January Sketch Challenge Winner and Featured Layouts

We are thrilled with the response to the January sketch.  It was our best month ever, so thanks to each of you who played along with us in January.  But don't stop there, the February sketch has already been posted.  You can find a link to it in our right sidebar.

As always, let's start with the winner.  Based on a random draw, the winner this month is ...........#4, which happens to belong to Laura Gilhuly of Canada!!

Congratulations Laura!  You have won a prize package of Blue Fern Chipboard!  

Please send me an e-mail, within the next 7 days, 

at {valerie(at)bluefernstudios(dot)com} to claim your prize.

Here is Laura's layout created using paper from our Sanctuary Collection and chipboard pieces (both the positive and negative) from our Turkish Bits.  We love how she colored the chipboard using mist, paint, and a little gesso.

Sometimes we just don't know when to stop.  So this month, we have even more layouts to feature, which isn't a bad thing!  You guys are just awesome.  Here we go.........

"Twinkle in Your Eyes" by Wendy Scholten

 This layout, with such an adorable photo, immediately caught our eye.  Wendy has used several papers from our beautiful Montage collection, one as the background and some fussy cutting from other papers.  She also used several pieces of Blue Fern Chipboard - the Checker Bits, Bohemian Flowers, Nested Circles, and the word Twinkle from our Winter Titles set.

"Fabulous"by Miki of Japan

Miki also chose paper from our Montage collection for her entry in the January Sketch Challenge.  The title is from one of our very popular sets, the Arrow Words.  We love how this all came together to create a beautifully designed layout.

"Happy" by Marina Timofeeva

Everything about this layout is "Happy".   Marina has used this happy paper with polka-dots from our Sanctuary collection.  The title is from The Optimist Word Set, and the other chipboard is from the Turkish Bits Set. 

"Left-Handed" by Sara K. 

On her blog, Sara says she really wasn't happy with this layout at first, but we love it!  What an adorable photo  - such concentration on that little face.  The Blue Fern chipboard stars, from our Seeing Stars set are the perfect touch. 

"Cherish"by Alena Grinchuk

Layouts don't always go as planned, which was the case with this one.  Alena had something else in mind when she began, but didn't like the photo she had chosen, so she switched to this black and white photo, instead.  The outcome is stunning!  The background paper and fussy cut flowers are from paper in our Montage Collection.

"Sweet Bundle of Joy" by Paulien van den Bosch

Our final choice for the month is this precious layout created using this dark navy paper from the Sanctuary collection.  Love how this came together, Paulien. Your grandson is so super cute!

 Congratulations to our winner and to the creators of our six featured layouts.  

We hope to see all of you again in February!

My First DT Projects - Galina Sazonova.

Hello!

I am pleased to welcome you on BFS blog and to share my first projects as  an designer Blue Fern Studios.

And a little bit about myself )...

My name is Galina and I'm 46 years old. I come from Belarus, 

but now live with my family in Moscow. I am a happy wife and mother of two children, 5 year old boy and 21 year old girl) My profession - Landscape designer, but not so long ago I discovered scrapbooking and he soon became a part of my life!

I get my inspiration from different things and events, as well as

from people and emotions. I really love life, therefore I create a lot of layers and colours in my
projects .) I like the different styles and the opportunity to try something new.

Hope you enjoy my creations!

Welcome to my blog:

http://galadreams.blogspot.ru/

Canvas "Angel Eyes"
Here is the first one of my projects for this month. This nostalgic canvas about my childhood. Little girl with sad eyes in the photo - it's me) ....

More details:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Chipboard - Textures - Checker Bits
• Chipboard - Words - Spiritually Speaking

Layout "Birdie"

My second project was created on the basis of the January sketch. In the photo I'm in my new small hat birdie.)

And more details:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Paper - Sanctuary -  Bountiful
• Paper - Montage - Society, Wisdom
• Chipboard - Textures - Tattered Diamond Bits
• Chipboard - Words - The Optimist Word Set

Project "Angel on duty"

And at last my third project - gift wrapping based of kraft .

More details:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Chipboard - Textures - Ornate Heart
• Chipboard - Words - Spiritually Speaking

I wish you a creative mood and good day!)

Galina.)

January projects by Karita Vainio

Hello!
It´s Karita Vainio here with you today, 

and this is my very first post as a Blue Fern Studios designer.
I´m very excited about this new journey with a new amazing team and especially with the gorgeous products.

 Here´s something about me:

 I´m a bit over fourty years old. Mother to a three amazing children, two grown up boys and one teenage girl
Also I´m a wife to a kind and supportive man. We´ve been together 25 years now.
We live in southern Finland, close to our capital city, Helsinki.
We live in a small house, which we build 10 years ago.
I love to decorate our little home and in the summer I spend my time in our small garden, which is my favourite place to be and enjoying the summer.

I love creating things. I love to make layouts and cards, and sometimes I also make art journals and canvases.
I think my style is romantic mixed together with shabby and mixed media styles.

I love to use different textures in my projects and  my motto is more is better.
I´ve been crafting and scrapbooking like 7 years now and I feel like my journey has just began :)

If you like my work, you can find my blog here:

http://www.karitavainio.com/

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My 1st project is made by following the January sketch. 

For this layout I´ve used the Correspondence and Botanical Garden papers from the new Sanctuary collection.
And the beautiful chipboards I´ve used are Notebook Edges, Arrow Words and Smile.

I´ve added white gesso on the papers and chipboards and after they dried I started adding some paints and mists.

Paper: Sanctuary collection: Correspondence, Botanical Garden
Chipboard: Notebook Edges, Arrow Words, Smile

And here´s my 2nd layout..

I`ve used the Botanical Garden and Garden Plaza papers from the Sanctuary collection.
And the great chipboards are Shabby Flakes and Roman Clock Set - small.

I´ve cutted the paper on the top a bit smaller than the bottom one and punched the edges from here and there to give a grunge effect.

Paper:  Sanctuary collection: Botanical Garden, Garden Plaza
Chipboard: Shabby Flakes, Roman Clock Set - Small

My 3rd project for this month is a canvas.

Paper I used for this canvas is Boudoir from the Blue Fern Garden collection.
Text is cutted from the Calling card from the Sanctuary collection.
And I just loved these gorgeous chipboards called Jasmine Collage and Checker Bits.

For this canvas I used lots of gesso and modelling paste.
And mists and paints.

Paper: Blue Fern Garden Collection: Boudoir, Sanctuary Collection: Calling Cards

Chipboard: Jasmine Collage, Checker Bits

I hope you liked my projects...
Thank you for visiting here and see you next month!

-Karita-

Inspiration from our Creative Team

Our Creative Team is crazy about Blue Fern products and we love to show off their work.  Here are some recent projects from members of our team:

Galina Sazonova used a piece from the Checkered Bits chipboard set 

when she created this Christmas card.  

I love the way she has items extending off the edge of the card. 

Definitely a card you would want to hand-deliver. 

Bente Fagerberg used an ink pad to color the title (from the Arrow Words set) and the Manor Hinges.

  Isn't this a lovely layout?

You will notice that the next three designers have all used circle frames in one way or another.  Jelissa Mei glammed up the frames she used behind her photos.

Melinda Thompson uses two Blue Fern Graduated Circles chipboard pieces to draw the eye toward the photo on this stunning layout.

And last, but not least, returning creative team member Marie-Josee Hamel also chose to use one of the Graduated Circles as a frame for the focal point of her layout.

We hope you enjoyed this inspiration from our Creative Team and found some new ways to use Blue Fern chipboard on your layouts and cards.

colors and pastels 3 LO by Olga

Hello !

Lately I often use yellow. Lots of yellow. In this work I use Ups and Downs Panel and arrows from it. I use combination of sweet photo of my little dude :) As title I use sentence from Optimist Word Set and some Filmstrips.

For this one I use one of my summer nature pictures .  I used here Checker bits and Jeweled page dangles as elements and Dream Big sentence from Optimist set as title.  Dangle is covered with glitter I really like this look that transparent glitter gives on works ! I used also BFS papers from Ombre dreams collection

Here I also used summer photo and soft pastel colors from Ombre dreams. I really love this collection!
One of Capture Words sentences is title of my work . one graduated circle and one of pettie butique frames fill up my composition.