It's Time for our October Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome to a new month.  Our tradition is to begin each month with a fresh dose of inspiration in the form of sketch challenge.  Not only do we give you a new sketch to work with, we also show you how some of our talented Creative Team have used the sketch.  Here is this month's sketch, designed by the very talented Michele Singh.

Marie Josee Hamel

Yuko Tanaka

Keren Tamir

Marilyn Rivera

Debbie Burns

Sandi Clarkson

Wow, our design team outdid themselves this month.  Excellent job, ladies!
Now it's your turn to show us how you will interpret the sketch.

One lucky winner, selected by a random draw, will receive a prize package 

of Blue Fern Studios chipboard!

In addition, we will also select 3 (or more) layouts to feature.

 

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, but please make sure your layout resembles the sketch.

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) 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!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on October 31, 2015

We look forward to seeing how you use our sketch and Blue Fern products!

 

Enter Here:

An InLinkz Link-up

Are You Thinking Ahead to Christmas?

We are, at Blue Fern Studios!  And we have the perfect collection to get you ready to start tackling those holiday projects.   If you plan to make cards, tags, or gifts for your family and friends, we have a beautiful collection to get you started.  And don't forget those projects for your home, or how about displaying a few layouts with photos of Christmas past?  The Blue Fern Vintage Christmas collection is just what you need.  Here's a close-up look at this elegant paper collection featuring shades of blue, green, red, pink, and neutral tones, all with a true vintage look. 

We are also excited to introduce a brand new line of products called Imagine Ink.  These products were created to coordinate with our Vintage Christmas line.  No more searching for just the right color of mist, embossing powder, or glitter.  We have done all the work for you!

Our three new mists are Cotton Candy, Jingle Bells, and Winter Mint and they are sure to add just the right amount of luster and interest to your projects.

We have also added glitter!  These three colors, Phoenix, Caribbean, and Pyrite will bring just the right amount of sparkle!

And wouldn't it be wonderful to have some coordinating Embossing Powder?  We have taken care of that, too.  What an awesome way to enhance our chipboard designs!  Once again, we have taken the guess-work out of it by selecting four colors that will coordinate with the Vintage Christmas collection - Lucky, Poinsettia, Petal, and Fern. 

We sure hope this has put you in the mood for Christmas.  We will be showing you projects from our Creative Team later this month.  Wait until you see how they are using these products!

And of course, we have designed some beautiful chipboard pieces, just in time for your holiday and winter creating.   Be sure to check back next week when we reveal the new designs.

'Memories' by Marta Lapkowska

Hi everyone,

It's Marta Lapkowska here! Are you rady for some inspirations ?
I have made two layouts for today's post. Two different styles but two equally interesting projects.

First page is totally mixed media based layout.

I used brand new paper collection 'Autumn Anthology'. For some interest I added some white string across the page.

I have added some modelling paste through the stencil. Everythig was coloured with sprays.

As my final touch I added chipborad 'Clip Frames'.
You can follow the whole creative process on the video tutorial.
I hope you will enjoy it:


My second make is plain and clean.
As you can see this layout is flat and easy to store. Even tho I am a mixed media girl I like to make sometimes easy pages which could be challening for me. No art mediums ? Oh yes, just stunning papers and few wonderful chipboards!

I must say I love the papers from 'Frolic' collection. Bright, very colourful and beautiful!

I embossed all the chipboards with yellow embossing powder.

I love fussy-cutting :)

I wish you a very creative day !
Love, Marta xx

autumn Anthology layouts with Yuko

Hello!It's Yuko here!
I was pleased very much at the moment when I had "autumn Anthology " in my hand！
There are very beautiful!!!

I made 2 layouts Very fun!

【story】

I often take a picture together with my daughter.

That's a very important memory.

After painted gesso for this chip board, we put a partially lame.

A stamp of brick used this.

Repeatedly to cut out a lot of paper.

Banner is a stamp that was released this time.

It is very easy to use even feel the right size!

　　

　

＜Autumn Anthology＞

Balcony/Calling Cards/Perfumeries/Mercantile

<stamps> Flight&Flair

<chipboard>   Ironwork Edges/Story, Fairy tale, Magic/Mesh Bits

【memories】

We went to grape picking the other day.

It was very fun!

Various size sets the cardboard of this frame and seem to play an active part again from now on.

There so many beautiful patterns in the paper.

It is to be fun to cut.

＜Autumn Anthology＞

Gazebo/CallingCards/Perfumeris/ Newsworthy/Penmanship

<chipboard> Clip Frames

<mists> Leaf

The Christmas line was announced the other day, too!

It is very wonderful, and that is a pleasure now, too❤

Thank you!

Mixed media and some chipboard doodling.

                                     
                               Hi, Wilma here today with three layouts...I hope you enjoy my post.

                                          Today I used three pictures I really wanted to use.
                     A lot of people think they have to bring the picture perfect photos on their layouts.
                       
                                                      But should we do that all the time?
                         For me it is not that important,the picture just has to give me that special feeling

     On this first layout my son and his girlfriend made a photoshoot in one of those ready to go boxes.
                             And I love this photo. It is real , fun, crazy and full of life.
                                                                 And so are they....

              I started with a background paper from the Autumn Anthology collection: cottage
                       As I love the vintage written print to show through my mediums.
                             I leave some parts to show through as if they were stamped.

              Behind my pictures I used the balcony paper, I love those month prints in vintage style!

For my chipboard I used the rockwall bits ( I had some leftovers from it) and the techno scape.

Both dabbed with Lumiere metallic paints and Viva gold rub.

The background color is done by mixing two of the new mist colors form Blue Fern Studios.

Leaf and sky

They gave me that beautiful turqoise green.

***

My second layout, all Autumn Anthology collection :

I would like to show you two versions , I could not really decide which one I like more.

First my layout looked clean without a lot of medium.

On the background I stenciled some roses , 

and after drying I painted them with two of the new colors mist : Persimonn and leaf 

After it was dry I touched it with the glitterpen.

I liked the page, but it was not me somehow :) .

And after some mixed media fun it came out like this , for me it worked better :) 

As my background paper I used the Balcony paper from the collection.

My chipboard piece is also a new release from Autumn Anthology: 

As you see I cut it in three pieces to spread around my layout..

The little birdy on the photo was cut of the papername strip.

***

My third layout is in a style I use most when I do scrapbookpages for myself.

Nothing overdone a little from this and a little from that.

And always there is chipboard involved in some way.

I had this picture for some time in mind to do a artjournalpage.

But when I had the Circruitry chipboard on hand , 

I wanted to use it with this photo on a layout.

Just for fun.

First I sprayed my chipboard with gesso, the quickest way , fast drying time.

Than some doodling, very random.

I was going for a tight look, so I used spraypaint on my chipboard titel .

Thank you for watching my post, have a great weekend!

x Wilma x