Happy Together Layout

Hello all, it's Aida from @aidaville  and today I'm back with a layered layout featuring the ever gorgeous Blue Fern Studios lace. If you are into shabby, pretty projects and makes, adding lace will surely give them a boost of lovely texture. 

Here are the products I used :
Blue Fern Studios supplies :
Papers : 
Happy Accident #2 - Chase  |  Damsel

Remnants : Callaway

Lace : #1 and #2

Remnants Printed Chipboard

Assorted Blue Fern Florals

Others :

9"x7" flat back Canvas
Collage Medium, Acrylic Paints, Water Soluble Crayons, White Gesso, 

I began with 6'x6' patterned paper and started building the central piece of the layout on it. Photos should always be the focus of layouts and I chose to adhere it slightly to the left to create space for a title or embellishments.

From this point, I played around with the lace pieces and florals till I was happy with how the embellishments fitted into the layout.

I love the neutral colour of the lace as this makes it very easy to match the papers and florals, just look how the sewn on sequins add a touch of pretty sparkle !

The title to the right of the photo is from the Remnants Printed Chipboard popped up with foam squares.

The orange blossoms give the layout a bright happy feel. To create a shabby appeal, I lightly brushed the florals with watered down gesso and dried them with a heat tool.

Finally, to frame the focal piece, I mounted it on a canvas collage using a patterned paper and Lace #2, glued to the lower end with collage medium After it dried, I then lightly brushed a coat of white gesso and pale pink.

This layout was so much fun to make as pretty Blue Fern Studios products are an inspiration and makes the process amazingly easy.

I hope you will make something pretty in the weekend ahead. I'll see you soon and remember to come back for more ideas from the rest of the Design Team !

 Aida Haron @aidaville 

Love Story projects by Zanka

Hello!
It's my turn to share some more project which I created in February using BFS elegant Love Story collection. This is just a small share of the wonderful possibilities which this collection can be used for.
For my first project I picked Grand Ball, my absolute favourite paper in the whole collection! I worked both with the front and the back side, and I can't make up my mind-which one do I like more ;)

This  layout's colour scheme was entirely inspired by the colours of the paper pattern.

I have used some plain chipboards which I think match perfectly for the colours here. The branch is randomly dabbed with gesso. The heart is primed with gesso and covered with glossy accents and embossed with a distress powder.
Chipboards used:
Spring Branch, Lace Heart Border, word set Laughter, Happy , Smile, Layering Stems

My second project is also inspired by the base paper colours but as you see, the palette and style are completely different here.

I used Love Story stamp sets 1 & 2 to fill up the background with the stamp collage.
Chipboards: Circle Vine, Mixed Chains. The framed is primed with gesso and painted with crackle paste.

Thank you for spending a moment with me today, have a fantastic creative day!
Zaneta aka Zanka

February projects by Karita Vainio

Hi everyone! 

 I´m happy to be here today with you all!

Today I have a three layouts to share with you

and my first layout is made by following the february sketch. 

"Happy" layout of my sweet daughter.

For this layout I have used the beautiful Conservatory and Meadows of Time papers from the Sanctuary collection.
I have added some gesso and mists to the papers and also stamped a little bit from here and there.

Chipboards that I have used are Turkish Bits, Royal Monarchs and Happy.
I have painted the chipboards with Distress Ink  - Walnut Stain, except the Royal Monarch butterfly, which is painted with mists.

Paper: Sanctuary collection: Conservatory, Meadows Of Time

Chipboard: Turkish Bits, Royal Monarchy, Happy

And my 2nd layout. I called it "The Love Story"
 and I made it of my son and his girlfriend

For this layout I also used papers from the Sanctuary collection. They are called Birdsong Melody and Garden Plaza. And again I have added gesso and mists, my favourite tuff. 

Chipboards I have used are Shabby Brick Bits, Memory Frames and Arrow Words and I have painted them with a white acrylic paint.

Paper: Sanctuary collection: Birdsong Melody, Garden Plaza

Chipboard: Shabby Brick Bits, Memory Frames, Arrow Words

And my 3rd layout is made with the gorgeous papers from the new Love Story collection.
It´s called "Love" and it´s made of my darling husband.

For this layout I have used the Twenty One and Calling Cards papers.

 Added some gesso and mists and after that I have used the new Blue Fern Studios: Love Story 1 & 2 stamp sets.
Chipboards I have used are Mesh Bits, Love and Postage Frames and they are painted with white gesso.

Paper: Love Story collection: Twenty One, Calling Cards

Stamp: Love Story collection: 1 & 2

Chipboard: Mesh Bits, Love, Postage Frames

Thank you for looking!

Happy & Thankful- By Keren Tamir

Keren here for my last post for 2014. What a great year it has been!! It was truly an amazing journey.

I have two layouts featuring the Sanctuary collection and a couple of frames and word chipboard pieces.

"Happy"

 Sanctuary "Meadows of Time" paper.

I used the seaside frame which I painted in two tones of distress paint.

As a title, I used the word Happy from the set: happy, laughter, smile.

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"Thankful"

Sanctuary "Conservatory" paper.

I'm really happy about this fall layout of my family because I used the new round butterfly frame to frame the photo. The butterfly frame was designed by ME!!! for Blue Fern Studios. Visit the wholesale store to see some more of my designs.

Its really cool to use one of my own designs and I can't wait to see what my other DT members do with them.

The frame was painted in golden acrylic paint and then stamped with brown ink to create a textured pattern.

I used the Thankful chipboard as a title.

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios Blog!!

Have a wonderful day!!

A layout and a card from Camilla

Hi all!

I have worked with the new Sanctuary collection and have made a layout and a card. The layout looks like this:

The chipboards (Smile and Circle Vine) are covered with white crackle texture paste and then I sprinkled some gold glitter onto them.

The card is this one. I have only covered the chipboard piece (Fancy Signage) with white gesso and then used some brown ink.

Thanks for looking!

Camilla