July Social Media and YOU!

Hello, Blue Fern Studios followers!

Sandi here with you today sharing my monthly Social Media post.
This month I've taken some screen shots of projects posted to Instagram. If you're not there, you should make an effort to check it out! A quick and fun way to see some gorgeous creations.
Please tag us there so that we can find you! Also, do the same when visiting Pinterest. We have a full Pinterest board that features YOUR creations.

Seungeun Lee of Korea, @seungeunlee82 on Instagram, created this with white card stock, watercolors and a stencil. The Blue Fern Studios Splattered Circle Chipboard piece really takes center stage on her fantastic composition. Of course, the watercolors are wonderful! Here is a link to her Blog.

Lilliana Guerrero created this sweet layout of her daughter and used our papers as her background. You can visit her Blog to see more of her work. Thanks for sharing, Lilliana. We hope to see more of your work!




Kimberly Murray,@theswaggyplanner, created this gorgeous gatefold mini album created for a  DT assignment. We love how that violin image really takes center stage. Well, we're dying over the fork, too! Wouldn't you just love to flip through this beauty?

Yuko.a5577 has no further information in her bio on Instagram, so we'd love to know who you are and give you credit for this exquisite piece! Yuko has used the popular Blush collection for this wonderful layout. The fussy cutting and chipboard treatment really caught our eye.

Karin, from Sweden of  Karin's Blog made this fantastic card full of die cut butterflies and used paper from the Timeless collection as her base. This was a DT assignment for a company who is in the die-cut industry. But, wow! Isn't this amazing?!

And lastly, this is a repost of Jan Hobbins' Instagram post. 

Her little village was created with dies and using our Tranquility paper collection. This is one of those jaw-dropping beauties that just makes you want to run to your scrap room and create! 

Full details and more photos are on this Post on Jan's blog. What an amazing creation to complete our post today! 

We hope you have check out our new Seaside Cottage paper collection along with the coordinating chipboard, flowers and all our new embossing powders! And stamps! We haven't talked about stamps much lately but we need to do a full post on those alone! 

Thank you for using Blue Fern Studios products! 

And keep posting those chipboard title ideas! 

July Layouts by Maja

Hello everyone, welcome to the Blue Fern Studios blog :-)

I have three layouts to share today. The first one is made using the Tranquility collection and features a photo of my son on one of our sailing trips:

I love wood-patterned papers! And I used three wood desings for the background of the layout. To mat my photo, I also used the Crackle Bits chippes heat-embossed with 14 Karat ep:

Then I embossed the fascination, serenity and stillness words with the Breeze ep and used them for the title of my page.

Another chipboard piece I used is the beautiful Seaside Charms piece. I used two embossing powders to add colour to it: Copper for the "charms" and Oatimeal for the rest.

Then I completed my design with Tranquility flowers, real seashells, pearl beads, cheesecloth and glitter :-)

Fascination, Serenity, Stillness:
Papers: Tranquility: Contentment, Calm, Jubilation, Calling Cards
Chipboard: Crackle Bits, Serenity, Calm, Hushed; Peaceful, Stillness, Contentment; Serendipity Words 2; Seaside Charms
Flowers: Tranquil Blooms
EP: 14 Karat, Breeze, Oatmeal, Copper
Glitter: Pyrite


My next two layouts feature the beautiful Attic Charm collection, filled with soft pastel colours and vintage images. It's perfect for sweet gilry projects, like this page :-)

I layered two pink papers and arranged layered calling cards to mat my photo.

I added pieces of lace in between the layers for a more delicate, romantic look:

I used the beautiful Circle Flourish Large piece as a frame for my photo. I painted it with golden acrylic paint and added some flowers from various sets to match the chipboard ones:

For the title I used the Blooming Beauty piece: I used an embossing pen to trace along separate words and embossed the Beauty with 14 Karat and the Blooming with a mix of Fuchsia and Petal.

I added more flowers down the page and a birdcage from the Veranda set to make a cluster with the printed mannequin image:

Blooming Beauty:
Papers: Attic Charm: Calling Cards, Attire
Chipboard: Blooming Beauty, Circle Flourish Large, Veranda Cage Set
Flowers: Attic Charm Daisies, Attic Charm Glitter Roses
EP: 14 Karat, Fuchsia, Petal


But the Attic Charm collection is not only for girly projects :-) I selected the ecru and soft blue papers for this boy page:

I first layered the Curio and Haberdashery sheets and added some stamping in the background with motives from the Beads&Chamrs, Forever and Deja Vu stamp sets:

I used the middle clock from the Roman Clock Set Large, coloured it with mists, applied upon the Sachet paper, cut out and used it as the frame for my photo:

The title for the layout is the Loving You piece coloured with mists and glitter, added some clock hands from the clock set and completed my design with pieces from the Cogs and Gears set and  Tranquility and Courtship flowers:

Loving You:
Papers: Attic Charm: Curio, Haberdashery, Sachet
Chipboard: Loving You, Cogs and Gears, Roman Clock Set Large
Stamps: Beads&Charms, Forever, Deja Vu,
Flowers: Tranquil Roses and Lilies, Courtship Roses
EP: Ginger, 14 Karat, Ebony, Breeze

That is all for today, thank you for visiting and I hope you have been inspired :-)

First Look at Seaside Cottage!

Today we are super excited to share with you our first layout using the new Seaside Cottage Collection.  Creative team member Sandi Clarkson has created an elegant layout using the Whitewash paper along with the coordinating Calling Cards.  

The gorgeous Seashell Frame chipboard piece was embossed with Oatmeal, 

Ginger, Mushroom and Nutmeg Embossing Powder over wet gesso. 

 

 

Another item created especially for this collection is

 "A Walk on the Beach" chipboard title, which Sandi also embossed 

with Blue Fern Studios Ginger Embossing Powder.

 The finishing touches were added, and the layout was embellished with 

 flowers from the Seaside Lilies and Seaside Roses flower collections.

 If you haven't yet seen this collection, head over to THIS POST for a close-up look 

at each sheet of paper in this collection of 10 double-sided paper.  

What could be more alluring than thoughts of a cottage along the seaside?

This is just the first look at Seaside Cottage.  Be sure to check back when other members 

of our Creative Team will be here to show you how they have used this collection!

July Projects plus Video by Bec

Hi, everyone. Today I'm sharing my July projects.
I made a canvas with video tutorial and a layout.

Remember Moments

First up I made this 8x10 burlap canvas using the Tranquility collection, chipboard and lots of embossing powders.

Here is my video:

And my close ups:

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper:

Tranquility Collection: Hushed and Peaceful

Chipboard:

Remember Moments

Beaded Flourish

Embossing Powder:

Cotton Candy

Snow

Oatmeal

Mushroom

14 Karat

Glitter:

Pyrite

Flowers:

Attic Charm Daisies

Attic Charm Glitter Roses

Courtship Blooms

Courtship Roses

Tranquil Roses and Lillies

Adorable

For this layout I used the Courtship Lane Collection. I LOVE the soft pastel colours in this collection.

The papers are perfect to pair with flowers, lace and ribbons.

I chose the Courtship Lane Royal Street paper as my background. I added delicate details to this paper using distress ink and a stencil, along with a stencil and texture paste.

I used embossing powder to colour my chipboard pieces. For the word Adorable I used Mystic Plum and Petal. For the Swirly Circle I used Mystic Plum, Cotton Candy, Petal, and Lilac embossing powders.

I finished my layout with a generous amount of flowers and lace. I also used the embossing powder in Snow to stamp butterfly images onto Vellum paper.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Courtship Lane Paper:
Royal Street
Town Gossip
Calling Cards

Chipboard:
Swirly Circle
Good Vibes Set

Embossing Power:
Mystic Plum
Cotton Candy
Petal
Lilac
Snow


Thanks for stopping by today

Bec

Oldies but goodies with a dash of new ~ Sandi

Hello there, Blue Fern Studios fans! 

Thanks for stopping by our Blog. 

Sandi here with you today to share my July projects using a variety of paper collections and chipboard as well as our other products which are so perfect for embellishing what we create! 

I'll begin with a layout I created for my son-in-law in memory of his dad. This photo is very special to him and I had promised to scrap it for him. After several false starts, I finally found a great fit with the Serendipity Reminisce side A and then used Merriment, Calling Cards, Fascination and Chronicle for my photo layers.

This is "Bob and little granddaughter Peyton" standing by the lake.  So, I wanted to go with the blue tones and add pops of color as accents. I embossed the Chained bits with Seven Seas Embossing Powder. If you haven't tried that particular set, I highly recommend them.  Perfect for adding a little "edge" to your page. Of course, we needed some "plant life" to reside alongside the lake and I chose the newish Tranquil Foliage piece. After priming it with white gesso, I used gelatos and ink and then made a little sunflower which was Bob's favorite flower. 

My background was created with super heavy gesso and a stencil. To create more dimension, I used an embossing ink with the Wallflower Stamp and then coated it with Watermelon Glitter. 

This, of course, is a great shot of the amazing flowers Blue Fern is now carrying. These are the Attic Charm Glittered Rose and Attic Charm Daisies as well as a few of the Courtship Blooms. The chipboard title "Friends" is from the Arrow Words set and is embossed with Mushroom and then double-embossed with Honey. 

A Calling Card for a subtitle. 

More of the Watermelon stamping. 

I finished with some black ink splatters, cheesecloth and art stones. 

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper: Serendipity Merriment, Calling Cards, Reminisce, Fascination, Chronicle

Chipboard: Arrow Words, Tranquil Foliage, Chained bits

Stamps: Wallflower

Glitter: Watermelon

Embossing Powder: Seven Seas, Mushroom, Honey

Flowers: Attic Charm Glitter Roses, AC Daisies, Courtship Blooms

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These two cuties are my nieces, Kim and Karen. I'll be seeing them in about a week and I'm so excited! Since I didn't have a particular paper collection that I needed to highlight, I reached back for the Frolic collection and used Frolic Veranda, Petits Moments, Calling Cards, Dans Le Jardin and Amoroso. I enjoyed doing some "rare for me" fussy cutting of the sweet frames and used them as layers along with chipboard. Side B of Petits Moments is my base layer. 

I wanted a subdued, uniform look for the under layers, so both the Spanish Tiles and Whimsy Flourishes piece are simply painted with white gesso.  You can see that I had lots of fun with layers! 

I wanted the Selfie title to really pop, so went for the Heavenly embossing powder! It's the bomb if you want a great bright blue that looks sparkly! Of course, I've used lots of flowers, Attic Charm Glitter Roses, Attic Charm Daisies, Tranquil Blooms and Tranquil Roses and Lilies. There in the corner is my Whimsy Flourish. 

I'm so loving the frames cut from the Frolic Amoroso paper. Wish I'd done it sooner! 

Here you can see some of the background stamping with the Halftone stamp and the Serendipity Medley Stamp. I added some splatters and shadowing with a blue mist from my stash. Then finished with art stones. 

Awesome dimension! 

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Paper: Frolic Veranda, Petits Moments, Calling Cards, Dans LeJardin, Amoroso

Chipboard: Spanish Tiles, Whimsy Flourishes, Selfies

Stamps: Serendipity Medley, Halftone

Embossing Powder: Heavenly

Flowers: Attic Charm Glitter Roses and Attic Charm Daisies, Tranquil Blooms, Tranquil Roses and Lilies

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Here is the newest little scrapper in our family.  After seeing some of my recent layouts, she got busy creating some for her mom! 

I've used mostly Attic Charm paper for this layout but my title note is from Serendipity. My base layer is Attic Charm Foyer. 

The Leafy Swirl Frame and Gatsby Collage were treated similarly. I went with my new fave way of alternating embossing powder colors on both these pieces, using Cotton Candy, Fern, Buttercup and Ginger. 

A close-up of the Gatsby Collage chipboard and some of the Blue Fern Studios flowers. 

You can see some of my stamping here as well as one of the Ironworks pieces which was simply embossed with Ginger and tucked into some layers. 

I love the Ironworks pieces for tucking into floral clusters as well. 

One last look at the dimension and colors. 

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Paper: Attic Charm Foyer and Calling Cards, Serendipity Calling Cards

Chipboard: Gatsby Collage, Leaf Swirled Frame, Ironworks Accents

Stamps: Serendipity Medley

Embossing Powder: Cotton Candy, Fern, Buttercup and Ginger

Mist: Cotton Candy

Flowers: Tranquil Roses, Tranquil Blooms, Attic Charm Daisies

Thanks again for coming by today! 

I hope you found something to inspire you. 

Sandi