December inspiration by Pascale B.

Hello Sweeties,

Today it's this time of the year where you have to give your farewell. I was really honored when Leslie and Valerie asked me again to be part of the Blue Fern Studios adventure. But today will be my last post here. So thank you, Leslie and Valerie.
But I have three last projects to share with you. I chose a photo of my maternal grandmother. The photo is blurry, but I like it. I chose to work with the Chesterville collection.

As always, I primed the background with clear gesso. Next, I made my own paste with a 3D gloss gel and two inks to obtain the right color. I used this paste with a stencil to add a design. 

Next, I embossed Krystal's Frame with the Amethyst powder. I just inked the Chelsea Vine.

I colored the Rose Leaves with a mica powder and added two embossing powders to add some texture.

The background dry, I added some colors with different inks.

I cut a few papers to add under the photo and glued all the embellishments with a 3D gel.

To finish the layout, I added some glitters and glass seedlings.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Chesterville - Holmes

Chesterville - Chester

Spring Peony and Berries

Happy Blooms

Krystal's Frame small

Rose Leaves

Chelsea Vines

Amethyst

Stormy skies

Sea Mist

Glass

Eggplant

Grape

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Here is my second monthly project for Blue Fern Studios. As Christmas is coming fast I was thinking about decoration. So I decided to make a table center with the beautiful Vintage Christmas collections. Nothing really complicated, but something simple and elegant, I hope you will agree.

You will need one band of cardstock 12" x 6" and one square 6" x 6". Fold the band in two, open, and fold again the top corners to the middle in order to form a triangle. Fold the square in a triangle too. You can glue the square as the model.

Next, you can glue the papers. With a crop-a-dile, I made some holes: if you want to put a  small light under the table center, the light will be visible.

I embossed the chipboards with different gold powders.

I die cut some leaves in a watercolor paper and inked them. I embossed the mistletoes with the Icicle powder.

To create the berry, I added hot glue and I dipped it immediately in the glitter.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Vintage Christmas Auld Lang Syne	Vintage Christmas Magical	Vintage Christmas 2 Twas the Night	Vintage Christmas 2 Let it snow
Winter Flakes	Antique Gold	Phoenix	Homespun Blossoms
Classic Ornament	14 Karat	Icicle	Happy Roses
Tree Toys	Ginger		Christmas Blooms

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And here is my third and last project. I chose to make a mini album with both Vintage Christmas collections.

First I made the box with cardboard. I painted all the edges with a gold acrylic paint before covering both sides of the box with papers.

... I just add a few pockets with tags,...

The inside is an accordion. As there is no space to add any embellishments,...

... as well as folders.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Vintage Christmas Full collection

Vintage Christmas 2 Full collection

Vintage Christmas Printed Chipboard

Remnants Collection

What do you think of when you hear the word remnants?  Perhaps little bits of things that have been left over, or maybe a scrap of something?  Our paper designer, Michele Singh, put many little bits of things together and came up with an amazing paper collection we call "Remnants".  We added a few other products to this line and came up with a combination of awesome products.

Today we are here to give you a look at the individual papers in this collection of 10 double-sided papers, where you will see the rich colors and texture:

Design Team Member, Tartine, created this frosty layout using the Chancery Lane paper is that shown above.  

Paper: 

Remnants - Chancery Lace

Chipboard: 

Thisler Spray ( Ivory )

Frame Collage ( Plum )

Ironwork Arch ( Plum )

Leafy Twigs 

Embossing powder: 

Plum

Ivory

Glitters:

Soot ( Homemade texture paste )

Laces:

Lace 5

Seedlings: 

Mauve

Sterling silver

Flowers:

Remnants Blooms

Late Winter Lilies

Check back later this week when we will feature some of our other new products!

Magical by Vija

Today, we are back with a layout from Vija Anton, our December Blue Fern Fan of the Month.  

She has used the Homespun paper collection to create this beautiful wedding layout.  

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For my layout featuring a candid photo from my son and daughter in law's wedding I used the beautiful Homespun Hospitality paper.  I turned it on its side for my layout and allowed the beauty of the paper speak for itself, just embellishing the page with mainly chipboard and flowers.

To keep the photos the focus of the page I used a frame from the Homespun printed chipboard shapes and embossed all the chipboard pieces in Antique Gold and adding some Sea Mist embossing powder and Wintergreen Seedlings to some of the pieces to keep the page unified. I similarly altered the Wanderlust Vine to tie in with the chipboard pieces.

I added a few bits of lace to add visual dimension and contrast. And a little bit of stamping to extend the foliage and give it a touch of whimsy. 

Paper:

Homespun Hospitality 

Printed Chipboard:

Homespun Printed Chipboard

Flowers:

Homespun Blooms

Wanderlust Vine

Chipboard: 

Flutter Medley

Blooming Foliage

 Winter Titles

Stamp: 

Dreamy

Seedlings: 

Wintergreen

Glitter: 

Black

Embossing Powder:

 Sea Mist

Antique Gold

Lace

December inspirations by Babi

 Hi Everyone,

Today it's my turn to share with you my projects using the new Remnants collection.

I made my first layout using  Bloomsburry and Chancery to create a layout called "Happy & Joy ".  Using Mini Remnants to create the layers.

I started by creating the background with stencil and brown stamping pad. Next, I added  Thistle Spray  and Rock Wall Bits chipboard covered in Antique Gold embossing powder. Then,  I covered  Autumn Leaves in Snow embossing powder and added some colors with distress ink. 

I  decided to add more texture by using seedlings and gel matte on the layout.

Then proceeded to add lots of flowers and Remnants Printed Chipboard. 

And I finished the layout with seedlings, flowers and other embellishments.

Papers:

Bloomsburry
Chancery Lane
Mini Remnants

Chipboards:
Thistle Spray 
Remnants Printed Chipboard 

Autumn Leaves
Rock Wall Bits

Embossing Powder:

Antique Gold
Snow

Seedlings:
Tickled
Burgendy

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My second project is a layout which also incorporates papers from the Remnants Collection. 

I added some texture with crackled paste and stencil on Vignette paper. Then, I painted the background with bright pink and blue watercolors and stamped it with black stamping pad for more contrast. 

Next, I added Paisley & Vine Medley chipboard covered in Antique Gold and Fern embossing powder. I also stamped the chipboard with pink and blue distress ink. 

I finish the layout with a lots a flowers from different collections. Including some flowers that I stamped on a vellum paper and Snow embossing powder. 

Papers:

Vignette 

Chipboards:

Paisley & Vine Medley

Flowers:

Dark Tropic Lilies
Remnants Blooms
Remnants Florals

Embossing Powder:

Antique Gold
Fern
Snow

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My last project is a exploding box also using the new Remnants collection.

I decorated the box with the following papers: Callaway, Highgate, Devonshire and  Mini Remnants. Next, I stamped  the papers very lightly with black ink and Remnants Collage stamp. 

I decorated the interior Remnants print chipboard, flowers and Floral Medley chipboard covered in Snow embossing powder. 

Papers:

Callaway
Highgate
Devonshire
Mini Remnants

Chipboads:

Remnants Printed Chipboard
Floral Medley Frame

Flowers:

Dark Tropic Lilies
Late Winter Lilies

Embossing Powder:

Oatmeal

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I hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Babi