A Trio of November Inspiration by Nicole Doiron

Hello all my dear friends at Blue Fern Studios!

Nicole here today to share with you my November projects.

Let's start with this teal shabby chic layout of my niece Ella with her violin.

I used papers from the Serendipity collection to create a grid pattern collage on my page.  The brick design was made using the Essential Textures stamp and Snow Imagine Ink embossing powder.  

I combined 2 chipboard pieces to create my title, one from the Sweet & Lucky set on which I created an ombre effect with the Sea Mist, Snow and Caribbean powders, and the other from the French Words set covered with Ebony.

Obviously, most of the pretty flowers found on my page are from Blue Fern Studios!  The bigger teal flower with the fuzzy center is from the brand new Memoires Blooms set - it's gorgeous! 

Below you see the very elegant Gatsby Collage that I divided into 2 pieces to slide at either end of my photo.

The chipboard piece that inspired this whole concept is the Courtship Violin that you see peaking out from the bottom corner of the photo of my pretty and gifted niece, Ella!

Blue Fern Studios Products

Patterned Paper: Serendipity (Imagination, Fascination, Chronicle)

Chipboard: Courtship Violin, Gatsby Collage, Sweet & Lucky set, French Words 

Flowers: Memoires Blooms, Spring Lilies, Tranquil Blooms, Courtship Blooms

Stamps: Essential Textures

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (Caribbean, Sea Mist, Ebony, Snow)

My 2nd page is as boyish as the first one was feminine.

I started off with some vintage Paisley & Vine papers to go along with this more masculine theme.

The title was taken from the Wish Wonder Dream set which I covered with Blue Sky embossing powder.  I added some fabulous Lightbulbs covered with Sand & Sea.

Again, I divided a longer piece of chipboard into 2 pieces, this time a piece of the Printer's Bits to fit vertically above and below my photo. On this piece is the Ruby embossing powder which I dabbed with a little bit of brighter red acrylic paint.

Some more of the Printer's Bits layered over the Triangle Eclipse covered in Stellar Night and dabbed with brown paint. On the background paper, I stamped the netting design from the Essential Textures stamp set.

You've seen this little cutie before... he is  my friend's son.

Blue Fern Studios Products

Patterned Paper: Paisley & Vine (Whimsy, Pathway)

Chipboard: Wish Wonder Dream set, Triangle Eclipse, Printer's Bits, Lightbulbs

Stamps: Essential Textures

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (Ruby, Blue Sky, Stellar Night, Sand & Sea)

Last but certainly not least, I share with you a closer look at my layout

that was part of the November challenge reveal, featuring the latest collection, Memoires.

The November challenge is simply to use a Blue Fern Studios chipboard title on your project, ANY title so hopefully you will play along!

I had the perfect title in my BFS chipboard stash for this Autumn layout... An Autumn Story. 

 I simply covered it with a new favorite shade of Imagine Ink embossing powder called Golden Brick.

On my background, I sprayed different Autumn shades of mists plus used the new Crackled Textures stamps with brown ink and added some stenciling with modeling paste.

After treating it with a mix of Golden Bricks and Chili Powder powders, I cut the Treasured Floral Frame into several pieces to adorn my page with it here and there, combining it with the Fall Foliage set.  On the leaves, I mixed some Chili Powder, Tangerine and Nutmeg.

Another chipboard set that I am totally in love with is the Pretty Pumpkins set and here you see the smaller version. Totally gorgeous!

Finally, here is a closer look at the 'Autumn story' that I chose to document on this layout, a very beautiful shot of a splendid Fall day spent with my man, and framed with beautiful earthy tone flowers, including BFS Tranquil blooms.

Blue Fern Studios Products

Patterned Paper: Memoires (Songbird's Drama, Grand Sequel, Chronicles)

Chipboard: An Autumn Story, Treasured Floral Frame, Pretty Pumpkins, Fall Foliage

Flowers: Tranquil Blooms

Stamps: Crackled Textures

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (Golden Bricks, Chili Powder, Tangerine, Nutmeg)

See you back next month for a very special December reveal!

- Nicole

October creations with Maja

Hi =) Today I have three project to show you. Two totally different from eachother and then a layout made using this months sketch for the sketch challenge. So lets begin!

First up is a layout of my youngest son. I´ve used the new Montage papers for this one and the new cool chipboard triangles.

 

For this background I used a lot of different colors of Distress Stains. Love that splashing effect =).

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers: Montage - Fairyland

Chipboards: Triangle Eclipse & Adore, Love Cherrish words

  

My next layout is much softer and romantic. Also for this page I used the Montage papers.

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers: Montage - Invitation,Calling Cards & Now And Then

Chipboard: Collage Frame

Last is my sketch layout. There is still time for you to play with us. To find all information on how to participate in our challenge check this blogpost. Below is the sketch.

And my take on the sketch.

Blue Fern Products used:

Papers: Ombre Dreams - Charlotte´s Dream, Joyce´s Dream & Susan´s Dream

Chipboards: Forest Mushrooms & Diamond Bits.

Thanks for stopping by  =)

Three projects with the new Montage collection!

Hello folks!

I hope you had a great summer and that you had lots of fun! I traveled for five weeks with my family in Western Canada and Alaska and we had a great time. When I came back, the new Montage collection was waiting for me at home. I was thrilled to find all this new paper to play with, along with new pieces of chipboard.

Here are the three projects I created with this brand new collection.

"Always Remember" 

For this layout, I used a picture of my daughter taken at beautiful Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada.

I used the brand new Triangle Eclipse chipboard, which I altered with black gesso.

I also used two different papers from the Montage collection, Now & Then and Fairyland. I used various pieces of both sides of the Now & Then paper behind the Triangle Eclipse chipboard. I used the Fairyland paper as a background for my chipboard and picture.

For my title, I used the Always Remember chipboard and the word Destination that I cut with my Silhouette.

"Adore"

For this layout, I used the Society paper as a background. I love it, because it doesn't need many embellishments. A bit of washi tape, modelling paste and mists and voilà! :)

For my title, I used a piece of the Adore, Love, Cherish chipboard set. I also used pieces of the Mini Flourishes chipboard set. All were altered with black gesso.

Angel canvas

For this canvas, I used the beautiful Mercantile paper for my background.

The chipboard I used is the Ornate frame. I altered it with gesso. I used my heat gun to dry the gesso to create texture. I also added a bit of brown mist.