Green Tangerines - Store showcase

ROAD TRIP..............  Who wants to go with me??

Today's post is all about a EXCELLENT store in CALI

A big hello to all you Bo Bunny fans checking in today! This is Kelly and Paula the mother/daughter duo that started Green Tangerines and we are tickled pink to be featured here today!

 A little about us… or in scrapper lingo “10 things to love about our store”:

• our store is just over 10,000 sq feet… making us one of the largest in the U.S.A.
• we opened in 2007 and have enjoyed spending the last 5 years meeting new customers, friends, and the fun faces behind all the vendors! The gals at Bo Bunny are a hoot to spend time with at CHA even using song and dance to get us excited about new releases
• we are blessed to have a phenomenal store manager backed by an amazing staff of scrappers standing by to help and have an uber talented 16 person design team who use great products like Bo Bunny to inspire you

• we stock over 100 vendors… and over 25,000 unique items
• Bo bunny has been in our store since day one, and has been a top ranked vendor by our customers for 5 years straight…therefore, we stock every line Bo Bunny makes… papers, embellishments, and books
• we stock over 700 colors of cardstock… you can match every Bo Bunny line perfectly

• we make fabulous page kits and teach classes using beautiful Bo Bunny products
• we have a giant workshop and classroom area with comfy leather chairs that is open for you to come scrap with all your Bo Bunny products
• three times a year we hold fabulous 3 day weekend retreats, where you get to come scrap, eat, meet new friends, socialize, and scrap some more!! During this retreats we giveaway lots of loot and love to giveaway Bo Bunny since it’s a customer favorite!

• our store is located in the wonderful state of California, Rocklin to be exact, smack dab between Lake Tahoe and Napa Valley… which means… you can plan a vacation… get hubby a few glasses of wine… then tell him you are making a pit stop at a scrapbook store along the way… and there is a sportsman warehouse across the street to ditch hubby at so you can spend hours here without any complaints!

Thanks Bo Bunny for putting us in the spotlight today! You guys are an incredible company and 

we love all the creative ideas and fabulous support you bring to this awesome industry! 

It’s always a pleasure working with you!  
http://www.mygreentangerines.com/

Stamping Stamping Stamping

I'm going to chat about one thing and then we are getting to today's AWESOME post.

I'm on sensory overload this morning...

I came into the office to be welcomed by the Blog Class Project for November.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!  You are going to DIE! It's so stinking adorable!

Ha Ha Ha... now you have to wait until I get pictures of it to see it.... 

stay tuned.

Then, as if that weren't enough, I saw today's stamping layouts and can I just say

WOWZA!!!!!  So incredible!!!

The girls have given you tips and tutorials so you can recreate stamping sensations of your own!

You'll want to pin this post so you can go back to it over and over!

 Imagine Your Smile
Irene Tan

 Tip: On this layout, I've used a simple technique which is called the "Resist Stamping". On my layout, I've used some white gesso to stamp the flowers, leaves and the big dragonflies around the photograph. The stamped images will have some textures to it and it is a resist against water based mediums. I've later, misted some water based inks on areas surrounding the stamped images. Before the inks dry, simply just use a wet wipe to lightly dab up the water based inks on the stamped images.

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Apple Cider

Cardstock: Double Dot in Chocolate Dot

Stickers: Giving Thanks Cardstock Sticker; Apple Cider Combo Sticker

Noteworthy: Apple Cider

Jewels: Apple Cider

Trinkets: Apple Cider

Lace: Natural Earth

Flowers: Wildberry, Natural Earth/Daisy; Wildberry Zinnia

Clear Stamps: Little Miss, Serenade, Forever Fall

Peace, Love, Joy
Tara Orr

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Acrylic Stamps: Urban

Clear Stamps: Midnight Frost

Blossoms: Wildberry Dahlia, Wildberry Daisy

Buttons: Mistletoe

Brads: Mistletoe

Trinkets: Mistletoe

Jewels: Mistletoe

Chipboard: Mistletoe

Patterned Paper: Chevron, Mistletoe, Pucker Up, Santa's List: Mistletoe

Cherish
Gabrielle Pollacco

 I also used the new script stamp from Snow Mountain as a background stamp and on the BB bloom to change up the design a little.

 I used the watercolor washed looking side of some BB Chiffon Dot cardstock as the base of my layout and combined some older and newer Bo Bunny flourish stamps to create a border. I stamped with a clear embossing stamp and then added some clear embossing powder and heat set it (above).

 Once I finished doing all the edge stamping and heat embossing, I used some distress ink and working from the outside in, added ink fading it as I worked in. (I used Tim Holtz Victorian Rose and Frayed Burlap). The embossed/stamped area's resist the ink and only the paper part takes the ink, in this way you create the 'resist' design.

 The background looked like this before I began the rest of my page design (above)

 I then figured out my photo placement and added the tear design (above) and some more

Bo Bunny stamps that would surround my photo and did a little more 

stamping/heat embossing/inking to the page.

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Little Miss (Hannah, Jaquoya)
Cardstock: Bo Bunny Chiffon Double Dot, Clover Double Dot (leaves)
Flowers: Bo Bunny Natural Earth Dahlia, Natural Earth Daisy, Natural Earth Bouquet, Blush Bouquet
Lace: Natural Earth Lace, Blush Lace
Trinkets: Little Miss
Stamps: Enchanted, Powder Mountain, Forever Fall (plus an older Bo Bunny Flourish stamp)
Jewels: Apple Cider

Thea
Mahlin Wiggur

 I used the Lovestamp - stamp to create my own pattern on top of the pattern. I stamped and embossed randomly over my background and then cut out the insides from within the stamps, likes frames or windows and then adding other pieces of patterned paper from the back. 

I also stamped with a script stamp into my gesso.. It gives a nice texture to the gesso when it dries and you can see hints of text in there.. Of course when doing that my stamp got all white so instead of cleaning it all off I stamped a few times with it aswell. 

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Airmail, Flutter, Flowers, tiles, banners/Love Letters, 

Sunshine/Snow day, Brenna/Little Miss
Stamps: Powder Mountain, Love letters
Jewels: Snow day
Brads: Snow day
Buttons: Love letters
Stickers: Little letters Cardstock Stickers; Heart throb Cardstock stickers; Love letters Combo Stickers; Powder Mountain Combo Stickers; Love Letters Dimensional Stickers
Chipboard: Love Letters 12 x 12

Also, Gabrielle has more in depth tutorials on her blog if you'd like to learn even more!

Thanks you guys and don't forget....

The layout challenge from the 12th and the card challenge from the 2nd and 15th

are still going on... you don't want to miss out on fun prizes.

It's Monday again!!  I love Monday's.  Is there anyone out there that would just love to WIN this adorable pink purse pictured below???   I wish I were eligible to win, I'd totally pick myself.
Ha Ha Ha...

This week we are going to switch it up a little bit...   To win this week, show some Bo Bunny love and use any of our lines to create a card of encouragement.  A card you might give to someone struggling in their fight against breast cancer.  Just post a link to it below.  

So.... your name will be entered once if you leave a comment, and again if you submit a card.

And now for last weeks winner......

Terri Burnette

Congratulations and thanks to every single one of you who commented and shared your stories with us. 

 We enjoy feeling all the support and strength in your stories!

 Terri Burnette said...

Many years ago one of my children's teachers was diagnosed with a form of breast cancer that cannot be detected with a mammogram. She became a part of our family and unfortunately lost the battle a few years back. I have told so many women about her and her battle. It is not just about mammograms ladies. It is about knowing your body and what "feels' wrong. I think of her often and pray that by telling just one woman about her struggle and how it was diagnosed that one woman can live a full life. We are all mothers, daughters, friends, and we all know someone who needs a little nudge to have the strength to follow up and be cared for.