FIELD TRIP FRIDAY

Time for another Field Trip Friday where our DT steps

outside their comfort zone and amazing things happen!!

Get ready to be WOWED! 

Gabi has stepped into the world of mixed media and made an adorable canvas

that makes you feel empowered and artistic!  She also made a fun video tutorial

and gave us all the pattern for her adorable lil miss.

Mixed Media Canvas
by: Gabrielle Pollacco

 check out the detail.... 

 seriously so much fun!

Supplies:
11 x 14 inch canvas
Patterned Paper; Little Miss Brenna, Little Miss Maree, Little Miss Jaquoya, Little Miss Cut Outs, Gabrielle: Cameo, Dot
6x6 Paper Pad: Little Miss
Stamps: Midnight Frost
Rub-on's: Country Garden

I've seriously got that UTZ in my tummy that says I have to go home and try this.

Next up... ROMY

Here's what she had to say...

"Since each Bo Bunny collection comes with many gorgeous papers and beautiful coordinating embellishments, it is pretty tempting to stick to one collection on a layout. I sometimes mix up two collections that look a lot alike, but I have never combined two very different ranges of paper on one layout. 

But the Ambrosia collection inspired me to use a mixture of vintage and colourful on my layout. The muted, vintage tones in the background will make the beautiful colours stand out even more. I used one sheet of the Welcome Home and one sheet of Et Cetera for my background. I also incorporated a sheet of music note paper from an old book. On top of those vintage layers I added papers and embellishments from the Ambrosia collection to create a colourful 'frame' for my photo. 
I had a blast mixing up these collections that I normally wouldn't use together and I hope you will give it a try too."

The little things are not so little after all
Romy Veul

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Flowers, Marigold, Primrose, Roses, Stripe, Cut Outs/Ambrosia; Extra/Et Cetera; Stripe/Welcome Home
Chipboard: Ambrosia 12 x 12
Stickers: Ambrosia Cardstock Sticker, Ambrosia Dimensional Stickers
Jewels: Ambrosia
Rub-ons: Ambrosia

Every single time I read that the girls mix up lines, I think I want to try it...

however, I have yet to do it, but Romy made it seem so easy!

And last but certainly not least....  

Juliana says,

"I knew immediately that using rub ons would be stepping outside my comfort zone. I hate to admit this, but I rarely use them. I also hate to admit this...I am afraid of them! I am not a stick it down and move on kind of scrapper. I like to move things around before I commit to their final placement. And as you all know, rub ons can't be moved around at all. Recently one our very own designers, Tara Orr, shared a tip about putting them on cardstock and then cutting around them. Why had I never thought of that?! This is the technique I used and I combined them with stickers from the 12 x 12 Combo Stickers to embellish my layout. If you are interested in more step by step details on how I used them on my layout, please feel free to stop by my blog: 17turtles."

Make A Wish
Juliana Michaels

What a fun idea and new way to play with all those rubons you've been storing up!

Emma makes me wanna get down and make sand angels!

Today you've gotten lots of fun inspiration and ideas that will last you all weekend!

Make sure you leave us a comment and post your layouts and projects on facebook.

We love to see what you all come up with!!!

April Layout Sketch Challenge

Just like the Card Challenge here at Bo Bunny, we are trying something new for the Friday Layout Challenge, too!  We will be giving you the whole month to do the challenge! 

More time to play!

The sketch for this month was provided by

Sketchy Thursdays!
and Diana Fisher

Be sure to drop by the Sketchy Thursdays Facebook to see all of their TERRIFIC SKETCHES! 

 You are sure to be inpired to create!

Here is the sketch for this month.

Let's take a peek at what a couple of the Bo Bunny Design Team did with the sketch to get you started!

First up, we have Irene.

Blow A Kiss
Irene Tan

Irene used the new Alora Collection for this sweet layout of her daughter.

Bo Bunny Supplies List:
Pattern Papers: Dimples, Doodle, Leaves, Stitches/Alora
Cardstock: Double Dots in Coffee Vintage
Stickers: Alora Combo Stickers, Alora Dimensional Stickers
Noteworthy: Alora
Brads: Alora
Chipboard: Alora Layered Chipboard

Gabrielle also played along for this sketch.

No Zoe!
by: Gabrielle Pollacco

Gabi used the new Country Garden Collection for this fun layout!

Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Country Garden (Weathered, Glimpse, Stripe, Charm)
Cardstock: Bo Bunny's Powder Blue Vintage, Pear Dot
Noteworthy: Country Garden
Combo Stickers: Country Garden
Brads: Country Garden

Now it's your turn! 

Be sure to link you layout here by May 2nd for a chance to win a prize of Bo Bunny goodies!

We can't wait to see what you create!

Have a great weekend!

Goals for 2012

It's another day of great ideas from the Design Team about setting your goals for 2012!

Two of the designers did beautiful pages about their goals.  Both of them are just beautiful with plenty of ideas to inspire us with our scrapbooking but also with great goal inspiration for the new year.

First up today, we have Tara. 

Tara said, "My only goal/resolution for the upcoming year is to try to calm down and relax - let the little things go. "

Relax
Tara Orr

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Rose, Dots, Enchanted/Enchanted; Sunflower, Bouquet, Cut Outs/Forever Fall
Noteworthy: Forever Fall

Today, we also have Gabrielle.

Goals 2012
 Gabrielle Pollacco

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Welcome Home; Porch Swing, WH Dot, WH Dreams, WH Keys
Cardstock: Double dot Clover
Chipboard: Welcome Home, Et Cetera
Trinkets: Welcome Home
Bloom: Oliva (tinted with green ink in the center)
Stickers: Welcome Home Combo Stickers
Bo Bunny buttons
Butterfly: Gabrielle

We also promised to announce the winner of the Circle Challenge today.  You just have to love seeing all the wonderful pages everyone creates for these challenges!  We know that we do!

The winner is...

Rachelle Sigurdson

Rachelle used the Gabrielle Collection for this gorgeous layout!

Rachelle, please e-mail us with your address so we can get your prized out to you!

So now it's  your turn!! 

 We would love to hear about your goals for the new year! 

As always, we invite you to share your pages with us on Facebook! 

Layout Challenge Friday

It's time for another Layout Challenge! 

The Challenge is to

Be Inspired By Circles

Just think about all the circles out there. There are circle punches, coluzzle circles, brads, buttons, die-cuts and patterned paper.  Have you been thinking about cutting some of your pictures into circles?  Here is the opportunity to give it a go!  The possibilities are endless! 

You will have until December 21 to complete your layout and link it here.  

Now, lets let the design team inspire us!

Relaxing

Gabrielle Pollacco

I wanted to use one of the newest collections so I went with Enchanted....but when I think of circles I think of Timepiece so I mixed the two ....the photo is one I took of Chloe on a recent Apple Festival day trip we went on, just sitting and relaxing for a moment watching the crowds walk by.

DESIGNER'S TIP: I used some tan and brown chalk ink as well as a bit of mauvey pink chalk ink to color up the background of the Enchanted paper to give it a more vintage look. For a very soft tinting you can use a make-up sponge with the ink or the Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Applicator/& pad to apply the chalk ink.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Enchanted- Moments, Love; Timpiece-TickToc,
6x6 Paper Pad: Timepiece, Welcome Home
Chipboard: Enchanted
Brads: Timepiece, SnowFall
Jewels: Enchanted
Title Alpha Stickers: SnowFall

And next up we have :

 XOXOXO 
 Mireille Divjak

I cut the patterned paper in circles because of the challenge. I also used "double dot".. and patterned paper with circles/ dots I used a "circle" title and circle embellishments.
I hope this inspires to work with shapes.

The translation for the journaling is:  Pink Ribbon
Your first cause
You bought a pink ribbon from your pocket money
because you thought it was important.

Supplies:
Cardstock :Double Dot - Tutu Dot, Blush Dot
Patterned Paper: Enchanted- enchanted, dots; Smoochable - hotlips, stripe
Brads: Enchanted
Jewels: Enchanted, Smoochable
Buttons: Enchanted
chipboard: Smoochable
Cardstock Stickers: Smoochable
Layered Chipboard: Smoochable

Now it's YOUR TURN! 

We can't wait to see what you come up with!!  Remember, you have to link it here by December 21.  We will choose a winner for a terrific Bo Bunny prize!

Don't forget to share what you are creating on Facebook!  We love to see what you are up too!

Have a great weekend!

Get to know .... Mireille Divjak

Hello everybody.  It’s september and yet we have another episode of “meet the team”.   I am the last of the dutchies… and the last of the team that gets to introduce herself.

I have been away all summer so I wasn’t able to participate last Month.

My name is Mireille Divjak and I live with my family in the absolute north of Holland. From my bedroom window I can see the sea. That isn’t too hard because we have the sea here in the North, East and West.  I was born in the absolute south of Holland close to the Belgium and German border. When I was 18 I made a big change and moved from one side to the other side of Holland. Also I think the south is beautiful I totally lost my heart to the sea. The sad part is that the weather in the Netherlands isn’t so spectacular and it gives a “summer beach vacation” a whole different meaning.

Thank goodness my best friend in the world was born in Istria. He is originally from Pula which has sea on three sides too. East, South and West. The climate is much “better” over there. Way more sun so I am happy we are able to spend our vacations there with friends and family.

 

- This photo was taken last week on a mountaintop in the German Alps, Oberammergau-

Together we have 2 children. My best creations.

Amber is the oldest. 

  

She is 6 and started second grade last Monday. She loves swimming, fishing, nature, reading, playing computergames and animals. She is full of life, full of ideas, very impulsive but also very introvert. She is so like her daddy.- this photo was taken last week in a garden in Germany-

Noah is the youngest.

  

He is 4 and goes to kindergarten. He is a typical boy. Loves wild games.. racing with bicycle.. running around with his best friend. They share a huge love for Thomas the Tank Engine together. Noah is way more extrovert but also very organized. He loves everything in the right place neatly catagorised and will have a fit if it’s not the way it’s “supposed to be”. I have to grin a lot when this happens because I recognize it and I know how it feels.- This picture was taken last week during a boattrip at the Adriatic Sea-

Our family is spread all over the country and all over the world. My brother and parents live in the south of Holland.. but we also have family in Germany, France, Croatia, Serbia, Australia and Canada. When I was pregnant with Amber I was so sad because they weren’t close to me. I decided to start blogging so everybody could read every day what I was up to.. how it was going with the pregnancy etc etc. I started photographing more and more..

I switched systems twice but since 2007 I have thisblog.

It’s still mostly about our family life.. and I mix it with “scrapstuff”. I decided to use labels so it would be much easier for “scrapfollower’s” or family to read what they want to read.

Health has been a big issue in our lives. Saša suffers from heartdisease and basically every day he is still here is a huge gift for us. I myself am still recovering from cancer. It’s changed the way we live our lives massively. It makes a lot of “stuff” not so important anymore…and it makes the little things very,very important.

It makes my blog important. At the end of the year I use this super program to turn it into a book. Our kids are still so little and I am very worried we will be incomplete before they will be able to remember complete.

If that happens.. they will have books. It’s kinda sad.. but better than nothing.

And of course.. there is Scrapbooking. A hobby that grew way out of hand and I love every minute of it. It gives me happiness and joy in sad moments. It distracts my worried mind. It makes me happy. I don’t have my own “space”. I am a livingroom scrapper. Thank goodness I have my own table now. I used to sit at the dinnertable and the whole family would eat on the couch with a plate on their knees. It got messier and messier and now I have my own table on wheels. When I “work” I can roll it in the middle of the room.. watch the kids.. in the evening watch tv. When I am done, I can roll it back so it’s out of the way. It’s a bit messy.. but not half as messy as it used to be.

I have been on the Bo Bunny team for a  little over a year now.. enjoying every minute of it. Needless to say I am deeply in love with the products, but, everybody is also so sweet and supportive. It feels totally amazing.

I would like to end with an anecdote:

I applied for Bo Bunny ‘s DT call last year before I went on vacation in Istria. To be honest it wasn’t the first time I tried out and I was hoping of course but also close to sure I wouldn’t make the cut.. so after a few days abroad I forgot. Untill I got this phonecall from my mom. She asked me what was going on with my blog.

I had no clue what she was talking about since I don’t have internet over there I drop by an internet café every now and again… and for a second I thought my blog might have been hacked or something nasty like that.

So I asked her what she meant.. and she told me.. I don’t understand dear. Did you get the kids a pet? They are all talking about a rabbit.

Now… enough talking. On with some examples.

Unfortunately I received my box just before I went on vacation and I didn’t have much time to play with it yet. I made examples for an article in a dutch magazine and when I got home saturdaynight/ Sunday morning.. after unpacking.. piles of laundry etc  etc.

I played some more but unfortunately I don’t have as much new stuff to share with you yet.

But I will start with a Vicky B. spread I didn’t share yet.

Elf Fantasy Fair - Vicky B. 

Pictures are all from the Elf Fantasy Fair Event. I loved how well these papers matched the fairy costumes.

Cardstock: Double Dot (mint and blush)

Patterned Paper: Vicky B. * Perky *Floricious * Floweret * Stripe * Bubbly

 

Yum- Sweet Tooth

SweetTooth.

Amber eating Istrian cake (crème pita)

Cardstock: Double Dot - licorice

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Tooth - * Delish * recipes * yum * sweet tooth

Noteworthy: Sweet Tooth

Layered Chipboard : Sweet Tooth

Jewels: Sweet Tooth

Combo Stickers: Sweet Tooth

 

One of a kind - Blitzen

(first part of my year project .. I take pictures of the kids every Monday and so I have weekly but also “monthly” pictures where I can see them grow. I love creating a “year in review” with those month pictures and writing the short highlights of the month. This is January and February)

Cardstock: Double Dot – Wild Berry Flourish

Patterned Paper: Blitzen - * Reindeer Games * Dot * Turtle Doves

Trinkets- Blitzen

Brads- Blitzen

Noteworthy- Blitzen

Jewels – Blitzen

Rubons- Blitzen

Combo Stickers- Et Cetera

Then there are a few more oldies, favorites from various collections:

Slush Puppy in Ballorig - Ad Lip

Trunk- Cambridge

Alena - Crazy Love

 

Love - Crush 

Natuurelfje - Gabrielle 

We the People - Liberty  

 

shift into high gear - Mama- Razzi 

 

Noah Frame - Midnight Frost

Bubblegum - Noel

 

Sugar and Spice - Olivia 

 

A Step back in time - Timepiece 

Welcome to the Jungle - Zoology 

Krofna - Winter Joy (as seen in Sketches 2 Scrapbook) 

 

Bloom where you are planted - Vicky B.

How to scare the living daylights out of your baby brother - Whoo-ligans

Thank you so much for taking the time to get to know me a little better.