Those were the days - BoBunny Serenity

I found this old photo of my brother and I, when we were kids.  I hope my children are having as great a childhood as I did. 

Technology was pretty primitive(if it even existed) when I was growing up so we spent most of our days out in the yard.  We had a huge back yard. Dad built us a metal jungle gym to climb on, a flying fox to fly down, a swing (from a tree branch, not a swing set) and we had a mud pit full of Tonka's.  After I did this layout I 'google mapped' our old house.There are now 2 more homes in our old backyard and very little 'yard'.   Progress.

I used BoBunny's Sereneity line for this layout.  It's Oriental themed, but perfect for many different photos.  I love the turquoise. The corner piece is cut from one of the patterned papers I had left over from my last layout.

But I should start at the beginning...

I used a piece of Bazzill dotty cardstock in fawn.  I sprayed my favourite leaf mask with gold glimmer mist. Then I sprayed a diecut alpha piece with green mist.  I stamped a lattice design randomly, around the edges.

And I was ready to start layering...

My Mum wrote on the back of the photo so I used photo corners instead of glue to attach it to the matte.  Unforgettable Memories has a great variety of photo corners, from the traditional black ones, like I have used here, to coloured photo corners, sticker photo corners, chipboard photo corners... Of course the sticker one's will not allow the photo to be removed so don't use them on 'vintage' photos.

The tissue paper is 7Gypsies and the doilie is from My Little Yellow Bicycle.  All came from Unforgettable Memories.

Beyond the Door challenge

I've been working on another April challenge for way too long now.  At Beyond the Door scrap challenges they have the photo below as inspiration. 

I took the black and white from the photo.  Starting with black cardstock I sprayed over my vine mask.  I found a couple of oriental stamps in my stash and stamped with white ink. 

I have no idea what the Japanese character stamps say, but I'm sure they are similar to the BoBunny letters from the oriental line I used.  I picked up these papers and the chipboard sheet last month.  The papers are all double sided and not necessarily oriental 'themed'.  I've used pieces of the black and red on a couple of layouts now.  And I love the turquoiuse. 



I took inspiration from the turquoise squares in the challenge photo but that is what caused me the most problems. The picture is very linear and I'm not. Once I had my photos neatly lined up I couldn't figure out how to keep going.  But I think it turned out all right in the end.  The mini banners on the sides are done with the chipboard shapes and border stickers. I put little gold jewels along the border stickers.

I punched the black border above the turquoise and added Kaiser jewels.

Check out the layout in the store for a closeup peak.

The finished layout

Here's the finished layout on the background I created last week.

If you remember, the last picture in last weeks post showed my photos on several layers of patterned paper. I had to take a bunch of it off because I couldn't bear to cover up all my spraying and inking. I used a few bits and pieces of patterned paper to matte my photos, some cheesecloth for texture and, of course, some Prima flowers.

Other products I used were:
BoBunny stickers and alpha, SEI alpha stickers, MLYB chipboard buddies(aren't they adorble?), Kaiser plane brad. I think thats all.

Here are some closeups...

a quick layout

Happy New Year to all the scrapbookers out there.  I expect you all enjoyed yourselves and have lots of photos to prove it.

I put together a quick layout yesterday and took photos as I scrapped.

I started off with a white sheet of Bazzill cardstock.  I punched 3 stars out of scrap paper and used them as masks with my Espresso and Gold mists for an easy peasy background.

One of the most time consuming things for me is deciding what papers go with my photos and also coordinate together so starting with white cardstock is a real timesaver.

I decided my matting should be a piece of shite mulberry paper.  I love the texture! I chose a couple of fairly neutral patterned papers to use as accents.  One torn strip went along the top of my page.

I used a stamp that simulates a stitched line (much quicker than pulling out the sewing machine and trying to figure out how to thread it) and black archival ink to `sew` my strip of pp to the top of my page.

I cut up some magic mesh into strips and stuck it down along the edge of my matte.  More texture!

You can see the mulberry paper is a little opaque so the ink mist shows through just a little.

Then I put my photos down...

...a couple strips of patterned paper ground them nicely.

I always like to use flowers on my layouts; even boy ones.

Prima has some less `pretty`colours for more masculine pages. The leaves are Kaiser woodcuts. The stickers I have added on are from a Bo Bunny sheet.

Now I just need a title...

...and it`s done.

How`s that for quick and easy?

My little Artist

I have old photos lying around everywhere.  Unorganized and messy.  That's me.

My husband is always looking for a bookmark and quite often grabs a photo to use.  Especially if it's of one or two or all of his cute kids. This photo he used as a bookmark for several weeks until I stole it back to scrap it.

I'm still playing with travel papers.  These patterned papers are Making Memories. And though the photo is taken in our kitchen and not some exotic holiday location I think they work just fine.

I sprayed an old doily with 3 colours of Glimmer Mist and then cut it up.

Here are some close ups...

The Prima bling bird is so pretty!

I used some chipboard scrolls from Bo Bunny's travel line, and some metal branches by Prima, to frame my photo. 

The title is also BoBunny product.
The last time I was in the store I spotted some pretty little flowers by Prima.  I usually play with bigger flowers, but I really like the size of these ones.

The oval embellishments are by BoBunny.  I think there was 6 in the pack.  I used 2 on this layout.



Another two page layout with Bobunny's Etc line.

Every fall the berries on our Rowantrees ripen and then the birds come. They are gluttons. They eat so many, so fast they end up getting drunk on them and flying into our windows. Turbo, Breanna's kitty, spends his time sitting under the hedge in the front yard waiting for dinner to bounce off the living room window and land at his feet.

The background patterned paper, chipboard, stickers and alpha are all BoBunny's Etc line.  I also used some Imaginisce patterned paper.

Here are some closeups...

 I love the blingy Prima bird.  Had to find a spot for him on this layout. 

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I used coins from the sheet of chipboard for my flower centers and, of course, the alpha from the same line.

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Love all the unique stickers for this line.

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And a pretty Prima flower on top of one of the chipboard scrolls.

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I love that the sticker sheet comes with 3 different little alphas on it with loads of letters.  I used the cream coloured one to spell out my quote.  There was more than enough letters for the two sentences.

The black and brown set of alphas will be saved for future layouts. 



BoBunny Etc line ~ a two page layout

I love the colours in BoBunny's Etc line.And the sticker sheets that coordinates with it.

I used one of my scroll masks with Tsukineko's 'pinecone' ink and my Tim Holtz applicator to add some design elements to the edges of photo block.

Here are some close ups...

My title.  I used the a scroll from BoBunny's coordinating chipboard sheet and the chipboard alpha that also belongs with this line.  

The bird is one of Kaiser's woodcuts.  I stamped it with one of my collage stamps and my favourite pinecone ink. The brads are 7Gypsies. 

I still had my big butterfly punch out from last layout so I used it again.  I think I want a bigger one.  Note to self: check Unforgettable Memories for a really huge butterfly punch... 

I layered border stickers from the sticker sheet along the bottom of my big photo and some of the word stickers above and below the row of jewels. 

I punched those 3 butterfly images out of the graph paper for my previous layout and then decided to use the graph paper as a matte for my big photo on this layout. Luckily I had punched my butterflies in a neatish row along the bottom of the paper.

Always planning ahead.

Check out this line the next time you are in Unforgettable Memories.  It is one of my favourite lines ever. I can't stop playing with it. I have another layout on my desk almost completed.  It will be ready to post next weekend.

Lots of photos ~ a two page layout

My friends and I took a ton of photos the day we hiked up to the Teahouse at Lake Louise.  I printed a lot of them off as 2" x 3" and cropped down the few 4" x 6"s I had. The main photo is a 5" x 7".  In the end I managed to get 10 pictures on this layout.

The Bazzill Cardstock I used on my background is masked and misted using my favourite Crafters Workshop vine mask. 

Have you tried Prima's flocked rub-ons yet?  Prima has some gorgeous examples using the rub-ons on their blog here.  I have used the flocked rub-ons on a couple of recent layouts.  On this layout I cut out the negative images left.

I cut up some paper doilies (My Little Yellow Bicycle) and layered them with punched pattern paper and Jenni Bowlin buttons with string tied through the stitch holes.

I layered BoBunny stickers and diecuts and patterned paper.

The circle journal spots are from My Little Yellow Bicycle's friendship tablet.

Bo Bunny 'Welcome Home' line ~ a two page layout

Here it is.  The page I showed you in my last post. I finished it on Monday and got my dining room table all cleaned off so we could eat dinner together as a family.

The papers are from the Bo Bunny Welcome Home line.  I also used the Noteworthy diecuts. The frame and journaling bit on the lower left group of photos is from the diecut package, as is the piece I've journaled about all the 'good food' we ate on. And the journal spot with the photo grouping in the lower right corner. So I used 4 pieces from the pack and have loads left over for future layouts.

 I love the 12 x 12 sticker sheet. You can see I used a couple of the border strips on this layout. They are a little shy of 12" so I added some strips of patterned paper crossways to cover the gap.
I also used some of all 3 alphas. I really like that this line comes with three (3) alphas.
And I tucked away the 3 round stickers on my layout. They are perfect embellishments on any page. Can you spot them?

The title is left over from a Crate Paper diecut sheet (the colours just happened to work perfectly with this line).

The dimensional butterflies are My Little Yellow Bicycle. 

I cut up one of Prima's felt branches to embellish my cream coloured flowers with. 

Each flower is centered with a Kaiser pearl.

Who's scrapping this long weekend?

I am. 
My friends and I took a long weekend and headed to Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise. It was such a good time.  None of my girlfriends scrapbooks so I ordered a set of 2" x 3" photos and thought I'd put together a layout for each of them. 

So far I've got my background done.  Starting with kraft cardstock I used my border mask and 'Cherub Pink' glimmer mist to divide my page into thirds. 

Then I randomly stamped using Pinecone ink and various stamps from my collection.  I love the feather stamp!

I picked up the BoBunny 'Welcome Home' line last week.  So I used some pieces from that to edge my page as well as the border stickers from the matching sticker sheet.

The sticker sheet comes with 3 different alphas. Green, blue and tan.  I used the green one for my date.

I better get this layout done by this afternoon.  My scrapping stuff has been all over the diningroom table for a week now and I think my family is getting tired of looking at it.

I did manage to get a couple of layouts done for my own album.

I used scraps of BoBunny and Imaginisce for this page.  And puffy stickers from Creative Imagination.  The alpha stickers are MME. The buttons are from BoBunny's "Welcome Home" line.  There are some really interesting buttons in this packet.

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I got a lot of mileage out of my 4 sheets of the Welcome Home line by BoBunny. I used if first on this layout and then scraps on the two pages above. Aren't the background sheets on this layout gorgeous? Some border punches and stickers from the same line. You should really check it out next time you're in Unforgettable Memories. There are lots of add-ons that go with it; buttons, chipboard, jewels, stickers...

Oops.  My blue branch of leaves came loose and is floating on the left there. :)  The chipboard is sticky backed, but a little glue would have been a good thing.
The MLYB line goes really well with the BoBunny.  I picked up the chipboard (birds and branch with circle words hanging from it) and the decorative matts; circle and the square(cut in half).

Winter is for the birds

I was out at the Blueberry on Saturday helping Lynette with the crop.  It looked like everyone was having a very productive weekend. I also got some time to sit down and scrapbook a couple of layouts.

I put together this page with the remains of my BoBunny winterline.  I love these papers. 

I was all out of snowflake stickers and I hadn't taken any of my snowflake punches so I ended up cutting out the negatives from the sticker sheet.  I love how they look on top of the Glimmer Mist I sprayed on my large scroll mask. Kind of lacey and pretty.  So don't throw away those old sticker sheets till you've used them to their full potential :)

I used some Kaiser jewels in the centers of the larger snowflakes and for the birds eyes.