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!

April Projects- by Keren Tamir

"Love This"

My first share this month for Blue Fern Studios is another beach layout.

I used the Sanctuary collection for the background and stamped it with the new textured stamps. Then I built the layout with chipboard and flowers.

I framed the photo with the Circle vine chipboard and used a couple of mini flourishes to add more swirls around the photo.

Then I added the "Love this" arrow word title.

All chipboard was painted with Antique Gold brown spray ink.

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"Shadow Box Frame"

My second project this month is a shadow box frame which I covered with the Correspondence paper from the Sanctuary collection.

I framed the photo in the notebook frame, which was inked with brown acrylic ink.

The frame was embellished with flowers and the Seasonal Wildflower chipboard pieces. I also inked them in brown and then glued golden micro-beads on the flowers.

Thank you for visiting the Blue Fern Studios blog.

Keren

Watching YOU Put our Designs to Work

We love seeing how all of you use our products and choose one day each month to feature some of your layouts.  Get ready to be amazed and inspired.

This entry is the first one Joyce created for her altered book project.  She has used several pieces of Blue Fern chipboard in a very elegant way.  Did you notice how she has dressed it up pearls?  Joyce is one of our prior Creative Team members.

Keeping with the vintage look, Angelica has added our Seasonal Wildflowers (one of my all-time favorite pieces of chipboard), to this stunning layout.

We spotted this beauty on Irina's blog.  She has used a Blue Fern title on this layout featuring a photo of her sister.

Look at how Ulrika used paper from the Montage Collection with these photos of her sweet little guy riding his bicycle ---really fast!

Tracey created this very romantic layout using paper from our Montage Collection.

We found this layout created by Ayumi of Japan, titled "This is Paradise".  The beautiful background paper is from our Ombre Dreams Collection.   She also added a couple of pieces of Blue Fern chipboard.

Maggi used our beautiful Jeweled Frame, which she altered using blue embossing enamel, to focus all the attention on her photograph.

It doesn't always take a lot of chipboard to make an impression as Anna demonstrates in this layout where she has painted the Blue Fern chipboard white and used it as an accent behind her photo.

 Riikka chose to use this beautiful pink paper from our Montage Collection, along with this photo of her with her parents when she was very small. 

Also using paper from our Montage Collection, Yvonne, a former member of our Creative Team, designed this beautiful "Fly Away" canvas.  So very pretty and elegant.

We hope you enjoyed seeing how YOU use our products.  

You keep posting your projects online, and we'll keep looking for them!

Ombre Dreams 3 Times

Hello  all Blue fern studios fans !

Today i have for You 3 Layouts on Ombre Dreams. The Latest paper collection from BFS.  I love them since first look . They are soft , pastel universal, thick and beautiful.

My first work is with Ginger's Dream and Susan's Dream . At first i prepared background with

City Map Panel and my mist sprays. I simply sprayed through the chipboard on regular white cardstock. I received interesting background - negative of my chipboard panel. Chiboard is still perfect to use.   I could use in the same work and get pattern and color match but i left it for another work ;)   Techno Rings fitted me perfectly in industrial background composition    At the end I used Captured Words as title of my work.

Second work is based on Susan's Dream. I made it with photo of my friend. Again I used chipboard to make some effects in background. They are lights and soft because the paper is so beautifull , soft and fitted amazingly to my work so i decided to not cover it too much.

I started with adding little bit of gesso through Circle Groups around my composition. I
used also Broken Rings, Seasonal Wildflowers,  and Picture Perfect,  as elements around the photo

This one is in violets and blues. little bit of messy with lot of stamping. Instead of photo I used here beautiful postcard . I use Charlotte's Dream as base of my project and as paper elements in composition I used Broken Rings and Dot Grid Panel as elements under my photo. And Dream Big as title to my work and ligtest element in the same time

April Projects with Rae

Happy Sunday! It's Rae with you to share some projects I've made this month. 

Dream Layout

First up, I have my sketch layout. You may have seen it if you have checked out our April sketch challenge. Here is the lovely sketch:

And, here is my take on it using the Blue Fern Garden paper collection:

Here's a closeup of the "Beaded Strings" circle piece. I primed it with gesso, then used a blending tool with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink by Ranger. I finished the treatment by adding some random stamping with a text stamp in archival ink, and placed some bling on each of the "beads."

This piece from the "Ironworks Accents" set fit perfectly at the top of the layout. I primed it with gesso, then added some Ranger "cement" embossing powder, then lightly added some grey chalk ink for added distressing.

The "Blue Fern Flourish" is tucked under the flowers. I used gesso to prime (of course!), then added some green Distress Stain and some olive chalk ink after the stain was dry. 

If you haven't already, play along with us this month with the April sketch: April Sketch Challenge!

Butterfly Tag

For this tag I used three keys from the "Vintage Keys" set. I colored them with silver Izink without priming them first to create a "dull" look to the keys.

I painted this "Bohemian Butterfly" with glossy black paint with a sponge. When it was dry, I glued it to some pink paper, then cut around it. I topped it off with some crystals to accent the body. 

Dream Big Layout

And, the last project I am sharing today is this layout:

I tucked the "Seasonal Wildflowers" under the picture after coloring it with blue chalk ink and sponging on some walnut stain Distress Ink. I layered the different inks several times in random spots, and added some small blooms.

This title is from "The Optimist Word Set." I primed it with gesso, then added some Ranger embossing ink in turquoise. It was a little brighter than I wanted it to be, so I used some brown chalk ink to randomly tone down that blue. 

For the "Doily Bunting" I grazed it with black archival ink, then added some wired raffia along the "string," and then placed tiny blooms on each doily.

Thank you for letting me share my projects with you today! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Rae