April Inspiration by Elena Volchkova

Hi everyone! Today, I have prepared three layouts using the beautiful Blue Fern Studio materials. And I'm happy to show them to you.

Adventure's layout

My first layout about travelling and adventures at sea. Pirate spirit and eco style.
I used the Meadows of Time paper from the Sanctuary collection. It's lovely combination of colors.

Chipboard "Born to be Wild" I colored with Heavenly and Seven seas Imagine Ink Embossing Powders.

Leaves from the "All Natural Set" was covered with Imagine Ink Lime embossing powder.

Bird from сhipboard set "Birds in Flight" toned white acrylic and decorated with Postal Textures Stamp.

In my project you can seу the many eco-friendly elements such as wood saw cuts, cork, stars anise, craft, thread and stones.

Blue Fern Studio Supply List:

Paper:  Sanctuary - Meadows of Time

Chipboard: Born to be Wild, Birds in Flight, All Natural Set

Stamps: Postal Textures

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:  Heavenly, Seven seas, Lime

Dreamy layout

My second april project you can already see. This layout I have made for the Blue Fern April sketch.
This layout is about a girl, which need to believe in yourself and know that she is beautiful!
I used the Main Street paper from the Timeless Collection as my background paper.

 "Wish" сhipboard was covered with mixture of Garnet Imagine Ink embossing powder and Merlot Glitter. I used the Burnt Copper glitter to color the chipboard Renaissance Border.

Blue Fern Studio Supply List:

Paper:   Timeless- Main Street, Serendipity - calling Cards

Chipboard: Renaissance Border, set "Wish, Wonder, Dream"

Stamps: Romantic Accents

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: Garnet, Nutmeg, Copper

Glitters: Autumn, Burnt Copper, Merlot

Flowers: Courtship Blooms, Courtship Roses

Green spring layout

Spring layout for one more wonderful young girl. Many flowers and tenderness. The mix of a great paper for background - Love Story (calling Cards) and Frolic (Allegro).

Bird Ornaments Chipboard was covered with Imagine Ink 14 Karat embossing powder and cracle past on the bird.

Сute little elements and Brocade Texture Stamp on the background.

Sprigs Blooming Foliage сhipboard was covered with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Lime and Sage, which give the the perfect combination! Courtship Blooms flowers added volume and charm.

Blue Fern Studio Supply List:

Paper:  Love Story- calling Cards, Frolic - Allegro

Chipboard: Bird Ornaments, set "Wish, Wonder, Dream", Blooming Foliage

Stamps: Brocade Texture

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: 14 Karat, Lime, Sage

Flowers: Courtship Blooms

I hope you enjoy viewing my projects. See you next time :)
Hugs, Elena

Sandi's November Inspiration!

Hello, Blue Fern Studios fans! 

I'm here today to share my November projects ... I love sharing what I've created with all these amazing products! 

"Born to be Wild"

First up, I just HAD to scrap this new, funny photo of my granddaughter, Peyton! 

She has such a "goofball" personality that we adore! So, I just had to find a way to incorporate it with my Blue Fern Autumn Anthology papers. I've used Parfumerie as my base and layered in Newsworthy,  Gazebo and Calling Cards. 

The title chippy was first primed and then lightly inked. When that was complete, I used our new Petal embossing powder.  I went for all-out shine this time around. 

You can also see some of the Essential Textures stamping in the upper left corner of this photo.  It is fantastic to work with and adds such depth and interest. 

I'm a big fan of framing my photos, so this new Double Swirl chipboard was an easy choice! 

It was primed and then misted with our Imagine Ink mist in Leaf.  I gave it some variegation with my ink pad.  The Bits of Honey chipboard was left raw except for a touch of gesso for highlighting. 

I love dimension and all these products work together to help achieve that goal. 

Blue Fern Studios products used:
Paper:

Autumn Anthology Parfumerie
Autumn Anthology Newsworthy
Autumn Anthology Gazebo
Autumn Anthology Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Born to Be Wild

Double Swirls - small

Bits of Honey

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Mists:

Persimmon

Fern

Embossing Powder:

Petal
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"The Most Wonderful .."

Next, I decided upon a celebration theme .. New Years Eve, 2014. 
This wintery Christmas Vintage Auld Lang Syne was an obvious choice but so soothing to use! It's neutral background can go so many ways.  I layered, tore and fussy cut using Wonderland and Greeting Cards as well. 

Of course, I had to make it my own with my Imagine Inks in Winter Mint and Leaf. For shine, I used the new Pyrite Glitter. 

My chipboard was all treated the same. I like the cohesiveness that gives a project. It was primed with white gesso and then dabbed thoroughly with Glossy Accents and Diamond Dust. Gives it a real wintery, frosty look .. like glistening snow. The new Blooming Curls chipboard is so unique. I've just been waiting to find the perfect project. 

This is a good close-up of some of the stamping used to provide depth and interest. 

Blue Fern Products Used:

Paper:

Christmas Vintage Auld Lang Syne

Christmas Vintage Wonderland

Christmas Vintage Greeting Cards

Chipboard:

Blooming Curls

Berry Stems

Mist:

Winter Mint

Leaf

Stamps:

Forever

Glitter:

Pyrite

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"Wish"

This one you have already seen when we first introduced the Christmas Vintage collection. 

The Noel paper was treated with clear gesso and then super heavy gesso with a stencil. Imagine Ink in "Winter Mist" was misted and spread with water to enhance the stenciling. The "Carribean" glitter was then scattered over the background paper for lots of shine. 

The chipboard pieces were all primed with gesso and then coated with the Imagine Ink in "Winter Mint" ( Snow Medley), "Leaf" (Eclectic Hearts), "Jingle Bells" (Garden Window) and "Cotton Candy" plus "Persimmon" (Wish, Wonder, Dream).  The Snow Medley piece was enhanced with "Fern" embossing powder, the Wish with "Poinsettia" embossing powder and the Eclectic Hearts with "Lucky" embossing powder. The Garden Window was misted with "Jingle Bells," then dusted with "Pyrite" glitter. 

Paper layers were cut and placed behind the Window. Flowers and bling were added as a final touch. 

Here are some close-ups:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper:

Vintage Christmas Noel

Vintage Christmas Magical

Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards

Chipboard:

Snow Medley

Wish Wonder Dream

Garden Window

Eclectic Hearts

Mists:

Leaf

Winter Mint

Persimmon

Cotton Candy

Jingle Bells

Embossing Powder:

Fern

Lucky

Poinsettia

Glitter:

Carribean

Pyrite

Thanks for visiting the Blog today. 
We can't wait to see what YOU create with our products! 

Summery kids by Maja

Hi everyone. Up here in the north of Sweden where I live it´s still winter, but the sun is back and the snow is melting. Guess thats why I got in a summery mood when I made these two layouts that I will show you today.
First up is my sons swimming in the lake last summer. They were really focused on learning!

I have used the gorgeous "Blue Fern Garden" Papers for this layout and chipboards used are Swirly Doodle, Little Bird Set and Captured words.

To colors I have used on the chipboard is Distress Inks in three different colors. I covered the word with Glossy Accent.

Next layout is a bit more "messy". A messy wild son needs a messy page, right? This photo is taken a few yers ago and I so love it!

Here I have painted the chipboard word with Distress Paint in blue and yellow and let it dry. After that I used some black gesso and before it was dry I used a babywipe to dry off some of the color.

Here with the Turkish Panel I did it the opposite way... used black gesso let it dry and went over with white gesso and dried off some of the paint with babywipes.

Thanks for stopping by =)

Getting Krafty, and take a walk through the daisy's with Blue Fern Studios!!

Hey there Blue Fern Studio Fans, Lisa here.  The month of July, just came and went. So here we are at the peak of summer and I was feeling kind of Krafty again this week...So, Using Kraft paper once again, I decided to color it up a bit this time and adorn it with some fabulous heat embossed chip board!! It amazes me on how many ways you can use chip board. And how many ways you can adorn it.

This time I decided to use embossing medium and embossing powder on my chip board pieces. I heat embossed the chip board and then used a white color wash over the embossed pieces. I love the new fancy words that Blue Fern Studios is creating!! My biggest difficulty in creating pages is the title and journaling. These words make the best titles and make it so easy for me!!

Love, love the Bits Of Honey chip board. You get  6 pieces in the set. And I only used 1 for this one and snipped it apart to create 2 smaller pieces. That still leaves me 5 great pieces left in the package!!

 Here is just another view of the page to show dimension. I put bits of pop dots under the Born To Be Wild chip board piece to lift it off of the page.

I added the other piece to the opposite side of the photo. My daughter is sweet as honey, with a wild streak in her.  These pieces were perfect for my layout!

                                           Bits Of Honey                             Born To Be Wild

 I often dream of old iron gates that have been aged and show there patina finish well. On this layout I aged the gate in a fine Patina using only embossing powder. And in a future post, I will show you how I did it with a tutorial.

 I used 3 different embossing powders to create the color on the Tweet Friends piece. The little birds on the branch are just so sweet.

 Here is a close up of the gate. I only used 1 side of the gate as I used the other one in another project.
You can see the fine faux Patina finish.

I heat embossed the Sunshine word with yellow. It shines in real life and looks like sunshine.

                                           Garden Gate                                    Tweet Friends

                                                               The Optimist Word Set

 Thank you for coming to visit with us today. Keep coming back as the Blue Fern Studio Designers show you their fabulous creations to start those creative juices flowing!! Till next time.... xo