Hello Dreams Panel

Hello Crafter Friends, I'm Aida from @aidaville, it's lovely to see you back at the Blue Fern Studios Blog and hopefully the Design Team's projects have kept you inspired and creating. This week I have a Hello Dreams panel featuring a theme that will resonate with all of us.

These are the Blue Fern Studios products I used :

Wanderlust - Calling Cards  |  Seascape

Swan Gate Chipboard  |  Valerie's Butterflies Chipboard

Tattered Walls Ephemera  |   Flowers - Apricot Blooms.

Lace no. #2

Other supplies : 6x8 Flat Back Canvas Panel, Dye Inks, Vintage Silver Embossing Powder, Gesso, Crayons.

The faded blue woodgrain of the Wanderlust  Seascape paper is a wonderful background for the Swan Gate Chipboard which was given a vintage shine with some heat embossing.

I just love the sentiment "go where your Dreams take you" ... it's what we all wish for ! The Butterfly chipboard was given just a touch of heat embossing in the center for a worn-away effect. You will see underneath it, how the large flourish from the Tattered Walls Ephemera and Lace #2 add more dimension to the panel.

Here's a closer look of the Chipboard Swan Gate and the contrasting background paper accentuates the gate even more.

Layering all the bits of ephemera and paper makes the panel look interesting and just calls out for you to touch the details. 

The Butterfly perfectly anchors the panel with a shabby prettiness.

Creating this panel was so much fun, I truly enjoy layering papers and embellishments. If all this seem difficult to you, don't worry ..... a little practice and experience will make sure you get good at this.

Thank you for stopping by, stay creative ! 

Aida Haron @aidaville

Little Chick Spring Greeting Card

The Spring Parade paper collection is so sweet with vintage images of bunnies and chicks

and beautiful flowers that makes me think of springtime!

Today I am sharing a large format card I made to decorate a package.

I used the Remembrance and Susie's Garden papers for the base and background, and fussy cut the chicks and basket from Joyful and Sunrise papers.

I painted the edges of the papers and the chipboard pieces from Photo Arches and a 

flower from Bohemian Flowers white to match. And of course added a little lace for texture!

 To embellish the card at the top I added some lovely flowers from Summer Blooms

and Winter Lilies. Then tucked in some fussy cut flower images and several 

white die cuts to add dimension.

 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my little project.
 Happy Easter! Mima

Easter Shadow Box Card with Spring Parade

Hi Everyone. I am so excited to be asked to share a little spring project I made!
 I love dimensional projects and shadow box cards are fun and easy to make. These little rabbits and chicks are the perfect images to fussy cut and add to the festive scene!

I covered the Glam Frame chipboard piece using crackle paste as a window into my scene.

 I used the the Spring Petites paper as a base and fussy cut images from the April Medley and Joyful papers as accents to tuck some behind the frame to create depth and 
some around the edges to complete the scene.

 For texture I used a die-cut doily and leaves adding the lovely blooms from
 Fresh Florals, Spring Blooms and Homespun Blooms
to give the project a fresh spring feel!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my little card! 
Happy Spring! Mima

Altered Can and Jar - Vicky Alberto

I decided to have some fun altering a tomato can and a plastic mayonnaise jar...

I just can't seem to get enough of Blue Fern's Homespun and Heartland collections, so I mixed them together! 

On the tomato can, I added an adhesive butterfly from the Remnants collection, Tattered walls ephemera and Blue Fern flowers too. Nothing from my stash on here... this is ALL gorgeous Blue Fern product.

On the mayonnaise jar, Homespun adhesive shapes, Tattered walls ephemera, Blue Fern flowers, ribbon and flourish heart chipboard were added... again nothing from my stash on this project either!

On the heart chipboard I inked in dark pink and then randomly glued some Blue Fern pink embossing powder on top, for a thick shabby look. Well... once again thanks for stopping by to take a peek at my projects!

Spring layout made with the Spring Parade Collection

Hello! Good to see you here! It's such a beautiful day outside it put me in the mood to share this spring layout I made.

I used Spring Parade for this layout.

 My back ground was first given a coat of clear Gesso. I then went over it with the Mini Tile Mania Mask from TCWS and some molding paste. I then sprinkled embossing powder in it's a Girl from Blue Fern all over the molding paste and heat embossed it. I love the way it came out!I then did very little stamping with the Tattered Newsprint Stamp and added a few small pink pearls.

I layered my papers behind my photo, some in long strips others in shorter strips. On the shorter strips I added some chipboard pieces Grid Pieces and embossed them with white enamel. I also used a large piece of chipboard called Chesterville Shelf and cut it into sections to make it spread out amongst my page.

I embossed this part of the shelf with It's A Girl Pink and Sage.I like layering chipboard on top of each other.

Another piece of the shelf is used here as a backdrop for this flower cluster made up of a variety of Blue Fern Blooms. I also used embossed masking tape on my page for added texture.

My final piece of the Chesterville Shelf was used as a border for my photo. I painted the top part with the small flowers a pale yellow and then used Ginger and Sage to finish it off.

Close-up of my second floral cluster using Blue Fern Blooms. You can also see more of the background work here.

My title. I used Seedlings throughout my page in both Meadow and Pink Topaz.

Last close-up of the Pink Topaz Seedlings and some pink pearls. I so enjoyed working with these pastel colors it actually felt like spring just my become a reality soon! Let's keep our fingers crossed!

All the best! :)

PRODUCTS USED

Papers

Joyful

June

Remembrance

May Vignettes

Spring Petites

Embossing Powder

Ginger

Sage

It's A Girl

Seedlings

Meadow

Pink Topaz

Stamps

Tattered Newspaper

Flowers

Remnants Florals

Remnants Blooms

Garden Blooms

Garden Florals

miscellaneous Blue Fern flower

Chipboard

Grid Pieces

Chesterville Shelf

Easter basket with Spring Parade

Hello everyone,  DT Henriëtte here today sharing an Easter basket featuring the 

Spring Parade collection.

The idea for the Easter basket I got from Tara's craft studio.
I made the basket from white sheets of chipboard and decorated it with papers,
 lace, flowers and chipboard pieces.

I colored the chipboard eggs and bunny with inks.

On the top corners of the basket I glued spring colored flowers.

It was a fun project to make and I love the spring colors and flowers.

As my own daughter is to old to go egg hunting I'll be giving this basket to the neighbors children with some chocolate eggs in it.

I hope you like my Easter project. 

There's still some time to make one for Easter.

Products used:

Papers: 

Spring Parade

Chipboard:

Bunny Basket set

Lace:

Lace 6

Lace 2

Flowers:

BFS flowers

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Henriëtte.

Happy Together Layout

Hello all, it's Aida from @aidaville  and today I'm back with a layered layout featuring the ever gorgeous Blue Fern Studios lace. If you are into shabby, pretty projects and makes, adding lace will surely give them a boost of lovely texture. 

Here are the products I used :
Blue Fern Studios supplies :
Papers : 
Happy Accident #2 - Chase  |  Damsel

Remnants : Callaway

Lace : #1 and #2

Remnants Printed Chipboard

Assorted Blue Fern Florals

Others :

9"x7" flat back Canvas
Collage Medium, Acrylic Paints, Water Soluble Crayons, White Gesso, 

I began with 6'x6' patterned paper and started building the central piece of the layout on it. Photos should always be the focus of layouts and I chose to adhere it slightly to the left to create space for a title or embellishments.

From this point, I played around with the lace pieces and florals till I was happy with how the embellishments fitted into the layout.

I love the neutral colour of the lace as this makes it very easy to match the papers and florals, just look how the sewn on sequins add a touch of pretty sparkle !

The title to the right of the photo is from the Remnants Printed Chipboard popped up with foam squares.

The orange blossoms give the layout a bright happy feel. To create a shabby appeal, I lightly brushed the florals with watered down gesso and dried them with a heat tool.

Finally, to frame the focal piece, I mounted it on a canvas collage using a patterned paper and Lace #2, glued to the lower end with collage medium After it dried, I then lightly brushed a coat of white gesso and pale pink.

This layout was so much fun to make as pretty Blue Fern Studios products are an inspiration and makes the process amazingly easy.

I hope you will make something pretty in the weekend ahead. I'll see you soon and remember to come back for more ideas from the rest of the Design Team !

 Aida Haron @aidaville