May Inspiration by Karolina

Hi everyone! It's Karolina here and I would like to show you my three projects I made for May's inspiration. Two of them are layouts with our newest collection Tranquility and a third one is a canvas. Ok, let's start!

Dare to Dream

Like I said, I prepared a canvas using a lot of beautiful chipboard. First I covered a canvas with a old book, an then I built my composition. I used three different ways of coloring chipboards - with chalk paints (ornate heart), with ink and glossy accents (Dare to dream) and with ebony embossing powder (Mini Flourishes).

I also added some flowers from Tranquil Roses and Lilies set. They match perfectly!

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Chipboard: Ornate Heart, Dare to dream, Mini Flourishes

Embossing Powders: Ebony

Stamps: Forever, Brocade Texture

Flowers: Tranquil Roses and Lilies

Boys will be boys:

My second project is a layout. I used new Blue Fern Studios Tranquility collection. Always when I get new papers I try to use them in a different way than it may seem. That's why I decided to make this messy, boyish layout using a vintage but I think also romantic collection.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Papers: Tranquility collection - Calm, Jubilation, Patience, Peaceful

Chipboard: Boys will be boys, Mini ring panel, Spare Parts, Directions

Embossing Powders: Ebony

Stamps: Makind plans, Widgets, Forever

Spring fever

And the last but not least my third project is also a layout, but this time it is a very colorful and spring proposal. I also used Tranquility collection to show you the versatility of this collection.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Papers: Tranquility collection - Calm, Jubilation, Patience, Peaceful

Chipboard: Spring Iris - Small, Spring Fever, Quilted page panel, Beaded strings

Embossing Powders: Ebony, Cotton Candy

Stamps:  Forever, Arcadia Texture

My First DT Projects - Galina Sazonova.

Hello!

I am pleased to welcome you on BFS blog and to share my first projects as  an designer Blue Fern Studios.

And a little bit about myself )...

My name is Galina and I'm 46 years old. I come from Belarus, 

but now live with my family in Moscow. I am a happy wife and mother of two children, 5 year old boy and 21 year old girl) My profession - Landscape designer, but not so long ago I discovered scrapbooking and he soon became a part of my life!

I get my inspiration from different things and events, as well as

from people and emotions. I really love life, therefore I create a lot of layers and colours in my
projects .) I like the different styles and the opportunity to try something new.

Hope you enjoy my creations!

Welcome to my blog:

http://galadreams.blogspot.ru/

Canvas "Angel Eyes"
Here is the first one of my projects for this month. This nostalgic canvas about my childhood. Little girl with sad eyes in the photo - it's me) ....

More details:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Chipboard - Textures - Checker Bits
• Chipboard - Words - Spiritually Speaking

Layout "Birdie"

My second project was created on the basis of the January sketch. In the photo I'm in my new small hat birdie.)

And more details:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Paper - Sanctuary -  Bountiful
• Paper - Montage - Society, Wisdom
• Chipboard - Textures - Tattered Diamond Bits
• Chipboard - Words - The Optimist Word Set

Project "Angel on duty"

And at last my third project - gift wrapping based of kraft .

More details:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Chipboard - Textures - Ornate Heart
• Chipboard - Words - Spiritually Speaking

I wish you a creative mood and good day!)

Galina.)

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

Valerie Shares a Little Bit of Love

Hi all.  It's February, so it's only natural to think of love.  My parent's just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.  Instead of a card, I wanted to make a canvas for them.  I chose the beautiful Ornate Frame to use in the background.  It's a large piece of chipboard, but it works great for a project like this.

I primed the chipboard with gesso, then applied pink paint, and some Shimmerz Dazzlerz.  While it was still wet, I also sprinkled it with white glitter.  When dry, I used some ink around the edges.

I am having such a great time creating with the Blue Fern Garden paper collection.  I love the beautiful colors and attention to detail in the backgrounds.  This is one of my absolute favorites from the collection.

If you're like me, you often have problems coming up with a title, or would like something different.  The Blue Fern chipboard words are the perfect solution.  I wanted this title to stand out against the background, so I painted it brown, and used some dimensional adhesive to lift it off the page just a little.  It really adds some depth, and it's a nice change from alphabet stickers.

Here is a closer look at the heart from the Winter Page Dangles set of three.  This photo also gives you a closer look at the detail in the paper.  I primed the chipboard with gesso, and then painted it with Distress Stain.  It wasn't quite the color I wanted, so I also used some red ink.  It was finished off with a few pearls and some Inka Gold (Old Silver). 

Thanks for stopping by today and letting me share my projects with you.  Jackie is up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by and see what she has been creating.  ~~~Valerie

My First Post By Keren Tamir

Hi Everyone!!

Keren here with my first post for Blue Fern Studios and I'm really excited to showcase my work with these beautiful chipboards!!

but first a little about myself:

I'm 39 years old. I am a wife to a wonderful husband who is very supportive of my scrapbooking and a mother of two amazing kids; a 12 year old boy and a 7 year old girl. I've been scrapbooking for 10 years and I mainly scrapbook about my family. I love to create and experiment with many different mediums and techniques.

My style is a combination of Shabby chic and mixed media. I use lots of flowers and vines together with different artistic mediums on my layouts. My style is always evolving and that’s one of the things I love about this art.

One of the main reasons I started scrapbooking was to preserve memories and photos for my children. However over the couple of years, I’ve started to enjoy another aspect of scrapbooking. I love the artistic outlet that it gives me. I love to create and I’m passionate about what I do.

I’m delighted to be joining Blue Fern Studios on this new journey!!

I hope you enjoy my creations!!

you can also find me HERE on my blog.

Now without further adieu here is my first project:

"All You Need Is Love"

Altered Canvas

This is a 12x12 Canvas I created for a friend. 

Its one of the most powerful messages, sang by one of the greatest bands of all times.

If all of us just loved, this world would be a better place!!!

I covered the Ornate Heart with gold crackle paint. Then I edged it with brown ink and stamped it randomly all over with a script stamp. I also used the script stamp on the background. Finally I smeared some gold glitter stickles all over the heart.

You can see the heart's texture a little closer below. The crackle paint gave it an antique look.

The Love title from the Valentine's Word set was simply sprayed in black ink.

Blue Fern Studios chipboard used on this Canvas:

Ornate Heart

Valentine's Word Set (Love)

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"You Shine"

In this bright and cheerful layout of my son I have used a few pieces of the Tattered Diamond bits. I cut them in different places so I could spread them throughout my page.

They were first covered in Turquoise acrylic paint and then stamped with a script stamp using a darker shade of acrylic turquoise paint.

You can see the diamond bits in a close-up below. I also smeared some white gesso on them to blend it with the rest of the layout.

The title "You Shine" is from the Optimist Word Set.  It was covered in the same dark hued paint from above.

Blue Fern Studios chipboard used on this layout:

Tattered diamond bits

The optimist Word Set (You Shine)

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studio's blog.

I hope you enjoyed my creations

Have a wonderful day!!

Keren