Fabulous Vintage Christmas

Hello!
Today I'm saying goodbye to the BFS Design Team! I'm so grateful for being given this opportunity to work with a fantastic and talented team of DT gals and the generous supplier, THANK YOU!

I have a bunch of my final projects to share today, created with the fabulous Vintage Christmas collection.
Starting off with a layout, featuring my Mom and Grandma, in their young years.

As usual, I have cut and arranged the border pieces inside the layout, to create a point of interest. Those borders are absolutely amazing! Few pieces of BFS chipboard complete the composition. I kept my layout in beige and red tones, therefore the chipboards are plain. Only the title  got one layer of clear UTEE, so it sticks  out.

Supplies:
Papers - Vintage Christmas, BFS mist - Cotton candy, chipboards - Floral lattice, Clip frames, Quilted page panel.


My second project is a mini-album made on a canvas base. I rarely work with this form but I can say, creating it was just so much fun! Now it's just waiting for this year's Christmas photos.
To have a little bit of variation, I combined plain chipboards with the embossed ones.

Supplies: Papers - Vintage Christmas, BFS embossing powder - Cotton candy, chipboards - Snow medley, Seeing stars, Flutter medley, Word ornaments.

I want to thank you all for this year spend together and wish you all even more inspiring and boosting with creativity year 2016!
Big hugs!
DT Zanka (Zaneta G)

Mixing it Up ~ Sandi's December Projects!

Hello, Blue Fern visitors! 

Sandi here with you today sharing my 3 December projects.

It's so hard to grasp that 2015 is almost over! 

"Memories"

First up is a layout using the Vintage Christmas collection. I used a variety of papers as listed below and then built my background with super heavy gesso, a stencil and Imagine Ink mists in Persimmon, Cotton Candy and Leaf. 

My Clip Frame was treated with Cotton Candy mist and then heat embossed using both Petal and Poinsettia. The Berry Stem on the left was misted with Imagine Ink in Leaf and variegated with a random ink pad. The Blooming Foliage peeking from beneath the photo was treated the same. A few microbeads were added to both for more texture. 

The Garden Lattice Bits were misted with Cotton Candy and then randomly embossed with Petal and Poinsettia.  You can also see I've used a snippet of the Blooming Foliage tucked into my cluster. 

One last close-up

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Paper:

Vintage Christmas Deck the Halls

Vintage Christmas Magical

Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards

Chipboard:

Garden Lattice Bits

Clip Frames

Berry Stems

Blooming Foliage

Imagine Ink mist:

Cotton Candy

Persimmon

Leaf

Embossing Powder:

Poinsettia

Petal

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"Dream"

I love scrapping with purple! And since I haven't had a lot of opportunity to use the DejaVu collection yet, I took this time to do so.

  (Love this early ingenue photo of Lucille Ball, 1930s. Photo credit to Tumblr, original photographer unknown.) 

The spectacular Circle Vine Frame seemed the perfect choice to add a little drama to my layout. It was coated with gesso, then misted with Imagine Ink in Jingle Bells. I did a little random embossing with a clear powder and then added in some purple with one of my gelatos. 

The Framington Medley was treated the same and used as a background layer. To emphasize my photo, I used color around the Circle Vine Frame and mixed in some microbeads as well. 

You can see some of my stamping in the background using the Garden Frolic stamp. 

I used more of the gelato color to create an ombre look on my Dream title. I finished the page with some random paint splattering. 

Paper:

DejaVu Lustre

DejaVu Tresors

DejaVu La Plume

Chipboard:

Framington Medley

Circle Vine Frame

Wish, Wonder, Dream

Stamps:

Garden Frolic

Imagine Mist:

Jingle Bells

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"Merry"

Here I am again using the Vintage Christmas collection. I've tried to photograph this layout multiple times and cannot seem to capture it's true appearance. IRL, it is so sparkly and pretty! 

The background was treated with gesso and Imagine Ink in Winter Mint. 

This LO is based on the December sketch and is of one of my grandsons with a great-granddad, so sweet. 

The Holiday Frame was misted with our Leaf mist and then blinged up with our Lucky embossing Powder! The shine is gorgeous! I've tucked in some fussy cut flowers. 

The Wood Ornament was treated with Petal and Poinsettia embossing Powders. A bow and flower finish it off! 

I used one of the Halftone Stamps around the outer edge of my layout for depth and interest. 

I added some personal touches with cheesecloth, peals and flair. 

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper:

 Vintage Christmas Wonderland

 Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards

 Vintage Christmas Deck the Halls

 Vintage Christmas Magical

Chipboard:

Wood Ornaments

Holiday Frame

 Embossing Powder:

Petal

Poinsettia 

Lucky

Mist:

Winter Mint

Leaf

Stamps:

Halftone

That wraps it up for December and for 2015! 

I am thrilled to be back with Blue Fern Studios again next year! 

See you then! 

November Projects by Melinda Thompson

Hello Blue Fern Studio Fans!

I am here with you again today to share you my 3 projects I created this month.  I had so much fun using 3 different lines of paper and lots of gorgeous chipboard and the new range of Imagine Ink Mist!

My 1st project I used papers from the Frolic Collection..Gosh I could have kept on creating with this one...it is just devine.

I used the large Grunge Frame and cut it up and layered the strips on the base of my paper. I have painted them with Gesso to begin with then I have used Imagine Ink Mist in Sky and Winter Mint.

 For my "arch" down the bottom of my layout all I used here was an off cut of one of the circle frame chipboard and used the same process but highlighted it with Imagine Ink Mist in Jingle Bells.

"XOXO"

I just adored the XOXO chipboard.  Again I painted it in Gesso first and then used some watered down paint to colour it.

My 2nd project I used the paper collection Paisley and Vine. Again such stunning and bright colours in this paper range.

Here I have used the Grid Pieces cut up randomly and layered over the base of my layout as well as the Deja Vu Luminaires Chippies and the word Love from the Adore, Love, Cherish word set. My chipboard pieces are covered in Gesso first and then painted on with some watered down paint.

"Love"

And lastly my 3rd project I used the beautiful Autumn Anthology papers.

After I created the texture on my background which included chipboard pieces from the Techno Squares set, I used the Imagine Ink Mist in Sky and randomly sprayed the background moving it around with some added water.

"Fun"

I loved using the Doily Bunting chipboard in this layout. I covered it in Gesso first and them inked the edges and then blended it with the Imagine Ink Mist in Sky.

The title "Fun" came from the word set "Crazy Silly Fun" and the frame around the photo is part of the Clip Frame collection.

Thank you very much for stopping by today.  

Happy Crafting!

Melinda :)

All Natural with Autumn Anthology- By Keren Tamir

Hi Everyone

Its Keren here on the Blue Fern Studios Blog featuring the Autumn Anthology collection again.

"All Natural"

For this first layout I used the Gazebo paper which features a beautiful Gazebo across the right side. I used it to surround the chipboard frame around the photo.

I used the chipboard shrine frame around the photo. I primed it with white gesso and then sprayed it with the Blue Fern Studio Leaf spray and mixed it with another yellow coloured spray. Then I stamped on it with the brick stamp from the essential textures set.

I added flowers, butterflies and also used the brick stamp around the page to add to the garden feel of the layout.

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"Cute Smile"

For this layout I used the Autumn Anthology Balcony paper.

I smeared some white gesso on the background and then sprayed all three Blue Fern Studios sprays for this collection: Leaf, Persimmon and Sky.

Then I stamped the sprayed area with one of the Weathered Doilies from the stamp set.

I framed the photo in the smile clip frame from the set. Then I used the Paisley and Vine medley chipboard and the Cute title word to embellish. All chipboard pieces where inked with both Leaf and Persimmon sprays.

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios blog

Have a wonderful day!!!

Keren

autumn Anthology layouts with Yuko

Hello!It's Yuko here!
I was pleased very much at the moment when I had "autumn Anthology " in my hand！
There are very beautiful!!!

I made 2 layouts Very fun!

【story】

I often take a picture together with my daughter.

That's a very important memory.

After painted gesso for this chip board, we put a partially lame.

A stamp of brick used this.

Repeatedly to cut out a lot of paper.

Banner is a stamp that was released this time.

It is very easy to use even feel the right size!

　　

　

＜Autumn Anthology＞

Balcony/Calling Cards/Perfumeries/Mercantile

<stamps> Flight&Flair

<chipboard>   Ironwork Edges/Story, Fairy tale, Magic/Mesh Bits

【memories】

We went to grape picking the other day.

It was very fun!

Various size sets the cardboard of this frame and seem to play an active part again from now on.

There so many beautiful patterns in the paper.

It is to be fun to cut.

＜Autumn Anthology＞

Gazebo/CallingCards/Perfumeris/ Newsworthy/Penmanship

<chipboard> Clip Frames

<mists> Leaf

The Christmas line was announced the other day, too!

It is very wonderful, and that is a pleasure now, too❤

Thank you!