Designer Showcase - Tara Orr

Today we are spotlighting Tara Orr. Tara's projects ooolways make me want to scrap.

You're going to fall in love with the Love Letters collection!

I love all the layers and dimension she adds, her projects have so much character and

every time I look I find something new I didn't see before. 

And seriously, she has ADORABLE subjects to scrap!

Hi everyone! Can't believe Bo Bunny wants to spotlight little ol' me!! Well, I've created a special project for a special friend - please take a peek! This mini album was made for a sweet friend and contains the most adorable photos of her grand daughter, Lexi, who has just turned 1! There were another 2 pages that I designed for this mini but I ended up posting the album before taking photos as I wanted to ensure that this lovely lady would receive before Christmas.

Love Mini Album
Tara Orr

 Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Love Letters, Air Mail, Banners, Flowers, Hearts, Journal, Keys, Notes, Puzzle, Stripe, Tiles/Love Letters
Chipboard: Love Letters
Combo Stickers: Love Letters
Brads: Love Letters
Jewels: Love Letters
Buttons: Love Letters
Layered Chipboard: Love Letters
Dimensional Stickers: Love Letters
Noteworthy: Love Letters
Cardstock Stickers: Heart Throb
Cardstock Stickers: Love Story

Here are a few more of my Bo Bunny faves from over the years...

 Little Miss collection

 Etc. collection

 Ambrosia collection

 Etc. collection

 Etc. & Smoochable

 Vicki B Collection

 Olivia collection

 Crush collection

 Winter Joy collection

If you haven't already fallen in love with Tara, I'm sure after visiting today, you will be a total fan!

We love having Tara and her amazing talent on our Design Team.

If you want to play along and make a mini album Tara Designed...

Click her for a list of supplies to buy and a 4 part video class.

Just scroll down to the Little Miss album and follow the links.

Have an excellent Wednesday everyone and thanks for hanging out with us.

Make your own embellishments!

Good morning! Did you all have an eventful Halloween? We always have a lot of fun here at BoBunny. Scroll down to see our fun pictures from our party yesterday. 

And now, on to these amazing projects, our designers made their own embellishments, I love how creative they are.

All you need is.... by Jolanda Meurs

Supplies: 

Paper: Love Letters

Noteworthy: Love Letters

Paperpad 6 x 6: Love Letters

Stamp: Love Letters

Lace: Wilberry Lace

Blossoms Pansy Blossoms

Stamp 8 hearts using pink ink. Cut them out and stich them together with a stapler.

Dream

Mireille Divjak

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Paper: On the go/ Vroom, Gears ; Hello Sunshine/ Daydream

Blossoms: Harvest Orange Pansy, Buttercup Daisy, Buttercup Bouquet, Buttercup Lace

Stamps: Ad Lib, Smoochable

Jewels: Barefoot & Bliss

12" Chipboard: Alora

I took one blossom from the Orange Pansy package and took it apart. I used the petals as balloons and Stamped the strings with the Smoochable stamp set.

Tip: The background was a little empty for my taste. I took the "Celebrate text stamp" (from the Ad Lib Collection) and stamped birthday text in different colors to go with the birthday theme / balloons. )

What fun ideas! We'd love to see the embellishments you make. Post your projects on our Facebook page. And have a happy November!! (I can't believe it's already here!)

Week 4 of our February Blog Class

Hi girlies! Welcome back to part 4.  If you've stuck with us...

Congrats! After today you'll be DONE and can enjoy your album.

Click here to watch on Youtube

Page 8

Avocado Dot 2 3/4 x 3 3/4"

Chiffon Dot 2 3/4 x 3 3/4"

Page 9

Blush Dot: 2 3/4 x 3 3/4"

Smoochable Dot: 3 x 4

Page  10

All photo mats: 2 3/4 x 3 3/4

Thanks everyone....  You guys make these classes a blast.

Thanks again to Robbie Herring who designed this adorable album.

See you guys next week with the Enchanted Album.

Be ready to get your stamp on! Here's your shopping list.

WEEK 3 "JUST GIVE ME A KISS!"

Welcome Back to class everyone! We're on week 3 now, almost done! 

Thank you for your participation so far.

Here's the vid:

Click here to watch on Youtube

   Page 5

Two - 1 x 6" Smoochable (scallop edge)

1/2 x 6 Avacado Dot (small scallop edge)

Page 6 

Page 7

2 3/4 x 3 3/4" Avacado Dot

1 x 3 Smoochable Stripe (scallop edge)

Page 8

Thanks again for joining us, and come back next week for our final pages of the album. 

New Enchanted album starts March 5th!

February Blog Class Week 1

Welcome to week 1of our February class..."Just give me a KISS"
I wish you could each reach through the screen and hold this album!  It is chuck full of the most 
darling ideas and techniques.  Sometimes I just like to hold it and stare. 
Today we'll do a bunch of prep work that will make the next 3 weeks a breeze! 
Watch the video tutorial for step by step instructions, and check out the close-ups 
of each page pictured below. Let us know if you have questions and we’ll do our best to clarify.

Click Here to watch on YouTube

Since each page is just bordered with glitter or trim, we are just posting a couple of them to give you an example.  If you need to see more or have other questions...  Let me know, I'd love to help.

If you're just joining us, click here for a list of products needed to play along with this class.

Please forgive any mistakes, we're still learning this process.
From now on, our Monday blog classes, will be posted at 10am MST.

Thanks for joining us! Have fun creating!

Fast Friday

Today is the next edition of Fast Friday here at Bo Bunny. 

In today's fast paced and busy world, it's sometimes hard to keep up to date with your albums or even fit in more than a little while to create.   Fast Friday is always filled with great ideas for quick layouts.  The design team is sure to inspire you and to spark some new ideas!

Fast doesn't mean that you have to compromise on the look of your layout.  You will see that the design team's layouts may be quick to create, but they are still beautiful and have great details.

First up, we have Luz with this gorgeous winter layout.

Luzma Bruna
Inside Cozy Outside Frozy

Luzma said, "This layout looks like I spent too much time making it but it was really easy and fast. Some punch work, inking and embellies,that´s all!"

 




Supplies List:
Patterned Paper Snowfall
Chipboard Snowfall
Brads Snowfall
Bling Snowfall
Layered Chipboard Snowfall
Cardstock Sticker Snowfall
Cardstock Double Dot

Next up is Jolanda who also did a beautiful layout with the Snowfall Collection.

Snowfall in the Netherlands
Jolanda Meurs

Jolanda said, "This paper is so beautiful. You do not have to add much to create a fun Layout."






Supplies List:
Patterned: Paper Snowfall Stripe
Chipboard: Snowfall
Brads: Snowfall
Jewels: Snowfall
Combo Stickers: Snowfall
Cardstock Stickers: Snowfall
Rubons: Snowfall

Check out how Mahlin even used paint on a terrific fast layout.

HTC
By Mahlin Wiggur

Mahlin said, "I struggle with fast because paint isn't really fast.  The most time consuming part of this one though was finding the boxes for the different collections used."



Supplies List:
Patterned Paper: Rose /Enchanted, Blaze/Forever Fall, Scoops/Sweet tooth
Chipboard stckers: Et Cetera
Trinkets: Smoochable
Jewels: Smoochable
Combo Stickers: Welcome Home, Enchanted

As always, we would love to see your projects and pages! 
 Be sure to share it with us on Facebook!! 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Layout Challenge Friday

It's time for another Layout Challenge! 

The Challenge is to

Be Inspired By Circles

Just think about all the circles out there. There are circle punches, coluzzle circles, brads, buttons, die-cuts and patterned paper.  Have you been thinking about cutting some of your pictures into circles?  Here is the opportunity to give it a go!  The possibilities are endless! 

You will have until December 21 to complete your layout and link it here.  

Now, lets let the design team inspire us!

Relaxing

Gabrielle Pollacco

I wanted to use one of the newest collections so I went with Enchanted....but when I think of circles I think of Timepiece so I mixed the two ....the photo is one I took of Chloe on a recent Apple Festival day trip we went on, just sitting and relaxing for a moment watching the crowds walk by.

DESIGNER'S TIP: I used some tan and brown chalk ink as well as a bit of mauvey pink chalk ink to color up the background of the Enchanted paper to give it a more vintage look. For a very soft tinting you can use a make-up sponge with the ink or the Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Applicator/& pad to apply the chalk ink.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Enchanted- Moments, Love; Timpiece-TickToc,
6x6 Paper Pad: Timepiece, Welcome Home
Chipboard: Enchanted
Brads: Timepiece, SnowFall
Jewels: Enchanted
Title Alpha Stickers: SnowFall

And next up we have :

 XOXOXO 
 Mireille Divjak

I cut the patterned paper in circles because of the challenge. I also used "double dot".. and patterned paper with circles/ dots I used a "circle" title and circle embellishments.
I hope this inspires to work with shapes.

The translation for the journaling is:  Pink Ribbon
Your first cause
You bought a pink ribbon from your pocket money
because you thought it was important.

Supplies:
Cardstock :Double Dot - Tutu Dot, Blush Dot
Patterned Paper: Enchanted- enchanted, dots; Smoochable - hotlips, stripe
Brads: Enchanted
Jewels: Enchanted, Smoochable
Buttons: Enchanted
chipboard: Smoochable
Cardstock Stickers: Smoochable
Layered Chipboard: Smoochable

Now it's YOUR TURN! 

We can't wait to see what you come up with!!  Remember, you have to link it here by December 21.  We will choose a winner for a terrific Bo Bunny prize!

Don't forget to share what you are creating on Facebook!  We love to see what you are up too!

Have a great weekend!

Layout Tutorial!

Hello Bo Bunny fans Carin here today to share a layout tutorial using the stunning new Enchanted!  I just adore this new range and couldn't wait to play with it and add a pop of colour to the gorgeous versatility that is the black and white of Enchanted!  Let me tell you these papers are even more beautiful in real life than you can see online, the glittering on them is amazing and in such stunning patterns...this is the layout I have done for today's tutorial.

Supplies used:

Enchanted Love, Enchanted Stripe, Enchanted Whispers Patterned Papers
Coordinating Double Dot in Blush and Passion Fruit
Enchanted 12x12 Chipboard
Enchanted Noteworthy
Enchanted Jewels
Enchanted Brads
Enchanted Combo Sticker
Smoochable Clear Stamps
Smoochable Trinkets
Crazy Love Pink Rose wraps
Tin Foil
White Acrylic paint
White Cardstock
Edge Punches
Black Ink Pad
Butterflies of choice

Cut a piece of Coordinating Double Dot in Passion Fruit to 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 and distress the edges and then stitch to the Enchanted Whispers paper.

Cut the glittered circle design from the Enchanted love paper (this is much easier than it looks!) and adhere to the Passion Fruit paper.

Cut a piece of paper from the Enchanted Stripe paper +- 6 1/2 inches wide, I used the centre piece on either side of the swirls.  Cut 2 pink and 2 white strips using edge punches of your choice, (I used Martha Stewart Doily Lace and EKSuccess Scroll & Dots and Double Embossed Dotted Lace) and adhere to the striped paper like this.

 Then stick across the centre of your page.

 

Now we are going to make a heart with some aluminium foil.  Cut two strips of foil approximately 3 inches wide from a long roll of foil and start carefully scrunching to aproximately an inch wide.

Form into a large heart shape (about 9 1/2 inches tall) and join at the top and bottom of the heart. It looks a bit strange at this point but I promise it does look better once you are done!

Then use some white acrylic paint to paint all around the heart, this should cover most of the surface with only small bits of silver showing through everywhere.

Matt your photo (I used a 7x5 inch photo that was slightly cut down) onto white cardstock and then onto a piece of distressed Passion Fruit cardstock and stick to your background page once you have positioned it where you want it.  Stick your heart down over your photo and then use two of the corners from the Enchanted Chipboard on the top corners of your photo.

Now you can make some flowers using the cute Smoochable stamps!  I just stamped a whole lot of hearts onto some Passion Fruit and Blush Double Dot using all four of the smaller hearts in the set and then cut them out.

Cut or punch out a circle for a base to stick your hearts to.  Then stick 3 of the largest hearts as pictured below onto your circle.  Then take another 3 of the largest hearts (I used the other colour to the first 3 hearts) and curl the top edges in.

Bend up in the middle of the heart and use a foam dot to keep that dimension before sticking to your circle in between the first 3 hearts.

Continue layering hearts 3 at a time in alternating colours until you have as many layers as you want, (I did 3 and 4 layers for my 3 flowers) and then add a brad or jewel of your choice to your centre.

 

 For my title I used the love word from the Enchanted 12x12 chipboard but replaced the O with the pink gem trinket from the Smoochable Trinkets after painting it with white paint to match my layout.  I also used a wooden word that I painted white then added a layer of crackle paint (you can also use PVA glue for the same effect) and then a layer of pink paint and roughed up the edges a bit with a nail file.

I have used a large butterfly on my layout and made the body for it by rolling a triangular piece of cardstock about 6 inches long. 

Starting at the wide edge roll the cardstock tightly, I use my paper piercer to start it off and then stick the end down.

For my flower on the top right of the layout I have used a short length of netting from the crazy love wraps, doubled up and then tied.  On top of that I stuck a shaped sticker from the Enchanted 12x12 combo stickers and then my flower.

Once you have finished making all the little bits for your layout you can then stick them to your page.  I used a beautiful journaling box from the Enchanted Noteworthy as a base for my title and then stuck my title down on top using foam dots.  Add finishing touches like chipboard swirls, butterflies and bling and then you are done!

I hope you have enjoyed todays tutorial!

Carin xx