Blue Fern for Boys and Girls by Svetlana Austin

Hello everyone! Svetlana is here with my portion of March projects. 

Blue Fern Studios chipboard is not only amazingly beautiful and intricate, it is also very versatile 

even when it comes to project's styles. 

Today I want to share with you a pretty girly layout, then another one about my little boy 

and a bright and funky birthday card. I hope you will enjoy it.

"So Sweet" layout

For this bright and colorful layout I used Floral Wreath and a cute little bunny shape from Icons Set One.
I decorated the wreath by roughly applying a layer of gesso and then dabbing some parts with blue acrylic paint.
I followed it with some more dabbing of green paint all over and finished it off with liquid pearls dotted along the edges of the wreath.

The bunny was covered with some coarse texture paste. I like the amount of texture it gives and the brownish neutral color. Once it was dry, I sprayed it with blue Perfect Pearls for some shimmer and dabbed lightly
with acrylic paint - and here he is ready to hop :-)

Blue Fern Studios products used for this project:

Floral Wreath (074486)

Icons Set One (074448)

"Enjoy The Moment" layout

I wanted to create a layout that highlights the earthiness and the natural feel of the place
where the pictures were taken.
I sprayed the Seasonal Wildflowers chipboard with green glimmer mist and covered it with crackle accents
for some extra texture. 

I roughly painted the frame with thick layer of rich brown craft paint.
It is one of the easiest way to decorate chipboard but it defiantly adds some nice touch to any project.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Craftsman Frame (074949)


Seasonal Wildflowers (074394)



Birthday Card

It was my little boy's birthday just a week ago so I created this card for him.
It is bright and fresh and he really liked it.
There are some pretty cool shapes in Icons' Sets and it is perfect for creating some small projects as cards.
Here I used an arrow and a star. I applied some gesso over it and then a layer of distress stickles
for some festive sparkle. 

Blue Fern Studios products used for this project:

Icons Set One (074448)

Thank you for visiting our blog today!
Keep well and stay creative!

Today's Feature: The Tuscan Window and the Floral Wreath

Hello.  Jennifer Snyder here to show you how I used Blue Fern this month.

Window to the Garden:
This was created using the Blue Fern Studios Tuscan Window as well as the packaging. Yes, I used the Blue Fern product packaging for the background paper and in the clustering.

As you can see, the added bonus with Blue Fern is that the packaging is as elegant as the chipboard that comes inside.  It's just begging to be used as well.   I know many of the other designers have showcased both product and packaging in their creations.  You can find them in the Blue Fern Gallery.

Please feel free to upload your work showcasing Blue Fern Studios Chipboard as well.  We would LOVE to see what you have created.  You will inspire us and so many others.

My photo image is from Magic Moonlight Free Images and is part of a collage that I cut up.
I wanted to keep this light and airy as if looking out into an open garden.  To help create this effect, I used some moulding paste and  a mask template, then topped with some mist.

I kept my chipboard very clean with  just a few layers of acrylic paint and some glitter glue which is not all that apparent here.  I realize my window frame is upside-down.  I did this because I knew that packaging and clustering would cover up the delicate beautiful scroll work on the chipboard window frame if I left it as designed.

Besides, chipboard is meant to be adjusted to make it work for you.  It's always wonderful right out of the package, but sometimes your "vision" for your project means cutting, flipping and re-positioning.  No guilt - just make it work for you.

This is the Tuscan Window #074752.  Very unique  design.

The Floral Wreath of  Love:
February is the month of love so I decided to keep with the theme once I saw this darling angel postcard.   My inspiration for the colors of the chipboard frame came from the delicate colors in the vintage postcard.

Blue Fern Floral Wreath  #074486

Here is how I created this 3D wreath:

Step 1. Spray the Blue Fern Chipboard with water lightly in selected areas. 

Step 2.  Gently lift the wet chipboard layers up and bend/twist or pinch with your finger tips. Dry with heat gun.

Step 3.  Peel only a few layers from selected flowers, turn and glue back on top of flower in a different direction, giving more volume and definition to the various flowers.

Step 4.  Pinch and bend the leaves.  Dry with heat gun to firm and strengthen.

Step 5.  Paint chipboard with gesso to seal it and prep it for your finishing acrylic paint topcoat.  I also painted the edges.

Step 6. The fun part...decorate as desired.

In this piece, I painted my altered chipboard flowers a buttercream yellow and a pale soft peach/pink.  I painted the leaves willow green and added veins in the leaves with my Tim Holtz distress marker.  To finish them, I stamped some cursive print onto the leaves..

I also topped some of the chipboard with flowers and floral berries.

The ZVA flourish adds a nice accent.

I added angel wings made from stamping a piece of vellum paper and then embossing with clear embossing powder.  After it was cool, I cut it out and ran some ink over the embossing to tint it a bit - giving it a glowing effect.

This just shows the dimension of the chipboard on my page as a result of the water alterations.

Thank you for stopping here.  Please remember to stop by Blue Fern Gallery and see how folks like YOU are using the newest chipboard on the market!


Blue Fern Supplies :
Window to the Garden:
Blue Fern Studios - Tuscan Window chipboard #074752
Blue Fern Packaging for the paper and clustering

Floral Wreath of Love: 
Blue Fern  Studios Chipboard -Floral Wreath #074486

Floral Wreath Layout

Today is the day for my first blog post here at Blue Fern Studios. I am really excited to be a part of this adventure together with Leslie, Michele and all the girls in the designteam. Blue Fern Studios offers the most beautiful and elegant chipboards out there and I am proud to be designing with them.

My name is Camilla Ekman and I live in Sweden together with my husband and two children. I have been scrapping for a few years and developed a kind of romantic style where I use a lot of flowers and swirls and stuff. I love to photograph and scrapbooking is a perfect way of using those photos. I like the creativity and scrapbooking is a way for me to relax from work. I work fulltime as a montessori teacher.

My family and I love to spend time with friends and love to travel. When I am home not scrapping, I read books and listen to a lot to music. 

My blog is Camillas lilla sida.

This is my first layout for Blue Fern Studios and what's more appropriate than a layout of me saying I am ready for 2013. 

For this layout I have used the gorgeous Floral Wreath. First I applied a layer of Distress Crackle Paint (tattered rose) and then dabbed some white gesso here and there. To finish it off I inked the edges with charcoal ink.

Thanks for stopping by! Check in tomorrow for more inspiration!