June Projects by Lydia Guijt

Hello Blue Fern Studios and paper friends. 

This is my last month on the Design Team and it's been a great time. I would like to thank Blue Fern Studios for giving me this wonderful opportunity and their great support. 

For this month I have made a canvas and 2 layouts. 

For the canvas I used the Happy Accident  Collection and for the 2 layouts the brand new beautiful Garden Life Collection. 

Let's get started!

Canvas 

I started of with painting the sides of the canvas with some acrylic, with a second dry-brush coat in blue. Once this was dry I used the Tattered News Print Stamp randomly for some effect. 

The front of the canvas I covered with Happy Accident : Fluke with on top a smaller piece from the same sheet, distressed at the edges. Again I used the Tattered News Print Stamp for some details around the canvas and used a stencil with Graphite paste to create texture.

The Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces Stick Stacks are embossed with Starry Night to pick up the beautiful light blue from the paper. Having done my preparations it's time to start my layers.

Happy Accident is the first collection to have it's own accompanying Printed Chipboard Shapes sheet and it makes for a wonderful way to add layers, features and titles to your projects. For my canvas I made great use of them.

Also adding ribbon, lace, netting and thread to the mix before finishing off the project with the gorgeous Chesterville Florals and Blooms.

Paper

Happy Accident : Fluke

Chipboard

Stick Stacks

Happy Accident : Printed Chipboard Shapes

BFS Embossing

Starry Night

Stamps

Tattered Newsprint

Flowers

Chesterville Florals 

Chesterville Blooms

The End of a Perfect Day

At the end of May we had a great trip to Disney World it had been quite a while since the last time we had been there, but no matter what age, it's always great. Even Tinkerbell joined in for fun!

For this layout I used the brand new Garden Life Collection. The Felicity page for the background and Calling Cards pieces for layering. For the background work I used the Tattered News Print and the Tattered Harlequin stamp, a stencil and mists.

The Honey Bits chipboard pieces are embossed with a mixture of a few embossing powders. Sunlight Rose, Morning Sun, Pink Dust & Copper.

The other chipboard pieces, Graduated Circles, Perfect Day, Roman Clock were first embossed with Sand & Sea with a second coat of Iridescent Grey giving it a beautiful sparkle.

Now that we have prepared all the parts it's time to put the layout together. Stacking the pieces of  embossed chipboard, Garden Life - Printed Chipboard Shapes, pieces of paper and the beautiful Blue Fern Studios flowers, Garden Florals, Harvest Lilies & Chesterville Blooms, 

Paper

Garden Life : Felicity, Calling Cards

Chipboard

Perfect Day

Bits of Honey

Graduated Circles

Roman clock set Small

Garden Life : Printed Chipboard Shapes

BFS Embossing

Sunlight Rose

Morning Sun

Pink Dust

Copper

Sand & Sea

Iridescent Grey

Stamps

Tattered Harlequin

Tattered News Print

Flowers 

Garden Florals

Harvest Lilies

Chesterville Blooms

Disney World

On one of the evenings in Disney World we so enjoyed the fireworks. What a show they put on. The castle has this spectacular light show and with the fabulous music it's just perfect.

For this photo I chose the Garden Life : Calling Cards sheet as the base of my layout. To continue on the fireworks I used the Christmas Collage Stamp and used it with a silver ink and Antique Gold Embossing Powder. A large diamond stencil with a mixture of gold & silver paste and some white gesso to give the background texture. 

The Floral Lattice Bits were first embossed with Sand & Sea Embossing Powder and a second layer with Iridescent Grey. The Seeing Stars and Disneyworld chipboard pieces first got a Antique Gold coat with embossing powder and then a second layer with Goldenrod Glitter.

Having prepared all the pieces I postioned them on the page where I wanted them and layered everything. Adding embellishments and Blue Fern Studios flowers Spring Florals and Garden Blooms. As finishing touches I splattered a variety of mists.

Paper

Garden Life : Calling Cards

Chipboard

Seeing Starts

Disney World

Floral Lattice Bits

BFS Embossing

Sand & Sea

Iridescent Grey

Antique Gold

Glitter

Goldenrod

Stamps

Christmas Collage

Flowers 

Spring Florals

Garden Blooms

It's been an absolute honor to work for this wonderful company.  

I hope I've managed to inspired you 

See you around the world!

Happy travels!

Lydia

Garden Life Layouts by Kris Berc

Hi, Blue Fern Studios fans! It's Kris here to share a few new layouts with you.  All three feature the new paper collection called Garden Life.

Cute Stuff

My first layout features the Garden Life - Wallflowers paper. I treated it with gesso, drops of ink, modeling paste through a stencil, the Serendipity Medley stamp, and a stamp from the Forever stamp set.

I clustered some Garden Florals and Garden Blooms with a few other items from my stash.

I framed the photo with a chipboard piece from the Graduated Circles set embossed with 14 karat embossing powder.  The Garden Lattice Bits and the "Cute Stuff" title from the Good Vibes set were first embossed with Sunlight Rose embossing powder and then embossed a second time with Rusty Rose embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life - Wallflowers

Chipboard

Garden Lattice Bits
Good Vibes set
Graduated Circles

Embossing Powder

14 Karat
Rusty Rose
Sunlight Rose

Stamps

Forever set
Serendipity Medley

Flowers

Garden Blooms
Garden Florals

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Love

For my second layout, I used the Garden Life - In Bloom paper.  It's treated with gesso, drops of ink, and a stamp from the Essential Textures stamp set.

I embossed the Shabby Brick Bits chipboard piece with Snow embossing powder.  The Brick Rings chipboard pieces are first embossed with Baby Pink and then with Pretty in Pink embossing powder.

My flower cluster includes Garden Blooms, Garden Florals, and Spring Florals.  I have also used 3 pieces from the Garden Life Printed Chipboard set.

The "Love" chipboard piece is from the Good Vibes set.  It's embossed with Ebony embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life - In Bloom

Chipboard

Brick Rings
Good Vibes
Shabby Brick Bits
Garden Life Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powder

Baby Pink
Ebony
Pretty in Pink
Snow

Stamps

Essential Textures

Flowers

Garden Blooms
Garden Florals
Spring Florals

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Life is Full of Surprises

My last layout is made with the Garden Life - Snippets paper.  I treated it with gesso, the Tattered Harlequin stamp, and drops of white paint.

My flower cluster includes Chesterville Florals and Harvest Lilies. I sprinkled some microbeads from my stash for added texture.

 I framed the photo with a chipboard piece from the Splattered Circles set and a negative piece from the Brick Rings set.  They are covered with Sand and Sea embossing powder.  The title piece, Life is full of Suprises, is embossed in Ebony embossing powder.

I also layered 3 pieces of Garden Life - Felicity paper behind the photo.  This was a fun day, by the way... we surprised my daughter with her first trip to the roller rink, and she learned to skate in no time!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life - Felicity
Garden Life - Snippets

Chipboard

Brick Rings
Life is full of Surprises
Splattered Circles

Embossing Powder

Ebony
Sand and Sea

Stamps

Tattered Harlequin

Flowers

Chesterville Florals
Harvest Lilies

Thank you for stopping by today.

I hope I have inspired you to create with your Blue Fern Studios products!

June inspiration by Annie Samson

Hi everyone, 

I am verry excited today to share 2 layouts made with the new Garden life collection.

Life

For my first layout, I used the back side of the Snipet paper.

I haded some yellow and orange ink on the back ground.

Then a used the Morning sun embossing powder on my chipbaord.

I placed a pieace of the Floral Lattice Bits under my picture.

And a piece of Damask Flourish under my flowers

I used some pieces of the coordinate chipboard to embellish my layout.

And I finished my layout with flowers

Blue Fern Studios produtc used

Paper

Garden Life - Snipet 

Chipbaord

Floral Lattice Bits

Damask Flourish

Garden Life - Coordinated chipboard 

Embossing powder

Morning sun 

Flowers

Chesterville bloms

Chesterville florals

Garden bloms

Garden florals

Brown Eyed Girl

For my second layout, I used the back groud on the Felecity paper.

I haded a lot of flowers to embellish my layout

I used 3 colors of embossing powder on my chipboards.

Here a video of my creating proccess.

Blue Fern Studios produtc used

Paper

Garden Life - Felicity 

Chipbaord

Brown Eyed Girl

 Pure Elegence

Stamp set
Forever
London chronicle

Embossing powder

Chilli powder
Morning sun
Coral

Flowers

Chesterville bloms
Garden florals
Happy roses

I hope you have found some inspiration. I wish you a nice crafty day!

Annie Samson

Friends by Bev Code

Hi Blue Fern Studios fans. I am using the amazing HAPPY ACCIDENT Collection on this page.

"Friends"

Hi... Bev here today. As Fan of the Month at Blue Fern Studios I am thrilled to be able to create using layers of paper from the HAPPY ACCIDENT collection. I then stamped using WASHI STRIPS &  BLOOM & STEM stamps, HAPPY ACCIDENT chipboards and some of the newest IMAGINE INK GLITTER added sparkle to the page. I finished it off with a small cluster of SPRING FLORAL flowers. I am thrilled to be able to share with you the amazing products I used them on my project. 

This Friends page is my Grand Daughter and her little childhood friend. 

I am sharing with you how I used the  Blue Fern Studios stamps inked on to the open spaces. One I  used the newest glitter which I applied onto the glued spots around the stamped image. 

Tap off the excess glitter onto a piece of paper to collect it. You will want to save this for another project. Fold over the paper and slide the excess glitter back into the bottle for future projects.

Here is the  multi tone stamped image with the glitter applied around it. 

Using the same process as above... scatter the glitter over the glued section on the chipboard. Turn sideways over the piece of paper to tap off excess. Save the excess glitter and put back into the container.

Here is the finished chipboard piece all coloured and glittered.

In this section I also added some amazing flowers from the Blue Fern Studios collections. 

In this section I added more inked chipboard arrow words coloured with ink or copics. I stamped a border  in lower corner and also added a chipboard accent.

 Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Happy Accident 'Fluke'

Happy Accident 'Fortuity'

Happy Accident 'Fate'

Chipboards

Happy Accident 

Arrow Words

Stamps

Bloom and Stem

Washi Strips

Ink

BFS Imagine Ink Glitter 'Pea Soup'

BFS Imagine Ink Glitter 'Pink Diamond'

Thanks for visiting today.... Hope to see you again next Wednesday when I get to share again with you using amazing products. 

Bev Code June Fan of the Month

June Layouts by Babi

Hi Everyone,

Today I would like to share with you a couple of projects  that I made  featuring the new Garden Life  collection.

I used  Garden Life - Sun Kissed o create my  first project, called "Blossom".

To create the background I used stencil, modeling paste and Honey embossing powder.

I covered the Natural Spring Set chipboards with watercolor paint.

And finished my project with some flowers that I "fussy cut" from Flower Bed and Snippets papers. I also used  Spring Lilies  flowers  and Printed Chipboard to decorate it.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:

Flower Bed

Snippets

Sun Kissed

Chipboards:

Natural Spring Set

 Printed Chipboard - Garden Life

Flowers:

Spring Lilies

Embossing Powder:

Honey

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Using the Garden Life Collection I created my second layout "Hello Darling". You can check the video tutorial at the end of this post.

For the main page I used Garden Life - Snippets.

Then, I used  stencil, gesso and Pearl embossing powder to create a delicate texture for the background.

I stamped the background with tattered stamp to add some contrast to the page.

Then covered with Snow embossing powder  the Ornate Frames and Blossom Branches chipboard.

I finished  with  gorgeous accents that I cut from Flower Bed and Sun Kissed papers, Blossom flower and other embellies.

Video 

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:

Garden Life Snippets

Flower Bed

Sun Kissed

Chipboards:

Ornate Frame

Blossom Branches

Flowers:

Garden Blooms

Embossing Powder:

Snow

Pearl

Stamp:

Tattered Newsprint

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I hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Babi