2 Cards and a Fabric Journal by Evgenia Petzer

Hello dear friends! Its Evgenia Petzer with you today, I have 2 cards to share with you today and a handmade fabric journal/notebook.
Both cards that I amde use the gorgeous Blue Fern Garden paper. I really LOVE everything about it the designs, the quality, just great!

Blue Fern Studios chipboard used: doily bunting, swirly doodle.

 The swirly doodle is painted with 2 colors of acrylic paint and then I applied glossy accent on top

and the second project is fabric-covered handmade notebook. Pretty in pink, hey?:) for a little girl.

Blue Fern Studios chipboard used: Brigitte Butterfly Set, Symphony border

and some close ups:

 the pages inside are hand-dyed in coffee

and another card

Blue Fern Studios chipboard used: bits of honey, all natural set

 microbeads on top of the chipboard leave from All natural set.

Hope you will have  a wonderful day!
Evgenia.

LO's and Project life by Kotlyarova

Hi there!
Olga is here today to show few layouts and Project Life spread.

I've decorated shipboards with different ways, hope you like it :)
For this Clean&Simple lo I've used two Blue Fern pieces. I've made ombre effect with acrylic paind and glossy accent. Looks great, isn't it?

BFS Chipboard Used:
All natural set 

Valentine's Word Set 

 I've made this lo with 7dots paper and two Blue Fern Studios pieces I painted with acrylic paint

  BFS Chipboard Used:
Brigitte Butterfly Set

Petite Boutique Frames

And the third lo is with my little cutie too:)

I wanted to add a little brown color here, so I didn't paint chipbord and just covered it glossy accent.

BFS Chipboard Used:
Quatrefoil Panel 

 All Natural Set 

And one week from my Project life album. I like use simple color cheapboards for making accents in it.

 BFS Chipboard Used:
Mini Ring Things 

Chunky Heart Panel 

 Picture Perfect

Have a nice week :)

Olya

November projects with Kerryn Lawson

Hello!  Kerryn here today to share how I have used some of my favourite Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces.

First up today is a mini canvas.  This cutie is about 2 1/2" square and was the perfect size for one of the pieces from the Bits of Honey set.

After the Bits of Honey piece had been adhered to the canvas both the canvas and the chipboard were primed with gesso then it was a case of building layers with different shades of blue/green mists.  By spraying the mists at different heights and with different hand movements you can still achieve a fun range of colour despite the small canvas size.

Two pieces from the 2 Hearts set were layered together and given a similar treatment but this time with pink/peach mists.  To finish the very ends of the wings were teased apart to add dimension with gauze added underneath for even more texture.

Blue Fern Studios products used :

The second project I would like to share today is a card featuring a gorgeous Brigitte butterfly. 

The base for the butterfly was a Circle motif which was primed with gesso and painted off white to better match the papers I had chosen.  The butterfly was painted in shades of pink and orange, pulled from the background paper.  After being primed with gesso the butterfly was coated with Shimmerz paint in Marigold before a combination of pink and orange gelatos were blended over the top to add graduated colour.

Blue Fern Studios products used :

Thank you for stopping by today!

Kerryn

Just a little something from Kristine

Hi Everyone!

Kristine here to share some projects with you today. 

AND.... I have made a mini-tutorial for you :) 

Enjoy! 

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Cute stuff

I like to make my own backgrounds for my layouts, and this time I made a step by step mini-tutorial on how you can do it, and how to use and include chipboard on your background.

(Sorry for bad pictures, and some of the colors is wrong...)

1. Gather your supply. I used:
- Mod Podge
- Modeling paste
- Palette knife
- torn paper with different textures
- heat tool
- Canvas or cardstock
- Shabby brick panel
- Some chipboard leftovers

2. Use Mod podge to glue down the paper, in 3-4 layers.

3. When you are done gluing on paper, put on some chipboard. 

 4. I have cut out a piece of the 12x12" Shabby brick panel, and are using it as a stencil. 

 5. Put on modeling paste, a thick layer. 

 6. To create texture use the palette knife and tap it over det modeling paste before removing the chipboard. 

 7. Remove the brick chipboard, and use the heat tool to dry.
Place the brick chipboard over a new area of the layout, and repeat step 5-7. 

 8. After the modeling paste is dry, choose one or two colorsprays of choice and spray it over the modeling paste. After dyring, you can stamp over with a stamp, to create more texture.
Now the background is finish. 

Here is the end result, I hope you like it :)

I have used these Blue Fern Studios Chipboards: 

Good Vibes

 Shabby brick panel

Spring branch

In the end I just want to share a tag with you

Lovetag

I have used these Blue Fern Studios Chipboards:

Brigitte butterfly set

quatrefoil page panel

Good vibes

I hope you found some inspiration here today :)

Blue Fern Studios + 7 Dots Studio = Love

Hi Blue Fern Studio Fans!! It's Lisa here, with a new set of layouts for your viewing pleasure. I hope to inspire you this week with my work.  What a delightful surprise when we found out that we were doing an awesome swap with 7 Dots Studio. It was like a match made in heaven!! But then again, Blue Fern Studios chip board will go with any paper or medium!! This first layout was done with the 7 Dots Studios collection Messy Head. I simply adore the wood grained pattern paper. I topped it with the print pattern paper and edge punched it. The paper and Twiggy Branch inspired me to use this photo of Flamingo's I took at Sunken Gardens a few years ago. They truly are "delightful" creatures.

I decided to leave the branch in a more natural color considering the wood grained paper went with it so well. I did rub a little Rock candy Stickles on it to give it a little sparkle. Then I just added some tiny flowers that I die cut.

  I love the word sets. I base coated the word and after it was dry, I dabbed on 2 different color glazes.

I used a white acrylic gesso to coat the Doily Bunting and the butterflies, and while the paint was thick and still wet, I sprinkled some Micro Beads in 2 different colors onto it and pressed them into the wet  paint.

A detailed look of the microbead/gesso technique. 

Twiggy Branch

Doily Bunting

The Optimist Word set

                              
                                                                   Brigitte Butterfly Set

For this next layout I used Messy Head once again. I cant tell you how beautiful the 7 Dots paper is!!

On the flourish I used some crackle paint. Whe the paint was dry and crackled, I rubbed some soft chalk ink over it so that it seeped into the cracks. Then I just dry rubbed the ink off of the paint leaving it on very lightly in some spots. .

I did the same treatment to the Circle Motifs. Then I added a bit of pink ink and rubbed it lightly over the whole surface.

I took one of the circle Morifs and cut it in half. I positioned the pieces on the edges of the layout. They look like 2 different pieces. I only used 1 piece, and there are 3 pieces in the set.

                                                             
                                                                   Blooming Flourish

                                                                        Circle Motifs

                                                                    
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and check out my creations this week. I surely had a wonderful time with my Blue Fern Studios chip board pairing it with 7 Dots Studios. Be sure to check back here on the Blue Fern Studios Blog often as the designers share their work and techniques. You are sure to be inspired.