Inspirations with Encza

Hello everyone! My name is Ania but on the Web you can find me as Encza from Poland.

I’m very excited that I will have the chance to present my inspirations 

in such an amazing Design Team.

I had the opportunity to meet with you over the next few months 

and I hope that my work provides You interesting inspirations.

Working with these beautiful chipboards from Blue Fern Studios is an amazing adventure for me.

What I prepared for you today?

Let's see :)

Mini  photo album

It’s a small photo album with pictures of my children. I’ve made it for my daughter.  Look at closing of album which I’ve used decorative tags and chipboards from Blue Fern Studios.

I used:

Leafy Page Accents and Ironwork Accents

Romantic card

Next of my work today  is a romantic wedding card. I’ve used two chipboards which I painted a silver pearls and glitter.

I used:

Leafy Page Accents and Ironwork Accents

Frame with my children

It’s a crazy frame with my children. I’ve used chipboards from Blue Fern Studios, tags, flowers and glitter.

I used:

Wedding Words

Thank you for your time spent with me and my inspirations. I hope that you enjoyed yourselves.

Ania_Encza :)

Watching YOU Put Our Designs To Work!

Hello to all of the Blue Fern Studios fans! This post is dedicated to YOU! 

As a new company, it is very exciting to see our pieces put to work. And beyond what our amazing design team creates for your inspiration, it's especially fun to see the consumer use our products to help make their projects even more special. So upload those works to the various online galleries- we're looking at them! And once a month we are going to feature some of the projects we find.

Here is just a sampling of what we've discovered in the galleries this month:

Marianne

Our "Organic Vine Corner" was the perfect choice to beautifully frame such a lovely photo.

 Tracey Gregory

Could there be a more fitting title than this "Sweet" piece from the "Valentine's Word Set"? Adorable!

Karen (Roosterhead Designs)

We adore how Karen has dressed up the "Brigitte Butterfly" piece- so romantic and perfect for this wedding album!

Brit

We were blown away by Brit's inventive idea of piecing apart our "Symphony Border" to create the frame around these two sweet little girls!

Sherry (Somewhere in Time)

What a sweet, SWEET layout- and the "Butterfly Kisses" title was a perfect fit!

Bonnie

Bonnie's page has so much to love about it- and we really love how she's used our "Royal Border" to top the whole thing off!

Thank-you to these talents for putting our name out there and for sharing your wonderful works!! We look forward to watching Blue Fern Studios continue to grow, and to seeing your creativity bring our chipboard to life! Thanks for the inspiration- and we hope you come back very soon. Our design team is hard at work crafting up a storm for your creative pleasure- and we have a special surprise coming up for you at the start of next month :).

All the best to you!

Happy Blue Fern Studios Sunday!!

I hope everyone is doing something creative this fine Sunday! It is me, Lisa, sharing some Blue Fern Studios product with you today. Something about birdcages makes me sing!! And the beautiful Fancy Birdcage was just the perfect piece for this layout. I absolutely adore the piece that the birdcage appears to be hanging from. A gorgeous iron scrollwork piece that is the "arm". You can use the bird cage alone, or you can add the arm  and even change the position of that piece so that it stands upright. I played with the position until I was satisfied with the way it sit on this layout.

Here is a close up of the birdcage. I used a Martha Stewart iridescent paint and stippled it on using my finger. When the paint was dry, I gave it a second coat. The result is a beautiful soft stucco texture. I used a pretty vine trim and wove it around the "arm" of the piece that the bridcage appears to be hanging from.

                                                                                           Model: 074677

For the title, I used one of the "words" from the "Good Vibes Word Set". I stippled on some white gesso, then while the gesso was still wet, sprayed it with the same spray I used to spray the background paper, flowers and gauze.

                                                                                                 Model: 07489

My next project is a mini album that I started. I have the cover done, and plan to fill the inside pages with more Blue Fern Studios chip board.

I used 2 butterflies from the beautiful Brigittte Butterfly set. The technique I used on them was a simple heat embossing using  Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress powder in Antique Linen. It gave them a beautiful old stone finish.

                                                                                                 Model: 074387                   

For the Vintage Lock, I heat embossed the piece with gold embossing powder. It has a hammered gold metal finish.

For the lock and keys. I used the same heat embossed gold finish and hung the pieces on a jump ring before I tied it to the seam binding ribbon on the spine of my mini.

                                                                                               Model: 074783

This next layout, I decided to leave the beauty of some of  the chip board in its bare form with a  touch of ink to give it a little dimension.

I split the Blooming Foliage chip board in half and placed a flower in the middle. It makes a beautiful filler for your flower clusters.
                                                                    Blooming Foliage

For the Tuscan Window, I used texture paste and stippled it on the pieces using my finger. When it was dry, I inked the edges. It gave it a weathered look.
                                                                     Tuscan Window

I used the word LOVE from the Good Vibes Word Set. Just a simple brush of ink over it to give it depth was all it needed.
                                                                 Good Vibes Word Set

I will be back throughout  the month with more of my work with Blue Fern Studios chipboard. There are new collections being added all of the time. Thank you for taking a peek today and come back for more inspiration from our fabulous designers.

Dress Forms and Floral Clocks...

There is just something so dreamy and romantic about dress forms. I have this favorite photo of my eldest daughter Nicole when she dressed up as a princess for a day at Disneyland. 

I wanted a page that would reflect the grandeur and fairytale-like quality of that day

and I knew that the "Sweetheart Dress Form" would be the perfect accessory for the page.

For the Dress Form, I just painted it with light pink Acrylic paint and then coated it with white enamel and pink glitter embossing powders. Heat set.

I also added a small vintage lock here...

Sweetheart Dress Form

Vintage Locks

For this album cover, I used the Floral Clock as a base for my bouquet of flowers. It fit perfectly in the center of the page cover and just added the right texture and dimension. I love this piece so much!

For the floral clock, I first painted the chipboard with cream paint and let it dry. I then lightly brushed intwith a thin coat of clear tar gel and sprinkled some aged gold fine glitter and mica flakes in pearl. Tap off the excess and lightly press down the glitter and mica flakes with your palette knife.

Floral Clock

I hope you have been inspired to take out your chipboard pieces and play along! These pieces are so durable that you can layer lots and lots of mediums on top of it. Just keep going until you get the effect you are aiming for. Have fun!

Hugs, 

Iris