'Sanctuary' Inspiration by Lisa Griffith

Hello Blue Fern Studios friends....

I am a little later than usual this month due to some technical difficulties on my part...

But I actually felt very lucky to have a few more days as it gave me a bit more time to play

with the new collection 'Sanctuary', that I am so IN LOVE with....

'perfect'

I started with the beautiful paper 'Conservatory' and then I layered a lot of pieces of Blue Fern Studios papers including the 'Calling Cards' from the Sanctuary collection and some pieces from the Blue Fern Garden collection in the background and created lots of texture with gesso, paints, stamping and gold micro beads.

For my title I embossed a piece from the 'Chunky Word Set' set in copper to match my copper colored paints.

I also used pieces of the 'Shabby Brick Bits' which I painted in white and then covered in different paints in gold and copper colors. You can also see a piece of 'Ginger's Poppies' tucked under my photo.

'girl in bonnet'

For my second project I started with the paper 'Bountiful' also from the Sanctuary collection. I only recently tried to do a layout with a dark background and I love how it turned out, using a dark background paper looks so dramatic and makes your photos and embellishments really stand out.

I layered some gesso using several masks, some blue and pink paint and pieces of washi tape to create my background and then added some bits of lace, flowers, and tucked in a piece of 'Blue Fern Frame' that I painted white and blue. You can also see small pieces of the paper 'Mercantile' from the Montage paper collection.

'magical'

For my final layout I started with the paper 'Meadows of Time' from the new Sanctuary collection. 

I just love the blue and brown vintage patterns here, so gorgeous and totally inspiring to me. I knew I wanted to make a wintery looking page so I started by adding gesso with a sea sponge for a very uneven look and then I added some mists in blue and brown.

I tucked in a few pieces of Blue Fern Garden paper, and then added some pieces of the 'Shabby Flakes' and a piece of 'Winter Titles' which I painted white and then sprinkled with white glitter.

I hope I have inspired you a little today :)

See you next time...

Lisa 

christmas Cards and LO

On Sanctuary Collection ( Meadows of Time paper) I created industrial LO . Industrial Corner and Working parts I use to create background and French Words are title.

To create this Card I layered few of BFS chipies. Boston Lattice is base of my project. Then i added few of Shabby Flkes and lots of glitter.

This card is in traditional colors. I use Sanctuary paper line , Framed Winter words are title , and One of Winter deers on Shabby snowflake is main element . I cover parts of my card with gold glitter paint .

2layouts by Yuko

Hello!everyone!　

It's Yuko.

A town is already a sign of Christmas... I need to use the photograph of autumn early! 

It is a photograph when it is in a cosmos field. 

It was very beautiful. 

【happy】

"Montage" is an elegant atmosphere, but

I try to fun atmosphere.

Chip board of bricks is not a body, I used the one that was pulled.

I wound a pearl around the big circle.

 <Blue Fern Studios Products>

Paper:Montage FAIRYLAND/MERCANTILE/CALLING CARDS

Chipboard:shabby Brick Bits/Chunky Words/Mini Ring Things

【love】

I like hues of this paper very much!

Use light modeling paste in the background.

And coloring, are stamped.

My favorite technique.

 <Blue Fern Studios Products>

Paper:Montage Bouquet/Invitation
Chipboard:Good Vibes

Thank you♡

Inspiration from our Creative Team

We hope you're all having a beautiful week so far.  Today we would like to share some layouts from our Creative Team.  We are sure you will agree with us when we say that they are all wonderful!  We are amazed by the various creative ways they use Blue Fern Studios products.

Maya Stokk (paper is from our new Sanctuary Collection)

Kelly Foster (also using the Sanctuary Collection)

Marie Josée Hamel

Keren Tamir

Evgenia Petzer

Rae Moses

Jelissa Mei

Lisa Gregory

Jackie Clark

Lisa Griffith

Patter Cross

Leila Cardoso

Have a great week everyone!

Video Tutorial with Adrienne Ford

Hello All!

Adrienne here, to share with you a new video tutorial- Twinkle. That word just gets me dreaming of sitting by a lit Christmas tree- Just gets me right into the Christmas spirit! Since the holiday season is fast approaching, I jumped right in and have a Holiday themed layout for you today.

This layout features the NEW and oh-so gorgeous Sanctuary paper collection. It is amazing! The theme is very vintage- lots of muted tones- wonderful for lots of themes. The Winter Titles are also so wonderful and I just had to alter my "Twinkle" title with lots of sparkle! 

In this video I will be particularly showing you have my Swirl Ornaments will come to live and give your layout a realistic feel.

Enjoy!

Blue Fern Products-
Santuary Collection: Conservatory
Swirl Ornaments
Winter Titles

A Layout and a Card with Patter

Today I have a layout and a card to share with you using the new Blue Fern Studios paper line called "Sanctuary." It is a beautiful line that can be used for anything, any time of year. I am going to show you how I used it on a heritage page and a Christmas card. You will see how versatile this new line is! Let's get started.

Cherish

This is my husband back in about 1966. Wasn't he a cutie? Well, I must say he still is. LOL! Anyway, for this page I used, the papers Sanctuary Bountiful and Sanctuary Conservatory. Such beautiful colors for this 8 1/2 x 11 heritage page.

To cover the Splattered Circles and Spare Parts chipboard pieces, I covered them in gesso, and then used some distress stains in various colors.

To cover the Adore, Love, Cherish chipboard piece (the title), I used the same technique as above but then I also added some darker gelatos to the chipboard.

Blue Fern Studios Papers: Sanctuary Bountiful and Conservatory 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard: Splattered Circles; Adore, Love, Cherish; and Spare Parts

Christmas Wishes

For this card I used the Sanctuary Meadows of Time and Sanctuary Conservatory papers. The chipboard piece is called Seeing Stars.

To alter the chipboard, I covered it in silver Inka Gold and then added some silver and gold embossing. To finish, I added pearls around the edge.

Blue Fern Studios Papers: Sanctuary Conservatory and Meadows of Time 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard: Seeing Stars

A Perfect Day

This is an 8 1/2 x 11 layout I created for this month's sketch challenge. This is one of my daughter's, and she just had back surgery 3 weeks ago. This is when we took her to the Billy Graham Library for the first time. Her back issues were being controlled at that time with a TENS unit you can see her wearing. Anyway, this 8 1/2 x 11 page not only uses the new November sketch from Blue Fern Studios but it also uses the Montage papers. Yum!

To color the Lattice Fence chipboard piece, I covered in gesso. While the gesso was wet, I added two different colors of embossing powder to emboss the chipboard. And you can see the fun result below.

The Arrow Words chipboard piece was also treated in the same way except once I embossed it, I then rubbed black gesso over the entire piece. I wanted it to pop a bit more off the page, and thus I added the touch of black to this piece. I think it ended up looking like the sepia photo a bit.

Blue Fern Studios Papers: Montage Invitation, Now and Then, and Bouquet 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard: Lattice Fence, Arrow Words 

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to join us in the Blue Fern Studios November Sketch Challenge. Click here to see all of the details!