3 Different Ways With Blue Fern by Svetlana Austin

Hello dear friends! 

Svetlana is here today to share with you a few different projects I created this month 

with Blue Fern Studios gorgeous chipboard.

I will begin with a little romantic frame I altered using some pretty chipboard pieces.

"Home Is Where The Heart Is" Altered Frame

The Princes Window I used for this project acts here rather as a door and it can actually open. I used little metal hinges to attache my window-door to the frame.

I used a sponge brush to apply gesso over my chipboard pieces. It is a very simple way to add some textured shabby look. Then I randomly added a few drops of glossy here and there and sprinkled it over with micro-beads. Once it was dry I rubbed a little gesso over the beads.

Blue Fern Studios products used for this project:

Princess Window (074578)

Country Picket Fence (074561)

"Beautiful St. Petersburg" layout

For this layout I used Village Sign Post and Ornate Medallions.

The Village Sign Post did a great job highlighting that beautiful cathedral in the background of my photo.

I covered it with black distress embossing powder. I love the uneven shiny look it gave to my chipboard - 

it looks so real.

Little beautiful pieces of chipboard from Ornate Medallions set are defiantly among my favorites. 

They are perfect to create some pretty embellishments to decorate your projects. 

I used orange glimmer mist to color this medallion. Once it was dry I covered it with crackle accents. 

You see - very simple ways to make your chipboard look perfect for any kind of projects you have in mind!

Blue Fern Studios products used for this project:

Village Sigh Post (074776)

Ornate Medallions (074462)

Decorated Drawer Unit

It have been already a while that I wanted to decorate this drawer unit to use it in my craft studio to store some bits and pieces. 

I cut the small Craftsman Frame to make decorative corners. These were sprayed with glimmer mist and covered with Crackle Accents for nice antique look.

Blooming Foliage was also cut in many small pieces to create pretty accents in the flower clusters I added to some of the drawers. I painted them with gesso then rubbed some areas with green ink and some areas with blue liquid pearls. I finished it off with Glossy Accents. I decorated the butterfly in the same way.

Blue Fern Studios products used for this project:

Craftsman Frame (074949)

Brigitte Butterfly Set (074387)

Blooming Foliage (074851)

I hope you were inspired to create something beautiful with Blue Fern Studios gorgeous chipboard.

Don't forget to share with us your projects in our gallery.

Thank you for visiting our blog today! Keep on coming - there is always something new and exciting!

Keep well!

A little Victorian and a little Wild West

Hello.  Jennifer Snyder here today to show you a little Victorian and a little Wild West using a variety of Blue Fern Studios goodies.

Girl in the Rain

This is a piece that was created around the sweet Maud Humphrey image.  Maud Humphrey was the mother of actor, Humphrey Bogart.  Maud was born in Rochester, NY, my hometown and became a commercial artist in the late 1800's and early turn of the century.  

My Blue Fern chippies are treated very simply - painted with gesso.  The gesso just gives enough white to cover the chippy without making the chipboard completely stark white.  It gives it a bit of an old feel, worn and aged.  

Here are the pieces I used: 

Organic Vine Corner  -074622 - this piece was cut in two to complete the framed feel.

 Floral Clock 074684 - I love the versatility of this Blue Fern piece. It is an exquisite design.  

Girl Under the Streetlamp

Here is another Maud Humphrey image, meant to be a pair of layouts. I love the squirrel resting on her hand so I chose the Evening Lamp Post chipboard piece by Blue Fern Studios from which my squirrel can scamper to and fro. 

The little flourish swirl under the floral cluster is part of the Organic Vine from the Girl in the Rain layout (shown as the first piece).  I wanted to tie the two pieces together.

Organic Vine Corner  -074622

 Evening Lamp Post 074660

I added moulding paste in a heavy chunky style here.  

After letting my moulding paste dry, I dabbed a little Mixd Media Inx in Pewter on it to provide a little shadowing effect. 

Howdy
Flipping from Victorian to western in this layout.

This is a photo I took a few years ago.  The little boy is a few months old and he's a little camera shy. This photo always makes me smile when I look at it.

I pulled out the  Blue Fern Studios Calligraphic Border and stained it with dark brown stain then wove some jute string around it.

Calligraphic Border 074363

Ornate Medallions Set 074462

 I painted the Medallions with Tim Holtz stain and then  covered with a very cool thick texture paint from Art Anthology called sorbet. 

Thanks so very much for stopping to check out Blue Fern Studios.
You can LIKE us on Facebook.

A Few of my Favorite Things - By Kelly

Hi everyone!! Kelly here today. Welcome back to the Blue Fern Studios blog, so glad you stopped by!! I have been creating up a storm with Blue Fern chipboard, and am excited to share a couple of my projects with you!!

A Perfect Day

The Floral Clock was altered with multiple layers of Tattered Angels mists, gesso, Inka Gold, stamping, and white gel pen. It was all one big experiment, really, I just kept adding things until I achieved the look I wanted. I topped it off with one of the Ornate Medallions and a bit of bling.

Here I used one of the Brigitte Butterflies. I primed it with gesso, then stamped with a Prima  stamp, then inked the edges with black chalk ink. A few black rhinestones were added then to the butterfly's body.

Blue Fern Pieces used:

Floral Clock

Ornate Medallions

Brigitte Butterfly Set

You Look Lovely Today

The lovely Blooming Flourish piece is one of my favorites! I first primed this one with gesso, then simply doodled on it with a fine point Sharpie.

Up next, I used the pack of Nested Circles, which were also first painted with gesso, then given a bit of a golden sheen once again using the Inka Gold, a fabulous product from Viva Decor..a favorite medium for me to use on chipboard. I outlined a bit in black pen on some of them circles, as well.

Below you can see the other section of the Blooming Flourish, which I had cut in half.

Blue Fern chipboard used:

Blooming Flourish

Nested Circles

Thank you so much for stopping by today and letting me share my creations with you! If you haven't already, and don't want to miss out on more creations from our team, be sure to follow BFS here, and on Facebook, too!

And one last thing...don't forget!

"Sweet girl"

Hi:)

This is my very first blog post here at the Blue Fern Studios blog.

I am so proud to work with so many talented girls. 

I  hope you like my work, 

and that you get some inspiration to use this wonderful chipboard.

My name is Vibeke Harila. I am 38 years old, and I live here in Norway.

I live together with my handsome man, my 2 lovely girls – and we also have 2 cats.

I started scrapbooking in 2007, when I got my youngest girl. 

My style is very different. I LOVE painting on my layouts. But next time I maybe make some vintage layouts 

– or shabby;) I also do some art journals and cards. But mostly layouts. 

I am working a lot with details, and try to do something new every time.

I have been on different designteam, 

but today I am a proud designteam member over at Lilo in Mollys Scrapbooking.

When I  first look at the designteam call over at Blue Fern Studios I got so happy. 

This was so ME.  

I am so proud to be a part of this team. 

So talented girls – and the products are beautiful.

You can visit me blog here: http://vibekescrapperogskryter.blogspot.no/

Today I want to show you a layout I have maked of my sweet girl.

Enjoy:)

For this layout I have used the beautiful Blue Fern Frame. 

This is so special and lovely. And big :) 

I have also used one piece of  the Ornate Medallions.

I love the way this chipboard looks.

First I took some white paint. Then I painted over it with the brown Dylusions spray.

So great looking!!:) Some stamping - and covered it all with Dimensional Magic Lakk.

You can see that a little bit of the frame is pink. This is pink embossing.

Ornate Medallions 074462

Blue Fern Frame 074325

Thank you so much for looking. I hope you liked my work.

I wish you a happy day:)