Showing posts with label My Bike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Bike. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Two Takes on Sanctuary - Bright and Vintage

Hello Blue Fern fans! Jackie here with my last post for Blue Fern Studios. It has been an amazing year, and I have been very honoured to be a part of this team and to experience Blue Fern's incredible growth over the past year.

It's amazing looking back over the past year to see how much Blue Fern has grown, releasing not only its first paper line, but four gorgeous and unique paper lines. As soon as I saw Sanctuary, I couldn't wait to get it into my hot little hands. It is exactly what I look for in a paper line, a perfect mix of vintage and bold colors. This month I've taken Sanctuary in two different directions, preparing a layout that embraces its vintage color palette, and a second layout that embraces colorful mixed media.

For my first layout I piled on the paint and color. I started by layering strips of Sanctuary papers along with washi tape and drywall tape, then added watercolor paints in blues and pinks, stencilling with crackle paste, rub ons and splatters of white paint.


The Notebook Edges are perfect for tucking into layering. I sprayed them with two shades of gold mist, and tucked them in before adding inking to my page edges and my white splatters, helping to marry them to the rest of the page.


To offer some balance to the busy background, I kept the treatment of the Crossing the Lines, Circuitry and Arrow Words chippies simple, coloring them with chalk inks.


I wanted to make a bold statement with the Ginger's Poppies chippies; I started by coloring them with chalk ink, then added embossing powder (because the embossing powder I was using is semi-translucent, I wanted to have some color on the chippy rather than having the color come out muddied). I love the way they shimmer!



Blue Fern Studios Products

Sanctuary papers: 
- Meadows of Time
- Garden Plaza
- Botanical Garden

Chipboard: 
- Notebook Edges
- Crossing the Lines
- Arrow Words
- Ginger's Poppies


- Circuitry


I loved both sides of the Botanical Garden sheet, and I really wanted to combine the two sides on one layout. To create the layered effect in the center and avoid wasting paper, I tore a strip from the center of the page. I punched strips of the B side out of a second piece of paper, and layered those underneath my torn strip, and mounted the whole thing on corrugated cardboard.


I added a thin layer of modeling paste through a stencil and misted it with a blue-grey mist to complement the background, then added some patches of green mist.

To create the lacy, textured look on the Boston Lattice chippie I melted fusible webbing onto the piece, then sprinkled it with two colors of embossing powder.


The Mini Flourishes and My Bike chippies were painted with sparkling watercolor paints.





Blue Fern Studios Products

Sanctuary papers: 
- Botanical Garden x2

Chipboard: 
-Mini Flourishes
- Boston Lattice
- My Bike



I have greatly enjoyed my time here at Blue Fern Studios, and I thank Leslie for having me on the team. I look forward to seeing Blue Fern's continued success!

Monday, December 9, 2013

Cards with Yana Smakula

Hello everyone! This is Yana Smakula sharing my December projects with you - I have two cards and a blank December album page waiting to be filled out later this month.

Enjoy the Ride:

I used silver metallic marker from Dovecraft to paint the bike and arrows. 

For this project I used the following chipboard pieces: Directions, My Bike

Together forever:
For this project I used the following chipboard pieces: Valentine Cupids

December album page:
Finally I have a page for my December album. For this project I used chipboard as a mask (see photo below) to spray my background and a small snowflake as an embellishment:
 

For this project I used the following chipboard pieces: Bits of Honey, Let is Snow

Those are my final projects for Blue Fern Studios. Feel free to stop by my blog anytime as I'm sure I'll be using Blue Fern Studios chipboard on many other projects in future. Its been a fun six month and I hope you enjoyed my projects. 

Monday, September 9, 2013

A few layouts with Yana Smakula

Good morning everyone! Yana is here sharing a few layouts using with Blue Fern Studios chipboard and papers from 7Dots Studios.

All of the chipboard pieces on my projects were somehow altered. Some where painted with Plaid paints, some heat embossed with Stampendous embossing powder and some where covered with ClearSnap chalk ink. 

Imagination is the key:


For this layout I used the following chipboard pieces:
Garden Daisies Large
Nifty Tags & Tickets

Sunday:




Chipboards used:
Directions
Icons Set Three

Wednesday:



Chipboards used:
All Natural Set
Bits of Honey
My Bike
Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a nice day!