Layered Layout - Places to Go

Hello everyone, it's Aida here from @aidaville and I hope you're having a good start to this month of March !

I'm sharing a layout of my older daughter who faced lots of challenges getting to where is is today. A musician, committed animal activist, a full scholarship Graduate and currently a Teaching Assistant at the University while she completes her Masters in Political Science. The title "I've got places to go and people to see" perfectly sums up the full life she worked hard to carve out.

The Blue Fern Studios products used are :

Patterned Papers : 

Heartland - XOXO | Remnants - Westfield | Happy Accidents 2 - Tonic

Lace no. 5

Wanderlust Printed Chipboard

Chipboard - Widgets

Flowers : Happy Blossoms | Garden Blooms

Embossing Powder : Silver Bells

Others : 8 x 10" flat backed canvas.

I love the Wanderlust Printed Chipboard as it has some thickness to it for creating layers and edging the chipboards with contrasting acrylic paint, some Distress inking gives it depth. As you can see the photo was adhered inside the oval frame for prominence and the other chipboard pieces were added around it

Creating is so much easier, and fun when chipboard pieces have sentiments which can be used as titles like this one above !

Here is a closer look at the layers.

Very often lace is soft and may require a thin layer of transparent Gesso, stiffening them to make for easier handling. The Lace no.5 was trimmed into smaller manageable pieces, then inserted in between the flowers and chipboard and glued securely.

Silver Bells Embossing powder gave the chipboard Widgets interesting texture and the pieces were given a light daub of grey acrylic paint on the edges for more dimension.

Floral embellishments really do complete a layout and it looks so pretty ! For a shabby feel, I gently coated the blooms with thinned down white gesso.

I hope this layered layout has given you interesting ideas and shown how to create with Blue Fern Studios. Thank you for coming by,  have a happy, create-ful Sunday !

February Projects by Babi

Hi Everyone,

Today it's my turn to share with you my new projects with the upcoming collection Chesterville.  It's such a beatiful grunge style collection and  it will be available soon for you to work with it.

I used the Chesterville - Bretton and Whitford papers to create my first project, called "Smile Today".

I applied some texture paste with stencil, watercolor and paint to create a more girly background.

Then, I covered  the Manchester Frame Chipboard with Antique Gold and Fern embossing powder and acrylic paint.

I finished  the layout with some gorgeous paper flowers - Spring  and Late Winter Lilies.  

Supplies using Blue Fern Studios:

Papers: Chesterville - Bretton  and Whitford 

Chipboard: Manchester Frame

Embossing Powder: Fern and Antique Gold

Flowers: Spring and Late Winter Lilies

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My next projet is a  mini album  that I made with several papers from  Chesterville collection. You can check the names in the supplies list.

For the Cover I used the Chesterville George, Chester and Holmes  papers.

I used the Texture Wildflowers for the cover, then I embossed it  with  Antique Gold (a must have :)) and Fern Embossing Powder.

I stamped on a vellum paper a few images of the  Widget Stamp and added  Snow Embossing Powder to it.

To finish, I added some embellishments, gesso and watercolor to create more dimension.

Now I would like to share my video tutorial that shows  how I decorated the cover for my mini album. You can see the whole project at the end of the video.

Supplies using Blue Fern Studios:

Papers: Chesterville (Barton, Bretton, Buckley, Chester, Geroge, Hargrave, Holmes, Keswick, Preston).

Chipboard: Texture Wildflowers, Romantic Page Dangles, Shabby Bricks Bits and Checker Bits and Gears

Embossing Powder: Antique Gold, Fern and Snow

Stamp: Widget

**Hope you enjoy it**

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Babi

February Projects by Cathi O'Neill

Got a whole lotta love, for these three! For the Blue Fern February Sketch I have made a layout featuring my husband and two girls. If you peek between their heads you can see the Shannon River and the Clare hills in the background, I just love where we live!  This layout features the Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection, Devoted and Calling Card papers.

And here is the gorgeous sketch we used:

I used a lot of layers for my layout, all from the gorgeous Calling Cards paper. I tucked in some Tattered Diamond Bits covering them with the Imagine Ink Oatmeal Embossing Powder and used the Heart Set which I embossed with Imagine Ink Cotton Candy Embossing Powder.

I've used a lot of gorgeous flowers from my stash and added a twine bow. You can see the Postal Textures stamp I used  in the background along with some masking and splashes.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection~Devoted

Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection~Calling Cards

Chipboard:

Heart Set

Tattered Diamond Bits

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Cotton Candy

Oatmeal

Stamps:

Postal Textures

My next project is a set of canvases, again using the gorgeous Blush Collecition. this time the Celebration and Enamoured papers and lots of gorgeous Blue Fern Studios chipboard.

I really wanted to try a folk art angel in the style of Kelly Rae Roberts, so my canvas on the left is my version of it!!The skin, bodice and skirt are all made from Blush papers and I used a ton of stamps on these!  

In this close-up you can see the gorgeous Essential Textures Netting stamp.I wanted something inspirational for my angel so I printed out onto some of the Blush sheets, "She thought she could. So she did."  For some extra depth of color I added gelato pigments to the edges of the skirts and the canvas.

For my angel's wings I used the flying wheel stamp from the Widgets stamp set and fussy cut them out!  The angel got her necklace from the Beads and Charms set.  I used the gorgeous Grassy Knoll Imagine Ink Embossing Powder to do some background masking and also on one of the Ornate Medallions. I also used more of the Ornate Medallions cut in half for part of her dress and as decoration on the canvas, these were covered with Cotton Candy Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

I love my second canvas as well. It is a simpler design but I used the same papers and colors to tie the two together. Here you can see that I colored in the Follow Your Bliss chipboard with the same gelato colors I used on the angel canvas. I love the way I was able to layer the frame, butterlies and title.

For the Royal Monarch butterfly I used Cotton Candy Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. You can see around the edge here that I used more gelatos, the Essential Textures and the Needlework stamps.

At the base of my design I used the beautiful Ever After Frame and embossed it with Grassy Knoll Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection~Fondness

Blue Fern Studios Blush Collection~Celebration

Chipboard:

Follow Your Bliss

Royal Monarchs

Symphony Border

Ornate Medallion

Ever After Frame 

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Cotton Candy

Grassy Knoll

Stamps:

Beads and Charms

Widget

Essential Textures

Needlework

My final project uses our newest paper line Serendipity! I just fell in love with this at first sight, so beautiful and vintage grungy! For my base I used the beautiful Serendipity Contemplation paper.

I have done my favorite thing to do with Blue Fern papers and used the Calling Cards cut apart page to layer behind my vintage image photo. I used the strip from the bottom of the paper as part of the design as well!

Here you can see where I have used one of the Graduated Circles frames to frame my image. I covered the frame in some gorgeous Claret Imagine Ink Glitter!  I made the frame a little more grungy by adding some gesso on top of the glitter .  You can just about see the chipboard flower in the frame. It is from the All Natural set and the stem is embossed with Imagine Ink Sage Embossing Powder while the flower has gorgeous Dusty Rose.Imagine Ink Glitter

Here you can see the flowers and nest I used from my stash. Tucked in with the flowers you can see another piece from the All Natural set, the little leaves which I have embossed with the Imagine Ink Sage Embossing Powder..

To finish off my layout with a title I chose Natural Beauty from the All Natural set, again embossed in Imagine Ink Sage Embossing Powder. As a final touch I added some splashes in pink and some stamping using the netting from the Essential Textures stamp set and the diamond pattern from the Forever stamp set..  Isn't this paper line just gorgeous? Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting!

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Paper:

Blue Fern Studios Serendipity Collection~Calling Cards

Blue Fern Studios Serendipity Collection~Contemplation

Chipboard:

Graduated Circles

All Natural Set

Imagine Ink Glitter:

Claret

Dusty Rose

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:

Sage

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Needlework

Marcasite Technique and some Tags too!

 Yea!! It’s the 27^th day of the month!  And, you know why I like that day of the month so much?  It’s because it’s my assigned day  to share with our inspiring and supportive Followers what I have been working on for BFS.  I am Joyce, and I hope I can inspire you to try out this Marcasite technique to use on some of your BFS chipboard pieces.  It is really quite effective on chipboard and renders a jewel like quality.  The technique is easy to apply, and I’ve created two different pieces to share with you using the same technique.

 

Bargain Bin Journal featuring the Organic Vine Corner chipboard.

 

Close up of Marcasite Technique

 

 

 

 Here’s how I obtained the look of Marcasite on the chipboard above.

1)      Apply an acrylic gold metallic paint, or an metallic ink from a stamp pad, to your chipboard and let it dry.

2)      Visualize where you want to apply your Marcasite application to rest and apply either (a) a liquid pearl product, or (b) an application of glitter in small dots, or (c) add self-adhesive pearls or rhinestones on your pattern, and allow any wet product to dry thoroughly before continuing on to the next step.  I alternated an application of a liquid pearl product and a glitter dot on my first example.

3)      Use a small paint brush and dip it in a dark grey, black or vertigris colored mist and apply the mist with your paint brush all around your pearls/rhinestones/glitter dot design and set to dry.  Wipe up any excess mist that may get on to other areas of the chipboard that are not in alignment with your Marcasite design.  You may need to apply another coat for more drama because the acrylic metallic paint may produce a resistance.  If this happens, then try a watered down black acrylic paint on your paint brush instead of the colored mist.

4)      Once the mist or paint has dried, use a moistened  Q-tip to clean off the mist or paint on the pearls/rhinestones so that the radiance of the pearl/rhinestones show through.

5)      Then using your fingers, apply an ivory/gold metallic paste or paint around the edges of the Marcasite technique to bring back the radiance of the original gold metallic paint application.  This last application really shows up well in the door knocker chipboard tag featured below because there was more surface space available on that particular chipboard design.

The rest of the Organic Vine Corner  chipboard was spritz with other colors and metallic paint was applied as well.

 

An image transfer technique was used on the bargain bin journal cover and it produced a lovely worn and vintage fabric appeal.  It actually feels like fabric to.  The technique works well when using brightly colored pattern paper.  I’ve use the same technique on some of BFS gears and widget chipboard and it rendered really nice results.  You’ll see an additional example of the technique used on the chipboard on one of the tags below.  The Image Transfer technique will be posted on my personal blog this week.

 



Marcasite Technique

Embossing Technique

Image Transfer applied on first Widget

 

Here are pictures of the products I have used in this months project:

Organic Vine Corner

Ironwork Accents

Widgets

 



I hope you give the marcasite technique a try too!