Maison Card & Box Set

 

Today we are sharing a sweet little box and card set!
Easy to create and always fun to craft!

 

 

 

The set includes a box and three coordinating cards 

The box has a belly band that keeps it closed.

The band is embellished with a decorative frame and image that comes in the journal pack 

 

 

 

  I love to make boxes of all kinds and figuring out a new one
that is simple is always a fun challenge. This one is made from a single 12x12.

 

 

The cards are made by a mixture of fussy cutting images from the paper

and the journal cards. The window frame is chipboard that matches the collection.

 

 

 

Products Used 

 Thank you for stopping by

Happy Crafting! 

Susan 

 Maison Lumiere Layout

We are so excited to share this beautiful layout using the new Maison collection. Maison is all about house and home using vintage style wallpapers for backgrounds mixed with iconic imagery to compliment the prints.

  

 

 

Ann used the back of Salon as the base and overlayed Lumiere over the top tearing pieces away to show the Jardin blue below. She fussy cut the bottom of the lamp to fit into the space

 

 

For matting she used the back of Telegram. For embellishments she used images from the Housewarming paper, the journal pack and ephemera.

 

Flowers were added for color and dimension.

Thank you to Ann for sharing her layout! 

 

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Thank you for joining us on the blog!

 

 

Two New Collections!

It's Been Awhile...

Yes, Blue Fern has been on a sort of hiatus since our last release.

It seems life got in the way, but behind the scenes work was progressing, 

and plans made for new collections.

"Maison" and "Happenstance"

are our two latest collections 

designed by the talented Michele Singh.

 

 

Life's Vignettes Ephemera Folio:

 

Using the Life's Vignettes collection, I created a pretty little "home" for all the ephemera pieces that go with the collection.  I covered old book front and back covers with the gorgeous papers 

 

 

 

 

 

I love to create pockets and tuck spots, this time I used plastic from pocket protectors using a tab binding to hold the book together.  

 

 

 

I wanted to be able to see the little girls, butterflies, journal cards and small ephemera for ease in picking and choosing as I create other projects with this adorable collection.  

 

 

 

I have a start to finish video series available under my Blue Fern Studios playlist on my YouTube channel, Gayle Agostinelli.  Thank you for a wonderful collection Jen Bishop and Blue Fern Studios!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Hugs, Gayle

Sentimental Tag Album using Life's Vignettes

 Hello Blue Fern Fans!  Today I have a quick Tag album to share using Life's Vignettes.  I gathered some packaging pieces from flowers and decided to finally put these to good use to repurpose/recycle them.

I used 3 different sizes of packaging to create this tag album.  I started distressing cardstock and paper from Life's Vignettes pieced them together and added chipboard,  lace,  metal embellishments,  flowers and twine.  I cut white cardstock to size and then used Blue Fern stamps to create background details,  I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks and Ranger Ink,  you will be able to see more detail below where I stamped on the back of the tag for interest.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink to color the chipboard and them cut it up so I could use it on the next tag page.

I also used the Ephemera pack and distressed the edges.

I really love how the stamping turned out,  this would be great using embossing powder as well.

This project was fun to create and I was able to use some of my stash of packaging waiting to repurpose/recycle.  I hope I've inspired you to go out of your box and recycle something in your craft room!

Happy Crafting!

Blue Fern Studios Products
Life's Vignettes Collection

Ephemera pack

Lace 

Metal Embellishments Blossoms

Stamps-Chantilly,  Moment in Time,  Dream of Joy and Illustrations

Living a Romantic Life Scrapbook Layout

Hello Blue Fern Crafty Friends!  Can you believe it's almost the end of May,  where has the time gone???  I was really hoping to get more crafting time in!  I dug into my stash and grabbed Blue Fern Studios beautiful collection A Romantic Life and created a layout.

I started with craft cardstock for sturdyness,  added white cardstock that I distressed with scissors and also used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink.  Then I distressed Blue Fern Studios Intrigue sheet distressed the edges with Tim Holtz distressing tool.  I cutout from Infatuation and Captivating distressed the edges then backed it with recycled boxes I cut up to add dimension.  

I added Blue Fern Studios Lace 51 & 55,  these 2 are  my favorites!  I also added Blue Fern Studios Chipboard Frame Work and colored it with distress oxide ink and then Finnabair's Wax.

Creating my design I used Blue Fern Studios Ephemera pack,  the Umbrella and Fan are so beautiful and perfect touch for the layout.

I added flowers,  glitter,  Reneabouquets Butterflies,  seedbeads and seedlings.

This collection really is A Romantic Life,  it is so beautiful and easy to create with!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope I've inspired you today!

Happy Creating!

Simple Scrapbook layout with Life's Vignettes

Hello!  Happy Friday Blue Fern Fans!  I have a simple layout to share using Life's Vignettes,  this collection is so gorgeous it really is hard to decide which papers to use and more challenging how not to cut through the beautiful designs!  I did struggle with choosing the first paper and the papers I would cut through so I decided to try to keep this layout very simple.

I started with tearing the bottom right corner and top left corner using pink cardstock behind where I tore the paper.  Then I distressed the edges of the papers.

I grabbed Blue Fern Studios Lace and layered it to start my design.  I did some fussing cutting and diecutting to create layers.  

For the matting I added pieces from the ephemera pack and also added crocheted doilies from my stash,  I think this must be the first layout I've created without any dimensional flowers at least it's been awhile.

For a little pop of color I added seed beads and seedlings with glitter.

Sometimes your projects don't have to crazy amounts of embellishments and it will be the perfect amount of layers and embellishments so the collection shines through.

We love to see your projects so be sure to share them on Facebook at Blue Fern Fantics!

Keep calm and craft on!

Happy Crafting!!!