Cathi's September Projects

Hello again friends!! I am back this month with some more projects and this time I'd love to start off with a layout to get me in the mood for autumn! The days are getting shorter and the air is getting crisper so I decided that the gorgeous Autumn Anthology papers would be perfect for my first layout this month. I chose the gorgeous Newsworthy sheet from the collection.

Here you can see where I took some cutouts from the Calling Cards paper from Autumn Anthology and tucked them under my 13 year old daughter's photo. She loves her makeup and knows her way around photo filters so she is looking about 20 here...I don't want her growing up so fast! You can see the background stamping here using the Forever set and the butterfly from the Bourbon Street set.  I did some misting and masking with moulding paste. 

I just love the Royal Monarchs chipboard set and have added a butterfly here to match in with the butterflies in her hair in the photo!! I embossed the chipboard using the Imagine Ink Buttercup and Auburn Embossing Powder colors.

I just love the flowers from Blue Fern Studios! Don't you just love the deep red color of those lilies from the Seaside Lilies collection, just beautiful. I also added the large yellow Attic Charm Glitter Rose and some dark brown Courtship Blooms. I tucked in some pieces from the Leafy Bough chipboard and I colored them with Auburn Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

To finish off this layout I added my title in the bottom corner using the Be Your Best Selfie chipboard from the Selfie Squares set. Again, I added Imagine Ink Embossing Powder in Buttercup and Auburn.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Autumn Anthology Collection~Newsworthy

Blue Fern Studios Seaside Cottage Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Selfie Squares

Leafy Bough

Royal Monarchs

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Buttercup

Auburn

Stamps:

Bourbon Street

Forever

Flowers:

Seaside Lilies

Courtship Blooms

Attic Charm Glitter Roses

My next layout features my camera shy youngest when she was young and less camera shy! My little beach babe!! For the base of this layout I chose the beautiful Regalia paper from the Seaside Cottage collection and cut out some fun words from the Calling Cards collection.

Here you can see my background stamping with some of my favorites stamps: Making Plans, Forever, and Essential Textures. I used the Forever stamp in Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and the others were Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Here you can see the flower cluster. I chose flowers to tone in with my daughter's bright swim suit! She has a bright pink Courtship Rose in her hair and the same color Attic Charm Daisy, the pink lily is from the Dark Tropic Lily set.

For the Beach Babe chipboard I used Seven Seas and 14 Karat Imagine Ink Embossing Powders... If you look closely around my daughter you can see where I used the Oatmeal Imagine Ink Embossing Powder, it has a great grainy looking texture perfect to imitate a sand texture!

I added a few shells to my layout which I love!! Underneath my little beach girl I added the Seaside Flourish chipboard, again using the Seven Seas and 14 Karat Imagine Ink Embossing Powders I tucked a light and dark pink set of Courtship Roses.to add to my embellishment cluster.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Seaside Cottage Collection~Regalia

Blue Fern Studios Seaside Cottage Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Beach Babe

Seaside Flourish

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

14 Karat

Seven Seas

Oatmeal

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Forever

Making Plans

Flowers:

Dark Tropics  Lilies

Courtship Roses

Attic Charm Daisies

My final project is a set of four cards. I love the blues and browns of this collection and I think the images are gorgeous, so I chose four images from the Calling Cards paper and made those the focus of my cards. For my first two cards I used the Splendor page. I added stitching around the edges and popped the image up foam tape. I then added some Seaside Lilies and my favorite shells from my stash. I also tucked in a light brown Courtship Bloom.  For some background interest and texture I added Mesh Bits and for the card on the left I embossed with Sea Mist Imagine Ink Embossing Powder and for the right card Azure Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. I have added the beautiful Seasonal Wildflowers pieces embossed with Melon Imagine Ink Embossing Powder to the flower clusters for a bit of detail. I finished off the cards by tucking in some cheesecloth for a netting kind of texture to the cards.

For my final two cards I used a base of the Voyage paper, I just love the colors and images in the paper. I then added the adorable vintage sailor suit boy images for these cards.  Again I tucked in some Mesh Bits for texture. These were embossed using Cerulean Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. For my clusters I used the beautiful blue Seaside Roses as well as the dark brown Courtship Blooms. I added in some seashells from my stash and then the coral pieces from the Seaside Treasures which I embossed in Poinsettia Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. I finished off these cards with some stitching around the edges.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Seaside Cottage Collection~Voyage

Blue Fern Studios Seaside Cottage Collection~Calling Cards

Blue Fern Studios Seaside Cottage Collection~Splendor

Chipboard:

Mesh Bits

Seasonal Wildflowers

Seaside Treasures

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Sea Mist

Melon

Cerulean

Poinsettia

Flowers:

Seaside Lilies

Seaside Roses

Courtship Blooms

Thank you so much for visiting and having a look at my projects. I just love working with the gorgeous papers, chipboards, powders and flowers that Blue Fern continually have on offer, I hope you find inspiration here and are inspired to get some of these gorgeous products for yourself!

My september layouts with Seaside Cottage Collection by Marie-Eve Bernard

Hello,

It's my turn to present you the layouts I have created with the new Blue Fern Studios Collection: Seaside Cottage.  The collection is perfect for beach theme layout, but the "B side" of the paper are neutral and can be use for other themes as well.  So, I have created 2 baby boys layouts and the last one is beach themed.  With those layout, I want to present you my little treasure: baby Léo.  He completed our family beautifully.  Daddy is proud (and mommy too) to have is little boy after two beautiful princesses! 

SWEET DREAMS:

On my layout, I use several Blue Fern Studios flowers that I mixed with some others from my stash. The Sweet Dreams Chipboard is emboss twice with the Imagine Ink Mushroom Embossing Powder.

On my background, i use two stamps set to add texture with india ink.  After that, i play with watercolor.  On the chipboards (Jubilation corners), I use Imagine ink Embossing powders.  First, i embossed twice in Mushroom.  Then, I heat again and sprinkle Seamist in the hot embossing powder and heat it again.  I love how it blend together and the texture it's created.

Blue fern studios supplies list:

Papers

Seaside cottage, Regalia

Chipboards:

Jubilation corners

Sweet dreams

Stamps set:

Essential textures

Forever

Imagine Ink embossing powders:

Mushroom

Seamist

Flowers:

Seaside lilies

Late winter lilies

Tranquil Lilies & Roses

Courtship Roses

NEWBORN:

I use both sides of the White Wash paper  of the Seaside cottage Collection. This paper is so beautiful!

For the Seaside Lantenrs chipboard, I use the same technique that I describe earlier, but with more colours. I love how they turned out. The list of colours is listed below. 

I emboss the newborn chipboard twice with the Imagine Ink Honey Embossing powder.

Blue fern studios supplies list:

Papers

Seaside cottage, White Wash (2 papers)

Seaside cottage, Embarck

Chipboards:

Seaside Lanterns

Baby Words

Imagine Ink embossing powders:

Honey

Oatmeal

14Karats

In the navy

Seven Seas

Breeze

Flowers:

Seaside lilies

Late winter lilies

Tranquil Lilies & Roses

Attic Charm Daisies

BEACH BABE:

On my background, I had modelling paste with a stencil.  While the paste is still wet, i add Imagine Ink Embossing powder and then heat it.  Then I play with watercolours.

To embellish, I use different collection of Blue Fern Studios Flowers. They are listed below.

All my chipboard pieces where embossed with Imagine Ink Embossing powder.  On the Flourish and the frame, I have used two colours: Seamist and seven seas.  On my title, I used Melon and 14karats.

Blue fern studios supplies list:

Papers

Seaside cottage, glory

Seaside cottage, relics

Chipboards:

Seaside flourish

Seashell Frame

Beach Babe

Imagine Ink embossing powders:

Melon 

14karats

Seamist

Seven Seas

Flowers:

Attic Charm Daisies

Harvest Lilies

Attic charm glitter roses

Thank for watching and hope you like it! See you next month!

Marie-Eve Bernard

September Inspirations with Jelissa

Hello friends, how are you?

September is now upon us, and the weather here is becoming a little cooler with more rain. But I'm still very much in a summer mood because of the Seaside Cottages collection. Today I'm here to share two more creations with you. 

This has to be one of the simplest layout I have made in a long time with just splashes of paint in the background because the paper is too pretty to cover up. The photo is one of my boys on the day we landed in Okinawa after a really long flight. We had made our way to a sea salt factory and the view out is just amazing, with the sun starting to set.

Some details:

The Seaside Charms chipboard, which I had painted with gold acrylic paint and covered with a layer of crackle paint. 

My title piece which I had embossed with Breeze and Sky Blue embossing powders.

The top half of the Seaside Charms chipboard which I had snipped off.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

paper: Seaside Cottages - Calling Cards, Regalia, Gala, Embark
chipboard: End of a Perfect Day, Seaside Charms

embossing powders: Breeze, Blue Sky

My second share is another layout of my second boy when he was a baby. I love how the colors of the photo matched the background paper Embark so perfectly that I built the whole layout around this.

Details here:

Altered seashell and anchors matched with the seaside lilies.

My title piece

Fussy cut details

Mesh bits chipboard tucked behind my photo

More chipboard goodies!

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

Blue Fern Studios products used:

paper: Seaside Cottage - Calling Cards, Embark, Mermaid

chipboard: Anchors Away, Nautical Set, Mesh Bits, Beach Babe
embossing powders: Breeze, Sky Blue Oatmeal, Mushroom
glitter: Watermelon

Seaside Cottage inspiration with Pascale

Hello Sweeties

Today, I'm up on Blue Fern Studios blog with three new projects featuring the new collection Seaside Cottage. The first one I want to share showcase a photo taken during my Irish trip of the Doonagore Castle (Doolin, Co.Clare, Ireland).

I started to prime the Mermaid paper with clear gesso. Then I added a design with a stencil and white crackle paste.

While the paste was still wet I added some color. Then I let dry.

First I embossed the Seashell Frame with the Mushroom Imagine Ink, then I sprinkled a little bit of the Icicle too.

I started to built up the layers: first the papers, then some shells, then some flowers and some cheese cloth. 

When happy with the cluster, I dry brushed the embellishments with white gesso. Then I added some splatters of the same watercolors I used previously on the background. Then I finished with a blue-gold acrylic paint and with some random stamping with the Journey stamp.

Blue Fern Studios products used:
Papers - Seaside Cottage (Mermaid, Whitewash, Calling Cards)
Chipboard - Seashell Frame
Flowers - Seaside Lilies, Seaside Roses, Courtship Blooms, Tranquil Lilies and Roses
Imagine Ink - Embossing Powders (Mushroom, Icicle)
Stamps - Journey

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Here is my second July's project using the Seaside Cottage collection. 

I started as usual to prime the background with clear gesso. Then I added a design with a stencil and modeling paste. While the paste was still wet I sprinkled some Honey embossing powder and heat set it.

I primed the Quilted Page Panel with clear gesso before covering it with clear crackle paste. I let dry naturally for a better result before adding some mica powders.

I primed the Beach Babe title with white gesso. When dry, I added some gold wax to the edges of the chipboard.

I added some gold wax to the edges of the papers I put under the photo too. Then I glued all the embellishments around the photo.

To finish the layout I splattered a mix of gloss gel, water and the Caribbean glitter to add some sparkle to the page.

Blue Fern Studios products used:
Papers - Seaside Cottage (Gala, Voyage, Calling Cards)
Chipboards - Quilted Page Panel, Beach Babe
Flowers - Tranquil Blooms, Attic Charm glitter Roses
Imagin Ink Embossing powder - Honey
Imagine Ink Glitter - Caribbean

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Here is my third July's project featuring the Seaside Cottage collection from Blue Fern Studios. This photo was taken during my trip in the Aran Island. 

I primed the Regalia paper with clear gesso. Then I added a design with a stencil, first I added paint directly on the stencil, then I put the stencil on the background and added platinum crackle paste through it.

I primed the Ring Panel with clear gesso, then I added a layer of graphite paste.

I glued the different embellishments together with 3D matte gel.

I added some micro beads around the flowers clusters to add some texture.

I used the Postal Texture stamp to finish the layout.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers - Seaside Cottage (Regalia, Splendor, Calling Cards)
Chipboard - Ring Panel
Flowers - Attic Charm Daisies, Courtship Roses)
Stamp - Postal Texture