Bo Bunny Mini Album and Storage Box

This is a mini album and storage box I have made this weekend using the gorgeous Bo Bunny collection Love Letters.  

The box I made in the shape of a house.  I used tyvek and hot glue to make the structure and also added some strong card hinges both inside and outside.   It's size is 7" x 11" and the mini is 6" x 6", slightly wider once the binding was added.  I used my Cinch from We R Memory Keepers and one of their binders in a gorgeous purple.  Once constructed I used Distress Stain in Tea Dye around all the edges. 

Page 1.  As the collection is Love Letters instead of the traditional shaped pages I chose to make envelopes.  All the pages open up to offer further photo mats and memory keepsake opportunities.

Page 1 & 2.   I used stickers and cut outs throughout all the pages.  On this page I added one of my stash sunflowers because they are sunny and bright. I hot glued the sunflower onto a white peg I also had in my stash. 

Page 2 & 3. On these pages I have added twine, hearts onto tiny pop dots and a small metal frame, which was raised onto sticky foam and will allow a small photo to be placed underneath. 

Page 3 & 4. I distressed a lot of the paper using my Tonic distress tool and using my heart punch I added hearts. 

Page 4 & 5. I think these pages are my favourite. I distressed and layered the paper, used stickers and cut outs, sticky foam for dimension and a decorated cream peg for embellishment. 

Page 5 & 6. These pages were great fun to complete. I used the border from the sticker and adhered it to firm card, added the middle to a page and cut around then layered them onto the border card.  On the next page I used two wood butterflies and wound twine around to secure the flap down. 

Page 6. The final page I used Smoochable paper from my 6x6 stack and a sticker, which to me was most appropriate for the final page. 

Front of house box,  I used I Am Roses and other flowers from my local craft store.  I cut out the lock and key and used sticky foam to raise them to add dimension. A peg from my stack was added for effect. 

Side view.  Its difficult to make out but many of the cut-outs on both the house and throughout the mini album have been raised on sticky foam and foam dots and squares to add dimension and depth.

Side view.  I fussy cut out part of the paper collection to the top and to make a border and made a tag to insert inside and added an eyelet and ribbon. Flowers are from my local craft store.

Back of the house.  I layered three of the bunting cut outs and added a metal butterfly, raised the sentiment onto foam and tied this gorgeous pink twine around. 

This was such a delight to make.  There are so many opportunities to place pictures within the envelopes and also on the back-side.  This collection is so much fun and truly inspirational.

I hope you have enjoyed this project.  

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.  Take care of you.

Pauline

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Bo Bunny Love Letters Card

Today I made this card using the gorgeous Bo Bunny paper.

I layered distress paper from Kraft and an postcard cut out from the collection.  I then made an envelope using my Martha Stewart scoring tool.  I cut a  3" square and adding the corner addition to the scoring board I scored at 1 1/2" and 1 3/4". 

Using red and white twine I wrapped this around to reflect a tied parcel and adhered the two layers onto the card.  I then raised the cut out postcard onto foam strips and adhered this also to the card.

Once I had adhered the mini envelope down I then punched out lots of hearts and raised them on mini pop dots adhering them to reflect them flying out from the envelope.

I added a fussy cut stamp raised on pop dots, stamped using a stamp from the collection adding hearts on pop dots, added a banner cut from the paper and a small xoxo sticker, also from the collection.  I used an I Am Roses flower and hand cut out two leaves, which I sorted using my leaf tool and mat from the Sizzix Susan's Garden Tool Kit.

The inside I made a larger envelope, again using my Martha Stewart tools, this time a 5 1/2" square scoring at 2 1/2 and 2 following guidelines on the tool.  I then added some more stickers from the collection and tied a coordinating ribbon around the envelope before adhering it to the card.

I purposely did not glue down the envelope as I wanted it to open up to reveal the sentiment.

This is such a cute card, which with such amazing products makes crafting not only easy but a joy.

I hope you all have a wonderful crafty weekend and lots of fun.  Take care of you.

Pauline

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Love Letters

Bo Bunny make wonderful, bright and inspiring collections used around the world and love by crafters all over.  

I have used Bo Bunny many times and today I would like I share a card I have made using the Love Letters collection.

As many of you will know I love to fussy cut and have a page of flowers is simply heaven to me.  Using a 6x6 blank card from my stash I began but cutting out one of the cut aparts then fussy cut around to create the border.  I then fussy cut out the flowers and leaves, some of the stamps, love heart, the tag and the black heart with the small heart trail.

I used sticky glue to adhere the cut out onto the card but any form of adhesive is perfect.

I like to lay all my cut outs onto the page before I adhere it to create the layers and dimension and when I feel I have the layout as I like only then will I start to adhere them down.  

I adhered the tag directly onto the page first then using pop dots I arranged the cut out flowers around this and then again using pop dots the heart with the sentiment and the black heart and trail.  I then used a small heart punch, mine is one I purchased from my local craft store, and punched out more heart to use to layer on top of the embellishments.  

Using a sharp craft knife a made an incision and slid in two of the cut out stamps in the corner using a pop dot behind the pink stamp to lift it off the page to creat dimension.m the tell stamp was adhered with a tiny spot of glue.

On the inside I used one of the cut outs and layered some of the paper below using a  banner style.  I raised the teal banner onto pop dots and adhered one of the stamps.  I also cut around some of the rosette type buttons and layered these also around the banner.  

I then used the stamp from the collection, stamping in black Archival ink and layered some more stamps and a love heart leaving space to personalise and write a small sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Have a fantastic weekend.

Take care of you.

Pauline

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