July Inspirations by Catherine Giguère

Hello Blue Fern Studios Fans!  

Here's my turn to share with you three new layouts. This month, I played with the gorgeous Garden Life and Happy Accident paper collections. 

"Sweet"

For this layout, I first put a coat of clear gesso on my paper. Then, I put modeling paste through a flower stencil. I used yellow inks to do my background to make a contrast with the blue of the paper. I used a brush and makes drops of ink on my paper. I stamped my background with brown ink.

I used the BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger' to embossed the Circle Vine chipboard. I put my frame horizontally over my picture. 

I embossed my title in blue with BFS Imagine Ink 'Stormy Skies'.

I glued many flowers to embellish my layout.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life 'Sunrise'

Chipboards

Circle Vine

Cute, Sweet, Sassy

Stamps

Serendipity Medley

Garden Frolic

Embossing Powders

BFS Imagine Ink 'Stormy Skies'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'

"Spread Your Wings and Fly"

For my second layout, a did a big background with modeling paste, stencils, pink and orange inks and stamps.

I embossed the Spring Frame with BFS Imagine Ink 'Raspberry'. I aged it on sides with gold paste.

I put many flowers under my tile to make it stands out. I embossed it with BFS Imagine Ink 'Wheat'. 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life 'Snippets'

Chipboards

Spring Frame

And Fly

Stamps

Memoires Collage

Embossing Powders

BFS Imagine Ink 'Wheat'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Raspberry'

"Plaisir"

For my last layout this month, I made a simple background with modeling paste, stencil, aqua ink and stamps. 

I embossed the Looped Frame and the Blooming Foliage with BFS Imagine Ink 'Foam'. I aged the edge with gold paste again. 

I embossed the title and the Wild Flourish Frame with BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'. I cut the Wild Flourish Frame chipboard in half and glued it under my picture to make only appear the flourish. 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Happy Accident 'Blessing'

Chipboards

Looped Frames

Blooming Foliage

Wild Flourish Frame

Stamps

Serendipity Medley

Tattered Newsprint

Serendipity Medley

Embossing Powders

BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Foam'

I hope you have found some inspiration. I wish you a nice crafty day!

Catherine Giguère

Waiting for the Bus by Tracy Funk

Today we welcome back our July Blue Fern Fan of the Month, Tracy Funk.   

She has a super sweet layout to share with you today.  

I'm so pleased to be back with my second layout as the Blue Fern Studios "Fan of the Month" for July. It's called "Waiting for the Bus" and features a photo of my sister Lori in 1960.

I used papers from Blue Fern Studios' Garden Life and Happy Accident collections.

On the Wallflowers paper that I used for the background I did some stencilling around the edges with molding paste.  While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled it with Baby Pink Imagine Ink embossing powder and heat set it.

I painted the Spirit of Heartland chipboard piece blue then applied watery white paint overtop with a sponge stippler.  I used an embossing marker to ink the flower parts and heat embossed them with the Baby Pink Imagine Ink embossing powder.  I also inked around the edge in black.

I also used a piece of Blue Fern Studios printed chipboard (one of the corner pieces).

I used the Garden Blooms flowers.

Products used:

Garden Life paper - Wallflowers

Garden Life paper - Merriment

Happy Accident paper - Lucky

Baby Pink Embossing Powder

Garden Blooms

Garden Life - Printed Chipboard

Spirit of Heartland chipboard

July Inspiration by Babi

Hi Everyone,

Today it's my turn to share with you my new projects with the gorgeous Wanderlust and Garden Life Collections.

I used the Petites, Calling Cards and Road Trip paper for my first project, called "Travel".

Then created some texture on the fisrt paper using stencil, modeling paste and departure stamp.

Next, I covered the Seashell chipboard with Avocado and Antique Gold embossing powder.  For the title, I used Wanderlust Words covered in  Antique Gold embossing powder. 

I finished my project with different collections of flowers from Blue Fern Studios. I also added  laces and gesso to create more dimension. 

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:
Calling Cards
Road Trip
Petites

Chipboads:
Wanderlust Words

Flowers:

Wanderlust Lilies
Wanderlust Vine
Christmas Blooms
Wanderlust Lilies

Embossing Powder:

Snow
Avocado
 Antique Golden

Stamps:
Departure

Lace 4

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For my second project I decided to create another beach layout called " Explore".  

I created the background by cutting the steering wheel from the Mermaid paper, and gluing  it with foam tape for more dimension. 

Then proceeded to emboss the Seaside Seashells and Seaside Tresures  chipboards with Snow and Oatmetal embossing powder. Afterwards, I heated and painted some of the chipboards with acrilic paint.

The title is from Wanderlust collection and it was covered with Antique Golden embossing.  

I finished the project with flowers, crystals and microbeads.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:

Mermaid 

Splendor

Chipboards:
Seaside Seashells
Seaside Tresures

Mini Ring Things
Wanderlust Words

Embossing Powder:
Snow
Antique Gold
Oatmeal

Flowers:
Chesterville Blooms

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My last project is a tiny card/album that I made with Garden Life Collection.

I created a 5x5" card and decided to decorate the inside as a mini album.  You can add up to 2 pictures and it is a simple and nice gift.  I choose the Sunrise and Morning Dew papers to decorate the cover and pages. 

Using the beautiful printed chipboards from Garden Life I create the centerpiece.  

I continued by adding some flowers, fussy cut flowers and Checker Bits chipboard covered in Snow embossing powder. 

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:
Sunrise
Morning Dre

Chipboads:
Wanderlust Words and Checker Bits

Embossing Powder:

Snow

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I hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Babi

Introducing Wanderlust

We are excited to show you our new collection, Wanderlust, the most recent addition to our Artisan line .  Most of us probably have a little bit (or a lot) of wanderlust in us - that strong desire to roam or travel about.  It's the thing that many of us day-dream about.  Well, no matter where your travels take you, we have the perfect collection for all your photos!  

So grab your favorite drink and enjoy this up close look at this beautiful 10-page, double-sided paper collection.  You will find all sorts of treasures within each sheet.  And what would a new collection be without some amazing products to go with it?  We have a lot to show you.  If you aren't in the mood to travel, you will be after this!

Blue Fern's Chipboard is perfect for a title, or to add some dimension to your projects:

Curling Corner

Fern Leaves

Natural Frame

Swallow Border

Have you tried our colorful Embossing Powder?  Our design team loves to alter their chipboard using it.  We have these three colors that will coordinate so well with this collection.  Hot Cocoa Summer Breeze Avocado In addition to the chipboard above, we have this set of 19 self-adhesive printed chipboard pieces:

Our travel themed stamps:

Of course we have some sweet flowers to finish off your projects!

Wanderlust Lilies

Wanderlust Vine

Thanks for stopping by today!