Vintage Style Fabric/Paper Journal Cover {Featuring Bo Bunny Blooms and Tresors de Luxe Lace}

I've been wanting to create a soft vintage style journal cover for ages now!  To create my book design above I chose blooms in the pink and natural colors from the gorgeous Bo Bunny blooms and combined them with gorgeous lace from Tressors de Luxe.  I thought the subtle colors would work well for this style book.  I wanted to have the cover have a nice fabric feel to it so I also incorporated the new pleated canvas strips as well from the  Bo Bunny Kraft collections.  Here is a view of the book opened so you can see front and back.

 

I kept the back very simple with just a little stitching, because the back of it needs to sit flat.  Here are a few close-ups of the cover.  

 

 

For the creamy, earth tone, large bloom I used a touch of pink paint to give the flower a two-toned look.  After gluing down the blooms, I brushed all the blooms lightly with white to give them a more aged look.

 

 

I used Bo Bunny Vintage dot (Decaf) paper to make my heart design.  I added some machine stitching to give the paper a fabric look.

I added some pearl strands, ribbons and lace to the spine to finish the book design.

 

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Blossoms: Natural Earth Bouquet, Blush Bouquet, Natural Earth Dahlia, Natural Earth Daisy, Natural Earth Zinnia

Essentials: Kraft Canvas Pleated Lace

Double Dot Cardstock: Decaf in Vintage Dot

 

I hope you enjoyed my project today!  This project is a lot of fun to make, you don't have to be exacting in your design, just be free and easy, gluing and stitching down pretty things!  You can find the gorgeous lace trims I used on this page at Lucy's amazing etsy shop 'Tresors de Luxe' and you can check your local scrapbook stores for beautiful Bo Bunny Blooms (BTW, Bo Bunny is featuring projects all week long using their gorgeous blooms at their blog, so don't miss out having a peek at all the lovely projects!!) xo

Layouts in Under an Hour {With Bo Bunny}

This may seem like a layout that took over an hour to create, but it wasn't!  I was asked to make some pages using the newest collections for Bo Bunny's booth at CHA but I was under a tight time crunch....my solution?

~ First I started with a page design that I had created before and just followed the design for this page. For me what takes the longest is all the fussing about, moving pieces, deciding on what to put where....so using the a design that I created before really helps in cutting the time factor down.
~ Bo Bunny makes loads of amazing and beautiful coordinating embellishments that makes dressing up a page fast and easy! Chipboard, blooms, lace...all made to match your layout, just peel and stick!
~ and finally I gather together all the materials I'll need to make up my page, inks, paints, sewing machine, punches....and have them ready to go. So I don't spend a lot of time while I'm making my page look for stuff. Following a preset design helps make it easy to know what things you will need as well.  Here are some close-up pics.....

Extra Tip: Another time saving thing I like to do is when I'm just sitting and watching TV I'll take some Clover Green Double Dot paper and just punch a whole lotta leaf designs from it and keep them in a little baggie ready to go for when I'm making up a bloom cluster for a page)

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: C'est La Vie (Voila, Belle)
Cardstock: Chocolate Dot Clover Dot
12x12 Chipboard: C'est La Vie
Layered Chipboard: C'est La Vie
Brads: C'est La Vie
Trinkets: C'est La Vie
Buttons: C'est La Vie
Noteworthy: C'est La Vie
Blossoms: Blush Zinnia, Blush Daisy
Paper Lace Doilie: Large

 

If you haven't gotten your hands on some of the NEW Bo Bunny C'est La Vie collection, let me just tell you, this collection scraps itself!  It's so beautiful and easy to work with!  And do give my tips a try for speading up your layout making process, whether you re-do a design you've already done or scraplift a design you like! xo 

New Bo Bunny Misc Me Life Journal!

There has been a lot of excitement lately over these fun 'Project Life' albums and Bo Bunny has come up with some quick and beautiful ways for everyone to enjoy this style of scrapping!  There is this fabulous new collection they've come up with called Misc. Me! A beautiful collection of 3 ring binders, plastic photo/page sleaves, gorgeous tab pages, phrase cards etc. to make putting together an album a super easy task!

 

The binders come already looking very beautiful in 3 different styles (the one above is the C'est La Vie Binder).....you can leave it as is an maybe just throw a title on it or you can doll it all up with some of the gorgeous coordinating goodies Bo Bunny makes to go with it!   

Here I've dressed my cover up with my favourite Bo Bunny Blossoms, Jewel Flourishes, dimensional stickers, Bo Bunny lace and trinkets and dimensional stickers.  Today our sweet design team coordinator Kris Sylvester did a cute li'l video clip on Youtube showing my binder and some of the tips to putting it together.  You can find it on the Bo Bunny blog HERE.  And even cooler, you can go to an amazing site called Crafts 'n Things to find a whole tutorial on how to put this album cover together!  This site has a new tutorial on crafting every day!

 

I have to tell you this book came in really handy the last couple of weeks!  My sister and I came up with the idea to do a special book up for my parents 55th anniversary party.  We thought it would be fun to put together a family recipe book that touched on the memories of our family as enjoyed at the table of my parents.  All the kids, our spouses, the grandchildren....all put in recipes and food memories of time spent at 'Oma & Opa's' table.  It turned out to be a touching book of photo's, recipies and most special of all, the memories associated with the foods eaten.  ....The problem was that we came up with the idea a little late, we had hoped to make it into a bound photo book until we realized that it would take a couple of weeks to get it back from the printers!  Well, same day as we realized this, my Bo Bunny packet showed up.....what a god-send!  It worked perfectly for our purposes!  It took a little quick work from both my sister and I but in the end we came up with a beautiful gift to my parents from the whole family! 

 

So what type of albums have you all been working on?  I'd love to hear some clever idea's for these project life style books! 

Have You Seen Mama-Razzi2 from Bo Bunny??

I was just so in love with the Mama-razzi collection when Bo Bunny first came out with it a couple years back and it's one of those classic's that I find myself reaching for over and over again.  So you can imagine how excited the girls on the design team were when we were told that Bo Bunny was putting out Mama-Razzi2 at the Winter CHA!  A new selection of papers and embellishments that are sure to please the photographer in all of us!  These papers and embellishments work so well for both feminine and masculine style pages!  I've been hanging onto this cute photo of my friend/neighbours little boy and his puppy (Chloe took this pic with her phone, believe it or not! I just thought it so nicely captured the joy of a boy and his pup!)....and when I saw these papers I knew I'd found the collection to scrap this pic!  Here are some close-ups of the page elements... 

I used some of the pretty layered chipboard, brads & buttons and some of the new Bo Bunny Blossoms (In Clover green) to embellish the page. 

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Mama-Razzi2 (Strike a Pose, Shutterbug, Mama-razzi2, Focus)
Chipboard: Mama-Razzi2 12x12 chipboard, C'est La Vie 12x12 Chipboard (alphas)
Buttons: Mama-Razzi2
Brads: Mama-Razzi2
Trinkets: Mama-Razzi2
Lace: Bo Bunny Clover Lace
Blossoms: Zinnia (Clover)
Stamps: Stained Textures Stamps,

 

If you want to see more beautiful pages made with this new collection from Bo Bunny, be sure to check out their blog post today, our design team created some beauties! xo

All That Sparkles with Bo Bunny!!



Today's assignment at Bo Bunny was "All that Sparkles"....and rather than doing a layout I thought I would do something different.  I've been working on my oldest DD's room make-over. She's doing dove grey on the walls with these cool white dandelion wall decals over the bed with a cute phrase. The accents are in black and hints of soft yellow. But it's really hard to find yellow accents for her room. So I got thinking about how nice the Enchanted collection is when you want to add a touch of elegance with a single hit of color. Plus! It's shimmery and sparkly! She needed a nice box to keep her chatchka's in so I covered an old teddybear box in the Sparkly Enchanted papers and added the yellow color with the BB blooms, lace and Double Dot paper.
I added an extra bit of sparkle by adding strips of BB jewels in a golden yellow color as well.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Enchanted (Evening, Romance,)
Cardstock: Double Dot (Buttercup)
6x6 Paperpad: Enchanted
Noteworthy: Enchanted
Layered Chipboard: Enchanted
Combo Stickers: Enchanted
Blossoms: Buttercup Dahlia
Lace: Buttercup
Jewels: Forever Fall
Punch: Martha Stewart Loopy Lace Corner & Border Punch