Blue Fern Studios is excited to introduce our gorgeous new collection and we have so much to show you. This is our biggest collection yet! Come travel with us down Courtship Lane where you will see quaint cottages, a concert hall, ornate ironwork, and lots of gorgeous flowers along the way.
Each double-sided page of this 10-sheet collection is perfectly detailed by designer Michele Singh,
with a color palette that you will love for all your projects!
For the first time, we have two sets of flowers to coordinate with the collection!
Courtship Blooms
Courtship Roses
Chipboard: 4 designs created just for Courtship Lane
Embossing Powder: 6 new colors
Glitter: 5 new colors
Stamps: 4 new designs
The Courtship Lane collection is sure to take your projects to the next level with stunning paper and a lot of awesome products to go with it!
I cannot believe how quickly time passes seeing that we have only just celebrated our Lunar New Year here with lots of festivities, feasting and family gatherings. Today I'm up on the blog again to share two creations using two fabulous collections - Serendipity and Courtship Lane.
My first share is created with Serendipity. This is a truly amazing collection with all the lovely subtle details nested amongst darker shades. I find myself reluctant to do my usual kind of background work because I couldn't bear to cover up the details.
Because there is so much details on the pages, I can only imagine the number of photoshop layers that went into creating each piece of patterned paper. With that in mind, I did had several overlapping layers of patterned paper as my background to bring out the depth of this collection.
Details in the close-ups:
Heat embossing with Oatmeal EP. I wanted something dual-tone and subtle enough to blend into the background, so I used half-toned stamps to create the motifs.
Love these peekaboo chippies! They are just perfect for these sort of little nook and cranny. I used Garnet EP as my base, and while the melted powder is still hot, I sprinkled Ginger EP on top. The gold is really quite amazing!
My title piece which I had colored with gelato and sealed with a layer of Pearl EP.
Layering Stems which I first covered with Lime Ep, then with Ginger EP because I think I'm addicted to the lovely gold it gives.
My next share is a video tutorial done with the gorgeous Courtship Lane collection. I'm really loving the color palettes that Michelle has used and pastels always speaks to me.
I'm a sucker for wood grain motif so it was no surprise that I had to use Bourbon Avenue as my background. This is a photo of my second boy and my youngest girl - she looks exactly like him when he was just a baby. This moment was one in a million - my boys love to make a pouting funny face and I was only trying to capture the two of them looking at me. Never did I expect this cheeky girl to do the same without prompting - we all know how hard it is to get them to even look at the camera, let alone pose! - and I instinctively just froze this memory in time.
More details in the close-ups:
Berry stems layering over Shabby Brick bits with lots of textural detail in the background.
Clusters of embellishments
Painting directly over chipboard and paper for a nicely blended effect.
Fussy cut details everywhere.
And here is the start-to-finish video:
Blue Fern Studios products used:
paper: Courtship Lane - Bourbon Avenue, Town Gossip,
Wow, March is here, so that means spring can't be far away! And what better way to start the month than with a brand new sketch challenge, and a look at our upcoming collection, Courtship Lane, which will be coming very soon. To give you a better look at this gorgeous paper, each example below from our Creative Team, has been created using Courtship Lane.
Our sketch designer, Michele Singh, has a beautiful sketch for you this month. There are so many ways to interpret this sketch, and we can't wait to see how you apply your style to it.
To give you a head-start, we have some examples from our Creative Team using the Courtship Lane collection.
Now it's your turn to join us. We
would love for you to use the March Sketch as inspiration for
your project. We will have a prize for one lucky winner (from a random
draw), and will feature a few projects from YOU at the end of the
month!
We ask that you follow these guidelines:
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 chipboardOR 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 March 31, 2016.
The chipboard border is the"Heart Borders". I cut this in half and arranged it in left and right of the layout. I colored this with "Cotton Candy" embossing powder.
This chipboard is the "Winter Page Dangles". First, I painted this with an acrylic paint, then I have heat embossed using embossing paste and embossing powder "Cotton Candy", "Pearl" and "Buttercup".
These small hearts are inside the "Heart Borders".
These are so lovely.
I chose Precious as the title.
First, I painted it with an acrylic paint, colored it with pink ink,
and finally I covered it in Glossy Accents.
I used the "Frilly Hearts" behind my picture. I simply covered it with with an acrylic paint. .
My 2nd and 3rd projects this month were created using the Serendipity collection.
