Seeing Stars by Edith Cloutier

It has been such a joy to have Edith Cloutier as our Blue Fern Fan of the Month.  It's easy to see from her enthusiasm that she really has a love for creating with Blue Fern products.  As we wrap up her time with us by showing off her fourth layout today, we want to give Edith a BIG THANK YOU from all of us!  We hope you will leave some love for Edith, too!  

Here is Edith to tell you all about her layout, "Seeing Stars"

I like to use Blue Fern Studios paper to make my layout's background because their beautiful patterns give a lot of style to my creations.  Their thickness is also perfect when using many mediums.  For this layout, I used the "Bretton" paper from the Chesterville collection.

As you may have noticed, I like to work with modeling paste with watercolor to do my background.  Also, I have a big crush for the "Tattered Newsprint" stamp.  I use it on practically all my layouts now.

I used the "Seeing Stars" chipboard with some embossing powder.  The Blue Fern glitter is perfect to add a special touch with micro beads and mica flakes.

And finally, no layout is complete without flowers!

Papers: Chesterville - Bretton

Chipboard: Seeing Stars

Flowers: Courtship Roses
Spring Lilies

Embossing powder: Wheat

Glitter: Pyrite

Stamp: Tattered Newsprint

March inspiraiton by Annie Samson

Hi Blue Fern Studios fans, I am verry excited to share my lastest layout with you ! Two of theses layouts are made from the brand new collection Spring Parade and the third one is made from my fave off all time Chesterville.

''Bonheur''

For this layout, I used the back side or the Sunday Best paper of the Spring Parade collection.

The color of this paper is so goergeous that I have only use a litle bit of ink to color my background.

I used the Tattered Newsprint to add a little bit of interest under my picture.

I used the embossing powder Mornig Sun on the Janie's frame chipboard. 

I also used the left over of the chipboard to add texture to my layout.

Finaly, I have used a lot of wonderful Blue Fern flowers to embellish my layout.

Blue Fern products I have used:

Paper

Sunday Best - Spring Parade

Chipboard

Janie's Frame
French words

Stamp

Tattered Newsprint

Embossing powder

Morning Sun

Flowers

Chesterville bloom
Chesterville floral
Winter lilies
Courtship lane roses

''Adore''

For my second layout, I have used the back side of the Susie's Garden paper of the Srping Parade collection.

I used Turkish Bites chipbard and modeling past to add texture to my background.

I used the Tattered Newsprint ramdomely on my bakgroud

Than I have used the Speckled Mint embossing powder on the Circle Vine chipboard. 

And a add a bunch of beautiful flowers.

Blue Fern products I have used:

Paper

Susie's Garden - Spring Parade

Chipboard

Turkish Bites

Circle vine

Adore, love, Cherish words

Stamp

Tattered Newsprint

Embossing powder

Speckled Mint

Flowers

Harverst lilies

Spring Floral

Spring peony and berry

Tranquil bloom

''Follow you heart''

For my last layout or March, I used the back side of the Home paper of the Chesteville collection.

I embossed the Roman Clock Set with Mushroom and Breeze embossing powder.

Than I have use ink to add collor to my background and to color the Blooming Foliage chipboard.

I cut the title and embosse one part with Pearl embossing powder and the other part with Black Ice embossing powder.

And finaly I added flowers

Blue Fern products I have used:

Paper

Home - Chesterville

Chipboard

Follow your heart

Roman Clock Set 

Blooming Foliage

Embossing powder

Mushroom

Black ice

Breez 

Pearl

Flowers

Chesterville blooms

Darck tropic lilies

See you next month, Annie Samson

Plaisir (Pleasure) by Edith Cloutier

Hello Blue Fern Fans!  Today we welcome back our March Fan of the Month, Edith Cloutier.  You're going to love her second layout of the month.  The colors are beautiful and the photo is so darn cute.  Everything just comes together so well.

From Edith, describing her layout:

I used "George" paper from the new hottest collection, Chesterville, for my layout.  I added texture paste to emboss with Blue Fern Wheat Embossing Powder.  I used the same embossing powder on my title.

I ike to use some pieces of chipboard to add some dimension.  Flowers were perfect to decorate my creation.  On the final touch I used Merlot Glitter with glass beads and micro beads.

Paper:

Chesterville - George

Chipboard:

Boston Lattice

Turkish Bits

French Words

Flowers:

Attic Charm – Glitter Roses

Courtship Roses

Spring Lilies

Embossing Powder:

Wheat

Glitter:

Merlot

Februari Projects By Wendy Scholten

Hi Everyone,

Today it's my turn to show you my projects for this month, 2 of them feature the new Chesterville collection, it's absolutely stunning!

For my first page

"All Natural"

 i used the Chesterville Hargrave paper, when i saw this one i knew i had to use it!

I mixed some white gesso with artsian powders and created a background for my photo.

Then i used the harlequin of the Texture 1 stamp and one of the vintage phrases

 and also a stencil i used with paint to give my background more texture.

 a few chrystals and string from my own stash.

The Chesterville collection comes with some beautiful grungy chipboard pieces, i used the Chesterville Collage which i cut in pieces to fit my photo right and an older set called All Natural, which matched my theme for this page perfectly.

I treated the Chesterville Collage with Oatmeal embossing powder, The All natural Set with Mushroom  and Sand and Sea embossing powder except for the butterfly (It's a girl embossing powder) and my title, on that one i used Vintage Gold embossing powder.

I also used a few Lilies from the Havest, Late Winter and Spring Lilies, thes are so gorgeous and can be used on everything!

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers:

-Chesterville- Hargrave

Chipboard:

-Chesterville Collage

-All Natural set

Stamps:

-Texture 1

-Vintage Phrases

Embossing Powder:

-Oatmeal

-Mushroom

-Vintage Gold

-Sand and Sea

-It's a girl

Flowers:

-Harvest Lilies

-Late Winter Lilies

-Spring Lilies

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Now for my second one

 "Two Hearts" 

i made a smaller canvas with Attic Charm papers and a picture from our wedding day in 2012.

 I used the Spring Posy papers as well as a few cards from the calling cards paper and strips of paper from the Sachet paper where i put some lace behind and between the layers to give it some depth.

I created the background with the Forever stamp and
i also used some It's a girl embossing powder and the essential texture stamp for different textures.

For my chipboard pieces i used the Floral clock and the Symphony border which i treated with snow embossing powder mixed with some glitters.

The Title Two Hearts from the Wedding Words Set i embossed with mushroom embossing powder but i found it was too dark so i used a little Gesso to tone it down a little.

i used some glitter, small flowers, chrystals and beads from my own stash.

For the flower clusters i used the Harvest Lilies.

 Blue Fern Products Used:

Papers: Attic Charm

- Spring Posy

  -Calling cards

-Sachet

Chipboard:

-Floral Clock

-Wedding Words

-Symphony border

Stamps:

-Essential Texture

-Forever

 Embossing Powders:

-Snow

-It's aGirl

-Mushroom

Flowers:

-Harvest Lilies

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And for the third one

"Sassy"

i also used the new Chesterville Collection.

For this page i used the Whitford paper and placed the Bretton paper (this one is so pretty with the small flowers) which i cut a bit smaller on top.

I cut the inside of the Whitford paper and used a piece of it behind my photo.

I made a lot of photo's of our little girl on our last vacation, i like them so much combined with these papers as you can probably see, because i used two already this month, lol.

 For the background i used modeling paste with a stencil which i colored with artisan powders and mica powders. I tucked in some Cheesecloth behind my photo.

I used the Manchester Frame which is part of this Chesterville Collection and the title Sassy from the Cute Sweet Sassy Set.

The Frame was embossed with the mushroom embossing powder and the title Sassy was treated first with crackle paste for some texture and then i used the vintage gold embossing powder.

 I used the  Late Winter Lilies and the Harvest Lilies.

 To give it al some more texture and depth i used some different sizes of art stones.

 I also used some small embesllishments and flowers from my own stash.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

-Whitford

-Bretton

Chipboard:

-Manchester frame

-Cute, Sweet, Sassy

Embossing Powder:

-Mushroom

-vintage Gold

Flowers:

-Late Winter Lilies

-Harvest Lilies

This Chesterville Collection is so stunning and versatile, i'm sold!

Thanks for visiting and have a nice day!

Hugs Wendy



February projects by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans.

Vera is here to share some projects with the very new and amazing Chesterville collection and also one layout with Heartland as I fell in love with the wonderfull blooming papers.

Let's start with Chesterville.  Hargrave became the background for my first project. The layout has been created for a good friend of mine.  I framed the photo into large Circle flourish chipboard covered with lime and antique gold embossing powder.

 

I also added some stamping with Texture 1 set.

 

Chesterville looks wonderful with cut elements from other collections, for exaple with mushrooms cut from Autumn antology.

I also decorated the layout with the Lifetime header covered with antique gold embossing powder and a Spring lily.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Chesterville - Hargrave

Autumn antology - Calling cards

Chipboards:

Large Circle flourish

Chunky Words

Embossing powders:

Lime

Antique gold

Stamps:

Texture 1 set

 

Flowers:

Spring lilies

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My second project proves that Chesterville collection may be used even for wedding purposes. I have created two wedding cards. Chesterville - Bretton became the background.

The die cut frame and leaves are made of Buckley sheet.

 

I decorated the cards with Little birds chipboards, Bits of honey and Winter lilies. Chipboards are covered with Icicle embossing powder.

Papers:

Chesterville -Bretton

Chesterville -Buckley

Chipboards:

Bits of honey

Little birds Set

Embossing powders:

Icicle

 

Flowers:

Late Winter lilies 

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And for the dessert today is the bright pink wedding layout with Heartland collection. Kiss Kiss background and a lot of fussy cutting from Red Rose Ball and Love Song serenade.

You can see numerous layers here. I achieved that with the help of chipboards: floral lattice bits covered with Icicle embossing powder, Spirit of Heartland painted with acrylic paint and the bird covered with Fools gold glitter.

There is some texture stamping with  Iris embossing powder. And the Header cut from Together is the best place to be. It seemed too long to me so I decided to leave the rest for another layout))

 

Papers:

Heartland - Kiss Kiss

Heartland - Red Rose ball

Heartland - Love Song serenade

 

Chipboards:

Floral lattice bits

The spirit of Heartland

Together is the best place to be

Embossing powders:

Icicle

Iris

 

Glitter:

 Fool's gold

Thank you for stopping by and see you in Match *)