A little bit of Christmas with BoBunny

Never to early for Christmas right?
Whilst making my travel layout which you can see on the BoBunny blog here
I thought I had best get a start on some Christmas cards
Elf Magic has some adorable images that are just perfect for fussy cutting

 

Using the Elf Magic chevron paper I cut the tag out and then cut the Santa and sign out, this left a "hole" in the tag which I covered with a piece of the Elf Magic tinsel paper. I used foam pads to give a little dimension to the Santa. I cut the tree from the same chevron sheet and tucked it behind. I then backed the whole thing onto some Double Dot dark denim flourish added the snowflakes and gem then finished it off with some twine tied at the top.

 

For my second card I used a cut file on my cameo of a coffee mug, I used Double Dot wild berry stripe, the paper has a beautiful sheen to it so using as a main element on my card gives it a shine all of its own. I curved the paper and put foam dots just in the centre to give a convex shape on the card.

 

I turned the chevron paper over to use the chevron side for my background and layered it with Elf Magic mischief.

  

 I stamped the sentiment using the Holiday Wishes stamp set, The frosting jewels made some great "steam" coming from the cup

 then topped it off with more snowflakes and a large gem.I added a little glitter to the snowflakes for that extra sparkle

I really enjoyed making these cards, so now it's 2 down about 25 to go lol

All supplies used are by BoBunny

Toodle Pip x

Sketchbook 365 - October sketch

The new sketch from Sketchbook 365 is up 

This month they are sponsored by

 

There's a fab prize up for grabs

This is the layout I created using the new Zip Dee Doodle collection by BoBunny

 

My interpretation, I took the circles and made one of them large with all the other elements piled onto it, I used speech bubbles in place of the three strips at the top left of the sketch and I moved my journaling to the right so that it was underneath my title

The polaroid frame/heart/tag is one of the dimensional stickers from the collection as is the speech bubble with the hearts on.

The large sunburst circle is a cut file on my cameo and I took the middle section and flipped it over to contrast with the black and white. I am a little in love with the Today title word (also a cameo file) you know sometimes you just find that you want to use it on every project lol

I decided for once to just put my journaling "out there" 2013 is turning out to be a fantastic year for me and I am finally getting a grip on the Agoraphobia that has held me back for so long, so instead of hiding away from it this layout is a reminder to myself that I am healing and ready to start living a "normal" (to me that is) life again.

Don't forget to play along this month and be in with a chance of winning this

Fab prize from Bo Bunny

Toodle Pip x

touching base and more from the Papermaze August kit

Wooahh didn't realise I had been away from here for so long, life has been hectic with lots of exciting and fun moments. 2 days ago I was on the beautiful Greek Island of Zante (this photo was taken in Zante town)

 

and in just 8 days time I will be back in Wales for a 2 week vacation with my DH and the crazy doodle doggies, in between all that I have to clear my craftroom ready for some renovation work that will take place whilst I am away, so at the moment I'm not sure which way is up lol

 I have lots to share over the coming days and also some exciting news!
First up I want to share with you the 2nd layout I created using the Papermaze August kit.

This month the kit is packed with all sorts of great embellishments, I created a feminine page here and now I'm here to share with you the more masculine page I made

 

I loved the Polaroid frames, and on this layout I used them both as accents and to frame one of the smaller details on my picture, once again the tiny word stickers act both as a title and journaling to sum up my feelings about the photo.

I fussy cut some of the hexagons to create layers behind my photo and by using the blues/greens I think it gives the whole page a more "boy" feel to it.

You can find this kit here and of course any other supplies you need can be found in the shop

So it's toodle pip for now

Back soon x

Papermaze August kit

I always get excited when I see the new kit each month. This months kit on first appearances is quite girly but I have also created a masculine layout with it that I will share later on.
This time I got to play. I'm not a great one for flowers on my layouts but these went together so well that I might start adding some now and then.

It always helps to have a great photo to inspire you, I love this snapshot of my Granddaughter and her cousins walking away into the sun holding hands.
I framed the picture with the large chipboard frame, it had some text on that I covered with some of the MME tiny text stickers from the Collectable collection (that's a mouthful lol)

I then clustered the flowers around one corner of the picture, the wooden flower circles also add another texture to the page. I fussy cut some of the flowers and doilies from the papers and layered them up beneath the main elements.
I splattered a few different colour mists to create a softer background, finally I added the thickers title below the cluster to finish it off.

Don't forget to pick up your kit in the shop HERE
  Toodle Pip x

My first Bo Bunny Creations

I was up on the blog on Monday with my first creations with the new collections from Bo Bunny

You can see the whole post Here

I created 2 cards using the Autumn Song collection and some double dot cardstock

   

 

"I wanted my chipboard piece to be slightly longer so I simply snipped it in half, placed the 2 pieces back down with a gap in between and covered the join with my title sticker.

 

"The green banner piece behind the title banner had some text on it that I didn't want visible so I layered it up with stickers and cardstock to cover over the text."

 

This collection is a joy to work with and I hope you like my cards

Thankyou for looking

Tiidle Pip x

All supplies by Bo Bunny Press

CSI 86 - Solved

Time again for a new case file

 

A soft pretty palette, and this week I used some of the fantastic co-ordinates made by the very talented Michelle Singh

 

My photo's printed out a little bright but as I'm running out of ink they were what I went with.

While visiting Debbi I got to visit my first real life Scrapbook Store, I was like a kid in a candy shop lol

We got the lady to take a photo of us holding our receipts. How did Debbi's get to be bigger than mine?? 

Evidence

Scallops

Art Mediums

Stripes

Dog accents

Transportation accents

Speech bubbles

Tie something

Vellum

Testimony

I used the inspiration words for my title Go, See, Do and then used those as bullet points for my journaling

Go - to the scrapbook store

See - who spent the most by comparing receipts

Do - Have a ball trying to win

 

I printed the journaling directly onto the speech bubbles, which took a bit of fiddling but I liked the final result

 

I used some Gelato's by rubbing them onto my craft mat spritzing them with water and then just placing the cardstock directly onto it, I then used a SC mask and some texture paste over the top

I'm very much still a beginner with gelato's and all things mixed media but I am enjoying experimenting I just need to get a bit braver now!

Toodle pip x

 

Sketchbook365 - September sketch

This year has just flown by, but what I have experienced of 2013 so far I am loving it!
Here we are with the September sketch for Sketchbook365

 

Check out the rest of the Design Team HERE

I had great fun with this one

My hubby loves to cycle & recently joined a cycling club where they do a 10 week 10 mile time trial. (The photographs are taken by Rich Lewton who captures some fantastic shots). I was scrapping this as he was doing his final trial and at that point didn't know if he had won or not, I didn't want to title it cycling champ or something and then he came 2nd/3rd. As it happened he did win but by then I already completed the layout

A few close ups

 

I used Little Yellow Bicycle - Vintage Summer for the background and MME Come Away With Me 6 x 6 pad for the rest of the page, with a small bit of Studio Calico and Simple Stories thrown in

 

I love the way the layering turned out on this layout

 

I love the little anchor brad, although it's not a water themed  layout to me anchors are grounded and that's exactly like my DH

If you play along this month you could get your hands on this fab kit by 

Quirky Kits

 

Toodle Pip x