Easter Joy by Patty Rogers

As we approach Easter, our Blue Fern Fan of the month, Patty Rogers, has an adorable Easter layout to share, using paper and chipboard from the Spring Parade Collection.  I'll let Patty fill you in on all the details:

Hi everyone! It's Patty Rogers again to share a layout I created with the beautiful Spring Parade collection. I wanted to use this photo of my two children as they were enjoying Easter Sunday. Don't you love the Spring Bunny chipboard frame?  The charming little bunny and its size are perfect for the trend in scrapbooking to use a small photo. 

For this piece, I used a variety of papers from Spring Parade (Market Place, April Medley, Sunrise, Susie's Garden and Spring Parade). The stripes in Sunrise paper begged for a horizontal or vertical design.  I used an inking sponge to darken the paper a little behind the area of interest to draw attention to that area and to make it pop. 

Some of the background work that I did can be seen here. First, I used Essential Textures stamp to play up the brick wall seen in the photo.  For the embossing, I used Lavender Eggs, Snow, and Sea Mist and added sprinkles of the brand new Spring Posy glitter! Also, I added a few splatters of gesso. 

This beautiful little girl is one of the many reasons I love Blue Fern Studios products! I fussy cut and popped her up for dimension. Also used here is Garden Lattice Bits chipboard in the background. I seem to be hopelessly addicted to dimension, texture and beautiful paper! 

 Flowers used here are the Spring Florals and Spring Peony and Berries. I painted a bit of gesso on the flowers to give them a lighter feel. 

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time!
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February Scrapbook Page Inspiration by Kris Berc

Hello, Blue Fern Studios friends and fans!  It's Kris Berc here and I'm super excited to share three new scrapbook pages with you!

My first project was made with papers from the awesome new Chesterville collection (coming soon!).  Oh, just wait until you see this collection in person.  It's neutral color theme can be easily customized to coordinate with any project!

I Love You More

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper:

Chesterville "Buckley"
Chesterville "Bretton"

Chipboard:

I Love You More

Winter Page Dangles

Embossing Powder:

14 Karat

Flowers:

Attic Charm Daisies

Late Winter Lilies

Soft Blossoms

Stamps:

Forever

Making Plans

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Project number two was also made with soon to be released Chesterville papers!  This collection is wonderfully versatile. There are so many fabulous neutral-colored papers to choose from.

We do not Remember Days, We Remember Moments

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper:

Chesterville "Whitford"
Chesterville "Buckley"

Chipboard:

Circle Groups

Remember Moments

Embossing Powder:

Ebony

Flowers:

Attic Charm Daisies

Dark Tropic Lilies

Heartland Blossoms

Soft Blossoms

Stamps:

Crackle Textures

Essential Textures

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For my third page, I set the neutrals aside and chose a pretty pink background paper from the super pretty Blush collection.  It coordinated perfectly with the pretty pink frosting on my daughter's cupcake!

Special

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper:

Blush "Reminisce"

Blush "Key to my Heart"

Chipboard:

Grid Pieces

Perfect, Adorable, Special

Treasured Floral Frame

Embossing Powder:

14 Karat

Cotton Candy

Flowers:

Attic Charm Glitter Roses

Dark Tropic Lilies

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!

My september layouts with Seaside Cottage Collection by Marie-Eve Bernard

Hello,

It's my turn to present you the layouts I have created with the new Blue Fern Studios Collection: Seaside Cottage.  The collection is perfect for beach theme layout, but the "B side" of the paper are neutral and can be use for other themes as well.  So, I have created 2 baby boys layouts and the last one is beach themed.  With those layout, I want to present you my little treasure: baby Léo.  He completed our family beautifully.  Daddy is proud (and mommy too) to have is little boy after two beautiful princesses! 

SWEET DREAMS:

On my layout, I use several Blue Fern Studios flowers that I mixed with some others from my stash. The Sweet Dreams Chipboard is emboss twice with the Imagine Ink Mushroom Embossing Powder.

On my background, i use two stamps set to add texture with india ink.  After that, i play with watercolor.  On the chipboards (Jubilation corners), I use Imagine ink Embossing powders.  First, i embossed twice in Mushroom.  Then, I heat again and sprinkle Seamist in the hot embossing powder and heat it again.  I love how it blend together and the texture it's created.

Blue fern studios supplies list:

Papers

Seaside cottage, Regalia

Chipboards:

Jubilation corners

Sweet dreams

Stamps set:

Essential textures

Forever

Imagine Ink embossing powders:

Mushroom

Seamist

Flowers:

Seaside lilies

Late winter lilies

Tranquil Lilies & Roses

Courtship Roses

NEWBORN:

I use both sides of the White Wash paper  of the Seaside cottage Collection. This paper is so beautiful!

For the Seaside Lantenrs chipboard, I use the same technique that I describe earlier, but with more colours. I love how they turned out. The list of colours is listed below. 

I emboss the newborn chipboard twice with the Imagine Ink Honey Embossing powder.

Blue fern studios supplies list:

Papers

Seaside cottage, White Wash (2 papers)

Seaside cottage, Embarck

Chipboards:

Seaside Lanterns

Baby Words

Imagine Ink embossing powders:

Honey

Oatmeal

14Karats

In the navy

Seven Seas

Breeze

Flowers:

Seaside lilies

Late winter lilies

Tranquil Lilies & Roses

Attic Charm Daisies

BEACH BABE:

On my background, I had modelling paste with a stencil.  While the paste is still wet, i add Imagine Ink Embossing powder and then heat it.  Then I play with watercolours.

To embellish, I use different collection of Blue Fern Studios Flowers. They are listed below.

All my chipboard pieces where embossed with Imagine Ink Embossing powder.  On the Flourish and the frame, I have used two colours: Seamist and seven seas.  On my title, I used Melon and 14karats.

Blue fern studios supplies list:

Papers

Seaside cottage, glory

Seaside cottage, relics

Chipboards:

Seaside flourish

Seashell Frame

Beach Babe

Imagine Ink embossing powders:

Melon 

14karats

Seamist

Seven Seas

Flowers:

Attic Charm Daisies

Harvest Lilies

Attic charm glitter roses

Thank for watching and hope you like it! See you next month!

Marie-Eve Bernard

July Projects by Cathi

Hello my scrappy friends, Cathi here to share my July projects with you using 3 different and gorgeous Blue Fern Studios paper collections.

This collection, Ombre Dreams, is an oldie but goody, one of my favorites, I just love the gorgeous pastel shades, it screams summer to me! I decided to do some beach themed layouts and chose this beautiful Ginger's Dreams page to be my base for this layout.

My girls are now 12 and 13, they look so so young and adorable here making sand castles on Venice Beach in California! I used the gorgeous Seaside Frame to frame my photo, coloring it with Sea Mist Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. I added the fun title Hello Summer on top, using the Buttercup Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

Here you see a cluster of gorgeous Tranquil Blooms and Courtship Blooms. I tucked in a starfish from the Seaside Seashells set  which I had embossed with the Imagine Ink Ginger Embossing Powder and some of my stash of real shells!!

I used a circle mask and molding paste and sprinkled the Imagine Ink Sunshine Glitter into the paste, I love the sandy look it gives!  You can see here the background stamping using my netting stamp from Essential Textures set and the circles from the Halftone set.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Ombre Dreams Collection~Ginger's Dream

Chipboard:

Hello Summer

Seaside Frame

Seaside Seashells

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Sea Mist

Buttercup

Ginger

Imagine Ink Glitter:

Sunshine

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Halftone

Flowers:

Courtship Blooms

Tranquil Blooms

Here is my second beachy themed layout, this one is more atmospheric...it is a photo of the girls beach toys left behind while they ran off to dip their feet in the ocean...just a calm serene scene using the Peaceful paper from the Tranquility collection.



I absolutely love this Seaside Charms chipboard which I layered on top of my photo. I embossed it with Petal Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. I did some masking and used molding paste for my background and used one of my favorite patterned background stamps from the Forever stamp set. The butterflies in pink are from the Bourbon Street set.  I tucked in a few layers from the Calling Card paper to add dimension to my layout under the photo.

In my cluster I used another of my starfish chipboards, this time from the Seaside Treasure chipboard set.  I embossed the starfish in  Lime Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. I made a flower cluster with the gorgeous Tranquil Roses and Attic Charm Daisies. I also tucked in more of my stash of seashells!  I used the Inspiration chipboard, embossed with  Petal Imagine Ink Embossing Powder for my title.

Here you can see the Tranquil Blooms flower and more shells and a bit of the coral from the Seaside Treasure chipboard set. I tucked in a kraft tag for journaling.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Peaceful

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Seaside Treasures

Inspiration

Seaside Charms

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Ginger

Petal

Lime

Stamps:

Bourbon Street

Forever

Flowers:

Tranquil Roses

Attic Charm Daisies

Tranquil Blooms

For my final layout this month I used a vintage image I found of an adorable sleeping child. There was a bird on the photo so I added some bird resins to the layout!  For my base paper I used The Grand Ball sheet from the Love Story collection.

I used lots of layers from the Love Story Calling Cards sheet.  Here you can see lots of the stamping I did using the Texture Circles, Forever set, and the Essential Textures set.  I did some masking and modeling past here as well. My flower cluster is from the gorgeous Tranquil Roses and Lilies set and you can see a little piece from the Tattered Diamond Bits set which I embossed with Cotton Candy Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

Here you can see the gorgeous Organic Vine chipboard piece embossed in Sea Mist Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. I also tucked in some more of the Tattered Diamond Bits under the photo. I added a resin birdbath and birds to fit the design of the layout!

I finished off the layout with the title Stillness which I embossed with the Sea Mist Imagine Ink Embossing Powder, tucking a cute little bird on top of the title!

I really enjoyed picking out some of my favorite papers and collections this month and I thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and visit!!

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Love Story Collection~The Grand Ball

Blue Fern Studios Love Story Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Stillness

Organic Vine

Tattered Diamond Bits

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Cotton Candy

Sea Mist

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Forever

Circle Textures

Cathi's Tranquility Projects for May

I am absolutely in love with the beautiful new Blue Fern Studio's Tranquility collection.  I love the earthy, natural, calming colors and themes in the collection. I decided I would do all my May layouts using the new collection and the gorgeous new flowers that match with it.

For my first layout, I actually let the beautiful orange flowers of the Tranquil Blooms inspire my choice of image! I just love this beautiful vintage image and I though she just radiated calmness in this photo!  I layered some pieces from the Tranquility Calling Cards Paper under the photo, using the Blissful paper for my base.

In this closeup you can see the Calm chipboard and Mini Flourishes which I embossed with Imagine Ink Chili Powder embossing powder.

I added lots of stamps to this layout background, including the Forever texture and chain stamp and the Making Plans stamp.

In addition to the beautiful Tranquil Blooms, I added some smaller flowers from the Courtship Blooms. I added some orange splashes to my background.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Blissful

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Calm

Mini Flourishes

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Chili Powder

Stamps:

Forever

Making Plans

I just love this beautiful Patience paper I used for this layout. Again, I love to use the Calling Cards to layer under my images for extra layers and details. I chose this sweet photo of my daughter. She loves to practice her makeup and takes photos for Instagram!! I stole this one and played with it making it soft focused and black and white for a calm feeling.

I used the gorgeous Spring Frame chipboard to frame the photo of my daughter, using the Image Ink Breeze embossing powder and Sunshine glitter to add some special touches.  I just love all the names, the spring frame with Breeze and Sunshine, perfect!! In my flower cluster I added gorgeous Tranquility Blooms and Courtship Blooms flowers, along with a fun Prima nest!!

Here you can see Hushed chipboard word as well as my background stamping using a flower from the Country Garden stamp set in Walnut Stain Distress Ink and the gorgeous brick wall stamp from the Essential Textures stamp set in Shabby Shutters Distress Ink.

I finished the layout off with a bit of splashes using green mist. I like the sweet effect the Imagine Ink Sunshine glitter gives to the flowers on the Spring Frame!

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Patience

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Hushed

Spring Frame

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Breeze

Imagine Ink Glitter:

Sunshine

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Country Garden

For my final layout I chose another serene looking vintage image! I love this beautiful image of a girl with a hint of blue in her dress. I thought it fit this beautiful Calm paper from the Tranquility collection perfectly.

This layout features a lot of flowers from the Tranquil Roses and Lilies flower set. I used the Serenity chipboard, embossed in Imagine Ink Seven Seas embossing powder. I also used the Tranquil Foliage, embossing it in both Imagine Ink Sage and Seven Seas embossing powder.

Here you can see the many layers I used from the Calling Cards paper, adding more lilies and roses from the Tranquil Blooms flowers.

For the background of my layout I used the Arcadia Textures stamp in Walnut Stain Distress Ink, adding lots of butterflies from the Bourbon Street stamp set. I finished off the layout with some masking and molding paste and some splashes of blue ink.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Calm

Blue Fern Studios Tranquility Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Serenity

Tranquil Foliage

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Seven Seas

Sage

Stamps:

Arcadia Textures

Bourbon Street

I really enjoyed working on my layouts this month, and I hope you liked this look at the gorgeous Tranquility collection of paper, flowers, and chipboad!