Blue Fern Studios

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Irene's Projects

Hi everyone! Today I would like to share with you all my March projects using some gorgeous Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces. I've created a layout, a tag and a card for this month.

First up, is a layout using a seasonal wildflowers piece and an organic vine piece. I've also used a Blooming Beauty word chipboard piece as the title for this layout.

Here are some close-ups on the chipboard pieces.

I've painted the chipboard pieces with some glitter paints.

Here are the chipboard pieces used:

Seasonal Wildflowers

Organic Vine

Blooming Beauty

My second project is a tag. I've used a Tuscan window piece on it.

Here is a close-up on it. I've used some texture paste to cover it and later misted it with some paints.

Chipboard piece used:

Tuscan Window

My third project is a card using an organic vine corner piece.

Here is a close-up. I've misted the corner piece with some gold paint.

Chipboard piece used:

Organic Vine Corner

Hope you all like today's projects!

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Watching YOU Put Our Designs To Work!

Hello to all of the Blue Fern Studios fans! This post is dedicated to YOU!

As a new company, it is very exciting to see our pieces put to work. And beyond what our amazing design team creates for your inspiration, it's especially fun to see the consumer use our products to help make their projects even more special. So upload those works to the various online galleries- we're looking at them! And once a month we are going to feature some of the projects we find.

Here is just a sampling of what we've discovered in the galleries this month:

Marianne

Our "Organic Vine Corner" was the perfect choice to beautifully frame such a lovely photo.

Tracey Gregory

Could there be a more fitting title than this "Sweet" piece from the "Valentine's Word Set"? Adorable!

Karen (Roosterhead Designs)

We adore how Karen has dressed up the "Brigitte Butterfly" piece- so romantic and perfect for this wedding album!

Brit

We were blown away by Brit's inventive idea of piecing apart our "Symphony Border" to create the frame around these two sweet little girls!

Sherry (Somewhere in Time)

What a sweet, SWEET layout- and the "Butterfly Kisses" title was a perfect fit!

Bonnie

Bonnie's page has so much to love about it- and we really love how she's used our "Royal Border" to top the whole thing off!

Thank-you to these talents for putting our name out there and for sharing your wonderful works!! We look forward to watching Blue Fern Studios continue to grow, and to seeing your creativity bring our chipboard to life! Thanks for the inspiration- and we hope you come back very soon. Our design team is hard at work crafting up a storm for your creative pleasure- and we have a special surprise coming up for you at the start of next month :).

All the best to you!

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

A little Victorian and a little Wild West

Hello. Jennifer Snyder here today to show you a little Victorian and a little Wild West using a variety of Blue Fern Studios goodies.

Girl in the Rain

This is a piece that was created around the sweet Maud Humphrey image. Maud Humphrey was the mother of actor, Humphrey Bogart. Maud was born in Rochester, NY, my hometown and became a commercial artist in the late 1800's and early turn of the century.

My Blue Fern chippies are treated very simply - painted with gesso. The gesso just gives enough white to cover the chippy without making the chipboard completely stark white. It gives it a bit of an old feel, worn and aged.

Here are the pieces I used:

Organic Vine Corner -074622 - this piece was cut in two to complete the framed feel.

Floral Clock 074684 - I love the versatility of this Blue Fern piece. It is an exquisite design.

Girl Under the Streetlamp

Here is another Maud Humphrey image, meant to be a pair of layouts. I love the squirrel resting on her hand so I chose the Evening Lamp Post chipboard piece by Blue Fern Studios from which my squirrel can scamper to and fro.

The little flourish swirl under the floral cluster is part of the Organic Vine from the Girl in the Rain layout (shown as the first piece). I wanted to tie the two pieces together.

Organic Vine Corner -074622

Evening Lamp Post 074660

I added moulding paste in a heavy chunky style here.

After letting my moulding paste dry, I dabbed a little Mixd Media Inx in Pewter on it to provide a little shadowing effect.

Howdy
Flipping from Victorian to western in this layout.

This is a photo I took a few years ago. The little boy is a few months old and he's a little camera shy. This photo always makes me smile when I look at it.

I pulled out the Blue Fern Studios Calligraphic Border and stained it with dark brown stain then wove some jute string around it.

Calligraphic Border 074363

Ornate Medallions Set 074462

I painted the Medallions with Tim Holtz stain and then covered with a very cool thick texture paint from Art Anthology called sorbet.

Thanks so very much for stopping to check out Blue Fern Studios.
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

{3} Layouts with Patter

Hi everyone. It's Patter Cross here, and I am glad to be back. Today I am sharing three 8x8 layouts with you. I hope you will enjoy them and find some fun ideas to use. Now let's look at these smaller layouts.

"Keep Faith"
We are finally members of a church in our new town. I am so excited, and of course scrapping a picture of our new church was very important to me. So, here it is (below). For this layout I used the Tuscan Window chipboard as a topper to my photo. I then added the Garden Window shutters to the sides of my photo. I liked mixing the two chipboard sets.

I wanted to leave my chipboard raw as I liked the raw color on the layout. To dress them up, I just stamped on them using brown ink.

Blue Fern Studios Product Used:

Tuscan Window 074752

Garden Window 074691

"Beautiful Iris"
In our new house in October, the irises began to bloom. Kind of late I believe but we moved them from the front yard to the side so I think they were in a bit of shock. But once they came up, wow! I used the Blooming Foliage chipboard on this page.

To create the fun texture on Blooming Foliage, I mixed a bit of glass bead gel with green acrylic paint. I then spread it on the chipboard. While it was still wet, I then misted it with a mix of gesso and water. It has a really fun texture when you touch it but it's hard to tell in the photos.

Blue Fern Studios Product Used:

Blooming Foliage 074851

"Love Always"
And for my last layout, I thought I would share my husband's executive work photo. I don't have a lot of scrapped photos of him so this one is special. I used the Vintage Locks and the word 'love' from the Valentine Word Set here.

I wanted my chipboard to look like leather since this was a masculine layout. To achieve that, I just covered the chipboard in distress ink. It worked very well for the look I wanted.