Chipbords and papers love.

Hi ! Its me Olga ! I just received BFS papers and fall in love with them. They thick high quality with beautiful patterns I just love them !

I created two Layouts with them and my favorite chipboards ! First one Is very special to me with picture me and my friend on girls weekend at polish seaside. I use Blue Fern Garden: In Bloom as background paper and pices from Timeless and Calling Cards as elements in my composition. I use also Quilted Page Panel , Rose Bouquet and Precious Memories as title to my work

Second work is about waiting. For spring, for changes with photo of only flowers . As background I use Blue Fern Garden: Boudoir paper and Calling Cards. to composition i use chippies Beaded Strings and Rose Bouquet. Winter Titles and Picture Perfect are used as title

My last work for today is Project life page with pictures of my little model. I use
Picture Perfect, Directions and The Optimist Word Set

Spring wedding with Jelissa

Hello everyone! We're almost at the end of March, can you believe it?!

Today I have two projects I created for Blue Fern Studios based on two of the most wonderful things ever - Spring and weddings! The first is a layout using their beautiful paper collection "Blue Fern Garden". I cannot get enough of this paper line - the colors are soft and shabby and just perfect for my mixed media projects. 

"The Big Day"

The photo I used was from my own wedding 6 years ago, how time have passed! Love how the pinks and greens come together in this paper collection which gives a feel of Spring.  I primed the papers with clear gesso so that I can still achieve the water color effects without masking the beautiful designs on the papers.

Some close-ups:

I've used the Rose Bouquet chippie, what a beautiful piece!  I used one half of the chipboard for this corner cluster. I covered it with gesso and painted it over with some watercolors and randomly sprinkled clear embossing powder and heat set them. The result is a very uneven texture with small drops of embossed surface looking like dew. Lastly I patted some coloured texture paste over the leaves and flowers. In this cluster, I have also tucked the key piece from Romantic Page Dangles under my photo and I only did simple heat embossing.

For the title, I used "The Big Day" from the "Wedding Words" set and layered green water colors in three different shades for a marbled effect. 

Blue Fern products used:
Blue Fern Garden - "Boudoir"

Blue Fern Garden - "Picnic"
Rose Bouquet
Wedding Words set
Romantic Page Dangles

My second project is a canvas which I made for a very special couple on their wedding day.

"Wedding Canvas"

One of my favourite background elements are the panel chipboards as they add dimension and design. Here, I've used cut outs from the Marrakesh Panel and painted them with green watercolors.

I've rotated a piece of the Ever After frame set and painted it with at least four different shades of green for a marbled look and finished off with some script stamping. 

In this cluster, I used two pieces from the Jeweled Trinkets set. I snipped of the chains on either end of one of the pieces and used it as a centre for one of the flowers. On the ends of each motif, I added a dab of dimensional paint and topped the centre with a gem. I've also used the in-between hexagon bits from Bits of Honey to accent the background.

Blue Fern products used:
Marrakesh Panel
Ever After Frame set
Jeweled Trinkets
Bits of Honey

Thanks for joining me today and have fun creating!

Jelissa

"Moments" with Kelly Foster

Hello there, Blue Fern fans!

Thanks for stopping by today! Kelly here, and I have two layouts to share with you.

For this first one, I have used the brand new, and oh so gorgeous Blue Fern Garden papers.

"Perfect Moment"

I started with the "Boudoir" paper for my background. The paper is a nice, heavy, weight, so it "took" my mixed media work well. I applied some masking, and embossing, some watercolor paints and Gelatos, finished off with stamping. 

Next, I cut squares, and tore strips, from the "Calling Cards" paper, to layer across my background and behind my photo. I also fussy cut some of the beautiful floral motifs from the "Picnic" and "In Bloom" papers.

I chose to use just one piece of chipboard on this one, the Rose Bouquet. This piece is intricate and stunning, and I think really "makes" the layout. I embossed it with a white detail powder, then used pink and green acrylic paint, along with a bit of metallic Gelatos. I then cut the piece in two so I could have it popping out on both sides of my photo.

Blue Fern products:

Blue Fern Garden "Calling Cards"

Blue Fern Garden "Boudoir" 

Blue Fern Garden "Picnic"

Blue Fern Garden "In Bloom"

Rose Bouquet

"Treasure the Moment"

This one is a little more on the grungy side, with photos of my girls from the same day as the layout above. In this one, they are just goofing off and I had so many great photos I decided to make a collage.

After layering strips of papers, washi tapes, and trims in my background, I decided to add a couple of the Film Strips. I left these mostly natural, with just a touch of dark brown chalk ink around the edges.

I used the Treasure the Moment title piece, which I embossed with a chunky black powder, but didn't really like the look, so I covered the entire thing in Distress Paint, and just lightly rubbed some of it away to reveal the bumpy texture from the embossing. I inked around the edges lightly with the same chalk ink I used on the Film Strips.

Blue Fern products:
Film Strips
Treasure The Moment

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my projects today!
Have a great weekend!

*Kelly*