Celebrate card making with stamping!

Today we want you to learn more about World Card Making Day!

Celebrating its eighth year in 2013, World Card Making Day is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in October. It's a day for the card-making community—hobbyists, retailers, and manufacturers—to unite and celebrate the connection and creativity that is the heart of card making. Join us in the fun tomorrow, October 5, for World Card Making Day 2013!

Don't forget to stop by the blog next week! Each day we will be previewing one our NEW Fall 2013 collections, and there will be chances to win prizes!

Now enjoy some card inspiration using BoBunny stamps!

Happy Halloween - Lisa Novogrodski

The Fright Delight Collection is truly THE perfect collection for Halloween cards! I cannot say enough about how effortlessly the papers, stickers, and chipboards work together to create  "Boo-tiful" cards for this scary season. I used the cute October 31st dimensional sticker as my inspiration.

I'm a big fan of mixing patterns and layering as much as I can to create texture and dimension. 

I think my most favorite stamps by BoBunny are these fabulous "Stained Textures" stamps. I used them with white chalk ink on the black background paper and love how it looks!  Tip: Don't use a block with your stamps. Just take the stamp and press it in your ink and then randomly stamp on your card.

BoBunny Supplies: 

Pattern Paper: Fright Delight, Eek/Fright Delight

Cardstock: Licorice Flourish

Chipboard: Fright Delight

Combo Stickers: Fright Delight

Dimensional Stickers: Fright Delight

Stamps: Stained Textures

Trick or Treat - Lisa Novogrodski

I was inspired by the little "Trick or Treat" chipboard in the purple and white. I wanted to carry out this purple theme throughout my card.  I created a little pocket envelope on the front and tucked in a tag.  You could add a little note to the tag or tuck a treat in the envelope and enclose the tag inside the card.

The "Stained Textures" stamps work so well with the Halloween theme. I love how the stamping on the orange background looks like webbing. I also used white chalk ink again against the darker background. Don't you just love that grungy cup stained ring the stamp makes?

BoBunny Supplies:

Pattern Paper: Fright Delight, Diamonds, Party/ Fright Delight

Cardstock: Double Dot Orange Citrus

Brads: Fright Delight Brads

Noteworthy: Fright Delight

Layered Stickers: Fright Delight

Jewels: Licorice

Stamps Stained Textures

Thank You card - Solange Marques

I love the colors of Autumn Song Collection and stamps in this collection are awesome too. I made a thank you card and added a bird of  The Avenues Collection. I used some acrylic paint on the background and emboss with one of the stamps.

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Beautiful, Leaves, Stripe/Autumn Song

Cardstock: Sweet Pear Dot

Stickers: Autumn Song Sticker

Noteworthy: The Avenues

Stamps: Autumn Song; You’re Invited Stamp

Kraft: Wood Keys and Butterflies

You and Me Card - Solange Marques

I am in love with The Avenues Collection. I love its doors, birds and colors. To make that card I cut out a door and I stamped a brick wall around it. To highlight the curly stamp I used black embossed powder.

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Dot, Antique, Doors/ The Avenues

Stickers: The Avenues Dimensional Stickers

Noteworthy: The Avenues

Stamps: Curly Q Stamp, Wall to Wall Texture Stamp

Best Wishes Card - mellpellmell

In my opinion Fright Delight Collection is suitable not only for the decoration of different stuff for Halloween... I made ​​two greeting cards. Rich and deep colors of Fright Delight Collection paper sheets makes it just the ideal background for the brightly flowers and white acrylic stamping! This is the first card.

BoBunny Supplies:

Pattern Paper: Spooky/Fright Delight, Sculltastic/Fright Delight

Cardstock: Powder Blue Stripe

Jewels: Fright Delight, The Avenues

Stamps: Holiday Wishes

Doilies: 8.5 Large

Happy Birthday Card -  mellpellmell

The second card says in Russian "Happy Birthday" (I am reporting this for those who do not know Russian). As always on my cards you can find such "decorations" as a thread, ink splashes, acrylic masking...)))

BoBunny Supplies:

Pattern Paper: Sculltastic/Fright Delight, Song Bird/The Avenues

Cardstock: Chiffon Stripe

Noteworthy: Fright Delight

Blossoms: Clover Zinnia

Stamps: Autumn Song

Kraft: Canvas Pleated Lace

Holiday Wishes - Lisa Nazario-Gregory

 I think that the Autumn Song Collection is one of my favorites, with its glorious colors of Autumn in crisp orange, red and greens. The card I created can be used throughout the holiday season. I die cut leaves from the pattern paper. It is perfect in getting the variegated look of real leaves. A little inking on the edges  gives the leaves dimension.

I stamped directly on the chipboard banner.

For the corners of the card. I used embossing ink and a fine embossing powder and heat embossed it creating a raised textured elegant effect.

BoBunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper:Autumn Song Leaves, Autumn Song Melody/Autumn Song
Stamps: Autumn Song Stamps
Chipboard: Autumn Song Layered Chipboard
Flowers: Harvest Orange Daisy
Cardstock: Almond Dot/Double Dot


Happiness Card - Lisa Nazario-Gregory

This card can be used for many occasions. I wanted to keep it simple, but a little bit grungy. The Stain Texture Stamps was perfect for achieving a little grunge. I used a couple of the stamps to outline the  lighter layer of the card. I layered the card and raised the layers with pop dots for dimension. I love the little stains on each individual heart.  I used the largest stamp in the collection for the background to the hand cut stamps.

BoBunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Leaves, Sunflower/Autumn Song
Stamps: Stained Textures
Combo Sticker/Autumn Song
CardStock: Burnt Orange/Double Dot

BoBunny Social Media Update and Thank You!

Have you heard the news?? 

BoBunny wants to send a huge THANK YOU to all of our loyal fans and friends. You guys have been sharing our photo like crazy and we LOVE IT! We are so close to our goal of 31,000 Facebook “likes” because of YOU! Instead of giving away 2 prizes we are going to give away 3! We know we can’t do it without your help! We want to keep rewarding you, so keep on sharing!!

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Hope you all have a fabulous day! Thanks for all your help!

BoBunny Introduces Scrappy K's! & Oklahoma Project Thank you!

 A BIG BoBunny welcome to one of our retailers:

Scrappy K's

Scrappy K's is a place of warmth, friendship, laughter, inspiration and creativity!  We try to provide a welcoming atmosphere which is so easy because we love what we do, we love the people and we work so well together.  Susan, Vickey and myself, Kathi (Scrappy K)...we are like a fine oiled machine, we compliment each other and that is what makes up a Great Team.

I have been in business since 2002, Susan has been with me since 2006 and Vickey has been my sister-in-law for 39 years.  She, (Vickey) would work for free when I needed her before I made enough to pay her.  There have been so many people who helped me for FREE, just so I could make a go of it and their efforts and mine finally paid off.  THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!  I still put all back in the store because I want to have the LATEST, GREATEST, NEWEST AND BEST for your shopping H-E-A-V-E-N.  And you know, I don't need much, just my faithful customers whom are my family and friends now!  I meet new wonderful people everyday and I thank God for them!

The group photo here is the line up:

Vickey, my sister-in-law and very best friend of 39 years, like she is my everything, 
myself-Kathi, Phyllis my other great friend who is Susan's Mom, Susan-whom has been 
with me for many years and so very creative and faithful friend and I love like family and 
then we have so many of our faithful customers whom we love so very much and are 
grateful to them for coming for this group photo!

We are located in "small town, USA", Winnsboro, Texas. (About 90 miles east of Dallas)  We are fortunate to have many lakes in our area, which brings us customers not only locally but from the Tri-State area as well.

This is my humble store! 3500 sq.ft. and wall to wall "Stuff".  I am like out the rafters, need more room for more stuff, but it wouldn't matter what we had, I would try to fill it up.  

We have over 3500 dies in our die center as well as alphabets and more for our customers convenience.

Bo Bunny is our favorite line, well duh!!??!!  Everyone gets excited when Bo Bunny comes in. This really happened, I would get so excited to know when you would put out the new lines and I ran home to the computer to see what you  posted.......WELL, I got so excited about your 7 new lines at the time that I just let out a VERY LOUD scream!  YES, Bo Bunny did it again!

If you would like to see more projects or learn more about Scrappy K's

 visit us on our Facebook or our Website!

Of course, I wish to extend my gratitude to Bo Bunny for the opportunity featuring "Scrappy K's" on their blog lends to my store!  My small staff and myself are very grateful to you...Many Thanks!

BoBunny LOVES Scrappy K's!  
Thank you Kathi for that fabulous feature!

&NOW

All of the team members of BoBunny, Simple Stories, and We R Memory Keepers are SO excited to announce that we received 486 cards! We are very grateful to the many generous and kind card makers who made this happen. We couldn't have done itwithout you. The cards are really beautiful and we know they will lift the spirits of our friends in Oklahoma. The cards were shipped yesterday and should arrive in Oklahoma in 3 days! Once again a big THANK YOU for all of your support!

You are all so wonderful! Have a great day!

Mini Thank You Cards

THANK YOU cards are a staple at my house.

How about yours?

Someone is always doing something nice for my family and I

and I love to keep thank you cards on hand.

So today....  We are going to share some quick and easy

Thank you cards that you can make and keep handy.

Shannon Anderson- Serenade

Designer Tip: Using punches really speeds up the card making process.

Supplies Used:

Serenade Dot, Serenade Dragonfly, Serenade Garden, Serenade Pendant, Serenade Poppies, Serenade Promenade, Serenade Stripe, Serenade Trellis, Serenade Cut Outs, Serenade Rubons, Serenade Brads, Serenade Noteworthy

Amy Tadeo- Mistletoe

Amy said: "It's our family tradition to make thank you cards on Christmas Day after we open all our gifts and we always, always make sure to send a thank you card to Santa."

Supplies Used:

Mistletoe Boxes, Mistletoe Countdown, Mistletoe Greetings, Mistletoe Stripe, Mistletoe Twas the Night, Wasabi Journal Double Dot, Wildberry Stripe Double Dot, Mistletoe Jewels, Mistletoe Noteworthy

Mini Cards
Robbie Herring

I must say that I've honestly never thought about making mini-cards, but I loved this idea! I also decided to make mine quick and easy! Using the Noteworthy pieces and one piece of Double Dot cardstock made these go together super fast!

 This one is a bit of a different size. It's 4 x 2 1/2". I did it the same way as the other one with a bit of different placement. The center layer of the flower is punched from the Double Dot and the top layer is also from the Noteworthy package. I cut some slits between the petals to make it more dimensional. 

This last card comes in the largest at 3 3/4 by 4 1/4. Instead of using ribbon to tie it together, 
the brad can be attached through the back to do that duty. 
The eyelet on the front of the card, goes through the layers of the flower, too. 

Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: Coffee Vintage Dot
Noteworthy: Serenade
Brads: Serenade
Petals: Serenade

Tip: To really speed up the process on these cards.

1. Cut all the cardstock backs to the sizes named.

2. Pre-punch 6 leaves and 2 flowers. 

3. Distress all pieces of cardstock, Noteworthy pieces and leaves. 

Use the end of a pencil to scrunch up your flowers a bit for added dimension.

4. Add eyelets to all six punched holes. (Punch holes all together by holding the cards closed.)

Don't forget to punch through the layered flower on the 3rd card.

5. Attach ribbon, as shown.

6. Glue down flowers on the first two cards and add the brad to the last one. 

Ribbon: Licorice, Olive and Buttercup

Samantha Wright
 I made my minis using "leftovers" from my Bo Bunny stash! 
Reasons to create mini cards:
1. It's a great way to utilise every bit of Bo bunny goodness and of course.... there is NO waste 
2. They are quick and fun to make
3. Who doesn't love a homemade thank you card?

 This photo is just to show a size comparison(mini vs an average sized card)

 This card measures 3"high x 4" wide.

This card measures 4 3/4" high and 3" wide.

Supplies Used:

Card Kits: Ambrosia, Vicki B
Double Dot Cardstock: Violet Dot
Chipboard: Garden Girl 12" Chipboard
Jewels: Garden Girl
Double Dot Ribbon: 3/8" Turquoise