Orchid, Lilac, and Yellow

Joyce  here today to share some projects using the Ombre Dreams paper collection, and some chipboard too.  This paper collection has a color for everyone, and for me it’s the orchid, lilac and yellow colors.

Here’s a layout using the Juliana’s Dream  paper featuring the colors of orchid and yellow. The Quatrefoil Panel chipboard was used as a stencil in the background  to add some texture, layering, to further blend the colors together, and grounding the softness of the colors with a hint of charcoal mist. 

 Close ups of the Bohemian Butterfly, and the Grande Cage:

And, here’s a little card featuring a piece of Juliana’s Dream paper and the Jeweled Page Dangle chipboard piece. I first applied gesso to the chipboard piece and was going to leave it as it was because it looked nice on the card that way too.  But, then that inner voice that whispers in my ear, “embellish, embellish, embellish” whenever I work with chipboard just kept getting louder until I succumbed and agreed that I couldn’t just leave it as  it was. It is a very small piece but the design is so exquisite and the dropped baubles required some dimension. Apply some molding paste to those focal points on chipboard to create dimension.  Here there are three values of the color yellow to add some shadow and more interest on each bauble. Try it… I think you will be pleased with the results.

Aren’t those daisies cute?  They are also elements from the Jeweled Page Dangle.  Paint them white, and follow the design of the petals with a water color pencil then add some color mist inside the watercolor pencil petal.  I would love to see more of these small daisy flowers in the Blue Fern Studios store (hint, hint, ;), they’re great little fillers.

Thanks for letting me share my projects with you.

See you on July 17^th.

            

Tutorial "Chipboard & Flock Powder" with Leila Cardoso

Hello BFS fans,

Leila's here today to show you one way to customize your chipboards, using Flock powder and get a velvety effect on their pieces.

Let's go...

We will need chipboards, gesso, some ink and floc powder:

Apply the gesso in all chipboard with a thicker layer:

Now place the piece in a plastic container and then put the flock powder:

Remove excess powder (returning to the bottle for future use) and apply some spray ink to enhance color.

Let it dry and use it in your project.

 I did a layout using this beautiful custom doilie.

Some details:

BFS supplies:

- Charlotte's Dreams

- Dream Cards

- Ruth's Doily

So, this it's for today. I hope you like it!

xoxo and thanks for stopping by.

Leila

Watching YOU Put Our Designs to Work!

It's time to give YOU the spotlight!

Today we're doing something a little bit different. We are going to feature projects that have been shared on our Facebook Page! We love when you share with us, tag us, and let us know just how much you love using Blue Fern Studios products! And today we are happy to share with all of our wonderful blog followers your kind words and of course your lovely projects.

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 Inna Karpova

"Love your chipboard very much
My layout for my friend and your chipboard "Good Vibes"

Bernii Miller

"I wanted to share a layout I made using your Ombre Dreams collection.. The paper is amazing and so durable , that it was a dream to watercolour on :)"

Shawna Raye

"Thanks for the amazing chicken wire for my project. I love."

Amy Prior

"Another layout using your gorgeous papers and chipboard man I have run out of these papers and need some more ASAP LOL cannot wait to get my hands on your new collection."

Anita Scroggins

"I am finishing up my second pack of these fabulous nautical chipboards- perfect for my recent Caribbean Crawl."

Thanks so much, ladies!! 

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We can't wait to see your projects!!

3 cards by Evgenia Petzer

Hello dear friends! Its Evgenia Petzer with you today with my 3 soft, feminine cards for your inspiration. Ombre dreams collection is absolutely divine and all my cards are from it:)

Blue Fern Studios chipboards used:
Grande Cages, Jeweled trinkets

 Blue Fern Studios chipboards used: Symphony Border, Royal Page Baubles

Blue Fern Studios chipboards used: Floral Hearts, Swirly Doodle
covered with crylic paint, sprinkled randomly with fine dry glitter and above the glossy accent.

Have a happy, scrappy weekend:)

June layouts by Marie-Josée

Hello all! I hope you are doing great. Today, I have two new projects to show you. Both were created with the new Ombre Dreams collection ans various chipboards.

"Precious Memories" layout

For this layout, I used the Ginger's Dream paper as my background.

Then, I primed my Jumbo Rings panel with gesso and added color with watercolor pencils. As you can see, I tried to use the same colors as the background paper on my circles. I also cut circles out of the Susan's Dream paper and added them to my layout.

Finally, I altered my Precious Memories chipboard with black chalk ink, leaving bare spots here and there.

"Perky" layout

For this layout, I used bright colors with the Ombre Dreams paper.

 
I cut strips from the Joyce's Dream and Leslie's Dream papers and altered them with bright mists (purple and orange).

I used the Small Number Grid panel on top and the word "Perky" from The Optimist Word Set for my title.

Ombré Dreams with Maja

Hi  Blue Fern Lovers =) Maja here today to show some new projects made with the absolutely gorgeous new paper line "Ombré Dremas". I´m in love! They are so fun to play with. I will show 2 layouts and a card today, so lets start. First up is a layout with my youngest son.

Blue Fern studios products used are:

Papers: Dream cards, Julianna´s dream, Shannon´s dream.

Chipboard: Techno Rings, Bohemian Flowers.

Next layout is my other son. A photo taken in a fun waterpark in Alcudia, Spain. He is playnig in the pool with the wave maschine.

  Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: Susan´s Dream

Chipboard: Checker Bits, Treasured Floral Frame, Good Vibes

My last project is a summery card. 

Blue Fern Studio pruducts used are:

Papers: Dream Cards, Joyce´s Dream

Chipboard: Circle Motifs,Royal Monarchs

Thanks for stopping by =) 

Jackie's June Creations - A Layout and A Mixed Media Gift Bag and Card

Hello Blue Fern Studios Fans! Jackie with you today to share my June Blue Fern Studios projects. I've had a blast playing with the new Ombre Dreams papers, and I have two Ombre Dreams projects to share with you today, but I'd like to start off with a very dimensional layout using Blue Fern Gardens.

I've mentioned before how much I love the thickness of these papers (and if you haven't had a chance to pick up some Ombre Dreams paper, they are printed on the same paper) because of how well they take media, and I've piled it on again here, with gesso, mists, inks and watercolour paints.

I matted my photo collage using two layers of Blue Fern chipboard, starting with one of the Beaded Strings circles. I painted it with a thick gesso (because I find super heavy gesso spreads so much easier with better coverage), then added some touches of watercolour paints, and then added a bit more gesso once those were dry to tone everything down a little. I also added some grey ink to the outside for definition.

The second layer of my photo mat is one of the Quatrefoil Garden Panels. I cut it in half lengthwise so that I could have a border both on top of and below my photos, and painted it with a shimmery acrylic paint.

To create a horizon line across my page, I used a piece of one of the Jeweled Page Dangles left over from another project. The links are coloured with chalk ink, and I used some of the shimmery watercolour paint I used on the page to colour the flower, and topped it with some bling.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

- Blue Fern Garden: Picnic

- Blue Fern Chipboard: Beaded Strings, Jeweled Page Dangles, Quatrefoil Garden Panels

With Father's Day just around the corner, I set out to make a masculine gift bag, though in the end it turned out a little too colourful to be truly masculine, but I love it!

I combined Blue Fern Garden and Ombre Dream papers for this one; they work so well together! After I built my base layers, I added strips and squares I cut from scrap pieces and the cut-away strips at the bottom of the papers, and added random colour to the sides of all of these.

I then added stencilling, stamping and splattering to the background along with some sewing thread.

I coloured the Grand Balloon Chippy with several different colours of acrylic and watercolour paints, layering them on until I was happy with the effect then adding some gesso to help to tie the piece in with the background. 

See the wonderful texture from the acrylic paint? Some metal pieces provided nice finishing touches to the balloon.

 Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

 - Blue Fern Garden: Signature, Timeless, Parlour

- Ombre Dreams: Susan's Dream

- Blue Fern Chipboard: Grand Balloon

I so enjoyed making the gift bag that I decided to make a card along the same lines, this time using one of the Eastern Lanterns, and one of my favourite colours, orange.

On the Grand Balloon chippy I achieved the texture by dabbing with my finger in the wet paint; with this one I held my heat gun close to the acrylic paint to cause it to bubble and create this gorgeous effect. I then added some modelling paste and gesso to enhance the aged effect.

I treated one of the Leafy Page Accents in a similar manner, though I used a copper mist instead of the orange acrylic as my base colour (I applied clear gesso to the piece first, so that the mist would sit on top instead of seeping into the porous chipboard).

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

- Blue Fern Garden: Parlour

- Ombre Dreams: Susan's Dream, Shannon's Dream

- Blue Fern Chipboard: Eastern Lanterns and Leafy Page Accents

Thank you for stopping in today!