Layouts & Vision Board by France Ringuette

Hi bloggers, I can't believe that it's March already. Time is flying but, but I am enjoying crafting for the Blue Fern Studios Design team. This month, I'll be sharing 2 layouts and 1 off the page project. 

Capture the Moment Layout #1

The starting point for this layout was this beautiful picture of my 2 sons and I taken during our Riviera Maya vacation last summer. I wanted to extend on my layout the colors of my picture, so a blue background with a sandy beach.

I chose the beige background from In the Mood - Flirty paper. Once covered with Gesso, I layed my foundation of ink on the top half.

I wanted to have multi tones on my chipboard to give it more dimension. I opted to cover my clock and rectangle pieces in Ginger, Black & Gold and finally a touch of Oatmeal embossing powders.

The bottom of the layout, in order to create a beach feel effect I worked with cheese cloth and wool fibers that I glued with gel medium. Then I added touches of small stones and 4 colors of seedlings: Paprika, Twig, Gold Nugget & Glass.

Once my background was complete, I chose to build my layers. For my title, I chose to use 14 Karat embossing powder. I love the glitter it adds to the layout.

This last picture shows the beautiful Blue Fern flowers, more details on the embossed chipboard & seedlings. I also included Rose Gold glitter but it's impossible to capture the glitter on my picture.

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Paper Collection: In the Mood Flirty & Pensive

Seedlings:

Paprika

Twig

Gold Nugget

Glass

Embossing Powders:

Black & Gold

Ginger

Oatmeal

14 Karat

Glitter: Rose Gold

Flowers :

Chesterville blooms

Homespun blooms

Heartland blossoms

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Formidable layout # 2

Time for another magnificent picture of my gorgeous niece with her family. I just love the vibrancy of the red in the picture and chose to use that for my highlights.

 Remnants Westfield is my chosen paper for this layout.

I had fun playing with different techniques on this layout. The first step was to emboss different sections with the Green Ivory Embossing Powder.  I used 2 stamps to emboss on my background paper: Weathered Doily & Honeycomb.

I chose to alter the circle chipboard with black gesso, and some waxes to give them an antique look & feel.

I love adding the small sentiments from the Remnants printed chipboard set.

Can you see the top of my tags? I like making my own tags, they make wonderful ornaments for my layering. Here is used leftovers of my Remnants collection. 

I wanted to add some shine to my flowers, so I added touches of white & gold glitter

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Paper Collection: Remnants Westfield

Embossing Powder: Green Ivory

Glitter: White & Gold

Stamps:

Weathered Doily

Honeycomb

Chipboard:

French adjectives

techno Rings

Printed Remnants

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Off the page project: Vision Board 2018

Have you ever made a vision board? This year at work, I hosted a team event where we I invited our team members to create their combined work & personal vision board for 2018.

The goal of a vision board is that if you see you goals on a daily level... you set-up you mind to making them happen.

To set-up my board I used many elements from my Blue Fern collection.

The first step was making my chipboard world map. I wanted it to pop out so I chose Blue Sky embossing powder:

Second elements where to use my gorgeous Blue Fern stamp sets. I love the words Family and Hopes & Dreams. I found them perfect for the family section of my board.

To create sections, I chose to use the frames in the Homespun printed chipboard set:

Here we can see a printed frame and the word Journey, both from my stamp stash.

And lastly, more of the Homespun printed chipboard elements. They are just adorable.

Disclaimer: I did pull off the internet and Pinterest some quotes that I found to complete the vision board. 

Blue Fern Studios product used on this layout:

Embossing Powder: Blue Sky

Stamps:

Hopes & Dreams

Distressed Titles

Floral Vignettes

Chipboard:

Printed Homespun

I hope you enjoyed my 3 projects for March and I wish you an amazing crafty month !

Romantic and colorful by Tartine Peluche

Hello everybody!
I'm back to share with you some new inspirations.

This month, two layouts of  '' In The Mood '' and one of  ''Chesterville'' ...

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My first one is :

*Lifetime Dream*
( In The Mood, Pensive )

For those who know me, know that I like to create or modified flowers.
I have almost the same tools as the florist...
For this layout I had fun with the Moody Florals.
The first on the top is simply heated with heat gun, as is, then I added a bling as a center.
The others are only one layer of petal folded on itself.

The butterflies are embossed with Pixie Dust. The cercle ring embossed with Ivory, then I added a bit of pink pearl ink to contrast. The first layer of  chipboard flowers is embossed with a mixt of Baby Pik and Pixie Dust, and the other one embossed in snow and over heated with heat gun and ink too.

On my heart Gold Nugget seedlings.
n the center of Attic Charm Daisies flower, mix of two shades of pink: Tickled, Pink Glass and Gold Nugget too. Under the flower a piece of  Lace 12, ripped.

'' Dreamy '' is the title of one paper of the In the Mood Collection, I cut the word
on the paper and I scratched it.
'' Simply because ... '' comes from the printed chipboard sheet. I used another piece at the top of my page,  ''In The Mood ''

Butterflies in Pink Dust embossing powder and my Title ...
I did a test, not very conclusive, still pretty but not perfect ... I mixed two embossing powders, added to my chipboard with versamark and I heat it ...

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Blue Fern Studios pruducts used:

Paper:
Pensive
Chipboards:
Printed In The Mood

Embossing Powder:
Pixie Dust
Ivory
Snow
Glitters:
Rose Gold
Flowers:
Attic Charm Daisies
Moody Floral
Late Winter Lilies ( Pink )
Harvest Lilies ( yellow )
Stamps:
Tattered Newsprint
Seedlings:
Tickled
Pink Glass
Glass
Gold Nugget
Laces:
Lace 4
Lace 12

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My next one:

*Beautiful*
( In The Mood, Peaceful )

This paper it's really my favorite of the collection In The Mood,

I wanted to work it very romantic and especially in soft color.

So I choose to bring out the peach of the paper.

 For that, I used some die cut embossed with the embossing powder Copper. This color perfectly match with peach shades of the paper.

I could have used the flowers from the Chesterville Blooms collection, they were perfect but did not match the sweet ambiance I wanted to give. So I used the Late Winter Lilies in white.

I put Glass seedlings in my flowers, much like a flowing river

they follow a path to the bottom of my layout.

The Life round chipboard come from Garden Life Printed Chipboard, under this one another round chipboard Remnants Chipboard Printed.

With this last one picture, we can see all the shine of the embossing powder Copper and some pieces of Lace 12, that I ripped and placed under my flowers.

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Blue Fern Studios products used:
Paper:
Peaceful
Chipboards:
Garden life printed chipboards
Remnants printed chipboards
Embossing Powder:
Copper
Ivory
Flowers:
Late Winter Lilies ( White )
Stamps:
Tattered Newsprint
Seedlings:
Glass
Twig
Laces:
Lace 12

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And finally the last one:

*Love This*
( Chesterville, Holmes )

Zoom on the Wanderlust Lilies Flowers

The flower chipboard is embossed with Starry Night.

The chipboard Panel is embossed with Summer Breeze.

I used lot of seedlings on this layout. I mixed two shades of green. Fir Tree and Green Leaf.

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Blue Fern Studios products used:
Paper:
Holmes
Embossing Powder:
Starry Night
Summer Breeze
Flowers:
Wanderlust Lilies
Stamps:
Tattered Newsprint
Seedlings:
Fir Tree
Green Leaf

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Thanks for stopping by !
I hope I've inspired you.
I'll see you next month with another inspirations...
Hugs, Tartine xoxo

February inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans. Vera Shelemekh is here to inspire you with the new amazing In the Mood collection. I have prepared two layouts and one traditional off the page project.

So help yourself with a cup of tea and some cookies and enjoy the beauty of In the Mood papers and printed chipboards.
I'll start the journey with a wedding layout. There was no chance not to make a romantic and tender page with many fussy cut roses and lace and sparkling sentiment.
In the Mood Mellow paper became the backgroung for this project.

The chipboard frame and branches are embossed with Icicle powder. Under the frame you may notice the brand new Lace 11

 The sentiments on the printed chipboard are so sweet, just perfect for the story.

 The title is covered with Fool's gold glitter.

 And I added gold nugget seedlings here and there.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

In the Mood - Mellow

In the Mood - Ecstatic

 

Chipboards:

In the mood printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

 Icicle

 

Seedlings

Gold nugget

Glitter:

Fools gold

Lace:

Lace11

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The other layout is also about relationship but this time I made my little son and hig girl friend play the main role) The picture was taken about 5 years ago in the street. The car is the present from my son's God father.

I picked In the Mood Dreamy back side as background and added pieces of Paisley and Vine papers.

  The frame is decorated with washi tape.

 I used a lot of Iridescent grey and Icicle  powder to emboss the chipboard embelishments. And some hearts are covered with Fire Engine glitter.

 I can't imagine my layouts without seedlings. Here you may notice Flaming.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

In the Mood - Dreamy

Paisley and Vine - Passion

Paisley and Vine - Bohemian

 

Chipboards:

In the mood printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

 Icicle

Iridescent grey

 

Seedlings

Flaming

Glitter:

Fire engine

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And now let's go off the page. I've created a very tender shabby chic planner. The cover is decorated with In the Mood printed chipboard, pices of Lace 3 and beautiful paper flowers.

 

 

 I also added a small raw chipboard heart covered with Vintage gold glitter.

The pages are embellished with In the Mood printed chipboard and fussy cut flowers.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

In the Mood - Dreamy

In the Mood - Ecstatic

In the Mood - Flirty

 In the Mood - Attracted

 

Chipboards:

In the Mood printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Glisten sand

 

Seedlings

Mauve

Glitter:

Vintage gold

Lace:

Lace 3

Flowers:

Apricot blooms

Harvest lilies

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I hope you love the projects I've created for your inspiration. See you in March *)