Easter Joy by Patty Rogers

As we approach Easter, our Blue Fern Fan of the month, Patty Rogers, has an adorable Easter layout to share, using paper and chipboard from the Spring Parade Collection.  I'll let Patty fill you in on all the details:

Hi everyone! It's Patty Rogers again to share a layout I created with the beautiful Spring Parade collection. I wanted to use this photo of my two children as they were enjoying Easter Sunday. Don't you love the Spring Bunny chipboard frame?  The charming little bunny and its size are perfect for the trend in scrapbooking to use a small photo. 

For this piece, I used a variety of papers from Spring Parade (Market Place, April Medley, Sunrise, Susie's Garden and Spring Parade). The stripes in Sunrise paper begged for a horizontal or vertical design.  I used an inking sponge to darken the paper a little behind the area of interest to draw attention to that area and to make it pop. 

Some of the background work that I did can be seen here. First, I used Essential Textures stamp to play up the brick wall seen in the photo.  For the embossing, I used Lavender Eggs, Snow, and Sea Mist and added sprinkles of the brand new Spring Posy glitter! Also, I added a few splatters of gesso. 

This beautiful little girl is one of the many reasons I love Blue Fern Studios products! I fussy cut and popped her up for dimension. Also used here is Garden Lattice Bits chipboard in the background. I seem to be hopelessly addicted to dimension, texture and beautiful paper! 

 Flowers used here are the Spring Florals and Spring Peony and Berries. I painted a bit of gesso on the flowers to give them a lighter feel. 

Thanks for stopping by. See you next time!
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April Projects by Babi

Hi Everyone,

Today I would like to share with you a couple of projects featuring Spring Parade Collection.  

I used  Marketplace and Sunday Best papers to create my  first project, called "Fabulous".

I used the Spring Parade paper to create the the layers on my layout. Then, I stamped some areas with Tattered Newsprint stamp  with  black ink to create contrast.

I covered the Turkish Bits chipboard with Snow Embossing Powder. 

And finished my project with some flowers that I "fussy cut" from Joyful paper. I also used  Late Winter flowers to  decorate it. 

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:

Market Place

Sunday

Spring Parade

Chipboards:

Turkish Bits

Flowers:

Spring Florals

Late Winter

Embossing Powder:

Snow

Stamp:

Tattered Newsprint

For my second project I decided to create a " Easter Canvas" to decorate my house for this season. 

I used Spring Petites, Sunrise and May Vignettes tp create the layers on my canvas. You can check how I create the whole background for this project in the video below.

And added some gorgeous accents that I cut from April Medley and Sunday Best papers. 

I added a Floral Spray chipboard that I covered with Snow embossing powder. I always use white on the chipboard when I want it to look more discrete. 

 Then, I heat embossed the Grid Pieces with Antique Gold embossing powder.  This time I want to highlight the chipboards with a gold color.

I added some flowers and glitter to add more texture to it and finish with  Tattered Newsprint stamp to "break" the bold colors.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:

May Vignettes

June

Spring Petites

April Medley

Sunday Best

Chipboards:

Grid Pieces

Floral Spray

Flowers:

Spring Florals

Late Winter

Embossing Powder:

Snow

Antique Gold

Stamp:

Tattered Newsprint

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I hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Babi

Meet our April Blue Fern Fan of the Month!

We are thrilled to announce our April Blue Fern Fan of the Month - the amazing Patty Rogers!  Patty is a true fan of everything Blue Fern.  If you stop by her blog, you will see pages of beautiful layouts using our products.  This month, we have the pleasure of sharing some of Patty's layouts with you.  Each week, we will have a new layout from her using the Spring Parade Collection.  She has some wonderful projects planned.  

For now, we will turn it over to Patty so you can get to know her and her creative process a little better.

My name is Patty Rogers, also known as A Sassy Scrapper in the world of Paper Crafting. My husband and I live in Texas, United States, where we met at Texas Christian University, as
 I majored in education and minored in art. Although our two children are grown now, I still enjoy doing layouts about them at any stage of their lives. 

Over the past twenty years, I have had several paradigm shifts in my style, and know that I am ever changing and improving in my work (read "play" here). I keep up with the latest supplies and trends and find that a romantic look is the style I enjoy creating most of all. I became interested in the artistic side of this “craft” a few years back, and love all the fun I have had with embossing, layering, painting, dimension and texture. My work is definitely considered multimedia.  

I love Blue Fern Studios products, and have been using them since 2011 while on a design team that carried their amazing products. I especially like that the quality and beauty of their paper is perfect for my style of scrapbooking and that their chipboard, flowers, stamps and embossing powders are perfectly coordinated. I am a hopeless Blue Fern Studio Fan! 

For this layout, I chose to use the Chesterville Shelf along with Good Vibes for a title, and Bits of Honey chipboard pieces as a backdrop.  Also used here are June and Market Place papers from the Spring Parade Collection, Pink Dust and Lavender Eggs embossing powders, and Spring Posy glitter.  

The flowers included are the gorgeous berries from Spring Peony and Berries, Spring Florals, Heartland Blossoms and Dark Tropic Lilies.  The colors in these Blue Fern Studios products were perfect for the Easter dress my daughter was wearing. It could not have been a better match!  

Techniques used for this layout included painting, heat embossing, tearing, 3 - D work, and crimping.  

Creating little clusters of the beautiful flowers brought it all together and made the layout very feminine.

One of my favorite techniques to use in a layout is to add texture. Sometimes, I achieve that by using modeling paste and a stencil. Another way to get texture is to heat emboss. For an added touch here, I used a paper crimper to achieve the corrugated look under the photo. For me, there was not one minute during the creation of this layout that was not pure enjoyment!

April projects by Tartine Peluche

Hello everybody! 

Today I come back to present my layouts of month. 

Each of it is created from the new collection SPRING PARADE.

For beginning, here is my first layout:

- DREAM HAVE NO LIMITS -

I used the B side of the paper "Remembrance".

I worked a lot on my background with stencils and different mediums.

 

I used the beautiful chipboard " Wild flourish bundle ".

To start I put gesso and then embossed with the new color coordinated to the collection 

Spring parade: PINK DUST, a beautiful pale pink with golden glitter.

 

A little closer, you can see all the softness of the color, I really love it.

In this picture we can also see that I embossed with " Making plan stamp" a few places with PINK DUST embossing powder.

 

I chose to use the flowers of the collection HARVEST LILLIE.

To give them a little punch more I painted the petals with golden paint.

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Blue Fern Studios I've used:

Paper:

Spring Parade - Remembrance

Chipboards:

Wild flourish bundle

Imagine Ink Powder

Pink Dust

Stamps:

Making plan

Flowers:

Harvest Lillies

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- WONDER -

 For my second layout I used Susie's Garden, Spring Petite and June paper of SPRING PARADE.

First to make my background I used the paper "June" That I worked with paint and ink.

With the other two papers I cut  some flowers to decorate my photo.

 

The main color of my layout is given by LAVENDER EGGS embossing powder which I used  for the 

Whimsy flourishes chipboard and some die cut of leaf stamped.

 

For my Title, I embossed with Lavender eggs embossing powder. but as I did not like the result with the l

eaf of the same color I painted it with a white 3D paint.The final result leaves some glitter on the title.

My Flowers are from the new collection CHESTERVILLE, Chesterville Florals.

 

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I cut on the paper " Small Spring" on the small picture of paper "Sunday Best" the flowers that are on the  right of my photo.

 

 And on the Susie's Garden paper I cut the flowers drawn in the top of the paper ...

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products I've used:

Paper:

June

Small Spring

Susie's Garden

Chipboards:

Whimsy Flourishes

Wish, Wonder, Dream 

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Lavender Eggs

Flowers:

Chesterville Florals

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This one is my fav of month.

I wanted a page without a picture but with a thought.

I knew I was going to do a layout like this, I wanted to give a thematic : Wings, Fly, Fall,  Get up ... Since the layout starts from above and falls down, held by a thread, 

So I chose the quote : What if I fall ...

Unlike my other two pages I did not work a background in 3D texture, but rather in effect of color contrast ...

And I must confess that it was difficult to take pictures. You will see on zoom that the page is much paler than the whole picture. This creation is very gentle in reality. Sorry for not having succeeded better take a picture.

- WHAT IF I FALL -

I chose the paper "Marketplace" of Spring parade collection. I think this is the most beautiful in 

the collection, softness color and a subtile pattern of lace.

 

For the chipboard title, " Story" I embossed it in white then I embossed the half in lavander.

 I used imaginie ink SNOW embossing powder and LAVANDER EGGS .

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I chose " Late Winter Lilies " for this project. I think I could not find better.

Have you see the little bottle of pearls? I find it too cute ...

 

You will see on the next two photos that I cut the Chipboard " Shabby Layered Frame " in two, after altering it.

I paint them in gold, then I put cracked varnish and I added white paint for the part of bottom. 

Then for the pattern above, I did the reverse, gold on white.

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products I've used:

Paper

Marketplace

chipboards

Shabby Layered Frame

Story, Fairytale, Magic

Imagine ink embossing powder

Snow

Lavender Eggs

Stamps

Tattered Newsprint

Flowers

Late Winter Lilies

So there it is! Hope you like it.

Thank you for stopping by!

See you in may, for another layout.

Tartine xxx

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Spring Parade and Chesterville Inspiration by Kris Berc

Hi, Blue Fern Studios friends and fans! It's Kris here to share my April layouts with you.

Cousins are Friends for Life

For my first layout, I chose chose two papers from the Spring Parade collection.  To treat the background, I flicked 5 different colors of spray, letting each color dry before adding the next.  I then added some texture paste through a stencil, and when dry, I added some contrast using black ink with the Serendipity Medley stamp.

I used the larger of the two hearts from the Frilly Hearts chipboard set to ground my photo.  It's embossed with Antique Gold embossing powder.

The title piece is embossed with the new Pink Dust powder.  It's such a pretty color!

I dabbed the flowers with a bit of gesso to blend everything together.

Below you can see a closeup of the background details.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Spring Parade - June

Spring Parade - Remembrance

Chipboard

Cousins are Friends

Frilly Hearts

Embossing Powder

Antique Gold

Pink Dust

Stamp

Serendipity Medley

Flowers

Attic Charm Glitter Roses

Chesterville Florals

Spring Lilies

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Everyday Moments

Here's another layout made with Spring Parade paper! I treated this one with 4 colors of spray and modeling paste through a stencil.  When dry, I added contrast with black ink and one of the Coarse Fabrics stamps.  Then I decided to randomly stamp the Forever stamp all over the page, sometimes horizontal and sometimes vertical.  I like the effect!

The title chipboard piece, Everyday Moments, is treated with two layers of Ebony embossing powder.

Oh this Beaded Flourish chipboard piece is really beautiful!  I chose the Icicle embossing powder for it.  It's a lovely color for such a lovely piece.

I also embossed some Turkish Bits chipboard pieces in Icicle powder.

All flowers were treated with dabs of gesso :)

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Spring Parade - Joyful

Spring Parade - Remembrance

Chipboard

Beaded Flourish

Everyday Moments

Turkish Bits

Embossing Powder

Ebony

Icicle

Stamp

Coarse Fabrics

Forever

Flowers

Attic Charm Glitter Roses

Courtship Roses

Dark Tropic Lilies

Heartland Blossoms

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Dazzling

My last layout for today features awesome paper and chipboard from the Chesterville collection.  Oh how I love this paper!  I decided to make a girly, yet funky, page with it.  I treated the background with four colors of spray, a layer of modeling paste through a stencil, and some random stamping with a stamp from the Forever stamp set.

That cool abstract chipboard piece behind the photo is called Chesterville Doodle.  I embossed it with 14 Karat embossing powder.

This time I treated the flowers with a few drops of white spray.

Since I was going for a girly yet funky, grungy look, I added some lace and some burlap between the paper layers.

The Dazzling title piece from the Brilliant, Amazing, Dazzling chipboard set was treated with 2 layers of Ebony embossing powder.

One more detail shot!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Chesterville - Holmes

Chesterville - Whitford

Chipboard

Brilliant, Amazing, Dazzling

Chesterville Doodle

Embossing Powder

14 Karat

Ebony

Stamp

Forever

Flowers

Heartland Blossoms

Spring Florals

Thank you for stopping by today.

I hope I have inspired you to create with your Blue Fern Studios products!

Have You Heard About the Accident?

We're talking about Happy Accident, of course!  That's the title of our upcoming 

Artisan Collection.  For now, we leave you with this little sneak peek.  

More to come later.......