Sandi's November Inspiration!

Hello, Blue Fern Studios fans! 

I'm here today to share my November projects ... I love sharing what I've created with all these amazing products! 

"Born to be Wild"

First up, I just HAD to scrap this new, funny photo of my granddaughter, Peyton! 

She has such a "goofball" personality that we adore! So, I just had to find a way to incorporate it with my Blue Fern Autumn Anthology papers. I've used Parfumerie as my base and layered in Newsworthy,  Gazebo and Calling Cards. 

The title chippy was first primed and then lightly inked. When that was complete, I used our new Petal embossing powder.  I went for all-out shine this time around. 

You can also see some of the Essential Textures stamping in the upper left corner of this photo.  It is fantastic to work with and adds such depth and interest. 

I'm a big fan of framing my photos, so this new Double Swirl chipboard was an easy choice! 

It was primed and then misted with our Imagine Ink mist in Leaf.  I gave it some variegation with my ink pad.  The Bits of Honey chipboard was left raw except for a touch of gesso for highlighting. 

I love dimension and all these products work together to help achieve that goal. 

Blue Fern Studios products used:
Paper:

Autumn Anthology Parfumerie
Autumn Anthology Newsworthy
Autumn Anthology Gazebo
Autumn Anthology Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Born to Be Wild

Double Swirls - small

Bits of Honey

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Mists:

Persimmon

Fern

Embossing Powder:

Petal
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"The Most Wonderful .."

Next, I decided upon a celebration theme .. New Years Eve, 2014. 
This wintery Christmas Vintage Auld Lang Syne was an obvious choice but so soothing to use! It's neutral background can go so many ways.  I layered, tore and fussy cut using Wonderland and Greeting Cards as well. 

Of course, I had to make it my own with my Imagine Inks in Winter Mint and Leaf. For shine, I used the new Pyrite Glitter. 

My chipboard was all treated the same. I like the cohesiveness that gives a project. It was primed with white gesso and then dabbed thoroughly with Glossy Accents and Diamond Dust. Gives it a real wintery, frosty look .. like glistening snow. The new Blooming Curls chipboard is so unique. I've just been waiting to find the perfect project. 

This is a good close-up of some of the stamping used to provide depth and interest. 

Blue Fern Products Used:

Paper:

Christmas Vintage Auld Lang Syne

Christmas Vintage Wonderland

Christmas Vintage Greeting Cards

Chipboard:

Blooming Curls

Berry Stems

Mist:

Winter Mint

Leaf

Stamps:

Forever

Glitter:

Pyrite

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"Wish"

This one you have already seen when we first introduced the Christmas Vintage collection. 

The Noel paper was treated with clear gesso and then super heavy gesso with a stencil. Imagine Ink in "Winter Mist" was misted and spread with water to enhance the stenciling. The "Carribean" glitter was then scattered over the background paper for lots of shine. 

The chipboard pieces were all primed with gesso and then coated with the Imagine Ink in "Winter Mint" ( Snow Medley), "Leaf" (Eclectic Hearts), "Jingle Bells" (Garden Window) and "Cotton Candy" plus "Persimmon" (Wish, Wonder, Dream).  The Snow Medley piece was enhanced with "Fern" embossing powder, the Wish with "Poinsettia" embossing powder and the Eclectic Hearts with "Lucky" embossing powder. The Garden Window was misted with "Jingle Bells," then dusted with "Pyrite" glitter. 

Paper layers were cut and placed behind the Window. Flowers and bling were added as a final touch. 

Here are some close-ups:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper:

Vintage Christmas Noel

Vintage Christmas Magical

Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards

Chipboard:

Snow Medley

Wish Wonder Dream

Garden Window

Eclectic Hearts

Mists:

Leaf

Winter Mint

Persimmon

Cotton Candy

Jingle Bells

Embossing Powder:

Fern

Lucky

Poinsettia

Glitter:

Carribean

Pyrite

Thanks for visiting the Blog today. 
We can't wait to see what YOU create with our products! 

Two layouts , two different collections by Wilma Voermans

                          I cant believe it is already a month ago my last blogpost was on.
                                              And only 6 weeks untill Christmas!
                           But let us first say goodbye to fall , my most favorit season.
                                               Fall in Switzerland is so beautiful .

                             Lets go over to my first layout I would love to share with you.

                                                                             

When I start a scrapbookpage, I never know what I am going to do excactly.

I grab a picture, and choose the papers.

For this paper from the Love Story collection I had a masculine page in mind.

Well, as you see it ended up as a feminine page.

The picture I used was not that great in the start, a lot going on in the background.

But my daughter in law has beautiful eyes , so I decided to use just that part.

The chipboard piece I used is the crosshatch frame .

I first embossed it in red, but I changed my mind and dapped it random with black patina.

Here and there I left a little red peeking through .

On my background I used the glitter Phoenix , I just spread here and there on my wet gesso.

In real life it gives a great effect!

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The second layout I like to share with you is light as spring .

My daughter asked for a layout with this picture.

I think it is perfect for the Ombre Dreams collection.

I made this layout after the beautiful November sketch, a design by Michele Singh.

The link to the November challenge

The chipboard piece Tech panel is versatile.

I choose it to get some grunch feeling and tone down all that sweetness :) 

I am a big fan of the chipboard negatives.

They give the chipboard sturdyness for shipping.

But they also give me fun and crazy shapes, I never throw them away!

Here I took out the circles from the tech panel , colored them ,

 a few doodles and there you have small embellishments

The techpanel piece is just painted with silver/iron colored paint .

To match the iron my granddaughter holds her hands on in the picture.

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Thank you for visiting the Blue Fern blog today and have a great weekend!

x Wilma x

New at Blue Fern Studios - Autumn Anthology!

We are excited to introduce our new collection - Autumn Anthology, designed by the very talented Michele Singh.  This is going to be a long post, with a lot of images, because there is so much to see!

We begin with the paper collection.  In addition to the beautiful colors, you will find an array of dainty lace patterns, a charming cottage and gazebo, classic ironwork, and vintage newsprint adorning this collection of 10 patterned papers.  There are also plenty of items just perfect for fussy cutting, and numerous cards for you to cut apart and tuck into your projects.

But that's not all!  This collection is packed with enough products to get your creativity going, and keep it flowing for quite some time.  Each item in this release builds on the others!

For the first time, we are excited to add a collection of  mists that were selected to further bring alive the colors in this collection:

Imagine Ink Mica Color Mist - Leaf

(a leafy green with silver mica)

Imagine Ink Mica Color Mist - Persimmon 

(a beautiful coral red with bronze mica)

Imagine Ink Mica Color Mist - Sky 

(a beautiful sky blue with silver mica)

What would a release be without some new chipboard pieces to go along with it?  

French Ironwork

Iron Signage

Ironwork Edges

We round out this amazing collection with a couple of elegant stamp sets.

Flight & Flair

Parisian Ironwork

Wow!  This is an amazing collection and we are so excited to bring it to you.  It is available in our Store now, and will be shipping to your favorite retailer soon!