A desk calendar with tutorial by Elena Morgun

Hello everyone!

Today Elena Morgun is here. I am happy to share my newest creation - a desk calendar. I also made with a video tutorial.

Everything is quite easy, but the result is quite impressive!

New Blue Fern Glitter is just wonderful! I glued it with Sticky Embossing Powder. This is one of the most convenient ways to me. You need to try it out, if yo haven't done so yet.

The clip helps to swap the months. I like it when home decor is not only pleasing to the eye, but also useful!

Enjoy the video!

Blue Fern Studios product used

• Autumn Anthology: Balcony
• Vintage Christmas: Wonderland

• Stamp: Essential Textures
• Stamp: Postal Textures

• Chipboard: Floral Lattice Bits
• Chipboard: Roman Clock Set - Small
• Chipboard: Memory Frames 

• Imagine Ink: Embossing powder - Fern
• Imagine Ink: Glitter - Pyrite

Also I would like to share a CD envelope today. In October I created a video tutorial to show ow I make them. Today I used two types of fabric and made it more boy-ish.

Blue Fern Studios product used

• Montage papers

• Chipboard: Directions
• Chipboard: Arrow Words
• Chipboard: Seeing Stars

• Imagine Ink: Embossing powder - Fern

Have a great creative time, friends!

Elena

January Sketch Challenge Winner and Featured Layouts

We are thrilled with the response to the January sketch.  It was our best month ever, so thanks to each of you who played along with us in January.  But don't stop there, the February sketch has already been posted.  You can find a link to it in our right sidebar.

As always, let's start with the winner.  Based on a random draw, the winner this month is ...........#4, which happens to belong to Laura Gilhuly of Canada!!

Congratulations Laura!  You have won a prize package of Blue Fern Chipboard!  

Please send me an e-mail, within the next 7 days, 

at {valerie(at)bluefernstudios(dot)com} to claim your prize.

Here is Laura's layout created using paper from our Sanctuary Collection and chipboard pieces (both the positive and negative) from our Turkish Bits.  We love how she colored the chipboard using mist, paint, and a little gesso.

Sometimes we just don't know when to stop.  So this month, we have even more layouts to feature, which isn't a bad thing!  You guys are just awesome.  Here we go.........

"Twinkle in Your Eyes" by Wendy Scholten

 This layout, with such an adorable photo, immediately caught our eye.  Wendy has used several papers from our beautiful Montage collection, one as the background and some fussy cutting from other papers.  She also used several pieces of Blue Fern Chipboard - the Checker Bits, Bohemian Flowers, Nested Circles, and the word Twinkle from our Winter Titles set.

"Fabulous"by Miki of Japan

Miki also chose paper from our Montage collection for her entry in the January Sketch Challenge.  The title is from one of our very popular sets, the Arrow Words.  We love how this all came together to create a beautifully designed layout.

"Happy" by Marina Timofeeva

Everything about this layout is "Happy".   Marina has used this happy paper with polka-dots from our Sanctuary collection.  The title is from The Optimist Word Set, and the other chipboard is from the Turkish Bits Set. 

"Left-Handed" by Sara K. 

On her blog, Sara says she really wasn't happy with this layout at first, but we love it!  What an adorable photo  - such concentration on that little face.  The Blue Fern chipboard stars, from our Seeing Stars set are the perfect touch. 

"Cherish"by Alena Grinchuk

Layouts don't always go as planned, which was the case with this one.  Alena had something else in mind when she began, but didn't like the photo she had chosen, so she switched to this black and white photo, instead.  The outcome is stunning!  The background paper and fussy cut flowers are from paper in our Montage Collection.

"Sweet Bundle of Joy" by Paulien van den Bosch

Our final choice for the month is this precious layout created using this dark navy paper from the Sanctuary collection.  Love how this came together, Paulien. Your grandson is so super cute!

 Congratulations to our winner and to the creators of our six featured layouts.  

We hope to see all of you again in February!

A Layout and a Card with Patter

Today I have a layout and a card to share with you using the new Blue Fern Studios paper line called "Sanctuary." It is a beautiful line that can be used for anything, any time of year. I am going to show you how I used it on a heritage page and a Christmas card. You will see how versatile this new line is! Let's get started.

Cherish

This is my husband back in about 1966. Wasn't he a cutie? Well, I must say he still is. LOL! Anyway, for this page I used, the papers Sanctuary Bountiful and Sanctuary Conservatory. Such beautiful colors for this 8 1/2 x 11 heritage page.

To cover the Splattered Circles and Spare Parts chipboard pieces, I covered them in gesso, and then used some distress stains in various colors.

To cover the Adore, Love, Cherish chipboard piece (the title), I used the same technique as above but then I also added some darker gelatos to the chipboard.

Blue Fern Studios Papers: Sanctuary Bountiful and Conservatory 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard: Splattered Circles; Adore, Love, Cherish; and Spare Parts

Christmas Wishes

For this card I used the Sanctuary Meadows of Time and Sanctuary Conservatory papers. The chipboard piece is called Seeing Stars.

To alter the chipboard, I covered it in silver Inka Gold and then added some silver and gold embossing. To finish, I added pearls around the edge.

Blue Fern Studios Papers: Sanctuary Conservatory and Meadows of Time 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard: Seeing Stars

A Perfect Day

This is an 8 1/2 x 11 layout I created for this month's sketch challenge. This is one of my daughter's, and she just had back surgery 3 weeks ago. This is when we took her to the Billy Graham Library for the first time. Her back issues were being controlled at that time with a TENS unit you can see her wearing. Anyway, this 8 1/2 x 11 page not only uses the new November sketch from Blue Fern Studios but it also uses the Montage papers. Yum!

To color the Lattice Fence chipboard piece, I covered in gesso. While the gesso was wet, I added two different colors of embossing powder to emboss the chipboard. And you can see the fun result below.

The Arrow Words chipboard piece was also treated in the same way except once I embossed it, I then rubbed black gesso over the entire piece. I wanted it to pop a bit more off the page, and thus I added the touch of black to this piece. I think it ended up looking like the sepia photo a bit.

Blue Fern Studios Papers: Montage Invitation, Now and Then, and Bouquet 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard: Lattice Fence, Arrow Words 

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to join us in the Blue Fern Studios November Sketch Challenge. Click here to see all of the details!

Video Tutorial with Adrienne Ford

Hello Everyone! 

Adrienne here, stopping in for a share of my latest video for Blue Fern Studios! I was incredibly inspired to create with this photo of my son. I always love adding a little bit of playful interaction between photo and chipboard mixed in with some seriously bold color. I really love how the Grunge Shooting Stars are placed as if they are shooting from his back. The colors I have added to this are bold and vibrant. They add so much to the already gorgeous chipboard!

So go get your brightest acrylics and sparkles and get ready for my October Video- Smile!

Blue Fern Products-

Grunge Shooting Stars

Seeing Stars

Arrow Words

Ombre Dreams: Charlotte's Dream

Thanks for stopping in!!! :)

Winter joy

Hello !

It's me Olga ! Today I would like to share my canvas based on Blue Fern Studios chipboard. It's little early to make Christmas projects but every year I'm late with them so this year I decided to start earlier ;) So here it goes !

How I created this work You can check out on video :

And canvas:

I use:
Little Birds set
Seeing Stars
eastern Lantarens
Framed Winter Words

3 Layouts

Hello its Olga here!


My first work for today is soft Layout with picture of my friend. I use violet Ombre Dreams papers Joyce's and Charlotte's dream  to make layered background. As part of my construction in background I use parts of chickenwire panel, Under composition I put one of Frilly hearts and saying adore from Adore , Love Cherish set

This work is also with photo of my Friend. This time I use pink shades of Ombre Dreams papers I use Shanon's and Leslie Dream and little bit of Julianna's dream in base composition. I added some gauze and Ornate Frame . As title I use chunky words and add one of Ginger poppies under main composition

 

 

 

 

This work is lift of my last work with tutorial for BFS . I used different colors and elements. I made it wit picture of my son, some direction arrows, arrow Words and seeing Stars for my mom ( she really liked first one ) Base where scraps of green BFS Ombre Dreams papers

Pink and More Pink with Patter

Okay, so pink is my favorite color. For today's inspiration, I decided to go with a pink theme. Let's look at what I've created.

Pink
I love this quote—"You can never have too much pink." So, I decided to use that on my art journal page for today. I first started with a lot of Blue Fern Garden paper scraps. I, of course, chose mostly the pink scraps. I then layered them on the page with other scraps of paper. Here is a photo of what the page looked like when I started and layered on the Blue Fern Garden scraps. Sorry for the dark photo.

And here is how the art journaling page turned out:

I used Blooming Flourish chipboard pieces and painted them with different colors of acrylic paint. I also added the chipboard to the page before adding paint splatters so that the chipboard pieces would also got some white and black splatters on them.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Blue Fern Garden papers

Blooming Flourish chipboard

Hello
For this card, I decided to stick with the pink theme. I used the Blue Fern Garden Calling Cards paper. I started by using my Gelli Plate with acrylic paint to add some more color. Then I embossed the same piece of paper after it had dried. After that, I began layering the paper and embellishments to finish the card.

The chipboard piece I used is called Jeweled Trinkets. I covered it in pink acrylic paint. Then I added a layer of texture paint to the bow portion of the chipboard to set it off a bit.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Blue Fern Garden papers

Jeweled Trinkets chipboard

Celebrate

And I know this isn't pink but I wanted to share in detail the 8 1/2 x 11 layout I created for the July Sketch Challenge. This was one of my daughter's on her graduation day, and as you can imagine, she was excited. I used sketch as well as the new Blue Fern Studios paper line called Ombre Dreams.

The chipboard stars are new from Blue Fern  Studios, and they are called "Seeing Stars." I painted the stars with gesso and let them dry. Once dry, I painted with three LuminArte paint colors—cool water, navajo pearl, and lime squeeze. I then let that dry, and lastly I stamped on top of the stars.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Ombre Dreams Susan's Dream
Seeing Stars chipboard

And remember, there is still time to enter the July Sketch Challenge from Blue Fern Studios. Click here to see all of the challenge details as well as the wonderful prize package.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have been inspired to try some Blue Fern Studios products along with the color pink today. :)