40K 40 Day Giveaways and Layouts

It's that time that we look forward to all week! Winner announcing time!

Are you a winner?! Check and see!

 

The Day 22 Winner - Randi M

 

The Day 23 Winner - Amber M

 

 

The Day 24 Winner - Sandi Brassard

 

The Day 25 Winner - Cheryl Gibson Poole

Thanks for playing along BoBunny fans!! Don't miss next week, we have a few tricks up our sleeve! You won't want to miss it!

Country Life by Gabrielle Pollacco

Gabrielle here with you today to share a mixed media style layout I made.  I've been on the Bo Bunny design team for many years now and have gotten to play with so many lovely papers and embellishments.  So for this project I thought I would pull together lots fun fun Bo Bunny embellishments, flowers, wood accents, buttons, chipboard and trinkets that I've had leftover from a lot of the collections.  I began by choosing a favorite patterned paper (for me), from the Happy Tails collection as a nice simple backdrop for my page design.

Then I started gathering together lots and lots of embellishments from a variety of Bo Bunny collections.

 

DESIGNER TIP: The beauty of this project was that I could use bits and pieces from any collection irregardless of the color of the piece because I was covering them all with Gesso (to get an even and porous work surface) and then misting it all with some aqua and brown inks and then finally giving it all a coating of gold paint.  See the two blooms with the green pearl centers?  They were orange fabric blooms that Bo Bunny put out many many years ago.   Here I was able to make them work by painting them to match my page.

Here is another view of the many blooms, buttons, metal trinkets, wood accents....even lace that I used to create loads of the deep texture on the page design.

I also layered in loads of chipboard, above you can see pieces from the Modern Miss collection (flourishes, large numbers etc.) and again, it didn't matter what colors they were as I was using a mixed media painting technique that blended them all together.  Once the project was dry, I added a few jewelled accents and some brads that were in complementary colors.

 

I hope you enjoyed my mixed media page and hope that I've inspired you to use up those odds and ends and create your own mixed media piece! 

 

 

 

Bo Bunny Products:

Patterned Paper: Happy Tails / Happy Tails; Miss Bold, Selfie / Modern Miss; Doors / The Avenues.

Chipboard: Modern Miss

Wood Embellishments: Kraft Wood Cogs

Washi Tape: Kraft Patterned Washi Tape

Trinkets: Serinade, Serenity, Apple Cider,

Buttons: Love Letters, Happy Tails, Modern Miss 

Brads: The Avenues, Primrose

Blossoms: Clover Daisy, Natural Earth Pansy, Natural Earth Bouquet, Fabric Blossoms (older collection)

Lace: Natural Earth Lace

Jewels: Modern Miss, Primrose

 

 

 

 

Live Beautifully by Lisa Gregory

 Lisa here today, sharing a layout that is sure to ring in summer. The coral colors in the Pincushion papers reminded me of  the beautiful hibiscus that grows at one of our homes. I love that BoBunny has the gorgeous Double dots collections that coordinate with the pattern paper collection papers. I love to create flowers with them! I even used a piece of the box my Design Team product came in. Upcycling can be beautiful!! I just primed the corrugated cardboard with white gesso and after it dried, sprayed it using my favorite mist sprays to match the papers.

I was able to achieve more dimension by layering using pop dots in between the layers. I cut pieces of the Kraft Burlap trim to tuck under some of the layers here and there.  It added beautiful texture to the layout. I learned this technique from my beautiful talented friend Gabrielle Pollacco. I also did a little machine sewing on the papers.

Sometimes a small title is all a layout needs.

 

I created some of the flowers with the papers I used in the layout. I mixed in some BoBunny blossoms for contrast. And the middles of the flowers were just pieces from the Kraft burlap trim that I just tucked in adhering with glue. The leaves were die cut and tucked under the flower clusters.  

Thank you for joining us today, and hope you are inspired to create your own projects using BoBunny product.

BoBunny Products:

Pattern Paper: Pincushion/Doilies, Seamstress, Tailored

Double Dots: Coral Vintage

Cardstock Sticker: Primrose

Blossoms: Wildberry Daisy

Kraft:Burlap Pleated Lace

Jewels: Frosted Jewels

The Day 24 Giveaway and Cards

Summer is around the corner and spring is in full bloom! We thought it was most appropriate to giveaway some of the fantastic BoBunny Blossoms!

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Check out these fun cards that our design team has created!

At This Moment Card by Juliana Michaels

I created this card to give to my Mom for Mother's Day. I thought the softness of this collection along with the peaceful floral images would be perfect to create a card for my Mom who loves to garden. To embellish the card, I machine stitched around the outside of the Primrose Noteworthy die cut with gold thread. I then added the pink jewels.

BoBunny Supplies:
6x6 Paper Pad: Primrose
Noteworthy: Primrose
Jewels: Primrose
Cardstock: Double Dot in Chocolate Chip





Live Beautifully Card by Juliana Michaels

I created this card using the scraps from my At This Moment Card (above). In total, I used only 3 sheets from the 6x6 Primrose paper pad. Here are the scraps that I had left. I always find it easier to make a card with scraps. In fact, these will probably be used on a card as well. 

To embellish this card, I added more gold machine stitching and jewels. I dressed up the die cut from the Primrose Noteworthy pack, by adding a brad and jewel to its center.

BoBunny Supplies:
6x6 Paper Pad: Primrose
Noteworthy: Primrose
Jewels: Primrose
Brads: Primrose
Cardstock: Double Dot in Chocolate Chip

Happy Birthday Card 1 by Ilene Tell

You know what I never have enough of? Masculine cards. I keep making flowery, pretty cards because they're fun and well... so pretty. But they really don't work well when you need a card for a man! So I decided to challenge myself to make two birthday cards that would not be flowery or girly and could be given to a guy. I pulled out two masculine-colored collections: "Pop Quiz" and "Woodland Winter". Believe it or not, they work really well together.

I couldn't resist embellishing with a little kraft wood mustache.

"Pop Quiz" has a great sheet called "Bookworm" that has all these tags and library cards. I decided it would be great to have a matching gift tag to add to the gift bag or just the gift itself, so I simply cut it out, inked the edges, and embellished with a large eyelet.



And here is the inside of this card, using the "pop Quiz" lined paper called "Midterm" - I used it inside both cards to give me a place to add my greeting and sentiment.

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Paper: Pop Quiz, Bookworm, Midterm/ Pop Quiz
12x12 Chipboard: Pop Quiz, Woodland Winter
Buttons: Woodland Winter, Pop Quiz
Cardstock Sticker: Woodland Winter
Kraft Wood: Mustaches and Glasses





Happy Birthday Card 2 by Ilene Tell

Another masculine card using "Pop Quiz". I really love the colors and patterns in this collection. It is definitely very school-themed and perfect for those types of layouts, but it's still flexible enough to use for other purposes as well.

Again, I used the Kraft wood for embellishments. And I also added a coffee cup kraft chipboard sleeve that I tore at the bottom, to give it a bit more of a rugged feel.

And here is the little matching tag I made for this card as well. They're so cute :) The inside of this card is finished with the same lined paper as the card above.


Bo Bunny Supplies:
Paper: Pop Quiz, Bookworm, Midterm/ Pop Quiz
12x12 Chipboard: Pop Quiz
Buttons: Pop Quiz
Noteworthy: Pop Quiz
Jewels: Pop Quiz
Cardstock Sticker: Woodland Winter
Kraft Wood: Mustaches and Glasses
Kraft Wood Shapes: School