Karolina's March Projects

Hi everyone!It's Karolina here. Today I would like to show you my three March projects. I created a layout and two cards using the newest collection from Blue Fern Studios - Courtship Lane and a Blush collection. First collection is very shabby with a lots of soft colors perfect for all your spring projects. While the second one is very vintage.
Take a look for my projects :)

Cards
I prepared two simple cards using Courtship Lane Collection. Like I said - it's very soft, romantic and shabby,

 I covered chipboards using chalk ink. It's really simple and quick solution to paint our chipboard pieces. I also added some stamps in the background to make more contrasty accents.

Papers: Courtship Lane collection - Calling Cards, East Plaza, Lover's Lane, Parkway

Chipboards: Petite Boutique Frames, Leafy Page Accents
Stamps: Forever

Enjoy the journey

My second projects is a layout. In the photo you can see me, my best friend Mariusz and our swedish mom Annki. We made this picture when we was in Sweden in the autumn.

Although Timeless collection is very vintage, your projects do not have to be! Look at my layout and then you will see :)

I mixed these beautiful browns, beige and black papers with magenta, pink and yellow amber accents, that's why I obtained very interesting not-vintage effect.

I decided to use a beautiful chipboards piece "Enjoy the Journey". I covered it using a gesso and a yellow amber mist and two different collors of glitter.

The same colors I used in the background and I added some shiny glitter stains too.

Papers: Timeless collection - Freedom, Calling Cards,Couture, Song, Main Street

Chipboards: Enjoy the Journey
Glitters: Autumn, Burnt Cooper

Thank you for visiting Blue Fern Studios blog today. See you next time in April!

Karolina

Home decor using Chipboard- by Keren Tamir

Keren here today for you again on the Blue Fern Studios blog.

One of the things I love about chipboard is how versatile it is. You can create so many different projects and ideas. You can alter it and incorporate it to so many types of designs.

I really love experimenting with new ideas on how to incorporate chipboard into off the page projects and home decor and that's what I've done below in both my projects.

A Perfect Moment

- Shadow Box Frame -

Recently I created two identical canvases using these images of my children picking seashells from the sand. I gave away both canvases as mother's day gifts so I decided to create a new project with the same photos to hang up on my wall. 

The Seaside Treasures and the Seaside Seashells were the perfect chipboard pieces to use for this sandy beach scenery. I used all the different types of seashells and the corals from the sets.

Each shell was covered with two different shades of crackle paint. This allowed the shells to look more realistic. I used some real shells and sand that I collected during my trip, too.

The Coral shaped chipboard from the Seaside treasures set was covered in Shimmerz Texturez to create coral that is similar in texture and colour to the real one.

I used two little chipboard birds that are perched on each side of the shadow box. I inked them in brown fluid chalk ink.

Finally I used two clouds from the cloudy skies set and thickly covered them in white Dazzlerz to make them look like clouds. I edged them in brown ink to create a shadow.

The chipboard title was inked with two shades of fluid chalk ink, 

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Enjoy the Journey

- Door Hanger -

The second home decor piece I created was a Door Hanger for my scrap room. 

The project started as a tag but then I realized how cool it would be if I could use it as a door hanger for my door. That's why I attached two pieces of twine to the back.

I used two papers out of the Blue Fern Garden collection: Love Letters and Timeless.

The Grand Balloon was used as the main focus of this project. I primed it with gesso and then painted it with Shimmerz paint. Then I stamped it in black using a script stamp. Finally I inked it in two different colours of fluid chalk edgers: blue jeans and summer field.

I applied the same treatment to the title enjoy the journey. However once I had inked it, I rubbed some of the ink off to give it a worn out look.

So next time you give tags to people for a celebration or simply for any occasion, you could add a piece of string or twine in the back. That way people could display your beautiful tag by hanging it on a door or on the wall instead of it just going in a drawer.

How is that for a practical use?

Hope you enjoyed my home decor creations today.

Have a wonderful day!!!

Keren

October projects by Yvonne Yam

Hello there! This is Yvonne here to share with you my October projects using Blue Fern Studios chipboard. :) The first is a double page spread.

I generally love my layouts flat so adding little bits of Blue Fern Studios chipboard give it a little texture and interest.

Using the same chipboard piece across the two pages help to achieve a cohesive look even though the base patterns are different.

I used Bits of Honey.

And Enjoy the Journey.

My next project is an 8x8 canvas. The base gold paint covered by lace. The chipboard pieces were painted with gesso and good paint.

I used Craftsman Frame.

And Ornate Medallions.

My last project is a tag. I coloured the chipboard with silver paint and paper-pieced the cushion. I also added some lace to the chair back.

I used Second Hand Furnishings.

Hope you've enjoyed my projects for October. Till the next time!