July Inspiration by France Ringuette

Hi fellow Blue Fern Fans, today will be my last series for Blue Fern Studio. Due to some unexpected work changes, I am required to do lots of business travel, this is has the impact of reducing my craft time and I've had to make the heartbreaking decision to leave the amazing Blue Fern Studio creative team. I hope this last production will inspire you with the amazing Blue Fern Studio Products.

Layout #1: Travel

My first layout this month is inspired by the amazing Tattered Wall grunge feel paper of The Garage. It is amazingly perfect for making boy layouts, I just fell in Love with this paper.

Have you seen this new Azul embossing powder? It is spectacular. Perfect mix of turquoise and silver.

The ephemera are so much fun to use, it makes the perfect small elements around your picture.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used: 

Paper:

Tattered Walls The Garage

Tattered Walls Ephemenra

Flowers:

Harvest Lilies

Embossing Powder: Azur

Chipboard:

Wanderlost Words & Frolic Mesh

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Layout #2: Love

Oh what can I say, it's so easy to be inspired when you get the chance to work with an amazing baby photo like my friend's daughter, she is just adorable. Happy Accident remains one of my favorite collections. I love the detailed print on this background. On this layout, I wanted to created a soft vintage feeling so I opted to play with lots of flowers and embossed chipboard.

Frame chipboards are my favorites, I love using them under my pictures to create dimension. Embossed in rose gold, this one gives the softness I was looking for with a twist of shimmer.

Touched of Lace add to the delicate feeling of the page

I love this flower with a pearl center, just perfect. I also enjoy adding lace in my layering of the flowers.

On this dangle chipboard, I opted to use 2 different embossing powders : Baby Pink & 14 karat

Blue Fern Studios Products Used: 

Paper:

Happy Accident

Flowers:

Heartland Blooms

 & Apricot Blooms

Embossing Powder: Baby Pink, 14 karat & Rose Gold

Chipboard:

Frame & Dangling butterfly

Lace: 10 & 4

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Layout #3: Dreamer

Sweet Sweet Sweet baby, I just love this amazing picture of my friend's son Jack. This layout was just too fun to do. 

The Tranquility collection was just what I needed, it breaths calm and tranquil, perfect for this baby picture.

The Widget stamp is so much fun for a boy layout, I just enjoy the gears. I also enjoy embossing on my layout,

A bit a lace, a few flowers and the delicate ornaments are a perfect touch for this baby boy layout.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used: 

Paper:

Tranquility Calm & Peaceful

Flowers:

Dark Tropic Lily

Embossing Powder: In the Navy

Stamps:

Widget

Lace:  4

I hope you enjoyed my last projects for Blue Fern Studio and I wish you an amazing crafty July !

Before I go, I'd like to say a special thanks to Valerie & Leslie for the opportunity to have been part of the amazing Blue Fern Studios design team. Blue Fern Studios has been and will always be one of my favorite brands for papers, embossing powders, chipboards and many more products. I wish you and the team amazing success for the many years to come.

June layouts by France Ringuette

Hi Bloggers, it's June already. Once again it's my turn to ramp up the inspiration with a few layouts.

Layout #1: Our Story

Oh I have fallen in LOVE with the most recent Tattered Walls collection. It was actually hard to decide what paper to play with. For my first June layout, I wanted to make this page as a gift for my friend Marina. This wedding picture is precious, and she wanted to offer this as a gift to her Mother In Law. I love the soft and rich design in this layout that I coupled with one page from the Remnants collection.

The frame chipboard is stunning, heat embossed in Plum, I love the rich color and metallic effect this embossing color has. It's perfect to highlight the amazing wedding picture.

Have you seen the new Ephemera pack? This title piece, is stunning and so easy to integrate to any layout. I used the title doily underneath, love the effect. And not to mention the seedlings, they give such nice detailing to any layout.

This title chipie is a beauty, embossed in Baby Pink.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Paper:
Tattered Walls The Carport
Tattered Walls The Carolina Room
Remnants Bloomsberry

Flowers: Tattered Wall Blooms

Embossing Powder: Baby Pink & Plum

Chipboard:
Briella's mini frames
Glam frame
Our Story

Seedlings: Red grapes

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Layout #2: Big Adventure

Perfect boy's layout... Loving this new Dark grunge background in the Tattered wall collection. It's just perfect for this baby blue layout.

Sparkling navy ... My new favorite embossing powder, it's just perfect. 

I love keeping natural chipboard on my layouts, I like the simple effect it brings and on this dark background its is simply perfect.

Keeping it simple, small title from the Tattered Walls Ephemera pack.

Blue Fern Studio products used:

Paper: Tattered Walls Suite 204

Chipboard: Mini Frames & A Spring Day

Embossing Powder: Sparkling Navy

Tattered Walls Ephemera

Flowers: Spring Blooms

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Layout #3: Love

This layout was inspired by the printed chipboard text and mt friend Marina's wedding pictures were just so perfect,

On this layout, I added this quote to complete the 2 beautiful family wedding pictures.

My center of the flower had too much yellow so I chose to cover it with white gesso, then adding some Dusty Rose glitter.

Blue Fern Studio products used:

Paper: In the Mood Blissful

Flowers: Remnants Blooms

Stamp: Vintage Edges & Butterflies

Glitter: Dusty Rose

I hope you enjoyed my June lot, I wish you a wonderful crafty month.

France xxx

May projects by France Ringuette

Good morning bloggers, It's my turn to showcase some fun projects made with various paper collections from Blue Fern Studios. Today, I'll be sharing with you, 2 cards and 2 layouts.

Project # 1 May Mother's day cards

Mother's day is just around the corner and I thought I would provide your 2 different cards that I made for my mother and mother in law.

First Card

For this card, I used papers from Homespun collection, Minis & Picturesque papers, Lace 10, Embossing Powders Cotton Candy, Flowers Christmas & Heartland blooms.

Second Card

For this card, I used the same paper collection, but added different elements like the use of the Honeycomb stamp set, 14 Karat Emblossing Powder, Barb's Medallion chipboard, Chesterville Blooms Flowers & Lace 4.

Layout #1: Cherish

This amazing picture was the inspiration for this next layout, my friend Brittany's daughter is just too cute for words in her peach tutu. I was inspired to use the Amber & Apricot collection for this layout.

From the Amber & Apricot collection I chose to use: Flora, Friendship & Tweet Melody papers

Under the photo I used the Amber & Apricot printed chipboard with a touch of colored cotton cloth. In my floral arrangements I used flowers from the Apricot Blooms & Harvest Lilies sets.

I decided to cut out the little bird and feathers from one of my papers to add onto the side of my picture. I love the softness it was bringing.

The Cherish chipboard is simply stained a bid darker for more contrast with the paper. You will also find under the Amber & Apricot flowers, an embossed image of the Weathered Doily Stamp in Baby Pink embossing powder.

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Layout #2: Happy

I've had my heart set on crafting this beautiful picture of my niece with her family for a while now. When going thru my papers, I fell on Pacific Coast from the Wanderlust paper collection and knew that this was the perfect one for this picture.

I started by applying a coat of white gesso under my picture are to highlight the focus. Then added some touched of sepia stamping with the Remnants Collage Stamp Set

I used various papers from the Wanderlust collection to build my layers under my picture. I hear embossed in Breeze color the Happy chipboard title.

The chicken wire chipboard is painted in 2 different colors to give it an old look. 

The last step was to stamp some flowers, add a few drop of white gesso, and there you go an old feel kind of  layout.

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Blue Fern Studios Products Used on the projects:

Paper

Homespun Minis

Homespun Picturesque

Amber & Apricot Fiona, Friendship & Tweet melody

Wanderlust Pacific Coast & scraps from my Wanderlost stash

Embossing Powder

14 Karat

Cotton Candy

Baby Pink

Breeze

Lace: 10 & 4

Flowers

Christmas Blooms

Heartland Blossoms

Chesterville Blooms

Apricot blooms

Harvest Lilies

Chipboard

Barb's Medallion

Cherish

Happy

Chicken Wire

Amber & Apricot printed chipboard

Stamp Set

Honeycomb Set

Weathered Doily

Remnants collage 

I hope you enjoyed my May projects, and wish you an amazing crafty month of May.