Hi friends,

For the next few blog posts, we want you to meet our new Design Team and one of their projects they used for their audition

and get to know them a little better...  so join us with your favorite beverage

and meet your new friends.  Don't you love that scrapping brings us together as women from all over?  It's one of my favorite things.

My name is Agnieszka but in the scrapbooking world I go by Bellaidea. Together with my husband - I'm still dating him - we're taking care of our two treasures - a Girl and a Boy.

I love traveling, taking photos, African bush aroma, Pavlova dessert, old books, doilies, trips with friends to Italy, evenings by the fireplace, reading books to my children (even though they can read by themselves). I enjoy audiobooks during long distance drives, praising people for their talent and creativity.

I scrapbook for many reasons! These are to preserve memories, to make my kids remember I always care about them, to have MY time when I need it, to keep in touch with all my scrap-friends all over the world. My style is eclectic, romantic, with a touch of whimsy. My projects are influenced by mixed media. You will find the following on many of my projects: lace, chipboard, doilies, turned corners, fussy cutting, etc... I never forget the most important element of the page which is the photo and a story. Sometimes I hide my journaling when it`s very personal.

Over the last couple of years I have had the pleasure to design for many blog challenges and companies from USA, Austaralia, Scandinavia, Poland, Canada.

I am very proud to design with some "old" and new friends for BO BUNNY now.

I cordially invite you to my blog, Bellaideascrapology where you can find out what I do late at night when the rest of my family is sleeping!

Well hello there my name is Amy Voorthuis I’m 35 of age. I live in The Netherlands with the love of my life Jeroen and our handsome son Kevin (8).

I love to be creative in every way I can, seeing my job as an optician I need to be kind of creative anyways…..fixing all those glasses

I’ve been scrapbooking for over 9 years now and I love it. I got introduced with scrapbooking by my aunt Ellen who lives in the sunny state Florida…..

I think she did an awesome job because I’m hooked for life. BoBunny is one of the first companies I bought papers from (I used to only scrap on white papers) and I feel very blessed they have chosen me to be on their 2013-2014 Design Team. I can't wait to get creative and I hope you all enjoy my work

I am a 32 year old scrapper from Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. I am married to a very understanding husband who pushes me all the time to persue what I love. I have been scrapping now for 10 years and my 2 children are my main muses'. I am passionate about scrpbooking and love capturing and recording the everyday and special events. 

I am a happy, loving and devoted mother, a giving wife and very happy scrapper and paper hoarder! Pretty papers are my nemesis!!

I live in sunny Johannesburg, South Africa and paper creating is my absolute passion!

My name is Evgenia Petzer, i am 28 years old, Russian girl who now lives in South Africa and loves it! I love to make cards, layouts and sometimes altered items. My style is more feminine, always detailed and layered. I also love photography and try to capture lots of moments of our everyday life. We have a son (who is almost 5), another baby on its way and a cute yorkie and a ginger cat.

And some random facts about me: i drink about 20 cups of green tea every day, i have a constant huge mess in my scraproom, i am addicted to sunshine, my favourite bo bunny collection of all time is Country Garden and i am in love with shabby chic style.

I know you all are feeling my pain when I tell you 

it was so hard to choose winners, right?

Everyone's work is FABULOUS!  

I'm so excited for them to get the newest lines and

start creating. We all are going to be blown away!

Hope you all have a EXCELLENT day!

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.

SCRAPAHOLICS - Store Showcase

Kia Ora (Welcome) to the world of Scrapaholics! My name is Jodi Tomlin and for the last 5 years I have developed my business because I was obsessed with Scrapbooking – the most awesome hobby in the world!

My business now resides in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand. Scrapaholics started life as a website business only but I am too much of a people person and I had to get face to face with other Scrapbook fanatics, so 2 years ago we extended ourselves to open a Bricks & Mortar store.

I left behind my career as an IT Consultant and dedicated myself to building my store into a space that I believe is comfortable and well stocked.

I am lucky to have a Store Manager, Sarah, who worked for another scrapbook store before mine and is very experienced and knowledgeable. Sarah loves helping our customers with design and colour combinations her willingness to assist is complimented all the time.

(here are some of Sarah's creations)

 

 Then there are a team of 5 tutors that bring great style to the many classes that we run each month. It’s great working with these ladies too; we bounce ideas off each other and get very inspired by each other’s work.

(The following layouts are from 1 of our tutors... JODI)

While I have been using BoBunny papers all of my Scrapbooking life, during the last 2 years we have introduced BoBunny to our store customers and we certainly have built a great fan base who eagerly await the new releases each quarter. I would say that the biggest fan we have is one of our tutors Vivienne who just cannot get enough BoBunny product...

Last year Vivienne made some beautiful cards from the Gabrielle range for a class and earlier this year made a stunning layout from the Country Garden collection for her “Pieces of Me” group.

(this is Viv)

I too have worked with a number of the ranges and pretty much love them all!

I was privileged enough to meet Jeri and Megan last year at an event in Auckland hosted by our New Zealand BoBunny wholesaler Kays Co. and then caught up with these lovely ladies again this January at CHA is Los Angeles.

(This is Jeri, while visiting)

Thank you BoBunny for giving me the opportunity to show off our store on your blog! We LOVE your products – your designers are FAB! Kia Kaha (native Maori phrase – means Stay Strong!)

Hugs

Jodi and the Scrapaholics Team

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