Stamping, Steciling, and Spraying Oh My! Tutorial

This fun photo tutorial will show you how to combine stamping, stenciling, spraying and embellishing on canvas! With BoBunny mixed media your options are endless!

Hello everyone! Kaori here to share my Tutorial using Stencils.

I used this heart shaped canvas. I began by painting white Gesso to the canvas.

After drying the paint with heat tool, I use this "Written Stamp".

 

 

I added some stamping to the background.

 

I applied modeling paste over the stencils. This stencil is "Stickable", so we will be able to keep it in place on the canvas or paper.

 

 

 

 

Once the modeling paste has dried, add some mists. I used TUTU and GOLD Mists by BoBunny.

 

 

Finally, adhering the embellishments.

I hope you like this project. Thanks for stopping by!

BoBunny Supplies:
6x6 Paper Pad: Madeleine

Brads: Madeleine

Buttons: Madeleine

Petals: Madeleine

Double Dot Aqua Jewels: Tuxedo, Pink 

Stamps: It Is Written Stamp

Glimmer Spray: TUTU, GOLD

Stencils: Brocade, Lace

Blooms: Blush Daisy, Blush Zinnia

Retailer Spotlight: Frantic Stamper!

Frantic Stamper is one of the oldest online craft supply retailers, serving paper crafters all over the world since 1996. Fran started the company by selling cardstock via AOL stamping boards and other stamping bulletin boards (remember those?)  Yes, these were the days before google, before amazon and even before Ebay and Paypal! 

Since the early days, we have aggressively increased our offerings to include stamps, inks, ribbons, papers, embellishments, dies, and scrapbook supplies of all kinds.  We love being a one-stop shop, and while we can’t carry “everything” we strive to supply you with one of the best and largest selections of your paper crafting needs.

We started our business in a “spare bedroom” but quickly grew out of that.  We now occupy a 6,000 square foot, 2 story warehouse, which is currently bursting at the seams!  We ship between 80 and 100 packages from our facility in beautiful Southern Oregon to customers worldwide.  Who would have ever thought?

Come take a look at our website, www.franticstamper.com, and journey through our virtual aisles.  Of course, you’ll find all the latest Bo Bunny offerings, but you’ll also find over 100 of your favorite brands as well as all your basic supplies.  Whether your style is cute, pretty, contemporary, vintage, steampunk, classic, or eclectic, we’re sure to have what you’re looking for.

Our blog features a talented design team, and today, they have created the following for you.

First from Kathy Berger, our Design Team Leader:

And now, 3 birthday cards created by Design Team member Sharon Jeffs from Australia:

For more inspiration, check out the Frantic Stamper blog! Thanks for stopping by! 

Blossoms, Doilies & new Flourish Bling

Not long before our new Flourish Bling & Doilie's will

be in stores all over.  Can you wait???  I can't.

Check out the fun projects the girls have made to tempt us all while we wait.

New Year 

by Luzma

 Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Pape Powder Mountain collection
Chipboard Powder Mountain collection
Dimensional Stickers Powder Mountain collection
Brads Powder Mountain collection
Buttons Powder Mountain collection
Layered Chipboard Powder Mountain collection

  Beautifully Happy

by Gabrielle Pollacco

 "I'm so in love with the new Prairie Chic collection, that distressed blue/white brocade design grabbed me immediately! I kept the layout fairly simple, a photo in the center surrounded by the BB blooms and bling and then just added peeks of the denim paper on the edges."

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Prairie Chic (Prairie Chic Dot-bs, Stone Washed Denim-both sides)
Cardstock: 6x6 paper pad (Natural Necessities)
Stickers: Prairie Chic Combo Stickers
Layered Chipboard: Prairie Chic
Buttons: Prairie Chic
Brads: Prairie Chic
Noteworthy: Praire Chic
Stamps: Prairie Chic
Flowers: Zinnia's (Blush, Natural Earth), Bouquet (Buttercup, Blush, Natural Earth)
Jewel Flourishes: Chocolate Jewels
Paper Doilies: BB 4" small doilies 

Hope 

by Juliana Michaels

 "I cut one of the 4" Doilies in half and placed it on each side of the photo. I then used a black pen to draw an outline around various parts of the doily pattern.
To make the most of the Jewel Flourishes, I trimmed the Glaze Jewels into smaller pieces and tucked them in with the blossoms."

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: La Vie en Rose, Viola, Belle/ C'est La Vie
Stamps: Prairie Chic, Distressed Textures Stamps, Flourishes & Such Stamps, Wall to Wall Textures Stamps, Stained Textures Stamps, Ambrosia, Geometric Patterns Stamps
Jewel Flourishes: Glaze Jewels
Blossoms: Plum Purple Daisy, Plum Purple Bouquet
Doilies: Essential Doilies 4"
Noteworthy: C'est La Vie
Combo Sticker: C'est La Vie

Are you in love??  

Go back and check out all the fun detail and technique that were used in these layouts.  AMAZING!!

What product are you dying to get your hands on?

Have a SUPER weekend and don't forget to scrap!

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!)

Our NEW BLOSSOMS & LACE

EEEKKKK!!! 

I'm so excited to show off our new blossoms and lace!

Jolanda & Gabrielle will knock your socks off.

Just the two of us 

Jolanda Meurs

 The cream flowers above and below are Natural Earth Zinnia's

 The little red flower above is a Daisy Blossom and the lace below is from the Natural Lace.  

Our 8 colors of 5 new Blossoms each have coordinating lace.  It's yummy!!!

 Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Dot, Garden/Serenade

Cardstock: Double Dot 

Rubons: Serenade

Chipboard 12 x 12: Serenade

Noteworthy: Serenade

Combo stickers: Serenade

Dimentional stickers: Serenade

Cardstock stickers: Serenade

Flowers: Natural Earth Zinnia, Wildberry Daisy, Natural Earth Lace

Cherish
Gabrielle Pollacco

 Gabi says: "Do you ever do a project and at the end feel like you really enjoyed it? 

This is one of those projects! I just thoroughly enjoyed working with the new 

Bo Bunny blooms and I loved the colors as well."

 Designer Tip: "Choosing a limited or monochromatic color base helps make a layout look more cohesive and 'put together'. Here I chose a couple of the patterned papers from the Apple Cider collection that had the soft greens/yellows in them and added in a piece of Double dot paper in a neutral tone (Almond Dot). Then I chose my floral embellishments in the same shades (greens/butter yellows). I find this also helps me when choosing what embellishments to use on a page.

Another little tip: Here I used a word stamp 'Cherish' ...stamped it to the page and then 

used a coordinating color of DMC floss to stitch in the letters, following the stamped image...

this helps give the page a more 'homespun' look."

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Apple Cider (Afternoon, Apple Cider), Et Cetera (Symphony)
Cardstock: Double Dot; Almond Dot, Clover Dot
Blossoms: Dahlia (Clover, Buttercup), Daisy (Buttercup)
Lace: Clover Lace
Stickers: Apple Cider Combo Stickers
Jewels: Serenade
Stamps: Midnight Frost

Sigh!!!  I'm so in love with these blossoms and lace and can't wait

for each of you to hold them in your hands!  You'll be giddy like me.

Thanks for hanging out!!

Field Trip Friday

Who remembers what field trip Friday is???

In case you forgot, I'll remind you...

This is when the girls think outside that proverbial box 

and meander into unknown territory.

Check it out:

Happy Girls

by: Sarah Eclavea

 Sarah says: "One thing I never do is stamp! So for this field trip Friday I got out my stamps. I stamped a hexagon border around the cream paper directly on my layout. I also stamped the birdcage and birds on paper and cut them out to adhere on my layout."

 Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Brenna, Allie, Dorothy, Gracie, Cut outs/ Little Miss
Stickers: 12x12 Combo Sticker, Dimensional Stickers, Sweet Girl/ Little Miss
Stamps: Hello Sunshine and Little Miss
Jewels: Little Miss
Buttons: Little Miss 

Grattis/congratulations
Mahlin Wiggur

 Mahlin says: "Making card is really not my cup of the, but making cards AND stamping is so far away from my comfort zone, but I think It turned out well. I stayed with the color combo I trust so that might have helped."

 Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper:Fireflies, Dot/Camp-A-Lot
Cardstock: Double Dot in Aquamarine Dot and Orange Citrus Dot
Clearstamps: Camp-A-Lot
Jewels: Hello Sunshine
Buttons: Camp-A-Lot
Chipboard: Hello Sunshine 12 x 12
Petals: Hello Sunshine, Camp-A.Lot 

Racoon Card

by: Mahlin's son

(she says "and my son wanted to make a card of his own..)

 SO ADORABLE!!!

Beach Sign

by: Julie Tucker-Wolek

 Julie says: "I love the concept of Field Trip Friday! A year ago, you could have told me to make a card, and I would have laughed at you! I was NOT a card maker! Couldn't fathom working on something that small! lol! Now, I make cards and everything else in between. When I thought about this challenge, I thought, what haven't I done? What will stretch my artistic side? And the answer came pretty easily, make something altered with a wood base! I have walked through local craft stores, always admiring the bare wood home decor items, but NEVER bought one! I never could get the nerve to do one! I can alter ANYTHING, but these items always evaded me. So I decided to buy TWO items for this challenge from my craft store and alter them with the beautiful Bo Bunny papers!"

Supplies used:
Paper: Hello Sunshine Breezy, stripe, 6x6
Jewels: Hello Sunshine

Petals: Hello Sunshine

Stickers: Hello Sunshine dimensional 

Buttons: Hello Sunshine 

Designer Tip: When altering wood items, I suggest painting them first! That way any items you don't cover in paper will still have color that will work with your theme!  

Welcome Oar

by: Julie Tucker-Wolek

"Next, I have a wooden oar I bought and used the ever FUN Camp-A-Lot papers on! This was so much fun to make! I painted it yellow, and then found out that Bo Bunny's rub-ons work PERFECTLY on wood!!"

 Designer Tip:
Using rub-ons on wood is even easier than paper! If the wood is smooth (and mine was, even before painting it), then just hold the rub-ons just like you do for paper and rub them on! Easy peasy and they look awesome on the wood!

Supplies:

Paper: Camp-A-Lot Fireflies, in the woods, leaves 6x6 pad

Rub ons: Camp-a-lot

Awesome projects right???  Now it's your turn to do something you would not normally do.

Make sure to visit us on facebook and pinterest and share your creations with us.

You guys are the VERY BEST EVER!!!!

♪ ♫ I wanna STAMP with somebody.... ♫ ♪

♪ I wanna use the INK with somebody ♫  ♪

It's amazing what you can do with stamps.

I often forget to use my stamps, and then the girls go and do

amazing things with them and I'm all gung-ho to get mine out.

Mother's love lasts a lifetime
by: Tomoko Takahashi

 Gorgeous, right?

 Love all the detail.  A little detail goes a long way!

 Bo Bunny Supply List:

Patterned Paper: Alice, Brenna, Jaquoya, Maree, Cut Outs/ Little Miss

Stickers: Combo Sticker/ Little Miss

Rub-ons: Little Miss

Chipboard: Little Miss
Stamps: Ambrosia, Little Miss

2 handen op 1 buik
Romy Veul

 Bo Bunny Supply List:

Patterned Paper: Dreams, Flourish, Front Door, Porch Swing, Portrait, Stripe/ Welcome Home; Cut Outs, Glimpse/Country Garden

Stamps: Et Cetera, Timepiece

Rub-ons: Country Garden

Noteworthy: Country Garden

Stickers: Welcome Home Combo Sticker

Designer Tip: On this layout I wanted the stamped clocks to be the main embellishments on my layout. To make sure they really catch the eye, I stamped them on a piece of a paper, cut them out and then layered them using foamtape. I added a few circles that I cut out from the Country Garden 'Glimpse' paper, a banner and three fussy cut butterflies to finish off my layout. As you can see, you don't need many pre-made embellishments to achieve an embellished look. A few cut out and stamped images will do too.

This is a great tip from Romy!  Just sayin'... I tried to google translate the title, and it must be a dutch saying cuz the literal translation is " 2 hands on 1 belly."  So Romy, will you tell us what it means and where the saying comes from pretty please???

Card Kit Personified

by Debbie Sherman

 I love how easy it is to add to the card kits.

You can make them as simple or as complicated as you want.

I also love that the stamps coordinate so well with the line.

 It's so awesome what a little embossing powder, charm and fiber does to a card.

Designer Tip: To add a little exta to the Serenity card kit I added stamping with the coordinating stamps from the Serenity line. I embossed them with ultra thick gold powder to give the cards more texture and to make the stamping stand out from the rich colors of the paper.

I hope that song is stuck in your heads like it is mine now... ha ha

Happy Stamping and make sure to share with us!

♪ ♫ With somebody who loves me... ♪ ♫