January projects by Karita Vainio

Hello!
It´s Karita Vainio here with you today, 

and this is my very first post as a Blue Fern Studios designer.
I´m very excited about this new journey with a new amazing team and especially with the gorgeous products.

 Here´s something about me:

 I´m a bit over fourty years old. Mother to a three amazing children, two grown up boys and one teenage girl
Also I´m a wife to a kind and supportive man. We´ve been together 25 years now.
We live in southern Finland, close to our capital city, Helsinki.
We live in a small house, which we build 10 years ago.
I love to decorate our little home and in the summer I spend my time in our small garden, which is my favourite place to be and enjoying the summer.

I love creating things. I love to make layouts and cards, and sometimes I also make art journals and canvases.
I think my style is romantic mixed together with shabby and mixed media styles.

I love to use different textures in my projects and  my motto is more is better.
I´ve been crafting and scrapbooking like 7 years now and I feel like my journey has just began :)

If you like my work, you can find my blog here:

http://www.karitavainio.com/

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My 1st project is made by following the January sketch. 

For this layout I´ve used the Correspondence and Botanical Garden papers from the new Sanctuary collection.
And the beautiful chipboards I´ve used are Notebook Edges, Arrow Words and Smile.

I´ve added white gesso on the papers and chipboards and after they dried I started adding some paints and mists.

Paper: Sanctuary collection: Correspondence, Botanical Garden
Chipboard: Notebook Edges, Arrow Words, Smile

And here´s my 2nd layout..

I`ve used the Botanical Garden and Garden Plaza papers from the Sanctuary collection.
And the great chipboards are Shabby Flakes and Roman Clock Set - small.

I´ve cutted the paper on the top a bit smaller than the bottom one and punched the edges from here and there to give a grunge effect.

Paper:  Sanctuary collection: Botanical Garden, Garden Plaza
Chipboard: Shabby Flakes, Roman Clock Set - Small

My 3rd project for this month is a canvas.

Paper I used for this canvas is Boudoir from the Blue Fern Garden collection.
Text is cutted from the Calling card from the Sanctuary collection.
And I just loved these gorgeous chipboards called Jasmine Collage and Checker Bits.

For this canvas I used lots of gesso and modelling paste.
And mists and paints.

Paper: Blue Fern Garden Collection: Boudoir, Sanctuary Collection: Calling Cards

Chipboard: Jasmine Collage, Checker Bits

I hope you liked my projects...
Thank you for visiting here and see you next month!

-Karita-

Inspiration from our Creative Team

Our Creative Team is crazy about Blue Fern products and we love to show off their work.  Here are some recent projects from members of our team:

Galina Sazonova used a piece from the Checkered Bits chipboard set 

when she created this Christmas card.  

I love the way she has items extending off the edge of the card. 

Definitely a card you would want to hand-deliver. 

Bente Fagerberg used an ink pad to color the title (from the Arrow Words set) and the Manor Hinges.

  Isn't this a lovely layout?

You will notice that the next three designers have all used circle frames in one way or another.  Jelissa Mei glammed up the frames she used behind her photos.

Melinda Thompson uses two Blue Fern Graduated Circles chipboard pieces to draw the eye toward the photo on this stunning layout.

And last, but not least, returning creative team member Marie-Josee Hamel also chose to use one of the Graduated Circles as a frame for the focal point of her layout.

We hope you enjoyed this inspiration from our Creative Team and found some new ways to use Blue Fern chipboard on your layouts and cards.

Today We Feature YOU!

We love sharing projects created by our Design Team, but we are also always on the look out for layouts, cards, etc. created by those of you who purchase our products.  You do amazing things with Blue Fern paper and chipboard.  Today, we would like to share some of the projects we have found on blogs, in galleries, on Facebook, etc.

Yana Smakula of Ukraine created 3 lovely holiday cards using non-holiday themed Blue Fern chipboard as the focal point on her cards.  Isn't it beautiful the way she dressed up the cards with chipboard?

We spotted the following layout on Amy Lassiter's blog.  We immediately noticed that the paper is from our Sanctuary line.

This layout by Наталья Трофимова was an entry in our December Sketch Challenge.  She chose to use paper from the Ombre Dreams collection as a background for these sweet photos.

Bonnie Friesen of Canada shared this elegant wedding layout with us on our Facebook page.  She used paper from the Ombre Dreams collection and the stunning Blue Fern Frame in the background.

And take a look at this sweet little guy!  Paulien van den Bosch created this layout using paper from our Sanctuary Collection.

And the final layout today was found in an online gallery.  The background is a beautiful paper from our Ombre Dreams collection.  We just love how the two chipboard pieces were altered to coordinate perfectly with the background!  

Thanks for making us look so good!

Three layouts by Marie-Josée Hamel

Hello, Blue Fern Studios fans! I am so glad to once again be part of the Blue Fern Studios design team this year. Last year was amazing and I am sure 2015 will be just as fantastic, with tons of new products to work with. I am grateful to have the chance to share my projects here with you each month and I hope you will find them inspiring.

You can also visit my personal blog, Les créations de mariemily (in French and English). There, you will find many more projects I create with Blue Fern Studios chipboards and papers.

Without further ado, here are the three projects I want to share with you today.

"Memories" layout

For this project, I decided to go with the industrial look and to use NO flowers, a big challenge for me! :)

I started with the Circuitry and Software Pieces chipboards, which I glued to my background, the Calling Cards paper from the Sanctuary collection.

Then, I applied a thin coat of gesso with a sponge and sprayed various colors of ink all over my chipboard.

I also stamped lots of patterns, using various stamps and black ink, on top of the chipboards and on the background.

I altered the Faucets and Hooks and Keys chipboards with black ink and added them to my layout.

I put the Memories frame from the Memory Frames set on top of my photo.

"Happy" layout

For this layout, I used the Leslie's Dream paper from the Ombre Dreams collection for my background, which I altered with Gelatos and various mists.

While it was drying, I altered the Ruth's Doily chipboard as well as two pieces of the Mini Flourishes chipboard set with white gesso. I also stamped black archival ink directly on the word Happy, from the Laughter, Happy, Smile chipboard set. Here are some close-up views of those pieces.

"Smile" layout

For this layout, I used the Fairyland paper from the Montage collection for my background.

 
I glued the Ups and Downs Panel on top of it, on which I applied a tiny coat of white gesso. I used diluted Gelatos to add splashes of color. Then, I sprayed eight differents colors of mists on top.

The title is made with the word Smile from the Laughter, Happy, Smile chipboard set, altered with black spray ink. Here a few close-ups of my layout.

Elena Morgun wiht a video tutorial

Hello!

Elena Morgun here, to share with you my first video as an Educator for Blue Fern Studios, and I am so excited to join this amaizng team!

But first a little about myself:

I'm 25 years old. I live in Ukraine. I am a happy mother to 2 lovely kids.

Scrapbooking is a huge part of my life, and it is more than a hobby by now. I can not imagine my day without scrapping. I am happy to share my tips and knowledge in my tutorials.

I am constantly learning new things. I am playing with new techniques and materials all the time. I am open to the experiments and you can often see their results in my creations. One of the most distinctive characteristics of my style is that I love mixing dark grunge accents with the tender flowers and lace.

I’m delighted to be joining Blue Fern Studios on this new journey!

I hope you enjoy my creations!

You can also find me HERE on my blog and HERE on my Youtube Channel.

Layout "Sunshine"

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Paper - Sanctuary: Bountiful

• Chipboard - Panels - Rings Panel

• Chipboard - Textures - Turkish Bits

• Chipboard - Shapes - Vintage Keys

• Chipboard - Words - The Optimist Word Set

And I have new card to share with you.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

• Chipboard - Flourishes - Damask Flourish (2)
• Chipboard - Shapes - Vintage Keys
• Paper - Montage - Calling Cards

I hope I have inspired you today :)

Take care,

Elena Morgun

Introducing "Love Story"

Today is an exciting day for Blue Fern Studios.  We will be showing you larger images (fronts and backs) of our new paper line, Love Story.  But first, we have other exciting news............Blue Fern is pleased to announce that we also have four gorgeous sets of stamps!  It's our first stamp line and the images coordinate with our Love Story collection, but are perfect for almost any project.  Let's start with the stamps:

Aren't they just yummy?  These stamp sets are each a 4x6" collection of the highest quality clear photo-polymer stamps.

We know you were intrigued by our "Coming Soon"post earlier this week, and now it's time to give you a better look at the gorgeous Love Story collection:

 

We hope you are as excited as we are about Love Story.  We would love to hear from you, so please leave us a comment and let us know what you think.