January Projects with Bec - with video tutorial

Hi, I'm so excited to bring you my first DT post for Blue Fern Studios. 

Here is a little bit about myself

Hi, I’m Bec. I'm originally from New Zealand but I now live in Brisbane Australia with my Husband and Daughter. During the week I work as a Chemist, but every other spare minute I spend in my craft space.

I started scrapbooking after my Daughter was born in 2006 and I have just become more obsessed every year. In the last couple of years I have found mixed media scrapbooking and that has become my new passion. I also love to make altered art creations, canvases and card/tags. My scrap style is girly, I have to add flowers and pearls to everything 

I’m very grateful to be on some wonderful design teams and get to spend my weekend doing what I love. 

Joining the Blue Fern Studio team and creating with their amazing products is a dream come true :)

You can find me on:

My Blog

Facebook

Pinterest

You Tube

To start off this month I even have a video tutorial for you, this is a layout using the Love Story Collection. 

Amazing

Here is my video - Enjoy

And my close ups

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Papers: Love Story Collection - The Grand Ball, True Harmony, and Calling Cards

Chipboard - Beaded Strings, Floral Lattice Bits, Vintage Keys, and  Brilliant Amazing Dazzling pack.

Glitter - Pyrite

Embossing Powder - Honey and Petal

Stamps - Essential Textures and Postal Textures

Sweet

Next up I have a layout created using the January Sketch

Here is this months sketch, there is still lots of time to get your entries in for this.

I used the Autumn Anthology collection for this layout.  

I started the layout by using the Stamps Weathered Doilies and Brocade Texture with embossing ink and the embossing powders in Honey and Bonny Blue.  

I added my colour with mists and then some modelling paste through a stencil to give the background more texture. 

The chipboard pieces Flutter Medley and Arrow Word are coloured with the embossing powders - Bonny Blue, Petal, Oatmeal and Honey. I coloured the Floral Lattice pieces with peach mica powder.

I cut several pieces of the Autumn Anthology paper to layer under my photo, I distressed all the edges and added brown ink to give a shabby look.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Papers: Autumn Anthology Collection - Robin and Le Ballon

Chipboard: Arrow Words, Floral Lattice Bits, and Flutter Medley

Embossing Powder: Bonny Blue, Petal, Oatmeal, and Honey

Stamps: Postal Texture, Brocade Texture, and Weathered Doilies. 

Thanks for joining me today - see you next time

Bec

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

September Projects by Melinda Thompson

Hello BFS fans :)

The months are rolling around pretty quickly aren't they! I have another 2 projects to share with you all.

First project I am using more gorgeous papers from the Deja Vu paper range. Here I have layered up a couple of the larger circle chipboard pieces underneath my photo layers.

"Precious Memories"

Some closeups...I love the soft greens and apricots in this paper range.

Paper: Deja Vu Collection

Chipboard: Beaded Flourish, Corner Flourishes, Graduated Circles, Heart Borders

My second project is using some papers from the Love Story collection. I love the white and black teamed up with red and blue.

"Our Cousin"

Some closeups from the gorgeous chipboard pieces....the heart scallop border is just beautiful.

Paper: Love Story Collection

Chipboard: Heart Borders, Chunky Heart Panel, Brackets, Heart Hugs, Majestic Frame 

Thank you so much for stopping by..hope you feel inspired to be creative today :)

Melinda

My first blogpost for Blue Fern Studios. Mixed media layout and a pocketletter .

                Hello, my name is Wilma Voermans and I am a new team member at Blue fern Studios.
                                I live in the beautiful Bernese Oberland , Switzerland.
                     Talking English is not that difficult, but in my writing can be mistakes.
                                            I hope you will forgive me this.

                                  My first love is abstract mixed media on big canvas.
                     It is a side of my creativity I never show, because it is something for myself.

                        A few years ago I discovered scrapbooking and I was addicted right away.
                    Scrapbooking is so versatil , so many styles , techniques and materials can be used .
                                       Getting the mood of the picture,  be creative ,
                                       and make a keepsake for the next generation.
                                                         What more can we ask for?

                        Next to this I do Project life and my new addiction: pocketletters!

           Lets start with my first project for this post.......a vintage mixed media scrapbook page.
                                    Vintage and flowers is not my first to go to style,
                                     but I have a daughter that loves to dress vintage...
                                           Those pictures have to be scrapped too :)

                               My inspiration to start was the Love Story collection paper Concerto:

I used the black and white side to start.

But than I sort of lost myself with paints and medium.

But that doesn't matter, I had the feeling of the paper in mind.

For my layers behind the picture I also took leftovers from the Cottilion paper.

I knew I was going to use the tattered diamonds bits, so I took a stencil with the same shape.

The pink diamonds you see in the background is a mix of ink and translucent embossing paste.

For the chipboard I first painted it with black writersink.

It is deep black and you dont need to cover the chipboard first.

After it dryed I painted roughly over it with distress paint in Tarnished brass.

Lets go to my Blue Fern inspired pocketletter.

If you start with them, look out......it is highly addictive.

Not only is it great to receive real mail, it is fun to make somebody, somewhere something nice.

Pocketletters can have themes and  any kind of style.

Vintage, modern , colorfull, funny , cute etc etc

It are 9 cards and you add them in those baseball sleeves.

The card size is ATC , 2,5 x 3,5.

There should be a short (or long ) letter in one of the sleeves.

And you add some treats in the sleeves.

Little embellishments, a teabag, little tags, emphemera, well....anything goes.

There are groups on facebook for pocketletters swaps and it is a real hype at the moment.

For me it is not about the things that come with my letters.

 I love it when I see my swappartner made something with love and fun. 

Untill now I (almost) always got lovely letters and I like to save them as they are.

 I leave everything in it. 

The most fun letters for me are the ones with the themes: 

about yourself , your surrounding, country  , what do you like and so on. 

But I keep writing about them......lets have a look.

I decided to keep this letter calm, offcourse to see the beautiful background paper.

I used only one sheet of paper:

Cut it up to 7,5 by 10,5 

On the backside I mark the paper in 9 pieces..

At this point you can make your background or first cut them up.

I just did something with a stencil and distress ink before cutting

I have leftovers pieces from the 12x12 sheet.   I fussycut flowers and borderpieces from it.

I also used my Blue Fern stamps in the background and made embellishments with them.

Here the finished frontside:

On the backside I did not do to much, I love the print from the paper, and it is filled with little treatments anyway.

As you see, I added vintage poststamps, lace, flowers, a (real) dryed edelweiss, little shoes, a bookmark , mini incense, some BFS chipboard and offcourse the letter.

There is one pocket empty, I want to add a minipicture from her granddaughter in it.

I took it from her profile , so I dont show it here.... for her privacy.

I hope you like my first blogpost, have a great day!

                         

It's All About YOU!

Today we have a special feature for you......we are featuring layouts from those of you who love our products.  That's right, we see your beautiful creations on your blogs, in online galleries, on Facebook, and in our own Blue Fern Gallery.  We are in awe of the projects we see using our products!

First up is this artsy layout that we found on Lisa Novogrodski's blog using paper from the Blue Fern Ombre Dreams collection.  This paper is perfect with this awesome photo!

This ultra-sweet layout was created by Isabelle Gauthier using the Blue Fern chipboard title "The Best Day Ever".  What a wonderful design, and the details are perfect!  We found this layout on Isabelle's blog where she has LOTS of layouts using BFS chipboard!

Former design team member Tiffany Solorio shows how she used various round chipboard pieces to create this "happy" layout.  We love how she tied all the chipboard pieces together with the flowers.

This layout by Steph D was found in an online gallery.  Steph has used paper from our Sanctuary collection with this photo from the 1950's.  Such a lovely way to feature this sweet photo. 

Ginny Hickmott created this very dramatic layout with our Love Story collection.  Love how her paper layering stands out against the black/white background!

New design team member Marilyn Rivera hasn't had a chance to post on our blog yet, so we thought we would feature one of her layouts using Blue Fern products, before she became a member of our team.  Marilyn has used paper from the Sanctuary collection for this stunning layout.  You're going to love seeing her projects (and video tutorial) later this month!

Maiko Kosugi has taken this paper from the Montage collection, and created this adorable layout.  She has also used one of our chipboard dangles.  So much to love about this one!

Well, that wraps up our post for today.  Thank you to these talented ladies for using Blue Fern products in such creative ways.  You make us look good!