March Inspiration by Debbie Burns

Hi everyone!  Debbie back with you today to share my March layouts.   I have two created with the In The Mood Collection and the third one featuring the Happy Accident collection.

"All  You Need Is Love"

 I used the Attracted paper for my background.  Love the beautiful colors and details. Michelle designed such a beautiful collection! I added a light spray of some peony mist to the background along with some pieces from Lace 12.  

Lot of layering behind the photo using the Optimistic and Dreamy papers 

along with the printed chipboard. The chipboard pieces behind the photo were embossed with Blue Fern Ivory Embossing Power, and the leaves with Avocado and sprinkled with some Meadow Seedlings. 

I used a butterfly stamp and embossed two butterflies, one in ebony and the other in Pink Dust.  I placed lots of flowers around photo from Apricot Blooms, Moody Florals and Moody Blooms.

I applied some white mircobeads from my stash all around the layout and added some Blue Fern Tickled Seedlings and Pink Pearl Glitter.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

In The Mood Paper

Attracted

Dreamy 

Optimistic

In The Mood Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powders

Ivory

Pink Dust

Avacado

Ebony

Flowers

Moody Forals

Moody Blooms

Apricot Blooms

Seedlings

 Meadow

Tickled

Lace

Lace 12

Glitter

Pink Pearl

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"Sweetheart"

The background paper is Peaceful (Side B).   I applied some Lace 4 behind the photo and splatters of white paint.  Lots of layering behind the photo using  the printed chipboard and Dreamy, Blissful and Ecstatic papers.

I embossed the chipboard pieces behind the photo with a mixture of Blue Fern Ivory and Petal Embossing powders.  The leaves were embossed with Blue Fern Green Ivory. I added flowers from Moody Blooms, Apricot Blooms and Harvest Lilies.

I fussy cut flowers from the Ecstatic paper and tucked them behind the photo. 

The title is from the In The Mood printed chipboard.

  

Blue Fern Studios Products:

In The Mood Papers

Peaceful (Side B)

Dreamy

Blissful

Ecstatic

In The Mood Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powders

Ivory

Petal

Green Ivory

Flowers

Moody Blooms

Apricot Blooms

Harvest Lilies

Lace 4

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"Wonder"

I used the Windfall paper from the Happy Accident Collection, both sides.  Lots of layering with the B side of the Windfall paper along with the printed chipboard. I applied some stamping on the background using the Halftone, Postal Textures and Tattered Newsprint stamps.

I used the Blooms & Stems stamp on some vellum and  embossed with Auburn .  I added some Solar Flare Glitter to the centers of some of the flowers.  Flowers are from  Christmas Blooms, Harvest Lilies and Spring Peonies.

The large chipboard pieces behind the photo were embossed with a mixture of Auburn and Honey Embossing Powders, and the leaves with Avocado. All around the layout I added some art stones and microbeads from my stash along with some Harvest Seedlings and additional Solar Flare Glitter.

The butterfly was embossed with a mixture of Blue Fern Speckled Mint and Auburn Embossing Powders and solar flare Glitter.

The title was embossed with Blue Fern Speckled Mint.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

Happy Accident Papers

Windfall

Happy Accident Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powders

Auburn

Honey

Avocado

Speckled Mint 

Flowers

Christmas Blooms

Spring Peonies

Harvest Lilies

Stamps

 Halftone

Blooms and Stems

Postal Textures

Tattered Newsprint

Thanks for stopping by.
I hope I have inspired you!
I'll see you next month.

. . . Debbie

Layouts & Vision Board by France Ringuette

Hi bloggers, I can't believe that it's March already. Time is flying but, but I am enjoying crafting for the Blue Fern Studios Design team. This month, I'll be sharing 2 layouts and 1 off the page project. 

Capture the Moment Layout #1

The starting point for this layout was this beautiful picture of my 2 sons and I taken during our Riviera Maya vacation last summer. I wanted to extend on my layout the colors of my picture, so a blue background with a sandy beach.

I chose the beige background from In the Mood - Flirty paper. Once covered with Gesso, I layed my foundation of ink on the top half.

I wanted to have multi tones on my chipboard to give it more dimension. I opted to cover my clock and rectangle pieces in Ginger, Black & Gold and finally a touch of Oatmeal embossing powders.

The bottom of the layout, in order to create a beach feel effect I worked with cheese cloth and wool fibers that I glued with gel medium. Then I added touches of small stones and 4 colors of seedlings: Paprika, Twig, Gold Nugget & Glass.

Once my background was complete, I chose to build my layers. For my title, I chose to use 14 Karat embossing powder. I love the glitter it adds to the layout.

This last picture shows the beautiful Blue Fern flowers, more details on the embossed chipboard & seedlings. I also included Rose Gold glitter but it's impossible to capture the glitter on my picture.

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Paper Collection: In the Mood Flirty & Pensive

Seedlings:

Paprika

Twig

Gold Nugget

Glass

Embossing Powders:

Black & Gold

Ginger

Oatmeal

14 Karat

Glitter: Rose Gold

Flowers :

Chesterville blooms

Homespun blooms

Heartland blossoms

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Formidable layout # 2

Time for another magnificent picture of my gorgeous niece with her family. I just love the vibrancy of the red in the picture and chose to use that for my highlights.

 Remnants Westfield is my chosen paper for this layout.

I had fun playing with different techniques on this layout. The first step was to emboss different sections with the Green Ivory Embossing Powder.  I used 2 stamps to emboss on my background paper: Weathered Doily & Honeycomb.

I chose to alter the circle chipboard with black gesso, and some waxes to give them an antique look & feel.

I love adding the small sentiments from the Remnants printed chipboard set.

Can you see the top of my tags? I like making my own tags, they make wonderful ornaments for my layering. Here is used leftovers of my Remnants collection. 

I wanted to add some shine to my flowers, so I added touches of white & gold glitter

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Paper Collection: Remnants Westfield

Embossing Powder: Green Ivory

Glitter: White & Gold

Stamps:

Weathered Doily

Honeycomb

Chipboard:

French adjectives

techno Rings

Printed Remnants

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Off the page project: Vision Board 2018

Have you ever made a vision board? This year at work, I hosted a team event where we I invited our team members to create their combined work & personal vision board for 2018.

The goal of a vision board is that if you see you goals on a daily level... you set-up you mind to making them happen.

To set-up my board I used many elements from my Blue Fern collection.

The first step was making my chipboard world map. I wanted it to pop out so I chose Blue Sky embossing powder:

Second elements where to use my gorgeous Blue Fern stamp sets. I love the words Family and Hopes & Dreams. I found them perfect for the family section of my board.

To create sections, I chose to use the frames in the Homespun printed chipboard set:

Here we can see a printed frame and the word Journey, both from my stamp stash.

And lastly, more of the Homespun printed chipboard elements. They are just adorable.

Disclaimer: I did pull off the internet and Pinterest some quotes that I found to complete the vision board. 

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Embossing Powder: Blue Sky

Stamps:

Hopes & Dreams

Distressed Titles

Floral Vignettes

Chipboard:

Printed Homespun

I hope you enjoyed my 3 projects for March and I wish you an amazing crafty month !

In the mood and Remnants inspirations by Jennifer Jacques

Good morning Blue Fern Fanatics!

It's my turn today on the Blue Fern Studios blog to present my February inspirations.

Did you see the gorgeous new collection "In the mood"?

Absolutely in love with this pink/red and soooooo romantic collection.

Here is my first layout with those brand new products.

"Fabulous"

First, I  primed my background "Optimistic"paper with clear gesso and, then, applied some modeling paste through a stencil.  A little bit of spray to highlight the design and I was ready to go further.

I made my focal point by layering my picture on chipboard, die cut and a piece of "Pensive" paper.  

You can see in the picture below, 2 new colors of embossing powders that just came out with In the mood.  Black gold on the chipboard, and the lovely Pixie dust on my doily die cut.  On the leaves, I chose one of my favorite green color, Forest.

Add some printed coordinated chipies under the picture and some laces across the page 

(the black one is 3B and ivory one is lace12).

Then, I added some flowers.  

The white one is gorgeous with a little bit of glitter on it.  It is from the Garden Blooms set.

On my title, it is the Ivory embossing powder that I chose.

In final touches, I printed some little tiny dots with the Halftone stamp: you can barely see them loll.

Added some gesso splatters and that was it!

Blue Fern Studios products used on this layout

Paper: In the mood Optimistic & Pensive

Chipboard: In the mood printed chipboard

Embossing powders: Pixie dust

                                     Black gold

                             Ivory

                              Forest

Lace: 3B & 12

Flower: Garden blooms (white one)

Stamp: Halftone

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"Beautiful"

For my second inspiration, it is the "Flirty" paper that I chose for my background.

I added some texture on my backgroud with some 3D gel medium on which I sprinkled some  

Rose Gold glitters.  Some crackle paste over another stencil, some printing with one of my Blue Fern Studios favorite stamp: Newsprint.

I cut in  parts one of the In the mood printed chipboard  and displayed them under my picture, which is also on a piece of b-side "Pensive" paper.  Also used the circle calendar that came in the coordinated printed chipboard as an embellishment.  The biggest flower  was in the Moody floral flowers set (the pale pink one, that I sprayed a little bit to match the paper's color).

I used 2 colors of embossing powders on my leaves below: Fern and Forest.

Added some enamel dots, more flowers from my stash and, again, 

gesso splatters and this one was done!

Blue Fern Studios products used on this layout

Paper: In the mood Flirty & Pensive (b-side)

Chipboard: In the mood printed chipboard

Embossing powders: Fern & Forest

                             

Flower: Moody floral (pale pink + spray)

Stamp: Newsprint

Glitter: Rose gold

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Last but not least for February,  Remnants collection inspiration!

"Memories"

Here, it's the "Westfield" paper as my backgroud.  As usual, primed with clear gesso.  I used some printed chipboard to build my focal point.  Some lace 7 to add texture, some glitters "In the forest" on the edges of my chipboard and "Meadow" seedlings as final touches on the printed chippies.

Did you see those beautiful flowers below???  

My favorite from Blue Fern Studios, the lilies.  Just loooooooove them 💗  The red one from the Harvest Lilies set and the green/brown one from the Wanderlust collection.  Also, under the side of my cluster, a white one from the Remnants blooms ;)

Blue Fern Studios products used on this layout

Paper: Remnants Westfield

Chipboard: Remnants printed chipboard

Flowers: Harvest lilies, Wanderlust lilies and Remnants blooms

Lace: 7 Ivory

Glitters: In the forest

Seedlings: Meadow

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So this is it for me!  Hope you have found some inspiration here!

See you next month 😘