We Have a Winner & Featured Layouts

A big thank you to all of you who participated in our February Sketch Challenge.  As always, were were amazed by your talent.  Now we would like to announce the winner.  Based on a random draw, this month's winner is...........

 ............entry #18 which belongs to Camera Kanami of Japan!.  Congratulations Camera!  

As the winner, you will receive a package of Blue Fern Studios chipboard.  Please send an e-mail, within the next 7 days, to {valerie(at)bluefernstudios(dot)com} to claim your prize.

Here's the beautiful layout that Camera created for the sketch challenge, using paper from the Blush Collection and several pieces of Blue Fern chipboard. 

We have selected the following layouts that we would like to feature:

Chantale Maisan of Canada who used the Love Story Collection for this romantic layout.

Tiffany Solorio of the United States used the Ombre Dreams Collection for this super sweet layout.

Pam Ellis of Canada who used the Blush Collection and some Blue Fern chipboard for this adorable layout.

Congratulations to those who created these featured layouts!

Want to be eligible to win our monthly prize package or have your layout featured?  

Then be sure to enter your layout in our February Sketch Challenge.

March Sketch Challenge & First Look at Courtship Lane Collection

Wow, March is here, so that means spring can't be far away!  And what better way to start the month than with a brand new sketch challenge, and a look at our upcoming collection, Courtship Lane, which will be coming very soon. To give you a better look at this gorgeous paper, each example below from our Creative Team, has been created using Courtship Lane.

Our sketch designer, Michele Singh, has a beautiful sketch for you this month.  There are so many ways to interpret this sketch, and we can't wait to see how you apply your style to it.

To give you a head-start, we have some examples from our Creative Team using the Courtship Lane collection. 

Sandi Clarkson 

Debbie Burns

Pascale B.

Nicole Doiron

Cathi O'Neill

Elena Volchkova

Keren Tamir

Yuko Tanaka

Karolina Czajkowska

 Now it's your turn to join us.  We would love for you to use the March Sketch as inspiration for your project.   We will have a prize for one lucky winner (from a random draw), and will feature a few projects from YOU at the end of the month!

We ask that you follow these guidelines:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or
flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs, but please make sure your layout resembles the sketch.

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project, please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on March 31, 2016.

An InLinkz Link-up

It's Time for a Winner!

First, we would like to say THANK YOU to all who joined us for our January Sketch Challenge.  We loved looking at each and every layout you created.  We hope you won't let us down this month.  We are looking forward to another amazing month!  You can see all the February Sketch Challenge details by clicking on the image in our sidebar.

Now it's time to select the winner of our January Sketch Challenge.  And the winner is.......

.....entry #8 which belongs to Marianne Ehlen of Sweden.  Congratulations Marianne!  

As the winner, you will receive a package of Blue Fern Studios chipboard.  Please send an e-mail, within the next 7 days, to {valerie(at)bluefernstudios(dot)com} to claim your prize.

Here is the beautiful layout Marianne created for our sketch challenge where she combined several papers from the Frolic collection, with our Circle Group and Arrow Words chipboard pieces.

This month we have chosen the following projects to feature:

 by Vera Shelemekh

by Jackie Clark

by Alla Moskalenko

by Elena Martynova

by Hiromi

 Congratulations and thanks for sharing your creativity with us!

February Sketch Challenge

Welcome to February, everyone!  Today we have a brand new sketch for you designed by Michele Singh.  This month's sketch has a romantic feel to it, in honor of Valentine's Day.  Of course, you can use our sketch as inspiration for any theme you wish.  The February sketch has some beautiful layering, room enough for two photos, and a large title.  We can't wait to see how you use it!

To get you started, we have some beautiful examples from some of our Creative Team.  You will see the many ways they interpreted the sketch.  First up are the layouts that, like the sketch, use two photos.

Cathi O'Neill kept with the love-theme for her sketch layout this month, using paper from the Blush Collection.

Sandi Clarkson created her sketch layout using the beautiful "Celebration" paper from the Blush collection, for her dreamy layout.

This beautiful brown paper from the Timeless collection really makes the photos stand out in this layout created by Bec Genet.

Elena's Volckova's  layout began with a green background that mimics the background in her photos using paper from the Paisley and Vine collection,  She built layers with scraps from other collections.  Like the 3 shown above, Elena used two photos in her design.

As we mentioned, you don't have to use two photos with this month's sketch.  Let's take a look at some of the other Creative Team examples using just one photo.

 Maiko Kosugi used repeated hearts on her adorable layout using paper from the Blush collection.

 Staying with the love theme of this month's sketch, Nicole Doiron also used the beautiful Blush collection for her sweet layout.

The beautiful and romantic Blush collection is just perfect for February and ties in so well with  the theme of Yuko Tanaka's layout.  And what could be better than the Hugs & Kisses chipboard title.

Continuing with the love theme and use of paper from the Blush collection, here is Renea Harrison's  gorgeous layout. 

The next three examples use paper from the recently released Timeless collection.  First up is this precious layout from Marie-Eve Bernard.  

And Debbie Burns not only used the Timeless collection, she also used the Timeless chipboard title with this vintage photo.

Keren Tamir rotated the sketch and used the neutral Artistique paper from the Timeless collection which coordinates so well with the colors in her photo. 

Now it's your turn to join us.  We would love to see how you used the February Sketch as inspiration for your project.   We will have a prize for one lucky winner (from a random draw), and will feature a few projects from YOU at the end of the month!

We ask that you follow these guidelines:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or 

flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs, but please make sure your layout resembles the sketch.

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project, please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on February 29, 2016.

Please link your projects here:

An InLinkz Link-up

January Sketch Challenge

Welcome to 2016!  

We're here today with our very first sketch challenge of the new year.  Our sketch has been created by the very talented Michele Singh, who also creates many of our paper collections.  Here's what we have for you this month:

Now we would like to show you some examples using this month's sketch.  This is your first chance to see layouts from some of our new design team members, and some from the fabulous designers who are returning this year.  

Keren Tamir - Canada

Renea Harrison - United States

 

 

Pascale Bernard - France

 

 

Karine Gagnon - Canada 

 

 

Maja Nowak - Poland

 

 

Cathi O’Neill - Ireland

 

 

Debbie Burns - United States

 

 

Nicole Doiron - Canada

Now that you've seen inspiration from our design team, it's your turn to show us how you will use this month's sketch.

One lucky winner, selected by a random draw, will receive a prize package 

of Blue Fern Studios chipboard!

In addition, we will also select 3 (or more) layouts to feature.

We have just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or 

flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs, but please make sure your layout resembles the sketch.

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project, please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on January 31, 2016

We look forward to seeing how you use our sketch and Blue Fern products!

Enter Here:

 

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Vintage Christmas Collection - winter feeling

Hi, so nice you found the time to visit the blog in the busy Christmas weeks.

Not everybody on this world celebrates Christmas .

Today I want to show you that the beautiful Vintage Christmas collection can also be used on other themed layouts . 

The first one is a mixed media page on my favorite paper from the collection.

                               The background is gessod and for the color I used alcohol inks.
               The title piece xoxo was painted white and I added some fairydust when it was still wet.
                       It gives a beautiful glitsery shine, which is hard to see in the picture.

I cut a Brick Ring in two and colored it with two colors ink.

The background stamps come from my favorit stamps out of the collection 

 textures

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My next layout is made after the beautiful sketch for this month challenge.

For me,  this picture shows the line between fall and winter.

I wanted to mirror the picture in my background.

There is a lot of stamping going on .

The chipboard grid piece was perfect to tuck under my photo cluster.

It holds the natural feeling I like .

The titel piece is embossed in dark brown.

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Thanks for visiting the blog and Merry Christmas to all of you.

x Wilma x

December Sketch Challenge

It's hard to believe this is our last sketch challenge of 2015!  Our sketch designer, Michele Singh, has once again given us a beautiful sketch to work with.  Doesn't it just make you happy?

Our design team went crazy this month so we have lots of examples for you - all using the sketch as inspiration.  The sketch this month certainly has a holiday feel to it, but don't feel as though you have to make it a seasonal layout.  Apply your own twist to it, like the design team did!

Sandi Clarkson

Zaneta Glowa

Debbie Burns

Keren Tamir

Jelissa Mei

Yuko Tanaka

Wilma Voermans

Melinda Thompson

Now it's your turn to show us how you will use this month's sketch.

One lucky winner, selected by a random draw, will receive a prize package 

of Blue Fern Studios chipboard!

In addition, we will also select 3 (or more) layouts to feature.

We have just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or 

flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs, but please make sure your layout resembles the sketch.

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project, please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on December 31, 2015

We look forward to seeing how you use our sketch and Blue Fern products!

Enter Here: 

An InLinkz Link-up