Rub-ons!

My latest assignment for Bo Bunny was to focus on rub-ons.  I love rub-ons as they are so versatile and can be used on lots of different surfaces so instead of a layout I decided to alter this cute little wooden box I bought from the Range for only £1!  Yup only £1 which I thought was pretty amazing and since I bought this one they have added some different shapes instore too so I will definitely be getting some more of those!

Bo Bunny has sooo many gorgeous rub-ons but as I was going to make a little treasure box for my son who is always collecting all sorts of little "treasures", I decided to use the rub-ons from the Zoology line which are just perfect for him!  I started off by giving the box a couple of coats of everyday emulsion paints from one of those little tester pots.

Once that was done I inked all the edges and corners using Ranger Distress Inks.

I used a sort of Modge Podge ( I make my own using PVA glue, a small amount of water and a few drops of glossy accents) to coat the sides and then added some pieces of the Zoology papers with the glue and then adding another coat over the top and one more once that was dried.  I used the rub-ons on the sides and top of the lid as well as some alphabet stickers and then sealed those all in with the Modge Podge too. I even used some of the Modge Podge on the leaves I cut out to make them more hard wearing too, which is definitely needed with those little fingers!

Lastly I just added a few more embelishments and some pewter liquid pearls around the edges of the lid, and this is the finished box :)

 

I had to add that coin brad because Christopher was just oohing and aahing over them when he saw them!  As I said he just loves "treasures" :)

Well Christopher just loves it and was so excited when he saw his name on it and seeing that happiness over something you have made for someone is always the best feeling in the world! :)

Barefoot and Bliss layout!

Ok I have been totally AWOL again I know but in my defence I have been as sick as a dog for the last week!  I am still not feeling wonderful but am at least on the mend :)  I do have a couple of layouts to share though :)  The first is my first layout using the new Barefoot and Bliss!  This range is just so yummy and warm, it really just makes you want to rush off to the beach and lie in the sun!  Of course I will just have to dream of that because even though it is June it is cold and miserable here today!

 

 

Supplies used:
Barefoot & Bliss Barefoot Splash
Barefoot & Bliss Clear Stamps
Barefoot & Bliss Dimensional Stickers
Barefoot & Bliss Rub-ons
Barefoot & Bliss Layered Chipboard
Barefoot & Bliss Noteworthy
Barefoot & Bliss 6x6 Paper Pad
Double Dot Buttercup Dot
Double Dot Brilliant Blue Dot 

Liquid pearls

 

 

Next is a layout done for the Sketch and Scrap group I belong to and it was my turn to choose the sketch this month and this gorgeous sketch from Page Maps is the one I chose.

 

 

 I used Crate Paper Blue Hill Collection and Prima pearls and bling for this beautiful photo of my Granny when she was young and of course I couldn't resist using butterflies!

 

And just a close up of my skew sewing! (It is sooo not a good idea to sew when your head is floating all over the place! ;)

I went to the MEN arena in Manchester on Wednesday to see Styx, Foreigner and Journey in concert and it was soooo Awesome!!  I have liked Journey for years ever since Paul introduced me to them when we first met 15 years ago but Foreigner and Styx were both fantastic too and their energy is totally amazing when you consider how long they have been going!  I was still pretty ill and had no voice so I couldn't cheer or anything but I clapped and danced and waved my arms, it was so much fun!  Paul has been to a few concerts recently but it has been years since I have been to one, but I will most definitely be going to some more as I loved every minute!  Cd's and radios etc just can't compare to the atmosphere and that thumping that you can feel vibrating through the seats and inside you during a live concert, although it did take about an hour for my hearing to return to normal after the concert! :)

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend that hopefully has better weather than we have had the last few days! :)

Gabrielle Canvas and Liberty Card

I am so loving the Gabrielle line and got the urge to make a canvas with it the other day as the Aquamarine colour is perfect for home decor and of course I am just a huge fan of butterflies!  I just love the Gabrielle Elegance paper and right from the first time I saw it that butterfly has been screaming at me to do something with it so of course I had to use that for my canvas! :) 
I have given up on trying to get a better photo as we have forgotten what the sunshine looks like in our area at the moment!!  I am hoping that will change this weekend :)

I had so much fun playing around with this, just painting randomly and not worrying about being too neat was fun! lol  Seriously I have not really painted anything for years but I am thinking maybe I need to get back into it again, but in the meantime maybe I will just do another couple of canvases to go with this one :)  Once I had played  around with the paint I used a Tim Holtz mask, and then the Kaiser Craft Script texture stamp and one of the butterfly stamps and a rub on from the Gabrielle collection to decorate the base of the canvas.  Then of course those beautiful butterflies and some stamped corners and pearls from the Gabrielle range to decorate and I went over the paper parts with some modge podge to make it a bit more durable and I have to say I actually quite love it lol!

This is a card using the new Liberty line from Bo Bunny and I really adore this line, the papers and images are fantastic!  I would quite love to move to America so I could have more chance to use it!  Having said that I will still be able to use a good portion of it because most of the papers are quite versatile and would lend themselves perfectly to boy layouts, especially as I love stars, almost as much as I love butterflies ;)  I don't really consider myself a card maker as I have not done it for as long as scrapbooking and am not that confidant with it but I had a lot of fun doing this one and it came together so easily using the new Noteworthy that came with the latest collections.

 

 

Supplies:
LibertySparkler
Liberty Old Glory
Liberty Noteworthy
Liberty Jewels
Double Dot ribbon

 

Well I have the kids on school holidays for the next 2 weeks and as much as I love the school holidays my life will be even crazier than usual so I don't know how much scrapping I will get done!  I just have to hope the sun comes out so we can spend lots of time outdoors!  Don't forget there is still time to hop through this weeks Bo Bunny blog hop here for a chance to win some gorgeous Bo Bunny goodies!

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! :)

Bo Bunny Blog Hop!!

Wooohooo it is that time again!!  Welcome to the second Bo Bunny blog hop for May!
 
The Bo Bunny designers have put together some amazing work to share on their blogs. Today we have eight featured designers to inspire you to create!

You should have come here from the very talented Romy's blog but if you are just joining us you can start at the Bo Bunny Blog.
Today's designers include:

Tomoko
Debbie
Juliana
Romy
Carin...Thats me!
Samantha
Kathleen
Tara

 
The Blog Hop begins at Tomoko's blog and then each designer will link you to the next blog, but all of the participating designers' blogs are linked above just in case.   If you would like to play along, follow along the blog path and just keep hopping until you reach the end! 

This is my project for the blog hop using the beautiful Gabrielle range.   This is one of my favourite photos of my son when he was little skipping along happily in our garden.   I have wanted to scrapbook this photo for ages and each time I looked at it "There are fairies in the bottom of my garden" always popped into my head so I had a pretty good idea of what sort of page I wanted to do and the Gabrielle papers were just perfect for what I had in mind! :)

The little white roses were store bought but all the other flowers were made using 2 different sized 6 petal flower punches.

 

To give the tree a bit of dimension I did a few different layers for the leaves, starting with masking some leaves using the negative piece of the punched cardstock and then adding a few leaves in a darker shade of paper and topping that with the lighter patterned paper and using some foam dots to pop those up a bit on the end.  I also couldn't resist painting a bit of glitter glue onto some of the leaves to give it a bit more of a magical feel. :)

Bo Bunny Supplies used:

Gabrielle , Gabrielle Flight, Gabrielle Romance, Gabrielle Cameo

Gabrielle 6x6 Paper Pad

Gabrielle Dimensional Stickers

Gabrielle Jewels

Gabrielle Wrap

Gabrielle Clear Stamps

Gabrielle Brads

Gabrielle Rub-ons

Coordinating double dot Chiffon dot and Turquoise Flourish

Others:

Masks

Spray Inks

Jewels

Punches
Alphabets

And now for the Blog Hop prizes!  Leave a comment on each designer's blog.  One designer's blog will be chosen to pick a comment at random.   You don't know which blog we will be picking from so make sure to leave a comment on them all.   To be eligible for the second prize leave a comment on the Bo Bunny blog after hopping through all the blogs and one will be chosen at random. 

So next you need to hop on over to the lovely Samantha's blog!

The winners will be announced next Wednesday on the Bo Bunny blog.  Have fun hopping! 

Football mania layout and Bo Bunny blog hop!

A layout for my sketch and scrap group today!  These are some older photos of Kieran from when he first started football/soccer in year1.  He just loved football and used to love to go to training every week no matter what the weather, he took it very seriously ;).   He still loves football to this day and plays it every chance he gets!  This month our group used this lovely sketch which is by Cherie Averill.

And this is my layout...and oh my goodness don't you just love how he is so little his shin pads take up most of his leg!

I used some older papers that I have had for ages!  They are mostly Deja Views Sports range and the little footballs were cut out from a Papermania range and I can't remember what make the red paper is, don't you hate it when that happens!!

Now to the exciting news!!  Bo Bunny is having another blog hop this month starting today!!  My day for the blog hop  is only next week but toady's Blog hop starts over at the very talented Agniezska's blog.  So for a chance to win some yummy Bo Bunny stash and be inspired along the way, be sure to go and join in the hop!  Good luck! :)

Quick Card!

Well we have had a busy 2 weeks with the kids and Paul on holiday and all the public holidays.  We have been been doing all sorts of things including repainting the house!   Oh and we went to see Thor at the cinemas the other day and it was freaking AWESOME!!  I would definitely recommend it and think we might have to go again :)  So alas I have not had much time for scrapbooking, although Paul has taken  Kieran to his cricket match this morning and Christopher is currently occupied with a movie so I plan to go and do some scrapbooking for a while now! 

So today I just have a quick card done for this sketch by the wonderful Romy Veul

Supplies used:
Timepiece 6x6 Paper Pad
Timepiece Cut Outs
Timepiece Dad Knows Best CS Sticker
Timepiece Wrap
Coordinating Double Dot Sugar Dot
Coordinating Double Dot Licorice Dot 

 

I also have a couple of photos to share, firstly the kiddiewinkles with some of thier easter egg stash :)

And these are the gorgeous flowers Paul got me for our 14 year Anniversary this month :)  It is full of South African plants and is just gorgeous!

And....I also have exciting news!   Bo Bunny will be showing previews of their new ranges starting tomorrow!  So don't forget to check out the Bo Bunny Blog from tomorrow for previews of the new releases, they are amazing as always! :) :) :)

Ad Lib!

Now for a layout using my favourite of the new Bo Bunny lines, Ad Lib!  This is such a fun line to work with :)  Well the papers are Ad Lib anyway....this layout was for the same product four designers post on the Bo Bunny blog so it was a mix of a few different collections.

I always love seeing these same product different designers challenges because I always find it so fascinating how different all the layouts come out using the same products!   It must just be my month for same product four designers because I also have a layout published in the latest Scrapbook Magazine for that particular challenge using a kit from Scrap Rat which I will upload on here in a few weeks time :)

And these were the supplies we had to use:
Ad Lib Hoopla
Ad Lib Scribbles
Ad Lib This n That
Ad Lib Cut Outs
Gabrielle Trinkets
Timepiece chipboard
Vicki B Wrap
Blast Off! buttons
Wasabi Stripe Double Dot

If you want to see the other 3 gorgeous layouts from my very talented fellow designers, you can see them here.

That's if from me for today, I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend fulled with lots of sunshine :) 

Timepiece layout, Ad Lib card and exciting Hybrid Class News!

Today's layout is one of my wedding photos done with the beautiful Timepiece collection!  This is only the second page I have done using my wedding photos as I only started 'proper' scrapbooking long after I was married so I had already made a scrapbook of sorts in a wedding album using bits cut out of the wrapping paper from our wedding gifts and cards etc.  I had so many other photos that needed to be scrapped that I just left the wedding photos as they were but with some of the gorgeous recent releases from Bo Bunny I just couldn't resist scrapping a few! :)

Supplies used:
Timepiece
Timepiece 6x6 Paper Pad
12" Timepiece Chipboard
Timepiece Clear Stamp
Timepiece Trinkets
Timepiece Combo Sticker
Timepiece Jewels
Bo Bunny Flowers
American Crafts Thickers

EK Success edge punches

This was a quick card I did using my favourite of Bo Bunny's new releases Ad Lib!  Man I love this collection it is just so bright and fun and well just plain cool! ;)  It makes me happy every time I look at it :)

Supplies used:
Ad Lib 6x6 Paper Pad
Ad Lib Pebbles
Coordinating Double Dot Ocean Dot
Ad Lib Wrap
Ad Lib Trinkets
Life's Good CS Sticker
Ad Lib 12x12 Combo Sticker

Ad Lib jewels

Then some really exciting news is that if you enjoy craft classes and love Bo Bunny Gabrielle then the super talented Jessica Sprague and Heidi Swapp have put together a fabulous hybrid class for mothers day here using the stunning Gabrielle collection!  This is a little sneak peek at the class and it looks amazing!

Thanks for visiting! :)