Bo Bunny Snowy Serenade 11 comments  

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When I chose the Bo Bunny Snowy Serenade papers for this month's reveal, I thought they were pretty and would make some great snow day pictures. When they arrived I was blown away at how gorgeous they are! It's funny because Juliana had said it before and it's not that I didnt believe her, but I guess I just had to see them myself to believe it. The glitter on these is subtle and totally gorgeous! I ended up making 5 pages instead of the usual 4, and I am totally hoarding the rest for this year's snow pics (these pics are from last year). Im sure that you could use these papers for other things, but I just loved them so much for snow stuff that I didnt even try.

While I was on our trip there were several times that I wished I had my camera but for one reason or another, I didnt. So, I started writing down the scenes. I used the format from a blog that I read sometimes called 'unphotographable'. I am going to make a 6x12 book with pages without photos. This is the first page. I described the scene and feelings as we boarded the plane to Key West amid a snow storm. I printed the journaling on a transparency and cut it along the curved blue line of the die cut so that the edge of the transparency is hidden. I love the border sticker that I used here. There are gems printed in the center of each star and at the joints between stars. Originally I thought I would put real gems over all of them, but they look so real that I ended up putting the real gems just over the centers of the stars.

I wanted to keep this one really simple because the background paper is so pretty. I cut under the swirl in the lower right corner to slide the paper and photo underneath. I also put the sticker on a cardstock mat and popped it up with foam tape. Add a few rhinestones and voila! easy peasy

After the dark purple and the darker blues I wanted something clean and bright so I could highlight the details in the rub-ons and the stickers. For this page I just used some strips that I had leftover from other pages. The sticker snowflake really takes center stage here. I spent a while inking the edges in purple so it would stand out just a little more against the white background. I also like how the rub-on works over the empty space of my photo.

This page came together so fast that I just couldnt believe that I was done. I had printed the square photos, planning to put then in a line and make a page with a lot of whitespace. Then I saw the stickers that were almost the same size and decided to put then in a square pattern. I thought about adding some paper as a mat for the 6 squares but I didnt want to cover up the gorgeous glittery background paper, and there was a lot going on already, so I ended up leaving it. The stickers, I stuck to cardstock, then used foam tape to pop them up above the white squares that I mounted them on. I added the purple jewels over the printed jewels just for some more dimension and glimmer. Really, I couldnt believe how nicely the jewels that were printed on the stickers looked though, really realistic! Sorry about the shadows the sun was just rising.

I just loved the design of this die cut paper so I wanted to keep the focus of the layout on that. The purple background adds just the right touch to bring out the purple in the die cut. It looks better in person, in the photo it looks to me like the purple isnt quite the right color, but it is. Oh and purple is my favorite color, and I usually have such a tough time scrapping with it, so I was really happy to use it here.