth

Live Life Beautifully
Debbie Sherman

 Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Love Letters Flutter, Hello Sunshine Little Things, Weekend Market Cut Outs
Trinkets:Hello Sunshine

Merry and Bright
Debbie Sherman

Designer Tip: ATC's are a quick and easy way to use up your little scraps. I keep mine in a notebook with baseball card page protectors. They fit perfectly and it's fun to go back and look at them, especially if trade them with friends. 

Supplies:
Patterned Paper:Mistletoe Wrap, Mistletoe Pucker Up, Mistletoe Chevron, Mistletoe Dots
Stickers: Mistletoe Combo Sticker
Chipboard: Mistletoe 12x12 Chipboard

 Luzma Bruna

Love and V is for

 This is Luz's first time making ATC's... I would have never guessed.

They are so so awesome!

Supplies:

6X6 paper pad: Love letters
Jewels: Love Letters
Buttons: Love Letters
Layered Chipboard: Love Letters
Dimensional Stickers: Love Letters
Noteworthy: Love Letters
12X12 Chipboard: Love Letters 

A little more info on ATC's....  these are really fun to make and keep,

but even more fun if you get in a group of friends and make and exchange them.

I have all of mine on a Rolodex and I can not even tell you how much fun 

they are to look and and go through.  Also, it's a great conversation piece.

Everyone that walks in my house asks about it.

When swapping ATC's, be sure to put your name and info on the back of the card.

If you get a chance to play and make your own ATC's....

be sure to share your masterpieces with us!

Have a SUPER weekend!

Furry Four Legged Friends

If you have a family member with fur... raise your paw, hoof.

You're going to love today's layouts!

(even if you don't have a pet, I'm pretty sure you're still going to love 

the layouts because they will work perfect for your photos as well)

Big Boy Jax

Lynn Shokoples

Journaling: In April 2012 I got a call about adopting another puppy. Well, when I saw that little face, I couldn't resist. So baby jax came home weighing 15 pounds. Now jump ahead to August and baby Jax has grown quite a bit. At 6 months old he is well over 60 pounds with another 6 months of growing to do. He is the sweetest, most gentle dog I have ever had. He is always ready to cuddle. I love my big boy! 

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Pendant, Garden, Promenade,Sunrise,Dot/Serenade; Antique/Weekend Market

Cardstock: Double Dot Decaf Vintage

Stickers: Treasured Friend Cardstock Sticker; Serenade Combo Stickers

Brads: Serenade Brads

Noteworthy: Serenade

Flowers: Clover Dahlia, Buttercup Daisy; Serenade Petals

So Dog Gone Cute

Gabrielle Pollacco 

So here is mine! We picked up our sweet Zoe just a little over a year ago....we were told by the breeder that there was only one puppy left in this litter, when we walked into the place, my eyes were immediately drawn to this scruffy little pup sporting this cute little faux-hock! I thought to myself, too-bad we don't get first pick of this litter because this one would be my pick...then unbelievably the breeder said this little pup would be ours if we want her!.....my next thought was, okay, how badly behaved is she, that no one picked this little cutie-pie first! Well, let's just say this first year we learned why! lol! Countless socks, shoe's, hats, mits and yes! even underwear destroyed by this pup! She definitely has a personality all her own, full of mischief but just so much fun as well...we just love her and wouldn't trade her in for anything!

 I'm just loving the color combination of butter yellow and grey lately so I chose to use the yellows in the Serenade collection and mix it with some soft grey double dot paper. Added in some of the new yellow blooms and lace as well.

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Serenade (Sunrise, Trellis, Garden, Promenade)

Cardstock: Double Dot (Shadow)

Flowers: Buttercup Zinnia, Buttercup Dahlia, Buttercup Bouquet

Stickers: Serenade Combo Stickers, Apple Cider Combo Stickers

Lace: Buttercup lace

Jewels: Serenade

Brads: Serenade

Stamps: Midnight Frost

a true Friend

Jolanda Meurs

 This is my best friend. His name is Wish and he is 9 years old. I called him Wish because I always wanted to have a black dressage horse. I have trained him myself. We ride a high dressage level. He realy likes to be pampered. He is so sweet... he likes to put his nose in your hair to get a hug from you.  

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Serenade/Serenade

Cardstock: Double Dot (Shadow)

Flowers: Clover Daisy Green and Wildberry Daisy

Stickers: Serenade Combo Stickers, Apple Cider Combo Stickers

Jewels: Serenade

Rub ons: Serenade 

Chipboard 12 x 12: Serenade

Cardstock stickers: Serenade

Trinkets: Serenade

Cat story

Agnieszka Piskorz 

 This is an album that tells the story of our cat, which we adopted in May. Rudy Ben is a favorite of our whole family and is our second cat. My base album is an old book, the pages are a great backdrop for photos.

 

BoBunny Suplies:

Paper: Afternoon, Apple Cider/Apple Cider; Stripe/Serenade; Bouquet/Forever fall; Almanac/Country Garden; Floweret/VikiB

Buttons: Apple Cider

Rub-ons: Crazy Love, Liberty

Jewels: Et Cetera, Mistletoe, Forever fall

Stikers: We are Family/ Apple Cider; 12" : Whoo Ligans, Hello Sunshine, Apple Cider, Camp a Lot, Et Cetera, Detour, Serenade, On The Go, Mistletoe

Chipboard: 12" Alora, Crazy Love, ad Lib; Layered Chipboard: Viki B.

Noteworthy: Forever Fall, Country Garden, Serenade

I'm so in love with all of the projects today, what a fun collection of ideas.

And... am I the only one that is always so inspired 

the way these ladies can mix up the collections and 

make such fabulous projects and give us so much inspiration?

And how fun is it that Gabi and Lynn both have doodles?

Thanks for hanging out... 

make sure to share you furry friend layouts with us on facebook!

The smell of crayons in the air.....

The only thing I love more than the smell of school supplies,

is buying school supplies!

Today we have some Back to School fun to share and

inspire you all.  Now that the kiddos are back to the books...

We get a lil more time to scrap. ha ha ha

Back to School
By Debbie Sherman

Designer Tip: "Adding your journaling around the edge of your page creates an instant border and leaves you more space on the layout to add embellishments."

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Weekend Market Tapestry,Weekend Market Vintage Labels

Weekend Market Rulers,Weekend Market Study, 

Cardstock: Coffee Flourish

12x12 Chipboard:Weekend Market 

Combo Sticker:Weekend Market Combo Sticker

6x6 Paper Pad: Weekend Market 

Brads:Weekend Market 

Teacher Gift Box & Card

Juliana Michaels

 "The gift box was originally meant to be a wine box. I covered it with patterned paper and added a ruffle edge to the lid to give it a back to school/teacher feel. I then filled it with goodies for my sister, who is a teacher, with things such as Post It notes and her favorite pens for grading papers." 

 I LOVE that Juliana cute the apples out of the Apple Cider collection and adhered them.

What a perfect item for Back to School!!

Patterned Paper: Orchard, Afternoon, Journey, and Cut Outs/ Apple Cider
Jewels: Apple Cider
6x6 Pad: Double Dot Very Vintage
Sticker: Giving Thanks Cardstock Sticker/Apple Cider
Jewels: Apple Cider
Cardstock: Double Dot in Almond Dot
Ribbon: Double Dot Ribbon in Harvest 5/8"

Great minds think alike...  Sarah also used Apple Cider on her projects.

Card, Tag, Bookmark 
by Sarah Eclavea

 That measuring tape ribbon is the perfect accessory for both Apple Cider
and the "Back to School" theme. Love it!

Supplies: 
Patterned Paper: Dot, Orchard/ Apple Cider
Stickers: Giving Thanks cardstock stickers, Combo stickers/ Apple Cider
Rubons: Serenade
Buttons: Apple Cider
Die cuts: Noteworthy/ Apple Cider
Petals: Apple Cider
Cardstock: Rust Dot
Other: Ribbon

I hope you are all inspired to tell our teachers Thank You for all they do.
They deserve it!

What's your favorite thing about back to school???

Layouts with limited supplies

Today we are making one page layouts with our formula.

In case you've forgotten, it's as follows...

3 sheets of patterned paper
1 sheet of cardstock
1 sheet of stickers

1 package of embellishments of your choice

I think you're going to love what you can do with such a few products!!

Your Smile
Tara Orr

Designer Tip: To lengthen the life of your embellies and stretch their use, don't hesitate to cut them in half, disassemble them, paint them, mist them, stamp on them, etc. Remember, all of your embellishments are alterable. I tore apart most of my flowers and tucked some of them under my papers and kept some as is. I also took off the centers of some of the flowers and used them as embellishments around my photo.

 Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Journey, Cut-Outs, Dot/Apple Cider
Stickers: We Are Family Cardstock Stickers/Apple Cider
Cardstock: Gingerbread Vintage
Blossoms: Buttercup Daisy
(Stamps: Urban Acrylic, Et Cetera Clear, Midnight Frost Clear) 

 Best Friends
  Agnieszka Piskorz

 Designer tip: My picture is very colorful, so I went bright background. Colored strips of paper pointed out the picture. I try to choose colors that match the pictures.

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Around, Postage/Weekend Market ; Mistletoe Chevron;
Cardstock: Chiffon Journal
Rub ons: Detour
Stickers: Combo Stickers Camp a Lot

 Out in the Woods

Sarah Eclavea

 Designer Tips: When using a few supplies cut up patterend paper to make your own. I cut out the trees from the Camp-A-Lot paper to create my tree embellishments and cut my scraps to create a banner. I saved all my scraps to create banners on cards and other projects.

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterend Paper: Camp-a-lot, Firewood, Starry Night/ Camp-A-Lot
Stickers: Combo Stickers/ Camp-A-Lot
Chipboard: 12x12 Chipboard/ Camp-A-Lot

Spring Break
Robbie Herring

Designer Tips: Make your stickers go further by using them as embellishments and in the place of title. To give mine more the look of embellishments, I added lots of foam dots.
Also, try keeping to specific shapes to pull your page together. Since I used squares for my paper design, I chose to use round brads for my embellishing. Punched circles and circle stickers compliment the brads and make layering the embellishments easy.

Ideas for more uses: Brads are such an easy embellishment to work with. 

They will fit pretty much anywhere. I keep my left over brads in a drawer so 

I can pull them out for added detailing on my pages.

 Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper-Detour Stripe, Cut Outs, Recalculating
Double Dot Cardstock-Cranberry Dot
Stickers-Detour Home Sweet Hotel
Brads-Detour

These girls make me feel like anythings possible!  So if you happen to be

on a budget or you don't have a lot of time... make sure to take note and don't

forget to share your creations with us!

You guys are the best!!! 

Mixed Media on Layouts

I can't even stand how excited I am about today's post!

Mahlin and Irene really ROCK this style!

 Road Ahead
by: Irene Tan

 Irene says:

"On this layout, I've tried to duplicate the bricks background in the photograph on to the layout to create a scene layout. To create it, I've first apply some molding paste onto the layout and while it is still wet, I've used the negative of a chipboard brick piece to create the brick impressions on the paste. To add more interesting element to it, I've also added some pieces of the actual chipboard bricks on it. Then, I've misted it with a few layers of paints to get the color I want.

 If you look at the layout closely, you will see that I'm kind of dimensional in the photograph. I've actually printed two pieces of the same photograph. I've adhered one of it to the layout and the second piece, I've cut myself out from it. Then, I used some pop dots to adhere it directly on top of the same image to create some dimension to that image.

Hope you all find these tips useful!"

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Study, Baggage/Weekend Market; 

Cardstock: Double Dot in Licorice Dot

Stickers: Weekend Market Combo Sticker; Weekend Market Dimensional Stickers

Noteworthy: Weekend Market

Brads: Weekend Market

Jewels: Weekend Market

Buttons: Weekend Market

Rub-ons: Weekend Market

Chipboard: Weekend Market 12 x 12

Sommar

by: Mahlin Wiggur

 Malin says:

"I worked with a lot of layers both on my background but also on my petals. But first, the background. I chose a patterned paper with lots of color but I decided to tone it down a bit by adding some gesso. I had a piece of netting to create a pattern when adding my gesso with a brayer. If you use a heatgun to dry your gesso it will pop up a bit more when the heat is high and give an extra dimension to your pattern. I also added 4 layers of different colors of mist, 3 shades of pink and one brown.. Finishing of with a final layer of gesso but this time carefully wiped of a bit with a baby wipe.

 The petals are covered in a layer of transparent glitter mist, white stain, crackle paint in metallic colors and some stains again. I used the transparent layer to add moisture to my petals, being able to shape them a bit before adding more heavy paint but be careful so they don´t get torn while wet."

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Jaquoya, Little Miss/Little Miss; 
Stickers: Little miss Combo Stickers
Trinkets: Hello Sunshine, Little Miss
Petals: Hello Sunshine, Little Miss, Camp-A-lot
Brads: Hello Sunshine
Jewels: Little Miss

I'm really wanting to bust out some gesso, wipes, molding paste and sprays...

How about you guys?

Please, please share your creations with us on facebook if you play with mixed media.... I 'm so intrigued.  

We ♥ Banners

We are loving the banner trend around here, so we wanted to share

a few ideas with you for a little inspiration.  Cuz who doesn't need inspiration, right?

Nini´s Class Trip
By Luzma

Tip: I always paint with a marker (brown in this case) all the edges of the papers,stickers and chipboard to add more dimension.Give it a try you will be surprised....

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper Weekend Market

Brads Weekend Market

Trinkets Weekend Market

Jewels Weekend Market

Buttons Weekend Market

Dimensional Stickers Weekend Market

Noteworthy Weekend Market

Combo Sticker Weekend Market

Chipboard Weekend Market

Cardstock Sticker Camp-a-Lot

Sisters
By Samantha Wright

 Designer tip: Take inspiration from the patterned papers you are using. When tasked with this banner assignment, I knew which paper collection I'd like to use, so it was just a case of brainstorming and "paging through" my paper stack when I noticed the row of little bird cages on the Cut Out sheet and that sparked my banner idea! The large bird cages also hint at the banner idea!

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Double Dot: Coffee Flourish

Patterned Paper: Maree, Jamayka, Allie, Cut Outs/ Little Miss

Stickers: Sweet Girl Cardstock Sticker

Jewels: Little Miss

Ribbon: Double Dot

My Guys 

By Jolanda Meurs

 Tip: I have used Glossy accents on my stickers to give them extra dimensions.

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Daycream, Little Things, Sweetness/ Hello Sunshine
Stickers: Combo Stickers Hello Sunshine
Jewels: Hello Sunshine
Trinkets: Hello Sunshine
6 x 6 paperpad: Hello Sunshine

Adam's Room Banner

by Julie Wolek-Tucker

Designer Tip: The great thing about making a banner is you have room to add anything you want! At each end of my banner, I had room to add the trees I cut out of the 12x12 Camp-A-Lot sheet

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Camp-A-Lot Mini Album
Camp-A-Lot Combo Stickers
Camp-A-Lot Dimensional Stickers
Camp-A-Lot Chipboard
Camp-A-Lot 
Camp-A-Lot Cutouts
Camp-A-Lot Rub Ons

Alrighty then.... I "BAN" each of you to your scrap room until you

come out with a fabulous banner project.  Make sure you share it with us on facebook.

You guys are the best in the world!