May Social Media Features and YOU!

Hello, Blue Fern Studios fans! 

It's already time for another Social Media feature! 

We've been out and about on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and a few online galleries just to see what you are creating with your Blue Fern Studios products! 

We really want to encourage you to use Instagram if you are not already! It's a great resource for inspiration. And an easy way to scroll through pretty photos without other distractions. 

Plus, you can post to other social media sites easily with just one upload.

We are nearing 800 followers! How soon can we reach 1000?! 

Thanks for helping us grow our Social Media presence. 

Now for some great features:

One of our lovely Facebook followers, Bev Code, posted this layout to our  Facebook page and linked it to her online gallery. She's used the Timeless collection and several pieces of BFS chipboard. Thanks, Bev, for always sharing your work with us! 

We found this beauty by @eiko_ehira on Instagram! What a gorgeous way to use the romantic Blush collection! We love when people use our products in new creative ways. Wouldn't you love to reach out and touch this one?! Thank you, @eiko_ehira. This is so inspiring. 

This dramatic layout created by Sandra Bernard was found on Pinterest as well as Instagram at @sandradeebernard. Her use of the Timeless collection, raw Blue Fern Studios chipboard and mixed media with co-ordinating florals is breathtaking! 

Our Courtship Lane collection has been so well received and Instagram user @bliss_scrap.31 created a gorgeous layout and placed it in a frame. This way you can really go super 3 dimensional and add plenty of chunky embellishments. 

Frolic is an older but favorite paper collection! @megu_ig shared this on Instagram. What a great choice for wedding photos and some altered chipboard! Thanks for tagging us @megu_ig! We love it! Such an adorable couple. 

Okay, one more!

 We couldn't pass  up this beautiful layout by @akemihonma using our Serendipity paper collection. She tagged us on Instagram as well and we pinned it to our Blue Fern Studios Pinterest projects board where we try to pin as many of your creations as we can. It's a win-win! 

As always there are new Blue Fern Studios products in the works! 

We'll have a new collection to share in about a week or so. 

Don't forget to tag us on your projects or your haul videos.

We truly want to feature YOU! 

See you next time! 

Sandi

April Projects by Cathi

Hello friends, Cathi here with some project for April! I am a little later this month as I was feeling very ill the last two weeks, and have nearly shaken the flu off, but it is still stubbornly lingering!! Once I felt better again I was able to finish off my projects and this first one is one of my favorites!

My daughter was in her first regional youth ballet performance last weekend. I took my cough drops and antibiotics with me and I watched her and the company perform some beautiful classical ballet pieces and contemporary pieces. She looks so elegant and so grown up in this photo, I just had to use it for a layout this month! The base page is the gorgeous Fondness paper from the Blush collection.

I used several cutouts from the Blush Calling Cards paper to tuck in underneath my photo, inking the edges in Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  Here you can see where I used the gorgeous Imagine Ink Snow and Lime Embossing Powders on the gorgeous Dare to Dream chipboard piece and Fancy Fob Watch piece. I also added some touches of Imagine Ink Cotton Candy Embossing Powder, a favorite of mine!

I have added some gorgeous Courtship Blooms and Roses along with some flowers from my stash. Again you can see the gorgeous Imagine Ink Lime, Snow, and Cotton Candy embossing powders on the fob chain.

To finish off my layout I used several stamp sets: Forever, Halftone, and Essential Textures using Walnut Stain and Worn Lipstick Distress Stains.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection~Fondness

Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Dare to Dream

Fancy Fob Watch

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Snow

Lime

Cotton Candy

Stamps:

Forever

Essential Textures

Halftone

My next layout features the Serendipity collection and a photo of my great grandmother! I love to use actual vintage family photos of my own family and find this communion photo beautiful! For the base of this page I have used Serendipity Chronicle paper.

I cut the gorgeous Floral Spray chipboard piece and tucked it in under and around my photos. I colored the chipboard with the Imagine Ink Verdant embossing powder. You can also see some cut out pieces tucked in around the photo from the Serendipity Calling Cards page. 

I used a lot of beautiful flowers from my stash and also tucked in two green Courtship Blooms. Again I took the Imagine Ink Verdant Embossing Powder and colored in the Reminisce chipboard from the Serendipity Words 2 set.  I did a lot of background stamping using the Essential Textures, Texture Circles and Forever stamp sets.

My final little chipboard I added was this adorable bird from the All Natural set that I tucked in my flower cluster. I used Imagine Ink Buttercup embossing powder to color in the little bird. I love it!

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Serendipity Collection~Chronicle

Blue Fern Studios Serendipity  Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Floral Spray

Serendipity Words 2

All Natural Set

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Verdant

Buttercup

Stamps:

Forever

Essential Textures

Texture Circles

Finally, here is my layout I did for the April sketch challenge, featuring the gorgeous Courtship Lane papers and my ballerina who isn't camera shy in her costume for her youth ballet show, Coppelia!

Here is the gorgeous sketch this layout was based on:

Of course I had to used the ballerina from the Music Box chipboard, embossed with Imagine Ink Embossing Powder in Cotton Candy.  I have also done a little cluster in the top right hand corner of the layout with the Turkish Bits, again with the Imagine Ink Embossing Powder in Cotton Candy. Here you can see the gorgeous Courtship Lane Roses.

I have tucked in some of the Courtship Lane West Plaza paper under my photos here, adding more Courtship Lane Roses and Blooms. To tie in with the black lacing on the costume I have added some black seambinding in a bow and some black lace.  I have added some stamping from the music stamp from the Texture Circles Stamp Set and the diamond pattern from the Forever Stamp Set.

Here you can see more Courtship Lane blooms and the I Think You're Wonderful Chipboard  which I have embossed with the Imagine Ink Embossing Powders in Cotton Candy and Heavenly

To finish off my layout, I added some masking and molding paste and some purple splashes. I tucked in a tag for journaling and a Reneabouquet butterfly.

 Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Courtship Lane Collection~Calling Cards

Blue Fern Studios Montage Collection~West Plaza

Chipboard:

Music Box

Turkish Bits

I Think You're Wonderful

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Cotton Candy

Heavenly

Stamps:

Texture Circles

Forever

Flowers:

Courtship Blooms

Courtship Roses

Blush ,Timeless,Serendipity collection layout Yuko

Hello!  Yuko here!

I made 3 works newly this month!

I use different collection for each.

Those collection is characteristic, and anything is very beautiful!

【Sweet】

I use Blush collection!  I love This collection!!! 

  Particularly this paper is a favorite in that!

I used favorite emboss powder oatmeal for a title.

<Blue Fern Studios Products>

Paper   Blush collection   Calling Cards/Celebration/Cupid's Folly/ Reminisce

Chipboard  Cute, Sweet, Sassy/ Flourish Hearts

Embossing powder   oatmeal

【cute】

I used serendepity collection for this work.

This series is very chic, and it is beautiful!

The chip board of the big heart has to paste the paper.

Balloon of chip board was also to paste the paper.

Small heart took advantage of the part that does not need a another chip board.

That was a good accent!

Chip board of the title will use the Sea Mist of embossing powder

It was sprinkled artsuger of Prima after applying a heater.

<Blue Fern Studios Products>

Paper　Serendipity collection   Calling Cards/ Glee/Imagination/ Merriment

Chipboard  Cute, Sweet, Sassy/2 Hearts Set/Frilly Hearts/Mini Ring Things

Embossing powder   Sea Mist

【Adorable】

The third of the work was to use the TIMELESS collection. 

It's really is cool I TIMELESS collection!

Cool finished in chic, can either girls elegant.

And have a first glance seems difficult, I thought it was very easy-to-use collection.

I used VERDANT of the emboss powder for the cardboard of the leaf.

It is different from sage which I introduced last time in this color again, and a gold color strongly appears when I expose a heater and dissolve it.

 I repeat black from emboss of the gold.

The title is CELESTIAL of the emboss powder.

It was the finish which the lam of various colors entered the black, and thought whether it was flamboyance more, but was unexpectedly blackish.

<Blue Fern Studios Products>

Paper　TIMELESS　collection   Calling Cards/Maconnerie/ Abode/Artistique

Chipboard  Classic Ornaments/Perfect, Adorable, Special

Embossing powder   CELESTIAL/GINGER/EBONY/VERDANT

Thank you for looking!

Three layouts, three collections by Marie-Josee

Hello, Blue Fern Studios fans!

Today, I will show you three layouts I created with the latest Blue Fern Studios collections!

"Happy" layout with the Serendipity collection

Here's the layout I created with the latest collection, Serendipity. I used the Imagination paper as my background, with I altered with black ink and the Arcadia Textures stamps.

The chipboard I used in the background is the Turkish Panel. I used only a part of it.

I altered it first with a black ink pad. Then, I used the Sea Mist embossing powder on top. I did not cover it completely. I wanted to see some black.

For the title, I used a chipboard from the Happy, Heart, Love chipboard set. I altered with a black ink pad, and I also added teal spray ink.

"Love" layout with the Blush collection:

For the background of this layout, I used the Charmed paper from the Blush collection.

I used the Frilly Hearts chipboard set as the focal point of my layout. First, I altered them with light pink paint. Then, I embossed them with the Cotton Candy embossing powder. Using the Brocade Texture stamp, I added patterns here and there with embossing ink and color using the Fuchsia embossing powder.

 

"Dream Big" layout with the Timeless collection

The background of this layout is made of recycled cardboard, which I altered with various mediums.

I used scraps of paper of the Timeless collection that were left after I created other layouts. I love how their colors fit with the background of the picture I used.

I also used the Crossing the Lines chipboard behind my photo.

That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed seeing my projects!

February Layouts-- By Keren Tamir

Hi Everyone,

Its Keren here with my design team projects for February.

I created two different themed layouts using the latest two new collections from Blue Fern Studios.

"Blush" and "Serendipity"

Both these collections are stunning and perfect for the month of love.

Here is the first layout designed with the Blush collection.

"Love"

I used the Blush "Key to my heart" paper for the background. The Blush's pastel colours were perfect for this beautiful wedding photo of my cousin. I just love what the photographer did with their hands and I had to use a frame to highlight the heart.

The frame I used is the Folkart frame. I added a Romantic chipboard dangle of a locket above and below the frame. I wanted to make it seem as if the frame is dangling from the top of the page.

I embossed both frame and dangle with Imagine Ink cotton candy embossing powder

The chipboard word "Love" and the heart were simply inked in chalk ink.

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"Uniquely You"

My second layout is different from the the one above in term of both theme and colours.

I used the Serendipity "Contemplation" paper for the background and the "Calling cards" paper for layering behind the photo.

To create a natural texture in the background I used a modelling paste over a woodgrain stencil. Then while the paste was still wet, I spread 3 different colours of Blue Fern Studios Imagine Ink embossing powder. I used sage, nutmeg and ginger.

I also used the new whimsy chipboard flourishes as accents. They were simply inked in brown chalk ink.

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios blog today

Have a fantastic day!!

Keren