June Sketch Challenge!

Yep, a new month has crept up on us, and to keep the ball- and the days- rolling, we're starting it off with a brand new sketch challenge! 

As always, the wonderful Michele Singh has designed for you another inspiring and beautiful sketch:

June Sketch

And of course our design team has been hard at work whipping up some inspiration to jumpstart your creativity! 

You will notice plenty of Ombré Dreams projects in the mix :)

Camilla Ekman

Joyce Lawrence

Kelly Foster

Keren Tamir

Leila Cardoso

Patter Cross

Jelissa Mei

Marie-Josee Hamel

Jackie Clark

Lisa Gregory

Lisa Griffith

Yuko Tanaka

And we have a brand NEW batch of goodies for you too- including some of our NEWEST designs, hot off the press! Take a look at what one lucky randomly drawn winning participant will win from this month's sketch challenge:

In addition to our prize winner, we will also select a Top 3 to feature in our winner post!

 

We have just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs! **Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please- a layout, card, tag, canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.**

2.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE. {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project please!}

3.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on June 30th, 2014.

We look forward to your entries!

An InLinkz Link-up

NEW Products for May!

Today we're excited to share with you our latest batch of chipboard designs! Every month, we try to continue to bring you inventive and inspiring pieces to beautifully accent your projects. And we think you're going to love what we've got for you next!

April Showers Have Brought May Flowers!

Ginger's Poppies

May Day Wreath

Meadow Angelica

Wild Field Stems

Classic & Elegant...

Corner Flourish

Large Roman Clock

Small Roman Clock

Tattered Butterflies

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful...TITLES!

Beautiful

Cherish

Memories

Precious

Sweet Dreams

This Moment

Wonderful

Fabulous

Family

Loving You

Once again, we'd love to hear what you think! Do you have a favorite...or many favorites?

Thanks for checking out out latest designs today!

{3} Cards from Patter

Hello everyone! It's the end of the month, and it's my turn to share. Today I have three cards for you that all use the new Ombre Dreams papers. I hope you find some inspiration for this new, gorgeous paper line!

Love
On this card, I used the Tangier Page Panel. This is a 12x12 panel but I cut just a small piece to use on the card. The paper is called Ginger's Dream from the new Ombre Dreams paper line.

To color the chipboard, I used three different colors of gelatos to match the papers.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Ombre Dreams Ginger's Dream

Tangier Page Panel

Thank You
I don't work with purple very often but Joyce's Dream paper has such beautiful colors in it, that I couldn't wait to play with it. You can see the paper is mostly lavender with hints of torquoise and green. Truly beautiful! I also used the chipboard piece called Lace Rounds. This particular piece fits perfectly on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card!

To color this piece of chipboard, I just painted it with gesso and pearlescent liquid acrylic.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Ombre Dreams Joyce's Dream

Lace Rounds

Just Because
For this card, I used Charlotte's Dream paper. I also added a bit of modeling paste and mist though I hated to cover up the beautiful paper! I also used the Bits of Honey chipboard and just covered it in gesso. I wanted to leave it white because of the colors scheme I chose.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Ombre Dreams Charlotte's Dream

Bits of Honey

Thanks for stopping by today, and remember you still have time to join us in the May Sketch Challenge. Click here to see the details and join in!

Leila's May Projects

Hello BFS fans

Here I'm again to show some things I made with Blue Fern products.

The first is the cover and the first page of a mini album, project "No regrets" that will do throughout the year, with reflective about my life...


In the cover's chipboards I used acrilic paint, liquid pearl and colorless relief.

In this chippie I used just acrilic paint, some gelatos and spray ink...

BFS suplies:

Blue Fern Flourish

Natural Sprigs Set

Dare to dream

Eclectic hearts

All natural set

The second is a layout (LO's 12x12 are really my passion).... Happiness:

I colored the chippies with my fav combination, acrilic paint and gelatos...

BFS supplies:

Blue Fern Garden Love letters paper
Blue Fern Garden Calling cards paper

Good vibes

Bohemian butterflies

So, this is I want to show today, I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by.

xoxo

Leila

A Card & a Tag Featuring Ombré Dreams!

Hello everyone! 

Erin Blegen with you today to share a card and a tag that I created using the brand new "Ombré Dreams" paper collection, as well as some new chipboard pieces too!

"You Make Me Smile" 

This paper collection comes just in time for summer- with its fresh, light colors and dreamy patterns, I couldn't wait to start putting it to good use! Here I've created a card using the "Ginger's Dream" paper on top and "Leslie's Dream" for the base. There was just enough design in the upper right-hand corner of the "Ginger's Dream" paper to perfectly compliment the card design I had in mind.

I'm really loving circular pieces and frames at the moment, and this "Treasured Floral Frame" was just what I needed for my card. I took a white Prima Chalk Edger ink pad and used that to mostly cover the piece, leaving just a hint of the raw chipboard to show through. I then wrapped it with white wire cord.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:
Ombré Dreams "Ginger's Dream" Paper
Ombré Dreams "Leslie's Dream" Paper

Treasured Floral Frame

Next, I have a pretty little gift tag for you :)

"Follow Your Dream"

Everyone loves butterflies {including me!}, so I was very excited to see the new "Royal Monarchs" that were recently released! Paired with a set of the {also new} "Layering Stems", I thought the combination suited nicely this particular sentiment.

The butterfly piece was covered with Ranger Glossy Accents and then sprinkled with microbeads. Allow the glossy accents to dry on their own rather than heating them with a heat gun as the glossy accents tend to bubble up and scorch otherwise. The stems were misted with Heidi Swapp Color Shine in "Blush" and, while wet, covered with clear embossing powder and set with a heat gun.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:
Ombré Dreams "Dream Cards" Paper

Royal Monarchs

Layering Stems

Thank-you for visiting today and taking a look at my projects this month!

Don't forget to check out our sketch challenge while you're here- there's still some time to get your entry in!

2 Layout and Card by Yuko

Hi! evryone! It's Yuko.

This month I made 2 layouts and 1 card.

I 'm  so happy sharing my projects to you!

【adorable】

This paper is one which I like very much.

Grain background is very nice!!!

  The letter of the title colors it with pink ink.

 I painted with jesso  at random after.

I      I added structure to Shabby Layered Frame with modeling paste.

I stacked the thing which cut a cardboard thin on the top.

I painted Manor Hinges with ceramic stucco.

<Blue Fern Garden Products>

Papers  /  Blue Fern Garden   In Bloom

Chipboards/Electorid Hearts .Good Vibes

【you】

I wanted to make a translucent layout and colored white card stock with mists.

After the chipboard applied gesso,

 it included mist in the brush and it applied it partially. 

<Blue Fern Studio Products>

 Papers/Blue Fern Garden 　　Calling Cards

Chipboards/Valentine's Word Set.Beaded strings

【you】

<Blue Fern Studio Products>

 Papers/Blue Fern Garden Calling Cards .In Bloom

Chipboards/Ptite Windows.Renaissance Border

Thank you for lookig!

Yuko