Layouts with Déja Vu collection by Keren Tamir

I'm excited to showcase my projects today at the Blue Fern Studios Blog. 

I've used the Deja Vu collection for both these layouts.

Both layouts were created on the same background but with two different colour schemes which shows the paper's versatility.

"Sweetheart"

Although its spring, my first project is snow filled with earthy colours.

I framed my daughter's picture in the Winter flake frame which I personally designed for Blue Fern Studios. I covered it randomly with cream coloured embossing powder and then inked it in brown.

The background was stamped with the Deja Vu Stamps, the vintage edges stamp and the journey stamp. All were inked with brown distress ink.

Finally I used the Sweetheart word from the Lovebirds set.

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"Perfect photo op"

Thie second layout was also stamped in the background with a new BFS stamp. I used the widgets stamp to create the texture in the background.

This is an old picture of my son. He must be 3 years old here. I framed it in one of the vintage labels chipboard pieces which I coloured in green distress ink. I also used the seaweed chipboard to add as an embellishment. 

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios blog!!

Have a wonderful day!!

Keren

Take a Look at What's New from our Design Team

We are so thrilled with the layouts our Design Team have been working on using our most recent release, the Deja Vu Collection.  Each one has been applying their own special style with stunning results.  See for yourself:

Bente has used this beautiful paper that is a combination of soft colors - gray, purple, and yellow.  Her sweet flower clusters perfectly bring out the colors of the paper, and she chose to keep her chipboard pieces a neutral white.  You can also see where she has stamped images from the Deja Vu stamp set to add a few dangles to her design.

Kim has used this soft peach/pink paper from the Deja Vu collection which is perfect with this precious infant image.  She keeps the focal point all in the center with lots of fussy cutting and some chipboard pieces, of course!

Zaneta also shows us how lovely purple and a little bit of yellow compliment each each other.  She has built layers under her sunny image (from a recent Sunday afternoon walk) using stamped images from the Halftone Set, several chipboard pieces, and more fussy cutting from paper in the Deja Vu Collection. 

We hope you will let these projects inspire you!

Brand New!

Welcome to the (almost) weekend!  Are you ready for some new chipboard from Blue Fern Studios?  Well, let's begin today with some new word sets that are sure to be the perfect titles for your projects!

We have also added these 3 elegant pieces this week:

Butterfly Damask

Framington Medley

Timeless Floral Corner

We can't wait to see how you use these new pieces from Blue Fern Studios!

Two mixed media projects by Marie-Josée

 Hello all,

I hope you are doing fine today. In this blog post, I will show you two mixed media projects I created using some of my favorite pieces of Blue Fern Studios chipboard, which are perfect for mixed media projects.

"Adorable" kitty canvas

This is my beautiful kitty, Pretzel. She passed away on April 20 at the age of 16. I wanted to create something in her memory and I thought a canvas would be perfect.

First, I chose a 6" x 12" canvas. I cut a piece of the Mini Rings Panel and glued it to my canvas. Then, I applied gesso all over my canvas. I also applied gesso to the heart (from the Frilly Hearts set) and the circles (from the Graduated Circles set).

The word Adorable (from the French Words set) was heat embossed with black embossing powder.

Then, I painted the whole thing using various ColourArte products : paints, gels and mists. I mainly used teal, but I also added touches of gold and purple here and there. I finished with black and white ink splatters.

Here's a close-up view of the Frilly Heart and the Graduated Circles...

 

... and here's a closeup view of the background!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Graduated Circles

Frilly Hearts

Mini Rings Panel

French Words

Angel canvas

 

 

For this canvas, I used the colors of the Déjà Vu collection as my inspiration. I used of piece of the Friperies paper as my starting point. I cut it to fit a piece of the Graduated Squares set.

Here's a closeup view of the Déjà Vu paper and a piece of the Graduated squares set.

I worked exactly the same way I worked for the previous canvas, using similar products. I just used different colors and different chipboards. Here you see a close-up view of a piece of the Turkish Bits set as well as of a piece of the Layering Stems set.

Finally, I also used a stamp from the Halftone Stamps set, which matches the Déjà Vu collection, with black ink.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Graduated Squares

Turkish Bits

Layering Stems

Déjà Vu collection (Friperies paper and Halftone stamps)

Cover, layout+tutorial from Elena Morgun

Hello, friends, it's Elena Morgun here today

I recently have received the Déjà Vu Collection. It's just wonderful!

I am fond of purple color and I fell in love with this collection at the first sight. New stamps are gorgeous, too! There are background stamps... and also the stamps with the large elements, which I like stamping on the cellum and then use them as separate die cuts.

And todayI'll be inspiring you with the layout and step-by-step video tutorial, and the soft cover for the album on the rings.

"Sweet" layout

There's my Mom on the right on the photo. 

The chipboard I pained with spays and the accents are added with watercolors. The word Sweet I covered with Patina from Ranger. I like how convenient it is to work with these bottles, and also this paint adds some dimention to the project. You really should try it out with the chiboard!

Enjoy the video!

A few details:

Blue Fern Products Used:

Paper

• Déjà Vu: Friperies
• Déjà Vu: Tresors
• Déjà Vu: Petites Cartes

Chipboard

• Rings Panel
• Postage Frames
• Floral Spray
• Arrow Words

Stamp

• Journey
• Halftone

The album cover "Love"

This is created as the present for the wedding in summer. So it's very flowery and bright. There are rings inside to add the sheets to create the wedding book for the newly weds.

A few details:

Blue Fern Products Used:

Chipboard

• Rings Panel
• Marrakesh Panel
• Memory Frames

Have a wonderful and inspiring week!
Hugs,
Elena Morgun

New from Blue Fern Studios!

Welcome to the weekend!  Hopefully you have something fun planned.  Today we would like to show off the new chipboard pieces and sets we have added this week.

Victorian Corner

Aloha Flowers

Quatrefoil Frame

Novelty Trims

Radiant Bursts

Flutter Medley

Chipper Frame

Peek-a-Boos

These Peek-a-Boos are something new that designer Michele Singh recently came up with.  What are they for, you ask?  You know those times when you tear back a little bit of your paper (like Yuko has done in a couple of places on her layout below)?  Imagine tucking in one of these beautiful chipboard pieces so it "peeks out".  Love that idea!  And we're sure you will find lots of other ways to use these new pieces.

So, tell us what you think.  We love to receive comments from you.  Which are your favorites?

Moments in Time with Jelissa

Hi everyone!

Where has all the time gone to? We're already in the month of May and I'm happy to share a layout I created for Blue Fern Studios using the gorgeous new Deja Vu collection.

Here is the project:

I picked these papers from the collection as they matched the colors from my photo quite perfectly. It's one of the very few of me with my kids as I'm usually the one behind the camera.

Here are some close-ups:

Layering gorgeous Blue Fern Studios chipboards with the papers and burlap. I had used quite a number of mediums for this page and the chipboards and some of you have already asked for the colors as well. These can be found in my personal blog post.

My title piece, from "Petite Cartes", and more layering with chipboard, papers and lace.

My usual floral cluster.

Some details of the lace and chipboard, which I colored to look like the background paper.

Mini tags made from "Petite Cartes" cut-out.

And here is the start to finish video of how I put this whole page together:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Deja Vu collection - Petite Cartes, Friperies
Chipboards - Chelsea Vines, Ironworks Medley, Tangier Page Panel
Vintage Edges stamp set

And that's all I have for today. Have a great day ahead!

love,