A Fairy Good Life

The second project from our August Blue Fern Fan of the Month, Mariusz Gierszewski, is this very soft and magical layout.  Mariusz has beautifully used the frame of the paper as the base for this lovely design.  The chipboard, flowers and fussy cutting create a very eye-pleasing design for this sweet infant photo.

Here is what Maruisz had to say about this layout:

Another work in which I could bring you closer shabby style. I prepared at the begining chipboards by embossing powder and cut many emablishments from other papers. After that I start to build composition of fabric flowers in the corner and more or less oposite/middle side. On the top flowers I add the gesso. On the end I add few printed chipboard pieces from collection the all corners, and to decorate layout. Balance and harmony formed an integral whole.

Blue Fern Products Used:

Paper

Garden Life Collection

Chipboard:

Circle Vine

Chelsea Vines

Circle Flourish Frame - small

Other:

Embossing Powder

Garden Life Printed Chipboard

Flowers:

Garden Florals

Happy Blooms

Spring Lilies

Spring Peony & Berries

Thanks so much, Mariusz, for sharing this beautiful layout with us!

Introducing our August Blue Fern Fan of the Month

Hello everyone.  It's difficult to believe that it is August already.  But with each new month, we get an opportunity to introduce you to a new Blue Fern Fan of the Month.  For the month of August, please join us in welcoming Mariusz Gierszewski from Poland.  He is a fabulous designer and you will love  how he uses our products.  You are sure to be inspired!

We will turn it over to Mariusz so he can tell you a little about himself:   

My name is Mariusz Gierszewski. I come from Poland. I'm 26 years old and I'm young men who love papers, flowers and scissors. I live in Łodź in central Poland. My passions are scrapbooking, and card making.  Recently I tried to create something with mixed media. 

First work I ever made was in August, 2012. My favorite styles are vintage and shabby. Blue Fern products are awesome for my shabby style. I love to make cards and albums, sometimes layouts.  I have been an educator and designer for several manufacturers.  I hold a lot of workshops each month in many countries like Spain, Latvia, Greece, Indonesia, Brasil, Sweden, Norway or Slovakia. 

In my cards I try to show as much value as possible to the collection of paper. For this card I used the Garden Life collection.  These papers are awesome for shabby style and to the vintage look you can see on my cards. 

I cut some flowers from papers and make the composition with 3D effect. 

Afther that I attached fabric flowers from Garden Florals and Dark Tropic Lilies.  At the end I used 

gesso to reduce intensive color.  In this way I receive soft and shabby effect. 

Please be sure to check back next Wednesday when we will have another project from Mariusz.

Party Dress by Tracy Funk

Welcome to Wednesday, everyone!  We are back with another project from our July Blue Fern Fan of the month, Tracy Funk, using the Garden Life Collection.  This photo from the 60's brings back memories for some of us!

I'm happy to be back with my third layout for Blue Fern Studios as their "Fan of the Month" for July. It's called "Party Dress" and features a photo of my sister, Linda, in 1965.

For this layout, I used the In Bloom paper from the Garden Life collection for the background and some cream-coloured cardstock for the doily die-cuts.

I used the Flutter Medley and Bohemian Flowers chipboard pieces. I heat-embossed the Flutter Medley with embossing powder and rubbed some white paint overtop.  I didn't like the contrast that created so I did a wash of watery white paint overtop to tone it down.  I applied golden yellow glitter glue to the butterflies.  When that was dry I squeezed some white glue on the interior portions of the wings and sprinkled it with Sunlight Rose Imagine Ink Embossing Powder before heat setting it.

The Bohemian Flowers were painted white and embossed with Baby Pink Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

I also used a couple of pieces of printed chipboard from the Garden Life collection.

I used some of Blue Fern Studios' Garden Florals, Garden Blooms and Happy Roses as well.

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Garden Life paper - In Bloom

Flower Medley chipboard

Bohemian Flowers chipboard

Garden Life - printed chipboard

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder - Sunlight Rose

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder - Baby Pink

Happy Roses

Garden Blooms

Garden Florals

Garden Life Layouts by Kris Berc

Hi, Blue Fern Studios fans! It's Kris here to share a few new layouts with you.  All three feature the new paper collection called Garden Life.

Cute Stuff

My first layout features the Garden Life - Wallflowers paper. I treated it with gesso, drops of ink, modeling paste through a stencil, the Serendipity Medley stamp, and a stamp from the Forever stamp set.

I clustered some Garden Florals and Garden Blooms with a few other items from my stash.

I framed the photo with a chipboard piece from the Graduated Circles set embossed with 14 karat embossing powder.  The Garden Lattice Bits and the "Cute Stuff" title from the Good Vibes set were first embossed with Sunlight Rose embossing powder and then embossed a second time with Rusty Rose embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life - Wallflowers

Chipboard

Garden Lattice Bits
Good Vibes set
Graduated Circles

Embossing Powder

14 Karat
Rusty Rose
Sunlight Rose

Stamps

Forever set
Serendipity Medley

Flowers

Garden Blooms
Garden Florals

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Love

For my second layout, I used the Garden Life - In Bloom paper.  It's treated with gesso, drops of ink, and a stamp from the Essential Textures stamp set.

I embossed the Shabby Brick Bits chipboard piece with Snow embossing powder.  The Brick Rings chipboard pieces are first embossed with Baby Pink and then with Pretty in Pink embossing powder.

My flower cluster includes Garden Blooms, Garden Florals, and Spring Florals.  I have also used 3 pieces from the Garden Life Printed Chipboard set.

The "Love" chipboard piece is from the Good Vibes set.  It's embossed with Ebony embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life - In Bloom

Chipboard

Brick Rings
Good Vibes
Shabby Brick Bits
Garden Life Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powder

Baby Pink
Ebony
Pretty in Pink
Snow

Stamps

Essential Textures

Flowers

Garden Blooms
Garden Florals
Spring Florals

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Life is Full of Surprises

My last layout is made with the Garden Life - Snippets paper.  I treated it with gesso, the Tattered Harlequin stamp, and drops of white paint.

My flower cluster includes Chesterville Florals and Harvest Lilies. I sprinkled some microbeads from my stash for added texture.

 I framed the photo with a chipboard piece from the Splattered Circles set and a negative piece from the Brick Rings set.  They are covered with Sand and Sea embossing powder.  The title piece, Life is full of Suprises, is embossed in Ebony embossing powder.

I also layered 3 pieces of Garden Life - Felicity paper behind the photo.  This was a fun day, by the way... we surprised my daughter with her first trip to the roller rink, and she learned to skate in no time!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Garden Life - Felicity
Garden Life - Snippets

Chipboard

Brick Rings
Life is full of Surprises
Splattered Circles

Embossing Powder

Ebony
Sand and Sea

Stamps

Tattered Harlequin

Flowers

Chesterville Florals
Harvest Lilies

Thank you for stopping by today.

I hope I have inspired you to create with your Blue Fern Studios products!

June inspiration by Annie Samson

Hi everyone, 

I am verry excited today to share 2 layouts made with the new Garden life collection.

Life

For my first layout, I used the back side of the Snipet paper.

I haded some yellow and orange ink on the back ground.

Then a used the Morning sun embossing powder on my chipbaord.

I placed a pieace of the Floral Lattice Bits under my picture.

And a piece of Damask Flourish under my flowers

I used some pieces of the coordinate chipboard to embellish my layout.

And I finished my layout with flowers

Blue Fern Studios produtc used

Paper

Garden Life - Snipet 

Chipbaord

Floral Lattice Bits

Damask Flourish

Garden Life - Coordinated chipboard 

Embossing powder

Morning sun 

Flowers

Chesterville bloms

Chesterville florals

Garden bloms

Garden florals

Brown Eyed Girl

For my second layout, I used the back groud on the Felecity paper.

I haded a lot of flowers to embellish my layout

I used 3 colors of embossing powder on my chipboards.

Here a video of my creating proccess.

Blue Fern Studios produtc used

Paper

Garden Life - Felicity 

Chipbaord

Brown Eyed Girl

 Pure Elegence

Stamp set
Forever
London chronicle

Embossing powder

Chilli powder
Morning sun
Coral

Flowers

Chesterville bloms
Garden florals
Happy roses

I hope you have found some inspiration. I wish you a nice crafty day!

Annie Samson