March Inspiration by Debbie Burns

Hi everyone!  Debbie back with you today to share my March layouts.   I have two created with the In The Mood Collection and the third one featuring the Happy Accident collection.

"All  You Need Is Love"

 I used the Attracted paper for my background.  Love the beautiful colors and details. Michelle designed such a beautiful collection! I added a light spray of some peony mist to the background along with some pieces from Lace 12.  

Lot of layering behind the photo using the Optimistic and Dreamy papers 

along with the printed chipboard. The chipboard pieces behind the photo were embossed with Blue Fern Ivory Embossing Power, and the leaves with Avocado and sprinkled with some Meadow Seedlings. 

I used a butterfly stamp and embossed two butterflies, one in ebony and the other in Pink Dust.  I placed lots of flowers around photo from Apricot Blooms, Moody Florals and Moody Blooms.

I applied some white mircobeads from my stash all around the layout and added some Blue Fern Tickled Seedlings and Pink Pearl Glitter.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

In The Mood Paper

Attracted

Dreamy 

Optimistic

In The Mood Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powders

Ivory

Pink Dust

Avacado

Ebony

Flowers

Moody Forals

Moody Blooms

Apricot Blooms

Seedlings

 Meadow

Tickled

Lace

Lace 12

Glitter

Pink Pearl

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"Sweetheart"

The background paper is Peaceful (Side B).   I applied some Lace 4 behind the photo and splatters of white paint.  Lots of layering behind the photo using  the printed chipboard and Dreamy, Blissful and Ecstatic papers.

I embossed the chipboard pieces behind the photo with a mixture of Blue Fern Ivory and Petal Embossing powders.  The leaves were embossed with Blue Fern Green Ivory. I added flowers from Moody Blooms, Apricot Blooms and Harvest Lilies.

I fussy cut flowers from the Ecstatic paper and tucked them behind the photo. 

The title is from the In The Mood printed chipboard.

  

Blue Fern Studios Products:

In The Mood Papers

Peaceful (Side B)

Dreamy

Blissful

Ecstatic

In The Mood Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powders

Ivory

Petal

Green Ivory

Flowers

Moody Blooms

Apricot Blooms

Harvest Lilies

Lace 4

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"Wonder"

I used the Windfall paper from the Happy Accident Collection, both sides.  Lots of layering with the B side of the Windfall paper along with the printed chipboard. I applied some stamping on the background using the Halftone, Postal Textures and Tattered Newsprint stamps.

I used the Blooms & Stems stamp on some vellum and  embossed with Auburn .  I added some Solar Flare Glitter to the centers of some of the flowers.  Flowers are from  Christmas Blooms, Harvest Lilies and Spring Peonies.

The large chipboard pieces behind the photo were embossed with a mixture of Auburn and Honey Embossing Powders, and the leaves with Avocado. All around the layout I added some art stones and microbeads from my stash along with some Harvest Seedlings and additional Solar Flare Glitter.

The butterfly was embossed with a mixture of Blue Fern Speckled Mint and Auburn Embossing Powders and solar flare Glitter.

The title was embossed with Blue Fern Speckled Mint.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

Happy Accident Papers

Windfall

Happy Accident Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powders

Auburn

Honey

Avocado

Speckled Mint 

Flowers

Christmas Blooms

Spring Peonies

Harvest Lilies

Stamps

 Halftone

Blooms and Stems

Postal Textures

Tattered Newsprint

Thanks for stopping by.
I hope I have inspired you!
I'll see you next month.

. . . Debbie

In the Mood & Happy Accident layouts by France Ringuette

All you Need is Love - Layout #1

What can I say other than I am in LOVE with the new collection In the Mood, Artisan collection by Blue Fern Studios. The hardest challenge was choosing what paper to use for my first layout as they are all spectacular.

I chose to use Attracted in the collection pack for this beautiful wedding picture of my friend Marina and her husband David. I was inspired by the lovely floral prints and the greens that would match perfectly with the background of this beautiful picture.

First step was to add with a stencil, light molding paste, creating small hearts on my background, then I added onto the molding paste Baby Pink embossing powder and heated this up. I love adding my embossing powders on my papers.

Then I covered a clock chipboard with white gesso and heat embossed it with Pixie Dust embossing powder. I love that mix of gold and pink. It is a spectacular new color that has become a recent favorite.

The new printed chipboard title was perfect for this page, I wanted it centered under my picture. Then I built my layering of flowers, lace, stamp prints and die-cuts around it.

Did you notice the circles ? They are  from the Texture Circles stamp collection. I stamped them on white cardstock and cut them out to add as embellishments to my page.

How are you finding that beautiful lace under my title? I found it gave the layout such a classy look.

In this next picture, you can get a closer look at the new flowers and the stamped circle. Notice that small pink lace flower? It's from the lace 10 set.

In the last 2 images, a better look at the Pink Topaz seedlings:

Blue Fern Product used on this page:

Paper: In the Mood Attracted

Chipboard: In The Mood Printed Chipboard

Flowers: Moody Florals & Spring Lilies

Lace:  10 & 12

Embossing Powders: Pixie Dust & Baby Pink

Seedlings: Pink Topaz

Stamps: Texture Circles 

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Sweetheart- Layout #2

A friend of mine has the cutest little daughter and had some amazing picture taken to capture her first birthday. I just love this picture with her daughter in a tutu dress stepping on Brittany's bright red shoes. This picture was my inspiration for the layout. I wanted to play with reds and light pinks.

My starting point was the new In the Mood collection, I chose the Mellow paper for my background. I just found that little red bird oh so cute.

Next steps was to add some layers of paper. I played with Ecstatic and Pensive from the same collection

Here is a closer look at the photo area. As you might have noticed, I used some of the In the Mood Printed Chipboards for decorative elements. 

I made a die-cut out of the Ecstatic paper, love that red tone.

The Turkish Bits chipboard is heat embossed with the Pure Red embossing powder

 I wanted to add more red to my layout so I stamped and embossed in Pure Red this beautiful Butterfly from the Butterflies stamp collection.

Under my flowers you can see some touches of lace 4 and some Pink Topaz seedlings

Blue Fern Product used on this page:

Paper: 

In the Mood Mellow

In the Mood Pensive

In the Mood Ecstatic

Chipboard: In The Mood Printed Chipboard

Flowers: Moody Florals 

Lace:  4

Embossing Powders: Pure Red 

Seedlings: Pink Topaz

Stamps: 

Tattered Newsprint

Butterflies

Chipboard:

Turkish Bits

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CUTE- layout #3

For this layout, I started playing around with the cute bird on the brand chipboard. I had this beautiful daycare picture of Emma that was just perfect to build a nice soft page.

I build this chipboard in 3 layers. First step was to emboss the branch and leaves with Green Ivory embossing powder. Second step was to add a layer of glue with a fine tip dispenser then add the Meadow and Twig seedlings. Once that was dry, I then embossed the bird with Frozen embossing powder.

Oooh this turned out just lovely.

Here is a closer look at the bird and leaves.

Next step was the frame, I wanted it to melt into the background, so I chose Oatmeal as my embossing color for this one.

Last and final step was the ornament cluster. I used a flower from heartland blossoms and dark tropic lilys collections.

I enjoy adding pieces of lace to my projects and Lace #4 is my favorite.

Blue Fern Product used on this page:

Paper: Happy Accident -Chance

Chipboard:

Remnants Printed Chipboard

Remnants Frame Chipboard

Cute Sweet Sassy

Forest branch chipboard

Frame collage

Flowers: Dark Tropic Lilies & Heartland Blossoms

Lace:  4

Embossing Powders:

Oatmeal

Frozen

Blue Sky

Seafoam

Seedlings: Meadow & Twig

Stamps: Tattered Newsprint

I hope you've enjoyed my February creations for Blue Fern Studio and wish you an amazing day.

January Inspirations and Video Tutorial by Lanette

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope your year is off to an amazing start! I must say that I am pretty happy with the way my year is starting out, I am super excited to be joining this amazing team! I really can't wait to share my layouts with you...

But before I do let me introduce myself....

 My name is Lanette Erickson I live in southeastern Michigan with my husband two sassy daughters and one crazy doberman. I’m an ex-banker turned stay at home mommy and one crazy crafter.  I have always been a crafty person, but my love of scrapbooking began a little over 13 years ago. Over the years my passion has evolved from pure paper to more of a mixed media affair.  I truly love all mediums and I am happiest when my hands are messy, I love to experiment with new products and try new techniques.

I’m not sure I have a scrappy style, I always try to showcase the picture I a scrapping. But If I had to define it I would say Romantic and playful.

I am super excited to be part of the Blue Fern Design Team! I hope that I my art will help inspire you to get your hands messy and create something you love!

You can find me here:

Blog: http://stacksofscraps.blogspot.com/

Scrapbook.com Gallery: http://www.scrapbook.com/places/Biro

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lanette23/?hl=en

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lanette323/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lanette.stacksofscraps

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRhd2bMHrcLbC1a89xcWPQQ

But enough about me lets look at my layouts...

For my first layout this month I decided I wanted to play with the  Newly Released Remnants Collection!

For this layout I used an older picture of me and my hubby :)

I just love the vintage feel of this collection, As you can see I played up the green in the Memories Chipboard with a bit of color spray. Additionally I colored all my flowers for a more uniform look..

And now for a bit of the details...

Here you can see the tiny Printed chipboard from the set tucked in the corner of my picture, with lots of lovey Blue fern Flowers that have been altered a bit with color spray paint BFS Micro Beads & Glitter too!

Here you can see a bit more of my lovely flowers and the printed chipboard and parts of the swirl from the BFS flourish chipboard that I colored using BFS-Taupe Embossing Powder.

Lots of lovely BFS White Gold Glitter and Fir Tree Seedlings.

Here you can see a bit of the Tattered Diamond Chipboard bits, they are colored with BFS Night Sky Embossing Powder a touch of paint and wax.

Blue Fern Products Used: 
Pattern Paper- Remnants Collection
Callaway
Mini Remnants
Westfield -is the Base

Chipboard
Heart Flourish
Tattered Diamond Bits
Printed Chipboard- Remnants Collection

Flowers
Apricot Blooms
Garden Blooms

Chesterfield Blooms

Wanderlust Lilies

Seedling
Fir Tree

Glitter
White Gold
Pea Soup

Embossing Powder
Taupe
Night Sky

For my next layout I really wanted to play with the Happy Accident Collection, I love soft colors in this collection plus I had the perfect picture...

Lots of lovey flowers, splatters and sparkles...

Here you can see the Mod Squares that I double Embossed using

 BFS Ivory and Pearl Embossing Powders.

Now you can hop on over and see how I created this layout start to finish! over on the Blue Fern  Youtube Channel, make sure that you subscribe while you are there! 

Blue Fern Products Used: 

Pattern Paper- Happy Accident Collection

Fortuity

Lucky

Fluke- Is the Base

Chipboard

Mod Squares

Winter Titles

Printed Chipboard- Happy Accident Collection

Flowers

Apricot Blooms

Garden Blooms

Chesterfield Blooms

Wanderlust Lilies

Remnants Florals

Seedling

Mauve

Sweet Pea

Glitter

White Gold

Blue Ice

Embossing Powder

Ivory

Pearl

Stamp
Tattered Newsprint

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

I hope that I have inspired you in some way, but if you are looking for more inspiration make sure you stop by and join the Blue Fern Fanatics Face Book Group!

See you next month.

~Lanette