July inspirations by Jennifer Jacques

Hello Blue fern studio's fans!

Here are my three inspirations for July.  

I'll start with the latest collection: Tattered walls.

Here i used "Suite 204" as my background.  Primed it with clear gesso, then added some textures with paste and sprays.  Also, some random stamping with Tattered Newsprint and the little border in the Flutter music set.

My title is from the Captured words set and is covered with the beautiful Gilded Rose glitters

Also, you can see under my focal point some pieces of Rose wreath chippies.  It is simply altered with black gesso and some waxes.

I finished this layout by adding some gorgeous BFS Flowers:

Above (in the corner) Homespun blossoms

Divided on each side from Remnants florals

and the Fuschia one is from Summer Blooms.

Some others flowers from my stash, stones and finally, Red grape seedlings as final touches.

Blue Fern products used on this layout

Papers: Collection Tattered Walls

-Suite 204

Chipboards

-Rose wreath

-Captured words

Stamps

-Tattered Newsprint

-Flutter Music

Glitter

-Gilded Rose

Seedlings

-Red grape

Flowers
-homespun Blossoms (in the corner)
-Remnants Florals (2 tone white and pink, in parts)
-Summer Blooms

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Second one with Tattered Walls which I loooooove.

Here, it's "The Library" that I've chose to work with.

Clear gesso, Dry brushed Heavy gesso under my focal point, some stamping with my usual Tattered Newsprint stamp, which is one of my favorites BFS.

Lots of Tattered walls Ephemeras were used here.  My chippie title is covered with Caribbean glitters... A fairy color I think...Really love that one

Finally, some flowers such as Fresh florals, flair, white splatters and that was it.

Blue Fern products used on this layout

Papers: Collection Tattered walls

-The Library

Chipboard

-Love this moment

Stamp

-Tattered Newsprint

Glitter

-Caribbean

Ephemeras
-Tattered walls

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Finally, the perfect Blue Fern Studios collection for vacation layouts is Wanderlust.

Background paper is Wanderlust Petites (b-side).  I've added clear gesso, Heavy gesso, some sprays and finally, some stamping with Crackle textures and brown permanent ink.

Above, the Seashell frame painted with black gesso and then, covered with wax.

My title is a chippie form the Seasons set, simply colored with a teal spray.

Some cheesecloth to set my focal point, a mix of Aquamarine and Wintergreen seedlings with some art stones, some flowers from my stash among some BFS ones such as Fresh florals (yellow, bottom left picture corner), Summer blooms (teal one but a little bit modified to fit in my clustering) and Christmas blooms (under upper left picture corner).  Some white splatters as final touches and voilà!

Blue Fern products used on this layout

Papers: Collection Wanderlust

-Wanderlust Petites (b-side)

Chipboards

-Seashell frame

-Seasons (Summer)

Stamp

-Crackle Texture

Seedlings

-Aquamarine

-Wintergreen

Flowers
-Fresh florals
-Summer blooms
-Christmas blooms

Thank you very much for your interest.
Hope I've had inspired you !
See you next month!

July Inspiration by France Ringuette

Hi fellow Blue Fern Fans, today will be my last series for Blue Fern Studio. Due to some unexpected work changes, I am required to do lots of business travel, this is has the impact of reducing my craft time and I've had to make the heartbreaking decision to leave the amazing Blue Fern Studio creative team. I hope this last production will inspire you with the amazing Blue Fern Studio Products.

Layout #1: Travel

My first layout this month is inspired by the amazing Tattered Wall grunge feel paper of The Garage. It is amazingly perfect for making boy layouts, I just fell in Love with this paper.

Have you seen this new Azul embossing powder? It is spectacular. Perfect mix of turquoise and silver.

The ephemera are so much fun to use, it makes the perfect small elements around your picture.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used: 

Paper:

Tattered Walls The Garage

Tattered Walls Ephemenra

Flowers:

Harvest Lilies

Embossing Powder: Azur

Chipboard:

Wanderlost Words & Frolic Mesh

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Layout #2: Love

Oh what can I say, it's so easy to be inspired when you get the chance to work with an amazing baby photo like my friend's daughter, she is just adorable. Happy Accident remains one of my favorite collections. I love the detailed print on this background. On this layout, I wanted to created a soft vintage feeling so I opted to play with lots of flowers and embossed chipboard.

Frame chipboards are my favorites, I love using them under my pictures to create dimension. Embossed in rose gold, this one gives the softness I was looking for with a twist of shimmer.

Touched of Lace add to the delicate feeling of the page

I love this flower with a pearl center, just perfect. I also enjoy adding lace in my layering of the flowers.

On this dangle chipboard, I opted to use 2 different embossing powders : Baby Pink & 14 karat

Blue Fern Studios Products Used: 

Paper:

Happy Accident

Flowers:

Heartland Blooms

 & Apricot Blooms

Embossing Powder: Baby Pink, 14 karat & Rose Gold

Chipboard:

Frame & Dangling butterfly

Lace: 10 & 4

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Layout #3: Dreamer

Sweet Sweet Sweet baby, I just love this amazing picture of my friend's son Jack. This layout was just too fun to do. 

The Tranquility collection was just what I needed, it breaths calm and tranquil, perfect for this baby picture.

The Widget stamp is so much fun for a boy layout, I just enjoy the gears. I also enjoy embossing on my layout,

A bit a lace, a few flowers and the delicate ornaments are a perfect touch for this baby boy layout.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used: 

Paper:

Tranquility Calm & Peaceful

Flowers:

Dark Tropic Lily

Embossing Powder: In the Navy

Stamps:

Widget

Lace:  4

I hope you enjoyed my last projects for Blue Fern Studio and I wish you an amazing crafty July !

Before I go, I'd like to say a special thanks to Valerie & Leslie for the opportunity to have been part of the amazing Blue Fern Studios design team. Blue Fern Studios has been and will always be one of my favorite brands for papers, embossing powders, chipboards and many more products. I wish you and the team amazing success for the many years to come.

A Trio of Tattered Walls - Megan Gourlay

Hi Everyone :)

Today as the title says, I have three layouts to share with you using the new Tattered Walls Collection.  This collection is fabulously versatile to use!

I played with some mixed media colours in the background of The Carport patterned paper, and a little random stamping before adding my embellishments and photo.  For my title I used one of the pieces from the new Ephemera packs - Sweet - and trimmed off the word Moment from the chipboard phrase Love This Moment.

To colour my chipboard I embossed the Glam Frame with Snow embossing powder, and the Honey Bits pieces with Sparkling Navy embossing powder.  I wanted the Glam Frame to surround my photo in the background but it wasn't quite large enough, so I simply cut it into four pieces, so that it just pokes out, and doesn't over take the photo.

Some sprinkles of Lavender Seedlings here and there, completed the page.

Products Used

Patterned Paper:

Tattered Walls - The Carport

Chipboard:

Glam Frame

Love This Moment

Honey Bits

Seedlings:

Lavender 

Embossing Powder:

Sparkling Navy

Snow

Stamps:

Remnants Collage

Tattered Newsprint

Flowers:

Spring Blooms

Wanderlust Lillies

Ephemera:

Tattered Walls

My second layout uses The Garage piece of patterned paper.  In the design of this paper there is a seam down the page and I used this as my starting point.

The background this time is very simple, just random stamping with archival ink using a couple of different stamps.

My title is taken from two different pieces.  The left over piece from the previous layout - Love This - and from the 2 piece pack of Family Memories, I took the word Memories and trimmed off the S.  Both pieces were then covered in  Glitter.  To make the word Memorie stand out more I inked the top half in black archival ink.

A couple of tags and photo frames from the Ephemera pack popped out the side and some twine threaded through, layered with chipboard pieces added further dimension and interest.

Chipboard this time was either glittered with Blue Ice Glitter, embossed with Sparkling Navy, or coloured with rust pastes to mimic the colours in the paper.

Some of the lovely Wanderlust Lillies - Im so addicted to these beautiful flowers! - and some more seedlings sprinkled over the page, finished it off.

Products Used

Patterned Paper:

Tattered Walls - The Garage

Stamps:

Super Grunge

For the Birds

Glitter:

Blue Ice

Seedlings:

Twig

Embossing Powder:

Sparkling Navy

Ephemera:

Tattered Walls

My final layout today uses the The Maids Room and the B side of Apartment B ;)  You can see three layers of paper but there is only two pieces used, I just used the back and front of The Maids Room. I really didn't want to detract from the beautiful floral graphic, so there is no stamping, mixed media or seedlings on this layout.

I even used chipboard from a previous collection, and fussy cut the floral clock cluster from the packaging, tucking it into my ripped layers.

Theres those beautiful Lillies again ;)  The chipboard this time is roughly painted and then inked around the edges.  The little flourish was trimmed off one of the hearts in the Eclectic Hearts pack.

In between the layers of paper I popped some distressed muslin and some of the beautiful BFS lace.

Products Used 

Patterned Paper:

Tattered Walls - The Maids Room, Apartment B

Chipboard:

In the Mood Printed Chipboard

Eclectic Hearts

Flowers:

Spring Blooms

Harvest Lillies

Lace:

Lace 12

Thanks for popping by today, hopefully Ive given you some inspiration :)

June inspiration by Jennifer Jacques

Hello Blue Fern fans!

Jennifer here for June inspirations.

2 layouts with the new Tattered walls collection and another one with previous release.

So, I will start today with a layout about my brother's first Spartan Race.  

I've start this layout by simply add some ink through a stencil on my background, 

which is The maid's room

Used a lot of new assorted ephemeras to built my focus point.

Numbers are cut out from In the garage paper.

Then' I've finish this first layout bu adding some flowers from my own stash, flairs, enamel dots and some dimensional black paint drops.

Really love that Blue Fern Studios now have ephemeras to complete our layouts :)

Blue fern studios products i've used here

Papers: Collection Tattered walls

-The maid's room (b-side)

-numbers cuts from In the garage

and ephemera

Chipboards

-mini frame

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For my second layout, it was also the Tattered Walls collection that have inspired me.  And my boyfriend gave me a challenge: using a Cercei's picture from Games of Thrones.

So let's start with it!

Here I've start with clear gesso on my background paper: Powder room (b-side)

Then, some sprays to add watercolors, some modeling paste with a stencil and some random stamping with differents Blue Fern Studios stamps.  Above, you can easily see the Tattered Newsprint stamp.  Under, Penned flourishes stamp.

You can see  an Opulence and Elegant Flourish chipboards, 

embossed with the new Sparkling navy embossing powder.

I'm glad that the Spring Peony matches my layout this well.  They surrounded my picture very nicely.

Spring blooms and a summer bloom complete my flowers clusterings.

Here again, ephemeras helped me a lot to build my focus point.

Finish with my usual paint splatters and that was it!

Blue Fern Studios used here

Papers: Collection Tattered walls

-Powder room

and Ephemeras

Chipboards

-Opulence

-Elegant Flourish

Stamps

-Penned flourishes

-Tattered newsprint

Embossing Powder

-Sparkling navy

Flowers
-Spring peony
-Spring blooms
-Summer blooms
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Finally, with the only Déjà Vu paper that I had in my stash:  Lustre :)

Here again, clear gesso, pearl modeling paste through a stencil.  

I have painted all my frame chipboards 

(Glam frame, Embellished frame, and one from Classic Mini frames set)

in white and then stamped with an Halftone stamp on them.

For my title, I used 2 different embossing powders: Sparkling navy and then, Lavender eggs.

A few Blue Fern Studios flowers here and there mixed with some others from my stash.

Above, the white one from Spring blooms

Under, the yellow one from Fresh florals, same as under my title :)

Really love how it goes all together :)

Blue Fern Studios used here

Papers: Collection Déjà vu

- Lustre

Chipboards

- Family and Memories

-Glam frame

-Embellished frame
-Classic mini frame set

Stamps

-Halftone

Embossing Powder

-Sparkling navy

-Lavender eggs

Thanks for passing by, see you next month!