Watching YOU Put our Designs to Work

We love seeing how all of you use our products and choose one day each month to feature some of your layouts.  Get ready to be amazed and inspired.

This entry is the first one Joyce created for her altered book project.  She has used several pieces of Blue Fern chipboard in a very elegant way.  Did you notice how she has dressed it up pearls?  Joyce is one of our prior Creative Team members.

Keeping with the vintage look, Angelica has added our Seasonal Wildflowers (one of my all-time favorite pieces of chipboard), to this stunning layout.

We spotted this beauty on Irina's blog.  She has used a Blue Fern title on this layout featuring a photo of her sister.

Look at how Ulrika used paper from the Montage Collection with these photos of her sweet little guy riding his bicycle ---really fast!

Tracey created this very romantic layout using paper from our Montage Collection.

We found this layout created by Ayumi of Japan, titled "This is Paradise".  The beautiful background paper is from our Ombre Dreams Collection.   She also added a couple of pieces of Blue Fern chipboard.

Maggi used our beautiful Jeweled Frame, which she altered using blue embossing enamel, to focus all the attention on her photograph.

It doesn't always take a lot of chipboard to make an impression as Anna demonstrates in this layout where she has painted the Blue Fern chipboard white and used it as an accent behind her photo.

 Riikka chose to use this beautiful pink paper from our Montage Collection, along with this photo of her with her parents when she was very small. 

Also using paper from our Montage Collection, Yvonne, a former member of our Creative Team, designed this beautiful "Fly Away" canvas.  So very pretty and elegant.

We hope you enjoyed seeing how YOU use our products.  

You keep posting your projects online, and we'll keep looking for them!

Montage Inspired cards by Evgenia Petzer

Hello dear friends! Its Evgenia Petzer with you today and I have three new cards to share with you. They all are made from my favourite Blue Fern Studios paper range- Montage. If you love fussy cutting as I do, if you love heavy weight papers then you need to try these papers!
All the chipboard pieces are primed with gesso and then covered with inklinkz by Shimmerz.

Blue Fern Studios Chipboard used: Turkish bits, Mini flourishes

the second card is in more in pastel colors.

Blue Fern Studios Chipboard used: Doily Bunting, Roman Clock Set- Small

and the last one for today...

Blue Fern Studios Chipboard used: Bits of honey, Leafy Page accents

Have a lovely day!

Three layouts by Marie-Josée

Hello folks,

I hope you are doing fine today! November is here now, and it will be Christmas soon! Before we get to the holidays and all the Christmas crafts, here are a few non-seasonal layouts!

"Happiness" layout

I used the Joyce's Dream paper from the Ombre Dreams collection to create my background. I glued the chipboard to my paper and added gesso with a sponge, as well as color with Gelatos and spray inks.

Here's a close-up view of the Circle Code chipboard, altered with gesso and Gelatos...

 

... and the Happiness sentiment for the Good Vibes word set, altered with black spray ink.

 

"Cute Stuff" layout

To create this layout, I used a picture I found on Pinterest. I just loooooooooooooove owls and birds of prey! :)

I used the Shannon's Dream paper from the Ombre Dreams collection to create my background.

I cut a piece of the Damask Panel and glued it to my background. Then, I applied gesso with a sponge on top of my chipboard. I added color with Gelatos

And here's the Cute Stuff sentiment for the Good Vibes word set. I did not alter it in any way.

Sketch layout

Finally, I just want to show you my sketch layout, once again.

I did the same thing I did for the two layouts shown above, that is, using Gelatos and spray inks to add colors.

I used the Ginger's Dream paper from the Ombre Dreams collection to create my background.

I also cut two pieces of the Turkish Panel and glued them to my background.

Here's my title, created with the Loving You chipboard...

... and a few close-up views...

November inspiration with Maja

Hi all Blue Fern lovers I´m here today to share two layouts and a card made with Blue Fern Studios products. First up is a layout made with papers from Montage paper collection.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: Montage - Invitation & Mercantile

Chipboard: Treasured floral frame, Picture perfect,Vereanda cage set, Roman clock set small and Bohemian flowers.

My next layout is made with Ombré Dreams paper collection and the lovely Techno Rings.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: Ombré Dreams- Dream Cards, Susan´s Dream & Ginger´s Dream

chipboard: Directions & Techno rings 

My last project is a little layerd card made with Montage papers and BFS chipboard pieces. 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: Montage - Mercantile & Bouquet

Chipboard: layering Steams & Veranda Cages.

Thanks for stopping by =)  

More from our Creative Team

Our Creative Team is amazing, and we love to show off their layouts using Blue Fern Studios products.  For many of us, memory keeping is all about documenting the lives of our children or grandchildren.  So today we have some layouts from our designers where they have used photos of children.  Enjoy!

Leila Cardoso

Maja Stokk

Yuko Tanaka

Lisa Gregory

Jelissa Mei

Marie Josee Hamel

Rae Moses

Evegenia Petzer

Kelly Foster

Keren Tamir

Jackie Clark

We hope you enjoyed looking through the scrapbooks of our Creative Team!

2 Cards and A Multicolour Technique for Detailed Chipboard

Hi there! Jackie with you today, sharing my November projects.

Christmas season is fast approaching - can you believe it? Every year I promise myself I will be better organized and start my Christmas cards early, and nearly every year I end up re-using gift tags I made in previous years - but not this year! This year I'm getting an early start on my Christmas cards, using some gorgeous holiday-themed chipboard. And in the process I came up with a technique for easily adding lots of colour to detailed chipboard - don't you just love when creative inspiration strikes?

I found the idea for a shadow box card on Pinterest and couldn't wait to try it out for myself. Because Blue Fern papers are so thick, I didn't need to use a cardstock base, I built the card directly from my background paper. Though not a Christmas paper in and of itself, the Picnic paper from the Blue Fern Garden collection easily lends itself to Christmas projects.

Here is a side view of the card showing the dimension of the shadow box.

I love the Holiday Wreath set, and was loath to discard the punch out pieces, but that left me with a dilemma - how could I colour the insets and outer portions in different colours? My end solution was a combination of poster pen, glitter, leafing pen and alcohol markers, covered with embossing powder to prevent the colour looking flat.

I mounted the Christmas Tree from the Let It Snow set on Blue Fern Studios' signature chipboard packaging, punched out the wavy bits and treated those with a snow medium, and while that dried heat embossed the tree with two colours of embossing powder. The stump is made from a punch out piece from another piece of chipboard (I always save these because you never know when they'll come in handy).

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Blue Fern Garden paper: Picnic

Blue Fern Studios chipboard packaging

Chipboard: Holiday Wreath Set

Let It Snow Set

I was so pleased with the way the wreath turned out I created a second card with a photo tutorial to show the process.

I began by adding my highlights - for this piece I used a white poster pen to fill in the whorls in the wreath. There are a couple punch outs missing - don't worry, it won't be noticeable unless you're looking for them.

I then began adding colour using alcohol markers. The brush tip allows for precision, and the alcohol ink is not water soluble so it will stay where you put it. For this wreath I chose to only use one colour of ink, however as you can see from the first card, you can use as many colours as you'd like to achieve the look you're after.

I covered the piece with embossing ink, and then with a silverizing embossing powder, tapping the piece off so that the coverage was heavier in some areas than others.

Here is the finished piece ready for my card. The embossing powder gives the piece beautiful sheen and lots of texture.

And here is the finished card:

The mittens from the Cozy Christmas set made a perfect accent piece for the wreath, heat embossed with three different colours of embossing powder (I used a paintbrush to paint on the embossing ink to keep the colours from mixing).

Some red glitter glue completed my holiday wreath.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Blue Fern Garden paper: Signature

Ombre Dreams paper: Susan's Dream

Chipboard: Holiday Wreath Set

Cozy Christmas

Thank you for your visit today!