New Chipboard!

Can you believe it's October already?   With a chill in the air, and nature showing us the beautiful colors of autumn,  you can't help but think ahead to winter, a little bit.  Just in time for your winter and holiday projects, we have some awesome new chipboard designs that are sure to take your projects to the next level.

Winter Village

Winter Sleigh

Holiday Frame

Snow Medley

Santa's Sleigh

Gingerbread House

Word Ornaments

We hope you are as excited about these new chipboard pieces as we are.

We would love to hear your thoughts!  Which are your favorites?

September Sketch Challenge Winner and Featured Layouts

Hello everyone.  Today we would would like to announce the winner of our September sketch challenge and feature some of the amazing layouts that were entered in our challenge last month.  

Our winner, based on a random draw is.................Entry #23, which belongs to Pam Ellis.

Congratulations Pam!   As the winner, you will receive a package of Blue Fern Studios chipboard.  Please send me an e-mail, within the next 7 days, to {valerie(at)bluefernstudios(dot)com} to claim your prize.

Here is the lovely layout that Pam created using paper from the Frolic Collection.  

Behind this amazing photo, she tucked in a piece of the Floral Lattice Bits.

Now we have the pleasure of featuring a few of the amazing layouts that were created by those who entered our sketch challenge last month.

Alena Kabanets of Russia  created this layout using paper from the Ombre Dreams Collection.  The chipboard is from the Marrakesh Panel.  We love how she painted the chipboard a dark brown to add contrast. 

Tiffany Solorio's layout is a perfect example of the elegance.  The soft background paper is from our Autumn Anthology Collection.  She has layered chipboard (Shabby Brick Bits), patterned paper, and lovely flowers to compliment this sweet photo.

The next feature is this Victorian-themed canvas created by Kate (Urban Mermaid), using paper from Autumn Anthology.  In the center of the canvas she used the Tea Medley chipboard piece. There are so many interesting details on this canvas, including the mini tea bags she made. 

Cathy Cafun rotated the sketch and entered this girly pink layout in our sketch challenge.  The paper is from the Frolic Collection and chipboard is the Flutter Page Dangle.  We love all the distressing and paper tearing!

Thank you ladies for inspiring us with your projects this month.  Our October sketch has been posted (see link in our sidebar).  We sure hope you will join us once again!

Mini album from the collection Paisley & Vine with Galina Sazonova.

Hello dear friends!

Today I want to show you a mini-album  from bright collection Paisley & Wine.

The album turned light and airy. You can use the framework of chipboard for photos or freely place them on the pages.

The main decoration is chipboard and paper cut!

When painting chipboard used new mists - Persimmon and Leaf.

Let's see the details...

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Use products Blue Fern Studios:

Paper

Paisley & Vine

Mists

Ink - Persimmon

Ink - Leaf

     

Chipboard

Bits of Honey

Hexagon Bits

 

Boys will be Boys

Grunge Talk

 

Techno Rings

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Have a nice day!)

Frolic Fun with Jelissa

Hello friends!

How time flies and we're already in the month of October! Honestly I can't wait for the rest of the year to come by as I know the weather will be a lot cooler (and the northeast winds will be blowing the haze from Indonesia far, far away....)

I'm up today on the Blue Fern Studios blog with two creations for this month. Firstly is this layout of my second boy when he was still a little baby. When our little girl was born she looked exactly like her eldest brother. But as the days went by and I looked at her again, she resembles her second brother! It's amazing how babies change over time in character and appearance.

I'm using the oh-so-gorgeous Frolic collection designed by Michelle Singh. Just love the bright happy colors perfectfor a day out under the sun or just about any other memory that warms your heart. My background work is simple because there were just so much detail in the papers that I wanted to show off.

Some close-ups:

The Deja Vu Atelier chippie which I have covered with a few different mediums. What you see here is crackle paint in pewter (for some reason my cracks are not showing up nicely all over), Perfect Pearls and Sticklers.

For this part of the same chippie, I've painted the flowers with matt paints and leaves with Twinkling H2Os.

Some more detailing here with plastic fillers on one of the chipboard flowers and silver microspheres dotting the leaves. I've layered my photos with pieces from "Calling Cards" from the collection.

My title piece double heat-embossed and sprinkled with distress glitter.

And my balancing cluster with simple fussy cut designs.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper: Frolic - Calling Cards, Friendship, Petite Moments, Veranda, Secretary

Chipboard: Deja Vu Atelier chippie, Mommy's Boy

 My second creation is a layout with a video tutorial. This one is of one of my cats who passed on some years back at the age of 13. Grumpy one she was, but always so elegant and graceful (until the day she tried to sneak up on a grasshopper and it backfired spectacularly).

I used lots of pinks from the Frolic collection because she was such a lady.

Some close-ups:

The Framington Medley chipboard layered on top of fussy-cut frames.

Chained Bits chipboard which I snipped and tucked all over.

My title piece from the Love Story collection. It was sitting in a box full of these cut outs and looked perfect for this layout.

My floral cluster.

And here is the video of how I put everything together. Sit back and enjoy the process!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper: Frolic - Secretary, Amoroso, Allegro
Chipboard: Chained Bits, Framington Medley

And that's all I have for today. Thanks for dropping by!

love,