My October Inspiration - by Keren Tamir

Keren here and I really can't believe its October already. The end of the year is just around the corner and I can't believe it will be soon 2015. It feels like it was just yesterday when the millennium started and now we are well into it!!

With our world the way it is nowadays, I felt I needed to create a piece of art that sends some love and peace energy to the world. I painted this "Free Spirit" Peace girl on a A4 water-colour paper pad and used watercolors and Blue Fern Studios Chipboard to bring her to life.

Peace

The Blue Fern Studios Ginger's Poppies were embossed in both Gold and Copper embossing powders. I cut them up into separate pieces to embellish the girl's hair.

The word peace, from the good vibes chipboard set, was simply painted in gold acrylic paint.

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Sweet Treasures

For my second project this month I created a layout using the Montage Collection and some bits and pieces from the Blue Fern Garden Collection.

I framed the photo in one of the graduated squares after adding lots of layers. The background is from the Montage collection- Calling Cards paper.

I also used the word Sweet from the Arrow word set and the wild flourish bundle.

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios Blog!!

Have a wonderful day!

Keren

Blue Fern Welcomes a New Product Designer!

We are so excited to add a new product designer to our team at Blue Fern Studios.  Join us in welcoming the very creative Glenda Schoepp-Drake!  She brings a whole new style to Blue Fern that she describes as "industrial".  You will see some of her new designs popping up in the very near future.

I will now turn it over to Glenda (don't you just love that name!) so she can tell you a little bit about herself:

I am a little bit quirky, this is how my boss has described me, and let me tell you, people do not think quirky is a good thing till about high school.  Growing up a quirky, chubby, artsy girl is like walking around with a bulls-eye on your back, then one day poof everything that made me weird now makes me unique.  Thanks to scrapping i have met some of the most wonderful people, who are all a little bit quirky.

I live in Canada, northern Alberta to be exact and it is cold, like 7 months of winter cold, minus 40 Celsius cold!  My husband Bernie is all about winter, in fact has 8 snowmobiles, i hate winter so that's a lot of scrapbooking months.  I started scrapbooking when i had my son Alex seven years ago and fell in love with both my son  and scrapbooking.  I have always been artsy and I finally found an outlet that worked for me and my life.

My scrapbook style is industrial and I LOVE anything steampunk, chipboard and stencils are my favorite scrapbook accessories.  It has been a dream of my to design scrapbook products and I am so excited to be working with Blue Fern Studios  and seeing my designs and ideas come to life.  I would like to thank Leslie and crew for welcoming me to the team and I look forward to creating together.

We are so thrilled to have you, Glenda!  You will be a great asset to our team.

Winter joy

Hello !

It's me Olga ! Today I would like to share my canvas based on Blue Fern Studios chipboard. It's little early to make Christmas projects but every year I'm late with them so this year I decided to start earlier ;) So here it goes !

How I created this work You can check out on video :

And canvas:

I use:
Little Birds set
Seeing Stars
eastern Lantarens
Framed Winter Words

Watching YOU Put our Designs to Work

Nothing makes us happier than to see YOU using our products.  So when we see something you have created using Blue Fern Studios chipboard or patterned paper, we add it to our Pinterest Board.   If you don't follow us on Pinterest, you need to check it out!

This month we found the following projects and would like to share them you.  We think you'll be amazed!

This layout was created by Anna Rogalska using the Blue Fern Spring Frame.

Lynette Jacobs has used the Blue Fern Happiness title for this fun layout.

 Priscilla Lim of Singapore created this bold piece using the round Treasured Floral Frame that she colored using Distress Paint.

This elegant layout was created by Angelica Franssen (U.S.) using paper from the Blue Fern Studios Ombree Dreams Collection and the beautiful Layered Iron Bridge chipboard piece.

We love how Bente Fagerburg of Sweden used paper from our Blue Fern Garden collection combined with the Shabby Brick Bits chipboard pieces.

 Tracy Christine Funk of Canada recently started a blog, and we were excited to find this layout there,  Tracy has used paper from the Blue Fern Ombre Dreams Collection. 

Our elegant titles can add the perfect touch to a layout, as you can see in this layout created by Galina Sazonova.  Galina has used "The Best Day Ever" title for this sweet layout of her son when he was baptized.

Thanks so much ladies!  We love all the many ways you have used Blue Fern Studios products.

Montage cards by Evgenia Petzer

Hello dear friends! Its Evgenia Petzer with you today with 3 cards that all are made using gorgeous new Monatge collection that i just got! Its SO gorgeous! My absolute favourite and must have for all 2014 releases. Seriously, its just G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S.

You will see lots of fussy cutting and layering and my favourite soft pastel colors and of course lots of Blue Fern Studios chipboard.
On the first 2 cards I used quite big chipboards so you can also see that they are good not only for the LOs, but for the cards as well...

 Blue Fern Studios chipboards used: Ginger's Poppies

another angle:

My second card, very easy to make, but with these gorgeous papers and chipboards you don't need a lot of othe embellishments...

  Blue Fern Studios chipboards used: Rose Bouquet

and my last one for today...

 Blue Fern Studios chipboards used: Roman Clock Set- Small, Bits of Honey

The clock is embossed with Zing powder and other chipboard on all the cards is colored with inklingz by Shimmerz.

Have  a great day, Evgenia.

October creations with Maja

Hi =) Today I have three project to show you. Two totally different from eachother and then a layout made using this months sketch for the sketch challenge. So lets begin!

First up is a layout of my youngest son. I´ve used the new Montage papers for this one and the new cool chipboard triangles.

 

For this background I used a lot of different colors of Distress Stains. Love that splashing effect =).

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers: Montage - Fairyland

Chipboards: Triangle Eclipse & Adore, Love Cherrish words

  

My next layout is much softer and romantic. Also for this page I used the Montage papers.

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers: Montage - Invitation,Calling Cards & Now And Then

Chipboard: Collage Frame

Last is my sketch layout. There is still time for you to play with us. To find all information on how to participate in our challenge check this blogpost. Below is the sketch.

And my take on the sketch.

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers: Ombre Dreams - Charlotte´s Dream, Joyce´s Dream & Susan´s Dream

Chipboards: Forest Mushrooms & Diamond Bits.

Thanks for stopping by  =)

Pink Inspiration from our Design Team

October is the month for Breast Cancer Awareness and we are surrounded by pink in support of this important cause.   While looking through some of our design team's projects, we noticed that quite a few of them like to create with pink.  So in honor of this month of pink, we would like to share some of them with you.

 

Evgenia Pelzer

Jackie Clark

 Leila Cardoso

 Lisa Gregory

 Maja Stokk

Patter Cross

Jelissa Mei

Keren Tamir

We hope you enjoyed these layouts created by our awesome designers.  Be sure check back tomorrow when Maja will be here to share her October projects with all of you!