Christmas altered art by Marie-Josee

Hello folks!

This is my last post for Blue Fern Studios and I have three projects to show you, all created with the Vintage Christmas collection.

Box card

I did a bit of fussy cutting for the card. I cut the child and the Christmas tree out of the Calling Cards paper. I used a piece of the Country Picket Fence chipboard between the child and the Christmas tree and a piece of the Winter Flakes chipboard set. Both were altered with white gesso.

 

 

 

Gift bag

I created this gift bag from scratch, using a Vintage Christmas paper. I cut small pieces of the Mini Rings Panel and glued them to each side of the bag. Then, I applied gesso randomly with a sponge. I also added Imagine Ink Embossing Powder in Poinsettia.

 

 

Christmas scene

Finally, here's a Christmas scene in a box. I created the box from scratch using kraft paper. I cut the bottom and used parchment paper as a background (you can also use vellum paper). I used various Vintage Christmas papers and a die to create the houses. I added gesso to the edges, as if it is snow. I also altered the two snowflakes from the Winter Flakes set with gesso.

I used parchment paper as a background to be able to light the scene with battery-powered tea lights, which I put behind my Christmas scene, so that it creates a soft glow.

 

 

Two mixed media projects by Marie-Josée

 Hello all,

I hope you are doing fine today. In this blog post, I will show you two mixed media projects I created using some of my favorite pieces of Blue Fern Studios chipboard, which are perfect for mixed media projects.

"Adorable" kitty canvas

This is my beautiful kitty, Pretzel. She passed away on April 20 at the age of 16. I wanted to create something in her memory and I thought a canvas would be perfect.

First, I chose a 6" x 12" canvas. I cut a piece of the Mini Rings Panel and glued it to my canvas. Then, I applied gesso all over my canvas. I also applied gesso to the heart (from the Frilly Hearts set) and the circles (from the Graduated Circles set).

The word Adorable (from the French Words set) was heat embossed with black embossing powder.

Then, I painted the whole thing using various ColourArte products : paints, gels and mists. I mainly used teal, but I also added touches of gold and purple here and there. I finished with black and white ink splatters.

Here's a close-up view of the Frilly Heart and the Graduated Circles...

 

... and here's a closeup view of the background!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Graduated Circles

Frilly Hearts

Mini Rings Panel

French Words

Angel canvas

 

 

For this canvas, I used the colors of the Déjà Vu collection as my inspiration. I used of piece of the Friperies paper as my starting point. I cut it to fit a piece of the Graduated Squares set.

Here's a closeup view of the Déjà Vu paper and a piece of the Graduated squares set.

I worked exactly the same way I worked for the previous canvas, using similar products. I just used different colors and different chipboards. Here you see a close-up view of a piece of the Turkish Bits set as well as of a piece of the Layering Stems set.

Finally, I also used a stamp from the Halftone Stamps set, which matches the Déjà Vu collection, with black ink.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Graduated Squares

Turkish Bits

Layering Stems

Déjà Vu collection (Friperies paper and Halftone stamps)

My last inspiration for Blue Fern

Hello !
Olga here. Today is my last post for Blue Fern Studios. It was great adventure and honor to work in this team :) I prepared last inspirations for You .
First project is LO. The base are papers from Sanctuary collection. I use parts of Ring Panel Renaissance Border covered with Inka Gold as embellishment and Captured Words as title.

Main element on this canvas is Orante heart and on of the arrow words is part of main sentence on my work.

I really enjoy Sanctuary collection I use papers as background and made some flowers from them .Ironwork Arch I use as base of my composition and add some sentence from Memory frames

Summertime Layouts

Hello !

Today I have for you 3 layouts to the end of summer.  We still have some sunshine days but they become much shorter and I see falling leafs - signs of incoming Autumn. So I'm making some works to keep summer for longer :)

                        First work Is with my' son. I made this photo during one of our trips.  I use bits of ups and downs panel and scraps of different blue fern Papers to create background. . I really love this one. I mean I'm totally in love in panels from BFS at all they are so universal and give you so many ways of use  but this one I really like . My next video for BFS will be with this one ! . Mini number gird is base of composition . I used also piece of mini ring panel and chunky words as title of my work. The main paper in this work is Timeless from Blue fern Garden collection with scraps and leftovers from Ombre dreams :)

                               


This LO i made with photo of me and my mummy. It was made during her visit , we where sightseeing city and making selfies like crazy :) It was fun ! . I use my absolutely favorite papers - Ombre dreams and delicate feminal chipies wild field steam and Eastern Lantern and as the title Charmed page dandles.

And one more with my son. This photo was one of first photos I made after moving. On our first trip to know the city . To frame it I use Grunge Shooting stars as a Title I use Arrow words, and Backyard Boy title ( I cut backyard part and save it for another work ) . Base of my project is Susan's Dream I use gesso to light it up little bit .